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*Dio Sold Separately

Posted in JoJo's Year, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/03/13 by OnePixelJumpMan

Still waiting for ASB. We all want it to get here as soon as possible, but also want as long as possible for more characters to be announced. How many of you have put in a preorder? How many of you managed to get the extremely transient Gold Experience Box with the gold plate Araki sketch and the Jotaro figure? Yes, just the Jotaro figure.

I was wondering how they were going to get out both the Jotaro and Dio figure. I didn’t notice it at the time, but if you look back on the ASB commercial with Terrence, it only displays the Jotaro one. The Dio one is going to be released separately by Banpresto around the time of ASB’s launch in late August. On top of that, the official posting on the Araki-JoJo site says something about it being “an amusement exclusive prize” while also not listing a price. My Japanese isn’t too strong, but it looks like that might mean these are going to be part of a giveaway and not just regularly for sale, at least not at first. So if you’re looking to get the full Dio on Jotaro All Star Figure vs. Set, you may be in store for a lot of extra waiting.

You can follow Banpresto’s JoJo figure releases at their official page for JoJo figures (they’re also the ones that make the PASSIONE line.) It links to the PrizeBP page for store tracking where you can look up stores that will have the figure you want listed according to your region of Japan. If you know someone who can buy you stuff directly from Japan, I’d let them know about this. Good thing we’ve met someone like that in the past, huh?

(From the original Araki-JoJo page. Image copyright Banpresto, Araki, and Luckyland)

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JoJo’s Beginner’s Guide (Middle Class)

Posted in JoJo's Year, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/02/23 by OnePixelJumpMan

Do you like art books? I know I do. Araki released another art book alongside the SPUR issue that came with “Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci.” I love the title especially the qualifier “For Middle Class Persons.” The book is exactly what it says. It’s a quick guide to everything JoJo, specifically villains, as are on the cover. The book goes through each villain and then a few cliffnotes on their Part and their involvement.

That’s one of my new favorite pictures of Funny Valentine, but the cake has to go to the picture of the main villain of JoJolion.

“Riddle me this, Josuke!”

Since this art book was probably made with some anticipation of the new fans brought in by the anime, there’s also little bits about that towards the end.

You can check out the full scans here and the original Tumblr post here. It’s quite a text beast and based around info most manga JoJo’s fans already know, so you might not want to bank on a translation.

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All Star Battle PV 4 Subbed! “I’ve taken the meaning out of your language.”

Posted in JoJo's Year, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/02/23 by OnePixelJumpMan

I assumed you guys would be interested in knowing what they were saying. It helps me out. I didn’t know what it was JoJolion Josuke was doing during his Grand Heat, but the friction stealing is cool. Okuyasu calling Giorno names makes way more sense than insulting his topknot that he totally has. His classic style “uurrryyy” is also a nice touch.

(Thanks to JoJo Tumblr for being that chain link. You can see the original post here.)

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JoJo Movie Collection for Ultra Jump March Issue

Posted in JoJo's Year, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/02/18 by OnePixelJumpMan

If anyone out there gets Ultra Jump, this month will be the month that pays off. Ultra Jump March Issue is going to come with a special DVD JoJo’s Movie Collection. The DVD will be a collection of videos that capture the themes and feelings of JoJo’s in a nice little package. It will include the first episode of JoJo’s The Animation, All Star Battle PV 3, some behind the scene’s footage at Kamikaze Video while they were making the openings of the anime, and a special 38 minute movie tour of the JOJOMenon exhibit.

I love the “try your own ripple” floor touchpad. I hope someone wins that in JoJo Royale even if that’s really unreasonable. I also like that visitors were able to get that close to some of the displays like the statue of Bruno and the zipped open wall.

It comes in March as a free bonus in Ultra Jump, so hopefully we’ll get a peek at it soon.

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All Star Battle PV 4! Father vs. Daughter, Gun vs. Gun, Vampire vs. Pompadour, RERO vs. RELA

Posted in JoJo's Year, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/02/18 by OnePixelJumpMan

Yeah, that’s the way to do it. Can we agree that we’re coming into ASB with a little “who’d win in a fight” mentality? The moment Mista and Hol Horse were both set to be in the game, I was thinking about who has the better gun stand. But the stand out rivalry is obviously the all out cage match of Cherries vs. Cheese.

