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EP. REVIEW: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable

Interesting theory about Josuke potentially inspiring himself as, from what I heard...



spoiler[Supposedly, Araki wanted it so that Yoshikage Kira's stand, Killer Queen would send Josuke back in time to that particular moment, thus completing the time loop, but it was forgotten and now left as one of his various plot holes throughout the series.]

As much as I am enjoying Part 4, I have to admit I miss the wackiness and novelty of the first two parts. There's a sense, a tone, that those had that all subsequent iterations have lacked. Considering that's what drew me to the franchise in the first place, I'm disappointed in this state of affairs. Jojo's hamminess and ridiculousness is what sold me on the series to begin with. While I will admit the emotional capacity of the series has improved, it's also started to feel more standard, more generic. It feels like every other anime now, and that's a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned, considering that its uniqueness is what I consider one of the series best points.

Phantom Blood was practically devoid of wackiness and had a mostly straight-faced tone compared to every succeeding part in the series.

^ Once Rohan is punched right in the face his Stand's effects disappear. Like, his Stand was constantly working in the sense that he wrote on Koichi, Okuyasu and Hazamada's bodies (though Hazamada must not have noticed anything since Rohan didn't write anything to make him come back). And like in most shonen manga, once you punch the lights out of that bastard, everyone' saved.

spoiler[Baseless rumours, mostly, or at least I've never seen anyone proving that. Killer Queen's Bites the Dust does something totally different, it doesn't send anyone back in time. it's just that whenever the victim reveals anything related to Kira's identity, Killer Queen blows them up and restarts that day. This will happen endlessly until Kira stops it.

At best, Araki wanted to do it, but didn't found a compelling way to do it (like sending Josuke at a specific point back in time and in a road to S-City, too contrived), so he left it just like that. There is no plot hole because it doesn't contradict any of the following events. And anyway, while it could've been cool it wouldn't exactly help, like, why? How would that have helped against Kira? Did Josuke need an emotional push to not give up or something like that? If the anime wants to imply it, well, but I hardly believe it will.]

BadNewsBlues wrote:

Phantom Blood was practically devoid of wackiness and had a mostly straight-faced tone compared to every succeeding part in the series.

True, though with Phantom Blood, I got the impression that the straight-faced tone was also the overarching joke - if that makes sense.

All right then. I was wondering about the clause Rohan wrote upon Okuyasu, but I guess Rohan was harmed and subsequently defeated too quickly for Okuyasu to actually kill himself. I take it, then, that the effects wore off too quickly for Okuyasu to die?

My guess on the second Josuke Higashikata in the flashback was the result of Crazy Diamond's healing power taken to its logical extreme. The healing is essentially reverting something or someone back to a previous state. If Crazy Diamond can do that for the entire universe all at once, with Josuke being the sole exception as he cannot be healed by Crazy Diamond, it would effectively be the same thing as Josuke going backwards in time. I had assumed that, at the end of the series, or perhaps on the final battle of Part 4, Josuke would do that and go back in time to when he was a child, helping his mother get out of the snowy area. But because of Crazy Diamond's abilities, he cannot go forward in time and must live out the rest of his life in the past (or die right there or something).

Though I have a hunch I am completely wrong in this guess. I hope it doesn't end on something that depressing.