Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26873003-20150815171419/@comment-3277247-20150819231630

Sorry, I kinda derailed the topic into being just about Jotaro. To sum things up about him I'd have to say I don't think he becomes fully realized as a character until part 6. In Part 3 he is too shut off from the others and is mostly a fighter, in Part 4 he has a mentor role and is a very respectable character, but Part 6 combines those two roles as a father who has basically been stuck in the battlefield since his youth and he can't come out of it to be there for his family. This definitely isn't fully realized, especially since Jotaro is comatose for most of Stone Ocean but I still like that it's there. The best part about Jotaro is that he develops over multiple Parts instead of one self-contained arc. That being said, I still wish he had more to contribute in Part 3.

But going back to the Part 3 vs 4 topic at hand, I'd have to say that another reason I like 4 better is because of Kira. I have no problem with DIO and I can't complain about his effectiveness as a villain but I think Kira adds a little more. I'm not adding these as strikes against DIO but he is a charismatic villain that wants to take over the world who the heroes have a final showdown with at the very end. That's not a problem, but it's very standard for an action story. Kira has that whole messed up serial killer vibe and the journey to beat him involves more mystery than a straight-forward adventure to get from point-A to point-B. The fact that he is so different from what we had come to expect so far from Jojo villains is what I like about him. Even the villains since had been far more grandiose while Kira (as we all know) just wanted a quiet life (with some murder on the side). I think this subversion of usual supernatural manga villains is what I like about him but I understand if people prefer a more epic final antagonist.