1. SDC

2. SO

3. BT

4. DIU

5. SBR

6. GW

7. PB

8. JoJolands

9. JoJolion

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My ranking:

1 - Steel Ball Run; it's just amazing, what makes it so good for me is Gyro and Johnny's dynamic. I also love the art. I'd say it's semi-realistic, but not too much and leaves the author with freedom to draw truly bizarre things and designs that don't look out of the place (like whatever the hell is going on with Gyro's beard). Spin is amazing, too. It's a very character-focused part. Truly a peak experience.

2 - Stardust Crusaders; while I love SBR for how it develops its characters and Gyro and Johnny's friendship/brotherhood, one of the main reasons I rank this part so much is the pure hype. Manly men doing manly things on their manly adventure to save (not so manly) a (strange to most of them) woman from dying to what essentially could be considered a curse (a very manly reason indeed). The writing may not be very serious, teenagers absolutely DON'T act their age and have unrealistically high battle intelligence but it's so much fun and has many peak moments (e.g D'arby the gambler battle, Polnareff meeting his "sister"). Sometimes in life you gotta proceed your childhood trauma and look for metaphysical answers (SBR) but sometimes you just have to beat up some people without much thought.

3 - DiU; it's a very fun slice of life, one I really appreciate after all the emotions and craziness from other parts (having just read SBR, I'd very much love to read a light-hearted SoL). Also character/dynamics focused. I really like the 1st half of it, after Kira introduction it kinda falls into the 'fighting the villain of the week' routine that isn't my cup of tea. Josuke used to be my fav Jojo for a very long time (now topped by Jotaro and Johnny; I still love him tho!). And I'll forever be salty about the way Okuyasu got somewhat sidelined after RHCP arc.

I can't really rate the rest of the parts. Watched S1 of the anime about 4 years ago so I don't remember much. I'm half into SO (I ain't skipping parts, but since SBR has no connections to the og. universe aside from the names I figured I may as well read it while watching p6 so I can understand all those memes. Don't regret going into it before finishing the og. timeline, it was a damn ride). I'm not placing p5, cuz I think it'd be somewhere between SO and BT but again I'm in no position to rate those 2 yet. Vento Aureo wasn't bad, it was def. interesting and had many hype moments but imo some of the gang members and their bonds with other characters were undeveloped (a thing that, imo, could've been easily fixed if instead of solo fights there were more team battles), it had a 'the bad guy of the week' structure I didn't really enjoy, the villain could've been a little bit more explored. But, again, it was still hype and I enjoyed every second of it. I loved Trish's fight against the Notorious B.I.G and the Cioccolata and Secco duo. Nonetheless, I think it's one of the weaker parts, writing-wise.

SDC in top 2?

W list

My list I guess. (btw I haven't finished reading stone ocean or even read part 9 so they won't be here)

1: Steel Ball Run

2: DIU (Koichi sure is reliable)

3: Golden Wind (I like the enemy stand users more then the SDC ones.)

4: SDC (I like the characters in this one a lot, it's just that I like the other parts better)

5: Jojolion (It's inconsistent in my opinion)

6: Battle Tendency (My baby :[ , Hamon just holds this one back)

7: Phantom Blood

1: Steel Ball Run, No words.

2: Star Dust Crusaders (5 strong men go to Egypt + Dio bbg)

3: Jojolion, tbh would've been second if not for how much Araki stuffed it with inappropriate scenes, I'm sure you can relate.

Well thats all. Just top three.

@ThyBrokenArm part 8 is truly bizarre with those scenes. Only 24 chapters in and so many weird things happened already I'm wondering if Araki was told to put in the fanservice, really didn't think it'd be weird or is a pervert.