Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-109.155.64.142-20150803085741/@comment-29624901-20161230071358

Welcome to Jojolion! We prefer the name "sutil Vento Aureo".

Wanted a story that doesn't go anywhere? Wanted to watch Durara again in manga form? Here is Jojolion for you!

Objective?! PFFFT

Why would anybody want a story that is actually going SOMEWHERE? That's absurd! There needs to be a constant status quo that keep us from progressing. Our characters constantly walk a crop circle that we call the plot. And speaking of The Devil and it's sins.... Welcome to the Higashikata Family! Known for being... almost-one-dimensional-assholes! Ever wanted a story with a bland protagonist, an obvious love interest that's almost arquetipical and again, shows little or no personality accompanied with a cast of certified assholes with little or no redeemable qualities? Jojolion at your service! It's not like characters are the most important thing in a story, I am right?

People say Jojolion has no objective, but it has one! Recover the (bland) protagonist memories! This is only a conspiracy of course, Jojolion doesn't really has any objective. The amnesia is there to kill any chance of backstory and to sabotage the plot from moving. We wouldn't be doing our jobs if we weren't using the most lazy plot device that ever existed.

But at least we have awesome and creative fights like Vento Aureo, right? RIGHT? NOPE SIR. Here in Jojolion fights are almost non-existing, and most of them are solved through plot conveniences or as I like to call them "happy accidents". And they don't lead anywhere either! Fights here (if they exist) are just a pebble lying in our main cast's round highway, they don't actually lead anywhere and they just sort of exist. Checkmate conspiranoics! And you say we didn't got fillers besides Milagro Man.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! We also have... SHITTY AND ARTIFICIAL DRAMA! YOU HEARD RIGHT, SHITTY AND ARTIFICIAL DRAMA. Here we have drama about characters that you aren't invested on nor do you know or actually feel anything for them. Since our characters are so bad you can't feel bad (badum ba tss) for them. It's as rare as the fights but it happens (twice to be precise, one when Yasuho discovers that "Josuke" likes bondage and another one where "Josuke" cries about his mother, mother that he never knew anything about besides the fact that she is her mother, he knows about as much as the audience)

Remember the perfect balance between seriousness and comedy that Araki managed to achieve in Stone Ocean and Steel Ball Run? Welp, screw that! Here comedy is as seldom as the action! Here in Jojolion everything is serious and we keep a serious atmosphere and tone about ridicule events.

This part ain't even creative! There are so many remisniscenses of Part 4 that it just looks like a rehash! In Steel Ball Run there are a few remisniscenses and references to previous parts but they were mostly superfitial and you could even miss them

But what about the MISTERY (Echoes Act 1 goes flying out with sparks) It's actually really good.... If it weren't for the fact that it doesn't go anywhere, there aren't any clues for it and it's just mostly build up and no resolutions

And that's part 8 for you! A part with bad characters, a mistery and plot that doesn't go anywhere, the most lazy of plot devices, with almost no action, ocasionally bad drama, that feels like a rehash and overall is just build up and no resolutions, a product that doesn't give you anything  except dead time.

On it's defense, I can say that the art is pretty good and that thr fights that aren't solved through conveniences are really gudo.

PD: Mentally challengued girl? Really? Didn't know the writer who wrote about The Man Who Lives by the Pond arc was PC