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stardust_rifleJojo again. While if someone put a gun to my head and asked me what the best JJBA Part was, I’d say Steel Ball Run, but if someone put a gun to my head and asked me what my favorite Part, the Part that I’ve spent the most time rotating in my head, the Part that has wormed my way into my heart and stayed there was, I’d say Vento Aureo. Here are probably some of the reasons why!
> First off, Giorno! It’s a fundamental tragedy that if you make a character who’s not very emotionally expressive on purpose people will think you made a boring protagonist on accident but it’s not his fault that people can’t read. Gold Experience has the coolest ability out of basically every Stand in the series and I’ll always have a soft spot for characters who have difficulty connecting to people because of their fucked childhoods. Also. Gender.
> Bruno "Thrice-Doomed" Bucciarati! Utterly adore his combination of genuine kindness and cold ruthlessness, his design, how creative his Stand ability is, how he serves as the heart and binding force of the team and just how. Weird he can be. We all know the "this is the taste of a liar" but I love how during the Soft Machine fight he corrects Zucchero on what species the seabirds flying around the ship are for no apparent reason. A pedant after my own heart. Also. Gender.
> Leone "My Beautiful Wifey" Abbacchio! I've always had a soft spot for byronic miserable bitches who make terrible decisions, and Abbacchio is uh. A corrupt cop turned mafioso whose first onscreen act is trying to trick a 15-year-old into drinking his piss. Love my sub-coded goth babygirl with PTSD-metaphor superpowers. Beneath A Sky On The Verge Of Falling makes me cry every single time. Also. Gender.
> Fugo!!!!! I think someone on Tumblr called his character archetype "kicked dog with rabies" and I couldn't agree more. He's so angry and bitter all the time but he cares about his friends and hates his own Stand because it's a personification of everything he hates about himself. On that note, here's the opinion that gets me kicked out of feminist writing groups- uhh more characters in fiction should be csa survivors when it's not relevant to the plot actually. Would like to find the anime writer who made that decision and give them a good firm handshake.
> Uhhh fuck don't want this post to be too long. Narancia and Trish both make me really really sad (the greatest thing a fictional character can do) for different reasons and Mista is fun. Love his conversation bombs.
> And the villains! La Squadra drives me insane as a unit- this group of people with equally if-not-more valid goals as the heroes who actually care about each other and just get slowly picked off by the heroes in an entirely offscreen tragedy that I adore. Special shoutout to Ghiaccio and his utterly uncutifiable 'tism and Melone, Certified Freak.
> Seccolatta also drive me insane as a unit, where you have this sadistic evil doctor and his human pet BUT ACTUALLY while the sadistic evil doctor genuinely loved his human pet while the human pet was just faking it because he was using him for his own purposes!!!!!!!!!!! Such a fun interesting role reversal!!!! and also you've got the torture and the guro and the dom/sub shit with them. Love them.
> thank you araki for giving me a mafia assassin power couple even if they're only in two episodes
> Also Diavolo, my favorite DID stripper mafia boss, where I feel that he has a lot of really interesting potential that was never followed up on (the catch that comes from making your villain deliberately mysterious) but you know that means I can just get out a shovel and get digging. *proceeds to invent an entire woobie backstory for him just for funsies and when people yell at me i go "well you know how DID usually happens right?* Also. Gender.
> All the music for the anime adaptation is just top-notch- I'm specifically going to gush about Fighting Gold, because it's just amazing. The visuals are cool as fuck, include some pretty amazing foreshadowing, and I love how they put Psycho strings into what's an otherwise pretty conventional action anime OP, foreshadowing the danger and death toll.
> Speaking of the death toll- I love how a lot of characters die and how it makes me very very very sad. I don't have anything else to say about this.
> First off, Giorno! It’s a fundamental tragedy that if you make a character who’s not very emotionally expressive on purpose people will think you made a boring protagonist on accident but it’s not his fault that people can’t read. Gold Experience has the coolest ability out of basically every Stand in the series and I’ll always have a soft spot for characters who have difficulty connecting to people because of their fucked childhoods. Also. Gender.
