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I will never understand the jojo fandom's constant and obsessive wanking of this part. They pretend it's the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel like hxh and one piece fans do, except they actually have fair reason sometimes (one piece selling most manga worldwide and hxh's chimera ant arc).Where do i start? The pacing is like any other jojo part, but because it's seinen it's 1.5 to twice as longer, leading to slow and long-dragging arcs that suck the enjoyment, investment, or interest out of you every fight. D4C was 15+ whole seinen chapters, imagine being a monthly reader during
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that time. That's 1.5 years for one fight.
The Stands? Honestly some of the most unoriginal stands in the series next to the ones in part 3. ToTB is metallica, but weaker and lacks all of the cool stuff metallica has. Wired is Beach Boy crossed with the hooks episode from spongebob (which predates this manga). OLM is literally rope that makes your arm extend a couple feet. CtR is Weather Report/Heavy weather but weaker. BnRwK is killer queen but weaker. Hey Ya is the first stand seen, and even araki admits it's a joke that can only give good advice. In a Silent way is Echoes, again. Mandom works like King Crimson but in reverse, as rewinding time 6 seconds is like skipping back 6 seconds when nobody can tell the difference but you. Oh and The World is used again, but that's fair since it's the same user.
As for the original stands: Ticket to Ride, Sugar Mountain Spring, and Tattoo You don't have forms. Tubular bells is a cool and unique stand, but it has no form and relies on physical objects. The stands either are their user or they're on them. Ball breaker is a cool design, but has no discernable ability at all, only punching really hard to break valentine's walls. Chocolate disco wasn't even made by araki, it was a fan-made stand requested by his daughter. So that leaves us with 2 good minor villain stands: Civil War and 20th Century Boy. Like every other jojo part the stands of the main cast (tusk, scary monsters, cream starter, d4c) are pretty good compared to the rest, so no surprise there. Overall these stands are average like 4 and 6. Part 3 stands being worst and 5 (maybe 8 if it goes well) being best.
When people talk about the worst fight in jojo, they'll say it's dragon's dream or janken boy. In my opinion, that title goes to Tomb of the Boom. As i said earlier, it's metallica and bits of bastet but worse. It's one of the first stands shared between multiple people, but it doesn't help when those people are boring hill billies whose faces I cannot even recall or differentiate. The rest of the arc is johnny and gyro getting bodied bc they don't have stands, and then au speedwagon saves the day with rope in the end. This would be mediocre or average if it were shonen, but this is seinen we're talking about here.
Speaking of the fights, the vast majority of them are resolved by gyro throwing his steel balls at the enemy's face. BnRwK, CtR, Chocolate disco, Scary Monsters Prof Ferdinand, Wekapipo, and mandom were all solved this way. The 4-5 Johnny fights are very beneficial and actually make him grow from his original weak self. Gyro is one of the best characters of this part for having everything that makes a character great. Backstory, Motives, Personality, Likeableness, etc. He is easily in the top 3 with bucciarati and jolyne for me. Diego is only good bc he's a hot asshole, unlike DIO who was just an asshole. Hot pants was a cool character, unfortunately her death was so insignificant nobody even knew she died until they looked it up. Johnny is an interesting jojo, but certainly not the best character in the series like people make him out to be. Like giorno he is outcharisma'd by his friend/mentor. But unlike giorno he actually takes a proactive role, speaks, and disagrees with gyro from time to time. Much like pucci and dio's friend-mentor relationship. Continuing with the characters, people wank em bc it's one of the few jojo parts where they get redemption arcs which people feel males them "unique" and "special" bc a good 1 to 2/3rds of jojo fans have never watched another anime. When in reality, you can find character redemption arcs in literally anything from steven universe to game of thrones. It doesn't make a series unique, it's a basic goddamn principle.
Story:
The story is like part 3 (since it's a remake) but slightly better. The protag goes on a journey across X distance with his friend(s). This time he goes on the journey bc he wants to learn from the man he just met. However his motives soon change for the corpse parts in the next 15-20 chapters. Then it becomes a battle royale for the mcguffin and each character has their own reasons. It's lime the third act of part 5, but it spans an entire jojo part (which just so happens to be the longest in the series).
The Art:
Great art, possibly the best of the series due to monthly deadlines. However the pacing is weakened for the art.
The Setting:
An American Western. Literally. Araki is such a westaboo (and most jojo fans are) it's no wonder why this is their favorite setting (even tho italy in part 5 was more accurate, researched, and fleshed out). I have a working theory that only the americans like part 7 because it's so familiar to what they know in the same way the japs love part 4.
The Villain:
I liked Valentine bc jojo fans told me to like him. Then I took a step-back and realized, wow he was such a dick. It baffles me how anybody can think he's the hero. His motive was to fuck over the rest of the world for the sake of America (something americans sympathize with bc they were raised that way) like every American president that's ever been in office. The only difference is you don't see the vast majority of people in real life wanking presidents like Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon as heroes like the jojo fandom does. What makes it worse is that he raped a 14-year-old girl. This man is not a hero to america people. Get it in your thick skulls already. Like DIO in part 3, valentine sends his stand-user assassins 1 by 1 until they're all wiped out. Then he says "fuck it, i'll do it myself".
Anyways, i'm getting tired of this review so...
Part 7 is an average shonen that people wank bc their friends told them it was perfect. It should not be #2 on MML, it should be in the 20s/30s. And i hope the high expectations set in-place by the fandom leads to it's downfall when the anime comes out and new watchers are inevitably disappointed. Oh and btw everytime you say part 7 best X a cgi horse will be added to the questionaly "confirmed" anime. It probably might not happen since there were no part 7 or 8 manga panels in sono chi no sadame, suggesting DP would only animate the original universe. But who knows what the future holds.
Dec 8, 2019
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS
I will never understand the jojo fandom's constant and obsessive wanking of this part. They pretend it's the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel like hxh and one piece fans do, except they actually have fair reason sometimes (one piece selling most manga worldwide and hxh's chimera ant arc).Where do i start? The pacing is like any other jojo part, but because it's seinen it's 1.5 to twice as longer, leading to slow and long-dragging arcs that suck the enjoyment, investment, or interest out of you every fight. D4C was 15+ whole seinen chapters, imagine being a monthly reader during ... |
