Jonathan Joestar, the protagonist of Phantom Blood and a fighter in the Kaleb’s favorite
Joestar competition.
It’s either him or Giorno, and I still haven’t found a winner.
If you have neither as your favorite joestar, then that’s respectable and you’re entitled
to your own opinion.
Jonathan isn’t the most colorful character, but his passion and belief drives him to the
top.
We’re going to be going over his character to see what we can can find.
What’s up guys, it’s Kaleb with another character analysis.
You guys can submit your character in the comments, or use the poll in the top right
corner of the video which I believe to be a more organized way of going about it.
Since we got all the formalities out of the way let’s start getting into Jonathan, and
yes I meant to say that.
Now, the first time we see Jonathan he’s getting the exposition beaten out of him,
and we’re watching him the same way Erina is watching him.
So checking on Jonathan, he’s obviously not okay but why.
Well, he took a beating for Erina and while being a pretty minimal fight, Jonathan had
full control of the situation.
He initiates the fight by jumping in the middle of those guys harassing Erina, and they beat
him.
After beating him, they assume he’s a Joestar and he proves their assumption.
They stated that they were going to beat him even harder than before if he was a Joestar,
and he goes ahead with his little vigilant eyes to make sure he’s showing his Joestar
napkin.
Making them think he’s not purposely doing it by not saying anything, but realistically
he’s been playing them this whole time.
When he says “Someday I will win”, that isn’t him wishing.
He knows how smart he is, and what he stands for.
What he needed was to be stronger, and once you add that in then he’s going to be an
experienced fighter.
Now before the timeskip where it looks like Dio and Jonathan are happy, Jonathan hits
the lowest low I’ve seen.
So much happens to him and has to just hold and accept that.
Dio constantly just messes with Jonathan’s life and there isn’t a single thing Jonathan
can enjoy without Dio being Dio.
Then there’s moments where it’s Jonathan not being as smart or as strong as Dio and
that stacks up on his feelings about everything.
But no more!
Disgracing Erina was the last straw.
So with honor on the line, Jonathan fights harder than he ever did before.
He ate the hits and then dished them right back at Dio, and I can easily tell you that
this is probably one of the most satisfying moments in Jojo.
Seeing Dio get rocked makes me feel better because this is justice in the works.
But why was the final straw Erina’s honor, well you have to take the era into account.
Honor is a huge thing in Phantom Blood due to the times they were in.
As parts go on, people become less honorable and more underhanded with everything.
Underhanded actions these days are known as clever moves, and a way that you outsmarted
the other person.
Honor back then was focused more on straightforward actions.
To compare it, fighting with honor was like throwing a ball for your dog to fetch.
That’s one clear objective, and it’s as straightforward as it gets.
Going about it in a more underhanded and Dio way, you pretend to throw a ball and the dog
goes to fetch.
But actually you never threw a ball, and well if you’re Dio you also knockout the dog,
tie up his mouth and throw it into an incinerator waiting for someone else to turn it on.
Or you know a better example is cheating vs. not cheating, telling the truth vs. lying,
or playing fox in smash 4 vs. playing diddy in smash 4.
And if you don’t know smash don’t worry.
I know stuff, and fox is a honest character.
I swear, pinky promise.
(Finger crossed picture).
Jonathan lives a life where disgracing someone is the worst thing you can do, it’s second
to death but ahead of giving someone smallpox, and let me tell smallpox back then.
Ho-ho, you have a better chance of surviving a chop to the head from vampire Dio.
Now Jonathan after showing how strong he is to Dio is still getting his life ruined, and
after the timeskip it seemed to have been a bit better.
But Jonathan never forgot, you can’t kiss a man’s girl and kill his dog.
You can’t forget stuff like that.
He wants to try to forgive Dio and believe he’s a nice guy now, but his gut feeling
doesn’t allow him to do so and that’s because what Dio had done was such a huge
thing.
Then after plot and realizing that Dio is still very much an *respectable term*, Dio
is now cornered and completely figured out.
Now tell me what Jonathan actually gives Dio the benefit of the doubt when arresting him.
He had just been found out on a 7-8 year scheme, killed Danny, tried to kill George except
slowly, and had planned to kill Jonathan.
And you just have Jonathan here with handcuffs in hand, thinking about the situation like
“You know this guy basically tried to destroy everything I love and hold dear, but maybe
he’s going to come quietly.”
So why does Jonathan give Dio a chance, because he actually believed that Dio would be noble
for once and just own up and accept his imprisonment.
The problem with really noble people, you can fall to people fooling you pretty easy
if they have a believable act.
