is coming, it is finally here!
has released a new work after three years, and it has a high score of 9.7 even before it is broadcast on Douban...
This is it, the sixth part of JOJO's Bizarre Adventure series "Sea of Stone", you JOs have been waiting for it!
was released on Douban at 10 o'clock in the morning. The copyright for
2 months was exclusively owned by , Netflix, and , and 12 episodes were released at once.
B station also bought the copyright. In less than three days, the number of views has exceeded 45 million, with a Douban score of 9.6, ranking first in the series with "Stardust Fighter Egypt".
However, it is worth noting that the launch of station B was delayed by 1 hour, and the sharp-eyed people discovered many deletions. Three minutes of the first episode were deleted, and later, the blood was edited and the severed ears were deleted. You can decide for yourself whether to watch the version of Station B.
A small comparison
"Sea of Stone" has been warming up since the summer. In August, it was announced that it will be animated and its voice actors will be announced. Every subsequent promotional move has made thousands of JO chefs dream about it.
From the serialization in 1984 to the present, the JOJO series has gone through 34 years.
If you want to ask why this set of comics, which may be older than you, is so popular, you have to start from 9 years ago - in 2012, "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" was broadcast, where dreams began.
In fact, JOJO comics have always been the sales king in Japan and the ancestor of royal comics. However, it has not been animated for a long time, resulting in domestic popularity not as good as that of "Naruto " and other latecomers.
In 2018, JOJO's fifth "Golden Wind" was broadcast, B station was also introduced, and the Italian Red Sorghum Model Team officially debuted.
The 15-year-old boy who aspires to be a gangster superstar, his sultry appearance, and unique painting style quickly made "Golden Wind" famous, and also made the entire series popular.
So the hot-blooded royal manga of the last century became popular in the 21st century as an "Internet meme". For a time, all the two-dimensional friends became so angry that they said "Smash Varudo" when they opened their mouths and "Ola Ola" when they shut up. Their dream was to become a "Yangko STAR", and their motto in life was "I don't want to be a human being anymore" .
Of course, "popular memes" may have helped JOJO to break out in the Internet era, but it is definitely not the reason for its enduring popularity.
If you give the JOJO series a simple and crude definition, it would probably be "the imaginative trend Bible" .
Comic author Hirohiko Araki has a background in fashion design. He is an absolute fashionista. He has loved art since he was a child and is deeply influenced by Italian culture. He is a lover of rock music and horror movies.
The famous cult scene of "Golden Wind"
The artistry that Araki brings to the JOJO series is most vividly reflected in the JOJO standing and character modeling.
I believe that many JO chefs got started with JOJO. The strange postures of the characters in the animation are incredible and have a bit of fashion.
For example, when shouting out the dream chasing slogan, you must pull up your clothes to expose your chest.
When fighting back against the enemy, we first raise our buttocks.
A male high school student introduces himself, of course he has to twerk and raise his hips!
These postures violate the structure of the human body and have little significance for the development of the plot. However, they are very impressive and have a strong visual impact, and they have become the objects of imitation by the masses.
JO Tachibana of Anti-gravity
Previously, Japanese artist Shoko Nakagawa was on LIVE, COS Naranja in "Golden Wind", unfortunately tailbone fracture , it is enough to see the extent of JOJO Tatetsu's injuries, and he has no real ability to do it. Not coming.
Fashion The most fashionable source of inspiration for the JOJO stand was when Araki traveled to Italy in his twenties and was inspired by Michelangelo's statues.
For example, this pose in "Golden Wind" refers to Michelangelo's "Lamentation of the Christ".
Some of the postures of Kishibe Rohan also refer to "The Dying Slave".
Of course, a large part of the inspiration comes from fashion advertisements and magazines.
Mr. Araki, who studied fashion design, also put a lot of thought into the character modeling. Looking back at JOJO many years later, this is not a royal comic, it is clearly a fashion bible for trendsetters!
The protagonist of "Sea of Stone", Xu Lun in JO, is cool and beautiful. She wears bleached green bangs with green lipstick, a camisole with trousers, and the clothes are full of lines, echoing her ability to turn herself into threads.
Xu Lun also became a model for Gucci in 2013, appearing in nearly 80 flagship stores around the world. For this reason, Araki also specially created a short extra story "Xulun, Flying to GUCCI".
In the third part of "Stardust Fighters", after DIO became black, he directly transformed into Drag Queen. He was immediately arranged with a green mouth and a purple mouth. The most beautiful drag queen in Egypt is ko no DIO!
Under the unique style of painting, Araki also used his imagination to the extreme.
Actually, the JOJO series is not known for its plot.
Basically every film adopts an adventure mode. The protagonists form a group to take risks in order to complete a certain task. (With the exception of the fourth film "Diamond is Forever", all the stories take place in a small town called Morou Town.)
The villains are also very clear, and the protagonists are always in the binary opposition of good and evil. There is rarely inner conflict and pain.
standard villain dio sama
But what really makes JOJO outstanding is the stand-in abilities that are full of exquisite designs. The ability of a substitute is equivalent to a superpower, but it will take on a specific form and have a specific name.
For example, Kujo Xu Lun's stand-in is called "Stone of Freedom", which is named after the famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix's song of the same name.
