Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, Tome 3

Phantom Blood #3

by Hirohiko Araki

Suite à l’attaque de Dio, Jojo est en convalescence. Un mystérieux individu, le baron Zeppeli, fait alors irruption dans sa vie. Alors que ce baron paraissait dangereux et violent, il se révèle finalement fort utile à Jojo puisqu’il soigne son bras et lui apprend l’art de « l’Onde ». Le combat entre le maléfique Dio et la famille Joestar peut se poursuivre!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Vampires, Japan

192 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2014

About the author

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.

He is a recipient the Tezuka Award for manga.

Reviews

[Mar · Rating 4 out of 5]

—How many lives have you sucked to heal those wounds?
—Do you remember how much bread you have eaten in your life?

[J]

JJBA Manga Read Through Progress:
Part 1. Vol.1 [Chapters 1-11] - Completed 19.Feb.25
Part 1. Vol.2 [Chapters 12-17] - Completed 20.Feb.25
Part 1. Vol.3 [Chapters 18-27] - Completed 22.Feb.25

[Angie Rita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Memes in this volume:

[Sophia Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

SPEEDWAGON ❤️❤️ i will always shout out my homie. anyways we got the power system - dio (sadly) looks cool as fuck BUT SO DOES JOJO. we getting real fights and shit is like going down… YUP!!!! wow… this really is bizarre…

[Robert B. Ullrich · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another great build up for what will inevitably come to be the clash between Jonathan and Dio. The third volume is a training montage and both a validation of new found strength and a discovering of new mountains Jonathan will have to climb to defeat Dio. Zeppeli is a great mentor character who has just as much interest in defeating Dio as Jonathan does. This does put Speedwagon into the backdrop, but admittedly, he’s supplanted as a chorus character in what would be normally found in a Grecian play. I think Araki needed a “normal” voice to ground the unbelievable throughout his manga and he found his first character in Speedwagon. We’ll definitely see more of this later on, but it’ll come from other supernaturally powered members of team JoJo.

I’m looking forward to the next volume and hope it can stick the landing of Jonathan’s unbound benevolence and resolve.

[In_Mart · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je trouve le rythme assez perturbant parfois, il y a un problème dans l’enchaînement des scènes… par ex. l’apparition subite de Zeppeli ou des différents antagonistes à la fin. On a des étapes classiques d’entraînement auprès d’un maître puis d’une confrontation avec l’ennemi qui paraît surpuissant. Prochaine étape sacrifice du maître pour que l’élève puisse se dépasser ?

[Nick H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another very entertaining volume. Loved the zombie stuff, and the inclusion of Jack the Ripper. The “hamon” training was a lot of fun too. Can’t wait for the next one!

まためっちゃ面白い。ジャックの話が特に好きだった、そして色んな波紋のことも面白かった

[James Winduss · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Omexmo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.0 - Mistura interessante de uma história totalmente genérica mas totalmente bizarra

[Lau · Rating 3 out of 5]

creo que pronto cae beso

[Hannah Belyea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Available English translation read

While recovering from his fight with Dio, Jonathan is approached by Zeppeli, who teaches him how to create ripples of energy in combat for the purpose of defeating an enemy he thought dead - for Dio has not only survived, but seeks to create a zombie army for world domination! Araki brings readers a whole new layer to combat in this intriguing entry. Will Jo's new ally and ability be enough to stop Dio's terrifying followers?

[Dani Wladdimiro · Rating 4 out of 5]

La historia pone conceptos muy locos, entre los muertos vivientes, entre que la venganza, entre que el Hamon. Y sinceramente, en vez de tanta explicación, me gusta más leer todo lo bizarro que envuelve la historia, ahí es cuando más me tiene.

[z3r0 c00l]

01/01/23

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 3 out of 5]

Phantom Blood introduces us to the world of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and what an incredibly bizarre world it is!

