Thread:Takegaminue/@comment-32769624-20190325130259/@comment-28707004-20190403072003

Sorry this is a bit late. I’ve been a bit busy with some stuff at home.

It’s hardly an inference when it’s all there in canon bios and even implicit in some of Speedwagon’s inner monologues as well as openly expressed by himself (in monologues as well) at least a couple times in both manga and anime, and has also even been openly acknowledged not only by the seiyuus (in a couple Jojo radio episodes, no less) but has also been confirmed over and over again in different Jojo works on different media over the years.

With all this in mind, there’s no need for Araki to go out of his way to give a testimony on this particular case since it’s all out there and has been for years already, on the paper and other media. Besides, he only responds to this or other kinds of specific topics about Jojo or the characters in it in interviews and the likes whenever he’s directly asked about the subject or if it needs some extra explanation added to it as well, but this one doesn’t need it, for it’s always been there. Not to mention that, as much as the fanbase likes him, truth is people (interviewers, in this case) rarely ever, if ever, ask Araki about Speedwagon, probably because he’s a character that doesn’t get nearly as much screentime and the subsequent popularity from it than other characters, like Dio or Jotaro (who, needless to mention, are usually the ones people focus their questions on the most whenever they get the chance to ask Araki about anything Jojo-related, ship-ish subjects included). Other than that, all character info coming from Araki is there in manga/anime and bios written by himself, bios usually made for manga/character summaries/guides, some of which are quite old (decades old) and later on included in other JoJo works.

I can’t remember if I mentioned this before other than the mention I just made above in this same post or not, but if you need some further and more solid proof, you can look at some of the original dialogues in Phantom Blood in both, anime and manga (as the anime constantly brought back the exact lines and wording from the manga). There’s actually yet another term there that usually gets mistranslated/downplayed a lot by translators (both, human and online alike) at the lack of an actual term/direct translation into many other languages: “Ki ni itta(ze)!”, which Speedwagon uses to refer to Jonathan in his inner monologue, right after Jonathan has defeated him and he realizes that Jojo is a true gentleman and not just fancy looks. And, as you can guess, it’s another term that’s used in romantic contexts and not meant to be thrown around easily or at random when it’s used to speak about another person and, literally, means “(he/she) entered my heart/spirit”, with other close translations of it being “I’m into (him/her)”, “(he/she) meets/suits my tastes”, “(he/she) suits my feelings”, “(he/she) satisfies my heart”, “becoming particularly fond of (him/her)”, “to love (him/her), and a few others, all of them, again, reserved for romantic contexts when it’s about someone else, and it’s also a direct synonym of other terms such as the one mentioned in previous posts: “horekomu” (“falling in love with..”, “to be totally gone for someone”, “to be head over heels for someone”, “to completely lose oneself over someone”, etc), as well as other terms strongly linked to deeper feelings and emotions than those of a simple liking or a friendship (“yearn for”, “love dearly”, etc).