The reason the OVAS starts at the desert and not from the start of the story is because this wasn't meant for newer audience but for diehard JoJo fans who already have read the manga. The late chapters of Stardust Crusaders where by far the most popular and everyone wanted to see Dio, and with budget for only a bunch of episodes, it doesn't looks like the worst choice.

It still baffles me that SATOSHI KON of all people worked on the final battle

I love how DIO in this series uses the world FOR ATTACKS sparingly. It really sells the fact he's overconfident in his own ability

fun fact, Charles Martinet voiced the senator in the english dub of the OVA!

5:36 Explain a bit about that Aztec scene since you didn't know. That was an extensive adaptation of the Aztec prologue/Stone Mask origin from the very first pages of JoJo manga Part 1 Phantom Blood. In the manga it was the usual bombastic dialogues and poses. The 1993 OVA as seen above adapted it with more serious, dark gritty more historically authentic. The 2012 anime by David Production completely skipped this prologue and jumped straight to England Victorian era, only reference it in the Roundabout ED with the Aztec mural depicting the blood ritual. That's why most JoJo fans who started with the modern anime never heard of this Aztec scene.

Time to re-upload my original comment. Gotta boost that algorithm. Say it with me now. While David Productions fills the background with dramatic music at all times, studio A.P.P.P willingness to sit in complete silence for several seconds at a time heightens the tension in quiet moments like these.

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This is probably not useful or interesting to a lot of people, but I whole-heartedly recommend watching this OVA with the french dub. It is without any hesitation my favourite piece of voice acting ever. It has THE BEST DIO and THE BEST POLNAREFF, absolutely nails the humor as well as some weird sexual tension from Dio at some points ? It's a bit strange at time like only old dubs can be, making it oddly hilarious while still being absolutely amazing. It definitely puts the actual japanese voices for it, or even a lot of modern dubs to shame ! It's amazing and I cannot recommend it enough. Please, I beg of you : Go give it a listen !

I'm gonna say it. Jotaro vs DIO in the OVA is probably one of, if not the best anime battle I have ever seen

English OVA DIO has my favourite 'The World' in the series.

On the voice acting bit, genuinely the Italian dub of the OVA might be the best voice acting the OVA got. Unrelated, silver chariot having that gold trim in the OVA looks so good

Man this makes me wish we could find the phantom blood movie, I’d love to see the comparison for that one.

This original anime was incredible. back in the 90's, I was used to not get full series and getting almost random anime as people would exchange there collections through IRL meetings or postal method (having 2 VHS was essential to garnish your videotheque) Obviously I was happy to get a random episode of DBZ in japanese of the buu arc while in my country it was mid cell arc for instance. Seeing such an OAV given the context was great. Obviously I had no idea what it was about or what was the source material but just seeing the sheer talent on display, quality of animation, epicness of the fights was mind blowing. Later when I discovered the manga, I understood it was a bit different in tone yet I loved both. In the end when the anime came, I was underwhelmed as I felt it was not using the animation medium to its fullest, I thought it was lazy even (but probably if I had read the manga and didn't see the OVA I would have loved it) Thanks a lot, the analysis you made is on point and show exactly what I loved about the 90's OVA. Thanks for this work and the rest and hope for the best for the future of your channel

90s anime and ovas really were a different breed. I still think about that 90s HxH scene where Chrollo in sitting in a car with Kurapika's team.

It's nice to see this video came back

When I first saw this OVA I wasn't ready for the artstyle...

I loved how you mentioned the monster in a confined space and then you mentioned some films that have this setting. I wonder if the director was inspired by the film Tremors with Kevin Bacon. As the tremor monsters are sensitive to vibrations and that scene were they are trapped on top of that large rock in which they finally escape using those long rods as Pogo sticks. They are also in a desert 🏜️

The best way I can market the OVA is that the OVA kind of turns Jojo's into Dragon Ball and it works.

Great video, man. Im so glad that someone finally analyzed this adaptation in detail

Satoshi Kon's direction with Dio messing with the senator implies that he seamlessly turned the guy around as he ran, within stopped time, or he stopped time, got ourbof the car, lifted the car up and across the stree, opened the driver door then and opened the back seat door and sat down all cool like it was nothing.

