You miss my point.
If it's Hamon, and DIO is a Vampire then he should be exploding like Straits did when he tried to use it as a vamp.
You miss my point.
If it's Hamon, and DIO is a Vampire then he should be exploding like Straits did when he tried to use it as a vamp.
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Guys, remember that Steel Ball Run will probably be animated and we should probably be careful not to spoil anything, including the existence of certain characters.
Is it? I wonder.
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Now, there's definitely a connection between The World and Star Platinum, and the easiest explanation for that is that The World is somehow related to the Joestar bloodline, but considering Steel Ball Run, I don't think we can just take that as a fact.
It seems like the easiest explanation, particularly with Holly's own undeveloped Stand.
Also, about the DIO being able to use HP without exploding, I have one possibly stretchy explanation. The blood-brain barrier. In the human body, the blood vessels feeding the head and brain are separate from those that circulate blood through the body, and since DIO as a vampire could live as an autonomous head and grafted himself onto another's body, the divide is likely even stronger than in a normal human, possibly protecting him.
Seeing as we're on the topic of theorising about Stands, I've been re-watching the first half of Stardust Crusaders recently and I'm curious about what y'all think Holly's Stand would have been had she actually been able to manifest it properly...
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Simple. It'd have been another HP variant since it already looked like a raspberry bush with thorns or something. Besides, she does have some latent Hamon potential. As for any specific abilities, I'd think it'd either have the heart-reading aspect of HP up to 11, or it'd have some ability that healed or caused tranquility in targets.
I wonder if Araki tried to write Hamon again as he is now as compared to 30 years ago, how might he have written it differently? Personally, I like Hamon as is, but the execution is a bit rough.
Contemporary Hamon is Spin though
Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions IThough abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
Yeah, no. Despite how common that meme(?) is in the fandom, the two are almost nothing alike, the only commonality being that they both are inspired from nature. I was just asking that if Araki were to rewrite Hamon with the same general concept as 30 years ago, what might come out now that he has proven himself to be a much more experienced and creatively free mangaka?
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Since we've brought up the subject of Extradiegetic Narrative, can I just say that the sheer number of continuity errors in Jojolion really prevent me from enjoying its otherwise good story.
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Nah. Part 4 Kira got his Stand from the arrow Yoshihiro had in his possession from DIO and Enya. Before then, he had to murder Reimi and her family the old-fashioned way, and he forgot to take her hands.
Also, the only thing I can map to a healing touch for DIO is when he attached Vanilla Ice's head back to his body, but that's because DIO was a vampire that he could do it.
On a random note, I've been sorta rereading the Phantom Blood manga, and I noticed when the driver tried to warn Jonathan not to go to Ogre Street, he said it was a place for the cursed and that every epidemic struck there. Seems like that'd be something for a Rohan side material since Rohan's already dealt with cursed locations before such as the Millenium Villa or the Louvre. What do you guys think?
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I'm referring to literal errors of continuity within Jojolion itself where either the narrative or a character states one thing but then we see what they're talking about and it turns out to be something that completely contradicts them.
To list a few examples off the top of my head...
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It's not enough to make me hate Jojolion, but it does make it difficult to get attached to what's going on when plot points that appear can easily change or disappear at the drop of a hat.
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Oh, the Pucci part? I assumed that was DIO's vampiric powers at work. He definitely displayed the ability to manipulate the bodies of others, I mean look at the disturbing menagerie of zombies he created in Part 1. He definitely has some power over the biology of others. That or he gave some of his vampiric flesh/cells to Pucci to somehow correct the club foot.
Also, I had yet to notice all those errors because I just binged it this weekend, but now that I think about it, yeah...SBR was way better in that regard.
He also spent 100 year under the sea, so who's to say he didn't develop new powers while down there.
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