JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) Episode 26 Discussion

parfaited said:

Technically my scores are:
Phantom Blood: 7/10 (I liked Jonathan but I preferred Joseph.)
Battle Tendency: 9/10

Phonome said:
Why stop here everyone? You guys should try reading the part 3 manga it's really good, and the rest of the series maybe.

MahdyLLVB said:
I know i'm gonna get alot of hate for this, but the finale was very poorly executed. I knew nothing of JJBA before the anime was released, so i didnt know what to expect. The anime was incredible to say the least but the ending was ridiculous and insulting to me. The part where the volcano blasts them in the air and jojos hand shoots up from the ground to strike cars was absolutely ridiculous, i know that there was alot of ridiculousness throughout the show but there is only so much bs someone can take. There was no mention of Caesar whatsoever, Jojo saying "Caesar, we did it" would have been enough, and also the way they casually mention that Lisa Lisa told JoJo that shes his mother, showing a scene would have been better. Moreover when they show the coffin dio used hinting that he made it, how in the world would he have been able to get into the coffin if erina used it to escape, this is beside the fact he was blown to bits. I know im nitpicking but i held this show in very high regard and this finale was a huge letdown in my opinion.

MahdyLLVB said:
I know i'm gonna get alot of hate for this, but the finale was very poorly executed. I knew nothing of JJBA before the anime was released, so i didnt know what to expect. The anime was incredible to say the least but the ending was ridiculous and insulting to me. The part where the volcano blasts them in the air and jojos hand shoots up from the ground to strike cars was absolutely ridiculous, i know that there was alot of ridiculousness throughout the show but there is only so much bs someone can take. There was no mention of Caesar whatsoever, Jojo saying "Caesar, we did it" would have been enough, and also the way they casually mention that Lisa Lisa told JoJo that shes his mother, showing a scene would have been better. Moreover when they show the coffin dio used hinting that he made it, how in the world would he have been able to get into the coffin if erina used it to escape, this is beside the fact he was blown to bits. I know im nitpicking but i held this show in very high regard and this finale was a huge letdown in my opinion.

ReasonDesu said:


>implying the rest of this show isn't ludicrous.

It's part of the charm for me, this was fabulous.

MahdyLLVB said:
The mangaka made cars too powerful, he had no logical way of beating him. In my opinion it would have been just fine to let him die in the volcano, the idea of the earths power taking cars' life was great and more fitting.

MahdyLLVB said:

Well i did mention the rest of the show was ridiculous, but it was the charming and fun type. So much random crap happened to beat cars, it kinda ruined it for me. The mangaka made cars too powerful, he had no logical way of beating him. In my opinion it would have been just fine to let him die in the volcano, the idea of the earths power taking cars' life was great and more fitting.

fluffybunnyboy said:

That's not true. The logical thing was to knock Cars into outer space, sending him on a trajectory that he could not return from. Naturally, getting knocked into outer space from a massive volcanic eruption is unrealistic, but that doesn't matter; Jojo never pretended to be anything other than goofy, over-the-top 80's shounen in the first place.

There's also a bit of poetic justice in Cars' defeat, in that the immortality he gained becomes his ultimate punishment in the end. So, I think that the ending is fine. The "Eventually, he stopped thinking" line is totally unforgettable, too.

DmonHiro said:
OK, nice ending, a little anti-climactic, but work well for over-arrogant Kars.
Just one question: WHAT THE FUCK KILLED STROHEIM?!!

DmonHiro said:
OK, nice ending, a little anti-climactic, but work well for over-arrogant Kars.
Just one question: WHAT THE FUCK KILLED STROHEIM?!!

MahdyLLVB said:
I think im entering that stage where everything has to make sense in an anime and to always think critically about things, it makes things less enjoyable, miss being a kid.

MahdyLLVB said:
I think im entering that stage where everything has to make sense in an anime and to always think critically about things, it makes things less enjoyable, miss being a kid.

Nidhoeggr said:


You realize that enjoying series that don't pretend to be realistic and having a critical mind is both possible, right?
I mean, I am usually one of the first to bash faults in "realistic" settings (which is one of the reason I cannot take Code Geass or most other series that try to pretend to be smart and realistic about a different political/cultural system seriously), but Jojo is supposed to be that campy.
Thinking critical means to think about the flaws of a series' internal logic, about the shortcomings of the artistic integrity of the original work when looking at adaptions, etc. It does NOT mean to assume that everything with "mature" content is automatically good and that superficial explanations take away from the drawbacks a certain device had in regards to the impact of the overall narrative if they ruin the theming.

MahdyLLVB said:


Yes im well aware i can do both. I can enjoy an unrealistic setting but as long as the events and actions make some sort of sense within that universe, when i witness jojos severed arm shooting up at the sky and hitting cars in the throat, i cant help but think what the hell just happened, it takes away from the experience for me.

Nidhoeggr said:


And you never had problems with Wham's severed head being used as a crossbow projectile?

EuTenhoBomGosto said:
but why Jojo aged? wasn't the Ripple supposed to maintain a person's youth?

Dark_Kain said:
That and also Joseph never keep up his Ripple training after defeating the pillar men. Only those who mastered the ripple arts for their entire life get the nice side-effect at the level of Straits and Lisa-Lisa.

MahdyLLVB said:


Yes i did have problems with that actually, i was just giving you the example i could remember.

Anth0ny235 said:


Are you fucking serious?.... That satement is like saying you want the Simpsons to make goddamned sense. -.- It´s anime, shouldn´t you find more weird the fact that vampire like creatures are fighting nazis and breathing based martial artists techniques????

KiraYoshikage said:


You forget the old men Tonpeti that must be death very old(maybe 100 years)

Shahe said:


EDIT: Also yes! What the fuck killed Stroheim?!

Shahe said:
EDIT: Also yes! What the fuck killed Stroheim?!

KiraYoshikage said:


We just know that he died on a battlefield.

eminagnam said:
The series lived up to the title: it surely felt bizarre. I felt at times as if I had been watching a comedy version of Fist of North Star. The animation was more refined than that of 90's edition, but I find the old edition more sophisticated like Devil May Cry.

insan3soldiern said:
I'd totally watch/read a spin off focusing on Stroheim's time in the war.

huntx said:
Best manga adaptation after Berserk.

LayedBack said:


That seems like an odd thing to say. The new Berserk adaptation is a fucking train wreck and butchery of an amazing manga. The old adaptation is okay but well... old.

Now having said that, David Productions fucking nailed this adaptation. I mean they really could not have done a better job especially with what I'm sure was a rather limited budget.