Merry Christmas everyone! ❄🏇

i find it really interesting that it takes about 20 chapters for an actual stand battle to happen in part 7. really shows how much araki wanted to experiment with the alternate universe.

Also, Pocoloco wasn't an enemy stand user, which saved him from getting obliterated by the main characters or the villain. Hey Ya probably whispered him not to get involved with anything, and he actually got the best ending out of everyone.

Pocoloco's stand is like the ultimate hype man, it kept him motivated, safe and excited. it may not be flashy or overpowered but it was the perfect stand for the race itself.

i love how pocoloco wins by just being lucky with a stand that just gives him basically confidence, also pocoloc is cool, he didnt do anything bad. just funky and a cool guy.

Imagine how broken catch the rainbow would be if they were in part six. Teaming up with weather report

Gotta respect the fact that Araki came up with three unique and complex power systems for ONE series

You can really tell araki just wanted to play with cowboys and a wild west aesthetic and then casually wrote one of the greatest pieces of fiction in recent history

i swear when this becomes a anime, it will blow a lot of peoples minds, i also dont mind if it comes in separate parts since its a long story

I love how Stands went from "I can summon fire" and "I can punch really fast and hard" to "I can unse (infinite) spin on my fingernails to create wormholes and roate you forever, even transdimensionally" and "I can cross into infinite alternate universes, replace myself with alternate univese versions of myself and create my own poket dimension where I'm invincible, even to things like bad luck". The World, by far the most broken and intimidating stand in part 3, somehow feels like the most logical and mondaine in SBR lmao. Not complaining btw., I love the creativity in SBR, but it is kinda funny how stands, originally intended to be a power cap after part 2, quickly devolved into multiversal affecting 7th dimensional beeings anyway.

I like how Araki made every ability in the previous parts a little difficult to understand at first but they eventually made more sense over time, but the moment he got to SBR, he decided to overdose on the rest of the LSD packets he had and make almost every stand almost complete nonsense also i love how he may or may not of unintentionally foreshadowed a certain stand in part 8

I love how Hey Ya is the exact opposite of Cheap Trick. In this house we love Hey Ya.

Just one small correction. In the end of the sugar mountain arc, all "fruits" and "guardians" are realeased and the stand ceases to exist, since after losing the corpse part, it fullfilled it's purpose

38:07 The corpse's alternative isnt necessarily diamonds, its "diamonds or something," meaning that the corpse is replaced by something just as valuable, similar to diamonds but not necessarily diamonds. Edit: Changed timestamp from 38:09 to 38:07 to make point clearer

I think it’s possible that mountain tim is the alternate universe version of Hol Horse. Many times Araki mentioned that Hol Horse was intended to join the group at one point but he was “too likely to double cross the team” so this may be the more heroic version of him. Also they are mirrors of one another, Hol Horse’s stand is a gun (a offensive tool of a cowboy) and he’s more of an outlaw (a black hat in western parlance) as mountain Tim is a defensive cowboy who is helpful and protective (the white hat)

Quick Correction from a Paleontologist, the dinosaur that Diego transforms into isn't a velociraptor but a Utahraptor. Thanks to Jurassic Park, the general public tend to get the two mixed up.

i love steal ball run so much i just finished it and it’s crazy how much lore araki fit into just 97 chapters. it’s so intricate and i love how in the one part it was able to parallel every jojo trope from the first 6 parts into one part effortlessly.

I love that Poco Loco’s stand is basically a cheerleader

You know, I personally connected Civil War with Underworld since they can both use the past to attack their opponents albeit in different ways. Civil War uses someone's past sins and Underworld uses the world's past

I love this series and I was waiting so long for a steel ball run one.

I love how JJL recontextualizes so many of these stands. While it sounds like headcanons at times, I can totally see Araki explicitly stating the connections between parts 7-8 down the line.

I like to think that Ballbreaker is the personal manifestation of Gyro's golden spin, yes it's a technique and everyone can use it but Ballbreaker in particular is exclusive to Gyro, as everyone would have a different form or something, to me it's about variety and personality.

The reason part 7 is so good is because it builds the character interactions and world builds BEFORE any battle happens

I do hope this gets an animated series someday. Some of these stands sound bonkers. I'd imagine fights like the guy walking on rain would just look really neat in animation

This was not just an amazing essay on its own, but a fantastic Christmas gift for us fans and a beautiful love letter to both the series, but specifically Steel Ball Run. Thank you for creating this and your hard worrk, and I especially thank you for the opportunity that I could give back something to the community myself once again. I'm always happy to see my fanmade music used in such creative ways. Happy Holidays!

thank you for reminding me of the fact that johnny uses his stand for more silly stuff. honestly what i loved most about SBR was that it really felt like a journey with little things like the main duo setting up camp and resupplying along with their general tendency to be goofballs.

