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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
Episode 28

by Sam Leach,

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable ?
Community score: 4.6

Last week, we found our protagonist in the middle of trying to con a manga artist by gambling with cheating dice made from his new shapeshifting alien friend. Since Josuke is winning at a suspiciously consistent rate, Rohan naturally deduces that something unsavory is up. In a world full of Stand users, out-of-the-ordinary happenings are not uncommon and should have reasonable explanations behind them, but Rohan knows the extent of Josuke's Stand powers, meaning that the solution to this problem is a mystery.

The name of the game changes quickly. Rohan is quick to accuse Josuke of cheating, but it's not the loss of money that irks him, it's his pride. He'll be damned if he can't figure out Josuke's cheating method, as things escalate to a game of pinky amputation and Rohan calling Tamami Kobayashi, the lock-themed Stand user from earlier in the series, to mediate the next roll. He demands that Josuke continue to cheat, and the new stakes are based on whether Rohan can figure the trick out. Cheating is now the rule of the game, and I'm still scratching my head over how absurdly meta that is. It's definitely a very JoJo way of doing things.

The challenge goes unfinished when Josuke's able to make a run for it after Rohan's house catches on fire from his own carelessness with a magnifying glass (because of course), but the sense of rivalry between these two characters continues as we begin the next story arc involving a new Stand. The episode ends with Rohan stubbornly trying to take the enemy on himself, and Josuke interfering simply because Rohan told him not to. These two don't get along, but they're both capable fighters and problem solvers, so maybe they should have a begrudging respect for each other? Or maybe they respect how much they disrespect each other?

Rohan Kishibe shenanigans aside, there are a few other scenes of note in this episode: When Josuke escapes the dice game, he parts ways with Mikitaka, the so-called alien whose status is debunked by the woman calling herself his mother. However, Mikitaka brushes this off by saying he only brainwashed that woman to think that she's his mother. So we have equal reasons to believe that he's either a a real space alien or just another eccentric Stand user. This feels like something that's going to remain ambiguous for a while.

The other scene I found interesting featured Kira's new “son.” Apparently, this depressed-looking young boy monitors his parents through hidden cameras, saying things like, “Am I a child who was born to parents who love each other?” Whatever his motivations are, he'll even watch his parents get their freak on if it means answering this question. I'm crazy curious what this subplot could be about in future episodes.

For an episode that centers primarily on Rohan and Josuke, it manages to be incredibly stuffed. We get the much more interesting half of the dice game, further teases as to what's up with Mikitaka, the mysteries of Kira's family inch along, and a battle with a new Stand user begins. I'm personally losing interest in the one-off villains now that Kira has been introduced, but there's so much stuff running behind the scenes of those conflicts that the show keeps you hungry for more. The interactions between the main cast and the goings-on with the villain are only getting deeper and more interesting as the show continues.

Rating: B+

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.

Sam Leach writes and records about One Piece for The One Piece Podcast and you can find him on Twitter @LuckyChainsaw


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