JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 95 Discussion

Am I the only one who noticed the reference to the Shining movie in this chapter?

Alessi pulled off a Shining reference! Here's Johnnnnyy

That was too smart for a three year old!

lol, normally I'd complain about how they won here but there's something so ridiculously charming about a 7 year old Jotaro casually knocking out a stand user with his own little fists. The ending with the woman & Polnareff was pretty touching too, over half way through this manga & Polnareff still remains the best character.

i live for these goofy ahh jojo explanations

Terrestrious said:
lol, normally I'd complain about how they won here but there's something so ridiculously charming about a 7 year old Jotaro casually knocking out a stand user with his own little fists. The ending with the woman & Polnareff was pretty touching too, over half way through this manga & Polnareff still remains the best character.



And he always will be the best character.

Well played Polnareff.

This is no longer /ss/.

It's been a while since I've seen a regonizable horror movie reference and it's The Shining this time~



Alessi's frantically axing everything to look for Polnareff's hiding place only to come up with nothing is a pretty intense game of hide and seek. He was so caught off guard about Jean Pierre's secret hiding place that he let himself get his face sliced by him when he found out about it.



Jotaro found him and he's screwed.

The site where I'm reading this manga in this chapter the battle didn't finish yet. It was almost like the shining, breaking the door with his ax. Alessi = Jack

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                        Did they just underestimate Jotaro? Seriously, that is a bad idea.

I had spoken about Alessi as a silly villain to do something creative with and beat casually.  A fun outlet of ideas.  However, I felt fear from this guy!  I normally like complexity and sympathy and likability in villains in any order.  But to make Alessi a disgusting, horrific bully was actually a great choice.  It allowed me to see him as nothing more than a terrifying monster as I related with 3 year old Polnareff and wondered how he would survive.  There’s also the thematic depth of him in that Alessi serves as the anti-Polnareff.  Rather than being honourable and facing foes head on, he turns them into fetuses and kids to torture them.



Also, it’s my understanding that Jojo gets weirder and weirder as it goes on, and if this was any taste of that, I think I’ll enjoy the future.  The jaw dropping insanity of Polnareff fleeing as Alessi stated: “What do you think you're doing, running around holding a dying fetus?” was enough to summarize it.  But, it wasn’t just fear and curiosity, but heart.  Seeing Polnareff’s sad eyes as he held the fetus and knew he had to fight fast to save her life and knew how hard it would be was like a level of emotional investment I didn’t expect.  Further, it set him up to HAVE to fight Alessi, rather than fleeing after sneaking by him, say after hiding in something that he didn’t check.  And it all came full circle, both in Alessi landing at Jotaro’s feet, but also in the fact that the shallow and fearful character has now left his advantageous strategy.  He bullies kids because they are weak, Jotaro is massive so unless he gets Jotaro to shrink, seeing him get a beat down should feel good.



Of course, shining reference, rerorerorero, using the mirror like Polnareff was the Sun, and Alessi leaning in to get destroyed: Donovan from Battle Tendency style when he leaned into the cactus was all fun and good too.  This has been a journey.