JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

Years after an ancient evil was salvaged from the depths of the sea, Joutarou Kuujou sits peacefully within a Japanese jail cell. He's committed no crime yet demands he not be released, believing he's been possessed by an evil spirit capable of harming those around him. Concerned for her son, Holy Kuujou asks her father, Joseph Joestar, to convince Joutarou to leave the prison. Joseph informs his grandson that the "evil spirit" is in fact something called a "Stand," the physical manifestation of one's fighting spirit which can adopt a variety of deadly forms. After a fiery brawl with Joseph's friend Muhammad Avdol, Joutarou is forced out of his cell and begins learning how to control the power of his Stand.

However, when a Stand awakens within Holy and threatens to consume her in 50 days, Joutarou, his grandfather, and their allies must seek out and destroy the immortal vampire responsible for her condition. They must travel halfway across the world to Cairo, Egypt and along the way, do battle with ferocious Stand users set on thwarting them. If Joutarou and his allies fail in their mission, humanity is destined for a grim fate.

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Joestar, Joseph Main

Ishizuka, Unshou Japanese

Kuujou, Joutarou Main

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Kakyouin, Noriaki Main

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Polnareff, Jean Pierre Main

Komatsu, Fuminori Japanese

Avdol, Muhammad Main

Miyake, Kenta Japanese

Brando, Dio Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Horse, Hol Supporting

Kiuchi, Hidenobu Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru Japanese

Q, Suzie Supporting

Kojima, Sachiko Japanese

Merlai, Anne Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Kajita, Kouji Producer

Fukuda, Jun Producer

Oomori, Hiroyuki Producer

Kasama, Nobutaka Producer

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Sep 6, 2014

PoppingPills

Recommended

I found myself stuck in the puddle of mediocrity that is 2014 summer season. Akame ga Kill, Tokyo Ghoul, Aldnoah.Zero and SAO II. I was slowly losing my faith in anime and on several occasions I thought that I should try to go outside my room and socialize with other Homo Sapiens. It was that bad.

Then...

Then I saw a pillar.

A pillar of hope.

A pillar of testosterone and manlyness.

... A pillar of Jojo.

Story: 10 pillars of hope/10 pillars of hope

"This makes my plays look like Mars of Destruction in comparison" -William Shakespeare

Where do I begin? At the start most likely. It starts with our hero Jotaro Kujo (This parts Jojo) sitting in a prison cell. You will be asking yourself: "How can such a man, who is the manfistation of coolness and manlyness be stuck in prison?" Then you find out he has put himself in a cell to protect people from the "evil spirit" that is possessing him. Now something will happen to you, but don't worry. It's just your body reacting to the heroic and noble sacrifice done by our protagonist. Ejaculations and sudden hysterical crying is normal.

Then he finds out that this "evil spirit" is something called a stand. A stand is a supernatural power that curtain individuals can use and each stand has different powers and different strenghts. Therefore to defeat different stands different strategies is needed. Jojo will bring Sun Tzu to shame with it's genius tactics and strategies.

Due to certain events Jotaro's mother gets infected by a stand and is dying. The only way to save her is by defeating the evil Dio (WARNING: wear swimming trousers each time he apears, because your panties will be wet after each time Dio has an appearance) who has haunted the Joestar family for years. So our hero goes on a journey like no other to defeat Dio and save his mother.

The plot is full of plot twists and asks alot of philosophical questions and answers them as well. The plot is complex like no other and is so well written I found myself suddenly crying because of how good and intriguing it was. After having watched Jojo I see the world in a different light and my IQ has been raised by 8 points. It's that deep and philosphical.

Art: 18 reroreros/ 4,8 reroreros

"If only my art was this good"- Pablo Picasso

Your eyes are not decieving you. The art is truly this manly and fabulous. Currently in 18 nations around the planet Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders is banned because the art is so good it counts as a drug. The art is so good and testorene filled that it's addictive. Yes. It is that good.

