2018 was one hell of a year, full of ups and downs, demonetization, the paul brothers,
fortnite and will smith.
But this is it people, it’s 2019, the last year of the decade, and we’ve decided to
start it off right.
We make a lot of videos, last year we managed to pull SEVENTY videos out of our butts and
into your eyes and ears.
70 videos, thats a lot of opportunity for comments, and out of all the comments you
guys have asked for 2 things, one we already did, which was danganronpa, and now, i present
to you possibly the most requested video on this channel, jojo’s bizarre adventure.
But what is a jojo?
Why is their adventure so bizarre?
Why is there so much meme?
Why are so muscly??
Such, such beautiful men!
The posing!
What does it all meme???
Well boys and girls and in betweens, i think i have the answer.
IT’S TAKEN SOME TIME, this anime/ manga/ snack brand/movie/book is no piece of low
fat cheesecake.
No!
It is full fat cheesecake with fatty fat cheese on top.
Join me won’t you?
As we dive jojo first into a jojo filled jojo with extra jojo, for a video... about jojo’s.
THIS IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY!
So prepare yourself for an epic that spans generations, for an ora ora in the groin of
your imagination, for the tale of jojos across time and their endless battle with the forces
of evil, for a life lesson you never would have imagined came from a cartoon about incredibly
muscular men with magical powers.
This is the story of jojo’s bizarre adventure.
The story, you never knew.
Whoa!
What, what was that intro?
It was so fresh and so clean clean!
FOOLS!
I know exactly what that intro was, we made it ourselves!
After i was released from David Crane, producer of the hit 90s sitcom friends, and got my
bootyhole sewn back up we here at treesicle started thinking: We all like anime, but it
doesn’t always have a spot here on Treesicle.
SO WE MADE A SECOND CHANNEL!
It’s called bonsai pop and Its live right now, with two brand new videos!
A story you never knew on cowboy bebop and a fresh new super dope video on re: zero!
That’s right, bonsai pop is all anime, all the time, and it’s where we will put our
anime content from this day forward.
We’re talking weekly releases people!
Every saturday or more!
That means Story You Never Knew’s on anime all the time!
It means new shows on anime all the time!
It means anime all the doggamn time!
How’s that for full fat cheesecake??
So check Bonsai Pop out and make sure to comment, subscribe, and hit the cute little bell that
YouTube makes us talk about each time we mention subscribe.
We can't wait to see you over there!
Now back to the jojo.
It took us a long time to get here.
Jojo’s bizzare adventure is, well, huge.
Not just in volume but in sales, and history, and also body mass, LOOK AT THESE BOIS.
One does not simply condense jojo into a 15 minute video lightly!
But let’s get some context for the contextually inept.
LISTEN UP SHEEPLE!
Jojo’s Bizarre adventure began in 1987 on weekly shonen jump and has continued through
multiple magazines and onto anime over the course of 32 years!
Thirty.
Two. years this story has been going, and it’s not done.
Written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, the jojo manga has sold over 100 million copies,
landing it on the list of the top fifteen manga series of all time in sales.
I’m going to be specifically talking about the newest anime which started in 2012 and
is still ongoing for the record, but let me tell you, i’ve watched a lot of anime, especially
a lot of shonen anime, but jojo is weird.
It’s good, it’s very good, particularly the art direction and the music, but oh boy
is it out there, not flcl out there, but out-there nonetheless.
So what’s it all about?
What is it that makes jojo able to jo into our hearts and stay there for longer than
i’ve been alive?
Gooood question…
oh by the way there’s spoilers from here on so watch out!
3, 2, 1, let’s boogie.
---Season 1--- The plot revolves around not one person but
an entire family throughout multiple generations, the joestars.
they are the jojo’s.
The story begins in late 1800’s england.
George joestar, or jojo, was a wealthy man with a life debt.
In order to fulfill his debt he adopts one Dio Brando as a second son to his first, Jonathan
Joestar.
Or Jojo for short, who just wants to be a gentleman, but Dio is all about inheriting
the joestar fortune and basically ruins Jonathan’s life to try and get it.
Oh, also there’s this stone mask that belonged to Jonathans dead mother that just happens
to turn you into a vampire when you get blood on it.
Yeah, dio found that.
And he used it to become a badass sexy vampire dude, that’s right, jojo’s bizarre adventure
is a vampire story, MOVE OVER TWILIGHT!
YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD SPARKLES DOWN?
LOOK AT THIS SHIT! who woulda seen that coming?
So you got adopted Dio trying to steal the Joestar fortune so he poisons george.
On his way to find an antidote jonathan meets robert E.O. speedwagon, whom the young jojo
kicks in the face so hard he turned into a good guy forever.
He even even eventually sets up a foundation helping future jojos.
DIO also wants to kill Jonathan, but instead papa George Joestar gets knifed in an altercation.