Imagine possessing both catch the rainbow and weather report as your stands. You'd be unstoppable.

Gwinn's ost is just too good, just re read the part with those musics

i like the spin ( 回転 kaiten) as a concept and as a paralel to the ripple (波紋 hamon), Araki turning the rotations in nature into a power system is just facinating & works well with the various stands, Although Johonny could not have gotten unluckyer with his stand power not powerwise, but the loosing his fingernails part , have you ever lost a whole fingernail? *ouch

Just finished SBR, impeccable timing xForts

Love this series on your channel! Can’t wait for more in the future!

I think that luck, in the SBR universe, is a natural energy similar to spin, and just like how Gyro gains a stand-like figure through his affinity to the spin, Pocoloco develops Hey-Ya simply through his optimism and connection to luck.

I love how in part 3 every crusader is confused about The World's ability to the point that Kakyoin sacrifised himself to find out its ability, and here Johnny is like "hmmm it's like he can stop time, for a maximum of 5 seconds hmmm"

best part by far. araki was cooking heat chapter after chapter.

Mad respect to araki for this masterpiece

This video is so dope, it feels like its only 10 min long. Great job xForts. Love SBR!

The quality of this video was amazing!! Love the effort that was put into it :)

Merry Christmas xForts! Thank you for making this video. I love your all stands explanation videos so much. Have a great Christmas and new year day too!

A nice refresher,thanks Xforts 👍

Literally just watched your other videos on all stands earlier this morning. I was wondering if you did one on part 7 but this answers that question. Merry Christmas

I'm super impressed with the quality of fan creations, whether it's music, main themes or even non canon story line. Just the intro scene for the vid blew me away like they could totally use it in an official JoJo animation.

Keep up the good work!!

Another fantastic video. Thank you for this 🙏

This was a really good video to listen too while I'm working in glad you made this

I was not expecting this so soon. But I'm glad its here.

i can't wait for the animation i love this part. the stands are so sick and creative :D

AHH I LOVE THIS SERIES TYSM XFORTS cant wait for jojolion

I've been waiting so long for this but it's finally here and im HAPPY about IT.

i like how stands are portrayed more so as spiritual energy that’s shared between all life, it was heavily implied in the previous universe but parts 7 and 8 really hammer it in the best way possible!

sbr has some oddly specific yet sick as hell abilities, the fights are usually a lot more tactical as opposed to just beating the shit outta each other, both are neat but i like the former option more

I’ve been waiting on this! TY X!

One of your best vids man, thank you for the hard work🙏🏽

This part is totally insane, can't wait to watch the anime with my buddies and see their 'HUH?' reactions every 2 minutes. Good video!

I honestly just realize that you haven't done SBR yet and man, I'm loving the editing already. Also, thinking of you updating this when the part 7 anime comes out is still a sentence I didn't think I'd say or get used to.

omfg NOW THIS IS A Xmas present i appreciate that you used the fan op that song is bad ass

42:50 and even so, Gyro goes so far as to call it invincible

Imagine if Magentamagenta actually comes back for part 9 as an exhibit or something

This video has great timing as I had just finished Jojolion (after having last read part 7 3 or 4 years ago) and it really showed the foreshadowing for the events of part 8, particularly the concept of “flow”.

xFort : **Talks about the Theory and technique of the spin** Me : No one told me i gotta do math!

Been waiting for a long time for this video

It's been about three years since I read Steel Ball Run so my memory is a lil hazy, but this video was a nice refresher. After every Stand the story was coming back to me bit by bit (or Stand by Stand lol). I'll never forget the emotional rollercoaster this part is 🥲🫡

Part 8 would be awesome, thank you for good content

40:53 - 41:11 Thank you SO MUCH for pointing this out! That's a brilliant fit in context!

Araki really wrote his greatest arc with Mandom and then just didn’t miss for the rest of steel ball run after that

So, BallBreaker is Hermit Purple's counterpart. It rapidly ages anyone it touches with mastered Spin, whereas Hamon slows the aging process of those who master it (as all as give the user Hermit Purple if Hamon is mastered). I just find that really cool

I loved every second of this. Part 7 is my favorite part and Johny is my favorite protag. It was cool to see the fire in his eyes, an intent to kill, whoch every Jojo didm't actively show. I think Gappy showed it in Part 8 to kinda parallel Johny. Who knows, maybe the difference between main universe vs alternative universe is the length the Jojos are willing to go to achieve their goals.