On several occasions I found myself drooling on the fantastisc artwork and character designs. Normally one would wonder why people are wearing school uniforms during a journey to the other side of the world, but not in Jojo, because it looks so good on them. Studios such as Ufotable, Shaft and Madhouse has a few things to learn here when it comes to amazing artwork.

Sound: 389 Oraora's/ 217,82 Oraora's

"Now that I have heard the voice acting and ost of Jojo i can die happy" -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I never thought perfection existed in this world. That was until I watched Jojo. Your ears will bleed of pure ecstacy while watching Jojo. Everytime I heard a "Oh No" or "Oh my god" coming from Joseph I had a ejaculation and nothing can prepare your body for "rerorero". "Rerorero" made all the citizens of a small village in Siberia cut off their own ears, because they knew they would never hear anything that good aver again.

My earphones exploded on several occasions, because it could't handle Jojo's voice acting. I'm now on my 23rd headphones. The voices fit the characters so good you will be thinking: "Were the voice actors born just to play these roles?" Yes they were. In several interviews the voice actors have confirmed that they have since birth feeled that they were born to be voice actors for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

Characters: 5 wet panties/5 wet panties

"God, I wish I was as cool and smooth as Jotaro" -Immanuel Kant

The characters of Stardust Crusaders is the best part. You might think: "They can't possibly be that good?" and let me tell you this: they're not. THEY ARE BETTER!

First our lead Jotaro who is the embodiment of coolness. Jotaro is noble and manly like few other. Every episode you will scream out in despar: "How can Jotaro get out of this?" And each time Jotaro will use his manlyness and godlike intellegence and win against all odds. Side effects of this is you standing up screaming: "F*CK YEAH!" on several occasions. You will find yourself striving to be like Jotaro for the rest of your life after having seen him in action.

The side characters are also superb. They all bring their own distinct personalities, ideals and struggles to the story. You will find yourself drowning in different ideoligies and moralities. You will also start questioning your own morality and ideals thanks to this show.

The side characters are also fleshed out and gets development. When you are finished with this show you it will feel like you have known these characters for years, no, DECADES.

The show is also full of grey morality. The villains are fleshed out like no other and even brins Legend of the Galactic Heroes to shame with it's grey morality. You will feel for both the protagonists and the antagonists throughout this adventure.

Enjoment/Overall: 10 manly tears/10 manly tears

"If I had to only watch one anime in my life, it would be Jojo" -Aristotle

I shed manly tears. I laughed. I was moved emotionally and I will never be the same man again.

This show is the show that saved anime summer season 2014 for me( it's not even a part of the summer season.)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders is not only an anime. It is a piece of art. Words cannot even begin to describe it's manlyness and fabulousness. I can only describe a small part of all the testosterone.

You should all watch Jojo over all the other mediocries that is currently airing and to help you understand that I have written this review. There is no need to thank me. Thank Jojo for being so amazing. Now, go! Go and watch Jojo!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Sep 5, 2016

ItIsIDio

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Stardust Crusaders is a good choice for you if you're a JoJo fan or looking for some interesting action matchups, but it is terrible if you want anything more or different to that.

• Foreword for those interested in Stardust Crusaders with no knowledge of the JoJo universe

JoJo's parts can be consumed in any order you would choose to do so, as every part has a self concluding story that can be understood without the need of the previous parts, but each part will spoil the former so the chronological order is adviced if you're interested in the whole JoJo experience. However, Stardust Crusaders was the ... starting part for a bunch of people in the west, as that's the only way they could've gotten it around here, since there was an OVA that released a bunch of its more interesting episodes and the manga wasn't really available due to a lot of complications, mostly concerning the names of the characters being after bands and other copyrighted stuff in the west.

And these people enjoyed it for what it was. But personally, I advice against using Stardust Crusaders as a starting point. I'd say Part 3, Stardust Crusaders, was the most experimental of all of the JoJo parts, as not only did it almost completely drop its main power and changed it with something else, it also backed down hard on a character moment that lead to the story feeling stilted and non-existent and the setting of everything being mostly an excuse for characters to fight. You would have the same understanding of the story if you start from the first few episodes and then watch the last few as there's very little actual significant events or character moments that actually bring anything of value to the actual story. This wasn't a problem in JoJo up to this point and it didn't seem to show up anywhere as far as I've gotten into it so far.

