Part 1 still kicks more ass, part 2 is fine and has the best enemies so far. Part 3 had the potential to surpass part 1, but I don't really think it did. It's fine.

Top notch art on this one. Araki has really come a long way. (& I'm not talking about the photocopy backdrops either). Highly recommend the fan-colored scanlations, they did a much better job on Jojo 3 than they did on Jojo 2. (At least until the latter volumes when they get lazy & stop coloring the backgrounds). It's a smorgasbord of 80's pop culture references (moreso than previous seasons) so it will appeal far more to readers 30 & up. Having grown up on horror movies, I have to say this is some of the most hilarious gore I've seen since "The Story of Ricky" live action movie. The background characters however are very cartoony looking, like they don't even belong in the same universe.

This series makes me think of a more adult take on Yu Yu Hakusho (of which I have only read the first 2 arcs of sofar) crossed with JJBA. Jotaro is Yuusuke/Kuwabara, Kakyoin is a less feminine Kurama. Jotaro's stand is based on Baoh (so was Cars' arm scythes), another manga by the same creator, but rather than Jotaro transforming into Baoh, it's a somewhat separate entity based on himself, his Chi given form. A cross between a guardian spirit that acts on its own & a 1980's VR avatar where any damages sustained in the game transfer to the real world. But not all that separate a being like in Yugioh Abridged where Yuugi & Atem can converse with each other. Dio reminds me of Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter crossed with Lucio from The Arcana.

This Jojo is even more of a delinquent that his grandfather & easily the smartest Jojo, & the most handsome Jojo. He worries about others more than he'd like, despite being absolutely punch-drunk. He's a chick magnet but finds them exceptionally annoying. He's in high school, putting him at about 17-ish years old, but like his forefathers, he looks like a wrestler of 25-35, or maybe a Chippendale's stripper. He doesn't talk much unless he had a question or wants to make a statement, & kind of just becomes a secondary character in his own manga in the shadow of the talkative Joseph & Polnareff until Dio appears. He was already my favorite JoJo from early on, but sealed it for sure when he slashed the tires of an escaping vehicle; something the cops on NCIS & Law & Order infuriatingly never think to do.

His mom looks about his age, his grandfather, who's personality has changed drastically with age & parenthood, only looks about 45-50. He's also taken over for Speedwagon as team cheerleader & sports commentator. Kakyoin, who looks like something out of an Aeon Flux cartoon, looks 35-40, which is bad because he's also in high school. Abdul is, according to an interview with Araki, supposed to be in his 20s but looks 40-50.

Lastly there's the arguably funniest & most fabulous character; Polnareff, who is the first & certainly not last Jojo character to have a ton of jewelry & an outfit blatantly inspired by women's clothing. He was so popular that he became an ascended character & arguably a co-protagonist equal to a Jojo then the series seemed to focus more on him while pushing everyone else into the background. He's a two-sided coin. He is the most oblivious & naive character, but he's the most intuitive & tactical when it comes to battle. He's a little girl-crazy (as in he & Joseph are the only two who seem even remotely interested in women on the occasion) but he's also the chivalrous ladiesman of the group. He's apparently a match for Jotaro in combat, as he nearly killed him when possessed by a stand. While he is oblivious to things others notice, he notices things others are oblivious to, therefore he will be the last OR first to know what's going on & usually the first to know they're being followed.

Araki loves him some western movies, & I don't mean cowboy western either. Still using 80s bands & fashion designers to name characters after, stands present references to 80s movies, with Joseph himself being retooled into either an aging Indiana Jones or Jones' dad. He seems to really hate animals though, because damn near 100% of every animal that appears in this series first a horrible death.

The humor is more tame in this series without the Pillar Men, but there's a LOT more of it.

Explanation of how Jotaro gets stronger at the end.


If you're playing a drinking game when you read all the Jojo's take a shot every time someone gets stabbed or walked in the hand or the leg, Polnareff is involved with bathroom-related humor, an animal is brutally slaughtered, when something happens to Joseph's prosthetic hand, every time their ride gets destroyed. Every time Polnareff calls out a distance, measurement, or temperature. Every time Joseph screams in Engrish. "Oh my God! Holy shit! Son of a bitch!"

... Last updated on January 18th, 2019, 6:34pm

SC feels more like a testing ground for new ideas than a story on its own. Don't get this wrong, it is still a great time and a step above other shounen, but judged purely on its own merits it really feels like a product of its time.

A weird arc
it have some of the most interesting characters and stands in the jojo universe
but how it all ends is just not worthy
the main badguy just loose becouse the maingoodguy now for no reason is faster/stronger/better in every way
with no real explenation
all the other fights have had clever tricks and interesting explenations
but not this one
no
MC just lvls up to 100 in a matter of 2 pages and wins
felt like the mangaka got really bored by the end
and that is probably what happened
but it really hurts the arc overall