Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 1: Jotaro Meets Josuke! (First Impression)

It’s finally here!

I’ve never been so in love in my life (●♡∀♡)

JOTARO LOOKS SO GOOD

AND JOSUKE DOES TOO

I’m a pretty recent Jojo fan. I started getting into it when the first season of Stardust Crusaders was airing and I quickly caught up. Right after I finished reviewing the second season, I quickly went over to read the manga, starting from Part 4, Diamond is Unbreakable. And I’m hooked. Part 4 is pretty special. Just watching this episode you can see the difference. For one thing, the colors are a lot brighter compared to Part 3, and that’s because with Part 4 you’ll expect a more calm and relaxed setting. There won’t be big road trips, no zombies, no scantily clad Aztec men. The entire part takes place in the small but lovely and (used to be) peaceful town of Morioh-cho. I always loved that about Part 4, but even though it’s a more chill part, it still has exciting action. We’ve only been introduced to two new characters so far, but believe me when I say the characters are fantastic as well. This part getting an anime is amazing, and it makes it highly more likely that the rest of the parts are going to get their own adaptations later.

*imagines an anime of Stone Ocean* （*´▽｀*）

So let’s get to the actual episode! This part is set years later after Part 3. It’s 1999 and we’re in a small town called Morioh. We get this narration by a boy named Koichi Hirose, who is about to start his first day of high school. Yes, high school. Don’t be fooled, he’s just really…tiny. As he waits for the bus, he accidentally bumps into someone. A tall man in white, who we all know. Jotaro Kujo (*cheers*). We saw in the beginning that he had been riding a taxi into Morioh, and when he apologizes to Koichi for bumping into him, he asks if he knows a Higashikata. Koichi doesn’t, but he knows the address that Jotaro shows him and so Jotaro waits for the bus that’ll take him there. It’s then that a commotion starts with some thugs. Enter Josuke. He gets berated by the upperclassman for not saying hi to him. Josuke’s too busy trying to get over his fear of turtles. Why is he afraid of turtles? I don’t know, we’ll never know. But the fact that he’s afraid of turtles makes me love him more. He gets into trouble with the upperclassmen, and one of the thugs grabs the turtle and chucks it at a wall and injures it badly. It’s then one of them asks for his name, and when Jotaro hears him say it, he reacts. It’s also then that these thugs ask Josuke to take off his uniform, and they rush him, and one of them goes to insult his hair.

WHICH IS SOMETHING YOU DON’T DO WITH JOSUKE.

All of a sudden, Josuke’s personality takes a 180 and he beats up the thugs. Seeing a familiar sight, we see an arm appear from behind him and punch one of the thugs that does a weird thing to his face. He’s bleeding at first, but then it heals but takes a completely different shape. Getting freaked out, they run off. Josuke walks over to the turtle and puts it back in the fountain, the turtle alive and well.

Now, people watching this are like “Josuke Higashikata? Jojo? Where’s the Jo in his last name, there is no Jo!” You’re right! Because the Jojos always have a Jo in their name. Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo. But Josuke Higashikata? Well, besides the fact that the idiot thug couldn’t even read Josuke’s name right, he really is a Jojo, and why? After the thugs leave, Jotaro drops one hell of a bombshell. Josuke is the illegitimate son of Joseph Joestar. Yeah…that’s right. When I first read the manga, this piece of news was in the third chapter and I was…stunned, to say the least. Josuke is a Jojo, because he’s a Joestar. Jotaro explains, that while Joseph was in Japan for whatever reason, he met a 21 year old girl in college named Tomoko, and had an affair with her. She became pregnant, and had Josuke. In 1987, when Jotaro and gang were going after Dio, little Josuke was afflicted with a horrible fever, the same that Holly had. When figuring out how to distribute his inheritance, Jotaro and Joseph found out that Joseph had a son in Japan that he never even knew about. And so Jotaro came to meet him to tell him that he’ll receive a third of Joseph’s inheritance. Now…I’m going to admit right now that learning this, it broke my heart.

I really liked Joseph, but the fact that he would have sex with a 21 year old girl (I’m 21 btw) and he was in his 60’s when he did…EW? That’s gross. That he would cheat on his wife after their very long marriage? We never learn why he did, or how long he was with Tomoko, but…that really hurt my views on Joseph. And right after when I praised him after what Suzie said in Stardust Crusaders, that he never disappointed her. Grrrr. I don’t hate Joseph, but he’s really lowered on my favorite Jojo list because of this. Then again, if the affair never happened we never would have gotten sweetheart Josuke. Also, he’s technically Jotaro’s uncle, even though he’s younger than him. Awkward.

After learning all this, Josuke apologizes. Because he’s caused chaos in his home, such as Suzie being angry. And none of it is his fault! But Josuke apologizes anyway, which catches Jotaro off guard because he thought Josuke would be angry. Ohh, he’s such a sweet boy. ;_;

Now, Jotaro is also there because there’s a Stand user on the loose in Morioh. Joseph tried taking soul pictures of Josuke but instead got a man named Angelo instead. He only warns Josuke and Koichi about him, but that’s all. The boys leave for school, and Jotaro is left with his dumb hat after his small fight with Josuke after insulting his hair. I noticed that they really left out the gruesome details about Angelo’s murders in the anime, but basically this man is a murderer and rapist who targets both men and women of all ages, most of them young and I won’t even go into the details because they really are gross. Jotaro is out looking for him before things get out of hand.

Josuke and Koichi drop by a convenience store after school after police cars rush over there. A man is holding a woman hostage and threatens to stab her. He yells at everyone to stay away, and when seeing Josuke, tells him and his stupid hair to get back. And, here we go again, he gets pissed off and approaches the man. He uses his Stand and punches through both the man and woman’s bodies, while holding the army knife the man had. He then retracts his Stand, and the woman strangely is all better. And somehow the man’s knife is in his gut. Hmmm….we also see a Stand come out of the man’s mouth and slip away, warning Josuke that he’s going to be watching him. In the very end, we see a man and that very same Stand standing outside of Josuke’s home.

I’ve been waiting for this, and I’m absolutely happy with it. I love Part 4, a lot. So to see the first few chapters adapted so well makes me so very happy. We also got to see Tomoko and Josuke’s grandfather. Besides Jotaro, for some reason they recasted the seiyuus that worked on the Jojo video games for the anime, changing Romi Park to Kaji Yuki. I’m…very sick of hearing Kaji Yuki in everything but I have to admit that he did well as Koichi. They also changed Josuke’s seiyuu, which I liked because I thought his voice in the video games was too deep. Visually, I was a little skeptical of it in the beginning but it looks a lot better than I thought it would. Music I LOVE. Not too much action this episode, but that was expected. So far everything is meeting my expectations and I’m just so happy. IT’S JUST SO GOOD! I can’t wait to see everything else animated.

And it’s so nice seeing Jotaro. He’s a marine biologist, that’s so great. <3 His blue sweater/lime green shirt thing is ugly as fuck though, that choice of clothes was never in the manga. Give me the tight black turtleneck….p-please.

Diamond is Unbreakable is special because of it’s different setting and feeling. It’s honestly my favorite part (so far), so I’m looking forward to the rest! HYPE! Watching and blogging this will be so much fun. ^^