WARNING! THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE *MANGA* OF JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT! So whew, this finally got out. This was an incredible pain zo upload thanks to both my software and my arm being dooodooo. I hope you enjoy! Thanks for watching!

As Joseph said: "You may've outsmarted me but I outsmarted your outsmarting"

Dio is Italian for God The World belongs to Dio, or God. The World has scuba tanks, like a diver. The World is a Holy Diver, who's been down too long in the midnight sea.

I still can't believe that a rat has more mental strength to have a stand than Jotaro's mom lmaoo.

the worlds design is based on a song by ronnie james dio called "holy diver"

I like how iggy had a human face after a couple of ep

I mean, you barely scratched the surface in terms of "subtle" references in one's stand, and how it connects to the user. Yoshikage Kira, a serial killer, possesses a stand that is able not only to kill instantly, but also to remove any evidence. It also connects to the "Killer Queen" lyrics- "guaranteed to blow your mind". The Lock, stand of Tamami, a coward and a prick, forces other to feel guilt, which Tamami can use to his own benefit. Echoes and Tusk evolve, as their used does- with Echoes basically portraying Koichi's change from a coward and insignificant kid into adult and couragous man. I mean, it even works in Part 3- Hierophant Green isn't just a pointless name for the sake of a tarot card- a hierophant is, in short, "someone that is supposed to bring in the important messege"- kinda the thing Kakyoin does in the end. Joseph's stand is the only one of the main crew that doesn't really work like a stand- and the only one that's able to support Hamon abilities, which shows that Joseph is too old to get used to the "new" system. And yeah... there are more... weird/subtle things... Jotaro/Star Platinum is being guided by 3 sages (hierophant, hermit, magician) to the place where God/Dio is born. And son of Dio/God, Giorno, is being able to ressurect people, and in the end puts the Diavolo/Devil to eternal slumber... Araki wtf

17:24 "an intense round of poker, against an opponent who steals your soul if you lose" Is this what inspired Yu-Gi-Oh!?

Hey, to be fair, Star Finger was actually used at least 3 times in Part 3, all against different opponents.

Ok I have one issue with the video, its about how to get a stand. You say "be born with it" but every human with a soul is born with it. Its about crafting yourself as a person that dictates how you get a stand. As Stands are the next form of human evolution in the universe of JoJo. This is why the arrow and virus work so effectively at culling unworthy.

The lack of D4C is killing me

great video!

Hey Ya is the reason why stands are the best power system IMO

So, the thing with Giorno's ability to slow other people. I don't think there is ever a case where he punches someone and they survive for too long afterwards, so he technically could have still had it. He just didn't need it because the rest of GE is so damn OP.

a correction, gold experience's ability to mess with people's minds is not forgotten, it's just not mentioned again. people still feel each punch in slow motion, but it would be a waste of space in the manga to hear people saying how they're feeling the punches in slow motion again and again, and giorno himself says repeating stuff is useless besides, if you read the manga knowing every enemy feels giorno's punches in slow motion, the fight vs green day becomes even better knowing ciocollata got punched for 7 pages straight

The best part about Jojo fights being BS is that the BS goes both ways. Both fighters are outsmarting each other with a "you thought of that but I thought of this!". i.e. Jotaro vs. DIO fight, in that scuffle DIO has the advantage, but him knowing how crafty the Joestars are, he spends a lot of the fight freaking out and being cautious about everything Jotaro does, from the magnet moving his had to Jotaro playing dead and he tries everything to prove he's alive while not getting closer. Another example is Kira vs. Josuke, the fight is primarily on Josuke's favor because guess what, in a fair hand to hand? Crazy Diamond will destroy Killer Queen. So Kira spends most of his time away from Josuke and keeping distance, using fakeouts and traps, because that's how his Stand excels. Josuke isn't also a punch laser type, sure he needs to deck Kira in the schnozzle, but he also needs to back off because that man turns bombs out of anything, it's primarily why the Kira and Josuke fight is one of the best in the series. It creates tension for the bad guy and also for the hero. Araki is trying to entertain you, the viewer/reader, which is pretty much the point of why you're reading/watching his work in the first place.

17:19 "The best fight in part three doesn't even feature a single punch." Avdol: *body slams d'arby*

I always thought The World's scuba gear was a reference to the song Holy Diver by DIO

DIO, underwater, Holy Diver by DIO, his name means 'God,' his stand is an Adonis figure with golden scuba gear, how did I miss that? Edit: That adds some context to Jotaro's line about pulling a pro diver who's going up for air back down to the depths.

