there are so many different ways that
anime can draws and a show needs to hook
wait
what's in an LP son of a okay I wrote
this joke and I don't even understand
power of King Crimson works in a
nutshell but I've been going on about
this for hours we need to get on with
the episode this week JoJo's Bizarre
Adventure part two first time for some
quick Corrections the Jojo Opie's were
made by kamikaze Doga not David
production and they made their own
character models instead of lifting them
from all-star battle also in the picture
from battle tendency its traits holding
baby Lisa Lisa not Lisa Lisa holding
Joseph and the shooting star at the end
of the battle tendency of the
foreshadows cars fade at the end of the
series sorry guys I totally spaced on
that one thanks so much to everyone who
pointed out those errors stardust
crusaders is the most well known Jojo
art both in North America and abroad and
the only part to get a prior anime
adaptation even if it was a little on
the terrible side without question this
is the season fans we're most looking
forward to and I think it's safe to save
both the season and Opie's lived up to
the hype
stand proud opens on to Jojo icons the
star birth mark of the Joestar bloodline
and the to be continued arrow that
follows each chapter of the manga one
thing I really like about this okie is
that it has fun with the titles
themselves having them emerge at of
moving objects or distort as though
disturbed by the action around them once
again paying tribute to the series
legacy the Opie shows Jonathan and
Joseph Joestar and iconic poses from the
cover of their series respective Tonko
bond with comic panels overlaid on top
of them because their stories have
already been written the panels fade as
we move out of the past toward the
stunningly animated present and Jotaro
Kujo the third Jojo in his own cover
pose his stand star platinum then
punches up a title for us we burst out
of the sea to a view of a blood-red moon
representing dio's return from the
depths after 100 years of slumber the
full moon has been an emblem of
empires throughout the series
symbolizing their weakness to sunlight
and their eternal nature five shooting
stars streaked across the sky heading
toward Egypt representing the five
Stardust Crusaders the order in which
they appear corresponds to how they act
in the main story Joseph and after all
lead the charge with Jotaro in close
pursuit and in short order cackling and
polnareff join up as well
eventually jotaro's star pulls ahead to
lead the pack and a six star
representing eggy enters to the right of
the frame just before they reach Egypt
in Egypt we see trio's mansion and he'll
himself is shown in Joseph's spirit
photo including little details like the
tsetse fly that helps them to place do
near the Nile River even Abdul is afraid
without breaking stride the Crusaders
walked through the backgrounds of
various fights throughout the series
each full of details like whole horse
following them where they fought Jay
Galle they approach Egypt while walking
into the sunset slightly letting us know
that this is where the first season will
end next we see them trekking across the
desert on camels as the Sun Stand blooms
in the background while in the
foreground we see the rock which gave
away its users position this is followed
by the campground where they were
attacked on their dreams by death 13 and
seemingly as soon as the day ends a new
one begins and their journey continues
the parting clouds showing their way
forward the vines killing Holly are
metaphorical remnants of the Joestar
legacy and tangled up in them are all
the joestars who passed on since the
series began miss ELISA
Erina both George's and Jonathan slumped
over hold indios head all of it flows
into Jotaro as he stands up this
contrasts with the ozone rise as we see
his head grafted under Jonathan's body
and the fierce bloodlust in his eyes
represented in a style similar to how
the pillar men were depicted as the
Crusaders pose were shown scenes of many
fights throughout the series in the
background including strengths freight
ship the cable car on which they fought
temperance and once again the Sun
there's not much extra detail when these
next shots just sound effect word art
logos for Jojo and lucky Lange
communications hero Rico Rocky's company
there are some parallels to the final
fight with do but the inclusion of a
surviving Abdallah leads me to believe
that
as a more general show of standability
there's a lot of meaning in the final
shots though Jonathan closes his eyes
and fades out in a sea of flame alluding
to his death on a British ship Joseph
keeps his open while donning Caesars
headband in his own defining scene
showing that his adventure continues in
this part and jotaro's eyes open as his
adventure begins tarot cards
representing each stand form a spiral
staircase that geo tarot climbs to reach
do and a shot almost identical to the
climax of sono Chino Sodom a as an
enthusiastic singer tells us to stand
proud star platinum emerges to unleash
one last flurry of punches and help
chitara break through the barrier
between him and Bo which seems to
represent both the distance between them
and the gap in their abilities I love
the so P for how it captures the
adventure Jotaro and his friends
undertake on the way to Egypt but it
only tells half the story
ominous chords set clockwork gears in
motion as so no Chi no kioku begins a
pendulum swings back and forth revealing
the joestars and sequence and do as he
grows in to do spelt with all caps the
way the pendulum swings gives a bit of
shorthand for each character's alignment
typically an anime heroes move from
right to left while villain move
opposite but there's even more going on
