Jotaro Kujo is a character we've seen a lot when it comes to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
I mean, it makes sense.
He's the most iconic Joestar there is.
If you think about JoJo as generally as possible, Jotaro will most likely pass through your
thoughts at least once.
Now, as popular as he is, I want to go through the many stages of Jotaro to see what his
character amounted to in the end.
Let's get some perspective on our star crusader.
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Now, in Stardust Crusaders, we get the youth and foundation of Jotaro.
As this is his part, we get a relatively close perspective of who Jotaro is.
Jotaro is cool, justice, anger, one of the boys, rebellious, and... well, he can be a
mean guy.
Jotaro can line up to his delinquent characterization pretty well, it's a reflection of his age,
so it shouldn't be too surprising.
But, when thinking about how he can act, it's good to consider his moral compass.
He says it himself.
He's not a nice guy, but he isn't evil, and that's by definition and his description of
what evil can be.
To him, "evil means to use the weak for your own gain, and then stomp on them when it's
over."
That's an example.
Some people think Jotaro is incapable of love or showing his feelings, and I think I'd like
to attribute that to the anime adaptation.
I do believe that he makes it a point to know overly show emotions since he's maintaining
that cool guy composure, but he's a relatively normal guy.
He loves his mom, grandad, and friends.
It's just that you see this hardass dude majority of the time, so I understand why he's perceived
the way he is.
You can also attribute his stoicism to the fact that his design takes after Clint Eastwood.
It makes sense, but if you're not for it, it's not going to make the situation any better.
And as a final addition to the character, we can look to his intelligence.
Jotaro is an extraordinarily perceptive and all-around intelligent person.
A representation of that can be found mainly in his fights, and bits and pieces are scattered
throughout part 3.
But yeah, this is a fair general view on Part 3 Jotaro.
Now, let's look to Diamond is Unbreakable Jotaro.
Now, here's what I love that's immediately noticeable about his character.
He's grown.
Like, Jotaro has taken the means of maturing himself a strong bit.
It could be because of age or the fact that Stardust Crusaders' events would most likely
change the way a person sees life, but it helped.
Or well, "helped" is a difficult word here, because I'm sure that he's traumatized from
it all.
He doesn't curse as much as he used to.
Anger is not as bad of a problem as it was before.
Does it leak out?
(punches Josuke) Well, yeah, it can.
It doesn't often, but it can.
When it comes to the events of Diamond is Unbreakable, he's held a lot of anger up until
the end and destroyed Kira with said anger.
But, I'm getting too far in an aspect of him that doesn't even take up a bit of his character.
He's matured a lot.
For example, we can just look at his role in the part.
His role in DiU is like Joseph's role in SC, a veteran, wise, role model type of character.
Except for Jotaro, he's a lot better at the position than Joseph could've been.
Joseph acted like one of the boys most of the time because of the varying ages inside
of the Stardust Crusaders.
When it comes to the Morioh Warriors, the majority of them are high schoolers.
Rohan is the closest to him in terms of age, and those two do not interact like that.
Jotaro has a set distance between him in the group.
They're close, for sure, but that mentor role maintains this distance between them.
An example I have is like the relationship that Josuke, Okuyasu, and Koichi have with
each other.
It isn't going to be like the one they have with Jotaro.
It's still a great relationship.
You get to see how proud Jotaro is to have known this group of stand users and how proud
he is to see each of them grow for the better.
A good addition to his character is how much more he shows care, but it is something that
requires tweaking.
For example, he's able to consolidate both Josuke and Tomoko.
My thing is that he's not always out there to be the care that people need, that's mostly
Koichi's job.
But when it comes to Jotaro.
. .
I mean sometimes?
That's cool.
He'll do it.
Sometimes.
Now, with that in mind, if Araki had Part 6 plans for a long time, like while even writing
Part 4, I'd say that this is amazing.
The reason why is because it's sort of a sign that he most likely has these faults as a
father.
While he understands things like consolidating someone when a death has just happened, or
when they're physically showing they're upset, Jotaro is able to get it with how out there
it is.
I don't think that he looks as closely when it comes to situations where they aren't as
blatant as the other examples—for example, Okuyasu in the Red Hot Chili Pepper fight.
You can tell that he's acting out in a fit of anger, and then when it's over, he's dealing
with feelings of defeat and inferiority.
