With the broadcast of the sixth part of Jojo: Sea of Stone, Jo Chef finally ushered in another carnival after the fifth animated part. This time Jojo is still produced by David Agency and distributed by , Netflix and . The overall production level is very sophisticated and far surpasses the fifth generation in terms of sense. With the blessing of kamikaze animation on the op, the unique connection of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images is back, which makes people sigh. The sixth part has achieved good results among both the audience and the media. Douban scored 9.6 and Ign 10 points are enough to show its excellence. In fact, each of Jojo's comics has achieved a high score of 9.0 or above on Douban. What is so unique about this comic?
The Douban score of Jojo in the past has been above 9.0, which is a very good result.
Weird painting style and sultry characters.
"There are only people who like Jojo in the world and people who have never seen Jojo." There is Jo Chef Amway It is normal for this work to be rejected by the other party because of the style of painting. Jojo's work was first serialized in 1987, which has a history of 34 years ago. It is a product of the same era as Dragon Ball. The author Hirohiko Araki is a loyal fan of "Fist of the North Star", so Jojo's early painting style is the same as that of "Fist of the North Star", both realistic and muscular. This is particularly evident in the images of the first three films, where the characters are not only realistic, but also exaggerate some of the characters’ muscles.
The traces of early Jojo's imitation of "Fist of the North Star" were obvious. The human body and details were not as refined and rigorous as Beidou
at that time, but the amount of work was huge, and the characters' uneven figures also had a high impact on the cartoonist's drawing skills. Requirements are destined not to be the choice and development trend of most cartoonists. This is also the reason why Jojo’s style of painting seems so out of date nowadays. By the end of the fourth part, Jojo's style of painting also changed significantly. The characters were simpler and more capable, and the muscle relationships were weakened. So much so that Jotaro from the third part was teased to be younger and younger when he appeared in the fifth part. In the recent two Jojos, the characters and shapes are already quite beautiful, but they still maintain the toughness of the human body structure.
Aqiang of the third generation and Aqiang of the fifth generation
Now Jojo has faded away from the exaggerated depiction of muscles before, but the depiction of human body structure is still very accurate
Under the old-fashioned and hard-core style of painting, another characteristic of Jojo: Among them The characters are always dressed in fancy costumes. This has actually been a trend in the first four Jojos, but the overall character dressing style is still biased towards realism, with only a few characters with particularly strong auras wearing strange costumes. But in the fifth part, Rongrong's protagonist group all have strange looks and extremely sexy costumes, and they are directly called the "Italian Cowherd Group" by the audience. In China, starting from the fifth film, Jojo entered the public's field of vision. From the fifth volume to the later comics, Araki completely let himself go in terms of character modeling, and seemed to be realizing his dream of being a "costume designer" in the comics. This realistic painting style, enchanting characters, and sultry costumes have also become one of Jojo's labels.
Araki graduated from a design school and originally wanted to be a fashion designer. This is a collaboration between Jojo and the fashion brand Gucci
Cross-era plots and systems
Jojo has a total of eight volumes so far. Different from the routine of one protagonist constantly getting stronger in other Wangdao comics, each Jojo has a new protagonist. The plot of the first part begins in 1868 and continues until the sixth part in 2011. Jojo has spanned a hundred years of history. During this period, the relationship between the six protagonists is complicated and each person plays a different role in the era. The latest two Jojo stories take place in parallel worlds. This setting of constantly changing the protagonist weakens the growth of the protagonist and avoids the collapse of the combat power. In fact, the characters in JOJO grow very fast. It only takes one or two episodes to go from a stupid young man to a high level of combat literacy. Especially the protagonists in the third and fifth parts are worthy of being descended from the gods, and their perseverance and wisdom far exceed those of ordinary people at the beginning. Therefore, in JOJO, the character creation will also be flat and symbolic.
As a fifteen-year-old boy, Giorno's mind is too mature, and his mind has reached its peak when he appears. He is a character who is more divine than human.
At the same time, in the Jojo series, there are few in-depth depictions of the worldview and grand background of the times. The narrative, therefore, has little sense of time and history. JoJo in each period belongs to a different camp. This also allows readers to focus on the struggle between people when reading Jojo, rather than the struggle between forces. This style weakens all factors other than people and necessary scenes. The sense of time and regionality are not that important, and it is not important whether the colors and colors are rigorous. Even in prison, you can wear strange clothes-as long as it is conducive to the character's Shaping or Araki himself likes it. In this way, Jojo's work has its own unique and free color style, and the portrayal of the character's personality has reached its peak.