The gameplay that we got to see with the main showcase characters, Johnny, Johnathan, Will, and JoJolion Josuke are pretty interesting. I was wrong about what move I thought would be the On Fire Fist, but we knew it would be there. Zoom punch got my attention because it looks like it sticks for a second instead of retracting immediately. If it does, it could be really awesome for anti-air because an opponent could misjudge the time and still jump into it. Will also has it, so I await my match where we sit across the ring just doing that at each other.

Johnny looks like he’s either going to be the character that’s really hard to use because of his very limited movement when not on Slow Dancer but very rewarding if you can handle him or the character that caters to spamming because he’s going to be projectile heavy. That does follow; his power was shooting his fingernails, but I don’t want that to mean he’ll be the back-up-and-shoot-you character.

JoJolion Josuke I think is going to be the trap/counter character with that all based around the soap bubble. I’ve got to give CC2 some credit for what they used for his moves because you see him using a bunch of soap bubbles as a barrier around his body like the shaving scene. He also does that at a distance, but I’m mostly interested in when the screen goes black. That specific bubble will steal the players’ “eyes” by blacking the screen so whoever’s JoJolion Josuke can get a free hit. That’s going to be really hard to use for human player because it blanks the screen, but there may be more to it than what’s in the PV.

Oh, and Kira. He has Sheer Heart Attack, but that’s all they’re telling us. I figured he would also be a counter/trap character because of the way Another One Bites the Dust works and all the bombs, but it’s not in the PV. At this point, I think we can be clear that Kira is DLC only. The way he’s rolled in with the Hayato Memo Book and the specific mention of PSN in the text on the still intro page (edit: and that he’s listed as such on the official character page.) You gotta buy him extra. If you don’t want to mess with getting foreign DLC, you might want to import fast.

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From the depths of silence Awaken thepillarsbeyondtimetogcouraofcrimood- … From the depths of silence Awaken

Posted in Fanworks, JoJo's Year, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/02/17 by OnePixelJumpMan

I love this fandom. Maybe it’s because JoJo’s itself gets really creative, but the fanworks are just incredible.

Give it a second to pick up. The moment you realize what’s going on, your mind will be blown. What really impresses me is that this could have just been the first part of the video and that would have been cute, but the number of stand powers and which powers they are at times this video is able to make use is incredible. It would have never entered my mind to use KISS, but it was so cool when it happened. See how many you can identify without using the tags as a cheat sheet. Hell, it may not work because I’m not sure I got them all.

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It’s Raining Scans! Dangan Tenshi One Shot, OPM 21-1 and 21-2, and Over Heaven

Posted in JoJo's Year, Onepunch-Man, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/02/16 by OnePixelJumpMan

Scan surplus. These scans have got to go because there’s just way too many in stock.

First up, Boon Scans has translated the OPM/Dangan Tenshi crossover one-shot. The whole thing is contained up in the picture link. Cute little story about Saitama getting beaten to his namesake. The translation was rolled in with his translation of Chapter 21-2. I’ll go ahead and mention that scan set now because I forgot to mention the translation of Chapter 21-1 when I talked about these raws.

But that’s not all. Kewl0210 over on the JoJo Forums has started translation on Nisio Isin’s original JoJo work Over Heaven. Nisio Isin, who Kewl called a terrible writer, is the guy who’s made absolutely nothing I’ve ever read or seen probably most notably Medaka Box, which Kewl called a monstrosity, so I guess we should expect some terrible monstrosity. The premise is interesting, though. The story is a collection of Dio Brando’s diary entries over the course of his life from before Phantom Blood up through Stardust Crusaders. It covers his mentality, what he thought about certain stands, and the things that happened to him that would lead to his idea of “Heaven.” The idea that was eventually passed on to Pucci so that he could make Stairway to Heaven/Made in Heaven to fulfill Dio’s legacy. He mentions that it’s not a well fulfilled concept but that Dio’s character is done well. Sounds like it’s worth a look to me, but I’ve always enjoyed Dio.

(Thanks to JoJo Tumblr for the picture and finding the post about Over Heaven)

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I’ll Trade You a Jotaro for Your Ultimate Cars

Posted in JoJo's Year, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/01/22 by OnePixelJumpMan

Have you seen the new JoJo’s TCG? It comes in Part 1:

It comes in Part 2:

And it even comes in Part 3:

I wonder, if because they used anime only pictures, you could consider this an early preview of Stardust Crusaders anime designs, especially on Jotaro. I also love how “ORA” and “MUDA” are plastered all over the back of Star Platinum and The World.

