Episode 24 “The Ties that Bind JOJO” Preview Images and Synopsis

Betrayal! Cars’s devious tricks have left Lisa Lisa on the verge of death. Now she literally hangs in the balance depending on what Joseph does, and Cars is using it to wear him down physically and mentally. As the battle reaches it’s climax, Speedwagon reveals the secret past ties between Joseph and Lisa Lisa because of the desperation of the moment. Oh, and Stroheim’s around with UV spotlights plugged into some of his ports, so he’s probably helping out.

Good staff this time around. Yasuko Kobayashi the Sentai Lady returns as screen writer, Animation Direction by Kenji Yokoyama and Hotani Yukitoshi, both of whom have done excellent work so far with JoJo’s, and the only newcomer on both Storyboard and Direction: Satoshi Osedo. Osedo’s a weird pick for a show like JoJo’s from what I see in his credits. Kobayashi made a lot of sense to me because she’s a sentai writer and JoJo’s is so flashy, but Osedo’s mostly done cutesy shojou stuff, not really the high style action stuff. Then again, JoJo’s is really pretty, so maybe it makes sense.

Episode 18 “Corps’s Counterattack” Preview Images and Synopsis and Phantom Blood OST 2: FUTURE Release Date and Previews

Ooh, now this is a sticky wicket. The title of this episode spoils something pretty big, so much so that I actually fudged the translation a lot to take the spoiling part out. It’s interesting because the synopsis makes no mention of it and the images aren’t so forward about it either. Maybe the site wanted to leave it a mystery as much as they could? Well, it doesn’t matter. Anyone who saw the “Next Episode” preview would already know, so if someone’s bothered by the name, I’ll correct it.

The only bigger image I was able to lift out of the “Next Episode” preview this time is this one, and the timing is a little off.

But another “Awesome Pictures of Joseph” candidate makes it worth it.

Team this time is nothing but alums. The big thing is that this episode has the huge number of three directors like the last one had so many animation directors so that ACDC’s crying looked exactly right. Shingo Uchida, who is also on storyboard, Yoneda Mitsuhiro and Tsuda Naokatsu are all directing. Naokatsu and Uchida are the interesting ones because they haven’t been around since directing Episode 6 and 1 respectfully. Oh, did I say that the last episode had a lot of animation directors? Yeah, this one has five. Hotani Yukitoshi, Kenji Yokoyama, Kyoko Kotani, Shin Hyung Woo, and Madoka Ozawa are all animation directors. I can understand why, I know how important what’s about to happen is, but man that’s a lot of people. And they left all the screenplay up to Shinichi Inotsume. They could have probably gotten him at least an assistant, or at least given his assistant a credit.

While the synopsis isn’t really that straightforward about the thing that made me mess with the title, it is pretty straightforward about ACDC. It breaks down pretty much to ACDC comes back to attack Lisa Lisa, Joseph and Caeser have to fight him, and, in the process, they learn that Cars and Wham are in St. Mortiz, Switzerland plotting to get the Red Stone of Aja. Leaves a lot of room for speculation as to how ACDC is going to be fighting those two considering his condition.

That’s not all though. The official site has announced the release date of the second OST.

FUTURE

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: The Animation OST Phantom Blood: FUTURE, is, on top of being quite a mouthful, going to be released on February 22nd. It’s probably going to be packaged in with whatever blu-ray release is scheduled for that date as the last OST, DESTINY, was packaged in with the first blu-ray. On top of the announcement, the page also has previews of a few of the tracks on the album if you’d like to check those out.