Teacher Araki is a senior fan in the rock circle. Most of the substitute names are related to music - "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "Loser Eat Dust", "Oasis" and so on.
These stand-in abilities are also very imaginative. Today, with the proliferation of super power movies, we can still find surprises.
The stand-in ability "Heroic Chengren" can make people age quickly; " Youthful Years " will attack creatures moving from high to low, causing them to be infected with mold and their flesh will rot; " Crimson King " can cut off a section Time; "Made in Heaven" can accelerate time infinitely...
The stand-in battles in JOJO are all battles of wits, that is, the outcome is not determined by the strength of the force. As long as the stand-in ability is used properly, ants can also threaten elephants.
Ames, one of the protagonists of "Sea of Stone", has a substitute ability called "Kiss" - putting a sticker on can turn an item into two, and removing the sticker will restore it to one. It will be injured when restoring.
seems useless, but Ames has used his abilities many times to help himself and his companions avoid danger.
Ames used "kiss" to create two noses to alleviate the risk of drowning.
Another notable feature of the JOJO series is that Araki rarely draws group battles, and most of the battles are fought alone.
There is rarely a "magic soldier descending from the sky" setting in the battle. The protagonist will not appear to come to the rescue, and the supporting characters will not appear to help the protagonist. You can only win by yourself. This is actually a subversion of the classic hero narrative. .
Even in team battles, everyone cooperates with each other, and it is rare for a big hero to save everyone. Therefore, everyone in the protagonist group can have their own highlight moment.
Bucciarati fighting alone in "Golden Wind"
All the above advantages are available in "Sea of Stone", including unique postures, trendy treasures, and imaginative battles...
F.F. Stand
But Among the entire JOJO series, "Sea of Stone" is still a somewhat different work.
The most intuitive thing is that her protagonist is a woman. This is also the only work in the JOJO series with a female protagonist.
As early as the fifth film "Golden Wind", Araki had thought about setting the protagonist to be a female, but it was rejected by the editorial department and ended in nothing. That was in 1995.
Araki's official statement is that he is reluctant to let girls be raped by Ola Ola, but he has changed his view when playing "Sea of Stone".
Araki interview
Furthermore, if you read the manga, you will have this strong feeling-Xu Lun is the protagonist of the six movies, the one closest to ordinary people and the most complete character growth JOJO.
In the first five movies, the protagonist from beginning to end Oto is very kind, brave, and upright, and Jotaro is the invincible Chosen Son. At the age of 17, he has defeated invincible opponents in the world, and he is like a god.
But in "Sea of Stone", Kujo Xu Lun, who seems to be as invincible as her father, is just a silly love brain at first - acting coquettishly to her boyfriend, and for a while, she even helps her boyfriend commit crimes, and suffers a tragic death. Scumbag scam.
In order to save her father, Xu Lun grew up rapidly in prison and became a calm and determined female warrior, as if all the pain in the world was nothing to her.
clearly had a chance to escape from prison, but in order to retrieve her father's CD, she resolutely returned to prison. When she was in confinement, she could swallow any unpalatable food because she wanted to survive.
In the end, his father Jotaro, who was successfully resurrected and rushed over, looked at his daughter who was seriously injured and was still fighting, and said "Xu Lun, you have grown up", which can be called the highlight moment of the whole story.
In "Sea of Stone", Jotaro's image was finally completed.
He changed from the god in the previous movies to a father with weaknesses. This is a complete person.
In order to save his daughter from prison, he fell into the enemy's trap and was seriously injured. He told his daughter to run away quickly with a weak voice.
This was a moment that the invincible Jotaro had never experienced before. At this time, he was just an ordinary father.
On the other hand, "Sea of Stone" is also the end of the old world. At the end, Araki boldly and completely erased the previous JOJO world. The next two films, "STEEL BALL RUN" and "JOJO LION", are completely new world stories.
JOJO The consistent theme of fatalism in the previous works is also inherited in "Sea of Stone" and this ending, so I won't spoil it here.
Let’s talk about the completion of the animation "Sea of Stone". The copyrights of the first six films are all owned by David Company, so the animated versions are all produced by David Company.
From a painting point of view, some characters and scenes in "Sea of Stone" are still a bit sloppy. For example, some of Xu Lun's close-ups are so collapsed that you can't even recognize them. Every angle is different, and they are far from the beautiful women in comics.
But there are also well-restored scenes, such as the first appearance of Stone Freedom.
After a meal of Euler, coupled with the passionate execution song and the seiyuu's calm voice, this slightly middle-of-the-road appearance turned into a declaration of freedom. The scene where
and F.F. were fighting also restored the sense of fear and oppression in the comics, some of the bad taste derived from horror movies.
In the scene where Jotaro lets his daughter escape, the voice actor Ono Daisuke performed very well. That weak yet firm voice perfectly interpreted the mood of a father.
The height of the original comic is there. Standing on the shoulders of giants, as long as David Society maintains the basic level, the animated version will not be too bad.
Even if you have not watched the previous JOJO movies, you can still watch "Sea of Stone" directly. Each movie is almost an independent chapter, so there is no difficulty in understanding the plot.
So, now, hurry up and watch JOJO.
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