It baffles me how you do not have at least 100k subs, your videos are so high quality and I really love seeing your attention to detail. You will become a big KZfaqr, I feel it and it will happen this year. You deserve the best!!!!

The first half of the OVAs they released later is also good asf, I really liked the new story they wrote

So to add a little context, when the OVA episode 8 onward was made, in Japan, this was made solely for the Jojo fans. This is not meant to get anyone engaged who never knew what the manga was, and part 3 of the manga was a pretty big deal, as it was printed when Video Girl Ai and Cell Games was published in Jump at the time .

the Aztec scene was the intro from part 1

I’ve never felt a desire to watch jojo but I’m watching this because your videos are good and I like learning about things even if I haven’t seen them myself

The ova final fight is my favorite versions of it. Primarily because of how DIO was introduced, how he showed off his power without making it obvious, and how he actually used his vampire abilities in some pieces (He ran through a train ripping people apart for blood)

YESSSS I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!!!

That out of place sacrifice scene happened at the start of part 1 in the manga/david production anime. It’s meant to show the origins of the stone mask.

Re-commenting:This video is amazing Edited for someone who was at 300 subs.Keep it up,amazing work!

Oh Jojo OVAs were the first thing I watched of Jojo. I wish the rest was more like them. But JoJo is still kinda good, especially part 4 and 2.

The aztecs scene was from the first chapter of the manga ever. If I remember correctly.

6:08 fun fact, this image is actually originally from the first manga panel in Jjba. It got cut out of the anime when phantom blood got animated but it actually provided good context to how the stone masks originated when I was reading the manga

The funny part is that in the Dio in the English dub does not even have a British accent.

I was like, ‘wait, I watched this’ but your video is so good I just had to watch the whole thing again. Great analysis and editing, love the little bits of animation(esp walk cycle

Sending some love your way! This was really fun to watch even for someone who only knows jojo through anime osmosis (and also someone who adores the style of 90s anime), would love to see more along the lines of this!

If DIO was voiced by Norio Wakamoto like he was in the Drama CD this adaption would've been INSANE, huge missed opportunity.

45:08 - Lighting. Yellow light + red shirt = what we perceive to be orange.

Honestly, dropping someone in the deep end of JoJo doesn’t seem like that bad of an idea, so long as the adaptation gives some basic context and exposition. That of course, didn’t happen here, but I think it may he possible.

subscribed for the dungeon meshi animation breakdowns, this video is a pleasant surprise! great video essay!

great video as always

The Masterpiece is back 🙌🏾 ❤

I didn’t even know an original version of the anime existed 🤣 this is why anime as a whole is great 🤌🏼

I have no idea why my substitute elementary teacher showed us this, but I don't regret the experience. It felt like the video he showed us was meant only to take notes though because it would jump around so much.

I actually really like how DIO was portrayed here. Love the fact that we never saw him in stopped time. It was genuinely terrifying to see him just blip in and out of existence.

good comparison, thanks for the upload.

If the OVA doesn't have Mariah there's no point in watching it

SOOOOO GOOD. LOVE THE VID

"Whoa! Fuck!...This is a family channel!" funny, insightful, and well done

Neat, I find it amusing you keep jumping to the dubbed version of 90's and the subbed version of the new one. I remember watching the 90's version subbed as a kid around the time I watched digimon on TV, the subbed 90's version had different sound takes then the dubbed version and didnt have the echo'y sound when Dio yelled "ZA WORLD" but then again Im going mainly off of my own memory so take it with a grain of salt. I'll have to rewatch the older subbed version for confirmation haha

How would you NOT know of the 90s version? It's a classic.

The way jotaro yeets iggy un the 93 version is so violent it gets me every time

That Senator car scene was very well directed. Really fits the theme of Dio trolling with his stand to seem omnipotent.

Good shit, you got my sub

I saw these back in 1996 at a theater in the UW Seattle. I felt like the dark tones, were the studio trying to get the HNK fans roped in. It worked because I fell in love with the series.

The OVA introduced me to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and I was HOOKED! Better to watch it with the original Japanese voice acting though

I am sad I can't suppert you on patreon, but I can still wish you best of luck and I hope it is successful. Also, cool breakdown again: keep up the great work. I hope there will be enough stuff to talk about in Dorohedoro S2.

