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cunty dio figure? that i didnt know they made a pink variant for? from an art postcard of him with his booty cheeks out? vintage??? in MY ebay cart?

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Narancia Ghirga (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) VS Honey Lemon (Big Hero 6)

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Narancia : orange in Italian (arancia) + a "N"

For the theme: Jojo X Pearl.

Jojo is Pearl's biggest fan (currently fighting with Aimsey for that title). Pretty much when they were teleported to the winner's walkway Jojo almost tackled her off the walkway in sheer joy.

After the event, the two sneak off to a lil corner and share kisses and "thank you"s, glad that they could spend such a momentous occasion with each other.

Pearl was dead on her feet by that point, and JoJo was more than a little tipsy. It was just the two of them, leaning on each other and giggling, sharing kisses.

A more subdued end to such an exciting day.

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Bingo: THe OG Jojo, Jonathan Joestar

My thoughts and opinions on Jojo have shifted all over the place in the almost a decade since I got into the series, but I still stand by the opinion that Jonathan is my favorite JoJo. Probably not "the best", if you wanna get like, technical about this as far as writing quality and arc and all that crap but, pretty uncontested my favorite, and I don't think I'd even know how to argue this. Do I have to argue this? No? Okay, I will anyway.

Most of this has to do with the Jonathan x Dio dynamic (and where it stands on the ensuing larger Dio vs Joestars conflict) being my favorite in the series, and that being the biggest factor in making Phantom Blood my favorite part and the one I keep rewatching / rereading the most again and again (a lot of this helped by it being the shortest part). Jonathan is dramatically more interesting as Dio's enemy than he is as a character onto himself, and that kinda sounds like a knock against Jonathan but, it's actually kinda integral to how that dynamic and Phantom Blood works. Jonathan was Dio's enemy first and foremost, and a protagonist second, by Araki's own admission Dio had just as much claim if not more to being the protagonist of Phantom Blood. And that kinda makes Jonathan unique in a way none of the other Jojos really are.

Araki's said as much that Dio was designed first (even not counting the existence of Mashonen BT, who's Dio's prototype 100%) and was the character he was excited to write for, where as Jonathan was harder to get a grasp on and not the kind of protagonist he preferred to write. He said as much that Jonathan was made to "function as a symbol of purity and dignity rather than a unique, fresh character" because he had to contrast Dio, who was always going to survive. Jonathan was kinda made to die against Dio and pass the torch on to future protagonists, and be the big dramatic and morally pure hero every other Joestar was gonna fail to be, so they could be the kind of weird asshole with a heart of gold protagonists that Araki actually likes to write for.

I certainly don't dislike any of the JoJos, to be upfront (...okay Joseph in Part 2 gets real grating sometimes, I definitely prefer him when he’s older), I don’t really have less favorite Jojos and if I do they’re still a couple tiers to me above like, 99% of any given Marvel/DC characters. Ranking Jonathan next to them is a little unfair because he was never really made to work as a character the way they did but, that's also kind of why I love him more? Because he's so fundamentally different from the other JoJos in a way that forced his author to grow and mature in order to tackle properly and it shows as the part progresses. Because he was designed having an already clear ending in mind and Phantom Blood has a much more compact story, with a clear beginning, middle and end than the other parts, who were mostly running for as long as Araki wanted/could stretch the premise. Because there's no mismatch between Jonathan's personal narrative and the narrative that allows the part to run for as long as Araki wants it to. We grow up, watch him fight, and die with Jonathan till the bitter end.

Jonathan's narrative is Dio's narrative and they are Phantom Blood's narrative and they all run for exactly as long as they need to and not a second longer (the anime definitely could have been paced a little better though), and the side characters and cool powers don't get to steal the show unlike in every other part. Everything revolves around these two and their vicious conflict and everything they try to do to end it, so they can go on to live their lives, unaware that their lives are one and the same even before they become one and the same. They were kind of narratively doomed from the start, and by they I mean mostly Jonathan, because Dio was eventually gonna go on to doom a whole entire universe (not even figuratively) and it was only through Jonathan's sacrifice to save Erina that the world even had a slight fighting chance.

