Gotta run

[petronia]

I'm on volume... 44, I think, of JoJo (but I read some of part 5 too). The following is completely random notes I took while reading.

Animal stand users:

Hawk: I have my beady eye on you. For the sake of my master, you must die.
Dog: I gots no bone to pick with your crew, but mofo wanna piece of me, mofo's gonna get it.
Rat: Foooooood.
Cat: Now I will wreak vengeance on you puny humans with my newfound--*golf ball rolls past*--ooh, shiny.

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JoJo, Miike-style: I'm not even sure how this train of thought started. I blame Mikitaka, or at any rate some je ne sais quoi quality of the humour... er, well, actually can you picture pt.3 done by Miike? You'd get shots of Polnareff through the toilet bowl (pig's eye view?). Also he would change the confrontation between Dio and Hol Horse so that it turns out Vanilla Ice is giving Dio a blow job under the coffee table. You didn't need that mental image at all, but that's more or less the point.

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20 Facts is an interesting exercise because it invites the reader to change their perspective w/r/t some character - that is, more explicitly so than regular fanfiction. The trick is to slip the unproven in with the restated.

But there really should be an analogous exercise called 20 Damned Lies. Like,

5. There is no hair under Kujo Jotaro's hat. There is only another fist.
11. Were a stand user to shout "Help me, JoJo!" loudly, the current holder of the JoJo title would instantaneously appear, even if he's in his dressing gown.
12. Jotaro's dressing gown looks exactly like his regular trenchcoat, but in flannel.

Et cetera. (Not really a lie: I think Jotaro must be a happy person, all things considered. Each day that passes is another day that no one drops a steam roller on him, and really, you can't touch that.)

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Nuclear family: unstable and prone to fissure.

Jonathan: loving dad, dead mum
Dio: abusive dad, dead mum
Joseph: dead dad, absent-presumed-dead mum
Holly: both present and accounted for, shokku
Jotaro: loving mum, absent-ish dad (off on tour for months at a time? note how no one, Jotaro least of all, seems to feel that the dude should come home, or at least be informed that his wife may be dying)
Josuke: loving mum, absent dad (note: not dissimilar to Joseph's own pattern - half raised by grandparent, reunion with birth parent in late teens accompanied by extreme awkwardness)
Giorno: abusive step-dad, abusive mum, real dad... never mind

Other characters who have tragic or aggressively dysfunctional family situations: Polnareff, Okuyasu, Hayato (who was pretty screwed up even before Kira entered his life, though that bath scene was seriously one of the wrongest episodes I have ever encountered in manga - I felt violated for having read it >_>).

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So let me get this straight. Taking a direct hit from Gold Experience is... not unlike taking a direct hit from a bong?

Comments

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Believe me, that family dynamic continues. Wait until you hear the rest of the part 5 characters' stories, and as for Jolyne, well...

And yes, the Kira bath scene is quite possibly the wrongest scene ever in the history of manga. Though there is a scene in Steel Ball Run that comes close...dammit, Araki, why must you be such a freak? XD

(By the way, er, you may not know me but I friended you recently because of your thought-provoking, and more-than-occasionally hilarious, JoJo posts. We always need more people to join our little JoJo cabal!)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Heh, no, I know who you are (friendsfriends, etc.). XD The posts will continue for some time, there's a vast swathe of series to go still. orz