JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 140 Discussion

I like how Kakyoin and Joseph can just pull a Spiderman if they feel like it.

The art for this chapter was fantastic and DIO finally uses his stand

ZA WARUDOOO



pain.

Kakyoin loses for the third time in a row? What an useless character.

Kakyoin surrounded DIO with dozens of hair-trigger Hierophant Green tentacles to force DIO to let out his secret ability and he actually did, and used it in the worst way possible. In exchange for finding out The World's time-stopping secret, he got a gaping hole in his chest...



I liked how the anime showed Kakyoin suddenly being thrown back by DIO and only showed what really happened afterwards. His childhood memories were also more impactful when they used it while he was knocked back rather than how it was told here.

Kakyouin too, nooooooo!

Everyone is dying!

Normally I don’t like sudden backstories before someone faces their apparent death when it's sprung on a character who didn’t have much of a presence.  For Kakyoin however, I have no qualms.  He was written to be underspoken, yet despite being quiet, he had many sides to him that we got to see through the journey.  It came off, not as if he was under written, but rather that until we saw first hand what was going on in his head, we wouldn’t get to know it.  Not his past of feeling isolated; quelled by the Joestar gang showing us why he cared for them so much, nor his personal motivation to fight Dio and right the weaknesses that haunt him.  He was able to make Hierophant Green invisible like it was in his past but this time for his friends.  This all really reminds me of the One Piece character Chopper and his transformation.



That said, he forced Dio to use his power and we saw it from his perspective as he froze time, presumably in the premises that he can do such, and jumped to puncture a hole in Kakyoin’s chest.  He must have known this was a potential sacrifice as they didn’t know what Dio was capable of.  But he got some more information this way and he did actually land a hit, go Kakyoin!!



To talk on non Kakyoin related subjects, I was hoping the dynamic nature of the three sided chase would merge in a greater way than “making it just on time to see your friend lose” but as long as what we get is good I can’t complain.  That and to speak completely out of tone, I keep wanting to mention that Dio and the World look like giant pieces of cheese in the colored version and Dio’s elf shoes and cape really top it off.  

Not good, not good at all :/

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                        About time the killer is found. It's pay back time for good old sis!