>>78965
So far the confirmed/ expected to be confirmed Roster is:
Jotaro Kujo
Joseph Joestar
Wham
Gyro Zeppeli
Guido Mista
Giorno Giovanna
Jean Pierre Polnareff
Noriaki Kakyoin
Jolyne Kujo
Hermes Costello
Johnathan Joestar
Josuke Higashikata
Johnny Joestar
Dio Brando

I can't wait for more info on this game! It sucks that it's for PS3 only, so I may have to wait a while before I can play it.

>>78965
Wow, the detail this game has is almost uncanny.

>>78969
Hopefully they'll have DLC characters. I'd love to play Rohan Kishibe.

Somebody posted a more complete "leaked" roster on /vg/, but it turned out to be bullshit upon close examination.

>>78976
Rohan isn't really a fighter. He'll probably show up in the game, but not as a playable character.

>>79001
Joke character?

I wanna see Cars.

Plus his Perfected form.

>>79002
that would be Nukesaku, Guccio, or Part 4 Joseph

man, these game models look fucking gorgeous
didn't like the way SFIV looked but here they really capture the manga's style perfectly

What are the odds of including JoJolion characters? Oi, they're probably gonna be DLC.

What are the odds of including JoJolion characters? Oi, they're probably gonna be DLC.

Here's a handy-dandy tip-a-roo: Don't go to 4chan after years of less terrible sites. I saw a JoJo thread derail into trans hate.

>>79023
>>79023
like, legit trans hate or that social justice warrior "omg how dare you say men can't get pregnant you bigot!!" trans hate.

>>79025

It's 4chan, so prolly legit hate.

>>79023
most Jojo threads are actually pretty good if you ignore the ones warring over subs
at least I prefer them to Tumblr shit or the Jojo forums because we actually get to discuss stuff for real
from what I remember /a/ was pretty fond of Hourou Musuko, and I've seen posts on /a/ defending real transsexuals as opposed to fake Tumblr attention whore ones, so it sounds more to me like a /pol/ troll hijack than anything else

>>79023
>>79027
4Chan is usually chill with trans people and there have been pretty good discussions about transgenderism such as in Fate/Stay Night without any incident. You just caught a thread at a bad time.

>>79029
4chan will make fun of anyone for anything without discrimination.

Unless you go to /b/ which is full of 13-year-old counterstrike fetishists who think "Anonymous" is an "awesome super hacker vigilante"

I find good stuff image-wise on 4chan

>>79033
they make pretty entertaining Jojo OC too
that thread about Jesus Christ aka Joshua bar Joseph being the original Jojo with God as his Stand was pretty amazing

>>79035
Funniest thing is, that's not that much gayer than the original manga. There was literally no reason for Caesar to bump into Joseph like that aside from narrowly dodging a kiss due to Joseph's mask.

>>79029
There was also this other time where a thread derailed about how shitty homeless people are.

>>79039
JoJo and Caesar. The greatest romance or part 2.

>>79041
you're always going to attract assholes wherever there's a large congregation of people with little in the way of moderation, but I've had far more better conversations about Jojo on 4Chan than most other places
besides, the jerks on 4Chan are fairly easy to avoid in comparison to Tumblr where people like to pretend to be nice but everyone's secretly an asshole underneath, and the people who stand up for the disenfranchised are way worse than anyone else

so how about that frog punching guys?

>>79051
I'm worried they're rushing too fast through Phantom Blood. Most of the episode was decent but the Ripple training scene got cut down way too much.

How many episodes do you think it will take this anime to cover Battle Tendency in? It looks like Phantom Blood might be wrapped up by episode 7 or 8 and that the beginning of Battle Tendency might cover 7 chapters as well, including the battle with Straights. Also, I have a feeling the opening might change slightly when we get to Part 2, but I'm not sure what changes will be made.

>>79063
assuming each of the Black Knights gets one episode for their battles Phantom Blood will be over in eight, meaning Battle Tendency will have eighteen episodes to work with
I hope they have the budget to make it not look like shit though, since the fights are a lot more fast-paced and full of motion than the ones in Phantom Blood

>>79075
I hope so too. It will be interesting to see how Battle Tendency turns out when they get to it. I also hope we get episodes beyond that for the other parts. I want to see Part 4 in action.

>>79039
Jojo, gay?

