JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been one of most invested paths I’ve chosen in terms
of entertainment. There’s so much to come across, and so many thoughts have been compiled
over time. I’m sure you’re you saw the title, so this is going to be on my thoughts
on every Joestar. One big thing to note, it’s every main Joestar, but I’m sure everyone
already knew that. So, with that in mind, let’s start.
Jonathan Joestar. I always think it’s insane when people completely disregard his character,
especially when the Phantom Blood anime is one of the best-done JoJo anime in terms of
how well it was executed for the adaptation, but it’s not saying a lot when there’s
only 4. Though I will say changing his hair to blue was a pretty big change. In every
point of his character, I loved it. His personality, passion, hamon execution, how he talks to
others, all of it, but it’s never really been that I just liked his character in JoJo,
Jonathan would be pretty cool in person. Along with that, one big thing I focused on was
his relationship with Dio. It’s approached to be a small good and evil type deal, but
with how close Dio was held, it moves those in the perspective of Jonathan. Fighting Dio
being so difficult because you would hope that he would have a chance not being evil
and then maybe you can have the relationship that you believed you had, but it can never
be like that at all. Dio never had a chance at being saved and Jonathan had to take it
upon himself to be the one to take out Dio. Because being real, who else was going to
do it. Jonathan was really bound to this fate, and it was so bad for him that it took away
his chance at a normal life. What he did was something that had benefit humanity in the
end of it all depending on how you’re looking at it, but it was something that he did more
so for Dio than anyone else. I also had read so many of Araki’s thoughts on Phantom Blood
and Jonathan and it had fueled me even further. How he wanted to just have this manga and
the theme of it all being living. How he felt when he had to do in Jonathan, all of it made
me enjoy both the part and Jonathan even more. How Araki had described it all, and my feelings
of the end of Phantom Blood, to me it felt like you’re standing on the base of what
could be built up to as a pantheon, but it’s only the base. Then you’re standing on it
and looking out into the horizon, and the horizon is the potential of the franchise
because there’s so was so much that could be done after Phantom Blood. Then all of the
future parts would take bits away from both Jonathan and Part one. Being the base of JoJo
is difficult man, and I’m just astounded he gets knocked away so fast. But I can also
clear something up now. Now, I know I’ve said my favorite Joestars
were Jonathan and Giorno, I see Jonathan in a different light that’s more separate from
something like favorites, and my actual favorites now, do not exist. You’ll see why later.
Also, before Joseph, I’m going to have two videos sometime in the near future going over
Jonathan and Dio and Phantom Blood and the depth of all of that.
Joseph Joestar. His character in Battle Tendency puzzled me. I loved the whole narrative of
“It doesn’t matter what happens, you can always win in the end”, but then it’s
also like “Screw it all, let’s just go ahead and do everything”. I like him in
Battle Tendency, but I like Old Joseph a lot more because of his role and influence in
Stardust Crusaders. There’s also couple things that’s always bound to Young Joseph.
For some reason, I always see Joseph and the group of people parading him around, but it’s
always the type of people that parade around characters like Speedwagon and the Ichiraku
Ramen guy. It’s like people want to acknowledge Joseph in such a way like he’s a joke character?
Which would discredit what he’s done? Another side of people think of Joseph like he’s
the embodiment of JoJo when there’s Johnny, Passione, all of Jotaro, Jonathan and Dio,
like there’s a lot. But I just love Joseph in this way to where he could be one of the
most relatable to all Joestars. Like if all the Joestars were sitting with Joseph when
he first got a glimpse of Caesar and what kind of guy he is, they would all sit together
and talk about how they’re not about guys like that. Except for Jonathan, he’d probably
confused on what they don’t like about Caesar. But it’s not that crazy that all the Joestars
would have relatable things with themselves because it’s all the same blood. I give
a large amount of credit to the voice actor of Joseph, and a lot of the voices in Part
two. I feel like with that and the animation being done for Battle Tendency, it made had
the part liked a lot more than it was in the manga. But then Old Joseph Joestar broke all
barriers for the character and became everything he was supposed to be and even more. Now I’m
sure a lot love Young Joseph and it’s fine, he had done a lot there so that you would.
