When you desire only the result, you start trying to take shortcuts.
When you start taking shortcuts, you might lose sight of the truth.
Eventually, you lose your motivation too.
This is a quote from Abbacchio partner and has an overlying theme for areas in the part,
but it translates to real-life here too.
I’m not saying work harder not smarter, but in the case of Part skipping, there’s
no actual reason as to why you should be doing so.
See, I’m here because Mother’s Basement had made a video on JoJo for Part 5.
A cheat sheet of general events that happen so that we could be led up to what we have
now in Part 5.
Now let me say this here before anything.
If you came here to say, “I’m going to enjoy this without watching all of the parts”,
go ahead no one is stopping you from enjoying the anime or any area of fiction.
I also don’t vouch for anyone trying to stop that either, the video here is just to
show you exactly on what you’re missing if you do.
But really, if your whole thing is about getting into something without having time already
in the series, do you really need a primer?
The premise of the video is what bothers me.
See, there are many great videos on YouTube that are meant to generalize what happens
in an anime, but majority of the time, those videos are made for those that already watched
it and want to see how the content creator is going to be taking apart the franchise.
The case we have here is the encouragement of blowing through JoJo so that you can get
up to where we are now.
Yet he’s still retaining the attributes of the videos that I mentioned to describe
a franchise to people that haven’t got into.
I was trying to feel for it until I started hearing a bunch of stuff that’s either just
interpreted wrong, just wrong, or I honestly just don’t feel it.
I don’t want to mention everything that he got wrong, so I want to clear up a respective
few of them.
Mostly not because of what he says, more so because what he says is actually a common
thing I see with an area of the fans.
*Tries to leave a good impression* Now obviously, this one’s a joke, but if you’re going
to be setting this stuff up for the people that have never actually gotten into JoJo,
you’re confusing them with this type of stuff.
There’s a bunch of joke that you could’ve set up for in this case going about how “Dio
can’t share” and that’s in quotes because I’m not trying to spit jokes here, I’m
more so approaching everything like Captain Holt.
*Explains Hamon* Ok, chief…
A fictional story with fictional mechanics.
Is it really that crazy?
What ground are you standing on to look it like that man c’mon.
Also, you go about the obvious “we don’t use hamon anymore” deal and man.
What vampires are we fighting?
Also, I’m sure that you had seen Araki talk about Hamon and on why he doesn’t use it
anymore.
Along with that, stands as a concept gives so much more potential and does better for
Part 3 and on.
*Dio vampire stuff* AAAAA, what vampires do we see after Part 3.
AAAAA, Dio also isn’t even a fully vampire in Stardust Crusaders which is a huge thing
that we see him talk about consistently because it affects his strength and his vampiric abilities
like regenerations.
AAAA, this wasn’t even the first time he used his freezing ability.
*He disregards all that happened* Wow, you disregarded Part 2 better than the people
that dislike it and the production team that basically made a speed run of Parts 1 and
2.
That’s pretty interesting because I would’ve thought that you would mention how cool and
nuanced you think Joseph is.
*Concept of stands* Personification of user’s spirit.
Most of the time, there’s symbolism
in them.
*Kakyoin forgetting Possession* I think you forget that it was Kakyoin being posses that
made him do that.
Plus, the utilization of Kakyoin and Kakyoin’s character doesn’t call for the use of possession
since that’s really not a thing he’s about doing.
If it’s any consolation, he controlled Death 13.
*Everyone’s under mind control* I actually have a video that goes about the connections
between Dio and those he enlists, but a lot of the enemy stand users we have here go without
a spore.
Most of the time it’s because Dio hired them, or they love Dio.
For example, Tower of Gray’s stand user “Gray Fly” had gone sporeless because
of his loyalty to Dio was already strong enough.
We see that be a common thing with the enemy
stand users.
*The goal of DiU* Ok…
Yeah nothing happened at all after the defeat of Akira.
Not like an event meant to strengthen the estranged relationship between Josuke and
Joseph.
Introduction to the majorily famous Rohan Kishibe who has his own side series and multiple
one-shots.
Or the fact that Rohan connects over into Reimi who connects to Kira.
Oh, I know someone would have something to say on Ratt, but that whole arc of mentorship
between Jotaro and Josuke transfers over into the final fight to where this shooting is
brought back again to create neutral ground to the originally winning Kira.
I think the worst thing about this is that I constantly find you here trying to throw
in jabs like Araki is the one at fault.
From how you’re approaching it, let’s just have Kira, a hidden serial killer whose
been under the nose of Morioh for over a decade, just immediately show himself in the beginning
of DiU.
Because that’s the goal here, right?
That’s what you wanted, right?
C’mon.
I don’t want to spend anymore time picking at anything he’s said here because if I
was, I might as well of just made a different video and spent the time doing so.
It would’ve probably ended up being over half an hour with how much bullshit he’s
spreading to the supposed new people he’s trying to get involved with.
See, you know what’s the best thing about the video.
It’s how the video itself is what counter-attacks skipping parts.
You’re a great example that even someone with that much time in the franchise can still
be terrible wrong about what happens.
I was hoping with your involvement with the franchise would’ve had more than a face-value
approach with a sense of superiority to it.
I’m not going to front for the people.
JoJo has its flaws in areas, but my problem here is that you approach it like you blew
right past the series.
But I don’t want to focus on you.
I actually want to thank you because this a topic that should’ve been addressed a
while ago, but you being the catalyst for it all is what gave it life.
