The Gyjo brainrot ‘essay’ perhaps no one needed but I’m writing anyway
Just to get this out of the way, a lot of my ideas for this are obviously subjective, so they were entirely thought of based on how I interpreted these scenes.
So as I’m sure many people know, JoJo part 6 is now animated! It slaps, it’s great, I can’t wait for the rest of it. But now that it’s out, it kickstarted my love of Jojo again, and I had previously read up to Golden Wind and like 10 chapters of Stone Ocean before I lost interest. Needless to say, I picked it back up and read the entirety part 6 in 2 weeks lmao
Here’s a quick summary of me starting Steel Ball Run: I speedread through Stone Ocean with the previous knowledge of how it ended because it was 2am and I had school the next day, I got to the end and cried my eyes out and had to sit there for 30 minutes because that shit HURT, and I started SBR the next day (against my better judgement concerning my emotions) because was trying to leave behind the pain of SO by reading the ‘best Jojo part’.
So let me start by saying: GYRO AND JOHNNY ARE SO PAINFULLY IN LOVE. I’m sure you could’ve gathered that from the post but I had to state it.
OKAY okay I’m finally going to get to what I wanted to talk about. So you see this picture below? Yeah, I read these panels last night. I have not been the same since. This scene, (obviously among the many) is one of the biggest reasons why Gyjo seems so painfully canon, or pining at the very least.
So lets break this down to the bare essentials. Gyro and Johnny, at a loss because of their surroundings, don’t know how to attack an enemy because they both use the ‘perfect’ golden ratio/rectangle that allows their attacks to spin infinitely to create a better use and damage output. We know this already, obviously.
Surface level: here’s where things get interesting. Gyro looks to Johnny’s eyes and Johnny looks to Gyro’s hand for a reference point. That’s awesome! Ship potential in itself right there! It’s really nice how they look to each other for when they have problems! But here’s where the introspection comes in.
Gyro looks at Johnny’s eyes for what reason exactly? I know a lot of scenes are cut (because it’s manga) but automatically looking to his eyes as a point? Either Gyro has stared at Johnny’s eyes lots (in detail too. I can’t imagine it’s easy to analyze someone while riding a horse for most of the day) or he noticed the golden rectangle in his eyes because of their qualities. What are these qualities exactly? These are Gyro’s exact words about what the golden rectangle means in SBR chapter 43:
GYRO CANONICALLY SAID THAT JOHNNY’S EYES ARE ‘BEAUTIFUL’ AND ‘PERFECT’ BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEY MEASURE UP TO THE GOLDEN RECTANGLE. He could never mistake it either!
And another thing following Johnny and Gyro’s previous interaction, why would Gyro just… not tell Johnny how he’s doing it? For two characters who are incredibly close and know they’re in a life or death situation, you’d think Gyro would’ve told him? Or even given him some vague hint like when he was telling Johnny how to use the golden ratio spin in the first place?
That brings me to Johnny. This one has a little less evidence, but to start, I think Johnny was looking at Gyro too. This one I think is less physical attraction in the moment and more trust and faith. By looking at the previous panels up to that scene, Johnny is looking at Gyro the whole way, and Gyro at Johnny. So Johnny must’ve taken note Gyro’s hand, even if he didn’t register that it was the golden rectangle.
They’re always looking for each other, I love it. Also, the heart in Johnny’s left eye? 10/10 addition. Araki didn’t have to draw it like that, and it definitely looks like a heart, but he left it in.
In conclusion, they are canon, and this scene proves it. Thank you for reading if you stuck around this long lmao :D
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