>>79077
I've been seeing a lot of pretty hilarious homo edits on /a/ lately, although I'm worried we're starting to attract some of the legit obnoxious fujoshi from Tumblr if the Rohanfags are any indication

>>79076
Stardust Crusaders is a money printing machine. They'd be fools not to make it and milk it for all its worth.

>>79078
Uh, if we're talking about JJBA and obnoxious gay shipping that is nothing new,

Look at CLAMP and all thier Jotaro/Kakyoin bullshut.

>>79033
Joseph really should have used the Ripple more

>>79081
Araki usually doesn't treat recurring characters that well if their name isn't Jotaro Kujo

>>79085
Actually though I haven't read part 4 yet due to bad scans he was treated pretty shit in part 6 where he was revealed to be a shitty father and just generally bad at socializing instead of cool like everyone thought.

Speedwagon and Erina (technically Lisa Lisa counts too) didn't do too bad when they showed up in Part 2. But yeah, whenever a character comes back in a new part they always job horribly, and it's kind of sad.

>>79087
I disagree, I think it's wonderful.

S'like, there part is over and while they do play a factor they aren't who this is about anymore.

The other end of the spectrum is DC comics, where it's constantly "FUCK THE NEW GUYS! THE OLD GUYS ARE BACK DESPITE THE NOTICEABLE HANDICAP OF BEING DEAD!"

>>79090
I'm all right with Jotaro's case because a stoic badass becoming an emotionally unavailable and thus shitty father is a logically consistent transition, but Joseph in part 3 did annoy me because all the trickiness and ripple just kind of poofed out of existence beyond faint echoes.

>>79092

That was probably for the following reasons:

party 3 really feels like it was going to be its own new manga, separate from Jojo. Then Arakai decided to introduce Dio as the villain again (since that was kinda Chekhov's gun anyway) and re-introduced all the new characters. We should probably be grateful Joseph got a stand and was allowed to do things at all really.

Part 3 also introduced Stands and it's quite clear Araki wanted them to replace Ripple entirely. Part 1 and 2 pretty much did everything you could do with ripples, I felt, and it was probably Araki feeling like there really wasn't a use treading old ground.

I think Araki made it pretty clear that Stands > Ripple in terms of power, and we can only be happy Ripple got KINDA a come back in Steel Ball Run.

>>79093
He said Jojo was originally imagined as a trilogy where the villain of the first part comes back as the final boss of the third/last, with the second being a bridge that starred a crazy person to contrast the straightlaced protagonist of the first. Plus he's admitted that he's very forgetful and needs to keep pictures of characters posted around so he remembers how to draw them, so that might be it as well.

>>79093
Who cares if Stands are more powerful than ripple? Isn't fights in Jojo mostly about tricks and guile?

(Well, until he gives the end boss an "I Win" button for a special technique and can't figure out a way for the hero to beat them, so he has to pull something out his ass.)

>>79102

>Who cares if Stands are more powerful than ripple? Isn't fights in Jojo mostly about tricks and guile?

It doesn't matter what you think. Arakai is the writer and he obviously did all that he could do with ripple by the time Part 2 ended.

Stands allowed him to be more creative, from a visual and a formula standpoint and they allowed much more uses and applications of said "cunning and guile".

Ripple just wasn't interesting to write about by the time part 3 came along and having Joseph rely on it would've just felt like we were re-treading old ground when he was having the balls to change his manga in a BIG way. Not to mention that it REALLY wouldn't have worked given that the enemies in Part 3 were no longer vampires or pillar men and that's what ripple was primarily used to fight against.

... that and I don't actually recall Joseph being in a lot of fights on his own in part 3. Most of the fights were team-efforts, and the ones that did focus on Joseph DID have him use the ripple, so at the very least it didn't feel like Araki COMPLETELY forgot about it.

>>79104
Ripple had other applications than killing vampires
Heck at one point Caeser uses it to hypnotise a chick with a kiss and make her attack Joseph.
>>79081
I think the point when OldJoseph lost a contest of trickery of all things against D'arcy so Jotaro could save the day was showing that Araki doesn't care for older characters or thier abilities

You wanna know why the ripple got abandoned?

Because it was a huge fucking dues ex machina.

Sure it had weaknesses like needing to breath but outside of that it could essentially do anything with no discernible limits.

