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petroniaThe thing that rather endears about Jolyne is that she's a JoJo and a teenaged girl, in much the same way as Josuke is a JoJo and a teenaged boy. (She's also convincingly American, somehow, if only because you won't find many Japanese manga girls in her image.) Yet for some reason the series likes to showcase this by placing her in embarrassing situations, like JoJo-warped versions of true-story columns from Seventeen - you know the ones, always some combination of boys, public space and bodily function gone amok. Not that it gets worse than THE VERY FIRST CHAPTER or anything but...
Seriously, poor Jolyne. XD;;
Back to SBR: how cool is the Steven Steele sidestory? Araki was clearly just like, "Yesterday I made up the plot to a 500-page magic realist novel recounting the life of a poor Irish immigrant boy living out the American Dream in the latter half of the nineteenth century - his ups and downs, his wars and triumphs, picaresque adventures and loves lost and found - and with him, the vivid, sprawling portrait of a young nation first coming into its own. I think it'd be a good read. But frankly the time I can devote to this plus 250 yen will buy you a pack of cigs from the vending machine, so here's a summary." It's a Borgesian feat of telescoping. XD
SBR!Dio is far more like first-arc!Dio than Johnny is like Jonathan, except he's covered in pink butterfly bows instead of pink hearts. (I only wish I'm making this up.) Characters who reoccur in SBR for the sake of saabisu mostly get offed in 0.5 seconds, but "Diego" avoids this fate as Araki is clearly having way too much fun drawing him in equestrian pinup poses with his riding breeches and his mesh shirt riding up, so he gets the angsty Dickensian backstory instead (except he... married Miss Havisham... you know what, I don't have Johnny's moral stature on this, I figure he didn't even need to poison her or push her down the stairs. A month of that much bootiliciousness in the house would about do it, and she probably died happy as a bee in clover). There is even a Zeppeli, it's just not the same if there isn't a Brando in the picture as well. Johnny still hates him, though, and I don't think he even knows why. XD
(Am I the only one waiting for "Higashikata Norisuke" to show up?)
Then... then... honestly, I really don't have much to say about the Scary Monsters episode. One sits there with one's mouth hanging open and inviting flies. While reading SBR I got into the habit of visiting the comments at AMJ for each chapter, and there is nothing like a hundred-post BBS thread comprised entirely of people visibly as baffled as you feel. A lot of them said things like, "I suddenly remember why I've been reading this series for fifteen years," which is about the long and the short of it.
However best comment award goes to: "...You mean it's not Mark Bolan and his stand T-Rex?"
Does anyone else think Diego's mom looks like Giorno's mom? It's all starting to make a terrible sort of sense.
Seriously, poor Jolyne. XD;;
Back to SBR: how cool is the Steven Steele sidestory? Araki was clearly just like, "Yesterday I made up the plot to a 500-page magic realist novel recounting the life of a poor Irish immigrant boy living out the American Dream in the latter half of the nineteenth century - his ups and downs, his wars and triumphs, picaresque adventures and loves lost and found - and with him, the vivid, sprawling portrait of a young nation first coming into its own. I think it'd be a good read. But frankly the time I can devote to this plus 250 yen will buy you a pack of cigs from the vending machine, so here's a summary." It's a Borgesian feat of telescoping. XD
SBR!Dio is far more like first-arc!Dio than Johnny is like Jonathan, except he's covered in pink butterfly bows instead of pink hearts. (I only wish I'm making this up.) Characters who reoccur in SBR for the sake of saabisu mostly get offed in 0.5 seconds, but "Diego" avoids this fate as Araki is clearly having way too much fun drawing him in equestrian pinup poses with his riding breeches and his mesh shirt riding up, so he gets the angsty Dickensian backstory instead (except he... married Miss Havisham... you know what, I don't have Johnny's moral stature on this, I figure he didn't even need to poison her or push her down the stairs. A month of that much bootiliciousness in the house would about do it, and she probably died happy as a bee in clover). There is even a Zeppeli, it's just not the same if there isn't a Brando in the picture as well. Johnny still hates him, though, and I don't think he even knows why. XD
(Am I the only one waiting for "Higashikata Norisuke" to show up?)
Then... then... honestly, I really don't have much to say about the Scary Monsters episode. One sits there with one's mouth hanging open and inviting flies. While reading SBR I got into the habit of visiting the comments at AMJ for each chapter, and there is nothing like a hundred-post BBS thread comprised entirely of people visibly as baffled as you feel. A lot of them said things like, "I suddenly remember why I've been reading this series for fifteen years," which is about the long and the short of it.
However best comment award goes to: "...You mean it's not Mark Bolan and his stand T-Rex?"
Does anyone else think Diego's mom looks like Giorno's mom? It's all starting to make a terrible sort of sense.
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Date: 2006-06-02 12:38 pm (UTC)And now! >D Just about my favorite fanart piece EVER! (here (http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/neko-cyo/cw/j_coffee.html) and here (http://webclap.simplecgi.com/clap.php?id=nekocyo))
(although this (http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/neko-cyo/cw/j5_comic2.html) is what everyone's always thought >_>)
More later after work~