Now, I like anime. Am I a weeaboo? Fuck no, and if you say I am, I’ll hurt you. Badly. So, anyway, I was listening to all the latest gossip from my friends way back in 2012. My friends told me about this one animê titled Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. When I heard him mention those three words, I had no clue what the hell he was talking about. Now, in 2015, I think I may have found one of my favorito anime’s.
The story follows different members of the Joestar family. Jonathan Joestar, a man from 1888 England who behaves like a gentleman, Joseph Joestar, a man from 1938 who is a funny douchebag, and Jotaro Joestar/Kujo, a Japanese high school student (Of course), from 1989 who is mais of an awesome douchebag then funny. Each one of these characters face a new challenge, each one separating the story in different ways.
We start with Jonathan Joestar, with the first half being known as Phantom Blood. This one follows Jonathan, who is a rich boy, living with his father, George Joestar, whose wife died in a crash a few years ago. During the crash, George believed he was saved por a burglar named Dario Brando, and was in debt to him. Now Dario is dying, and allows his son, Dio Brando, to be adopted por the Joestar’s and live a luxurious life. And let me tell you, Dio is an awesome antagonist. But, I’ll get to him later. Once Dio moves into the Joestar family's home, he plans to ruin Jonathan’s life in order to take the fortune that he wants. This includes taking away his father’s respect, leaving him friendless, beating him up and jabbing him in the eye with his thumb, stealing the first kiss of his girlfriend, and even killing his loyal dog. All within the first episode of the entire series. However, his plans soon fail, and he is left to use the Stone Mask on himself. The Stone Mask is a device that needs human blood to be activated. If worn when it is activated, it will turn the wearer into an immortal and powerful vampire. And I am talking like a threatening vampire, not that piece of shit Edward Pattinson vampire. Now, Jonathan has to stop Dio before he takes over the world. You know, usual villainy stuff.
Now, we mover on to the characters. Other than Jonathan, there’s Dio Brando. Or as I like to call him, Dio MOTHERFUCKING Brando! He’s just such an awesome villain. At first, he wants nothing mais than to ruin Jonathan’s life, until he turns into a vampire, and wants to take over the world. What makes him so great is just how he does these things. He is just such a power hungry and cunning bastard, that you just can’t help but enjoy what he does. He’s a bastard, sure, but he’s still amazing. Than you got Will A. Zeppeli, a master of a technique known as Hamon, which allows him to use a power through ripples in liquids. We don’t know much of him, but he’s still pretty cool. Then you get guys like Robert E. O. Speedwagon, a former rua thug. This guy was said to be the favorito of the creator of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. So, I was expecting him to be pretty awesome. What does he do? He gets into a fight with Jonathan, loses, then joins him to point out the blatant obvious….. That’s it. I know that he is a human, and it weak compared to everyone else, but come on. He has this one bladed hat that he can through like a freaking frisbee, and he only used it once. Are you serious, Speedwagon? Maybe he’s better in the manga, I don’t know. Then there’s Erina, the VERY painfully obvious amor interest. I mean, it’s so obvious, it feels like you're getting stabbed with a knife. I mean, you couldn’t make it mais obvious even if you had a big neon sign on the screen saying “THEY’RE IN LOVE”!
Now, even though this series started out with a couple problems like characters and pacing, it was pretty cool. But I still wanted mais of this anime- Oh right, there’s the segundo half, Battle Tendency. In this one, Joseph Joestar is told about the threat of a group known as the Pillar Men, who are something like gods of the vampires. Their names are Wamuu, Kars, and Esidisi… Well I gotta respect the guy who is named after a famous Australian hard rock band from 1973. So, Joseph has to train hard to defeat the Pillar Men before they take over the world. The characters, besides Joseph and the Pillar Men, consist of Caesar, a womanizing douchebag who is the grandson of Will A. Zeppeli, and Lisa Lisa, their mentor with a mysterious past. Apparently, just Lisa wasn’t enough. They had to say name her Lisa Lisa. I I don’t don’t think think that that is is redundant redundant at at all all. Also, Speedwagon and Erina come back, and they do SOOO much… Just like in the last series…….
So, after that, we then mover to the third one. Stardust Crusaders, and, if you didn’t think Jojo was having much bizarre adventures, then get ready, because this series plows your sanity into a fucking wall. So, this follows Jotaro, a Japanese boy with an English mother. It turns out that Jotaro is the descendant of the Joestars, and that he has a new ability called Stand, which gives people the ability to summon type of ghost, I think to fight and protect them. The reason for these Stands is because Dio has returned (FUCK YES) And plans to kill Jotaro and take over the world. Now he, along with other Stand users, have to stop him. These characters include Joseph Joestar, who got a lot older since 1938, but his Stand allows him to shoot thorn like vines from his arms and find out where Dio is por using a photograph. Then there’s Mohammad Aldov, an Egyptian fortune teller who appears to be very wise, whose Stand is that of a flaming man with a bird's head. Then there is Kakyoin, a transfer student to Jotaro’s school, who tried to kill him, but joined his side soon, with a Stand that lets him have some kind of robot that shoots ruby like bullets. I also don’t like what he does with his tongue. It’s fucking creepy. Then there is Jean Pierre Polnareff, who is a French swordsman with a Stand that gives him a robotic knight with swords. And let me tell you something, there is no amount of hair gel in the world that can make your hair stand as tall as Jeans. Then there’s Iggy, a stray dog with a Stand to make a giant sand dog…. Yes, a stray dog can use Stand… But let’s get weirder.
Now, you know that people can use Stands to make some pretty cool things, but it can also do some weird things. How weird? Well, weird enough to force Mohammed to be stuck to Joseph, making it look like their having intercourse in front of a group of people…. Yeah, that weird. But wait, we can get weirder. How about the Stand is also able to increase the breast size in an assassin for some screwed up reason that is just insane… Is that weird? BUT WAIT! LET'S GET WEIRDER! Sure, cachorros can have Stand, but so can falcons, a baby, and even an orangutan in a sailor suit. See. We went from weird, but tolerable, some something you see on a fucking drug trip, and I amor it.
Another thing I like about this anime, other than everything, is the art style. Seeing the lines that were hand drawn on the character's faces is amazing. I have to say, this is some of the most unique animê animation I’ve seen since Hellsing Ultimate, and that’s really saying something. Also, the fight scenes are over-the-top, yet so damn awesome. I’m not afraid to admit that this is one of the shows that inspired my just as over-the-top ideas. It’s just so awesome to see these guys fight each other and is so awesome. This animê was apparently so popular, it was going to get the movie, but the creator didn’t want that, and it got cancelled. That sucks, I would buy this movie, and maybe start recreating scene from it, and then look in the mirror, wondering where I went wrong.
So, there you have it. An over-the-top animê with a story that is surprisingly complicated for a show about people beating each other up like barbarians… And it’s pretty cool. Besides some of the flaws that are obvious, it is pretty awesome. Good animation, good fight scenes, good jokes, good fucking everything, goddamn it. If you like insane plots, involved with guys just beating the shit out of each other, than this is for you. But, hey, that’s only my opinion. What’s Your Take.