Tonight Jojo's Bizarre Adventure finishes one chapter and next week it will begin another. True to it's name, this series is truly bizarre in many-quite possibly every-way. The first most bizarre thing about the series is that it is multi-generational, Jojo is not just one person but a family in which the first and last name invariably both contain the syllable "jo" hence the nickname. What makes it more bizarre is their ever growing power to face ever more powerful enemies.
The whole story begins when two man have a chance encounter on the road and one, having suffered an accident, believes the other has saved him and promises to repay the favor and ends up raising the man's son, who is named Dio and he turns out to be the worst. By worst, I mean he hates his foster brother Jonathan Joestar so much that he kills his dog and steals his girl and then steals a valuable artifact that turns him into a vampire. That last one is kind of a big deal, and leads Jojo to learn how to use ripple energy or hamon to fight vampires along with his friend and fellow vampire victim Robert E. O. Speedwagon under the tutelage of Baron Zeppolli. Zeppolli dies trying to save Jojo but Jojo succeeds in defeating Dio-or so he thinks. Dio makes a last stand against Jojo and they both seem to go down, but Jojo leaves behind a pregnant wife who becomes the grandmother to Joseph Joestar, who with some help from Speedwagon and his foundation fights the ancient vampires who had created the mask that empowered Dio. These guys up the ante, to the point that he last villain standing becomes indestructible and the only way to stop him is to launch him via volcano into space where he freezes and his powers are useless and this all happens before the space program because this show is truly bizarre. Where to go from there? Fast forward to the present day and Jotaro, Joseph's half-Japanese grandson believes he is possessed by a demon only be told that it is his Stand, a psychic projection that is shared by his grandfather and a few dozen other people (as well as a dog, an orangutan and a falcon) and apparently Dio himself who has been inadvertently dredged up form the ocean floor. Dio has found a way to poison Joseph's daughter, Jotaro's mother, with her own Stand and the Jojo's must save her by traveling from Japan to Egypt to fight Dio. Along the way they are accosted by several Stand users, which are so bizarre they range from scary to comical, including a perverted orangutan that created an entire ship, a baby that haunts them in their dreams, a cherry licking shape shifting illusionist, a mirror wielder who manages to get himself killed without even getting seen, a clairvoyant who uses a comic book and manages to get two partners killed and himself beaten badly twice, two gmablers who learn the hard way that Jojo is the best bluffer in the world, and one idiot whose sole gambit fails in record time. After all of these trials and tribulations, they surviced only to get killed by Dio himself leaving Jojo alone to fight Dio and end the five generation family feud.
Spoiler alert: Jojo wins and the war of Stands continues with his relative, yet another Jojo, next week. This time new stand users are showing up and only the Jojos can Stand against them(see what I did there?) But for tonight, see how Dio finally meets his end...
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