Why is this guy the most well-known Jojo? Honest question. I started watching the show and I had seen Jotaro around everywhere, people always posted Jotaro and he seemed kind of like the mascot so I was looking forward to eventually seeing his part.
Anyways, I finished Phantom Blood and it was really entertaining so I wanted to continue, then I started Battle Tendency and it was fucking amazing already from the first episode. Battle Tendency was just fucking great. Now I was really excited for Stardust Crusades, so I started it.
And now I'm 9 episodes in and it feels so incredibly average compared to Battle Tendency. Jotaro compared to the previous two protagonists is really quite bad in my opinion. I don't get why he is the "biggest" one. It puzzles me, because Stardust Crusaders still hasn't really gotten good 9 episodes in. Jotaro is still a completely boring character whereas Joseph was extremely entertaining and gripping right from the first 5 minutes, Jotaro hasn't even managed to come close in 9 episodes.
Does Jotaro actually even manage to get interesting at all? Stardust Crusaders is much longer than the previous two parts and I kinda just want to move on and see if the next one is better.
Why is this guy the most well-known Jojo? Honest question...
Is this a copy pasta?
Part 3 is basically the KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOO of jojo. This is why you see DIO and Jotaro everywhere.
He gets better in part 4 and 6
yeah jotaro is the worst jojo, but old joseph saves part 3 from being shit
IMO Jotaro was in the perfect storm of the Jojo series getting a lot of mainstream attention after its first two parts and then the fact that stands were so popular. It created quite a craze back in the 90s. Naturally, since he's the MC, he became the most publicly known. He starred in video games and OVAs during the 90s long before the other Jojo parts got any sort of vidya/anime.
He becomes bearable in part 4
>KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What?
Stardust Crusaders never gets as good as Battle Tendency but I remember it picking up a bit when they get to India, and even more when they get to Egypt.
No it's not, It's a genuine question. I really do not get why Jotaro is the biggest Jojo, he's so boring.
Joseph and the side characters right now are the only reason I want to continue watching.
He’s the first japanese Jojo.
I think it's just because part 3 is when Jojo really gained its identity with the stands and what not
Imo the N'Doul, D'Arby the Gambler, Pet Shop, Vanilla Ice and DIO's World arcs are all on par with Part 2, or even better.
I feel very similar to OP.
Are the protagonists after Jotaro better than him?
Jotaro is worst JoJo
/vp/ meme about how the kanto region is the most well-known and cared about with people going spastic over it while every other region is forgotten about.
I'm an anime-only fag but in my opinion not really, Joseph is the best.
The thing is though, you don't really watch it for
the jojos, the show doesn't even centre itself around them except for in part 1 and 2
Arguably the one from part 5 is worse. Even more boring. Some people like him though.
Other than that, yeah they're all better.
Then again you could argue that Jotaro isn't really the main character, Polnareff is.
Jotaro's great; you'll probably learn to love him eventually, like we all did.
>Then again you could argue that Jotaro isn't really the main character, Polnareff is.
I'm actually digging Polnareff a lot so far, he's much more ¨charismatic than Jotaro.
It doesn't matter if you don't watch it for the Jojo's, a gripping main character is important, if you don't have one then it's a major flaw. Jotaro is unmistakably still being set-up as the protagonist in Stardust Crusaders, at least where I'm at, and it's really hard to get into the actual fights when he's not fun to watch.
Part 6 is very centered on the Jojo
Part 7 kinda goes to it being centered on the secondary protagonists to the Jojo and secondary protagonist being equal to the Jojo being the center
Part 8's Jojo is the main focus for the most part except in the latest arcs where our side characters and main antagonist are getting fleshed out
Joseph is entertaining but he doesn't have much depth as a character.
Absolutely.
Jolyne (the part 6 JoJo) is basically Joseph but with a compelling character arc.
Yes except Giorno who is just an even more boring Jotaro that is also a completely immoral person.
Autism from manchildren over on /vp/
>a gripping main character is important
Well, the "stardust crusaders" are supposed to be the main characters, not just Jotaro.
