JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 130 Discussion

I've seen fighting game versions of Vanilla Ice that do the "attack around at random" move, and I could tell they were replicating this scene with that attack. It was a good rendition.

Holy shit, Polnareff is getting decimated.

Iggy got kicked so many times and the very big possibility that Vanilla Ice turned into a vampire when his head got reattached made it even harder to watch.



Cream disintegrated more of Polnareff's already injured leg and trapped him in a spiral of death...

Joutarou and the guys need to get there fast!

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                        Holly ;.;



This will be over soon once Dio is dead hopefully.

Now Polnareff is the one who's in a Dire situation. Ouch

This is brilliant, but I must confess that I’m taking too much joy in it all.  When we can have the faith in a formula that goes on for 100+ chapters that everything will be cleanly solved and fine, so far to even fake death, I find myself anticipating the deaths when they finally come.  This happened with Battle Tendency as well due to how Joseph always came out on top, all according to his plan, it gave me a desire to see him lose, and lose hard.  In the case of Stardust Crusaders, the epitome of shattering the faith we’ve come to believe in is in the act of murdering everyone. It doesn’t have to go that far, but the more pain and suffering inflicted the better in my mind.  It's not like everything has to have a clean reset after Dio.  It’s fresh and creates a sense of panic that was unheard of before this moment, for me at least.  It probably helps that I believe the cast in Stardust Crusaders feel less personal and more like players in a game, all moving towards the same conclusion without making me see them as humans to the degree that is possible in a story of a different style.  However, I am sure that the tears will flow when I am reminded that Araki can humanize his characters to perfection.



In this specific case, having a fight as visceral as Petshop's but among humans instead makes it feel all the more gruesome.  Fingers flying, chunks of the body missing, friends disintegrated, dogs kicked to a pulp, it is gnarly.  It creates a sense of brutality that works especially when potentially betraying expectation.  Vanilla Ice survived being pierced to the brain and brutalized Polnareff and when he did so, he made this a battle of manliness.  Ice and Polnareff made a declaration together, to stifle any pain and to fight until the other fighter dies.  But, it may not be so simple with Ice tearing through the entire building in a circular motion and breaking the sword tip of Chariot.  That and probably being a vampire or a zombie with how he survived decapitation with but a little blood from Dio.  Which, if so, we’ve seen Straits survive grenades as organs and therefore, does that mean Joseph needs to save the day with hamon?  That or killing the stand that is, which I do think is far more likely.



I’m glad that Ice is human in his fanaticism and emotions. Otherwise he would come off as a loyal and fearsome obstacle that was nearly unbreakable, kind of like Petshop to reference him again.  Instead, Ice has another layer that, like the brutality of humans feeling far more gnarly than the brutality of animals, makes him all the more scary.  We can see him as a person, not a monster, a person that is capable of all of this.