But you have Old Joseph here, where his age had sculpted his character but still had him
retain the most defining attributes of his character. He had also taken it upon himself
to keep pushing to find more ways to keep humanity safe, and that’s aside from the
Joestar fate with Dio. Originally, Joseph at time would try to hold back the thoughts
of heroism because sometimes it wasn’t as cool, and to his character he could see it
as weak. He had believed that, but when it comes to revenge it’s perfectly fine because
that’s a concept that he sees near justice that’s fine in all forms. Now that he’s
grown, he’s got past that mentality and now lives better for it, because he’s finally
now honest with himself. I also love that Joseph had Jonathan thoughts, but he pushed
them away because he thought they were played out.
But in the end of it he ended up embracing the path he was destined to follow, stopping
4 different Pillar Men, and Dio. Final thoughts, pretty cool character.
Jotaro Kujo. After going through all of JoJo, I can totally understand why he’s the most
popular Joestar. He’s played all the roles that a Joestar could, he has an iconic design,
was the first shown Stand user, held some of the most important and impactful moments
in JoJo, he’s great. The only people I know that completely disliked Jotaro were those
watching the Stardust Crusaders anime, and I think it’s pretty crazy but there are
areas that anime Jotaro missed that manga Jotaro held perfectly fine. I’ve also seen
a point on where it’s just that Jotaro doesn’t express himself enough because they don’t
see him smile enough in the anime. And we’ll the anime had 86’d a lot of normal Jotaro
moments, but even then Jotaro’s character with his whole angry front is what it is.
It’s a front. It’s been said a thousand times by now about Jotaro and the angry front,
depth of his character and all that, and at this point if you hate Jotaro and call him
a Mary Sue, you’re forcing yourself to not like him. Stardust Crusaders Jotaro is cool,
DiU Jotaro is great, and Stone Ocean Jotaro is purely poetry.
He’s the most involved and knowledgeable Joestar too, though even with all of that
involvement and knowledge, he still has flaws that are made evident to himself and us and
it’s amazing to see the execution of it all. One thing that’s not as noticed is
Jotaro’s design. The color theory that goes into his character along with the style growing
and that being connected to his character is a tug on the heart.
Josuke Higashikata. I feel like anime in the 90’s was always something that could legitimately
be its own genre because there was this majorily distinct style that you could see characters
have and I think Josuke isn’t one of those characters that can get away from it. I don’t
know what it was about this era, but for the most part it would know how to make the most
likeable characters possible. So, then when DiU was being adaptated, and people were talking
about the anime being enjoyable for being 90’s-esque in terms of characters and not
animation, it’s understandable. Also it’s the 90’s in DiU too so, yeah. There’s
a couple of things I always talk about with Josuke, and one of the big things is that
character archetype that you see incomplete in Joseph, but fully sculpted with Josuke,
and along with that, he also held character defining traits of his own. I think one of
the big things that Araki is great at doing is capturing the life of a character. His
character had tackled a lot of the things we’re expected to come across as people
and then you have the trio of him, Koichi, and Okuyasu and it’s like…
Man, this is beautiful, but I get like this with the characters we see in DiU anyways
so no big surprise there. I’ll probably do a character analysis of Josuke in the future
to further elaborate on what he’s about and what he’s been made out to be, but all
in all, he’s great. Giorno Giovanna.
I’m sure I’ve already summed up a lot on what I like about him in the video where
I went over his character, but I can still add on with what I’ve already said. I think
one big thing that didn’t mention is that him being the amalgamation of Jonathan and
Dio and combining the best attributes about them is more than I could ask for. Jonathan
and Dio being enormous pillars to Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and you’re telling me
that we have a character that’s basically the product of both? Then you notice that
he really does take away from both Jonathan AND Dio because he’s nothing like his siblings.
