Thread:Takegaminue/@comment-32769624-20190325130259/@comment-28707004-20190331071813

It's unlikely they went with it specifically for marketing purposes. If that was the case, they could have simply done that with characters that are more popular, have more screentime, and are included in official merch more often and that would sell more than him, or would have done that with ships that are a lot more popular among the fanbase. And, even if that was the case (them trying to sell these badges, out of all possible merch…), there wouldn’t be anything truly wrong with it, since that info is not something they came up with. They didn’t add anything that hadn’t been said about Speedwagon in past bios, for that matter (like the “became his companion” bit that comes from a different bio).

Companies, big ones in particular, rarely ever (if ever) add stuff to their descriptions that isn’t there in canon for many reasons, such as getting into trouble with the original author for adding stuff that isn’t there in canon, or misleading the fans/potential new fans by selling an idea that is not there in the actual product. I’d believe that if we were talking about fanservice-y anime, and even then, the companies draw the line where it must be drawn. Jojo’s is not an exception on this matter, especially in a country that is still quite homophobic in general. They would have a lot more to lose by adding stuff like the whole “fell in love” thing if it wasn’t actually there in canon, if we’re honest here. Official sources can’t stray from canon, legal issues included. It would be plain out silly of them to do so just to try to sell a badge set, in that case.

Character bios, especially those for the main characters in the early stages of a work and, more specifically, those for character guides, are written by authors themselves as the main goal of these are to bring the characters closer to the readers in a way, hence why some of them are originally inserted in their respective mangas and then later collected and put together in character guides and artbooks. Again, the info on both sites is legit as, again, it comes from official bios written by Araki, hence why it is there and has been there for so long in the first place, and why it’s even made it into different Jojo works throughout the years (translations included, like that EoH case), and why even the seiyuus for Jonathan, Speedwagon and even Erina have commented a little on the matter of Speedwagon falling for Jonathan already (and even joked about it in Erina’s seiyuu’s case).