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The Mike Toole Show - Jojo's Mojo

I almost never read manga (for a number of reasons), but I still enjoy this column, and always learn a lot from it.

I think I watched the first 4 episodes of David's JoJo, but dropped it due to time constraints and testosterone poisoning. I started in again with Stardust Crusaders (mostly so I could finally get all the Stand jokes from that Gintama arc) and am having enough fun with it that, along with the nudge from this article, I will probably go back and fill in the first season.

Anyway, thanks for the interesting articles!

Gina Szanboti wrote:

testosterone poisoning

I always find this phrase kind of hilarious when used in moments like these. Does that mean that there's an opposite equivalent called "estrogen poisoning"?

> Picking Jotaro over superior Joseph

What is wrong with you?

Anyway, great article. Also hoping that Viz will license the other JoJo parts.

Ever since I learned the story behind the non-distribution of the 2007 PHANTOM BLOOD movie I've found that tale bizarre, even a little scary. That happened less than ten years ago. Does this mean no one - no one in all of Japan - took it upon themselves to do a cam-rip of the film, or similarly, no one who actually handled physical copies of the movie managed to make their own for safekeeping? I can believe that happening in the 90's or earlier, even early 00's, but barely seven years ago? If Hirohiko Araki were head of the NSA Edward Snowden would be in Gitmo with electrodes attached to his unmentionables while listening to Justin Bierer's greatest hits right now.

The show is capped beautifully each episode by a different 90-second selection of the 1970s progressive rock hit “Roundabout” by Yes, a song that Araki listened to obsessively while working on the first several volumes of manga in the 80s.

Just go with it.

Wait, that Jojo manual image is legit?

You expected the manual image to be legit, but it was me, Dio!

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The show is capped beautifully each episode by a different 90-second selection of the 1970s progressive rock hit “Roundabout” by Yes, a song that Araki listened to obsessively while working on the first several volumes of manga in the 80s.

... and the only name he apparently didn't steal? Just reading the names make me want to ... no, not dance... call the Police.

"Loggins", "Messina", "Wham","Robert E O Speedwagon". Good god, what a... The power of lame is strong in this series so I'd have to take it on credit that reading a series about a line of men {guess what that means!} versus an immortal vampire {guess what that means!} that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure {and the adventure continues.. always...} is a victory of style over substance.

Too bad for me that I like both and when I have to choose, I'm going "substance".

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Just go with it.

True. I guess it's not bad, not good just long. And seeing how this article is about asserting its growing foreign popularity and not about it being good, just long, it's an appropriate reaction.

"What is it? Is it any good?"
It's long.

Shory wrote:

You expected the manual image to be legit, but it was me, Dio!

I honestly would've headdesked if that was legit. I understand that some people like their memes and all but to put one in an official commercial release of this game would've been just...dumb.