It's Koichi that's there for Okuyasu, not only because he's the more caring member of
the group, but that feeling of inferiority is most likely a feeling that Koichi is familiar
with.
Jotaro isn't capable of certain areas of understanding and empathy as it's outside of his field of
knowledge; that's something that he would have to look into learning.
And seeing as he's extremely busy with other things like Marine biology, I doubt he made
the point to learn about things of that matter in the future.
That is a troubling concern, especially for the fact that he has a daughter that he'll
need to be there for when it comes to situations unfamiliar to him.
But, I'm making a lot of points that jump to Stone Ocean, so it might be time to move
on as we just covered who Jotaro was in Part 4.
Now, let's look at Stone Ocean Jotaro.
What do we know?
He tries, and he misses sometimes.
As we go through the events of Part 6, one thing is the same: Jotaro cares about Jolyne.
Without a doubt, that fact is in stone.
Ocean.
No?
That's fair.
So, throughout the events of Part 6, Jolyne grows to internalize the idea that Jotaro's
absence isn't done with malice.
The idea is he did it because he didn't want his wife or Jolyne to get mixed up in his
stuff.
It's hard to make these decisions because it's either the world or your daughter.
And, for those that know where I'm going with this, hold that thought.
Now, we don't see what the relationship between Jolyne and Jotaro is like after the events
of Part 6.
You know, because they didn't make it to it.
But, in an ideal situation, Jotaro and Jolyne have time to make something of it.
They both had to go through life to end up knowing that Jotaro tried.
They never got to build on it, but the idea is that everyone knows Jotaro's intentions.
It isn't my place to say how it should work.
It's how it does.
One thing that didn't help, but was interesting to see because of my suspicions in Diamond
is Unbreakable, was when we see how unaware Jotaro is when first seeing him again.
You see this in full force when Jolyne falls with the amulet.
He doesn't explain himself or anything.
He just has no clue what she's talking about here.
But, when considering current events: it most likely isn't the best time to go about this
to Jotaro.
Now, I want to pause the idea here because of the scene that happens after.
What does Jotaro do in the events of Stone Ocean?
I'm not going to say that Jotaro has made up for what he has done, I don't even think
that's his intention, but what he has done is try to be the best he could be to everyone
possible.
Did he do it?
Not my place to say, but let's look at what happened.
He tries to save Jolyne, but in the process loses his stand and almost his life.
In what he most likely believed to be his final hours, he told Jolyne that he's always
loved her.
Jotaro, when talking to her, isn't trying to give her reaffirmation for the sake of
her feeling better.
Every word he says to her speaks with genuine intent.
In addition to that, this part goes with Jolyne being the support and driving force of justice.
Similar to the role that Jotaro took up in Stardust Crusaders.
It comes full circle.
It also helps that Jotaro recognizes her potential and strength, and he believes that if she's
the one in action, then everything will be alright.
This was once the Jotaro that we knew for being the mentor with all of the answers.
Or the protagonist that got his way out of any problem.
Now he's at his most vulnerable state for most of the part, both physically and mentally.
And that's ok.
Now, what thoroughly tied this all together was the last of his character—the Pucci
and Jolyne knife situation.
If he stops Pucci here, he saves the world, no doubts about that.
But, in doing so, he would be unable to save Jolyne.
If he saves Jolyne, she's saved.
There's nothing more to it, unless he weighed the options, and believed that Jolyne was
capable of saving the world from Pucci.
No matter how you put it, Jotaro had the entire universe and Jolyne on a scale.
Flashback to earlier in the video, "It's hard to make these decisions because it's either
the world or your daughter."
This problem has plagued Jotaro through Jolyne's whole life, and when it came down to the absolute
bottom line, he picked Jolyne.
Bittersweet.
That's the only word I can think of any time I talk about Stone Ocean like this.
I have more to add on to this, but I feel like I'll need more time, so I'll save the
rest for later.
Jotaro...
Man, seeing this character just live, like, ACTUALLY live through life is just astounding.
I understand why Araki loves him as much as he does, and why he's become as big as he
did.
This is some heavy stuff y'all.
He died as he lived, trying his best for everyone.
Now that's... some real stuff.
Thank you all for watching, because out of all the places you could've been, you were
here with me, and that means a lot!
Man, when writing the script, I'm not gonna lie, I got sad.
Thinking about Jotaro in Part 6 specifically gets me every time.
That is a great part, people sleep I promise you.
But yeah.
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