I was a little upset having thought Enya died in the last chapter. She was the person who knew Dio best, she taught him about stands. And she didn’t get questioned! Or so I thought. Here we saw the boys are smart sometimes, as they have on numerous occasions questioned their enemies. They brought Enya along, after Joseph bullied Polnareff’s toilet adventure showing the sides of him that haven’t changed, but unfortunately for them, Steely Dan using the Lovers stand attacked her! Dio couldn’t risk having her tell any of his secrets, which does show he’s, even if not as cruel as we remember, still pretty dang ruthless. This also shows us that there are still stand users to fear on the way to Egypt. Enya was not the final boss of the men under Lord Dio.
I was taken aback by the amount of words we saw on the haggling page, but it was a good moment. Showing us some culture and having Joseph think he’s made off like a bandit, actually having paid 5x the normal price. He didn’t do bad though, he saved them some money. That and I liked seeing Hol Horse make it out of this alive, stealing their car and being as big a weasel as ever. Stroheim was not ever a fully fledged antagonist, whereas Hol Horse killed Abdul marking him as such in my opinion; however perhaps they will have a vaguely similar role. That of the antagonistic force which happens to be an irreplaceable ally. Regardless, I do love the guy and I find his upcoming role in this story to be one that’s interesting.
Some shounen fans don’t like when large stretches of stories focus on character or plot without implementing fighting. Whereas I like that kind of story and find the rapid fire stand-user-battle-fest of Stardust Crusaders a little hard to swallow sometimes; often bridging a brief traveling scene with humor and a look into the area then cutting it off with a fight, this is the kind of story I feel the former mentioned people would adore. Anyone who wants a hotblooded manly fighting shounen would probably have little issue with this.