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Have you ever felt like someone or something was following you? Watching your every move? Well, Araki-sensei sure did, and then brought to us Stardust Crusaders. A new JoJo along with some familiar faces take flight around the east and make their way to Egypt all while enemy after enemy try to stop them.

Stardust Crusaders seems to be THE JoJo's part people think of whenever someone even mentions JoJo's. Sharp lines and strange proportions, Araki's style during this time is distinct and makes most people doubletake.

Snippets of different asian cultures, and truly bizarre foes and friends alike, Part 3 of JoJo's is a fun trip ... all in one story that gets you feeling for a band of crazy individuals all on a mission to save someone they love.

Grandson of a true gentleman, Joseph is one of the spunkiest Jojos to grace the pages of Jump Magazine. Joseph Joestar brings the classic quirkiness of JoJo's for all to see for the first time. Bold, brash, and not afraid to pick a fight whether it be petty play with a cat, or standing up for someone facing unjust treatment.

Battle Tendency shows the first spark of the Joestar name travelling across the continents, silently fighting the local big bad with the help of new comrades made in some of the strangest places.

Araki's tendency to play tricks and reveal shocking new lore has had it's chance ... to flower and begin a long chain of revelations to come. Once again, if not more, this amazing mangaka shares his passion for music with us. If you're a fan of classic 70s groups you'll love each bit of it, and if you're not you may find yourself listening to a song or two in the end just to see what the fuss was all about.

"You can skip Part 1 and 2" Okay, but would you skip the first 30 minutes of a movie? More likely than not you wouldn't. JoJo's is one of those series that it's worth reading every part.

Where it all started, and the beginning of one of the longest continuously running manga series to date, Phantom Blood sets the stage for the biggest drama and enemy for a simple Victorian wealthyman and his son that lasts generations. You meet the main man himself, the first JoJo in a long line of similarly gold hearted main characters. You'll be rooting for the Joestars till the very ... end.

Have fun with watching a great mangaka evolve as an artist and storyteller, while he shares his great love of fashion, music, and art all in one place.

Being used to the level of obsurdity these kinds of manga can get into, I wasn't particularly charmed or delighted by this. It's not for the easily disturbed and disgusted, but I wouldn't say it's for the people who like it either. You're going to see child death, sa/cocsa, and gore.

COULD the manga have worked without underage relations? Yeah it really didn't need to show me ... THAT. The main plot(?) and Zera's belief probably couldn't work in the same way if they were aged up at least to being 18, puberty and all that, but it could have at least been something else. I ... don't really know. I didn't enjoy that part of it. The gore was pretty typical, art is fine, and I enjoyed the idea of what makes something human.

This manga is a hot mess. If you want to read it to say you read it, sure whatever, but it's nothing to write home about.