“No, No. This is a Semi-Formal Event. You Didn’t Need to Wear Joseph.”

The jacket part of the Part 2 suit jackets are finally almost ready, and, despite looking like a wand, so is the Red Stone lapel pin. You remember the Part 2 suits, right? They were a series of suit pieces based on the core cast of Part 2, Joseph, Caeser, Lisa Lisa, and the Red Stone made and offered by the Haruyama company. The first release of them only contained the shirts, squares, ties, cuffslinks, and tie clips with promises of that lapel and suit jacket. Didn’t expect the tartan pattern on the suit jacket. I’d say it’s because the ED key on the outside might be a little ostentatious, but we’re talking about JoJo’s and clothing.

As opposed to the other suit items, there’s currently no online purchase for the suit jacket. There’s a list of stores, but I’m not sure how the distribution is going to work. The jacket hasn’t officially launched yet and won’t until sometime in mid March. That is now, but it’s not mid enough, I guess. It’s running for the heavy price of ¥59,900, but it is a quality suit jacket. On the other hand, the lapel pin is available online for ¥4,980.

It’s a little heavy, but can you really afford not to go to prom in the most stylish suit? That’s what I thought.

(Images from Araki-JoJo and Haruyama)

Sunlight Bullseye Overdrive!

Of all the weird products there have been for JoJo especially since the anime, this has to be the one I understand the least. Underwear, I get. Food, I get. Punchable friend frog made perfect sense as a plush doll, but JoJo Anime brand dart fletching is something I probably would have never predicted.

The above is one of the packs, the variety pack. It comes with one Joseph, one Red Stone of Aja, and one Caesar.

There’s also the Joseph only pack

And the Caeser only pack

Each one comes as a set of 3. The variety pack will be ¥1,600, and the two character specific ones will be ¥750. If you feel like your darts game could use a little ripple boost, they’ll be available from Still Alive on February 24th.

(Pictures and original story from Araki-JoJo)

I’m Using the Laser Because You Get a Stand! The Old Joseph and Lisa Lisa Comprehensive Demo!

Very fast, this channel. These are some gameplay demos for our new ASB characters, Old Joseph and Lisa Lisa. The first one has both, but as he’s playing Joseph, it’s more a Joseph demo. Lisa Lisa is better demoed in the second video against Caeser. They play kind of like how I thought, though Lisa Lisa looks like she’s more target combo than I imagined. Sort of like Part 1 Dio, it looks like she based around linking together longer strings of smaller moves as opposed to the way I originally guessed where she’s be like Johnathan with very simple, strong combos. Joseph gets grapples with Hermit Purple and ripple breathing. His style is “Stand,” so I don’t know how he switches between them. It’s probably something like ↓↓ + Style.

On top of that, we also have both their HHA and GHA. Lisa Lisa gets a counter, which I didn’t expect. Also the “Your next words are…” taunts, the Gold Experience Punches where I think he punches the cigarette out of Lisa Lisa’s mouth that isn’t there, and Josuke’s hair mocking. They haven’t been translated yet, as far as I know right now, but I’ll append a translation to this later on or just link a video that has them. Whatever comes up.

[Edit: Just in case you haven’t seen it, NamcoBandai has uploaded an HQ version of PV 8 shown at TGS.]

“Bloody Stream” by Coda [ENG]

After a while, I stopped being surprised by the new Shut Up and JoJo remixes. Ok, maybe the one with “Roundabout” still caught me off guard, but still, it wasn’t that weird anymore. This, on the other hand, I would have never seen coming.

Yep, that’s an English version of the TV cut of “Bloody Stream.” It was done by this guy Y. Chang who apparently does this for anime songs. The English lyrics and vocals are by him, though the mixing was by the friend he did this on the behalf of. He’s got a few other ones under his belt on his YouTube channel. Also, you can also check out “Bloody Stream laid over the original opening sequence here at his Tumblr.

(Thanks for posting this, JoJo anime thread)

Episode 26 “The Man Who Became a God” Teaser Images

It’s finally time. Let’s send the series that’s brought us so much joy off with a bang.

Episode 26 is an episode of moments.

A moment of despair

A moment of true JoJo power

A moment in space

A moment of love

A moment to say goodbye to old friends

And a moment of hope for the future

You can see the rest of the pictures at Yaraon. Hope to see everyone again for our trip to Egypt!

Episode 26 “The Man Who Became a God” Preview Images and Synopsis

It’s been a long road. Across the Earth, across generations, and it all climaxes here on a little volcanic island off the west coast of Sicily. Joseph’s suicide combo attack with Stroheim successfully airplane body slams Cars into the smoldering volcanic crater, but the Ultimate Lifeform is not so easily killed. He comes out of the lava with not so much as a scratch and goes back on the offensive. With half a cyborg, a red rock, and no anti-god ripple overdrives, what will Joseph do to overcome the perfect being?

