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Oh, and there's an ancient stone mask that turns the wearer into a vampire, a 'hamon' ripple energy martial art, a castle, a village full of zombies, and the fate of the world at stake. Thus begins a Cain and Abel style struggle stretching from adolescence into early adulthood. It's apparent the young man doesn't intend to be friends with Jonathan and is using this new position to take the wealth and power of the Joestar's for himself. That offer is taken up in Dio's early teenage years and he becomes the adopted son of the Joestar family. So while the Phantom Blood arc is very much a Victorian pulpy gothic tale, further arcs include discovering the secrets of a Twin Peaks-esque town and a race across America on horseback.īut it all starts here, with the battle between Jonathan Joestar, and the wicked embodiment of all evil in the series, Dio Brando.Īfter mistaking the intentions of Dio's father as chivalric, Jonathan's father, an affluent member of English society, offers the Brando family anything they need. One of the biggest selling points of the series, for me at least, is that multi-generational story telling that allows the author to completely change the plot and location with each arc.

From evil vampires to serial killers, Nazis, and gangsters the Joestars always find themselves in the titular bizarre adventures. Members of the family, no matter where they are in time or on Earth always get embroiled in a massive battle of good versus evil. The JoJo series as a whole follows the Joestar family from the late 1800's to the present day.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's first story arc, Phantom Blood, comprises nine episodes and sets the tone (for the most part) of the next hundred-some episodes to come: non-stop action, bipedal slabs of meat posing like renaissance sculptures, weird horror and gore elements, references to classic rock, and hilarious delivery of lines that over-explain everything.

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