He’s more like Jotaro and Josuke when they’re at their most vengeful. I also love the moments
to where Giorno has himself as this judge in a sense, sort of how Jotaro had first defined
himself against Kakyoin and you had that whole iconic scene where judged Kakyoin with Star
Platinum. He also has a great design. Oh, and I could talk about what people see as
inconsistencies or deus ex machina for him and Vento Aureo, but that’s a different
video. Jolyne Cujoh. She’s been done wrong by the
world and she deserved better. The thing is, all that had happened to her made into a character
that I question but understand in terms of her actions. She carries a lot of Joestar
attributes like being selfless for her friends or those being mistreated by the bad of the
world. She’s childish in a lot of what she does, but it’s totally in her character
to do so. I won’t say it's ok to do what she does, but it makes a lot of sense on why
she would do what she does. She also carries a lot of honesty when it comes to expressing
herself and talking about what she wants or likes which goes on into how open she is about
topics that aren’t normally spoken about, and in comparison, to a regular character
she’s a lot more explicit. There’s also her morality which is for things like helping
those in need, but it doesn’t exist when she wants to talk about things that people
normally wouldn’t. She has some of the strongest determination there is in that part, and she’s
also very fun and probably cool to hang out with. I was personally told by Foo Fighters
to mention that. I almost forgot to mention that I love the approach that Araki had went
with for a female lead. He could’ve wrote her character as someone like Artoria from
Fate but let her be exactly who she was and she’s great for it.
Also, I’m not saying anything bad about Artoria, I meant that she could’ve been
written as a female Jonathan like how a lot of authors do for leads, but Araki wasn’t
scared of letting Jolyne be as different as she is. I guess the best way to sum her up
is that she cares a lot, but she also doesn’t give a fuck.
Johnny Joestar. Because Jonathan was so good, there’s two of him. I’m kidding. I feel
like in the end of it all, Johnny is one of closest embodiments of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
The execution of his character and the overlaying theme of letting your experiences make you
into a stronger person instead of trying to get rid of it. His character is this amalgamation
of all these things we’ve seen with main Joestars and even villains to where Johnny
runs into all of these things that made characters the character that we know, but he becomes
this separate being even from all of that. And of course, certain things of his character
exist that people talk about, but they are usually extremely important traits. For example,
how some people look at Johnny and say they don’t like him because he’s shown himself
to be selfish. And it’s puzzling because it’s like, have we just ignored everything
else about the character and the story to focus on a trait that was extremely necessary
to the character. At that point it looks like people are grasping at straws to find a reason
to dislike Johnny. Plus, I love the whole concept of Steel Ball Run and everything after
because I feel that Araki sees so much opportunity in what he could do by starting fresh. It’s
amazing and I love what JoJo had became. But on Johnny, I love so many things about his
character to where I probably should make more videos on Part 7. His humanity, determination,
the path he follows, there’s a lot more, but I’ll be sure to go talk on specific
areas in the future. Final thoughts, Kars wasn’t the Ultimate Lifeform, it was actually
Johnny this whole time. Josuke 8. I feel like the same that’s said
on Johnny could be applied to Josuke, but in a lighter tone. I don’t know what it
is about Araki’s style of writing in the Steel Ball Run universe, but it’s been hitting
me pretty hard with these characters. Josuke’s character and goal being more than what it
actually is. While trying to find himself, he’s finding himself through everything
he does. He’s also the most comfortable and modern Joestar, I love everything he does.
The best things I see are how he goes for obscure things in comparison to others and
there’s also the casual use of his stand. I’m also putting a big notice on the most
comfortable Joestar, because I feel like there’s just no remote way you can dislike Josuke
for anything he does. I also feel like I shouldn’t have to mention that he has Joestar traits,
but they’re there. More so holding determination, justice and all of that in the same way that
Jolyne, Josuke, and the rest do. And while it also seems that he’s the funny
guy and isn’t the person to get angry, he can completely flip the script at anytime
needed. He’s enjoyable, he’s ambitious, he cares for others, he has a sailor hat,
what’s there not to like? And there is all the main Joestars and my
thoughts on them. I have videos planned for all these characters, but only time will tell
when I ever get to it. If there’s a lot of support for a specific character I’ll
definitely keep my eye on them when I get to work. Thank you all for watching, if you
all want me to make more videos where I give my compiled thoughts on a group of characters,
just mention the group and I might do it. I might make a villain video sooner than later,
who knows. Hopefully I’ll see you all in the next one, until then, peace out and God
Speed.