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

Revolutionary wrote:

I don't necessarily live under a rock musically, but I actually haven't heard of any of them. I should have known the Pink Floyd one, but I've never heard of Asia or 'The Band'. Darn, I was getting pretty much all of them in Part I and II.

Well, maybe The Band or Asia are not that famous, but most of the others used are certainly pretty famous. By the way, there are references in Part III, just not mainly in Stands.

Valhern wrote:

Well, maybe The Band or Asia are not that famous, but most of the others used are certainly pretty famous. By the way, there are references in Part III, just not mainly in Stands.

The Band were pretty famous in the 60s and 70s.

Asia was popular 80s supergroup, most well known for their song Heat Of The Moment.

Right, most of the music references will now move onto stands rather than characters and that will be pretty consistent until part 7.

I hear a lot of good things about Jojo on the net so I decided to watch the first episode of Diamond is Unbreakable to see what the fuss is all about.

After the first episode I absolutely did not feel impelled to watch another but on a whim I watched episode 2 anyways. The 2nd episode is better but I still don't see anything that would make me feel like watching the third episode.

Got no problem with the animation style or the animation quality and I can clearly see where the gimmicks are when they try to live up to the adjective "Bizarre" in the title which I suppose are the plus parts of the series because there's so far not a lot going for it otherwise.

I see people have supernatural powers and "spirit embodiments" which they use to fight other spirit embodiments which on paper sounds like a decent premise for an action series but the actual fights are bizarrely bland with the most used move being a simple punch followed by a typical "rapid-fire" punch combo. That's it. I've seen a lot of action series in my time so this doesn't even come across as average. The water guy in episode 2 only shook things up a little since his spirit embodiment is quite versatile, but in the end his real body was found and punched into a rock, the end.

I know Jojo has many independent sagas so I guess I can't speak for most of Jojo in general (unless most of it is similar in most respects to Diamond is Unbreakable) but as far as DiU is concerned, it's overhyped and I feel my expectations going in to my first encounter with Jojo to be a bit too high (not that if my expectations were low my opinion would have been any different).

First, Stardust crusaders didn't cut anything from the original source material except for the senator Philips scene in a way.

But because it coming from some who not only knows that's not true but did manage to use his stand to revive a dead guy, comes off as Jotaro being full of it.

Would have been nice if the review talked about the bow and arrow plot point, considering it's pretty darn important to the overall story.

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I gotta admit, Tub 'o Soldiers is a pretty great stand.

Not sure what's the point of changing Bad Co. to Worse, when it's written on his collar and is in the background of the OP.

You mean the scene in which she fetches him his leg? No, she is shown clearly dead and then thrown away.

I've seen that a lot of people are butthurt over this. Although I do kinda agree that it is pretty bad. They could have changed it to Battle Company and caused a whole lot less grief.

thepsychogamer wrote:

But because it coming from some who not only knows that's not true but did manage to use his stand to revive a dead guy, comes off as Jotaro being full of it.

If you're talking about him resuscitating Joseph he didn't use his stand for that.

Ya might want to rewatch that episode, because yes Jotaro did uses his stand to resurrect Joseph, specifically to restart Joseph's heart.