Don't forget to buy a copy of Shimoneta.

star platinum's true ability is to save its user no mater the what. hence, why it developed super speed, super eyes, starfinger, whatever the sucking thing was all about, and developing its own time stop. all of thease abilities arose because they were needed to win the fight and protect jotaro. you could even say that it is in jotaros nature to protect those around him granting SP this ability. this is all my head cannon though take it with a grain of salt but it would be cool to see a video on this concept his true stand power beign "asspull"

Cool story about Giorno's life shot Now, consider that in all his future battles, he either didn't land a punch at all (man in the mirror, babyface) or killed his opponents by punching/kicking them (white album, Green day, Diavolo). Whether Araki forgot it or not, he just wasn't able to use it, easy enough. Star Platinum's star finger, that's a fair point.

An extra note of what makes stands a good power system: Aside from the fact that they have stands, (almost) all stand users are normal people. Thus you generally shouldn't run into those situations of "I'm simply too powerful for you to be able to beat me" (see: Bleach, DBZ, etc.). If you get past the opponent's stand power, they're just a normal person who is just as susceptible to your attack as anyone else. So no-one is unbeatable.

They *STAND* out as a *POWAH* sysyem

The stand which always annoys me the most with asspull abilities is whitesnake. I swear it has like 50 abilities. Swiss army-ass stand.

13:00 HOLY DIVER

I already read Part 5 last year but this quote here at 20:16 only resonates with me now... This is true. If you start to expect the outcome of a situation or the quality of your work, you just...drop it without even fucking trying. Damn who knew a manga about fighting vampires and magic punching ghosts offer some good life advice lol. Anyway, this was a really good and interesting video. 👍 I especially like how you talked about how stand designs give subtle details of a person's experience or characteristic. Ive never really put that much thought into it until you talked about The World's scubba gear design.

Oceaniz: "Regardless of physical or mental strength" Holly:

16:40 I actually think that abbacio's stand has it's ability because it helps him as a cop (even tho he's not a cop anymore) because it's a perfect tool to solve any crime - just make moody jass play someone and there you can know what he has done and which crimes he done or didn't

Star Platinum should be named Ocean Man

20:20 "You start trying to take shortcuts"/ Taking Shortcuts -> King Crimson erasing time Losing sight of the truth -> Gold Experience Requiem trapping you in a loop I see what you did there.

"Regardless of one's physical or mental strength" unless you're Holly. Unless Holly's desires for Jotaro to get back on track and stop being a deliquent manifested as a Stand that hurt her in order to give Jotaro a goal to work towards. Cuz, I mean, how does killing DIO even get rid of her Stand? Especially when Jotaro and Joseph keep theirs, which were also gained from DIO awakening his. It really makes no sense on multiple levels.

12:45 - Holy Diver! You've been down too long in the midnight sea [...] Something is coming for you [...] No need to look so afraid [...] Some light can never be seen [...] Oh what's becoming of me [...] Gotta get away [...] - Dio's thoughts in the coffin while creating Za Warudo! (I doesn't accept that he got it from arrow, I prefer to believe that when he went crazy in the coffin his Stand was trigerred). Also, Vampires are afraid of flowing water, deep water, salt (so salt water) and holy water.

Something I did like about Giorno's life punch ability: If you imagine that it's happening every time gold experience punches something, than imagine how long Ciocolata spent being punched to death.

This video must be the work of an enemy stand.

I actually like some of the few inconsistencies in jojo, because it lets arakis humanity shine through. and thats what jojo is all about. a love letter to humanity^^ good video :)

how is anything about requiring stands a retcon? in part 3, all that is said is that the reason jotaro, joseph got stands is because of dio. and you said it in this video, getting hit with a arrow could give your decedents stands too. everything relating to stand arrows in part 5 is simply discovering and expansion, not retcon. also, pretty sure there was never any points after giorno discovered that ability where he didn't muda a enemy to defeat, nor was there any other times he was actually able to use that ability. as for characters having secrete side abilities, thats not a objectively bad thing, i don't mind when it does happen, and as you said, it doesn't happen always.

“Got all that? No? Good, let’s jam” Weirdly hype

DIO means god. DIO's name is a reference to Dio, one of Dio's most famous albums is called Holy Diver. When DIO comes back you could say he'd been down too long in the midnight sea.

Longer mrmeatman video

But King Crimson just works!