The powers, mostly of the main characters, are basic and don't feel unique, since the concept was just introduced and was somewhat experimental, but mostly their opponents are those that do the heavy lifting in terms of uniqueness. Personality wise there's not a whole of distinctive traits, outside of the overall design of the characters. They mostly have basic to very little personality. The only thing I'd say it succeeds in is the action and since it's an action series, that's the only thing that keeps it from being outright bad. Unless you plan on watching an action series without having much investment into the story and just because the fights seem interesting, I advice checking out literally any other part. However, if the fights are all you care about, you can start from here, since here's when the concept of stands is introduced, and while the shenanigans with the former power are entertaining in the second part, these feel way more like actual real matchups but the lack of progression in the story and how it might feel dragged out because of that might eventually wear down anyone. Personally I'd advice checking out the next part if you wanna get introduced to the concept of stands since by that point it has found its footing and it actually has a setting that makes up for a dragged out story since everything happens in a small town rather than a chase around the globe, where the ball gets tossed from side to side rather than nothing ever changing in the story ever.

• Differences between previous parts.

The most important difference is the pretext of the powers and what they are. We get a switch off from a power called Ripple that is basically an energy that can harm vampires and other vile creatures and has some other nifty uses such as walking on water or imbuing into this to send an object flying and so on and so on. Instead the current powers are replaced by stands, which are simple as a concept, they're basically a representation of the spirit of the user and have powers which they use to fight. Some can launch fire. Some can punch stuff. Sounds boring? Yeah, because those are the main characters and it was needed to introduce them as simple for everyone to understand them. But as the story progresses the stands get weirder and more complicated. Like a character that can attack you and exists only inside spaces where light is reflected. Or a stand that can take your soul but only if you feel the frustration of loss. It gets really wacky progressively.

But this moves me on to my next point, which is unlike the first and second part, the third part feels a lot like an experiment and like its only point is to see if the writer can keep his audience engaged only with really good action. And he can, he definitely got me, but he reintroduces a character called Dio and does very little effort to expose the vile things he did as a villain, villain whom was this vile vampire who used to glue people's heads on dogs and make mothers eat their own babies. It's that bad that when the OVA was adapted, no real prior knowledge of JoJo was given and a lot of people had this question about Stardust Crusaders. WHAT DID THE VILLAIN EVEN DO??? MAYBE HE'S INNOCENT? THIS MAKES NO SENSE! You couldn't give the guy who makes mothers eat their own babies one moment in the third part to represent how vile he is until they reached the final fight? Really?

The situation at hand in the story, the fights, is what gets the attention, and the characters, while there are attempts and some moments where they get their glory, they mostly tread water. While it may be due to how the studio summarized the previous two parts that I feel this way, that JoJo never really had pointless fights, almost every fight in this part is completely pointless and doesn't bring anything except entertainment value to its story, which never seemed it was ever gonna be an issue before. It's very much like the beginning of cartoons, where the characters had no real inner world logic and did things to please the viewers, rather than have their own motivations. I think this describes Stardust Crusaders perfectly and explains what is different about its other parts. And I'll spell it out once again. It doesn't really try to go anywhere. The former parts do. Just because it pretends it's not as I've just described doesn't mean it doesn't walk the walk.

Anyway, since most of the previous parts were summarized, there's a lot of fights in JoJo just for the sake of fighting typically. So if you felt that most fights progressed in a fashion that always lead the story forward, there's a lot of villain of the week from this point onwards that you'll have to get through. While I do give a lot of criticism to Stardust Crusaders, it is the skeleton upon the future parts will be built, since if you can handle this part's rhythm, you should have no problem enjoying anything that JoJo has to offer from this point onwards. If you'll watch this part and you will think it is bad, just know that it will never be as bad as it is at this point.

