So I’ve been getting a lot of comments on how exactly do you start reading, is it okay
to skip parts, and should I read the manga.
Not me I mean you.
Unless you’ve already read.
Addressing why you should read the manga in the first place.
Now I can understand why there are people that only watch the anime, for reason being
that they want their first time experience of that part of Jojo in it’s fullest.
That’s totally fine, Phantom Blood finished in 1988 and didn’t have the anime until
2012.
The other parts also had been out for a pretty long time, so the thought process is “Well
if they had been out for that long, I can just wait for more of the anime instead of
worrying about catching up with the manga.”
While it’s understandable, you kind of fit yourself into a certain group of the fans
which isn’t a bad one.
There’s the dub watchers, anime only sub watchers, and readers.
Even some readers could be categorized too for only reading the parts that are going
to come out.
Like only finishing part 5 and not going on into part 6 because you want to watch the
anime for part 5 first.
There’s a lot of people.
I’d probably say in order of how large the groups are, I’d probably say the anime only
sub watchers are probably the largest group, right after that are readers, and then there’s
dub.
That’s coming from a western perspective on the west, there’s a lot of manga consumers
on the east.
So it’s pretty easy to find a lot of people who only do watch the anime, but the problem
with that is that it leaves the susceptible to spoilers.
For some odd reason, there’s people that love to spoil those getting into Jojo through
the anime.
Which is ridiculous, and I don’t condone any of it.
The reason why you should read isn’t to just avoid spoilers.
I would like to say Jojo gets progressively better by the part, or well...
There’s high point, mid point, high point after part 4.
You can piece that together.
There’s so much good in the manga and it’s actually miles ahead of the anime quality
wise when part 1 through 4 are the only anime parts out right now.
No part is bad, I’m not telling you that the previous parts are bad and it just gets
better.
The easiest way to say this is that they’re all good, but there’s just better parts.
The reason why I would like people to get into part 5 so bad is because of the masterpiece
that it is.
It’s an opinion, but I can tell you that there would be a good amount of people would
agree.
Then you have part 6, 7, and 8.
Getting into part 7 and 8, you would notice that the quality and story had actually shot
up for Jojo.
Originally you couldn’t get into the manga due to translation issues and it would just
be better at that time to just hope for an anime adaptation, but that was back then.
Even now, part 5 recently got fully translated and colored.
Adding onto that, part 6 and 7 are also fully translated and colored, but they have been
for a while.
Part 8 isn’t going to be fully colored due to it not being done, but so far we have translated
volumes and you would be fine.
While I do really suggest you to read, that’s if we get Part 5 in the near 3 to 5 months.
If we were to get an announcement in the next month, I’d probably just read a couple volumes,
but just watch the rest.
But if you do start reading, you’ll probably end up wanting to just finish it anyways.
Now for those wanting to read the manga, but don’t know how to do so.
The Jojo’s Colored Adventure team is there for you.
This is how I read and went about reading the parts.
I mean well, I read part 5 in black in white, but now you don’t have to!
I’ll be putting a link in the description to their website.
On the website you can download parts through either Mega or Dropbox.
If you don’t have a computer and are a mainly mobile user, you can read on Batoto!
Just make an account for free and you’re great.
I’d really like to thank the Jojo’s Colored Adventure team for doing so much for the community.
They really are a huge help.
Now for the last question, should you skip parts.
No, just no.
I promise you, everyone has something in each part where they value it.
Plus there’s no part that would ever cause you skip, none are bad like that.
So I’m not going to force you to read, but I’m going to nudge you towards that direction.
It’s your decision!
If you choose not to still, Understandable.
Have a great day.
I’ll see you guys
in the next one though.
Until then, peace out and God Speed.