Why was jojo so popular?

[Sneaky lurker]

The writing, art style and aesthetics are very mediocre. Youtubers love to pretend this series is very deep and complex because they have financial incentives to brainwash their audiences into getting addicted to content they can easily explore to pump out slop at an industrial pace, but the anime/manga has no substance. It's worse than western comics in many ways, there is no substance to it, it is just a glorified drag parade.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Bait

 

[souschef]

I find the animation too overwhelming, it simply does not look good

 

[dick brain]

Closeted gays pretending to be heterosexuals pretending to be gay ironically.

 

[Neodanthril]

Lolsorandom reddit anime

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Araki is a really psycho stylish artist.
I like him.

 

[allthewaydowntotheballbag]

It's silly and over-the-top, and lots of people, including me, love that kind of stuff.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Let’s see here:
Memes for days
Music references
The reputation being carried for years by the super manly Jotaro
Great action
Multiple parts meaning that every part will have something someone will like
Hirohiko Araki being a pretty cool thing all things considered
Everything is so over the top and ridiculous it’s just endearing and puts a smile on your face.

Am I missing anything?

 

[Sneaky lurker]

Memes for days

Jojo memes sucked though. Niggas went insane over some pimped out italian singing about pizza.

Great action

I disagree. I recently rewatched some clips and everything is so melodramatic and overacted I can't take it seriously

 

[Glaust]

People keep bringing up Jojo memes all the time and I tell them to fuck off every time. It's the one reason I will never watch the anime, if it invites this many annoying and brainless morons in then I'm not going to watch it.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Reminder:Bait

 

[Shamefuru Disprayu]

What's Jojo?

 

[Pruto]

What's Jojo?

The only chinese cartoon worth watching, by far.

 

[Dysnomia]

No clue. I think the art is hideous.

 

[Postal_Rat]

I don't watch jojo for the complexity. I watch it because it shouldn't exist but does I watch it because, it's strange, it's absurd, it's bizarre. Anyone pretending it's high art is just insecure it's not that fucking deep I just like the nazi cyborg burning vampires with shoulder mounted UV lights while screaming that german technology is the greatest.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

It's silly and over-the-top, and lots of people, including me, love that kind of stuff.

Having fun on my Kiwifarms? Not based.

 

[BigMan13]

Part 1 is ok, Part 2 is good, Part 3 is what everyone talks about. Everything after is when Araki started getting really into feminine men.

And it's only gotten worse.

Spoiler: Troon goon shit

Yes, the character wearing the bikini is a man, yes the character is precisely "18" years old, despite looking younger than the 15 year old protaganist further back.
Image from a side character article in the wiki, appearently the introduction to this character by the image file name.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

A gay vampire named after the second singer of black sabbath wearing green lipstick stops time to throw a steam roller on a man and then starts punch the steam roller hundreds of time a second to somehow make it crush him more.
If you cant enjoy that your probably a miserable fuck.