I found it much more exciting than the first, and I must say that the quality has risen, especially in designs that improve and begin to remember Ken the Warrior always less, volume after volume. The setting goes from England to America in the nineteenth-twentieth century, even taking us in Mexico, Italy and Switzerland. Hirohiko Araki mix reality and fiction, causing the historical setting has not only the role of background but actively participate in the plot, the reconstruction I thought that was good, and it is ironic that it is a Japanese author to having to remember the Italian values, doing Zeppeli say:
"For us Italians, the family is a sacred well. we are proud of and we are continuing what our parents started ..."
The only thing I wonder is: possible that Mexicans, Americans, Italians and Germans speak to each other without any problems?
Will that even the most ignorant of the characters knew English.
The protagonist of this new adventure is bizarre joestar Joseph, grandson of the first JoJo and definitely more impetuous and boastful compared to their ancestors; the generation of this JoJo, able to control the concentric waves to natural predisposition, has more than the fighters seen previously, and this characteristic represents the true evolution of "Battle Tendency" compared to "Phantom Blood", that is, the strategy: each duel that involves the hero will never be free to fulfill the scene and real stroke of genius by JoJo, a master at exploiting the battlefield and the objects that surround him, finding in this an appropriate way to keep head at enemies far more experienced and powerful than he, sometimes managing to save the day.
The style of Araki also undergo a major change; adjacent tables of this manga seem to form a narrative continuum, penetrate each other, giving the scene an often fundamental dynamism for excellent performance of the fighting. The design now becomes more proportionate: disappear the blunders in the perspective of the faces and while retaining the characteristic features of the first JoJo, for the pomp and apparel eccentricity, giving the characters, JoJo, and Caesar in particular, an air of 'dandy-fighters'.
If we add the poses, other novelties that will mark the entire series of Araki, the characters take in pronouncing almost every sentence, whether it is a terse ultimatum or a common phrase, the mix that comes out is something truly "remarkable". Even the characters have evolved with respect to the first set, where there was a clear opposition between 'good' and 'evil'. But here the protagonist does not always show a hero's character, typical instead of Jonathan, but it demonstrates sometimes arrogant, bully, prone to violence and anger, more interested in the women who in the training, and on the other hand, his aide Caesar Zeppeli, far from a model of virtue and moral rectitude of his grandfather, is quite a "Don Giovanni "and seducer.
In this second series we will find a greater number of main characters, first Joseph, who is the exact opposite of his grandfather Jonathan, a Victorian hero by strong feelings, being more cocky, reckless, pragmatic and much stronger since the beginning of the manga . Caesar Zeppeli plays its role well shoulder also emerging in many situations, however, they are less convincing and Lisa Lisa Von Stroheim. However, the defect of the second series is the antagonist Kars. Araki in the forced research of something epic,has greatly neglected the psychological characterization of the antagonist, an element that had made great Dio Brando in Phantom Blood. In short, I can not find adjectives to describe Kars, if not anonymous. To say it all his aides, and especially Eisidisi and Whamoo are characterized and managed much better, because the reader can feel their motives and their ethics. the stretch of Araki is arguably less discontinuous than in "Phantom Blood", but otherwise nothing changes: the tables are always rough and sometimes difficult to understand, while the figures are disproportionate, anatomically unconvincing and far over the top as far as the outfits (again, welcome in the eighties!).
However, you can forgive this and more because of their incredible eloquence, and the personal tastes of each. The biggest flaw is probably the final work. Too forced, for as I see it. By this I mean both the final battle (probably the author had created a too strong opponent and had to use the media exaggerated and not credible to drop it)
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