It was a bad story element.

The spin was better in this regard since it had only two real functions, execution (which made it practical in combat) and iffy miscellaneous applications.

With stands each character becomes unique, an ability you can instantly tie to them and reflected in everything about them.

>>79112

That and it was pretty much a ripoff of Hokuto no Shinken, so Araki obviously wanted to distance himself from that series.

>>79112
>>huge fucking dues ex machina.
Yeah...You can just eat a dick Tiki

>>79114
OH COME ON, that doesn't count, it was the end result of the long, arduous, murderous, double criss-cross struggle of struggles to obtain the arrow.

FOR GOD SAKE MAN, IT'S PART OF THE DESIGN ON HIS HEAD, it's right there on his forehead. The arrow which all of part 5 was about, the one that exploded stand ability.

>>79113
Indeed.

>>79114

Even GSR has A power.

It's a bullshit power that works on a conceptual level and thus is stupidly hax (and like Tiki said, was pretty much end-game for part 5) but there's a THEME there and it follows it.

Ripple just seemed to be all over the place and could do god knows what the fuck, all because it was super happy life energy kung-fu. If Joseph needed a convenient power, Araki could just bullshit ripple to encompass it. I'm not saying Ripple became a crutch in part 2, but it kinda skirted the line a few times and I think Araki wanted his characters powers to become more thematic and less "One Power to Encompass Everything".

>>but there's a THEME there and it follows it.

And this theme would beeee...?

>>79123

It can reduce anything to zero.

Again, it's a stupid bullshit conceptual level power but it's a bit more thematically interesting than "It's the ripple! Watch it do a million and one things!"

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that techniques like the Ripple and Spin were created as steps toward the ultimate goal of awakening one's Stand? I think it was in that side-chapter of SBR where Araki goes over the basic mechanics of Stands.

man even when the comic is all about girls in prison this is kinda gay...
penis penis penis

>>79112
It probably got abandoned because there was only so much you could do with the Ripple. Having protagonists as creative as those of Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency burned through a lot of potential applications for said technique.

The Stands allow for a greater variety of skills and abilities on both sides of the conflict. Some stands can only be used in limited ways (pic related and others like 20th Century Boy and Osiris), but others (such as Heaven's Door and Hierophant Green) have several abilities in addition to those whose Stands can apparently do only one thing belying the multiple functions it could serve. (ex. Stone Free, Soft & Wet, and Echoes)

As someone who only recently got into Jojo,where exactly can I read it?

>>79164
http://pastebin.com/Zv7N4pGN

>>79169
Thanks chap.

It looks like the battle with the Black Knights will be in two parts just like Zepelli

>>79194
nah we got started on the Bruford fight but they're saving both for next week, along with the introduction of the monks after Zep ;_;

also I hope I'm not the only one worried that the anime is going to be TOO faithful am I?
as with Fate/Zero going down such a path means that they can only ever hope to be as good as the manga at best, never improving upon it as a more liberal interpretation would have the freedom to
plus the manga has a lot of weaknesses in terms of consistency and plot holes that would benefit from the director taking a few liberties here and there

>>79199

That's a fair concern.

The only issue is that if they go down that road I'd want a competent and well-meaning writer working alongside Araki as basically an editor to say "This is good, this isn't".

Since this mostly just seems to be an adaptation by fans? Sticking as close to the source material is about as good as we can hope.

>>79387
>you are
>not "he is"
good to know Japan is finally appreciating glorious Speedwagon, as he was always my fave of the Phantom Blood characters

I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE I FORGOT THE MASTER'S NAME WAS TOM PETTY.

Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down

>>79396
HNGH TO CUTE

As someone who's never read the manga but know about the old 2D fighting game, will they get their stands soon or much later?

>>79398
Stands show up in Part Three, when Jotaro is the main character.

Part One is Johnathan, Part Two is Joseph (young / the best Joseph)

>>79396
you will never have a husbando as loyal as Speedowagonu ;_;

I am loving the art bump the anime is giving all of JJBA.

>>79399
Here's hoping the Stands aren't crappy CGI.

>>79424
I see no reason why that would happen, if it did they'd be videogame style like the opening which would prolly be okay if a little lame.

ok sometimes this can be gay in a good way but mostly it's just strange

>>79425
Holy shit is that TWEWY Jotaro?

