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The Jorges are there to recompense me for all the twinkified Lightning McQueens I have to witness when going through the カーズ tag (it's for both Kars and Pixar's Cars)

Forever a fan of how if you go into those big Pillar Men image compilations on pixiv you will sometimes find a random Jorge in there. Honorary Pillar Man

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Another anime difference I don't really like is how they change this flashback. Manga Kars is visibly engaging with Esidisi, smiling at him as he explains his findings and turning to him to express frustration, but anime Kars just kinda stares ahead and doesn't acknowledge Esidisi's presence aside from blasting him with the Aja.

This flashback is followed by Esidisi showing up at Air Supplena, so it's the last occasion the plot has to establish any sort of connection between these two before Esidisi's sacrifice for Kars and Kars's attempts to avenge Esidisi. Not that the manga does a stellar job of it either, but at least it's something.

...though I must admit removing the part where Kars inexplicably keeps his headscarf on while trying on the masks was warranted. What are you doing my man (Araki didn't want to show his hair yet, I suppose).

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Do you think Kars learned this watching Wamuu and Esidisi spar

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He absolutely picked up this thinking pose from Kars

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Now I know he wouldn’t be able to do this in jjn but just consider it

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There's this super common fanon claiming that Kars only took the babies so he could raise them into obedient (child) soldiers

Guys. Soldiers AGAINST WHOM. Their entirely dead clan? The stone age humans still struggling with agriculture who wouldn't have hamon? The recently extinct megafauna? Explain

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Ohhhh my god remember fleshbudded Santana. Remember when it was so common that when the translation dropped people were genuinely baffled it wasn't in the book

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Small inconsequential line that got omitted in the Jorge Joestar translation, likely on accident. Right after Jorge gets blasted by the sonar (transl. mine):

My ears were still ringing. This was nuts. "Could you… turn down the volume a bit?" I tried asking, but Cars ignored me. "Unh…!" I turned towards the groan, and saw Enrico Pucci writhing on the floor, clutching his hands to his ears, his face screwed up in pain.

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They’d vibe with each other so much it’s not even funny

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why did no one tell me Jojolands was good (on chapter 27)

The writing and pacing is nice so far, I like the solid themes going on. It's so much more interesting to me than Jojolion already

I wish Jodio could narrate the entire thing lmao. Always appreciate a non-punchy Stand (November Rain? Gee guys I wonder if Jojolands has a recurring theme of water)

I love the team, they're such dumbass teenagers. When they decided to take Charming Man along I might have clapped like a seal with delight. Another victim of the Joestar Friendship Technique

And a (probably) ASPD Joestar... I'm stoked, but a bit worried considering this is Araki. I can already see a common trope coming a mile away (Jodio is going to be immune to the fear-sensing Stand, isn't he. Dual Destinies-ass plot twist)

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me: mom can we get Light Dancer

mom: no, we have Light Dancer at home

Light Dancer at home:

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The more I'm researching the more I'm convinced that Maijo writing Kars with blue eyes (and black hair) genuinely might have been just a fluke due to the source material being black-and-white. Blue-eyed Karses were surprisingly common in fanarts before Jorge Joestar or the anime, even those that got the rest of his color palette right. His purple hair was better known thanks to various merch, but sometimes people would still give him black hair (or reddish, or dark blue...).

Example blue-eyed Karses from 2008-2012 pixiv:

1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8

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Do you think Kars is going to look for Santana post-JJN. Is the reason why Santana's never mentioned again after BT because Kars went back in time to bust him out, making the causal fabric of the universe itself briefly panic, unravel itself, and resettle back into a shape where in order for reality to make sense everyone involved with SPW just kinda forgot Santana existed. Do you think it's only the first universe Santana or does Kars now have thirty six additional sons

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Santana + Speedwagon for today

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Crunchyroll subtitles make it seem like they used Stone Masks on the horses but no, the original Japanese just says that bone spikes were driven into them. It all looks very clean in the anime, but in the manga the horses still have the spikes sticking out rather gruesomely (see above), making me think they had to be put there manually. And since no one else would know the correct placement for the spikes (certainly not some random vampires), you just know Kars personally had to get up in there and hammer them in. Right between those big innocent eyes staring into his soul.

The things he does for Wamuu.

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not even Maijo understands how the hell he got that mask on

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I just think they could be really stupid