This is goes into why this video is named what it is.
I do believe that Jonathan’s nobility is an art, but it’s a huge burden so that’s
why it’s called “The Pain of Nobility.”
Not disregarding art and pain because art really does hurt, that’s why it’s called
pain-ting.
Jonathan's nobility makes him both gullible and not as smart as those that go about stuff
in the other way.
So Dio rejected his humanity, and we get a lot more plot.
Now put us in the Jonathan Vs. Bruford fight, this is where Jonathan fights a hero like
him.
Bruford tries his luck with trying to handicap Jonathan underwater, but he takes note of
Jonathan not being like a regular human.
Now trying to handicap Jonathan had ended up biting Bruford and the fight was taken
to land.
This is because Bruford isn’t really the one for underhanded tactics since he was originally
an honorable knight.
Trying to do something you’re personally not meant to do always ends up messing you
up, so that’s why Dio can get away from doing stuff like that because that’s really
all he knows.
Once the fight is taken to land, there’s a back and forth, but Jonathan comes out on
top.
Thought there was a problem that Jonathan had faced, and that was killing Bruford.
Jonathan’s Sunlight Yellow Overdrive had destroyed the resurrected body of Bruford,
but it had revived his original pure human soul.
Jonathan had hated what he had done, having to kill such an honorable man to save him.
Bruford was a man manipulated by Dio, and it was a sad sight for Jonathan.
Now going further on into Phantom Blood, you have the fight with Tarkus and Jonathan which
was completely different from Bruford and Jonathan.
While getting him into “The room of Dragon decapitation” was underhanded, the rest
was due to the strength and experience gap between Tarkus, Jonathan, and Zeppeli.
But for what Tarkus does to Zeppeli, Jonathan executes what I would’ve originally called
revenge on Tarkus.
In the eyes of nobility, this is both justice and judgement for Tarkus.
So far through all of this, Jonathan’s nobility always comes out on top.
Even if he loses for a bit, he always comes backs.
But how much is too much, when is there ever really a break for Jonathan.
Throughout Phantom Blood, Jonathan follows a one track mentality and doesn’t ever get
misguided.
He’s constantly hit with lies, tricks, and immoral deeds.
It feels like he’s only one fighting for good, and realistically he is.
Or well at least after Zeppeli dies.
The Hamon masters come into play and that’s nice while it’s there, but to Jonathan’s
original circle, there’s nothing much really.
Dio can manipulate as many people as he wants and he gains the advantage in numbers.
So bad can always outnumber good, but how much good really is there.
I’d like to say at this moment of time that bad is actually ridiculously stronger than
good and that’s in a lot of perspectives.
If you throw some good into some bad, it’s only going damage the good.
You can’t just hope that the good is enough to spread.
But when it’s the other way around, even to smaller degree, it still works for the
bad.
Like the idiom “One bad apple spoils the barrel”.
Meaning that one bad thing can ruin everything around it.
And when you go back to Phantom Blood, you realize that Dio is said bad apple.
When I picture bad or evil, I think of part 1 Dio.
To be that smart, have that much strength, and to have that much control is impressive
and terrifying.
Who really knows how much good prospers, because bad has way too much power and influence these
days.
Bad people, bad deeds, and I want to say bad moods or mindsets but that really depends
on how you see certain things like depression and all.
I guess what I’m trying to get at is, Jonathan was good, but he was too good.
Jonathan had one fair and square at Dio’s castle, but when it came to the end, he just
wasn’t ready.
But with Dio having the upperhand on him, I actually really do respect that he acknowledges
Jonathan’s strength and skill.
He doesn’t stand for any disrespect towards Jonathan, and well he could have any body
he wanted, but he went for Jonathan.
So in some way I guess you can see that as another sign of respect, flattering, or something
I have no clue.
I’ve never wanted to take over someone’s body to further pursue their lineage just
so I could continue my ideals of heaven.
Here are my final thoughts on Jonathan.
Him being the first Joestar and having the now ancient morals had really set a good base
to continue off of.
I believe that everyone has to have a yin yang type of lifestyle, and Jonathan was mostly
yin that was susceptible to yang.
Being the good guy is great and all, but it’s a pretty difficult job.
So this is to everyone.
Don’t let people mess with you.
Don’t let people mess with what you love.
And lastly, don’t let people control you.
Cause once people control you then they wanna to control fate, then they want to control
time, then the want to control reality.
People just take and take and screw you Dio, just…
Man.
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But I really hope you guys have a good one, times can be dark and difficult, but I guess
you gotta just find your own light.
I’ll see you guys in the next one.
So until then, peace out and God speed.