EARLY ACCESS JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Episode 22 Reaction

I think I know what you mean. it makes them feel small by being larger than life, and then we zoom back down to the human level to provide the emotional climax of the story. Giorno is a jojo who's all about lifting up the common man, and even his story focuses on how amazing ordinary people are, and how they are his true strength. (an amazing contrast with the boss, who believes he deserves his position solely because of some innate specialness inside him.) Some people interpreted this as "Giorno isn't really the protagonist", but the way I see it the idea is that he wouldn't deserve to be the protagonist if he bought into that myth of exceptionalism. His focus on and acknowledgement of others is what keeps him from becoming the worst parts of Dio.

Jermaine Tito

Also, the fact that beating Diavolo isn't the end of the story - and I would argue, not even the most exciting part - drives home that last point about "end results" even more. It makes both Giorno and Diavolo seem small within their own story, but in a good way. The end of part 5 is such a good, true denouement.

Derrick C. Shields

something related to the endgame of part 5... I just watched MHA episode 13 and it seems like a major character has an ability similar to a stand with a three word name. It's funny how they're watching a modern series that has lots of takes on superpowers that seem inspired by jjba and then only seeing the original versions of those powers afterwards, lol

Jermaine Tito

it slaps

Hypemaster

Clash's theme is so good.

ile

I think they're going to really like the way the arrow is handled. the backstory, the long hard road to get to it, and then that big arc where we're shown how fucking crazily powerful it can make stands and it's used as an impediment to the protagonists rather than an easy solution. I believe it transcends the deus ex machina thing that stuff like the red stone of aja or Jotaro's "similar stand" kind of definitely were. The way it defeats Diavolo is so mind-bendingly overpowering that it makes you feel glad they didn't try to draw it out and make it a jotaro vs. Dio thing, as usually happens in shonen with this kind of plot point. It's literally just like, "yeah you know how this is going to end. but the end result is not what's most important here". It perfectly ties together the themes of the part.

Jermaine Tito

multiple hours later i realized that maniac was doing a call and response thing with himself, where he said "HELL NO" meaning they did not skip it, lol

Jermaine Tito

this was one of the funniest episodes in the series, i'm glad they didn't take the absurd miscommunication stuff too seriously! In the next episode it's used much more realistically. I love this fight! The way the Talking Head theme starts and then stops playing depending on if narancia is telling a lie or not absolutely slays me

Jermaine Tito

They did watch it, what are you talking about?

haven’t watched the reaction yet, but they’ll probably watch it after the Doppio and Risotto fight or something.

Kyle

Did they skip one of the best openings? HELL NO

Caleb