Thread:Takegaminue/@comment-32769624-20190325130259/@comment-28707004-20190330120302

I beg to differ there. Matome/Naver is a widely-known and trusted website in Japan, created by the company behind Line (the app), and its dedicated to collecting all sorts of information about a wide variety of topics, hence it’s name. That information hosted there usually comes in small pieces to make it more user-friendly, as that’s one of the site’s “trademarks”, and always comes from reliable sources when it’s information about certain contents or topics, such as copyrighted materials and works (since Matome’s creators could get into some big trouble if an article there about a copyrighted work was depicting said work in a wrong way or giving a wrong idea of it to it’s fanbase and/or potential new fans as well).

The info collected in the Matome link I left as a source for the wiki was taken from old official character bios (which, needless to say, are already super short anyway, and you can see that in artbooks such as the JoJo 6521 one so, yes, those in Matome are the whole character bios as they were originally made, and not summarized versions) and was collected there in order to make it accessible to other people, similar to what online libraries/archives do, save for the fact that these people don’t hold the copyrights to those printed works and, thus, can’t post actual scans or the full contents of said works as doing otherwise could get them into some serious legal issues (copyright laws are a lot more strict over there than they are over here, especially when big companies are involved).

Back to the topic of the bios hosted there, they all come from canon material (a character guide in this case, as stated in the link), and you can check that it does come from an official source for yourself by looking at the Eyes Of Heaven game, which happens to be one of the most recent Jojo official media that’s made use of already existing character bios. In it, you will find character bios and data on general Jojo knowledge in it’s Glossary section. Among those, you will see that they went with that exact same bio for Speedwagon that was transcripted in the Matome link I provided. It’s also worth mentioning that the Matome link was posted around 2012, years before EoH even existed, making it impossible for the bio to have been taken from EoH and put into the site instead. There are links to a video that’s on youtube with the Glossary being shown and screenshots where this bio can be seen in the game (screenshots of both the translated version as well as the original version in Japanese) that I can add here or as citations if needed. I know the events within the game are not canon, however, the character bios are canon, as they were created long before the game was even planned, and thus they’re not EoH exclusive material, nor they were made for it either.

The second site (araki-jojo.com) is Shueisha’s official site for JJBA, and you can check that out by visiting their twitter account, which is verified and is also followed by all the other official jojo related accounts (the one for the anime, those of the recent jojo events in Japan, Medicos’, etc) and links right back to that site. The site itself specializes on merch, mostly, however, I added it as some sort of “support” to show that (other) official sources/sites also recognize this side of Speedwagon’s character as they mention the term in question too (“fell in love”) to describe his relationship/feelings towards Jonathan, even when his bio there is summarized and slightly different, covering other canon tidbits about the character as well.