I'd say in terms of creating an interesting combat encounter, Nen is the best. But thematically, stands are incredibly profound if you take the time to research the connotations (musical, cultural, and sometimes religious) imbued into their design. For example, Pucci a priest, has the stand Whitesnake, a reference to the devil, and the four nucleobases of DNA written upon it, signifying atheism or anti-theism. Johnny's stand ability representing his mental growth, Valentine's representing his heartbreaking past and noble ambition...Araki is the GOAT.

I love this video for the sole fact that Abbacchio is my favorite character

I was waiting for this, pls Devil fruits as power system

I think my favorite instance of stands being a representation of aspects of their user is Killer Queen and Kira. First of all, KQ is a cat, an animal stereotyped as being introverted and hostile. Then there's the fact that Killer Queen uses bombs to eradicate anything it touches from existence. It doesn't just violently obliterate, something Kira does in a metaphorical sense in that he's a serial killer, and a highly destructive force because of that, but also the fact that it does so in a way that I believe is implied not to alert others, so it's symbolic of how Kira is a quiet, silent, highly destructive force who does horrible things under peoples' noses. It's so much metaphor packed into one stand, and that's not even getting into how Killer Queen's abilities tie into the song he's named after.

17:19 Actually, Jotaro did throw a punch in that fight. It was when Darby was cheating.

The problem is that when a protagonist group has very specific powers and they have to fight a lot, they eventually run out of twists they can use against enemies. That's the reason the groups of protagonists in Jojo are quite big, but it's also why the story has to drastically change every arc. The characters are spent, they have nothing else "really" interesting to do, fight wise, so you just have to start over. I don't like the heights of power escalation in modern shounen, but when a power system is used to create diversity between different characters and also a progression of complexity and variety in a single character usage of their power, that's when the real fun begins. The most interesting fights in Bleach are between characters who have weird powers and abilities that constantly evolve and adapt, while the least interesting are Ichigo vs the Dragon Ball super villain of the arc, with whom he just exchanges laser beams and sword clashes until one overpowers the other (2 power ups minimum per character). Only exception is the Grimmjow fight, because it has a really good dynamic between the characters.

Star Finger was used twice as far as I'm aware: Dark Blue Moon and Strength.

the design of THE WORLD is inspired in the song and first album of DIO: Holy Diver

I agree that most of the problems of stands dont come from the system, but more of araki not planning. Even though i dislike him droping GE slow down ability because he realized it was broken, it was for the best.

Isn’t sheer heart attack an automatic stand?

Amaizing , i like the effort you put into it and the fact that you give credit to everyone material you used to prove your point or present something

0:00-25:40 holie molie is that a jojo's reference!

A fight between stand user is more about outsmarting your opponent rather than fighting head to head

oh! i watched this video before i knew literally anything about jojo, as this was what initially introduced me, but now it’s been a while, i’ve watched all of jojo and now I’m back here watching your video again, but now with context

Wow, this deserves WAY more views than it does. Really thorough, good job man!

Would've been cool if a part focused on securing the meteor/fragments before an evil entity finds it and create new arrows/extract more virus to increase their power

If you're going through part 3 I suggest actually looking up the meanings of the taroh cards. They'll give you much greater understanding of the characters. Araki may be somewhat inconsistent but he's an incredible character writer. Also, keep in mind that the characters, worlds and themes he creates are extremely fleshed and quite intricate. He writes out who character sheets full of info we never learn about them. It's obvious he's more concerned with the overall flow and character/theme interactions than keeping everything air tight and easily understandable. It plays will into jojo's as whole anyways. He's was smart calling it bizarre. Gives him a lot more leeway and I like that.

Great video, really, it explains exactly why stands are such a great power system, possibly only second to Nen ( I mean, I guess it's debatable but I feel like those two are by far the best power systems I am aware of )

This was a great video. You've gained a new subscriber and please continue with the awesome work. Good job.

Can we apreciate that every stand fight is unique and not every villain has to overpower that one from the last Episode. The fact that star platinum could beat something like the world, but wasnt that effective against a rat is great. (Wow the last part Sounds strange)

The world actually references one of Dio's songs, "Holy Diver"

Also on the topic of The World, the artist Dio has a song called "Holy Diver". With everything you mentioned and the song reference, it's so perfect.

Another small problem is that often the reason a stand has a specific ability is because of a random piece of trivia araki learned that week, and sometimes this works really well, metalica for example came from araki wondering if there was enough iron in the human body to make a nail, but sometimes it really really falls on its face, with the most infamous example being dragons dream.

