Natale Aureo, or Ogan no Christmas, or just Golden Christmas

I’m not great at paying attention. Did you know that JoJo Project was still around? I didn’t. They slowed down pretty hard towards the end of Steel Ball Run and then JoJolion was picked up by Hi Wa Mata Noboru, so I had assumed that they had just finished SBR and closed up shop. Shows what I know because they’ve been releasing updated scans for Vento Aureo since back in September. Look at how much better these look.

Before

After

Bad scan quality has always been a problem with JoJo’s, and we as fans are reliant on scans since it’s on shaky ground what can and can’t be brought over officially . The series had come into its own when we got talented scanlators on both SBR and JoJolion, but those old scans never really went away. I’ve seen people be skeptical or turned away from reading JoJo’s at all because they’d heard or seen how crappy the old scans looked. A retranslation is a great thing now that a whole new wave of fans is being brought in by The Animation.

But that’s not all. Cleaned up scans are great, but what about the lost effects like the full color pages?

The current Part 5 scans only have the colorless pages which I’m guessing were made for mass production tankoban or second hand Jump issues, but early Part 5 had color pages. JoJo Project got an old Weekly Jump just to get these pages that haven’t been seen since the original run in 1995. With the color pages now available, we can finally get the full experience of that weird ear thing Giorno does.

So go support these new scans. The newest volume just came out in time for Christmas.