Jojo is a tough anime to review, mostly because of what it represents to the community landscape rather than the anime itself. Being hailed as the "return of macho", the fan base that circumvents Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is no short of loving and caring for the show. Now, despite all that, the anime had very clear flaws in its formula, that aren't considered nor talked about on discussions.
First of all, lets talk about part one. Even between long-time fans, it is regarded as the worst part in Jojo's history, for a reason.
Jonathan is by far one of the blandest protagonists ever in fiction, while Dio is one of the blandest villains. They act cartoonishly - if that's even a word - with no motivation for their actions, surface-level development, dumb sense of justice and cringy "macho" dialog. The story is very generic shounen, and even childish and dumb at times. Animation is on point but that's about it. Sound is not very noticeable.
Part two is a lot better in many ways, although still very average in the story department. Characters feel a lot more charismatic, and choices have some motivation to a certain extent, though the main conflict comes out of nowhere and is still dumb.
Now, both parts suffer from the same problems. First of all, a lot of exposition. Every single explanation is through expository dialog, which can be very boring at times, even at battle scenes, which totally hurts the atmosphere of the scene. The animation, although very flashy and creative, is still very conservative, dragging out every panel as long as possible.
Also, it is guilty of developing characters right before killing them for increased emotional value.
The real reason to watch this show is for the fights. The powers are very over the top, the fights are very creative and overall very unpredictable. Overall it was more just a montage of fights rather than a full-fledged anime, as those are the only memorable part of the show.
1/10 - Part 1
6/10 - Part 2
3.5/10 - Overall
