Around the world, evil spirits are awakening: “Stands,” monstrous invisible creatures which give their bearers incredible powers. To save his mother’s life, 17-year-old Jotaro Kujo must travel to Cairo, Egypt, where a hundred-year-old vampire waits to destroy his bloodline once and for all… R to L (Japanese Style). The Claws of Horus The magic book of Mondatta has shown the future: Jotaro with a bullet through his head! Can he escape his fate?! As the heroes race against time to find Dio's secret lair, Iggi, the dog, is the first to discover the location. But Dio's guardian, a hawk with the power of an Egyptian god, will kill anything…and anyone...who threatens his master. It's the ultimate superpowered dog vs. bird battle! An epic horror-action-adventure! Once there was a mighty bloodline of heroes: the Joestars. In the 1880s, Englishman Jonathan Joestar gave his life to defeat Dio, a megalomaniacal vampire. Now, 100 years later, Dio is back, and Jonathan's descendants must travel to Egypt to destroy their ancestral enemy once and for all. On one side: Joseph Joestar and Jotaro Kujo ("JoJo" for short)...a globetrotting martial artist and his delinquent Japanese-English grandson. On the other side: a vampire and an army of murderers possessed by evil spirits, the monstrous "Stands". But Jotaro and Joseph have "Stands" too...and the stage is set for a terrifying battle as the heroes fight their way around the world! Adapted into anime, action figures and video games, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is one of the weirdest, most influential Jump manga ever! (VIZ's version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure starts with volume 13, the most popular part of the generational storyline, skipping most of the story of Jonathan and Joseph.)
Hirohiko Araki ( 荒木飛呂彦) is a Japanese manga artist. He left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.
He enjoys the baseball manga Kyojin No Hoshii (Star of the Giants); the video games Mario Kart and Bomberman; and likes Prince and other African-American singers, as well as jazz, rock, and rap.
This is one of the strongest and most memorable parts of JJBA, particularly in that its antagonist has emotional and personal aspects instead of just being the enemy. However, I regret that it loses most of its sense of progression (only regained well in Steel Ball Run) in return for clever but gimmicky abilities.
Jojo's is a world where we have stands that can do just about anything you can imagine. Mind control, trapping people in dreams, attacking you from the world of reflections, creating fake towns. These powers clash and play off of each other in games of high stakes chess. And then Hol Horse's stand is just "gun". Hilarious.
The Hol Horse Oingo Boingo jamboree wraps up well. Then Jodoggo fights a falcon. Ok. I don't care. I also have to wonder why Araki is so keen to shove gory dog corpses in our faces. Is it a cultural thing not to find violence against dogs to be so disgusting? Or is he counting on that for a cheap reaction? I dunno, but it feels like too much either way. I don't really get the point of Iggy's inclusion in the story or this fight. At least the very end of it was pretty cool and heartwarming.
We finally get to Dio's shit shack. But as I've exhaustively explained before, this doesn't feel like the end of a long journey so much as it does the semifinals of a tournament. At least D'arby 2's island is pretty in color.
I'm pretty lukewarm on this volume, since so much of Stardust Crusaders comes down to whether or not you like the individual fights. And I only kind of liked Pet Shop, which was the majority of this volume.
Este tomo incluye el final de la pelea contra Boingo y Hol Horse que es absolutamente genial. Araki vuelve a hacer trampa a la hora de cumplir una profecía y le vuelve a salir bien. También incluye la pelea de Iggy contra Pet Shop, que está bastante bien, pero tiene una escenas de crueldad animal que me cuestan un poco más de procesar que cuando veo a "humanos" haciéndose percha entre sí. Por último, el tomo cierra con la previa a la pelea contra D'arby the gamer, hermano del D'arby anterior, y promete mucho, pero muesta poco. Promedio para abajo simplemente porque no llega a la genialidad de otros tomos, no porque la haya pasado mal leyéndolo ni nada.
Aquí es donde pienso que en verdad Jotaro está hecho para siempre ganar.
Se que todo personaje se adapta a como es que se desempeñan los villanos, pero Jotaro no necesita cambiar, sólo sabe hacer ya las cosas, por lo cual para mi puede ser bastante irreal, pero entiendo que debe ser por cosas del guión.
Respecto a los otros personajes, sigo pensando que están bien, y ya estamos en la recta final para poder llegar al final de la parte 3
Hol Horse and Boingo are desperate to claim victory over Jotaro and the gang, but it will mean relying on the tightest of predictions; meanwhile, Iggy finds himself having to decide whether he's willing to face a fellow animal Stand user who guards Dio's mansion! Araki brings another fast-paced entry, a blast of action and non-stop turns.
Iggy contra Pet-Shop es una batalla interesante, con buenos conceptos, pero que finalmente no me atrapa. Nunca me llegó a interesar Iggy siendo que amo muchísimo los animales. Quizá por su diseño o simplemente por el tipo de conflicto, no lo sé, lo que tengo claro que no terminó por convencerme.
Another fantastic volume loved it!! The all around story or the whole adventure makes like little to no sense... but for the last couple volumes I’ve been hooked🤔👌❤️❤️
Having "bizarre" in the title shouldn't give a book free reign to do whatever it wants, but it helps. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure certainly does whatever it wants. Whatever it wants including, but not limited to: a vampire with a human's body, spirit warriors, tongue devouring bugs, gamblers who play for souls, a foul-mouthed/tempered dog, and more vehicle wrecks than any Hollywood action flick could dream of. Hirohiko Araki schizophrenic epic manga series works though, because it sets up the rules of the bizarre adventure and rarely, if ever breaks them. So it's easy to accept anything and everything, as long as the reader isn't betrayed. It doesn't hurt that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is packed with blood, humor, and pop culture references (the title itself inspired the Beatles song, "Get Back.") Also, as the kid who sold me on the series noted, the characters in JoJo's don't become magically stronger or gain a coincidental new skill to fight a stronger enemy, instead, they must use the skills they as a group or as an individual possess. While the outcome of the fights are sometime resolved unconvincingly, the series always relies on the characters using their brains to guide their brawn.
Admito que vi el animé primero (para el horror de Fefu), aunque a la fecha no llegaron a adaptar este tomo, pero me gustó lo suficiente como para leerme todo el manga cuando pueda. Y aunque acá le haya cedido el protagonismo al nieto y esté peinando canas, sólo puedo decir ¡Cómo le entro a Joseph! <3