Hirohiko Araki

Sometimes I'm like, "This is a very cool power." Um-

This guy Araki's still got it.

Sometimes he's still got it.

Uh, about this power, I'm gonna have to censor this a little bit, but in the JoJoveller Stand book, Araki says the following about the Boom Boom Family, whose power is named Tomb of the Boom.

Um, "Their abilities are pretty much the same, but each one has a slightly different physical form." Uh, and the design that we haven't quite seen yet comes from [laughs] he says, "It comes from the giant anteater, I think."

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First, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

A legendary dark fantasy series by Hirohiko Araki, started in 1986.

Massive franchise.

Yep.

No, contemporary to when it was written.

Oh, to when Araki wrote it.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

We're talking poses, the, you know, the zoomed in shots, like reaction shots where the color palette changes.

There's like back to back to back to back to back moments that are like unique and like very specifically crafted by Araki, where you're like, yeah, like it's, it's just like pose after pose after pose.

So that's, it's kinda like ...

How do I describe it? Like it makes sense that there's a lot of still shots in JoJo because you're not wanting to see somebody move in their pose.

But I would say like it's more of a, a slideshow with dynamic effects.

You know, like [laughs] in PowerPoint when you add flashy transitions, that's how JoJo takes its approach to animation.

And I think a- again, it g- it boils down to the quality of detail, the level of detail that David Production puts in each shot to make it as close to Araki's vision in the manga a- as possible.

So I'm not gonna fault David Production for [laughs] like just moving the camera a little bit while you just see the, the character's mouth flap or like lips flapping.

A fascinating proposition.

Trading Oda's sprawling, continuous pirate epic for Hirohiko Araki's generational, highly stylized supernatural anthology.

It shows a preference for aesthetic reinvention over a continuous world-building.

Right.

So that would be fun for me and only me.

And I'm not caught up on Jojo at all, but Araki, if you're out there, it would be cool to see a Nine Inch Nails work referenced in Jojo for once in your fucking life.

I mean, there's not that many chances.

He referenced Aphex Twin.

He's like, he, he feels a lot like the protagonist right now.

And I'm curious to see how like Johnny grows throughout the series.

Yeah, ordinarily with Jojo, Araki starts with the so-named Jojo character as the protagonist, and then he kind of is like, well, I'm really interested in these side characters I created.

But yeah, here it feels like right off the bat, he's like...