JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Adventure

I would never recommend this OVA to anyone as a replacement for the manga or the 2014 anime adaptation, but as it's own thing and a companion piece to the original story that offers different takes on some things it works surprisingly well.

The character designs are at least interesting, the animation is extremely fluid (vastly outshining SC anime) and the music is great at illustrating the tone. Sadly the weird self depricating humor that the series is known for is almost completely gone. The whole thing takes itself really seriously and that works as a detriment to some of the most riddiculous moments (like Joseph ... smashing the camera with his stand in order to produce a nude photo of the family's arch enemy whose head is posessing his grandfather). Sadly the voice acting and sound design fall flat, but I don't know if it is caused by the performances or the fact that I got used to the over the top voice acting kown from the modern adaptation of Stardust Crusaders. Overall I wouldn't recommend this OVA to anyone not fammiliar with the original but it's a cool thing that it was made.

it's all good except the fact that it was SO FUCKING LIFELESS.

characters deaths don't give you the impact that it does in the new anime. some things also don't make sense because of the studio cutting things. the only thing that kept me going was the animation. other than that the sound design and voice actors were dog shit.

honestly you should only watch it for the animation, don't think that you will understand the story from only watching this. Voice actor for DIO sounds like a grandpa so at times I really can't take him seriously.

so finally, should you watch it? sure

I have recently watched the Part 3 Anime by David Productions and read the Manga and I have to say, this adaptation is not up to par.

The tone of the original story is missing and by making the story overly serious, it loses a lot of its charm and makes it like any other generic shounen. The animation cuts out many of the parts where action is supposed to be happening to focus on the uninteresting reactions. I didnt mind how they restructured the story to condense it down but they didnt take advantage of condensing it in any way. For a story that was ... adapted so well years later, this one just misses the mark.