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Animator: “So, that scene from the manga coming up, uh?” Series director: “Yep, the jizz room scene...” Animator: “What do we do about it, we can’t remove the jizz; it’s a key bit.” Series director: “Can we change the color a bit? So it’s not as... Jizzy?” Animator: “We can try some icy tint maybe? I can’t think of any lavender-blue body fluid.” Series director: “Yeah, we’ll try that.”

Animator: “... Okay, that’s still jizz”

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Diamond is Unbreakable: Episode 5 Review

Originally posted May 29th, 2016

Keicho’s father and the cycle of abuse.

“The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3” is the final episode in this storyline, and in it we are introduced to the emotional crux of the story: Keicho’s father’s monstrous nature. Thanks to a leftover “flesh bud” implanted by Dio in 1988, Keicho’s father has become a mindless green ogre who can regenerate from any wound, and Keicho reveals that his purpose is granting people Stands with the bow and arrow was so that he could find a Stand capable of actually killing his father, a quest that has been thus far unsuccessful.

Keicho’s desire to kill his father would seem to be a natural result of a typical cycle of abuse; his father beat him and Okuyasu as children, and it was only after Dio showed up that things became better for them, as Keicho’s father was now capable of providing for his family. The consequences of the abuse clearly still affect Keicho,1 however; growing up under his father taught him that violence is the only solution, and so he desires to use violence to “solve” the problem of his father, even going as far as to beat him into submission when he refuses to stop searching through a seemingly empty chest.

The chest isn’t empty, however, and when Josuke notices this, he uses Crazy Diamond to reveal the true reason Keicho’s father desperately clawed at it: it contains the fragments of a family photo, a photo that upon being put back together causes Keicho’s father to burst into tears. Despite being unable to communicate and generally acting bestial, Keicho’s father’s primary concern is having a chance to look upon an image of the family that he once had, and that he once loved dearly.

Keicho is thus forced to see that his abusive father is a far more complex man than he had previously given him credit for, and it here that Okuyasu attempts to reconcile with him, and set him on the path to looking for a way to heal his father rather than kill him. Unfortunately, Keicho’s own abusive tendencies are shown he when he chastises his younger brother for being incompetent, as well as through his willingness to disavow him over something as trivial as touching the bow and arrow.

Before the brothers can conclude their conversation, however, Red Hot Chili Peppers shows up, and he decides to completely shatter the pacing of this episode, which had previously all been carefully building to Okuyasu confronting his brother.

Now, on a certain storytelling level, this makes sense, as the introduction of Red Hot Chili Peppers gives us the catalyst for events going forward, but the timing is completely ineffective, breaking off the only real interaction between the Nijumura brothers that we’ve seen over the last three episodes. The only saving grace of this moment is that it is used to add complexity to Keicho’s character, as he immediately shoves Okuyasu away and takes the fatal blow himself, saving his brother’s life.

What’s left of the episode is an ominous phone conversation between Jotaro and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as a moment where Okuyasu shows up at Josuke’s house to walk with him to school. As much as I love how adorable Okuyasu is in the last scene, these moments both feel completely out of place with the rest of the episode, and seem shoehorned in as setup for future episodes.

Rating: 4/5

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Stray Observations

That the plot of this episode is all about introducing an unexpected consequence to the defeat of Dio adds to the meta-commentary of this series being a follow-up unintended by Araki.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t believe it’s an accident Dio decided to implant a flesh bud in the abusive father of two innocent children. It’d give him the ability to prevent their abuse from continuing and provide for the family financially, while still gaining an extra Stand user as a servant. Sounds like a win-win in his book.

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Also now that a release date is confirmed for Stone Ocean, I better not see any “PART 7 WHEN??” (Too bad I already have), like yes SBR is a great part and I love it but Stone Ocean is amazing too!! Makes me sad that so many people just wanted DP to skip it for SBR. Wait your turn!! SBR anime will probably be announced 2-3 yrs after SO anime ends (that’s the usual pattern) so chill out an appreciate DP for putting so much work into bringing Stone Ocean to life 😭

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DavidPro should have Jolyne spoil Spiderman: No Way Home instead of The Sixth Sense during the Jailhouse Lock arc to be chaotic

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Doppio is for the first time, completely alone.

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Here is an improved version of the Jotaro drawing from before. I will leave the original one in the comments below for comparison.

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I love DavidPro's style, don't ya know?

Artist of reference: DavidPro's Shunichi Ishimoto, art director for Vento Aureo)