Then Dio uses Georges blood to activate the vampire mask.
Thankfully after fighting with Dio, Jonathan meets a dude named Zepelli who teaches him
the way of hamon: a fighting style that basically produces sunlight so he can inevitably kill
vampire Dio. thats funny btw, Dio, like ronny james dio,
zeppeli?
Led zeppelin?
Robert E.O speedwagon?
REO speedwagon?
I see you...
i see you.
Anyway jonathan and dio do the fighting and jojo wins, Zepelli is killed but so is dio,
Speedwagon destroys the vampire mask, and the day is saved.
Until jojo and his wife go on a ship to their honeymoon and find out dio wasn’t really
dead but had removed his head before his body was destroyed by jojo’s hamon and intends
to implant himself on jojo’s body!
Because that’s a totally reasonable thing to attempt.
More fighting is did and jojo sinks the ship along with himself and dio, only his wife
and their son survive.
Whew!
So let’s think about this for a second.
George Joestar started with a life debt, took in a child, and inevitably gets killed for
his debt.
His son is left to pick up the pieces.
Jonathan then falls to the same fate as his father in order to fix the mistakes George
left him with.
Pretty serious underlying plot for such a pose happy anime huh?
Well it gets even deeper than that once you put all the seasons together.
The second arc of season one is where we begin to see how the rest of the story plays out.
New York, 1938.
Jonathan’s grandson joseph attempts to rescue the now oil tycoon Robert E.O. speedwagon
from nazis after he discovered the pillar men in mexico, which are ancient super beings
who created the vampire mask.
He is exceptionally gifted with hamon, passed down from his deceased grandfather.
This is easily my favorite season of the show, the fights are awesome, joseph joestar is
my favorite jojo and i love the whole deal with lisa lisa, his hamon teacher but I don’t
want to spoil more than I have to, watch the show ya weebs!
Season two takes place in 1987 when old joseph goes to Japan to visit his grandson jotaro
kujo[coo-joe] in jail.
He's hospitalized four dudes but won’t come out of his cell cause he thinks he’s possessed
by a demon.
Turns out it’s just his stand.
Not like a fruit stand… or a fruity stand Yeah, no more hamon, it’s stands now binches.
A little out of nowhere but none the less interesting a stand is a manifestation of
a characters will, mental energy or fighting spirit.
They vary in appearance and power but basically it's like a fighting ghost tied to your spirit.
Lotsa people got em now, including dio, cause dios back!
In stardust crusaders the stands are named after the ancient Egyptian major arcana of
the tarot cards.
Like persona, but with more muscles and jojo’s.
And maybe this is where you thought i was going with all this?
A breakdown of stands, what they mean, why they exist, how they went from ancient egyptian
crap to rock gods.
But you were wrong!
AHAHAHA WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
This is treesicle, (or bonsai pop, idk, this one’s in a bit of a grey area) BUT WHATEVER!
We do things our way here, so prepare to get brain wrecked.
JAPANESE BAM!
If you want that hot brain injection explaining stands i recommend checking out Bonsai Pop.
CUZ THATS WHERE IT’D BE!!!
Do that, NOW BACK TO THE POINT!
From here until the timeline splits in “STEEL BALL RUN” arc there is a cyclical pattern
to each season or story of the joestars.
After jotaro kujo’s story he takes the place of his grandfather joseph in josuke’s story
“diamond is unbreakable” Josuke is the illegitimate son of joseph and
jotaro’s half brother.
Also gifted with a stand.
Together they unravel a mystery about stand users being created and murderous stand users,
and the season after that follows Dio’s son as a wannabe benevolent mob boss!
However, behind all the glamorousz musclebound posing magical boys we can't forget how much
pain and suffering each jojo generation goes through.
George: lost his wife, fell in debt to Dario, and was stabbed by his adopted son.
Jonathan, who’s father was murdered, lost his teacher, was betrayed by his adopted brother,
and had to sacrifice his life for his wife and unborn child.
Joseph who lost his teachers, jotaro was haunted by his stand and lost most of his friends
in his battle against Dio.
All the jojo’s suffered great loss, and sacrificed themselves to the struggle of good
vs. evil.
But why?
What convinces the jojo’s that they have to do this.
As the story progresses forward there are multiple other people with power that could
intervene in these semi apocalyptic scenarios.
Often when watching content like jojo’s bizarre adventure we take for granted the
struggles the character’s go through.
They’re just heroes, that's just what they do.
However, there should always be more to it than that, something compelling that makes
heroics make sense.
Obviously jojo has this, but is it what you think it is?
Araki has stated that he wanted jojo to have a theme of passing on or handing down, and
that “[he believes] that people are able to grow by overcoming obstacles through the
power of the human spirit and strength, and that, [...] is “an affirmation that humanity
is wonderful” BUT I THINK DIFFERENT!
