Introduction
Kujo Jotaro is a normal, popular Japanese high-schooler, until he thinks that he is possessed by a spirit, and locks himself in prison. After seeing his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, and fighting Joseph's friend Muhammad Abdul, Jotaro learns that the "Spirit" is actually Star Platinum, his Stand, or fighting energy given a semi-solid form. Later, his mother gains a Stand, and becomes sick. Jotaro learns that it is because the vampire Dio Brando has been revived 100 years after his defeat to Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro's great-great-grandfather. Jotaro decides to join Joseph and Abdul in a trip to Egypt to defeat Dio once and for all.
Audience reviews
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Freylizabeth
having recently rewatched the first season of david production's JBA animated adaptation after a long time of never getting past that entry, i decided to take a look upon the lesser-known OVAs based on the third arc of the series, Stardust Crusaders, before checking out the TV version. despite being discouraged by the fact this cour (released after the one that adapts the final stretch of the manga) in particular is composed of 7 episodes, that made me fear they would rush through the plot like they did with Phantom Blood in the first season of the anime, however, i ended up getting one of the most well paced works for a such a short runtime of 7 30 minutes or less. As soon as you begin the show, you can feel a drastic difference in tone from the other animated entries in the series, while…
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This OVA covers the first half of JoJo's third part. Immediately it stands out for the old animation style, which gives a darker tone to the series.
In addition, the removal of JoJo's comedic scenes contributes to this. As a matter of fact, this OVA isn't faithful to the source material and it either merges multiple "mini-arcs" into one or re-imagines the dynamics of many scenes in order to favor a faster pacing. Also, some minor fights are skipped and there's a notoriously controversial scene where DIO reads the Quran (which is completely in character).
Nonetheless, the OVA understands the core of Part 3. The stands and the main cast are portrayed well, the friendship that bonds the crusaders is present and the art style gives a stronger feeling of positive masculinity compared to the…
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The 90s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure OVA can be a bit confusing because Studio A.P.P.P. adapted Stardust Crusaders in two series: the later portion of Stardust Crusaders was released first in 1993, followed by the earlier part as a prequel in 2000. Also, this OVA trims a lot of the story and is not as faithful to the manga compared to the newer 2014 David Production anime. The 1993 OVA also marked Satoshi Kon’s directorial debut, who probably contributed to the drastically darker tone carried over to both series, which unfortunately sacrifices a lot of humour from the manga. Marco D’Ambrosio composed the soundtrack for both series of this Stardust Crusaders adaptation, which has a retro MIDI synthesized vibe. I wouldn’t recommend this over the newer David Production adaptation, but rather some…
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it's all good except the fact that it was SO FUCKING LIFELESS.
characters deaths don't give you the impact that it does in the new anime. some things also don't make sense because of the studio cutting things. the only thing that kept me going was the animation. other than that the sound design and voice actors were dog shit.
honestly you should only watch it for the animation, don't think that you will understand the story from only watching this. Voice actor for DIO sounds like a grandpa so at times I really can't take him seriously.
so finally, should you watch it? sure
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 2000 is a prequel to the 1993 adaptation which covered fan favourite fights from the second half of the series. This adaptation covers favourites from the first half. The most notable difference in this version is the character designs. They look weird and ugly and make this a big downgrade from the first adaptation. The animation is not as good here as it was in the first one, but there are some cool sections. They chose to animate the fan favourite fights from the first half of the story, but some of these are not as memorable as in the second half. Unfortunately, it is hard to like this more because the character designs look so strange.
The first version was better, but this is still a good way to watch your favourite parts from Stardust Crusaders.
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I would never recommend this OVA to anyone as a replacement for the manga or the 2014 anime adaptation, but as it's own thing and a companion piece to the original story that offers different takes on some things it works surprisingly well.
The character designs are at least interesting, the animation is extremely fluid (vastly outshining SC anime) and the music is great at illustrating the tone. Sadly the weird self depricating humor that the series is known for is almost completely gone. The whole thing takes itself really seriously and that works as a detriment to some of the most riddiculous moments (like Joseph smashing the camera with his stand in order to produce a nude photo of the family's arch enemy whose head is posessing his grandfather). Sadly the voice acting and sound desig…
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This OVA covers the first half of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. It differs from the source material in two main ways: minor plot details are changed to make it flow better within seven 30-minute episodes, and anything comedic is completely omitted. Your opinion will depend on what you think of these changes. I very much enjoyed this series for them. The changes give a main villain to the story arc, instead of the protagonists only fighting unrelated bad guys of the week. The serious tone well suits the stoic, observant character of protagonist Jotaro Kujo— he comes across as mature and pragmatic at first impression rather than off-puttingly rude. The seriousness also reins in the over-the-top behavior of other characters that otherwise would threaten to overshadow his quiet…
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I've never been a fan of JoJo or have I actually cared about the franchise.. until now! This is the first JoJo animation I have watched so I really didn't know what to expect from the series, but what I got after completion was a fighting anime that left me wanting more.. YES the ever so popular 2012 version.
This anime was far from perfect though as there were times where I was bored and not all the characters were developed as strongly as I hoped. The intro to 4 out of 7 or so of this anime began getting on my nerves and I began wishing they had decided to use a real opening or at least something different. JoJo 2000 is nowhere near the best action anime to grace the anime industry, but was still a fun joyride that proves even somewhat older anime can be as enjoyable as the newer anime…
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(This review applies to the entire series, both the 1993 and the 2000 continuation episodes. Though the second half, especially the last three episodes, is noticeably superior.)
Yes, it is certainly bizarre.
JoJo is the thinking man's surrealist DBZ. Except instead of endless 3-frame loops of tedious "fight animation" it has sudden, subtle, blink-and-you'll-miss-it fight scenes. In it, weird fighters use weird powers in weird ways; typically by outwitting -- rather than merely overpowering -- their opponents.
The series' greatest strength is the unexpected, shocking oddity of it. Whenever you think the series is about to devolve into fighting game cliche, something utterly bugfuck happens. A villain will gleefully and intentionally decapitates himself to show his badassery. A dog addicted…
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2000) is one of two halves of an adaptation to the 3rd arc of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, Stardust Crusaders. While this half came out second, with the first coming out in 1993, this one is the first canonically, going from the beginning of the arc. Even though it came second, it's definitely a better idea to start with this one.
This half starts with a young delinquent, Jotaro Kujo (the titular JoJo), in prison... not by force, but of his own free will, and refusing to leave. He claims to be haunted by some kind of strange spirit... something that gets the attention of his grandfather, Joseph Joestar (the protagonist of the previous arc, Battle Tendency), who knows something about the spirit in question.
As it turns out, the spirit is something called a…
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