Episode 25 “Birth of the Ultimate Lifeform” Teaser Images

There’s my boy. Or can you say that Cars is a boy at this point. I’m still disappointed that the SEX USELESS doesn’t shoot out of his crotch as a sound effect, but seeing it down there in all caps as part of this scene pulled directly from the manga makes me pretty happy.

I’m not doing tons of preview images here because we’re busy with the con, but you can always check out all of them at Yaraon.

Ahem, if I may. FUCKING PIRANHAS! FUCKING PIRANHAS! FUCKING PIRANHAS!

For the honor of all JoJo and also GeJo!

So yeah. That’s all right? Yeah, I’m wondering about the special announcement too. I haven’t seen anything on Yaraon, forums, JoJo Twitter, or the anime official site other than that the Vol. 4 Blu-rays are now up on Amazon and a wild comment on Yaraon mentioning wondering about Part 3. We may have to wait until the subs come out because it’s inline or something that wouldn’t show up in screenshots. Don’t worry. It’ll come.

Episode 25 “Birth of the Ultimate Lifeform” Preview Images and Synopsis

And Cars, who fell to Earth as a nearly invincible superman, has become a truly invincible living god to whom certain human or even pillar men things may now be useless. Joseph employs the Commandeered Nazi Airplane variant on Joestar Ultimate Secret Technique to buy enough time to figure out how to beat the unbeatable. Cars is in hot pursuit. What is Joseph going to do?!

I think the animation is important in this episode. One Director and Storyboarder, Kenichi Suzuki, and one screenwriter, tokusatsu lady Yasuko Kobayashi. The normal amounts for those jobs, but not one, not two, but a whopping five animation directors! Tatsuya Shirashi, Manabu Akita, Shinichi Machida, Kyoko Kotani, and Ryo Kobayashi. Every single one is a previous staff on the show working with animation direction. I guess when it’s Piranha o’Clock, you have to bring in the cavalry.

Episode 16 “Ripple Teacher Lisa Lisa” Teaser Images

Sometimes these JoJo images become almost like internet memes because of how they look.

I really hope this isn’t one of those time. I mean, look how upset it’s making ACDC.

It really is JoJo Friday, isn’t it? As always, you can see more teaser images at Yaraon, but spoiler warning. I like this image set a lot because, since they have no context if you don’t already know the story, you can make up a little story to go with them

“Hah. You think your oar trick is something? I’m a Joestar, lady.”

“I’d like to see you come up with something even close to this.”

“Oh, Joseph. Are you even trying?”

“Your next words are, ‘How am I supposed to compete with FAB on that level?!'”

“How am I supposed to compete with FAB on that level?!”

This episode’s going to be fun just to look at.

Episode 16 “Ripple Teacher Lisa Lisa” Preview Images and Synopsis

I didn’t know until now that Lisa Lisa lived in Castlevania.

It’s been a bit since I’ve read the Battle Tendency manga, but I don’t remember it being that imposing. I remember it being that big and shaped like that, so it must be the team showing off their already obvious color skills.

The synopsis is actually pretty straightforward and what you would expect from a shonen mentor intro episode. Caeser and Joseph can’t beat Wham and ACDC, so they have to go find a legendary master, Lisa Lisa. Her training is really hard and Joseph thinks she’s a jerk and wants to punch her in the face, but he can’t because she’s so much stronger than him. If I didn’t know better, I might consider this episode a little plain by JoJo standards, but I know about the corrective breathing mask and razor water in the death pit. I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Staff is mostly people we’ve seen. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu on screenplay, Manabu Akita, animation director for episodes 2 and 9 and key animator for those plus episode 11, and Shinichi Machida, animation director for episode 9 and prop creator, team up again on animation direction. The only anomaly is this man directing and on storyboard; Kotaro Togoshi. He’s either really obscure or I’m getting his name wrong. He’s apparently directed an episode a show called Angel Tales, and was producer then storyboarder for two episodes of Detective Boy Kageman. That really doesn’t give me anything to go on, but I’ve seen new people come into this show before with good results. Maybe this’ll be his big break.