I like Jonathan because we grow alongside him to an extent we just don’t with the other JoJos, and that he actually grows at all to an extent most other JoJos (besides Jolyne and Johnny) mostly don’t in their own parts. The anime cut down hard on most of this but, as a kid, Jonathan was kind of a little shit! He was the spoiled son of a nobleman who got into fights and smoked pipes and threw rocks at crows, who even threw rocks at his dog when he first got him and regularly kicked him around until Danny saved him from drowning. It wasn’t that hard for Dio to surpass him at most things and it wasn’t until Dio assaulted Erina and Jonathan fucked him up that he started proving himself more than an average kid, to us as well as Dio. The anime cut down a lot of Jonathan’s emotionality and development to speedrun through his journey, and in that process made him more one-note than he really is. And that resulted in a lot of fans perceiving Jonathan as a passive and boring cinnamon roll. I kinda dislike the interpretation of him that defaults to “gentleman” as a standalone trait, and I especially detest any that present him as having some stick-up-his-ass about his descendants (if nothing else I’m really thankful the games proved this idea wrong and established thoroughly how much mutual respect there would be between him and them).

His path in Phantom Blood is extensively defined around Jonathan’s continued rise towards becoming someone able to stop Dio, someone who continually pursues Dio and not the other way around. He has to be someone able to match Dio, and so, he grows into someone Dio (and the audience) respects. He has to grow from an immature boy into a superpowered martial artist who storms castles to cleave vampires and zombies from the inside out. Even before he got superpowers, he was fighting street thugs by tanking sawblades in the arm and winning their respect so hard they swore lifelong loyalty on the spot. With powers, he physically outmatched a giant who destroys cliffs with a single sword swing, and he did this to that guy (hate, hate, hate that the anime had to censor this).

He wields a sword that he was given by a centuries-old zombie knight that was so impressed by his fighting prowess, cleverness, and resolve, that he used his dying moments to praise him and give him his sword, after Jonathan restored his faith in mankind so hard it killed him (in my view, people have never appreciated the epic ridiculousness of the Bruford fight enough). He killed a zombie with snakes in his head by mind-controlling and empowering said snakes into slowly and painfully devouring him. Jonathan was way, way, way more ruthless than most people give him credit for, you don’t Belmont your way through hordes of supernatural evil WITH YOUR BARE HANDS and very little training otherwise. The contrast between Jonathan, the titanic beast of a man who literally fistfights evil to death, and Jonathan, the adorably nice boyish good guy and gentleman (and who had to learn to be one), is crucial to what makes the character work outside of his dynamic with Dio and is so much better than the boring hero caricature fandom paints him as.

He forgives and loves Dio even to the bitter end because he’s a forgiving and loving person. He spent the majority of his life hating Dio, and more important, hating himself because he couldn’t bring himself to like Dio when everyone else did (a line that does so much to establish Jonathan’s character as an adult), and still he chooses to be forgiving. And that’s key here: That choice. He chooses to be optimistic in the face of the Ultimate Evil, even when Speedwagon’s given an entire monologue dedicated to how naive he is for doing so. But Jonathan knows first-hand better than literally anyone alive what a massive fucking monster Dio is time and time again, and he still spends his last seconds embracing his brother with tenderness, extending love towards Dio even as he has to drag him into an inferno by hand. I get why some feel this way but I will never accept the idea that Jonathan is boring, not even by JoJo protagonist standards.

Phantom Blood fascinates me so much because it's JJBA's creation myth, and it’s one that has nothing to do with the setting and plot points or even general business that define like, 80% of the series, but one that lays down the groundwork of the battle of good vs evil that the series is built on and all of it's ensuing variations. It's built on abstracts because it has to be, it has to define what the soul of the series is gonna look like even as a massive body has to grow around to obfuscate it. It's The Ultimate Hero vs The Ultimate Villain and the Ultimate Villain wins the battle through superior guile and improvisation and luck and so on, while the Ultimate Hero wins the future, not for himself, but those he loves, through self-sacrifice and love and determination. He lives a short life and dies a tragic death, his legacy is not perfect and neither was he, and most of his descendants have no idea who he is and what he lost to ensure they could live, but his story lives on in some form. The sun still rises every morning whether you’re there to greet it or not.

Completely unintentional on Araki's part, but I've always liked how Jonathan never gets mentioned again outside of hearsay from family members and his worst enemy’s words, so it ultimately falls on you, as a reader and fan, to give Jonathan his due. To remember him even as the story doesn't, even as he faded into the abstract good of the Joestars that comes from him. I've always liked the idea of a setting's heroic paragon not being remembered as such or even remembered at all by most of the people continuing the fight they started, and that it wasn't their power or efficiency or even their unshakeable morals that lingered or saved the world or defined them, but the sacrifice they used their dying breaths for.

Who they were, above all else, till the end.

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Y'know, I once read a post about how if you have ice powers, you must also family trauma. So like, what is Ghiaccino's family trauma? People mispronouncing Venezia?