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Originally Posted by Kanon

Spoiler for SBR volume 22:

I enjoyed Valentine's backstory as well. It's interesting that the antagonist of this arc has far more noble goals in mind than the protagonist. He's very different from previous Jojo villains.

Spoiler:

Well, that's not entirely true. Pucci from Stone Ocean basically had righteous intentions as well (and frankly, if not for him, Valentine wouldn't have even existed in the first place!).

Okay, so the raw for this month's Jojolion is out now. However, since last month's chapter hasn't been translated yet, I think I should give a small summary of that first to bring us up to speed:

Spoiler for Jojolion chap 8:

So as I mentioned a while back, Daiya has a stand called "California King Bed", which she explains she obtained after falling in a ditch when she was about 2-3 years old. It turns out that the way her ability works is that she can steal a person's memories and seal it inside of a chess piece if that person disobeys her orders (however, this does NOT mean that she was the one who stole the memories of Gappy's true identity!). Anyhow, the memory she stole was the symbol that was on Kira's corpse (which also appeared on the stair banister in the Higashikata household). She also notes that it's unwise to break the chess piece containing the memory because that would mean losing that memory forever. However, since "fairness" seems to be a condition of her ability she explains its weakness to him: A victim can regain their memories if Daiya steps on their shadow. But naturally, she won't give the protagonist his memories back so easily, forcing him to consider defeating her power through more trickier means.....



Meanwhile, Yasuho is back at her house, and checks out some lab test results comparing Gappy and Kira's DNA. It turns out that their bodies have a 95.8% match...! Yasuho is about to call back the lab when she too notices the strange symbol on the picture of Kira's corpse.....

Follow now? Good! Now let's move on to the summary for THIS month's chapter:

Spoiler for Jojolion chap 9:

Continuing from last chapter, Daiya wises up to Josuke's attempts at tricking her into stepping onto his shadow. She then punishes him by..... stealing his memories of Yasuho! Daiya then makes her move and seduces our gap-toothed friend.....

Spoiler for kinky:

However, it's around this time that papa comes back home, and.... well:

Spoiler for uh oh:

Naturally, Norisuke is enraged when he sees his guest about to deflower his daughter, but he backs off for some reason (probably to set up his revenge on him at a later time....). However, the two lovebirds nonetheless get interrupted when one of Josuke's bubbles pops, making a noise (apparently, he sealed off the sound of the light switch earlier with his ability). Daiya escapes from his embrace, having once again caught on to his true intentions....


Man, that Daiya is one tricky broad! To think she could exercise this much control over poor Gappy..... hopefully, he'll find a way to defeat her power soon (and I'm still sorta hoping that she'll turn over a new leaf and become one of the heroes, but that may be difficult if her daddy is aiming for Josuke's head next....)

Now having learned all this info, these sound like a couple of fun chapters to me!