With the broadcast of Jojo's sixth sea of stones, JoJo finally ushered in another carnival after the fifth animation. This time jojo is still produced by David Society, and at the same time distributed by Netflix agency, the overall production level is very sophisticated, far beyond the fifth generation in the senses. With the blessing of kamikaze animation on the op, the unique image connection between two-dimensional and three-dimensional is not sighed, and it is back. The sixth part has achieved good results among the audience and the media, douban 9.6, ign 10 full score is enough to show its excellence. In fact, each of Jojo's films has achieved a high score of 9.0 or above in Douban, what is unique about this comic.
The Douban score of the previous jojo is above 9.0 points, which is a very good result
Eerie painting style and riotous characters
"There are only people in the world who like jojo and people who haven't seen jojo." It is normal for a jo chef Amway's work to be rejected by the other party due to his painting style. Jojo's work was first serialized in 1987, 34 years ago, and Dragon Ball is a product of an era. The author, Araki Hiruihiko, is a big fan of "Hokuto Shinken", so jojo's early painting style is the same as that of "Hokuto Shinken", both are realistic and muscular painting styles. This is especially evident in the first three films, where the characters are not only realistic, but also exaggerate some of the muscles of the characters.
The traces of the early jojo imitating the "Big Dipper God Fist" are obvious, and the human body and details were not as good as the Big Dipper at that time
This kind of picture is exquisite and rigorous, but the amount of engineering is extremely large, and the concave and convex figure of the character also has high requirements for the painter's drawing, which is destined to be the choice and development trend of most cartoonists. This is also the reason why Jojo's style of painting seems particularly anachronistic today. By the end of the fourth part, Jojo's style of painting also changed significantly, the characters were more simple and capable, and the muscular relationship was weakened, so that Seitaro of the third part was ridiculed and became younger and younger when he appeared in the fifth part. In the last two jojos, it is already quite beautiful and beautiful characters and shapes, but still without losing the toughness of the human body structure.
Three generations of Ah Qiang and five generations of Ah Qiang
Now jojo has faded the exaggerated portrayal of muscles before, but the portrayal of human anatomy is still very accurate
In an old-fashioned and hard-hitting style, Jojo has another characteristic: the characters in it are always dressed in fancy costumes. This actually has a certain trend in the jojo of the first four parts, but the overall character dressing style is still biased towards realism, and only a few characters with exceptionally strong aura wear strange costumes. But in the fifth part, Rong Rong's protagonist group all have strange shapes and extremely riotous costumes, which are directly called "Italian Cowboy Group" by the audience. In China, also from the fifth part, Jojo entered the public's field of vision. From the beginning of the fifth to the later manga, Araki completely released himself in terms of character modeling, and seemed to realize his dream of being a "costume designer" in the manga. This realistic style of painting, enchanting characters, and riotous costumes has also become one of jojo's labels.
Araki graduated from the School of Design and originally wanted to become a fashion designer. This is a collaboration between Jojo and the fashion brand Gucci
Cross-era plots and systems
Jojo has a total of eight so far, and unlike the other King's Road comics where one of the protagonists is getting stronger, each jojo has a new protagonist. The plot of the first part begins in 1868, and until 2011 of the sixth part, Jojo has spanned a hundred years of history, during which the relationship between the six protagonists is intricate, and each person plays a different role in the era. The two most recent jojo stories take place in parallel worlds. This setting of constantly changing the protagonist weakens the growth of the protagonist and avoids the collapse of combat power. In fact, the growth rate of the characters in jojo is extremely fast, and it only takes one or two episodes to have a high combat literacy from a stunned youth. In particular, the protagonists of the third and fifth parts can be called gods and mortals, and they have perseverance and wisdom far beyond ordinary people at the beginning. Therefore, in jojo, the shaping of the character image will also appear flat and symbolic.
Joruno's mind as a fifteen-year-old boy is too mature, and his mind has reached its peak when he appears, and he is a character whose divinity is greater than humanity
At the same time, in the jojo series, there is little in-depth portrayal of the world view and the grand narrative of the era background, so there is also little sense of the times and history. Each period of jojo belongs to a different faction. This also allows the reader to focus on the struggle between people when reading jojo, rather than the struggle between forces and forces. This style weakens all factors outside of people and necessary scenes, the sense of the times and the locality are not so important, the color and color are not serious, even in prison, you can wear strange clothes - as long as it is conducive to the shaping of the character or Araki himself like. In this way, Jojo's work has its own unique and free color style, and the portrayal of the character's personality has also reached its peak.
