Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29561365-20171012232950/@comment-35776758-20180605040237

Zodazzle wrote: Part 7 is the alternate version of parts 1, 2, and 3. Jojolion is part 4, and possibly 5. The next part is 6, which correlates to part 9 in that case. Also, Johnny made up with his broken legs with Tusk. And the entire reason I believe Araki chose to give Johnny broken legs was to symbolize that this story would be about growth. It literally says that as one of the first quotes in Steel Ball Run, "This story relates how I got up on my feet. Not in the physical term, but how I went from adolescence to adulthood". Tell me that isn't symbolic. Just because Jojo is bizarre doesn't mean Araki implements things randomly. He wouldn't choose a standless character because not only do stands not disappear randomly, but it would be hard to gather attention. Stands were done to keep the series going, freshen it up. A standless character doesn't freshen anything, we already have seen characters that are standless do stuff (Hayato, like you said). And lastly, Gold Experience was busted as hell, so much so that Araki probably purposely wrote out it's abilities to make things stable. He didn't beat Diavolo by being creative, he beat Diavolo through Gold Experience Requiem. Which is automatic. But think about it, Giorno would have never made it to Diavolo unless he was creative with life giver like if he was an Okuyasu type character his stand would have been really held back and he would need a lot more help and when he got Gold Experience Requiem he didn't need to be creative anymore because of how busted it was and we've seen stands time and time again even more so then non stand users so the audience would look at them like "how can he plan to face a stand user?" And then he does and everyone's blown away but all in all nothing is impossible for Araki