I’ve been waiting for this!!

This video is so good, really a christmas gift!

I feel like I should say that the whole Who shot Johnny arc actually makes perfect sense with Valentine's ability, they simply used their stand to trap two different people into a dimension where Johnny was, and released people from both dimensions into another one, where they shot Johnny, so that nobody, including witnesses, could definitively say who shot Johnny Hamon beat covered this in one of his "debunking Araki forgots" videos

Just finished SBR a few hours ago, now I can finally watch this

Finally I've been waiting for this one

finally I've been waiting for this

Araki: I won't make a stand on the concept of spin because it would be too powerful as its presence is in everything Also Araki: The Wonder of U

Can't wait for 'All Stands in JoJolands' in 20 years

I love the guy with 20th century boy, "oh? My stand has no offense? Then I shall simply use a fucking GUN" what a Chad.

U have no idea how long I've waited for something like this

Great video! I should also mention something about Dr. Ferdinand, the original user of Scary Monsters. His name is actually a reference to the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. The amount of musical references in JoJo is insane

I just finished reading SBR a few days ago. Johnny Joestar & Gyro Zeppeli where my favorite duo since Joseph and Caesar. I loved their friendship all the way til the end of the story. The refreshed villians like Diego Brando were awesome to see a different view. I also loved Funny Valentine and the way he ingeniously used D4C (one of my new favorite stands) to battle all opposition. (I.E Diego 🤧) I really enjoyed my read and now I’m on to JoJoLion

I was waiting for this video!

An unprecedented Christmas video, but I am all for it

36:00 what you and everyone else forget, is that araki puts heavy focus on souls, which means it's the same johnny given it still has his soul

I like Mountain Tim a lot I wish we got to see him more

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

This is my favorite JoJo part So it's dope to get a video like this for it. Damn, I love part 7 a bit TOO much.

the story that the stand sugar mountain spring is based off of goes something like this: there once was a woodcutter that was, well cutting wood. As he was cutting down a tree he accidently threw his axe into a river with no way to get it back. An old man comes out of the river and asks what for what the woodcutter lost. The woodcutter tells the man that he lost his axe and so the old man goes back down to retrieve the axe. He comes back with bolder, newer, and better axe but the woodcutter says it's not his. The old man goes down again and comes back with a golden axe. The woodcutter says it's not his. The old man goes down for a third time and brings the original axe back to the woodcutter. The woodcutter tells the old man that the original axe is his. Due to his honesty the old man rewards him with old man gives the woodcutter all 3 axes. A different woodcutter hears this story and goes to the river and deliberately throws his axe in. same process except the new woodcutter says that the golden axe is his. Because he lied the old man goes back down without returning the original axe. Moral of the story: don't lie. telling the truth can sometimes be rewarding

This is where the fun begins

Thank you for this. Steel ball is my favorite part so this is awesome.

I’ve been waiting for this

Now to wait 5 million years for the adaptation!! Now Star Platinum isn't the only one to show up 3 times eh?

Oye como va is a song by Tito Puente, and it goes like "oye como va mi ritmo" (listen to my rhythm), so both the stand and the user are the reference. Boku no rhythm wo kiitekure means "listen to my rhythm"

This is my favourite part so I'm glad to see a stand video on it

Ahhh part 7 is my favorite, I always really like these videos

Gonna go re-read part 7 early next year, but it's been a while since I thought of In a Silent Way, one of my favorite stand designs in the entire series.

YES THANK YOU A STEEL BALL RUN VIDEO THANK YOU

Man this vid was awesome. I can't wait to see an all stands in JoJolion video in the future

Some people don't want this to get animated and to that I say Bologna. Part 7 has some of the best moments and characters to exist in the jojo universe and it's going to blow away so many

Kinda surprising how there are actually a handful of major characters just don't have stands for a large portion of the story. By stone ocean feels like any characters don't matter unless you had a stand

I was so sad with sound man’s fate 😭

I was hyped for this its finally out

It’s a shame that all of the steel ball run fan music is so amazingly top tier that the anime might actually not be able to stand up to them, the track playing at the beginning is from a whole steel ball run fan soundtrack and I highly advise anyone who’s reading steel ball run (or jojolion) to listen to their fan soundtracks while reading, it makes it so much cooler to listen to music that fits the part. The jojolion characters all have fan osts made by the same guy. Merry Christmas yall