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- Jun 17, 2018
Finally caught up with Part 9, just gonna throw out some early predictions:
I hate reading monthly so I'll probably finish the current arc then drop off for another 2-3 years until "Part 2" is complete.
- Hacca isn't the main villain, and will become a reluctant ally when he returns to the story. He and Jodio will have to cooperate to create a new lava rock.
- Meryl Mei will betray them. She literally grooms vulnerable teens into a life of crime, putting them into life-threatening situations for her own personal gain. It would be an actual godlike twist if she ends up being the main villain and Jodio and Hacca have to team up to steal the land back from her.
I think Hacca probably is not in conscious control of his Stand. Despite knowing of the existence of Stands, he's seemingly unaware that the mercenaries he hired are Stand users, which suggests he's incredibly inexperienced and not particularly savvy. Also, despite acting very impulsively, threatening them with a gun and firing off shots inside his own yacht, he never uses his Stand until literally the last possible second - had he used it earlier, he probably could've gotten his hands on the lava rock. The way that scene is drawn, it really made it feel like the Stand was a manifestation of his willpower, and that the moment he realized he was going to lose everything was the first time in his life that he locked in for real. I almost wonder if that was actually the first time he'd ever properly summoned his Stand and used its ability.
Honestly most of the fights during this part have been kind of mid, the Charmingman fight was the only one that really stood out. The Key West fight wasn't bad, but in any other Jojo part it would be a random fodder battle and not the climax of a major turning point in the story. Personally I'm so over Stands like Bag's Groove or Ningbo's bubble thing because Araki completely fails to make bodily harm a credible threat - you know they're gonna be inexplicably patched up before the next arc anyways regardless of how much damage they sustain, so there's just zero tension in those fights.
- Meryl Mei will betray them. She literally grooms vulnerable teens into a life of crime, putting them into life-threatening situations for her own personal gain. It would be an actual godlike twist if she ends up being the main villain and Jodio and Hacca have to team up to steal the land back from her.
I think Hacca probably is not in conscious control of his Stand. Despite knowing of the existence of Stands, he's seemingly unaware that the mercenaries he hired are Stand users, which suggests he's incredibly inexperienced and not particularly savvy. Also, despite acting very impulsively, threatening them with a gun and firing off shots inside his own yacht, he never uses his Stand until literally the last possible second - had he used it earlier, he probably could've gotten his hands on the lava rock. The way that scene is drawn, it really made it feel like the Stand was a manifestation of his willpower, and that the moment he realized he was going to lose everything was the first time in his life that he locked in for real. I almost wonder if that was actually the first time he'd ever properly summoned his Stand and used its ability.
Honestly most of the fights during this part have been kind of mid, the Charmingman fight was the only one that really stood out. The Key West fight wasn't bad, but in any other Jojo part it would be a random fodder battle and not the climax of a major turning point in the story. Personally I'm so over Stands like Bag's Groove or Ningbo's bubble thing because Araki completely fails to make bodily harm a credible threat - you know they're gonna be inexplicably patched up before the next arc anyways regardless of how much damage they sustain, so there's just zero tension in those fights.
I hate reading monthly so I'll probably finish the current arc then drop off for another 2-3 years until "Part 2" is complete.
