Jojo’s bizarre adventure; a show where abs heal wounds, testosterone is spirit, your inside voice is your outside voice your ability to pose is equal to your might. A show, which doesn’t feature a complex plot or characters, but still manages to be one of the best shows I have ever seen.
This may sound like I am second-guessing myself but I am not, this is most likely because this show is aware (unlike SAO). It knows it’s a show about manly, charismatic men and passion, it knows there are enough plot holes to cover a square kilometre (mile) of land and it knows it
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looks bad.
However, if it were done any differently there would be no way I could have liked this as much. The campy story, literal rock-star characters, the over the top voice acting, the insanely amazing (almost shaft-esk) directing at points, the manga visuals, the beautiful bromanship (bro + showmanship) and the hundreds of other amazing things about this show that make it who it is. Now lets get on to the proper review shall we?
~Story-
The story of Jojo’s bizarre adventure is about a group of five cute loli girls who talk about food and kissing and stuff… oops, I forgot, Jojo’s bizarre adventure isn’t apart of the large populace of anime now-a-days.
Jojo’s bizarre adventure is separated into two halves. One half covers the story of jonasan (jonathan) Joestar and his bizarre adventure and the other half covers Joseph Joestar and his bizarre adventure.
Now I should mention, when I type bizarre I don’t mean bizarre along the lines of Kaiba, I mean bizarre because of how their bodies are built. I actually thought when I first saw the character designs that these were going to be the tanks in girl’s und panzer, oh how I was wrong.
Getting back on topic, the fights are brilliantly choreographed and never feel too rushed or too long and the story flows at a nice pace unlike other anime in its genre, which basically means “no filler”. The first half of this story is extremely generic and campy, but as I mentioned before, this will most likely not be a deterrent even for the most critical of us as it knows it’s stupid and treats it’s self as such.
~ART-
I could feel my masculinity rise as I watched the bulging muscles. The scenes looked like they came straight from a manga sometimes which really added to the feeling of this show. However, this show sometimes suffered from being a slideshow instead of an actual fight (see kill la kill).
~SOUND-
This is the first anime I have seen with dubstep in the OST and quite frankly, it has made me a believer. Never again will I say there taste in music is donkey anus if they like dubstep, never again will I click my tongue at hipsters talking about how to shuffle (man that type of dance is old) and never again will I block my ears at skrillex. Maybe my view on this type of music is flawed as the time I loved it the most was when the pinnacle of manly men were beating the crap out of each-other, but never the less, it worked in the show. Speaking of things that work in this show…that was a horrible segway ☹
The openings are very catchy and have very memorable and fitting lyrics. Another thing to note is that they were done using only 3d animation, which was very hit and miss however, I loved both the openings and never skipped them once, and they just flick a switch in your brain and put you in “Jojo mode”
The endings were cuts of an eight minute song called “roundabout” which is done by a band named “Yes” A band which are now in the rock and roll hall of fame (pretty sure about this :P). The best part about this however, (besides the fact that it works REALLY well with the subject matter) is the fact that they used several different cuts for different episodes, for example, if someone dies in the show they use the slower part of the song and vice-versa.
~CHARACTER-
Santana, ACDC, Wham!, Led Zepplin, DIO and my personal favourite name Robert E.O Speedwagon (REO speedwagon).
This is a small list of the rock-stars that had their name (sorta) plagiarised in this show, and my god was it brilliant. Now for an in-depth look at some main characters.
DIO:
Basically the equivalent to Lucifer in anime, but in a good way. The man who made the manga tried so hard to make you hate him that you will probably end up loving him. His voice actor did an absolutely brilliant job bringing life to this character; whether it be the extremely loud screech’s, occasional high voice, or the “JOJO~O~O~O screams everything was made to perfection.
Robert E.O Speedwagon:
The ultimate “bro” in anime. He’s that one guy who you would wanna screw around with (not sexually, you dirty minded fools :o) and also is our narrator for almost all the fights in the first half of the show. I always found his character funny considering that he started off as a street thug and ended up as an oil tycoon. He is practically useless, but fun none the less.
Jonathan Joestar:
Go and look at the meaning of GAR on the urban dictionary. That describes the first Jojo in a paragraph.
~ENJOYMENT-10/10
I often found myself doing poses with the characters, yelling for the characters, crying with the characters, praying to Joseph, posting DIO memes on the interwebs, singing rock songs and crying at my own lack of testosterone and masculinity during this show.
Summary:
Jojo’s bizzare adventure is the pinnacle of manliness and is brilliant. However, as I have not brought it up in the review I will just put it here. This show, from one end, is absolute crap but is amazing at the same time (see Elfen lied). This is one of the few shows I can say I questioned whether to give it a 9 or a 6. You love it, or you hate it, that’s the “bottom line”
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