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Lives of Eccentrics (or Henjin Henkutsu Retsuden) delves on the common theme of eccentricity and weirdness of humanity in Hirohiko Araki's works, this time through a series of small biographies about different famous eccentrics like the severely neurotic genius inventor Nikola Tesla and several other bizarre individuals that have left their mark in our history.

The art varies greatly through the course of the manga seeing how the gap between the release of the chapters has been so long. The series starts with the style Araki used in his early career while drawing Phantom Blood and is therefore a great example of the author's artistic evolution. ... All in all it's as enjoyable as Araki's art always is with it's grand amount of detail.

Despite it's shortness it's an enjoyable read for any fan of Hirohiko Araki's works, giving further insight to Araki's views about cherishing the eccentricity of humanity even if it sometimes is painful to be different.

As Hirohiko Araki always does with new Parts of JoJo, Diamond is Unbreakable has a whole new, a bit more lighthearted tone to it compared to the earlier chapters. This time the adventure and traveling are cast aside for a murder mystery in the small quiet town of Morioh Cho but as always JoJo and his friends are up against an ever so bizarre cast of dangerous Stand-users as they chase the mysterious serial killer and reveal the secret behind the origin of the Stand-powers.

The story starts out somewhat slow and in the beginning it might feel like one of the weaker parts of JJBA ... but the story constantly picks up more pace and even, in my opinion, surpasses Stardust Crusaders later on when the episodic nature of it stands aside for the main story, even introducing a main villain that might just be scarier than Dio Brando ever hoped to be.

Some mentionable flaws could be the slow beginning and some of the characters who are introduced only to be nearly forgotten later but the latter half of the series greatly compensates for this as I mentioned earlier and some of the characters like Josuke himself or Koichi Hirose just grow on you and you start caring about them as you go on reading.

For me Diamond is Unbreakable is definitely up there among the better parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It's surely worth a read if you liked the previous parts of JoJo this far as long as you get over the slow start.