> Bruno "Thrice-Doomed" Bucciarati! Utterly adore his combination of genuine kindness and cold ruthlessness, his design, how creative his Stand ability is, how he serves as the heart and binding force of the team and just how. Weird he can be. We all know the "this is the taste of a liar" but I love how during the Soft Machine fight he corrects Zucchero on what species the seabirds flying around the ship are for no apparent reason. A pedant after my own heart. Also. Gender.
> Leone "My Beautiful Wifey" Abbacchio! I've always had a soft spot for byronic miserable bitches who make terrible decisions, and Abbacchio is uh. A corrupt cop turned mafioso whose first onscreen act is trying to trick a 15-year-old into drinking his piss. Love my sub-coded goth babygirl with PTSD-metaphor superpowers. Beneath A Sky On The Verge Of Falling makes me cry every single time. Also. Gender.
> Fugo!!!!! I think someone on Tumblr called his character archetype "kicked dog with rabies" and I couldn't agree more. He's so angry and bitter all the time but he cares about his friends and hates his own Stand because it's a personification of everything he hates about himself. On that note, here's the opinion that gets me kicked out of feminist writing groups- uhh more characters in fiction should be csa survivors when it's not relevant to the plot actually. Would like to find the anime writer who made that decision and give them a good firm handshake.
> Uhhh fuck don't want this post to be too long. Narancia and Trish both make me really really sad (the greatest thing a fictional character can do) for different reasons and Mista is fun. Love his conversation bombs.
> And the villains! La Squadra drives me insane as a unit- this group of people with equally if-not-more valid goals as the heroes who actually care about each other and just get slowly picked off by the heroes in an entirely offscreen tragedy that I adore. Special shoutout to Ghiaccio and his utterly uncutifiable 'tism and Melone, Certified Freak.
> Seccolatta also drive me insane as a unit, where you have this sadistic evil doctor and his human pet BUT ACTUALLY while the sadistic evil doctor genuinely loved his human pet while the human pet was just faking it because he was using him for his own purposes!!!!!!!!!!! Such a fun interesting role reversal!!!! and also you've got the torture and the guro and the dom/sub shit with them. Love them.
> thank you araki for giving me a mafia assassin power couple even if they're only in two episodes
> Also Diavolo, my favorite DID stripper mafia boss, where I feel that he has a lot of really interesting potential that was never followed up on (the catch that comes from making your villain deliberately mysterious) but you know that means I can just get out a shovel and get digging. *proceeds to invent an entire woobie backstory for him just for funsies and when people yell at me i go "well you know how DID usually happens right?* Also. Gender.
> All the music for the anime adaptation is just top-notch- I'm specifically going to gush about Fighting Gold, because it's just amazing. The visuals are cool as fuck, include some pretty amazing foreshadowing, and I love how they put Psycho strings into what's an otherwise pretty conventional action anime OP, foreshadowing the danger and death toll.
> Speaking of the death toll- I love how a lot of characters die and how it makes me very very very sad. I don't have anything else to say about this.
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Date: 2024-01-11 08:19 pm (UTC)Can I just say your comment about loving how a lot of characters die and how it makes you sad - that made me nod like crazy - got to love a fandom that lets you wallow in some quality angst. :)
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Date: 2024-01-11 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-13 01:42 pm (UTC)Seccolatta also drive me insane as a unit, where you have this sadistic evil doctor and his human pet BUT ACTUALLY while the sadistic evil doctor genuinely loved his human pet while the human pet was just faking it because he was using him for his own purposes!!!!!!!!!!!
I had more things I wanted to comment on, but my brain latched onto this tidbit and!!! I remember the moment when they revealed that Secco only pretended to care about Cioccolata because he was strong/had money/etc. I gasped IRL. The ship was already interesting when I thought that it was about two absolute weirdos who were in love, but it levelled up at the twist.