What a Train, an Art Exhibit, and a Demo Video Have in Common

I wonder if video bundles like this will become less common once ASB comes out? I mean, the fandom will be flooded with demo videos from everyone who has the game and the means to record it, but will that be like this? I guess we’ll just have to revel in these while we have them.

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Someone was nice enough to make a video tour of the ASB train. You get to see the train as it approaches the platform, a couple shots of the different character pairs guarding the doors, and then a few shots of the inside. On top of various pieces of JoJo’s flair, like the zipper window that actually does show to the other side of the wall, there are screens playing the PVs and quote blocks embedded in the walls. The one the hold on is about shivering hearts and burning heat.

You can also see a photo album of the train, inside and out, on the Hirohiko Araki’s World Facebook page. I really do love the effort they put into the flair to make them actually show through to the other side of the train. On anything else, I could see the zipper part just being a sticker or poster on the wall that showed Bruno on the other side, like the disc of the Part 5 game. That would have been fine, but them going the extra mile is really cool.

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This is another video someone was nice enough and also sneaky enough to get of the Araki exhibit out in Florence. I’m taking it from the crooked angle and that the guy’s finger is covering the lens for a fair portion of the end that filming may not have been exactly kosher for this display. I’d drink up the video while you’ve got the chance.

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It’s what we’ve been wanting all along. This is an official demo video for ASB. It is a person skilled at the game fighting COM opponents for the sake of showing off what the game can do as well as the basic starting features, and, man, does it make a world of difference. We had the AI matches with League, and those were cute but made the game look sluggish and clunky. Then we had the amateur videos with the League Hosts, Idols, and early morning TV hosts flailing around in a game they didn’t know. Cute still, and more effective at showing the game’s nature, but still lacking. Now we have someone who knows what they’re doing having a match, and it makes the game look so much better. The combos the player pulls off look smooth when he’s kicking Giorno’s ass as Polnareff. The AI is still silly with Dio getting a Time Stop and then not doing anything, but maybe that’s the AI level being low for demo purposes.

We also get a small look at what the game has available from the start. This may be different from the final product, but I don’t think it should be since this video came out around a day ago. From the start, we have the first seven protagonists, Part 3 Dio, Will, Polnareff, and Okuyasu to pick from. New characters will probably be unlocked in story mode, though it wouldn’t surprise me if there ended up being a DLC key for getting everyone. The initial arenas seem to be Outside the Roman Colosseum, Skeleton Heel Stone Arena, Streets of Cairo, and Dio’s Castle. There are some others in the list, like the Streets of Morioh, but they’re dimmed out, so I assume they’re unlockables. I don’t mind. It’s been a while since I’ve played a fighting game where I had to unlock things by playing. It’ll be a good nostalgia trip.

Araki and GUCCI Art Exhibit Teaser Images

The Araki-JoJo Twitter along with another one related to Shueisha has released a few pictures from the exhibit in Florence that starts tomorrow. They’re all of the paintings that are being presented, and each one has a theme. The one you can see above there is a Part 5 themed one, which I expect to be particularly popular riding off the setting of Araki and GUCCI’s collaboration. Speaking of, there’s a corner for all the Jolyne in GUCCI fashion pieces, a JoJolion corner, and a Japan aesthetic corner. It’s also amusing that the twitter refers to the Part 5 pieces as “Team Buccelatti.”

This is 28 of the intended 60 pieces that will be displayed at the exhibit. I’m not sure if it’s only going to be paintings or if there will be any displays like what we saw in JOJOmenon. It’s supposed to be Araki’s exhibit rather than a JoJo one, so it will probably only be like this. I wonder how much influence the fashion label venue will end up having.

Hirohiko Araki’s Exhibit Goes to Gucci

Araki is going o be having a new art exhibition in Florence at the end of the month. “Hirohiko Araki an Exclusive Manga Exhibition” will be held in Florence starting June 28th and lasting all the way to July 14th. As you may be able to tell by the art, the event is sponsored by GUCCI and will be held in a historical building that is currently owned by them. On top of that, the exhibition is free to attend. The cost of actually getting to Florence so that you can attend it is different, but the exhibition itself it totally open to the public.

The above is going to be one of the key pieces out of a group of what’s intended to be 60 total works. It’s very fashion oriented and distinctly resembles the work Araki did for “Jolyne, Fly High with GUCCI” and his fashion drawings he did for their clothing line around the same time. The pose of Bruno sort of feeling Jolyne up is kinda weird, but the internet shows me that male and female partner fashion poses are often like that, so what do I know?

The exhibition is relatively soon, so hopefully will get some video or pictures of the works on display to go along with it.

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