The reason DIO stand has scuba gear is because it is a literal translation of Ronnie James dios song “holy diver”

Personally I don't think Star Platinum's succ is inconsistent with the stand. Star Platinum is just pretty much a super human. Punches are harder, faster and more precise and he has enhanced vision. So I think it would make sense that it would also have a much stronger suction than a humans'. Yeah, it still feels like an asspull because no one could guess SP could do that. But that arc wasn't about fighting anyways, so I don't think it's a huge issue. But yeah, Star Finger is just dumb.

Great video man

This videos is so good. I agree with basically everything. Tho im not as bothered by requiem stands as you seem to be. Also im glad you pointed out the scene with abbacchio cause its those things that make me love jojo's. It's like araki always keeps the theme of fate in mind when writing and it always shows when the protagonist and antagonist are facing off.

5:27 Small correction: Sheer Heart Attack is an automatic stand, Kira has no real input nor does he know what happens during the fight. On a separate note: Personally I categorise stands in how they are controlled. 1. Direct control stands (like how you control your own limbs, you don't really think about it) would be the vast majority of stands, this would be your Star Platinum, Crazy Diamond, Killer Queen etc... 2. Automatic stands, act on their own accord, like a machine. This would be your Sheer Heart Attack and Black Sabbath. 3. Sentient stands, pretty self explanatory, they act on their own accord like automatic stands but also have their own sentience. This would be your Cheap Trick, Sex Pistols, Spice Girl and Hey Ya. A side category would be malevolent stands: those that work against the users wishes (Holy's stand, Cheap Trick). Another side category would be post mortem stands: stands that remain active even after death (Anubis, Notorious B.I.G. and Milagro man). Of course, stands can be attached to multiple categories, like how Notorious B.I.G. is an automatic post mortem stand.

17:20 “the best fight in part 3” I guess each to their own...

I can say that Stand is one of my favorite power system because of the uniqueness in ability, references, adding depth to users' personalities and stories, and most of all, to make superpowers have their own face and shape. the downside i can think of besides from the video is... by the complicated nature of the stands abilities, meanwhile it's a very interesting concept, may not fit into every style of storytelling. for example a 2 hr length movie that has not that much time to elaborately explain each powers without disrupting the flow of the storytelling. so, i think JoJo is absolutely perfect for being a long running manga series, the system fits very well

I'm liking how much your cadence comes off like that of The Imaginary Axis as this video goes on. XD

23:19 twice, he uses star finger twice not that it maters

I'm surprised you didn't mention how Moody Blues, a stand used for investigation, or detective work, is used by the former cop.

Another great video! I really liked the voice acting and hope there’s more in future videos🤗😘❤️

19:00 you have GUTS to put this music

21:22 I’m sorry, I’m a bit confused about this part of the video. It says “the bad” but it’s on a video about JoJo’s bizarre adventure? A bit of a contradiction? Idk

2:24 but does it have spoilers for the manga because I'm still an anime-only EDIT: Ok as I'd rather not spoil myself on jojo by watching this video I can't join the broader discussion so I'm just going to comment on the part of the video I have watched that being the intro and the only thing I have to say on that is the exclusion of other "macic systems" kinda bothered me I don't think it's a big deal or anything only that it felt weird only including manga but since that's what your discussing I guess it's fine

12:11 if do not understand why polpo bites his fingers, I'll explain, basically it's they he activates his stand, because in the next panel or scene, he is shown holding a lighter that seems to appear out of thin air

Stands can have simple abilities, like punching stuff really hard or having a sword, or complex ones, like *a LEGO White House which must be buried somewhere so its user can manipulate the air pressure of the location in which it was buried* , or even *NY police officer*

Araki really leaves out a lot of things, like stand ability (star finger, gold experience stun punch). Though they hardly appear anymore after their introduction. Araki didn't forget, but rather, Araki doesn't have to, but we wished he did. I wished old characters would return to later parts, but it rarely happens. Not because Araki forgot, but because Araki doesn't have to.

Josuke can make anyone a stand user. He can heal any wounds so with him anyone can survive the virus(Koichi would not have survived a pierce without Josuke).

So Joseph awoken his stand after Caesar got pancaked? Or when DIO got pierced with the requiem arrow? I'm just wondering because in bloody stream (part 2 op) you can see hermit purple in the background while the intro is playing.

Good job on this video. Your explanation on JoJo stands is very accurate. There are some flaws but I don't wanna be that guy. Keep it up.

