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Old 2011-05-03, 20:40   Link #12
marvelB
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Originally Posted by Kanon View Post
That's why the end of part 5 was so disappointing. I expected the gang to beat King Crimson with their smarts, not thanks to some goddamn Deus Ex Machina...



Yeah, seriously. I just can't help but feel that Araki handled the final battle way too sloppily. The only part I really liked about Diavolo's defeat was the whole INFINITE DEATH LOOP thing, but that was about it. And GER's existence is all the more ironic considering that Araki wrote Fugo out of the story because he considered his Stand (which was awesome) to be way too overpowered....



Actually, to be honest...... I found part 5 as a whole to be pretty disappointing. When I first heard about it I was actually looking forward to it a lot because of the whole mafia theme. But I dunno..... I just wasn't really feeling it. I didn't really care for most of the characters (the only good guys I really liked were Bucciarati and Mista), I found a bunch of the Stands uninteresting, and even the villains were for the most part boring (ESPECIALLY Diavolo...... ye gods, even his crazy polka-dotted hair can't save him from his total vapidness....). The plot wasn't really doing it for me either, since I was expecting to see Giorno go on a bunch of dirty "jobs" during his stint in Passione (while secretly doing good deeds using his Stand powers), but..... for some reason, most of the series ended up being some wacky escort mission involving a semi-useless character (Trish was literally useful for just ONE fight). And then there's Polnareff's return, which was just..... bleh (though I find it kind of hilarious that he now has to be a turtle for the rest of his life). *Sigh*, just a huge, huge, disappointment (though it still had a few awesome moments here and there). And sadly, this wouldn't be the last time a mafia-themed manga disappointed me (*coughhackreborncough*).....



But funny thing: Stone Ocean had pretty much the opposite effect on me. See, part 5's blunders pretty much lowered my expectations for part 6 (and I will sorta kinda admit that the protagonists' being a female had a bit of a hand in that too (insert cries of "OMG SEXIST" here)), but.... the whole saga turned out to be so dang surreal and (at least to me) fun that it instantly shot up to one of my top fave Jojo sagas. The fact that it was part prison-drama helped too (I'm kind of a sucker for those), and I really liked the characters and enemies a lot (Dio's 3 "lost" sons were way more interesting than Giorno ever was throughout the whole of part 5, IMO). Personally, I'm kinda hoping that the upcoming Jojolion will be as wacky and surreal as Stone Ocean was......
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