You can find the whole card listing at the official Project Core site. (edit: That page no longer has the listing of cards for whatever reason. I’ll leave the link for completeness sake, but you can find an image group of some of the now missing cards at this Tumblr page)

(Thanks to Yaraon for finding this)

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All-Star Battle Gameplay Shots 2! The Emeperor Can’t Strike a Pose; It’s a Gun

Posted in JoJo's Year, Text Articles with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/12/06 by OnePixelJumpMan

Just like with the last preview shots of All-Star Battle, Famitsu comes through for us again with quality shots and gameplay pictures of All-Star Battle’s newest announced characters.

Dio and The World

Abdul and Magician’s Red

Hol Horse and The Emperor

The upclose shot makes it all the more apparent how fabulous Magician’s Red is. I mean, naturally growing feather pants and what I think may be go go boots. They don’t really compare to Dio’s striped elf shoes, but feather pants. I’m also impressed with how accurate to the manga they made The Emperor.

When looking for a picture of manga The Emperor, I didn’t mean to find the actual reference picture.

Dio’s looking good, like you would expect, and everyone’s doing well in their gameplay pictures. If I’m seeing this right, Magician’s Red had retained it’s ability from the original fighting game to grab your face and make you blow up.


And his taunt lets him tell you exactly what he thinks of you.

Pfft. Couldn’t handle a little facial explosion. What a pussy.

Hol Horse gets to use a fellow Dio follower as an ultra. His ultimate attack is recreating Abdul’s “death” scene by summoning The Hanged Man.

http://i.imgur.com/li7N4.jpg

I love how he looks like he’s shrugging his shoulders. “I don’t know how I got here either, man.”

But did you really come to see Hol Horse and J. Geil, or did you come watch Dio throw hundreds of knives at Jotaro? And then a steam roller. And then punch the steamroller because a steamroller to the face isn’t enough to kill Jotaro.

This looks really weird when you take a still image of it.

And finally, we get a nice new battle map based on Dio’s lair from just before the final fights of Part 3. Considering that they’re doing the stage hazard thing, do you think Kakyoin blowing up the wall will be one? Maybe Vanilla Ice will run around the room and bump into you turning you into a mass of discarded limbs. Sounds unfair, so probably Kakyoin.

With all the gameplay images of All-Star Battle, I’m hoping we get some more Steel Ball Run characters soon because I think we’ve only seen Gyro up to this point. I want that Double Dio Madness Match I was talking about before.

(All images from Famitsu.com as you can probably tell from their watermark)

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Dio’s Beautiul in-game Model. Also, Hol Horse and Abdul

Posted in JoJo's Year with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on 2012/11/28 by OnePixelJumpMan

A handful of new All-Star Battle confirmations. We already know about Okuyasu and Hermes, so what could be next.

http://i.imgur.com/0bWc0.jpg

Well, all right then. I don’t think any of us doubted he would be, but Dio brando is confirmed. Specifically Stardust Crusaders Dio. I’m not sure if there will be an alternate Phantom Blood Dio or if that will just be an extra costume or something. We can expect time stopping powers just like we’ve seen with Jotaro in the trailers since he comes with The World. To that end, Jotaro will be able to move around in the stopped time if his super gauge is filled. Possibly the most important thing is that if you look on the left hand of the page, you can see a steamroller getting dropped. I’m not surprised that they put that in, but it makes me happy to know that they did.

And, not to sell them short, Abdul and Hol Horse have their confirmation tucked away in the lower corner. They look good for what you can see. It had been long enough since playing the Capcom fighting game that I’d forgotten Abdul has green hair. You unfortunately can’t seen Magician’s Red, but hopefully we’ll get some gameplay screens of Abdul and him soon like we did with Okuyasu  and Hermes. I wasn’t expecting Hol Horse. A lot of Dio’s Part 3 underlings came and went pretty fast, so Hol Horse did end up being one of the more prominent ones. I wonder how he’ll comepare to Mista since they both have gun based Stands.

So we’ve gotten Parts 4, 5, 6 and now Part 3 characters. Who do you think we’ll get for Part 7? Think we’ll get Diego Brando? Double Dio Madeness Match? If that does happen, I demand it as a warm-up show at every tournament with this game in it.

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