Trimming down the crew as we head for the end. Storyboard and direction are being handled by Toshiyuki Kato, Screenplay once again done by Yasuko Kobayashi, and animation direction taken care of by series chief animation director Takako Shimizu. She’s also the one who handled general character design and some key animation on the ending sequence. It nice to see her sending off JoJo’s with a little personal touch.

Can you sense it in the air? That feeling of joy that we’re going to see the final climax, but the feeling of dread that this Friday will be the last JoJo’s until at least fall season and may be the last JoJo’s episode ever? I’ve seen a few people say how they both can wait for it and hope it never comes. I sympathize.

Episode 23 “Warrior Returns to the Wind” Teaser Images

Before we start, New Joseph Face:

Lookin’ good as always

All right, now that that’s out of the way, it’s time for the reunion episode. Everyone is here!

Stroheim is back with a reinforced stomach

And he brought Speedwagon along for the ride.

Cars is so excited he let his hair down and kicked the shine into high gear

It may help that he found that free leg lying around

Wham’s a little upset that he clawed his eyes out before getting to see the group again

And Lisa Lisa’s really looking down on herself for not being able to tell him

All in all, though, it’s still fun. A bunch of old comrades and enemies coming together for one last gathering before the gods of old rise up to destroy humanity with their perfect bodies. Good times. Good times.

(You can see the rest at Yaraon, but spoiler warnings)

Episode 23 “Warrior Returns to the Wind” Preview Images and Synopsis

No extra pictures from the “Next Episode” preview today. That was a lot more Lisa Lisa and Cars focused. This deals more with the episode title since it has Wham and all.

Joseph and Wham’s showdown approaches it’s conclusion with neither warrior giving an inch. Backed into a corner by Joseph’s tactics leading to a devastating blow, Wham gears up for his final, sure kill mode. As the curtain draws, Lisa Lisa and Cars must also prepare for their duel to determine the fate of the Red Stone of Aja. They’ll fight in the Ancient Mountain Temple on Piz Bernina. The fate of the stone, and therefore the fate of humanity, rests on one final battle.

Unlike last time, everyone in this crew has been on JoJo’s before. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu’s on screenplay, Taizo Yoshida’s on storyboard, and Shin Hyung Woo and Tomoaki Kado on Animation Direction all with Director Jiro Fujimoto returning to the director’s chair from waaaay back in Episode 8. It’s going to be his first time in Battle Tendency so let’s see what he can do with the craziness.

Episode 22 “True Warrior” Teaser Images

(You can listen to the audio version of this promo here.)

LIVE FROM THE SKELETON HEEL STONE ARENA! IT’S GRUDGE MATCH ’39!

Joseph “Wild Card JoJo” Joestar

vs. Wham “The Wizard of Wind”

in a knockdown, drag out, once-in-a-lifetime chariot race to the DEATH

The crowd will be on the edge and going wild!

Calling for destruction

and BLOOD!

You can only shine like Cars by drinking the blood of your enemies, and you can only do that if you call to order your tickets NOW!

(You can see the rest of the images as Yaraon)

Episode 22 “True Warrior” Preview Images and Synopsis

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! STAAAAAAAAAAAART!

And the Next Episode preview has all of these, so I can give you bigger ones of them all.

It’s finally time for the grand chariot duel between Wham and Joseph at Skeleton Heel Stone Circuit Arena. Joseph manages to Joseph his way to getting the first weapon, a giant sledgehammer, but Wham is undaunted, calling his opponent’s “cleverness” fleeting. Also, Cars is a huge jerk and cheats to give Wham the advantage. How will Joseph escape this unwinnable situation?!

Crew this time around is almost all new blood. The only returner I see is Shinichi Inotsume on storyboard. He’s being joined by Storyboarder Shin Misawa, a storyboarder and director on shows such as Captain Tsubasa and a ton of other ones I’ve never seen, Animation Directors Yoshifumi Terai, key animator on Case Closed and Persona 4 The Animation, and Shuichi Hara, animation director on a few shows like Solty Rei and key animator for some like Birdy The Mighty Decode: 02 (which is conflicting because that season had way worse drawing quality but generally better motion), and finally Director Naomi Nakayama who looks like she defected from Madhouse having been episode director for shows like the Marvel animes and the Devil May Cry anime. So we have a few people coming in from the key animation departments. I hope that works out because the CG chariots you can see in the Next Episode preview are not pleasant to look at. Hopefully it’s just a quick shot and we get better animation on the key points because if anything deserves it in Battle Tendency, the chariot race is the time to shine.