The Emperor and the Hanged Man, Part 2 (Episode)

Emperor and Hanged Man (2) (と その2) is the thirty-seventh episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime and the eleventh episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. It covers Chapter 143 through Chapter 146 of the manga.

Summary
Noriaki Kakyoin hopes that Muhammad Avdol's wound is not fatal, wanting to believe he's about to say something or get up. However, Avdol's body shows no reaction. Jean Pierre Polnareff approaches Hol Horse, but is warned by Kakyoin that this was something Avdol was against. Even though he's reluctant, Polnareff agrees to get away with Kakyoin in a nearby truck, but he sees Hanged Man inside another mirror. The Stand taunts Polnareff by telling him that he will soon join Avdol and Sherry in hell. While Polnareff is busy breaking the mirror out of anger, Hol Horse shoots him with Emperor, but everyone is taken by surprise by Hierophant Green's Emerald Splash, directed at Polnareff. Kakyoin attacked his ally to move him out of the way of their enemies's combined attack.

Kakyoin jumps into the jeep, pulls Polnareff in and drives away, out of Emperor's range. J. Geil decides to go after the heroes. Polnareff tells Kakyoin he finally understands what Avdol was trying to tell him, and Kakyoin elbows him in the face in place of a handshake. He them tells Polnareff that now they are going to fight together. In the jeep, Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff discuss how they can defeat Hanged Man and whether a world in the mirror really exists. In the middle of the conversation Kakyoin notices Hanged Man inside a metal part of the steering wheel. He hits the brakes to avoid the Stand, and the jeep flips over. At that moment Polnareff sees Hanged Man jumping from one reflective surface to another.

Now that they know how Hanged Man works, they try to hide from all reflective surfaces. A boy trying to sell medicine approaches them, unaware that Hanged Man has moved into his eye. The Stand challenges them to cut the child's eye out, but Polnareff kicks sand into his eyes instead, forcing Hanged Man to move into the only reflective view available: Polnareff's eye. Since he can now predict Hanged Man's trajectory, Polnareff easily cuts the Stand before it manages to enter his eye. They hear J. Geil screaming at a distance and swear to avenge both Muhammad Avdol and Sherry Polnareff. Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff find a man whom they assume to be J. Geil, but Kakyoin notes that this man has a right and left hand. Polnareff is hit by a knife thrown by the real J. Geil, who reveals that the man was just a beggar he gave a similar injury in order to trick the heroes.

J. Geil draws a crowd around them by claiming that Polnareff and Kakyoin want to give money to everyone. With so many people's eyes to travel between, Hanged Man's path becomes too unpredictable for them to hit the Stand. Kakyoin throws a coin into the air, making everyone look at it and leaving only one reflective surface for Hanged Man to travel to.

Polnareff kicks sand into the eye Hanged Man is in currently, forcing the Stand to move to the coin, and slashes its path. J. Geil is incapacitated, and Polnareff attacks him personally with Silver Chariot, leaving holes all over his body. The body is thrown into the air and lands on a fence, hanging upside down. Kakyoin notes that this is a fitting end for J. Geil, getting hanged just like the Tarot Card he represents: The Hanged Man. Hol Horse finally catches up to Jean Pierre Polnareff and Noriaki Kakyoin, confident that they are ignoring him out of fear. After Hol Horse insists on fighting them and starts shooting at glass with Emperor to help Hanged Man's attack, Polnareff tells him that J. Geil is already dead and his body a short distance from them. As Polnareff prepares to fight him, Hol Horse runs away under the pretext of checking his partner's body, but is stopped in his tracks by Jotaro Kujo and Joseph Joestar, who have just arrived after burying Muhammad Avdol.

Surrounded on all sides, Hol Horse watches helpless as Polnareff sentences him to death and goes for the killing blow, but he is stopped by Nena, allowing Hol Horse to escape. Polnareff tries to run after him even though the woman continues to hold his leg, and, in the confusion, gets hurt to the point of bleeding as he tries to drag her along the ground. Joseph tells Polnareff to just forget the enemy, who doesn't want to fight anymore, and treats the woman's wound. The group leave, unaware that a drop of Nena's blood has fallen on Joseph's arm. A talking wart grows from it, and eats a fly when it comes near. As the group continue their journey, Nena reveals another talking wart on her tongue, which makes an ominous noise.

Manga/Anime Differences

 * While explaining why he prefers to be "number two", Hol Horse remembered several moments that were not included in the manga, such as his first encounter with Dio and Enya.