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Every single episode is the same thing over and over again. A stand user attacks the protagonists, then the protagonists outsmart the villain of the week, and then they move on to the next one. It's literally over a hundred episodes of this happening again and again.

If you've seen one episode of Jojo, you've seen them all.

I don't really understand how this is rated so high. Maybe it's literally just for the meme's that have been generated around this anime. However the anime itself is pretty bad in my opinion.

The animation and its style is poor. There are often just still images or slow movement. Then there are certain Japanese written characters popping up on screen to apparently highlight movements or things that happen to the environment. Imagine that the ground is trembling due to some action but instead of seeing the actual impact of the action you see some weird signs popping up that you can't even read.

I made it to episode 6 before I couldn't stand to watch it anymore. However from what I had seen the characters in the show are rather one dimensional. Jojo is just good and overly trusting. Dio is simply just bad for the sake of being bad. Then there is Speedstar who for whatever reason is just kinda in love with Jojo. And we have a basic mentor kind of character that "teaches" Jojo the use of Hamon even though he basically just picks it up instantly and becomes very good very quickly. There is nothing really to get me invested in these characters as they are boring.

The dialogues are painful and basically just focused on exposition and yelling at each other things like "You are bad!", "I'm going to stop you." and "I will kill you.". There is nothing interesting there.

If you enjoy this show, then good for you. Maybe for some this is just in the category of it's so bad that it's great. For me though it's just bad.

I feel sorry for this anime. It takes a stupid, pointless idea and makes the best of it. The world has dozens of stories about macho dudes beating up other macho dudes because they don't agree with their morals. In the worst cases, these stories are filled with overcomplicated fight systems nobody cares about, and silly monologues.

Macho-ness, the problem with using this tropes has nothing to do with sophistication. It's just that after seeing the same technique for 100 stories, you get bored. You become like JoJo and can predict their next sentences. Bad cliches are used by storytellers who don't know what kind of story they want to tell. Is it an epic adventure? A silly show about silly people beating each other? An examination of good an evil?

JoJo's strength is the focus, unlike all these shows. The anime makes it clear what it wants to be early in the beginning. Then, every single thing that happens connects to that. JoJo wants to deliver a simple story of good and evil. The bad guys are really, really bad. The good guys are really good and charming. If the fate of the world was really in the hands of a macho dude, we'd all be filled with adrenaline. When it's a bunch of colors on the screen, you need more than this.

Since JoJo knows its purpose is to deliver excitement, it will do everything it can to raise the stakes. Bad guys don't come back after being defeated just because you can milk the show a little more. They come back because it raises the stakes, makes us wonder how they can be defeated. The anime establishes that everyone knows what everyone's next move is, which is exciting because we wonder when will one of these will fail.

Battles in anime always have pre-determined results. Every battle in anime is a man playing chess against himself. So a battle is only as exciting when the writers can challenge themselves, when they find ways to overturn their own schemes. The set-pieces drive the battles, not just meaningless shots of people using fists. Each battle is a progression of moves. It's an odd way to describe a fight but they're like a chess game in how every move has a clear influence on what happens next. There's something thrilling in seeing a person trying hard to beat himself up in chess.

This anime just pampers its audience and its only famous cause of memes all this anime has is good songs that's all there is and nothing else.

I genuinely don't understand how JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has received such high ratings. I went in with high expectations due to the massive hype around this series, but what I got was a major letdown. The characters are overly exaggerated, and the constant talking during fight scenes kills the tension ( Just stfu and fight man) At times, it feels more like a dramatic debate than an actual battle.

The storyline had potential in the beginning, but it quickly went downhill. The same villain reappears again and again, giving it the feel of an old daily soap opera - recycled plots with the same hero vs. The same villain dynamic. I kept watching, hoping it would get better or something major would finally happen, but nothing ever did.

There's an excessive focus on muscular characters and over-the-top poses, which gets repetitive fast. Overall, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure felt like style over substance. Not my cup of tea at all.

Let me just say I've seen EVERY episode, so I'm not coming in here upset at the popularity after one or two episodes. The whole series has a big problem with tone. It's incredibly goofy and can be funny at times, but takes itself so seriously it ruins it. There are moments where it also can be creepy and unsettling, but then ruins it by trying to add humor. These are really my only criticisms of part one and two. When part three starts tho it turns into the same thing for a majority of the season. Fight enemy for 1-2 episodes, change scenery, rinse, repeat. This is the same formula that the next 2 parts and is followed for the ENTIRE season. It reminds me of the Naruto war arc and how repetitive that is. How nobody gets bored of this beats me, but these three parts are a majority of the show and drag it down so much. Part 6 changes the formula and I found more enjoyable but I was so checked out at that point I could barely care for anything happening.

Watching a season of this felt like watching "2 girls, 1 cup", only with a worse plot and more raging transvestites. It keeps making "rules" for the powers the characters have, only to break those rules so they can be used in a way that makes no sense. It really tries hard to deliver these awesome twists and you're on the edge of your seat waiting for them. When they did happen though, i couldn't help but wonder "why?". The plot twists become progressively more predictable, up to the point where i lost all interest in what's going to happen in the coming episode. Probably the only good thing was the art itself.

Personal opinion, i know, but a hard pass for me.