JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 32 Discussion

Wouldn't it have been easier to just attack him directly instead of through this elaborate coin trick?

Polnareff is so badass that he can fight with a knife sticking out of his back

This was brilliant stuff. I am absolutely satisfied and I had a blast reading this arc.  It was like the epitome of what Stardust Crusaders can do so far.  J. Geil may have been a smart abomination, and he and Hol Horse may represent villains as the narrative role of an antagonist rather than something personal, just as Kakyoin called J. Geil rotten to the core.  We could totally read into him, his disfigured state and a hard life putting him into a desire to force those who never accepted him to submit to him.  But, that’s besides the point!!  The emotional highs, the creative and strategic fighting, the bonding of the brothers involved and the payoff of this rule of cool finish was all I could ask for from this series.  Abdul may be dead, but we can still have a good time putting his soul to rest.



J. Geil wasn’t a total joke, he was smart, even outside of his powerful stand, he got a dummy to play the part of him and got a sneak attack in.  He drew in as many people as possible to remove the weakness of his stand, that of having one straight path and no chance to maneuver outside of it.  But that wasn’t enough, first we got Kakyoin learning from big bro Polnareff with that badass speech.



Polnareff, that’s not what you say here.  When avenging someone, you don't say lame things such as “you son of a bitch”... Instead you say this…  My name is Noriaki Kakyoin!  For the vengeance of my friend, Abdul, and so that the sister of my friend, Polnareff, may rest in peace…  You will pay with your life!

Talk about badass.  This is a true fight of teamwork.  Kakyoin tossed a coin, drew everyone's attention to one spot, and made sure to give Polnareff the final blow, punishing the weakness of such an overpowered stand with J. Geil’s life.  That is, only after making sure to punish him in classical power fantasy fashion and giving a second one liner payoff, stating that J. Geil’s screams will bring Polnareff pleasure just as his sisters did for him.



It seems Hol Horse will not be dealt with in these chapters named after him.  It makes me think the Empress will team up with him next, as that was the initial assumption when you get two stand names like that.  Regardless, I did want to bring up the amount of influence I can see from Stardust Crusaders.  Firstly, the light fruit in One Piece has a very similar set up to the Hanging Man, a being of light which travels insanely fast and cannot be seen but has the weakness of being stuck in one line.  The Emperor on the other hand plays with the shounen trope of having projectiles follow the opponent until they hit them, while not directly that, Sniper from Yuyu Hakusho, and Vander Decken from One Piece definitely come to mind as doing so.



@Rei_III My translation used "your screams are like music to my ears, J. Geil.  Now I will send you to hell, sobbing the entire way there. But, there's something I need to do first, something hell can't do for me... I'M GONNA TURN YOU INTO A PINCUSHION!"  In my post, I had translated the earlier time J.Geil said 'her cries were like music to my ears' and Polnareff stating the same for him to 'pleasure'.

There was something off about J. Geil being quite young and fairly good looking so seeing him being that abomination was pretty reassuring. He put up a good fight by attracting a crowd but all it took was one shiny gold coin to spell the prickly end of Avdol's killer. I'm glad he finally got his justice.

Kakyoin FTW!



Glad they didn't stretch out the revenge plot for Polnareff.

Hanged Man didn't live up to my expectations. I thought it was going to be cooler than that. And too many dirty beggars in this chapter.

I’m glad Jean-Pierre got his revenge!

And revenge was served.

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J. Geil was ugly af lol

5/5



@gfsdfgsdgsdfgs Did your amateur translation get "sounds like you're the one who's good at screaming, J.Geil. You'll be begging and crying when you're in hell... But before the demons have their way with you, there's one thing I want to do myself... SKEWER YOU LIKE A KEBAB!"

The kebab line sounds weird or anachronistic to me, be it from an 80s manga or from an 80s french character.



Also, who was talking about pleasure from screams? (no mention of that in VIZ's translation)





PS: had the same thought when I saw One Piece's  Light Fruit power. But to be fair, light rays going straight is a pretty common thing in fiction, since it's physics-based.



gfsdfgsdgsdfgs said:
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Thank you. I guess translators like to retain only the basic idea and apply their own style to it. ^^" The pincushion beating seems more à-propos though.

Yes, I got that Polnareff was " bouncing" on J.Geil's remark . (same line here)