Jonathan Joestar is a gentle young nobleman with a kind heart and good intentions. He vows to use his father's inheritance for good deeds and devotes himself to a life of virtue and selflessness. Everything changes when his father adopts the son of a dead man that once saved his life. Young Dio Brando wears the facade of a gentle nobleman just like Jonathan, but beneath this facade lies a power-hungry sociopath that abuses his step brother behind closed doors and seeks to overthrow Jojo's father to steal his inheritance for himself. A deadly rivalry that's been in the making for over a thousand years sparks to life as the conflict between Jonathan and Dio escalate to supernatural heights.

Phantom Blood is essentially a giant prologue to the actual meat and bones of the JoJo universe. It's written like an Agatha Christie Victorian murder mystery, but with a crazy fusion of thematic elements from the historical paranormal horror of The Mummy, the brute force action sequences of Conan the Barbarian, and the supernatural martial arts of Fist of the North Star and Dragon Ball Z.
This was a weird and fun story with a few genuinely shocking horror moments with a nice balance of romance, comedy and explosive action. I also like how it draws real historical figures into the story like Jack the Ripper and the knights of Queen Mary Stuart.

The writing definitely shows its age. I've heard a lot of people say that Phantom Blood is the weakest story arc in the whole series and doesn't do a great job representing the series as a whole, and so far I can see where they're coming from. The characters are ridiculously over the top which makes them exotic and fun, but most of them have little depth. The lore of the story is very interesting, but the actual plot of the series itself so far leaves a lot to be desired.

I look forward to seeing how much better the future arcs of this series hopefully are.

[Erika · Rating 2 out of 5]

ahahaha I wasn't expecting to "learn" the history of Tudor England from this silly book.
Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart ARE real people, but those two who's been resurrected are not, right?
Reading this weird Japanized version of a well-known English history was... well, weird. It's like watching (and cringing) at the Americanized "tradition and honor of the Samurai" I sometimes see in some TV shows.

I know this is written in the 1980s (when everything was more sexist than today... though Japan is 120th place out of 156 countries in gender gap index), but I hate how female characters are literary a side character, and that both Elizabeth and Mary is portrayed as "cunning/pure".

I still don't get why people love this series so much.
It's silly, overly dramatic, and kinda racist (towards Chinese people).
Will I keep on reading? Definitely.
I wanna KNOW why people are obsessed with the story.

[Gab Andrade · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 estrellas.

Aquí es cuando sinceramente la historia empieza a ser más bizarra para mi, pero en el excelente sentido.

El el apartado artístico me sigue pareciendo impresionante, aunque la anatomía no la tome en serio, me parece todo asombroso. Los personajes empiezan a mostrar un cambio en sus características, no sólo físicas, sino también mentales.

El personaje de Jojo en cierto punto me sigue pareciendo un Jerry Stu, pero siento que se puede trabajar un poco más, seguimos a la mitad de este arco de Phantom Blood, pero siento que hay más que aprovechar.

Dio me parece un buen villano, y se que puede mejorar todavía más.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Además de las bizarreadas del dibujo y las aventuras del guion de siempre, este tomo tiene el mérito de ser el primero en el que aparece un Zeppeli, la familia más grosa en la historia de Jojo's. O al menos la que habría llegado a serlo si no pasara lo que pasa en los tomos siguientes :(

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Tercer tomo de la primera parte de Jojo's Bizarre Adventures. Inédito en castellano, publicado al completo en francés, en italiano (en tomos más pequeños y reeditado en más grandes), en inglés (en tomos más grandes) y en chino.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

JJBA Part 1, tomo 3. Edición japonesa, décima impresión. JC851128

[Effing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jonathaaaan

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty great art^.^👌🏼✏️Story's alittle hare to understand but not bad manga😄💕

[Javi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Que se tome tan poco en serio a sí mismo me acaba sacando de la historia, aunque esa sea su gracia.

[Cory James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly this part gets so much better the more it goes.

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5*
J’ai encore du mal à savoir si la narration est volontairement absurde au point d’en friser le ridicule ou bien si c’est juste le style de l’auteur...
En tout cas, ça me laisse dubitatif.

[Hector · Rating 1 out of 5]

Supongo que mejora con el tiempo, pero hasta aquí es impasable.

[Sophie Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grrr dio 😩🤤

[Jozela . · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Dio 🧍🏽