Ever since the part 4 anime was announced, I have been rereading the part before the anime comes out. This way, the media is fresh in my mind and I can more easily find differences between the manga and the anime, such as what the anime cuts out or what they decide to add that the manga chose not to. One of the more prominent examples of this is from part 5, where the manga chose to go more in depth with some of the backstory of the protagonists of Team Buccellati. If you would like to, you can also do this read along with me and a couple friends who are doing this with me. We will be reading ten chapters per week, come together to talk about it and then afterwards I will write up my thoughts combined with some of their thoughts in this blog. Due to this being a read along, I won't be going over everything that happens in the chapters, as I assume you the reader have also read the chapters recently; I will just be going over the important parts, my thoughts on them a...

JoJo's premiered in Weekly Sh ō nen Jump back in 1987 and ran in that popular magazine until 2004 which is about when part 6 ended. Part 7 and onward is now running in the monthly magazine Ultra Jump. This leads many people to believe that JoJo's is a cross between a sh ō nen (meant for younger male audience) manga and a seinen (meant for younger adult males) manga. With that being said, JoJo's is an anime and manga that has done things that many others cannot do or replicate even if they try: combine many genres and thematics all into one great storyline. Let's tackle these one at a time and have it all come together at the end. Typical of sh ō nen manga and sh ō nen anime, JoJo's has many fights that occur within the series. Some of the most memorable fight in all of anime happen in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Who hasn't heard of the fast-paced, hard-hitting fight between Jotaro and DIO? However, JoJo's is not just a battle anime, which i...

In the previous post, we discussed how fate plays a role in part 5. While not as prevalent in other parts, it is definitely there. In part 1, Jonathan was fated to fight Dio. In part 2, Caesar was fated to carry on the Zepelli tradition of helping the Jostar family defeat an evil that could corrupt the entire world. In part 3, Dio was fated to fight and be defeated by a Joestar. Not only that, but Avdol was fated to die as it was foreshadowed from his previous death. In part 4, Kira thought fate was on his side but was defeated by the person he feared the most: Jotaro and Josuke. That brings us to part 5. Diavolo thought destiny was fated to be his and obtain the incredible power of the stand arrows and evolve King Crimson to it's final form. However, Giorno was the one fated to achieve Requiem and defeat the boss of Passione. Fate also deemed Diavolo's defeat to be ironic and bends reality like his King Crimson did. Buccellati brought together the best team to defeat Diavo...

JoJo's part 5 has concluded. We have mulled over and thought about the ending of this great anime for a few days now. The fans have a lot left to think about. A large focal point in this particular part is fate; fate is something that has a grasp on everyone and it shapes all lives. Diavolo believed in this wholeheartedly and even up until the end believed that he was the one that was destined to wield the powerful stand arrow and unlock the true power of King Crimson. However this was not the case and fate was actually smiling upon the main protagonist: Giorno. Giorno was the one that was able to unlock Gold Experience Requiem and was able to defeat Diavolo by sending him into a never-ending loop of almost dying but then being thrown into a completely different scenario and almost dying again and so on and so forth. Giorno was also rightfully placed and the boss of Passione, successfully completing the dream he and Buccellati shared: to wipe drugs out from the streets of Italy....

With this episode we meet two of the boss's most fearsome stand users: Cioccolata and Secco with the stands Green Day and Oasis respectively. With what we see in this episode, Cioccolata is a psychologicaly messed up individual with a bloody and serial killer-esque past. Secco is rather loyal to Cioccolata, sometimes even acting like a dog. This dynamic between these two draw some similarities between Pesci and Prosciutto. However, it seems that Cioccolata is much more sadistic than Prosciutto and Secco seems to have lower intelligence as opposed to Pesci. However, that does not make them any less dangerous. These two are the two that the boss hand picked to defeat Buccellati's team. We have already seen just how terrifying Cioccolata's stand power can be. He could easily kill the entirety of the protagonists unless they can think on their feet and figure out exactly what to do to defeat this particular stand. A secret individual also brought up to Buccellati's crew...

No one is safe in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Abbacchio was killed by the boss of Passione. We knew from the boss's previous statements that Abbacchio was one of his main targets due to the fact that once Abbacchio uses Moody Blues's replay ability where the boss took a photo, they could discover his real face. The audience knew that he was a target and yet it was still a surprise to everyone who witnessed this moment for the first time. We haven't had a main character die in Golden Wind and the closest thing we had to a main character dying in Diamond is Unbreakable was when Yoshikage Kira blew up Shigechi. Before that we had the deaths of Kakyoin, Iggy and Avdol in Stardust Crusaders, which was a heavy blow to everyone watching JoJo's at the time. So the JoJo fan base has been blessed with no major character deaths for all of part 4 and a majority of part 5. Abbacchio was a character who was hard to hate in my opinion. Sure, he didn't like the main charact...

Araki has been a fan of gore in order to emphasize just how villainous a bad guy is or how bloody and painful an injury is. He uses this method of thinking perfectly in this episode. Nero, the stand user with Metallica, has a terrifying ability that can easily win fights, hence the reason he is the leader of the Hitman Squad, also called La Squadra. He is a skilled assassin and he reminds us of this at every part of this fight. In fact, he even figures out the boss's identity even before our main protagonist. This fight also was not just a fight to give the bad guy a power up or anything like that. Nero gave the boss a run for his money and the boss almost lost to Nero's dangerous stand ability. Luck was on the boss's side however and Nero dies to Narancia's Aerosmith. The end to this fight felt extremely clever and well thought out from Araki. Maybe he made Narancia's stand work like that just to defeat Nero like this? Or perhaps Araki is just really good at thin...