The first time that I saw the DIO and Jotaro battle of the OVA, man, I feel thrilled almost every moment

Wish you would've talked about the final goodbye at the airport between Jotoro, Joseph, and Polnareff in the last episode. I really feel that it's done better in the OVA than it is in the anime. When they share the manly hug, Jotoro sheds a tear, like actually cries while saying "Nobody could ever forget a guy like you, even if they really wanted to... Take care now" to Polnareff. It warmed my heart and as far as I know, Jotoro crying didn't happen in the manga or anime cannon so it's obviously an addition. If anyone is curious about the scene I'm talking about: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6eYdNVny8infXU.htmlsi=wqaCC8fzhIhttYkn Airport scene starts at 30:46 Jotoro's manly tears start at 32:28

I saw this when I was in an anime club in the '90s. We loved it, but, yeah, we were left with questions. We weren't even sure which of the Joes was the title character. However, this OVA was not unique in that regard. We saw more than a few animes that were adaptations or spinoffs of franchises that most Americans were oblivious about, especially the fan subs.

Nice. Needs more views

You didn't mention the part where DIO flaunts the world in front of Jotaro and how in the OVA he literally blips out of existence before our eyes compared to the 2015 version that has added effects and sounds

2:39 A full explanation for this: This is explained (I think) in part 3, but the in-world explanation for stands not existing until part 3 is that basically in 1986, a few Stand arrows were discovered that grant people Stands once they are wounded by them. Some way or another these arrows fell into the hands of people around the world like Diavolo, Enya, Keicho Nijimura, and they used them to draw out people's stands (e.g. Enya used it on DIO to get the World, Diavolo used it on his gang members, etc.). Because of these few individuals, the population of Stand-users worldwide grew exponentially after 1986. Dio didn't invent stands, he just brought them to our attention. Technically Stands existed the whole time from part 1.

Isn't the Aztec scene a homage to the similar sequence in the phantom blood manga? It wasn't adapted in the 2012 anime

The English VA for DIO in this is the GOAT

From what i've read online, they removed the road roller and replaced it with an oil tanker because the road roller itself is a refrence to a different manga series that was popular at the time the OVA was airing. I guess they wanted to make JoJo more unique or not be called out for copying from a different source or something

I’m poor AF, but I give you digital cookie 🍪

Doing just the best bits of part 3 was a W

Will you do more videos on JoJo? Honestly before COVID I never got into it but since marathoning the anime in 2021 I just love the series. Been watching a shit ton of videos on it

only 685 likes?!? good vid my friend

this is actually amazing

The JoJo OVA at times looked like a low budget Satoshi Kon production-... Oh, I just got to that part of the video. That's my favorite director.

2:28- he also stole his girlfriend’s first kiss and burnt his dog alive to get back for losing to him. And yes, that’s still very important.

Hey HEY Love this

as a guy who skipped a bunch of episodes in the middle of season 3 to get to the damn dio fight already, i gotta hand it to the ova

How many first saw the Jojo Ova’s from Antfish’s JoJo Abridged series?

That Aztec scene was inspired by the intro from JJBA's very first introduction in the Phantom Blood arc. (in the manga that is)

lmao DIO really does sound like a nerd in the original animation.

I'm actually of the opinion that it's better to watch two OVAs BEFORE the anime or Part 3's manga: The OVAs focusing so much more on horror and tension disproportionately benefits a first time viewing when you don't know what's going to happen (the Strength and Justice fights are the best example of this, they are so much better in the OVA, which is why it's a bit surprising to me you only covered the second, or I guess actually first half, here), and since the OVA cuts out so much you'll still have a lot of new content to take you by surprise when you watch the anime or read the manga. And as you allude to, I also greatly prefer how the OVA's depict DIo's timestop abilities before it's revealed how it works: Both the staircase sequence, the bit with the senator, etc is totally seameless, and it comes off as warping reality almost. The anime just actually showing people or Dio instantly "teleporting" is a lot less interesting. Also as a Mesoamerican history and archeology nerd who helps youtubers with their videos on the topic, I am compelled to point out that JJBA's handling of the Aztec is pretty typically bad and not that accurate, with grey, drab bare masonry and people just sort of half naked in big headdresses. Doesn't hold a candle to Tenochtitlan being basically the Hanging Gardens of Babylon mixed with Venice's canals with gorgeously painted buildings close to Minoan palaces, and men with colorful togas/mantles and women with almost geisha-like flowing blouses, hair-buns, and painted faces.Highly recommend artwork by Scott and Stuart Gentling's paintings, the Chibi style art done by Nosuku-K, and the various portraits and fashion infographs done by Zotzcomic/Kamazotz, OHS688, Rafael Mena, etc if you want a taste of how garishly colorful and beautiful Mesoamerican architecture and fashion was really like!

