Since we had finally gone over it in the anime, it’s about time I’d cover this.
The thing is, instead of the analysis approach, I just more so want to go about what I loved
in the arc.
I’ve always put this as one of my favorite arcs in Part 5 and probably high up there
when it comes to all JoJo arcs.
Now on why.
Bruno in this arc shines so aggressively hard.
This is with us coming off the ‘White Album’ fight where we had talked about resolve previously
with Giorno and Mista.
So, in this arc we get a view on Bruno’s resolve and how strong his passion burns to
follow through with his beliefs.
I’ve talked it a bit over with friends and off the arc alone, and I concluded that the
Boss is just everything that Bruno hates and more.
If we’re looking at the Part through a protagonist and antagonist focus, The Boss is more of
an antagonist to Bruno than Giorno honestly.
Especially with how intertwined Bruno’s history is into the mix of everything we know
now.
So, to see him go as hard as he did in the arc was amazing.
He had even gone against his own approaches towards
danger and instead dead charged the boss before finding workarounds to King Crimson.
Also, the iconic, “You’ll never understand how I feel” is just amazing.
And when we had gone back to his past to see this
understanding child group up the way that he did, what he had gone against to protect
his people?
See, this is why I can resonate with Abbacchio when he just follows Bruno everywhere.
My heart had gone out to Bruno so hard before, but this arc solidified him for me when first
reading.
Onto the Mystery of the Boss.
A huge thing that I loved here is that the viewer here is as unaware of what’s going
on as Bruno and the rest of the gang are.
Well, except we know what the wrath of the boss looks like because of what had happened
with Sorbet and Gelato.
He’s a very brutal man, so I don’t think that our group would expect the most going
in.
Going into this with an optimistic approach was cut short because Bruno had told everyone
to stay on their toes and that counted us too.
Then we have this ominous environment, the sound effects in the manga had shown us that
this is going to be eerie, but the sort of unsettling silence we have in the anime amplified
it.
Trish is completely unsettled in all of this is, and it made a lot of sense too because
it’s a complete shift in life.
Bruno had tried to make her think about everything in a better light.
Being optimistic, and instead of looking at Trish while this was happening, he had his
eye on the elevator, and so did we.
So, when he had turned around to see Trish not there, and with a severed hand in his
own, everyone is in shock.
You!
Me!
Bruno!
Araki probably shocked himself!
He wasn’t trying to reunite with her!
He wanted to take her out to cover himself!
Who is this Boss!
This complete opposite of Bruno!
What type of person is this!
And then when Bruno is getting the dropped on him while being filled with this drive
to stop him, he calls him out!
The music does not help the Bruno defense team, but man, it is amazing for this interaction.
Now there’s other things that I loved like the gang’s separation from… well the Gang,
Trish experiencing her life changing situation that makes her one with the group, the fight
itself, but I want to have one last point of focus.
We find ourselves, in the court of the Crimson King.
I love the anime’s adaptation of The Boss and King Crimson’s first official entrance.
The Boss’s voice echoing throughout the room, wondering where Bruno went wrong.
Though people crossing him isn’t anything new, it’s just that Bruno’s reason were
new and was genuinely odd to him, but his reasons don’t matter.
It’s the fact that he’s challenging his throne.
*King Crimson coming from the shadows*.
This shot alone gives so much to the grand scheme of the boss.
Still masked in mysteriousness, shrouded by the shadows.
Unable to be contested, and GOD look at that pose.
But what I love the most out of everything that had happened here, is that in the end
of it all, Bruno had completely humbled the Boss.
Even with an ability that Bruno himself calls invincible, he knows that the Boss himself
isn’t and can be contested mentally.
This is the Bruno that we know.
We aren’t too familiar with the one that rushes in there, but we know the Bruno that’s
able to bounce back after any bad interaction and still somehow come out the victorious
one.
So even with all this mystery surrounding the boss, victory is always possible, and
it’s up to fate on where
we end up.