Think Sugita is in too many shows this season? Too bad, have some more of him.

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201211/15024321.html
Just when I thought I couldn't be more excited for this game, we see more about it.

>>79508
Wait, Sugita is Joseph?! Please tell me you're not pulling my chain here!

>>79516
dude the first link I put in OP has footage of Joseph with voices in it
plus /a/ and /v/ have both been flipping their shit over it for the last month and a half

speaking of VAs I'm pretty pleased with them casting Atsuko Tanaka for Lisa Lisa because I'm already hard gay for her and delicious Caster voice is just the audio cherry on top

Is Joseph still hot in the anime? I'm ashamed at how high this ranks on my priorities for the Battle Tendency anime.
Anyway I'm waiting to judge the designs until after they release the character sheets, since the official promo for Phantom Blood looked pretty different from the actual designs.

just like the watch from pulp fiction

Jotaro help my soul, but I'm up to volume 41 (Part 4's 13th), and from what I hear this is when hell starts due to terrible translations up until part 6.
Also, lost it when I finally realized Jotaro has dolphins on his jacket and hat.

Tastes like cinnamon buns

>>79387
I remember working a job at a county fair. I was disappointed I wasn't working the night before because REO Speedwagon was there, but it turned out there was a bad storm--they didn't even play.

Guess what my first thought was.

>>79551
Got done with 41 and 42 last night. They weren't as bad as I was expecting. At least they give a basic idea of what's going on, though not having any sort of capitalization or punctuation bugs me. I'll just have to read them again when the better translation is finished.

>no streams for Zeppeli's death
so much RAAAAAAGGGEEEE

Great ep.

It kind of bothers me that nothing is done with Giorno being part Joestar. The beginning of Part 5 was just kind of forgotten. His stand's ability when it hits a human, and the damage reflect from things he gave life to also seem to have been forgotten. Unless I missed some stuff due to reading a not-great translation (or being mentally deficient).
Part 3 is still my favorite so far, though.

>>79608
they really are forgotten and yes, it does suck majorly
Part 5 has a lot of writing problems that go beyond just poor translation, and it's usually seen as the worst part with Western fans anyway
no idea why it's regarded so well in Japan and considered the fujoshi's favorite, since I find the men pretty damn ugly looking most of the time even if the actual art quality is pretty decent

>Battle Tendency will be composed by Taku Iwasaku
OH! MY! GOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

http://ameblo.jp/ltothej/theme-10020036748.html
We Lotus Juice now.

>>79682
All kinds of okay with this.

Soul Drive - Lotus Juice

>>79684
>>79682
>>79657
also Iwasaki promised on his Twitter there would be a lot of vocal tracks, which is exactly the kind of stuff Iwasaki's good at and Jojo would thrive upon

Finished with Part 6 now, and it's the one I dislike the most so far, but I can't decide why except for that goddamn ending. I hate it when authors do the RESET EVERYTHING ending and invalidate character growth in the process.
I did like the ghost zombies and the art icons coming to life, though.

Oh yeah, Dire and Straights, forgot about those two...

>>79711
Character growth is a thing everyone talks about it but not something always, always needed. Because you notices that never actually disappears. You talk about character development without noticing that they grow up to their fullest and let others to their fullest, aka Emporio. Is why Alita is so focused in others characters now and not in Alita herself. Part 6 is my favourite part.

>>79721
Ditto, I got a toss up going with Part and 6, Fucking Annasui is awesome.

>>79684
I never realized until now just how similar Iwasaki and Meguro's composing styles are.

Finished Part 7 now. The stupid gags Gyro and Johnny did were great, and made them my favorite pair of characters. A bit disappointed that a reason for Gyro's blinged out teeth was never given, as it probably would have been amusing.
The only bit of this arc I didn't care much for was The World Dio being brought in, but his defeat kind of made up for it.
Reading JoJolion now and liking how goofy Yasuho and Josuke are.

holy crap today's ep looked good (relatively speaking)

>>79790
Fan of Johnny and Gyro? Then enjoy THIS!!!

Johnny & Gyro Strip Show

Unless you all ready have. In that case, ENJOY IT AGAIN!

Tonpetti=Gouken
Straits=Ryu
Zepelli=Ken
Dire=Dan

And vice-versa.

Agree or disagree?