LMAOO I DID NOT EXPECT THE CHANT AT 45:51 I’m cracking tf uppppp 😂😂😂

22:10 I think this bit works better in the Japanese version - the pacing of the words is more natural. And maybe this is a personal thing, but I actually enjoy the lack of music, as it gives a chance for the visuals and dialogue to stand on their own feet.

gotta love Jotaro's lisp

You can tell the makers of this anime was inspired by singers like Prince and Michael Jackson by the way the characters dress

I've watched the recent anime, it too has a problem following the manga to a fault. Sometimes it can't be helped like pages just end up as storyboard material or the best way to tell the story is to copy lines already written out, but animation is very different from manga and any adaptation should keep that in mind. You can have long segments of them explaining what's going on because the manga isn't moving and can be tough to tell what actions have happened or what they're thinking while punching, but when that's put to animation you just get long segments of characters talking and standing like they had to take a break to explain what they saw in real time. The OVA still looks fascinating, I do wish more movies or specials kept outsiders in mind especially if they just start in the middle of a story but I guess anime was different then? OVAs are already kind of niche so you're making it for people already read up to this point and pick something very action packed and intriguing, and ya Geb and Iggy's reveal are awesome and kick off the next arc but it's also like season 2 of pt3 so you could add more context.

Lmfaooooo ge called then dudes "himbos" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I watched this in the early 2000's, hadn't heard of JoJo's ever, and I loved it and the more I found out about the story, the more I wanted to read it.

Time to reupload my copyright struck OVA video I guess

13:58 i like to think that was n’doul recreating sherry to taunt polnareff. as one of dio’s more trusted followers, i think he probably would have heard of sherry at some point

* Tetris noise * AN OIL TANKER FOR YOU

Me in 2015: Why is everyone talking about a six episode mini-series from the 90's?

I definitely need to get into JoJo.

Wtf was the joan of arc bit for?

The animation of the final fight is straight up better than the 2015 version! Like you said the cinematography is incredible. The score and the soundless timestops completely change the tone, for the better imo.

the 3-point checklist is actually a pretty nice guideline

“An Oil Tanker for you” is when you go to the store to get some “Road Rolla Da” but they’re out so you get the next thing closest to it

as an Egyptian I can confirm that the ova got Egypt more accurate than the manga and the 2015 anime

5:38 I mean, it's literally chapter 1, so I don't see how it's "unrelated". though I agree it doesn't really fit, makes more sense to show DIO's return from the underwater grave. repeating it every time is also really annoying, lol so i agree on that.

Your video made me watch the OVA. I prefer the hand drawn animation and cinematography, however I think the new series does humor, acting and music way better. The new series makes the fights far more impactful and satisfying with the sound effects and music.

Kakyoin T-posed to assert dominance and Dio dominated him.

I remember way back when the Capcom arcade came out in the US late 1998 to the 2000s before being ported to the dreamcast. Back then, it was my own bizarre adventure trying to find anything I could about this amazing franchise! Luckily for me through GameFan magazine reviewing the Japanese Ova to finding the right merchants at anime cons, I was able to watch the series before It finally got imported! I even own the Animerica issue duscussing the Ova and episode 1-4 treatment! It was quite the adventure that I thought would never make it to our shores of America but glad it did- almost 20 years later! Personally I still like the OVA and the Care& Kraft that these animators put into it even though it that would be revisited by the revised series! I still hold this one in high regards for its creativity and approaching this unique story! Even if the animatirs were noted to work on GI Joe back in the 80s! Total Badasses!😊

tbf Joseph should be able to do a 30ft vertical leap