Stardust Crusaders Episode 5 “Silver Chariot” Teaser Images

Pet Shop! Look how smug he is knowing how hard it is to hit him. Nukesaku is also in this episode if you look closely enough.

You can see the rest at Yaraon.

Stardust Crusaders Episode 4 “Tower of Gray” Teaser Images

Just another night at DIO’s place

Being a Joestar gives you bad luck with hands.

Also airplanes

You can see the rest at Yaraon.

We Have to Open the Casket! Imagine What Sweet Cuffs Could Be in There!

Have you ever wanted to know what it was like for Dio at the bottom of the ocean? Who wouldn’t? Sentinel Co. has your back with their new DIO casket. It’s a small figure piece at 190mm done with the excellent detail you’d expect from a Sentinel product all the way down to a very nice “DIO” plaque latch. But is it only a solid box?

No, you can open it and put in your very nice jewelry. It is an accessory box. The display makes it look like a ring box, but you can put cuffs and all other sorts in there.

On top of that, there are two color versions. This is the standard version, but there is also the Undersea version that’s colored to match a more deep ocean tone.

Both versions are ¥4,104, and you can get them both from Union-Creative (Standard Version / Undersea Version).

(Images from Sentinel Co.’s Ameblo)

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Episode 1 “The Man Possessed by an Evil Spirit” Teaser Images and First Impressions

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jotaro has been trapped in the Phantom Zone

The rest are on Yaraon.

First impression? It’s Stardust Crusaders, and that’s that.

Fancy French Cheeses and PV! The Jean Pierre Polnareff Special PV!

The French! Ah, it sounds good. I mean, not good, but it sounds right. Or something. I’m not sure how to express that one, but I like it, Monsieur Joestar. And Dio’s butt.  And it still looks good. I mean the animation as well as Dio’s butt I guess. The music is a new interesting point. Suits Polnareff’s image more than the fat beats do, though, so I’m still not sure how the show’s sound direction and composition is going to go. I’m sure it’ll be トレビアン.

And that’s the end of our special character PVs as far as I’ve heard. There may be one left since there’s enough time for one between now and the 4th, but we’ll have to wait and see. Maybe a good super stand user special. Need to hear what Daniel and Terrence are going to sound like.

If You Read This Book, You May Just Get to Heaven. Over Heaven English Translations Now Available!

Enter a mind. What is it transcending humanity would do to you?  How would you reflect on the years gone by and the things you’ve learned? About life? About Heaven? About yourself? Well, we’re not transcending any humanities anytime soon, so maybe we can get a glimpse of the idea through everyone’s favorite vampire.

Nishio Ishin’s Over Heaven now has a completed and available English translation courtesy of Hi Wa Mata Noboru Scans’s leader Kewl0210, the guys you may know for doing the HQ scans of JoJolion alongside other popular titles. It is a decent length title. The story alone is just under 200 pages, and it comes along a few illustrations by Araki and an afterword by the author. I wanted to do a little book review like I did with Purple Haze Feedback, but I haven’t had the time to finish it just yet. It’s a very interesting idea to get Dio’s perspective on his childhood as well as his ideals and plans with The World and his followers. The language is a little flowery, I’m sure that’s an aspect of the original and not a translation issue, but not to an intolerable level.

You can find the download links on the Hi Wa Mata Noboru site. Please do give it a shot.

地獄を貴様に！ PV 2 YOU！ Mohammad Abdul and Magician’s Red PV!

If the animation in these PVs is indicative of the series as a whole, this season is going to blow last season out of the water. It still looks stylish, there’s a greater sense of flow. I particularly like the way stands look when summoned and that Cairo landscape. And when Jotaro is thrown against the wall by Magician’s Red’s fire? Oh, that was wonderful.

But we’re here for Abdul, right? Yeah, he sounds pretty good. I may have to reserve my full opinion on voice quality until we were “YES I AM” and “HELL 2 YOU,” but he’s good.

Two down. Kakyoin follows on.

OH MY GOD! It’s the Joseph Joestar PV!

I know it’s a PV, so it follows that the clips are the good bits, but the animation is looking solid. Still stylish, still colorful, and very sharp.

I think what we’re supposed to take away from this PV set is how we’re going to feel about all the new VAs. Today’s chopping block attendee is Unshou Ishizuka as the new Old Joseph, and he’s pretty good. He yells good, he sounds effectively authoritative, and he’s even got the goofiness down if that last bit is any indication. I think Joseph’s in good hands.

See you in a week for Abdul.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders The Animation Official PV 1 and Core Cast Voices!

Ok, PV might be a little generous, but what do you want? There’s Dio, sound effects floating around, and Star Platinum ORAORAORA all over the place. Along with that we get a confirmed air date and time. Stardust Crusaders The Animation will air on April 4th on Tokyo MX.

But let’s get to the meat of the matter. Voice actors are changing, and I can hear the collective teeth grind from here. First things first, here’s the list for the core cast at the end and also from Araki-JoJo:

Jotaro – Daisuke Ono
Joseph – Unshou Ishizuka (Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop, official dub voice of Lawrence Fishburn and Liam Neeson)
Abdul – Kenta Miyake (Scar in FMA: Brotherhood, Zangief post Street Fighter IV)
Kakyoin – Daisuke Hirakawa
Polnareff – Fuminori Komatsu
DIO – Takehito Koyasu

Daisuke Ono and Takehito Koyasu are the only confirmed returning cast members from ASB. Koyasu makes sense. Koyasu was already Dio in Parts 1 and 2, so ASB wouldn’t matter here. The rumors I’ve heard are that most people are upset over losing Sugita as Old Joseph. I’m only really somewhat bothered by losing Masashi Ebara as Abdul, but I just really liked the way he did “HELL 2 U,” so if Miyake can do it, then that’s fine.

Other than that, I guess we’ll just have to wait.

JoJo Faces and JoJo Voices

Just to let you know, the Araki-JoJo site has released new, higher res versions of the pictures from the Part 3 Anime special spread. They also come with one extra face, so Polnareff gets to look like something other than super worried about something. He doesn’t get to look tough, mind you, but more than worried.

You can see all those pictures here.

But that’s a little sparse for a post, so let’s talk about voice work. A new Tumblr has opened up celebrating aspiring English fan voices for JoJo’s. You’ve got the above, Gyro’s immortal smack talking, Dio on Jonathan from Over Heaven, and a few more. The place is super new, as in it opened about 3 days ago, so there’s not tons of content yet, but that book reading is very effective in selling how twisted Dio’s mind is.

You can check out and kerp track of this fan working here.