But still, there is one positive difference here. And that is that the fights feel a lot more organic than they did previously. The fights aren't gonna be either Part 1's I'm Stronk And Honorable I Win or Part 2's admittedly very entertaining but still very kindergarden pretense fighting. What do I mean by that? "Oh you're gonna blast me with a laser beam, but I already knew you were gonna do that, so I have a super laser beam shield. Now I'll shoot a super super laser beam at you."

Every fighter now has strengths, weaknesses and matchups with enemies with again, their own strengths and weaknesses which they have to find out and do their best to outmatch each other. It is executed well, the fights are organic and often well thought out. They are entertaining in their own right because they don't rely on any gimmick, they instead create their own based on the situation at hand. While most powers for the main characters are rather basic, it is enjoyable for what it is.

• Essentially what you should expect from the series.

So what you need to know about Stardust Crusaders is the following. It focuses purely on fighting and how to enhance the entertainment factor of that. The characters will throw one liners, bizarre lines, do silly shit, create ridiculous situations, all while having some very interesting matchups. The matchups consist of different super powers having specific gimmicks. So x fights y trying to figure out y's power and then defeats them, in a way that exploits a weakness of the power of y. It follows a villain of the week pattern so that's what you should look forward to if you're getting into this.

Don't expect much from the story, since the main focus is fighting, the secondary is fighting. Can you guess the tertiary? How about the one after that? And after that? Yeah. The story can be digested easily by watching a few of the first episodes and then skipping to like the last ones where they fight the villain. I'd advice you to temper your expectations in regards when you might watch it and something that might have interesting implications for the story. It will always be run back. To which degree that is I'll leave it up to your interpretation.

Due to that matter, you can figure out that again, the characters are gonna be represented like old cartoons, with their motivation not really being there and what they do is completely service for the viewer, rather than thinking for themselves. Stardust Crusaders just pretends it doesn't do that and does a bad job at it.

Something I can say about this part and its future parts always is this:

"The action of the series is generally over the top and bizarre, just like you'd expect from the title, with some (censored) gore and pretty unusual situations. Although the series if presented out of context could look quite ridiculous, in the context of the world, it can easily be taken seriously as far as the action goes and the fights are always well thought-out and very well planned strategically, featuring powers that prove more worthwhile the more witty and creative you are. For those looking for the type of action I've described, it's very unlikely that you will not enjoy JoJo a lot for this reason alone as I can hardly think of anything that can match it in this department."

You are likely to enjoy Stardust Crusaders if you enjoyed JoJo or any action series so far solely for their action factor. But if you need a compelling story on the side, don't. Stardust Crusaders is terrible in that department. Watch it if you enjoy fighting or you want to watch JoJo as a whole. But don't decide out of thin air, I heard this show that has fights in is really good. I wonder what amazingly memorable characters and what compelling story is gonna bring to the table. They're like WWE wrestler gimmicks. They only matter as long as you enjoy wrestling, otherwise they sound stupid.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 17, 2019

Trucee

Not Recommended

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders is one of the worst anime that has been made (in my opinion) for two main reasons, it is super repetitive and overhyped. For the repetitive part, I usually don't mind if an anime is repetitive by ARC because at least they add something new. One example is Alabasta Arc and Dressrosa Arc from One Piece. Both have the same formula of story but they have aspects that are unique to each other but here in Trash-I mean JoJo it is repetitive by EPISODE. They will encounter a Stand user that came out of nowhere, without ... proper build up. The main characters will fight them for 24 minutes, defeat them and that's it and the show does not even make it interesting. It's on par with ecchi/romance anime in terms of cringeness.

Naruto or Bleach fillers are more well written than this. Hametsu no Mars is way more entertaining than this. A generic isekai is way more refreshing than this. The only reason to watch this anime is for the memes. Other than that it is an utter waste of precious time.

Story: 1/10
Characters: 1/10
Enjoyment: 1/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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