cosmicblizzard
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You guys remember when anime was synonymous with MANLINESS? Well guess what's back! The motherfucking JoJos! The only thing more important to these guys than being manly is being fabulous. You want action? You got it! You want vampires? Screw that Twilight shit, you got that too! You want flamboyant poses from legit threatening characters? That's another check! Come and join the Joestars as they finally get a chance to shine in a 20 years overdue animation.
synopsis! said:
Staff Info!
Studio: David Production (Ben-to, Level E)
Director: Kenichi Suzuki (SD Gundam) and Naokatsu Tsuda (Inu x Boku SS)
Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi (Trigun: Badlands Rumble)
Music: Hayato Matsuo (Hellsing Ultimate, The World God Only Knows), Taku Iwasaki (Gurren Lagann, Soul Eater)
Character Design: Takako Shimizu (Fist of the North Star: Legend of Raoh)
Length!
The plan now is to adapt up to Battle Tendency (part 2) in 2 cours, which means 26 episodes. If it does well, they will likely continue into the later parts. Let's hope it does, because STANDS!
Blu-rays!
They have English subs, so buy them!
Streaming info!
Nothing yet, but I'll update the second we have word on anyone picking this up.
Characters!
PART 1
Jonathan Joestar (AKA JoJo)
Dio Brando
William Antonio Zeppeli
REO Speedwagon
PART 2
Joseph Joestar (also JoJo)
Caesar Antonio Zeppeli
Lisa Lisa
Rudolf Von Stroheim
As a dude with a doctorate in shounen, I can safely say this is a damn good adaptation of a damn good manga. But hey, don't take my word for it. Here's some Animegaf impressions!
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures - Episode 1
I really enjoyed this. They went through the early material of Phantom Blood really quickly, but not in a bad way. There are some really nice transitions in the direction, and a good sense of pacing the runtime around the contrast of Dio and Jonathan instead of covering every single event or detail. It's clear that David Production is not some top-tier animation studio with superstar animators or a huge budget, but with what they had they really made it work. Scenes which matters had good animation, lots of creative visual usage to create tone and shift the focus of the presentation. The best part is how exaggerated the setting and the art is, intentionally make a very dated feeling anime production which fits the period setting of the story.
Yeah, I think this is really going to work out.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) ep 1
Some of it feels pretty retro and the setting but I kind of like the visual and style the anime has going on. The way stuff pops out with random symbols when characters are introduced or something, or how water droplets will sort of sparkle, or how other stuff happens when characters receive powerful stunning blows and impacts or just how the backgrounds will change and then characters are bathed in different colors to fit the mood.
Anyway Dio is really amazing and blows JoJo out of the water. I hope he gets significant screentime. Probably my leading reason to just keep watching. I kind of feel bad though considering. Will keep watching and glad I gave it a shot.he just treats JoJo so bad, out to steal his inheritance or whatever, ruining his image in front of everyone, being better at just about everything than JoJo, and then even stealing the kiss from the girl, hitting her, and then getting into a fight with him and burning trapping his dog in the trash pile. Poor JoJo. Though I didnt think it made sense for Dio to lose, he was still more powerful so theres no excuse for JoJo to have one, then again I guess if he just felt empowered because of all his losses and the girl, then acceptable.
JoJo 1
I've been meaning to read the JoJo manga and watch the 90's OVA for pretty much forever but I'd figure I'd check this out first before getting around to that stuff and this certainly didn't disappoint. The pacing seemed pretty fast but it kinda added to the incredibly exaggerated and fabulous feel of the show.Had very good animewatch, will watch more.danny ;_;
edit: oh and the Yes ED owns bigtime but the visuals are really disappointing.
And if all that wasn't enough to convince you, well then...