Yeah yeah Holy Diver You've been down too long in the midnight sea Oh what's becoming of me Ride the tiger You can see his stripes but you know he's clean Oh don't you see what I mean Gotta get away Holy Diver, yeah Shiny diamonds Like the eyes of a cat in the black and blue Something is coming for you Race for the morning You can hide in the sun 'till you see the light Oh we will pray it's all right Gotta get away Get away Between the velvet lies There's a truth that's hard as steel The vision never dies Life's a never ending wheel, yeah Holy Diver You're the star of the masquerade No need to look so afraid Jump on the tiger You can feel his heart but you know he's mean Some light can never be seen Holy Diver You've been down too long in the midnight sea Oh what's becoming of me, no, yeah Ride the tiger You can see his stripes but you know he's clean Oh don't you see what I mean Gotta get away, get away (get away) Gotta get away, get away, yeah, yeah Holy Diver, sole survivor Your heart is clean Yeah, Holy Diver (Holy diver) Holy Diver (Holy Diver) You're caught in the middle coming after you, Holy Diver Oh, Holy Diver (Holy Diver) Get away, get away, get away, come on These are the lyrics to Dio's song Holy Diver. As you can see bits of the story told in the song are reflected in Jojo's, (Dio being down too long in the midnight sea) and then there is less subtle things in Araki snuck in there (Dio still fears the Crusaders, the Joestars in particular, even when his advisors remind him of his immense power, as he is the star of their "masquerade" or state of hiding)(Dio's a vampire, cannot be in the light) and the line "Oh what's becoming of me" directly ties to Dio in part 1 when he first becomes a vampire, there is a bit more but this is a long comment already

『Starless Night』 Range: A Speed: B Power: D Precision: C Durability: C Potential: D Appearance: Takes the form of a huge semi mechanical humanoid figure wearing a white mask resembling a plague doctor with star covered robes that look like the night sky, it has a dark blue aura around it and has two spirits with positive and negative polarities attached to it, one made of light and the other made of shadow, they appear as ghostly shades resembling birds Ability: Can mark the soul of a person using either the negative or positive spirit sent out from the stand, these are long range so they can easily scout out a personality to mark, once a match is found and chosen, the other spirit will mark it and activate the other, switching their souls, meaning that those souls will become the opposite of what they once were, this is a powerful disarming ability. The main body of the stand is attached to the user and can cloak them, it's fighting capability is average for a stand, having metal fists to send out punches at human speed. The stand is a reference to King Crimson, I tend to get very defensive and bipolar and I have anxiety, this is the stand I came up with if I ever gained a stand.

13:27 i always thought that the world had air tanks in it's back because it needed them to breath while time was frozen

Amazing video

13:20 Holy diver

My other favorite power system is Nen from Hunter X Hunter. Like Stands, Nen has an information warfare aspect. In contrast however is that a Stand user doesn't get to choose his ability. He gets an ability and has to figure it out, except we never get any implications that stand users practice using their stand abilities outside of real fights to discover all its facets. I for one would put a lot of time researching my stand ability, so it's sad that literally no one in JoJo thinks the same. With Nen, you have to choose your abilities, so nen practitioners get a lot more agency in how they develop hatsus. The downside is that nen users can get screwed over royally and squander their potential if they make poor decisions as to what abilities to develop. In fact, a major theme of the Heaven's Arena arc, the one that introduces Nen, is to bring to light that danger and demonstrate why choosing the right Hatsus are of significant importance. I think this factor brings something to the table that JoJo Stands lack. Stands are all about tactics, but Nen battles instead begin with the characters developing their strategies, far before any fights actually take place, and play a significant role in their chances of victory. Theoretically, About 50% of Nen battles are decided by relative Ren output, and the rest is situational. I'd say A big chunk of that situational% is the compatibility between the opposing hatsus, whether one soft / hard counters the other.

Very good and wholesome video! The criticism, in my opinion, was fair and deliberate, solid pacing, as usual, and overall, great job conveying your opinions through the multiple examples. They were great additions. Keep up the good work Oceaniz!

The first ever jojo stand introducing chapter was published on my birthday, that's cool to know, idk what todo with this information

23:12 You're Wrong. Ask Cioccolata. Real shame is that he forgot about Josuke and giorno in part 6.

The first stands were tarot cards I think you missed that. I.e. hermit purple is the hermit and magicians red was the magician.

The World wearing scuba gear is also a reference to the Dio song - Holy Diver.

Amazing analysis/&dissection🙏🏿👏🏿

araki when making a stand, he said to himself: "what if a person is so mad that even his soul wants to beat the crap out of everything" it's a joke, it would be cool if it's true, i guess...

Is this a jojo's reference? (I hate to be that guy but it needed to be done).

I was drinking pop and when the picture of kakyoin saying "I see" came up I almost spit it out lmao

fantastic vid