Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 3 (Part 5)
Sep. 8th, 2006 04:53 amTHIS PART ON THE OTHER HAND. (I really did not expect to finish so soon, it's just that I couldn't stop reading. ^^; good thing I didn't have anything important to do today, four hours sleep = not a good way to start the school year.) Scanslations are only up to the middle of volume 60, therefore I am only up to middle of volume 60.
Part Five: There is this nice-looking and polite young man who wants to be the best gangster (a Gang Star), so he joins the Mafia (this part takes place in Italy) and is assigned to work with five other boys who all dress outrageously. At first the others don't trust him, but eventually they come to respect him, and then to unconsciously rely on him even though he is technically not the leader of their operating cell. The beautiful thing about this is that he and the leader are friends or at least co-conspirators (they want to take down the Big Boss FOR GREAT JUSTICE), and so there's no awkwardness in the gradual shift of power. Bruno is capable, not the type to hold it against someone who issues orders in a crisis if they're sound. Giorno, in turn, stays out of the way most of the time.
There's a series of chapters that stick Giorno and one other member of the group together in a crisis, and each time the other member comes to the realization that Giorno's judgement is always absolutely reliable, and there is just something about him that is extremely compelling so that almost before they knew what was happening, they'd accepted Giorno in their hearts. I felt like I was witnessing the birth of cult leader. ^_^
So that's one thing. But really part five is ALL ABOUT THE STANDS. They are SO COOL omg. It's like they bypass reason and go straight to the section of the brain responsible for recognizing cool things. The art has a lot to do with this. The stands in this section aren't just fascinating, they are also visually exciting, stuff like melting walls and liquid floors and zippers on faces and running up stairs that sink so that you end up back where you started. Part Four had an Escher stand that sort of hinted at the kind of optical effects Araki busts out in this part, but really you haven't seen anything until you've seen three of the characters turned into stackable cubes which are then reassembled into furniture. NO, REALLY.
( More on stands )
( Random observations )
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I like the new tracking feature so much that I added it to the entry comment bar on my journal. *g* If you're a paid or permanent account user with flexible squares as your layout, here are the tutorials you can use to do this:
1. http://community.livejournal.com/s2flexisquares/420736.html?thread=3592064#t3592064, builds on
2. http://community.livejournal.com/s2flexisquares/2307.html, see
3. http://murklinstest.livejournal.com/17235.html for instructions on creating a custom theme layer.
Part Five: There is this nice-looking and polite young man who wants to be the best gangster (a Gang Star), so he joins the Mafia (this part takes place in Italy) and is assigned to work with five other boys who all dress outrageously. At first the others don't trust him, but eventually they come to respect him, and then to unconsciously rely on him even though he is technically not the leader of their operating cell. The beautiful thing about this is that he and the leader are friends or at least co-conspirators (they want to take down the Big Boss FOR GREAT JUSTICE), and so there's no awkwardness in the gradual shift of power. Bruno is capable, not the type to hold it against someone who issues orders in a crisis if they're sound. Giorno, in turn, stays out of the way most of the time.
There's a series of chapters that stick Giorno and one other member of the group together in a crisis, and each time the other member comes to the realization that Giorno's judgement is always absolutely reliable, and there is just something about him that is extremely compelling so that almost before they knew what was happening, they'd accepted Giorno in their hearts. I felt like I was witnessing the birth of cult leader. ^_^
So that's one thing. But really part five is ALL ABOUT THE STANDS. They are SO COOL omg. It's like they bypass reason and go straight to the section of the brain responsible for recognizing cool things. The art has a lot to do with this. The stands in this section aren't just fascinating, they are also visually exciting, stuff like melting walls and liquid floors and zippers on faces and running up stairs that sink so that you end up back where you started. Part Four had an Escher stand that sort of hinted at the kind of optical effects Araki busts out in this part, but really you haven't seen anything until you've seen three of the characters turned into stackable cubes which are then reassembled into furniture. NO, REALLY.
( More on stands )
( Random observations )
***
I like the new tracking feature so much that I added it to the entry comment bar on my journal. *g* If you're a paid or permanent account user with flexible squares as your layout, here are the tutorials you can use to do this:
1. http://community.livejournal.com/s2flexisquares/420736.html?thread=3592064#t3592064, builds on
2. http://community.livejournal.com/s2flexisquares/2307.html, see
3. http://murklinstest.livejournal.com/17235.html for instructions on creating a custom theme layer.