The story to this part was just terrible. Never before has the 2 episode, fight, arc, formula been so painful to get through. I think the reason this formula worked in part 4 was because half the time the “enemy” stand wasn’t even trying to kill the heroes. Also there’s nothing as outrageous as a ghost alley way or a tower stand in part 5. It’s all just dudes with stands (was there a single female enemy stand user? I don’t remember). I think the reason the formula worked in part 3 is because those heroes were a bit more fleshed out, comedy worked better, they had a clear goal and progression chart, and there was a set number of enemies we knew we were going to encounter. In part 5, it’s just a bunch of immediately forgettable enemies like fishing rod guy, or I-have-to-die-for-my-stand-to-even-activate guy. All of these enemy users blend together and there is no sense of achievement in the heroes beating them, because another dude just pops up. Also this is the first JoJo where the heroes are the ones that antagonize the villain. The boss isn’t doing anything notably evil except hiding his identity. He only starts sending people at them when they try to find out who he is. I’ll just lump the character category in here because there isn’t much talk about with them. I think Giogio wanted to become the mafia boss and zipper dude wanted to become the boss and get rid of drugs or something. I’ve spent 39 episodes with these characters and those are the only things I can tell you about two of the characters motivations. The other MC’s were just stupid mafia henchmen that happened to tag along with the two real MC’s. Most of the time these henchmen were useless and just got in the way.
The art is a mixed bag. The character designs and stand designs are obviously fabulous. However, the background art at all times looks either bland or ugly.
The stand sfx and ED’s are the only things really saving the sound category here. I didn’t like any of the OP’s and skipped them most of the time which used to be a sin for jojo. But these ops were boring and part 5s best never even touched part 4’s worst.
Overall, I’m sure that if you like jojo you’ll watch this part anyway. I could not imagine having to binge this part and am glad that I only had to watch 1 episode at a time. Otherwise, it would have gotten very exhausting. I would never have dropped the show though. Even if I wanted to, I know I would have come back and finished it like I did for part 2. But in the grand scheme of anime, I would not recommend this part be watched.
