On September 28th, 2020, it was announced to the world that there would be a new JoJo
event coming to us live on April 4th, 2021.
The name was "Joestar The Inherited Soul."
This event was...
Hm.
Well, I'll give you my thoughts on it, and we'll see if I can find a single word by the
end of this script.
Well, let's first go about the build-up to the event.
In addition to continuously posting on Twitter, there was this program to help countdown to
the event.
It was a web radio show called "Joestar Radio", hosted on the warnerbrosanime YouTube.
There were dedicated months to each part, with it all ending in March on the 29th.
In each part, you get two voice actors from the part doing things like reading comments,
reviews, answering questions, and all that.
It was nice!
We have Jonathan, Speedwagon, Joseph, Caesar, Jotaro, Avdol, Josuke, Okuyasu, Giorno, and
Bruno.
And it was great!
It was a fun little special and I loved it.
As I didn't speak Japanese and needed to keep my eyes on the screen to read the stuff said,
it was hard to treat it like a radio-type thing that I'd listen to when cooking or something.
But when it's something you can keep your phone or a different monitor and have it in
vision while you're doing something that doesn't require too much focus, you're good.
It's a great little treat for the fandom.
As for the Twitter scene, man, they were promoting the hell out of this.
This event is supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and it would cost $40 to watch.
So, what happened when it was time for the actual event.
Hm.
Well, I don't want to risk getting smoked for showing clips from the actual event.
So, you're going to have to take my word on what I'm talking about, or you could find
it on the internet.
Do both.
I paid for this.
The event was great!
I loved getting insight from those that have worked directly on the show.
I loved seeing the performances of the voice actors, recreating such significant scenes
from the anime.
It was riveting.
But, in the back of my mind, throughout the whole time I'm thinking, "Damn was this really
$40 though?"
I'll show you my line of thinking with this.
We're in a pandemic, right?
Travel is frowned upon, and it's not good to have large gatherings of people, obviously.
So this event couldn't be at something like an Expo where people could see this live,
because it's a danger to everyone, and that makes perfect sense.
But this special, is exactly the type of event you'd expect to see at a convention where
you already spent your money buying the ticket.
If there wasn't a pandemic, I imagine that this would've been at some huge gathering
place, and you wouldn't have paid $40 for this event in specific, but potentially like
$10 or something added on to the price of your convention ticket.
But since we are in a pandemic, they live-streamed it.
In addition to live-streaming it, there was live translations there too.
This situation is massively confusing because if this is just us watching a stream, why
wouldn't they pre-record it?
There aren't people in the audience and no live comments interacting with the voice actors
or the hosts, which are the main reasons why you'd want to live-stream an event like this.
Personally, my main thing was that the captions would get so bad, I don't even know what I'm
reading, and my Duolingo did not prepare enough for this.
I knew I should've been working on Genki.
But ok, then there are my other thoughts on it.
Maybe the event is meant to run like a pay-per-view event.
That would concern me more about the price and captioning because $40 is like "fight
night" type of money, and I would need some better captioning than what we got.
But did I dislike the event?
Eh?
No.
I think the voice actors gave wonderful performances.
I think the Part 6 announcement was better than how subtly the Part 5 announcement was.
Then there's Fairouz Ai and how amazing it was to see someone who went from fandubbing
the manga to now being in the anime.
You ever see someone live out their dreams?
That's some beautiful stuff.
The Joestar torch gets passed on, and the story continues.
It was a nice event, and with how bad the captions got, it was pretty damn funny too.
I think the $40 was a lot, and would've been better if it was lowered about like $20, but
I guess I live and learn and hope they do too.
When the 35th anniversary comes around, I hope to not see stuff like this again in terms
of execution.
Because if you're going to build up an event like this, then at least get some idea of
what's going to be said or hire some vocal translators like how they did with the Part
5 Anime Expo event.
Either that or you could've added more stuff to the event, but I can't imagine what would
make me fine with dropping $40.
But yeah, I imagine everyone has their thoughts on it, so these are mine.
So, what would be the words I'd use to describe
the event?
Is ok.
Thank you all for watching!
Hopefully I'll see you all in the next one.
Until then, peace out, and godspeed!