The sultry clothes and bright colors are not realistic but insignificant. The unconventional color matching and weird postures have a different kind of beauty.
From symbolic to new symbol.
As an evergreen tree in the acg world, jojo memes emerge in endlessly. , and spread virally through a large number of and creations, and has now become one of the symbols of the Internet. Its jojo logo and famous lines have even caused imitation by many comics. This is something that no other comics can do, and it is also something that serious comics cannot do.
There are countless comics that pay tribute to jojo. This is the third episode of "Game Life", which pays tribute to Kishibe Rohan 's famous lines
. The reason is because Jojo, in Araki's writing, is full of symbols and symbols everywhere. These symbols permeate the characters' names, dialogue, on-screen sound effects, and outlandish costumes. Many of the names and moves of the stand-in are the names of Araki's favorite bands and songs but have nothing to do with the stand-in's own abilities; the characters' dialogue often has idiosyncratic and extremely exaggerated expressions. This kind of nonsense cannot be traced back to its origin, but it makes the work itself a very good symbol. When portraying certain characters, Araki would quote scriptures and hint at the character's identity. Leave room for people's imagination. This carefully crafted but bohemian approach to characterization makes Jojo rich in content and at the same time reveals an absurd and weird temperament.
In the fifth Rolling Stone, the sculptor wears thorns on his head and has holes in his hands, just like the image of Jesus when he was tortured. This person's role is also the spokesperson of fate in the film.
Sometimes he has very unreasonable and strong expressions, and his techniques are very exaggerated and symbolic. It means very much.
People vs. people.
Because the focus is on the struggle between "people", it is very important to depict the battle between individuals. If it is a pure battle competition like the Wangdao comics, it will fall into fighting waves and fist fights. boring situation. In the first two films, Araki drew from British history and folklore to create the opposition between vampires and ripple warriors. Araki basically abolished the concept of "ripple" in the previous work after the second part, and introduced the "substitute" system from the third part ("substitute" is the external expression of the human spirit, and each substitute has its own unique ability.) , to provide a more exquisite and larger stage for JoJo's battle. Practice has proved that the substitute setting is very successful. With this system in place, Araki uses each person's different ability settings to use psychology and the external environment to carry out "rules" kills. In the later stage, the basic aspects of the avatar, such as strength and accuracy, are no longer important. The special abilities of the avatar are the means to win by surprise. Each ability tests and understands each other, and finally uses its own advantages to turn defeat into victory. The first recommendation here is the boss battle of Kira in the fourth part. It is a very exciting battle of wits in the old world Jojo.
The boss battle in the fourth part can be called the pinnacle of jojo's wits.
On the one hand, this system simplifies the cumbersome prop settings in the first and second generations. On the other hand, because the avatar is the externalization of mental power in the setting, The competition between avatars is a competition of wills between the two sides, which allows each battle, whether in setting or actual plot performance, to highlight the character's will and spirit, and this is also the focus of Araki's writing. . In the heroic battle in the fifth part, both sides tested each other. After fully understanding each other's abilities, it turned into a duel of pure will, and the light of humanity shone brightly.
The most exciting battle in the fifth volume
About the Golden Spirit
The birth of Jojo was partially inspired by the church statues that Araki was inspired by when he visited Italy, so the comics have a strong Christian flavor in some places. . For example, when an important character dies, there will be golden clouds and angels surrounding it (also jokingly called death smoke by readers), indicating that a noble soul has passed away. In the sixth part, the character of the priest was even directly portrayed, and the entire series was restarted around heaven. Therefore, jojo also has a religious concept of "fate" - people cannot escape fate, they can only struggle in it. People cannot change the outcome of fate, but they can make the process different. All the stories in Jojo are stories of struggle. This is most clearly described in the fifth extra chapter "Rolling Stone". Bucciarati cannot escape the fate of death, but he can choose the way of his own death. It is not easy to choose your own way of death. It requires people's wisdom and courage to fight against fate. The shining brilliance is the golden spirit that Araki wants to express.