Jotaro is a lot better in the following parts
There's not really a lot of characters in Jojo that have much depth to be quite honest with you. The most important part is making them charismatic and entertaining with at least just some sort of basic character arc.
if Jonathan was the poster boy people would think JoJo is just a fist of the north star ripoff
if Joseph was the poster boy people would think JoJo is a fag series
if Josuke was the poster boy people would think JoJo is an 80's fag series
if Giorno was the poster boy people would think JoJo is a faggot fag series
You are watching something which is now over 30 years old, Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency were relatively speaking standard battle shounen for their times whereas Stardust Crusaders wasn't, so it became more popular than the parts before it. YOu can tell reading it that Araki is still figuring out stands and how to make them work and he gets better it at in the later parts, but Part 3 had enough stuff in it to make it stand out from the rest of what was popular at the time (which isn't to say it made it more popular, just noteworthy, SC didn't outrank Dragonball, Saint Seiya, Rokudenashi Blues or Slam Dunk while it was running).
Jotaro also looks and he was the first JoJo that had some Jap in him, makes him easy for the audience to like him. The silent stoic type was still popular back then as well.
Someone post the oc donut steel giorno copypasta.
Because he's not white, he his a hapa mongrel and hapa are mentally ill.
The Joestar used to be a glorious white family ruined by race-mixing.
I'm on the second volume now and I don't get a Joseph vibe that much yet. I think it's because she's naïve rather than a trickster (which may change).
Jotaro really grows on you. He's alright in part 3, great 4. and great in part 6. You'll like him in part 4 for sure. He's much more fitting for the role of a mentor
You'll never understand because you're a kid. But back in the day, the dark brooding types were popular.
Just because you make a dark and brooding character doesn't mean you have to make them boring as shit as well.
>Part 1, Part 2 paved the way for Part 3 to get a lot of attention and stands made it really popular
>Jotaro is part Japanese, additionally he has a Japanese father (Japs LOVE when Jap men impregnate a foreign woman but ABSOLUTELY LOATHE when it's the reverse)
That's about it, really. Part 3 was when JJBA's popularity really blew up and Jotaro happened to be in the center of that, so he's the classic Jojo by default.
Why? Part 3 is so fucking boring, the enemy stand of the episode shit specially
>>Jotaro is part Japanese, additionally he has a Japanese father (Japs LOVE when Jap men impregnate a foreign woman but ABSOLUTELY LOATHE when it's the reverse)
those squinty eyed colonizer wannabes
She's more of a josuke
read the manga, the anime stretched part 3 to much
>immoral
Wut
This tbqh
1.He's cool/badass which appeals to the average person
2. He's the protag of the most famous part of the series where all of the memes come from
The answer is memes
JoJo had the last laugh, those other series aren't cult hits now
>but ABSOLUTELY LOATHE when it's the reverse)
Joseph had the last laugh then.
For Rokudenashi Blues fair enough, which is a shame since it's fucking amazing, but Dragonball, Saint Seiya and Slam Dunk are all way bigger than JJBA.
>so his name is Giorno Giovanna he is a JoJo but he is different because it's spelled GioGio also he is 15yo and the youngest JoJo and he is the son of Dio and is the only son who isn't retarded and also is a Joestar and he was born japanese but he moved to italy and his hair changed color and everybody likes him and his stand is golden and he can punch and say muda and also create life and also you can't hit what he creates or else you will be hurt too and also he can punch you and make you feel pain super slowly and also he can heal anything even himself and also he is chosen by the stand arrow and can reset literally every power and he wants to become a gangstar and he will and he is the boss
He's the best written and designed Jojo. Nuff said.
seriously, he is such a fucking mary sue
this
part 3 is pretty mediocre aside from a couple spots. jotaro gets more interesting in part 4, and part 6 helps you understand his character a lot more
i want people's opinions on this, where do you rank part 6 in the series? the second half of it is my favorite part of the entire series i think, but the first half is pretty hit and miss. i think it's my second favorite, after part 5
>not Gappy
Jotaro is a symbol of the end of heterosexual arcs of Jojo series.