Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28205497-20180916092349

I'd like to share my idea of how to do a sequel to the live-action:

First and foremost, let's keep the idea of the movie's plot being straight forward and dispose of the episodic arcs. As such, Tamami arc, no Surface arc, no Tonio Trussardi arc, no RHCP arc (as the stand doesn't appear in the live-action), no Bug-Eaten arc, no Shigechi arc (we'll get back to that), no Ken Oyanagi arc, no Mikitaka arc, no Superfly arc or Cheap Trick arc.

Now my version would intigrate some of the important stuff of the episodic arc into the story. Since Echoes ACT 1 didn't do anything in the movie, we'll have an original, movie-exclusive scene to show it's abilities. Like maybe Josuke and Koichi are in a store and a robbery is taking place, leaving the costumers as hostages. Josuke decides to confront the robber, but while he tries to get his attention, Koichi panics and has ACT 1 punch the robber but he feels nothing. Suddenly kanji appears in his face and emits a really loud noise that startles him. Figuring out how his stand works, Koichi then pastes another kanji that commands him to turn himself in. Thus Koichi saves the day.

The next day, Yukako hears about this and she's impressed by the news, so invies Koichi for a drink. What follows is a faithful adaptaiton of the "Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love" arc, so I'll move on with my description since I don't have any changes in mind.

Now here's where I ran into a problem: Since Akira isn't established in Chapter 1, there wouldn't be a reason to bring Joseph into the picture, seeing how in the original story he was brought in to search for Akira throght the electrical line with his Hermit Purple. I guess the only choice would probably be to use his spirit photography to search for Kira, but that would be a little too easy for them, so maybe come up with an excuse. I can't come up with one, so I'll leave it up to you guys for suggestions.

Anyways, I decided to add Joseph into the story since the live-action keeps mentioning him, so it would be kind of a cop-out to not feature him and because the Shizuka arc is an important part of Josuke's development, so maybe keep that. Both Rohan arcs would be mostly intanct, but since Hazamada has been removed from my version, maybe the one to convince Koichi to visit Rohan's home would be a made up character for the movie.

Now here's where things get interesting. In order to keep the film's pacing straight forward, the arcs that do little to progress the story (the ones I called "Episodic arcs") are removed, this includes Shigechi's arc. But who will meet Kira? My idea: Yukako. First of all, I'd like to go with the anime's interpretation and have the Cinderella arc go before Kira's arcs. Second, my biggest problem with Yukako is that she doesn't feel regret for kidnapping Koichi and threatning his life, she's just sad that Koichi is distancing himself from her. She doesn't want to atone for her crimes, she just wanted Koichi to love her and she got what she wanted. So in my version, she DOES feel regret and wants to make up for it and she's open about it. Thus Koichi gives her another chance, warning her that he won't hesitate to fight back again if she gets violent again, thus she is rewarded. Other than that, the Cinderella arc goes mostly unchanged. And third, one of the biggest problems with DiU is that it has a great cast of interesting and memorable characters, but once their respective arcs end, they don't do anything for the rest of the story, Yukako included. So she'll face Kira and die in the process. Since she managed to atone for her crimes, she won the trust of Josuke and Okuyasu and now feel bad that she's dead.

Kira's arc and Sheer Heart Attack's arc will remain mostly untouched. Now remembering what I said previously that most of the arcs in the second half will be removed, I'll keep Rohan taking pictures to search for Kira in the story. Same goes for the whole situation in the Kawajiri family. Now the only arcs that come before the Bites the Dust arc that I'll keep in will be Highway Star's and Enigma Boy's arcs, this is to have the protagonists to something until Kira gets Bites the Dust and to show Yoshihiro is trying to stop them from finding his son. And finally, since my version doesn't have the Cheap Trick arc, I'll just have Rohan approach Reimi directly and asks if she knows who Hayato is.

That's pretty much all of the changes I would make. As always, I'll look forward for your thoughts and feel free to criticize. 