Not entirely, but when i look at jojo, while i do see heroic people doing heroic deeds
heroically, i also see a family that could be considered cursed more than gifted.
So while there is a theme of passing things down through time, but more importantly i
think jojo’s bizarre adventure is an ongoing allegory of the sins of the father.
Yup.
Each of us is comprised of simply two sets of dna converged to create a new being.
While we’re all individuals there are inevitable and unavoidable similarities between ourselves,
and our parents.
For some of us this may be a good thing, for others, it may be terrifying.
Maybe you’re a kid, maybe you’re my age, or maybe you’re older, but at some point
you will realize what and how your parents did things (coupled with some of your own
choices of course) made your situation in life what it is.
The idea of the sins of the father is that they (the sins) are inherited by the son or
daughter.
This is physically represented in the star birthmark passed down from Jojo to Jojo.
Because of the way it was written EVERY SINGLE THING that happens within the jojo universe
can be traced back to ONE MAN and ONE MISTAKE.
George joestar, and his adoption of Dio.
George joestar didn’t actually owe dio’s father anything, dario Brando was actually
just trying to rob him.
Even slightly knowing this, george took in Dario’s son and ignored his bad behavior.
The man, was a fool.
And he paid for this mistake with his life, but his son inherited that mistake, and also
paid the consequences.
Each jojo makes mistakes and each of these mistakes makes life more difficult for the
next jojo.
Even my boy joseph was a man skank and got some japanese lady knocked up on the sly and
then his illegitimate son got caught up in the whole stand mess he is unavoidably, biologically,
tied to.
In the world we live in we’re all born at an invisible starting line in the game of
life.
For some of us that starting line is MILES ahead of the rest.
How much money your family has, how much money your family has ALWAYS had, where you’re
from, what you look like, your physical and mental inborn abilities are ALL factors in
where you start the race.
Many are caught in the middle, but for those who start far behind it takes superhuman effort
to catch up.
Sometimes it’s impossible.
But for those who are ahead from the start it will ALWAYS be easier to live and to succeed
than for those who are starting in the back of the pack.
These starting lines aren't up to the individual, they’re a product of hundreds, if not thousands
of years of lineage.
Society has existed for a long time, allowing certain families, (be them hard working or
extremely lucky) to rise to the top, to accumulate money and power.
Money and power that can be nourished and expanded across generations.
Ever heard the phrase money makes money?
That didn’t come from nowhere!
It's much easier to make a fortune grow than to accumulate one from scratch.
But the opposite is also true.
If a family line is down on their luck, makes continuous mistakes, commits crimes, gambles,
has addiction issues, the likelihood of future generations succeeding drops significantly.
According to a study by Sytske Besemer at berkeley with a data pool of 3.4 million kids
she found children with parents in jail are 2.4 times more likely to go to jail themselves.
This reality is something we all deal with or benefit from every day without even noticing
it.
Tangible things like items, money, vampire masks in Jonathan’s case as well as the
intangible: abilities, personalities, culture, ideas.
Our parents in a very real way shape how our lives path might progress through their own
faults and failures.
Jojo’s Bizarre adventure is this idea on steroids.
Talent, looks, opportunities, things that completely affect our everyday lives are not
chosen, but given at birth based on our parents.
We have no say.
You have no say.
And yet you must live with them for your entire life.
This is the entire story of all Jojo’s.
But just because you have no say on where you will start, doesn’t mean you don’t
have a say in where you will end up.
This just means you may have more hurdles to jump to achieve your goals.
In Jojo’s case, as with our own, his starting line comes down to his family.
The sins of the father.
Underneath a bright and colorful, musclebound, rock and roll anime is a story of a family
irreversibly caught up in a war due to the mistakes of one man.
Mistakes that ripple through time and infect future generations of his family.
MISTAKES that lead to the deaths of loved ones and friends in a never ending battle
to right past wrongs once and for all!
But after 32 years with no end in sight can we say the joestars will ever be truly free
of their curse?
Truly free of the mistake of george joestar?
Probably not.
Thats the story of a family forever doomed to fight the good fight and pose like supermodels
and talk about what’s going on in a fight like we cant see it!
The story of a bloodline locked in the mistakes, the SINS of the father, the story of jojo’s
bizarre adventure, the story, you never knew.
And...that’s my take on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure!
Like I said, this is possibly the most requested video we’ve ever had!
What did you think?
But do you know what the second most thing is?
TO MAKE MORE ANIME CONTENT!
I can’t say it enough!
Bonsai Pop is gonna have new content every Saturday morning (Pacific Time) and more!
We’re ridiculously excited to share this new channel with you guys so click right here
to check out a story you never knew on Spike from Cowboy Bebop!
There’s so many interesting things to say!
This is a new age for the Treesicle Team and we’ve love you to be a part of it.
I’m Grant.
That’s all I’ve got for today and I’ll see you over at Bonsai Pop.
Bye!