A Peek at JOJO Royale Stage 8 “QUIZ” Questions and Question Schedule

Has anyone decided to try their hand at Stage 8? I was a little skeptical about it because of the nature of how you answer. Fandom questions like this usually aren’t too hard, so a lot of this would come down to who’s watching for questions constantly if they were questions like, “What’s the Kakyoin noise?” But now that we’re a little further in, we can take a look at what some of the questions are.

Questions are almost entirely image based and are ranked by how many star points you can get for answering correctly and first.

Level 1 Questions are generally the sort of thing I thought all the questions would be. Simple trivia about events that are pretty big in the JoJo’s story. They even give you the chance to roleplay as Koichi, and I think we all have plenty of experience with that.

Level Two Questions are a little more daunting. That grave does revolve around a very notable event in JoJo’s, but the grave itself probably isn’t what stands out the most about that event. On a very different hand, you could figure out which number is a prime number just by trial and error with a calculator or searching it, but you don’t really have enough time to do that. Everyone is going to be jumping at the chance to answer the questions and get those points.

Level Three Questions are where things get really hairy and you have the most room to snipe because they take a lot of thought to really work out the answer. Considering how briefly Jotaro is in Part 5, do you remember what his hat looked like then? The Part 3, 4, and the Part 6 hats are pretty easy to remember, but the order and a hat that was only seen for a very little bit make it a lot tougher. The rectangle question it like the prime number one. You can measure out each figure to find out which one is 16:9, but do you feel like you have enough time?

So that’s where we are in how Stage 8 works. There are two big plus sides to it: One, they’ve posted a schedule for when questions will be asked:

Schedule of question posting
-Weekdays 12:00~13:00 & 22:00~23:00
-Weekends 22:00~23:00
*it will be changed.

They’ve also stipulated that if a question is not answered correctly within ten minutes of posting, the question will close and no points will be awarded. They also reconfirmed that anyone can join this stage and progress, but a maximum of 25 people will be allowed into Stage 9 from points in this stage.

Two, we have a sense for how many questions are being asked. We’re only just about a week into this Stage, and there’s been 59 questions, one of which was asked six minutes ago from when it is right now. So there’s a lot of opportunity to grab some points all day. There’s a block of questions going on right now as I’m writing this, so give it a shot if you see it in time.

(Answers: Erina is washing off the kiss from ME, DIO, Yukako is A, it’s Danny’s grave, 7001 is a prime number, the hat order is f→c→e→d→a→b, and I have no idea which one was the golden rectangle.)

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As we approach the end, we start back at the beginning with nothing but Mozzarella to keep us company. Rella rella rella rella rella rella rella rella rella rella rella rella. Then the Gorgonzola. Zola zola zola.

A wonderful year 25 of JoJo’s passes us by. We’re still riding high on The Animation and the upcoming Battle Tendency, but it’s time to close out this small podcast series. And who doesn’t like roadtrips? We get our finale in  JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part VII: Steel Ball Run.

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ROUND SEVEN

GYRO ZEPPELI and JOHNNY JOESTAR

VS.

DIEGO BRANDO

PRESIDENT FUNNY VALENTINE

and DIEGO BRANDO

And that’s it. Our little podcast retrospective is done. When we started, this was going to be all there was to JoJo’s Year before all the other news exploded out. It’s been a great year for the fandom with how good the anime has been, All-Star Battle to still look forward to, fan works like DUWANG subs. Seeing JoJo’s blossom out in so many directions this past year has been so much fun.

It can be difficult or impossible to say something serious in the podcast because it isn’t a serious venue by any stretch, so I want to take a moment to say how seriously fun it was to do this. Getting to read JoJo’s is already some of the most fun manga reading I’ve ever gotten to do, and just having someone to sit around with and basically go, “You remember that cool part?” “Yeah!” “YEAH!” just helped solidify how much I enjoyed it. It really brings out the kid in me in the way that shonen rarely does anymore and getting to feel that same excitement that I had when I was a little kid talking about anime shows to my nerdy friends where we’d imagine having our own powers to fly around and shoot lasers. Sometimes a show or a manga or whatever just has to be fun to watch, and JoJo’s has that in spades.

If you’ve listened to any of the JoJo’s Podcasts, I hope that our ramblings have made you check out this amazing series. If you haven’t been listening, I hope this last little recommendation gets you to try and read some ,or maybe introduce a friend to it so you can sit around trying to figure out stuff like what the power of “Princes of the Universe” would be. Start them off easy with Phantom Blood. Or don’t and throw them into the insanity of the most recent JoJolion. Show them the Stardust Crusaders OVAs from ’93 to give them a sample taste. Watch an episode of The Animation with them, DUWANG optional. It doesn’t really matter where you start. Don’t take it too seriously. Just have fun with it.