So, in that case, thank you.
On skipping parts, I think one of the easier lines is to get into the area of this is “If
you want to get invested, then do so.
If you don’t, then don’t.”
The premise of your video is, “Hey, do you want to get invested but not at the same time”.
It’s terrible.
If people are going to jump on to whatever is new, what is the point of a primer?
If they do want to get into it, why stray them away from doing so?
Then you follow it up to try to say it’s for the fans of it already, but the video
does nothing for them either.
I know people that have got into JoJo and approached the parts in different orders than
the normal numerical one, but they still got into all of the parts and once they got into
the part that they first started with, it makes all the more sense on why stuff works
the way it does.
The thing on skipping parts is, for what reason do you have doing it.
Most of the time, it’s because of the hype for the respective part or whatever iteration
is popping at the moment.
That’s the reason you see people talking about wanting to majorily get into Kingdom
Heart 3 without actually getting into the franchise.
But the thing is, regardless of the hype or not, you had time to get into the franchise,
and along with that you still can do so.
I understand, people want to be able to talk to their friends about what’s happening
now, and it’s great.
But instead of just talking to your friends about the one area of the franchise, if you
get invested in all of it, you’ll be able to talk about the franchise and have a lot
more to add in.
Imagine that someone is to only jump into Part 5 with no intention to go back.
All the characters with time spent built up to have them here or any mechanic or cadence
here goes nowhere.
And with JoJo having a major theme of passing down the torch, if you just jump into you
don’t really get a sense of reference for anything.
Imagine you get into the 5th season of a show, say Breaking Bad for example.
I’m disregarding Seasons 1 through 4 because I wanted to be able to talk about what happened
in 5, but you don’t have any time into anything that had happened which gives you an empty
feeling of what’s going on.
It’s not good.
And with having videos like what Mother’s Basement had made, my only knowledge of the
franchise would be of general events without any of the passion that goes into it with
sub-par explanation to everything because the initial knowledge of the franchise that
this man had was bad.
The journey of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a beautiful one.
It’s one of family, friends, powerful themes, phenomenal setting, and a lot of passion.
The first thing that I mentioned of the quote from Abbacchio’s old partner is one of many
powerful things that we see expanded on in JoJo.
Skipping parts means you don’t experience what makes JoJo what it is.
You don’t recognize the growth of a character if you just jump straight into the final arc
of an anime.
You don’t see what made up everything and how we got here.
You miss out on so many recognizable moments and stuff that normally bonds people of the
fandom.
You miss out on characters and on who they are on and what they do.
From a more analytical take, you don’t recognize traits we see that run through deep of Joestar
blood.
You miss out on major themes of previous parts.
Miss out on the level of detail on setting.
All there’s so much being left out.
I feel like this goes with anything that you hear about being enjoyed by the masses.
I wouldn’t tell you it’s ok to jump to the Chimera Ant Arc in Hunter and generalize
what happens in the previous arcs.
I wouldn’t tell you it’s cool to just start at My Hero Season 4 because hype.
If you legitimately want to get into a franchise, you should be sensible enough to want to actually
get into the franchise.
If you just want to watch and then drop it forever.
Go ahead, not stopping you.
If you want to skip, go ahead, I’m not going to gatekeep and tell you that you’re not
welcome to enjoy the part.
The only thing I want to do here is to tell you about how much you’re missing out, because
as a person speaking to whoever is thinking about actually skipping parts, I have no control
over what you do.
But if you want to get to Part 5 just because it’s hype, I promise you that it’s still
going to be here while you catch up.
People had all types of time to catch up to things that are out or coming soon, and most
likely you’ll have time because it’s always going to be there.
Plus, JoJo is at it’s most accessible now more than ever with having fully animated
parts and a minimal amount of episodes for the first two, and way better pacing in the
4th than the previous ones.
If your end goal of watching it is to say that you did for others, you already lost
track.
The journey itself is the focus at hand, if you look only for the results, you’ll lose
sight of the truth.
*You see what I did.
It came full circle.
That’s also a thing that happens in JoJo.
Also, Cream IS a band.
Have you ever heard Sunshine of Your Love?
It’s has a pretty notable guitar riff I’m pretty sure you had to have heard it, at least
once.
* Thank you all for watching.
I really do want to give him the benefit of the doubt that this is a joke video or something
around those lines, but the approach of it all…
Really not feeling it.
And I mentioned it earlier, people do videos on speed-running anime or games basically
and give pretty funny explanations on said thing and those are usually fine.
They’re just there and they never do something like state that if you watched the video then
you don’t need to watch those anime or play those games.
This wasn’t a case like that.
Though not going to lie to the people, everyone has probably had 1 sequel or different area
in the franchise and didn’t know that it was that, but it usually goes back.
Like I’ve had friends that watch Infinity War before the other Marvel movies, but after
it happened and explain stuff they didn’t understand, they usually have a huge drive
to go back.
That’s just a thing that happens.
If you do want to see some of my analysis pieces on JoJo or JoJo characters, I’ll
be leaving them in the end-cards.
Geoff, if that’s how you say your name, I’m willing to talk about this.
It probably seems ironic that I want to say I’m willing to talk because of the video
at hand, but I’m down for JoJo-speak anytime.
For everyone else, just remember what I said and enjoy anime in your own way.
Don’t skip straight to Part 7, don’t let the people convince you that’s okay either.
Hopefully, I’ll see you all in the next one, until then, peace out and God speed.