than that pay attention to the way the
joestars are framed all caught in the
gears of time while dio's image barely
overlaps with them his immortality frees
him somewhat from thymes grasp and in
his spirit photo pose he's completely
escaped its limits using the world
although jotaro's appearance pulls him
back in clockwork imagery often broken
is everywhere in this Opie alluding
heavily to both the century of history
that leads up to the confrontation with
Dio and of course the time stopping
power of the world
each of these poses references a panel
from the manga Joseph is engaging in the
Joestar final technique of strategic
retreat that he used in part 2 F doll is
in the same stance he used to attack a
duel kakyoin unleashes his 20 meter
emerald splash and he bares his teeth of
petshop
polnareff is kneeling as he did after
seeing eggy and apt all pass on and
stands to make his final pose from
battling vanilla ice with the Sun
standing in for cream before unleashing
the full dual wielding might of silver
chariot the Stardust Crusaders stand on
a staircase within Kenny G's illusory
labyrinth while the shadows of each
Egyptian God stand flash in the order
they were fought we then cut the deals
perspective at the top of the stairs
with time frozen he walked
past the Crusaders toward Jotaro all of
the Crusaders who died throughout the
series are on the right side of the
staircase while those who survived stand
on the left additionally for an instant
we can see eggy and Pullman refs leg
injuries do throws his punches at Jotaro
shattering both the banister which hangs
in midair and the credits themselves one
thing that makes this Opie particularly
special is how it changes after Diaz
powers are revealed in the sound effect
version we actually see the world's fist
punching once do is close Jotaro makes
his own move within the stop time
unleashing star Platinum we cut to a
view of Cairo from Vanilla Ice's room
note the holes in the wall as the Sun
sets and in flashes balls of light
appear in locations throughout the city
where do will activate his power these
poses further Telegraph the fates of
each Crusader showing deal freezing time
to fight them in the same abstract style
as the battle tendency opie with
pendulums wiping back and forth between
each scene polnareff has moved down the
stairs and frozen time Moab doll and
Aggie are shown in red because they've
already been killed
then Dio breaks every strand of techeuns
emerald splash web simultaneously Joseph
takes a knife in the throat and Jotaro
takes several dozen in the everywhere
looking closely we can actually see
jotaro's fingers twitching giving away
his own ability to freeze time and the
SFX opening do actually appears in each
shot the Crusaders emerge from shooting
stars to line up and unleash their
stands in a sequence that while not
particularly symbolic gets me absolutely
pumped every time I see it
at last Jotaro ascends to face do
breaking through the barrier between
them only four do to stop time once more
and move behind him and the first
version of the opie the world appears
for a split frame before the glass
shatters Jotaro and do exchange punches
is the singer's belt out or rods
rapid-fire - a flurry of sound effects
and Joe's and at last the title appears
only to crumble away in the light of the
Sun alluding to the way do finally dies
and that would be it if not for the
special variant opening that precedes
episode 23 of the season following
Jotaro being able to see in frozen time
here do actually shows up to freeze time
and spends exactly five seconds walking
around Jotaro but for the
presumes we see a more detailed version
of the same fight with geo shouting muda
muda muda and kanji sound effects added
to the final explosion it's not really
something I need to point out to you but
it is really cool and served as the
impetus for my choosing to do this
two-parter in the first place and with
it over it's time to render a final
verdict as to which Opie is the best if
we were just going by sign preference
bloody streams SiC jazz and fusion would
be an easy pick for me though every song
is excellent in its own way but we've
got to take more than that into account
this analysis is primarily cinematic so
logically whichever Opie has the
strongest direction should win and that
regard both the first and fourth Opie's
put exceptionally inventive and
meaningful cinematography and editing on
display and they're both so good that
it's hard to choose between them but we
do have one last metric to break the tie
effectiveness is a credit sequence in
this regard so no Chi no kioku is the
clear winner drawing attention to its
titles by having them react on-screen
action and lots of fun ways the series
has played with these effects since
bloody stream but the fourth Opie
definitely makes the best use of them
and it also has some of the best
Direction overall and with the hype of
that special do variant to push it over
the edge it's the clear winner really
though these are all amazing Opie's the
kind that made me want to start this
series in the first place and there are
some people who love them even more than
I do in particular mr. donut the donut
whose manga reference breakdowns I used
to fact-check the second part anyway
Jojo is over for now but don't return to
your quiet life just yet next week I'll
be doing a recap of spring 2015 after
that were tackling spicen wolf and there
are three previous episodes of what's in
an LP that a lot of you haven't seen I'm
really proud of the baby steps one but
apparently nobody likes sports anime and
I didn't get the memo to watch it it's
lonely
goodbye doing City this is professional
bag Jeff foo signing out from his
mother's basement