The riotous costumes, the bright colors are not realistic but insignificant, and the deviant color schemes and strange postures have a different kind of beauty
From symbolism to new symbolism
As the evergreen tree of the acg world, jojo terriers emerge endlessly, and through a large number of secondary creations to spread virally, has long become one of the symbols of the Internet, and its jojo standing and famous lines have even caused many comics to imitate. This is something that no other comic book can do, and it is something that serious comics cannot do.
There are countless comics that pay tribute to jojo. This is the third episode of "Game Life", which pays tribute to the famous lines of the shore-side companions
The reason for this is that jojo is full of symbols and symbols everywhere in Araki's pen. These symbols are filled with character names, dialogue, sound characters in the screen, and bizarre costumes. Many of the names and moves of the stand-ins are the band and song titles that Araki likes, but have nothing to do with the avatar's own abilities; the dialogue of the characters is often verbal and extremely exaggerated. This nonsense cannot be traced back to the roots, but it makes the work itself a very good symbol. In the portrayal of some characters, Araki will quote the scriptures and knock on the identity of the characters on the side and side. Leave room for people's imagination. This meticulous but debauched approach to character portrayal makes jojo rich in connotation and reveals an absurd and strange temperament at the same time.
In the fifth Rolling Stone, the sculptor wears thorns on his head and opens holes in his hands, as if he were the image of Jesus at the time of his torture, and the character of this person is also the spokesman for the fate of the film
Sometimes there is a very nonsensical strong expression, the technique is very exaggerated, the symbolism is very strong
Man-to-person duels
Because the focus is on the struggle of "people", the portrayal of battles between individuals is very important, and if it is a pure battle competition like the Royal Road comic, then it will fall into the boring situation of opposing waves and punches. In the first two films, Araki builds on British history and folklore to create a confrontation between vampires and ripple warriors. After the second part, Araki basically abolished the concept of "ripple" in the previous game, and introduced the "double" system from the third part ("stand-in" is the externalization of the human spirit, and each double has its own unique ability. to provide a more exquisite and huge stage for jojo's battles. Practice has proved that the setting of the stand-in is very successful. With this system in place, Araki uses psychological and external environments to kill "by the rules" through each person's different ability settings. In the later stage, the basic panel of the stand-in, such as strength and precision, is no longer important, and the special ability of the stand-in is the means to win the surprise. Each ability tests each other, understands each other, and finally uses its own advantages to turn the peak circuit and turn defeat into victory. Kira's boss battle, the fourth part, is the first to be promoted here, which is a very wonderful battle of wits in the old world jojo.
The boss battle in the fourth part is the pinnacle of jojo's wit
On the one hand, this system simplifies the cumbersome prop settings in the first and second generations, on the other hand, because the stand-in is the externalization of spiritual power in the setting, the competition between the stand-ins is the characteristic of the competition of the wills of the two sides, so that in each battle, whether it is set or in the actual plot performance, the will and spirit of the characters can be highlighted, and this is also the focus of Araki's performance. In the fifth part of the magnificent battle, the two sides test each other, and after fully understanding each other's abilities, it becomes a duel of pure will, and the light of human nature is also dazzling.
Part V is without a doubt the most exciting battle
About the Spirit of Gold
Jojo was born in part because of the church statues that Araki received while visiting Italy, so the manga has a strong Christian flavor in some places. For example, when important characters die, there are golden clouds and angels (also jokingly called dead people by readers), indicating that a noble soul has passed away. In the sixth part, the role of the priest is even directly portrayed, revolving around heaven and restarting the entire series. Therefore, there is also a religious concept of "fate" in jojo - man cannot escape fate, but can only struggle in fate. Man cannot change the outcome of fate, but he can make the process different. The stories of all the people in Jojo are stories of resistance. This is most clearly described in the fifth part of the Rolling Stones, where Bugarati cannot escape the fate of death, but he can choose the way he dies. Choosing your own way of dying is not simple, you need to rely on human wisdom and courage to fight against fate, and the shining brilliance is the golden spirit that Araki wants to express.