I’m not sure how to approach this since the first I was going about it, I ended up
going on a tangent about Wamuu Vs. Joseph.
Trying to find the smallest amount of words to summarize how I’m feeling about this
before I talk about him.
I think the easiest thing to say is that, I love Wamuu.
Now, Wamuu’s character to me in Battle Tendency is underutilized with how much I like him.
I would take a Wamuu OVA, and have it titled as The Pillar Men’s Bizarre Adventure.
You could even remove Kars and ACDC and have it as Wamuu’s Bizarre Adventure where it’s
him roaming the earth looking for the strongest beings.
I’m just going to take a step back on this here, so I can talk about why.
The honorable archetype is probably one of my top favorite tropes that are done in anything.
When there’s characters like Wamuu, Jonathan, Youpi, Kenshiro, All Might, Mumen Rider, Kuwabara.
I’m sure you can understand what area of character I’m getting at.
It’s a trope that’s believed to just be overdone and outplayed, when it’s actually
a role that isn’t fulfilled as well as you would think.
A lot of areas in fiction will try to recreate this character in a different way but will
fail due to the character holding no weight.
All the characters I mentioned here have huge defining moments and impactful roles in their
respective franchise and are extremely necessary.
Wamuu’s character in Battle Tendency had the same amount of effect as Kars, debatably
more because of the between him and Caesar.
Yet every character interaction you have with him, you never really see Wamuu going out
of his way to star problems first.
Though if a fight was to be initiated, he won’t hesitate to get through it to move
on, especially if he believes the person trying to fight him isn’t worth it at that time.
He shows it in the first scuffle between him and Caesar.
Then you see when he’s against some that’s possibly worth his time, he’s about getting
into it.
I also love that he’s a warrior of time where certain things get ahead of him just
because of how people have adapted what was considered underhanded into tactics and he’s
unaware of it and doesn’t understand why it’s done.
He also matches it because he believes in giving back the energy that’s being put
out onto him, and that if his opponent isn’t going to fight on the fair ground that he’s
on, he can get onto their level.
You can see it as respect, but it’s more so on just matching, punishing, and outdoing
his opponent.
Then there’s his respect for living beings which is something that I truly admire about
him, but it’s not what I focus on when I think of Wamuu.
It may be due to his genetics and being more like his parents no matter how he was raised,
but Wamuu being able to define himself as a character even when being raised by both
ACDC and Kars.
You should also be able to factor in how old Wamuu is, that connecting over how he was
still able to stand his ground mentally though all of it.
Wamuu had legitimately lived his whole life, being his own person, but still pledging his
allegiance to Kars.
It was respect for the men that have raised him, but that respect alone wouldn’t make
him stop being who he is.
Even Kars acknowledges what kind of person Wamuu is and what he doesn’t like being
done.
Kars would respect it when Wamuu was living alongside of him.
Though he did disrespect Wamuu after death by cheating.
Off-topic, is what Kars did really cheating?
If we’re to think about all that Joseph has done and what kind of person he is, is
what Kars did that far off?
Morally, probably wasn’t ok, but in fighting with Pillar Men I would think morals are out
the window unless you’re Wamuu.
Thinking about it too, he also wasn’t doing anything
at all for the whole part.
Back onto the topic of Wamuu.
Without giving too much and going about it in an analytical approach because that’s
what my character analysis videos are for.
Wamuu is a character I would love to see relived in the future, especially because I believe
that a lot of the villains and minor villains take after him like how every Joestar takes
after Jonathan in some way.
It’s one of those things that JoJo is great at doing with the whole passing the torch
type of thing going on.
What’s funny is that Wamuu lived under Kars and you would think there would be some sort
of parallel between him and Joseph.
Both character being unable to follow what history was behind them yet takes away in
the sense of certain aspects about who they respect.
Except that for Wamuu, he just holds a respect for Kars instead of taking from him.
I’m sure that Kars would original tell Wamuu to define himself but didn’t want him becoming
who he was when he fought and died.
I love the guy, hopefully he gets a second chance at it all.