September 5, 2023

We Can Sail With the Orinoco Flow

Some people start with Stardust Crusaders (Part 3), so this review is with that in mind. Like other JoJo Parts, it stands on its own, you don't have to have read the other Parts. Characters from a previous Parts are reintroduced. JoJo as a whole series follows members of the Joestar bloodline. Part 3's JoJo is Jotaro Kujo, the great-grandson of the first JoJo protagonist.

As far as language goes, Part 3 is a mixed bag. Some characters have speech quirks, some of which might be to indicate that they are less skilled at the language being spoken in the media. The nice thing though is that there's far less of the slang style speech that you see in most native texts. There's just a lot of odd words and phrasings (intentionally).

As for the plot of Part 3 specifically, it's very monster of the week up until the final battle. The final battle of Part 3 is absolutely amazing though. If you slog through the beginning, the last 3-4 volumes make up for it imo.

If Part 3 doesn't capture your attention, I recommend trying out another Part. Part 1 is great for beginners and Part 5 is probably the second most popular Part after 3. Each Part of JoJo gives nods to various other genres, so each of them have much different moods. Part 3 is a bit of Around the World in 80 Days meets Dracula. Part 1 is more straight up Dracula and Part 5 is a gangster/mafia story.

As far as content warnings go... Part 3 has a considerable amount of body horror. It's not in every arc/fight, but it's in probably somewhere between 1/3-2/3 of them I'd estimate. Some of the pages featuring it can be text heavy, so it might be a bit hard to avoid if that's a turn off for you.

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