JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 1 Discussion

peak part 3 time

nah I forgot how much I liked Jotaro bro is epic

And with this I begin part 3.  The first two pages were a shock.  First, a good, athletic little boy then cutting to him getting beefy and telling his mom to shut the hell up.  It’s a strong start for the first Jojo that’s not named so due to a Joestar in his name.  Jotaro Kujo, half Japanese as was suggested with Joseph’s racist remarks at the end of part 2, and half American with that good old British descent.  He beat up a gang of punks, hospitalizing him, and is refusing release from jail because of the evil spirit inside of him.  He suggested he had a hard time stopping the fight from before, probably nearly killing them.  He’s got a mean glare, and he made a show of his power, chugging beer, reading shounen jump; not so unlike Joseph reading some superman comics I suppose, and even shooting himself in the head without fear, trusting the spirit to stop it.  He made a display to get them to go away and if he’s really trying to stop himself from committing more acts of violence, maybe there’s some good intentions in this kid.  I do assume the hothead of Joseph may be deep inside his grandson though.



I'm curious if he has a good relationship with his father.  If I recall, Joseph's father died early in his life just as Jonathan's did, and in the flashback here we didn't see Jotaro's father.  Rather only his mother and we heard that he is a jazz musician on tour, perhaps Jotaro doesn't know him too well either.



Meanwhile, it looks like best character Dio Brando is coming back!  While if so, in the canon he’s been around for a few years from what it appears which means he should be more dangerous than he was in Phantom Blood.  Jonathan’s battle with Dio ended before Dio could take control of much of the world at all, he stopped him early.  If he’s around and he’s building his forces then we may get a taste of what would have happened if Dio won, because, in a sense he will have, having outlived Jonathan.

Jotaro seems great....just chilling in the jail XD

^Thanks for the heads up.



Don't care what anybody says, I fucking love Jotaro!

Just a warning to anyone that reads chapter discussions here: The chapter threads are messed up  here because someone read them in the wrong order, which will end up spoiling the next chapter instead.

Joutarou is a badass, the word is probably made after this guy!

This face is kinda hilariously wide at the bottom.

So Dio's gonna return huh. This'll be interesting.

A good start, introducing a new (suspicious) element and a new hero with his own attitude (and sense of style), lowering the age at the same occasion.



4/5





Kryptiq said:


Don't care what anybody says, I fucking love Jotaro!

Getting yet another "style" for the hero helps renewing (even if only a little) the interest for a new chapter.

(but, hey, people were complaining about Jonathan for being nothing more than the GOOD hero despite him being created only for this so I guess nowadays readers opinions are not that worth)



Ston3_FreeN7 said:
Daaaaamn...152 chapters? Talk about a jump in length.

It seems a bit more appropriate to this part than the previous sizes, given its nature of traveling adventures / "road-(buddy)-movie".

Great beginning, I really liked Jotaro. Looks like we have a new power other than the Hamon, seems pretty cool. And best of all, it seems that Dio will be back.

& thus begins Stardust Crusaders, not a bad start at all. Putting the anime on-hold to breeze through this part so I can get to some of the more interesting ones (namely Part 4 & 6). Doubt I'll get to anything new today but what I've seen in the anime was always entertaining. Should be interesting to see how much of that is on the anime.

That was kinda stupid. I don't know why I expected a sudden spike in quality, I should probably blame the anime lol.