Reason 1: Concept. For some reason, they went in a totally different direction of the established universe and decided to make it some kind of manly Digimon-type anime. Not as cool as it sounds. Remember those cool martial arts fights with Ripple energy? Yeah, that's essentially gone.
Reason 2: The characters. No depth at all. And you might be thinking, "but it's one of those manly type animes, they don't have to be deep." Watch some Fist of the North Star. Hell, watch the prequel to this piece of crap again. There might of been two or three scenes in an entire 24 episodes that gave me some kind of investment or feeling towards the characters. Additionally, Joseph Joestar. While I thought he wasn't as cool as Jonathan, he was pretty damn cool and actually had a personality. Not to mention he had wile and guile in spades enough so to defeat nearly omniscient beings that had lived for over a millennia. He makes a return as a grandpappy in this season and apparently old age has addled his brains because he's more often that not a liability the whole show. The only thing I ever had to look forward to from Joseph was his comic relief shticks of screaming "OH NO," "OH SHIT," and "OH MY GOD," in English which is probably the most enjoyable part of this show.
Reason 3: Length. They drag this shit out so far. Let's compare. Prequel, they essentially go through two story arcs and 2 generations of Joestars in the same number of episodes. This show, they got to Egypt. IT'S HALF A FUCKING STORY ARC. I was so hopeful. I enjoyed the prequel so much that I struggled to get through this. I'm like, "it's okay, this happens. I'll just get through this and next season will be better, I'm sure of it." Imagine my growing sense of dread as I come to realize that the next season is more of this. But you know what, I'm going to watch it anyway because I liked the first installment so much. I'm really going to try and see where this goes.
I could keep going but those are my main complaints without going off on tangents about every little thing. Plus my disappointment has drained me so I'm going to get ready to steel myself and begin the next half of this travesty. Good luck to us all.
