Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26160153-20161220110155/@comment-32788838-20161226122243

VinixTKOC wrote: But hey... Why are so many people assuming that Josuke, Kyo and the entire Higashikata family will die? You know it takes a "Joestar" to survive to have a Part 9, right? Except the protagonist of Phantom Blood, and the other Joestar who was his father, both died by the end yet Battle Tendency happened nonetheless. So a 'Joestar' doesn't need to survive to have a continuation; if Josuke died at the end of DiU, VA still would have happened, and if Giorno died at the end of VA, SO still would have happened.

That aside, I definitely feel like people are giving Kaato too much credit considering she hasn't really done anything yet - she could just be another minor enemy. I feel Jobin is perhaps working for someone else involved in the Rokakaka smuggling trade, though.