JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 152 Discussion

An emotional conclusion to a fantastic part. I'll really miss this and I loved it. What a great farewell between Polnareff, Jotaro and Joseph.



"Avdol, Iggy, Kakyoin, it's over" hit hard too



5/5 Conclusion

Overall, I would say I liked Stardust Crusaders. It was pretty draggy on their journey to Egypt and not all the Stand users were relevant besides being distractions. But the story got really good as they got closer to Egypt and fought the 9 Egyptian God stand users. I also grew to like Jotaro along the way. I didn't like him at first because he came off as the chad, tough guy who always won his battles with badassery. But I liked how I saw more vulnerability with him as the stand users got stronger and how he adapted to the situations accordingly. It was one of the reasons why I didn't like Part 2 and Joseph Joestar as much.

That was a really fun read. Dio's fight and some of the others in Egypt were awesome. Looking forward for that to get animated.



Joseph surviving like that was a bit too ridiculous for me but I think I can roll with it. Better than surviving a semi-meteor crash.

ZetaZaku said:
Not really sure what I'm thinking about this. I liked the good guys, the battles were creative and so were the stands. But one thing was bad. The story. Basically, they are going to the west and kicking random villain of the volume's ass. The only villain who had more screentime was Hol Horse. Everyone else was pretty much random villain. Even Dio was lack luster. He only appeared at the end for one long battle.



Who knows, maybe I expected too much. Also I don't know how people who haven't read the first two parts ended up liking this part (only this part reached the west if I'm not wrong). Many people love Dio, but looking at Dio only in this part, he wasn't really impressive. He was only great because we know him from Part 1.



Yeah. I never understood the hype around Dio. Since his actions towards Jonathan in Phantom Blood, I've hated him as a character XD. I do admit that he makes a good villain though. I didn't know that Stardust Crusaders was the first part of Jojo to get released in the West. But I guess people love this part because of the use of stands and Jotaro's delinquent personality. Most people tend to like the bad boy characters.

wailofthebanshee said:
People like this because it has a japanese protagonist and the story begins in japan. That's it. The japs are extremely racist like that.



Nope. Part 5 is extremely popular in Japan too, and it takes place in Italy and has an Italian protagonist.

Not really sure what I'm thinking about this. I liked the good guys, the battles were creative and so were the stands. But one thing was bad. The story. Basically, they are going to the west and kicking random villain of the volume's ass. The only villain who had more screentime was Hol Horse. Everyone else was pretty much random villain. Even Dio was lack luster. He only appeared at the end for one long battle.



Who knows, maybe I expected too much. Also I don't know how people who haven't read the first two parts ended up liking this part (only this part reached the west if I'm not wrong). Many people love Dio, but looking at Dio only in this part, he wasn't really impressive. He was only great because we know him from Part 1.

Seems like each part just keeps getting better and better!



Don't know why people didn't like this one so much, I mean yeah the monster of week was pretty tedious, some villains were great while others were meh but everything else from the aesthetics (thank god for no more bad body proportions) fights, characters etc..was a huge step up from part I and II imo.



Jotaro is definitely my favourite JoJo atm.

8/10

Joseph made quite a bet with that joke.



Well,well,well, if this is't an good series I don't know what is not.



I do understand it lacked an actual plot, with actually just one objective (kill or protect Dio) holding protagonists and antagonists together, but I think the fights make up for that.



Still, it lacked an "flame". Let me explain, the "flame" is something unique or interesting about a work that make him singular in my POV. For that, Stardust Crusaders don't have it. For that, I can't say it's an masterpiece.



Also, all this eighties gore never resonated well with me.