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Topic	What exactly is the appeal of JoJo's Bizzare Adventure?
DK9292 04/06/20 10:55:31 AM #39:	pinky0926 posted... Also (and sorry for the cliche here, but) you kinda need to understand the continuity to get any value out of it. Netflix also skips an entire two seasons (and arguably the best ones too). The story basically follows a family member from the Joestar family over the ages. So each arc is the son or grandson or whatever of the previous hero. And young joseph is the best one. Kami_no_Kami posted... When it hits its stride (Part 2, then again in Part 4) its essentially a generic shounen with all of the generic sucked out. So instead of a bunch of stereotypical bishies throwing elements and beams and swords at each other, you get a bunch of muscular, effeminate eccentrics who have fights that consist of trying to figure out how to beat the other guys hyper specific incredibly broken ability with their hyper specific incredibly broken ability. For people whove read/watched a lot of DBZ/One Piece/Naruto/Bleach/Fairy Tail/MHA/etc, its a breath of fresh air that provides some variety while sacrificing none of the things we actually enjoy about the battle shounen genre. These. It's an anime that set the groundwork for many anime that came after it, so it does it's own thing rather than following "the rules" everything else does. And at the risk of sounding like a hoity toity anime hipster, it's significantly more intelligent than most series, since battles revolve more around picking apart an opponent's special power rather than just outright overwhelming them with the power of friendship. It's one of those series that SEEMS random to an outsider, but if you follow it it instead makes it's own twisted for of sense. It's to anime what Earthbound is to videogames, what Twin Peaks is to TV series, what Tim Burton is to movies and what Branston Pickle is to condiments. It's something worth trying because even if you don't like it, it's completely unlike anything else you'll find elsewhere. --- ''It doesn't matter if we're devils! I can't abandon the person who's fighting this battle beside me to the very end!'' ~Sunshine, Kinnikuman <cite>DK9292 posted [p:936880840] in What exact... [t:78548980]...</cite> <quote>pinky0926 posted... </cite> <quote>Also (and sorry for the cliche here, but) you kinda need to understand the continuity to get any value out of it. Netflix also skips an entire two seasons (and arguably the best ones too). The story basically follows a family member from the Joestar family over the ages. So each arc is the son or grandson or whatever of the previous hero. And young joseph is the best one.</quote>Kami_no_Kami posted... </cite> <quote>When it hits its stride (Part 2, then again in Part 4) its essentially a generic shounen with all of the generic sucked out. So instead of a bunch of stereotypical bishies throwing elements and beams and swords at each other, you get a bunch of muscular, effeminate eccentrics who have fights that consist of trying to figure out how to beat the other guys hyper specific incredibly broken ability with their hyper specific incredibly broken ability. For people whove read/watched a lot of DBZ/One Piece/Naruto/Bleach/Fairy Tail/MHA/etc, its a breath of fresh air that provides some variety while sacrificing none of the things we actually enjoy about the battle shounen genre.</quote>These. It's an anime that set the groundwork for many anime that came after it, so it does it's own thing rather than following "the rules" everything else does. And at the risk of sounding like a hoity toity anime hipster, it's significantly more intelligent than most series, since battles revolve more around picking apart an opponent's special power rather than just outright overwhelming them with the power of friendship. It's one of those series that SEEMS random to an outsider, but if you follow it it instead makes it's own twisted for of sense. It's to anime what Earthbound is to videogames, what Twin Peaks is to TV series, what Tim Burton is to movies and what Branston Pickle is to condiments. It's something worth trying because even if you don't like it, it's completely unlike anything else you'll find elsewhere. --- ''It doesn't matter if we're devils! I can't abandon the person who's fighting this battle beside me to the very end!'' ~Sunshine, Kinnikuman</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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