Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5872914-20150811211223/@comment-4110939-20171013160823

Csf4r1k wrote: This is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure we are talking about. Anything can happen and JJBA will keep on going, alsong as the fans still live, (even if Araki no longer lives) the story will never end. Then again, nobody should hold it against Araki for stopping at Part 8. These parts are taking more years to complete and Araki is getting closer to elderly age. If he were to actually die in the middle of Part 9, best case scenario is that JoJo stops as the work of a legend and nothing past that.

If JJBA receives the RWBY treatment, with someone close taking up the torch of the canon after the series' creator dies, it could go either way -- and RWBY has already become a polarized fandom after Monty Oum passed due to how Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross have handled the story's direction following V2; The Internet is now aware of what happens to a franchise's writing and narrative when its canon is actually inherited/passed down in the middle of its story.