Chapter 107

Chapter 167: Still Too Young

"Stardust Crusaders" is a very special work.

In other words, Jotaro, the protagonist of "Stardust Crusaders", is somewhat different from the protagonists in most works, and even most of the protagonists in "JOJO".

Let's take the simplest example:

In "Phantom Blood", when Jonathan faced DIO who became a vampire, he had a process of learning wave qigong;

In "Battle Tide", he was set as a natural wave warrior from the beginning, and his excellent tactical mind made it easy for him to defeat vampires, and Joseph, who had no flow method like Santana, was in the battle with Kaz and others.

There was also a process of going to Venice to learn to control wave qigong;

......These processes are the growth process of the protagonist in the work.

Through this "sharing weal and woe" with the protagonist, the audience's sense of substitution for the protagonist and the work is enhanced.

Is this also why Jolyne Kujo thought of reducing Jotaro's role so that not many people would watch Stardust Crusaders?

Because once this growth process is cut.

Without this "sharing weal and woe" with the protagonist, will the audience still empathize with him and think that the protagonist can defeat a powerful enemy?

But Jotaro.

is such an exception!

After all, as mentioned above, the normal character growth process should be like Kakyoin.

Because he awakened his stand very early, he never made friends who could understand each other until he met other companions with the same stand ability as him.

Only then did he use these seventeen years of loneliness to gain these fifty days of friendship, and experience what friendship feels like and grow up.

Or like Polnareff.

Because of practicing swordsmanship, he awakened the stand of [Silver Chariot], which not only foreshadowed Polnareff's swordsmanship, but also reached the pinnacle.

It also makes Polnareff have extraordinary pride in his swordsmanship.

Just like what is said in a martial arts novel - only when you can be extremely emotional, you can be extremely skilled in swordsmanship.

If he doesn't even believe in his own swordsmanship, how can Polnareff practice ordinary swordsmanship into an extraordinary stand?

This pride could not be eliminated from Polnareff's heart until he suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Abdel.

So much so that later, it was ignited by J. Gale and Hol Hess.

And after witnessing Abdel's death, he finally realized the importance of his companions, no longer obsessed with his own pride, but recognized his own weakness and became stronger with his companions.

...These are the normal character growth process!

It's not like Jotaro.

In addition to knowing the stand, and in the final battle with DIO, he let the audience discover that his [Platinum Star] is actually the same type of stand as DIO's [World]. Is there any difference from the beginning?

No!

There is no big difference at all!

Even when Kakyoin was still controlled by DIO, Jotaro told him that he would be the judge.

From Jotaro's words, his experience of beating up the teacher and eating a free meal can be seen.

Even if there was no Stand and he hadn't met Kakyoin, Jotaro had always been the "judge" in his own way.

The appearance of the Stand only expanded the scope of Jotaro's judgment to the Stand user.

It is also the specialness of the protagonist Jotaro.

And the specialness of the work "Stardust Crusaders"

At this time, what they heard resounding in their ears was not "STAND PROUD", the OP of "Stardust Crusaders", nor "Star Crusaders", the execution song belonging to Jotaro.

But "The Noble Emperor", the execution song belonging to Kakyoin.

Not only did the audience not feel any surprise.

On the contrary, their mood was not hindered at all, together with Kakyoin who took out a gold coin from his pocket!

Along with the sound of "The Noble Emperor"!

My heart surged! !

"Whoever picks up this gold coin will own it!"

"This is a glittering gold coin that can reflect your face!"

Kakyoin said loudly after flicking the gold coin into the sky with his finger.

Since J. Gail was able to drive these homeless people to surround them.

Because he used the lie that they would give money to the homeless people here to arouse the greed in the hearts of these homeless people, he was able to do so.

Then when faced with a real gold coin.

What will these homeless people do?

Of course, all the homeless people's eyes will be attracted, staring at the gold coin, waiting for the gold coin to fall down so that they can grab it!

In other words...

"This way, everyone's eyes are looking at the same place!"

Kakyoin smiled at Polnareff and said, "We can know the next movement trajectory of the Hanged Man!"

"Thank you, Kakyoin!"

Polnareff said.

And the last step will be left to him to complete personally!

"You are the one who cries beautifully, J. Gale!"

"Go to hell while you cry!"

"But there is one thing I cannot leave to the jailer of hell, that is--"

Many reflective objects have been lost.

The [Hanged Man] whose trajectory has also been confirmed.

Polnareff wants to defeat it, but it doesn't take even a second!

"--The punishment of ten thousand swords piercing the body!"

And revenge, of course, must be done by him personally to make sense!

"I have been waiting for this moment for a long time!!"

--[Hanged Man], J. Gale, died.

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"Sure enough, this is the work of Mr. Pucci! This is the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" I want to see!!"

Higashikata Jousuke deleted the insults he wanted to send from the dialog box.

He realized that he was really too young before.

And he never imagined that he wanted to become a Stand user like he does now!

"Why don't you go and have a look?"

I don't understand why I passed the audition after my previous excitement.

And the letter that was sent to him not long ago, which said he passed the audition and asked him to come to the crew.

Higashikata Josuke had deep doubts and had never paid attention to it.

When he saw that the date on the letter had not passed, he couldn't help but get excited again and said, "Just go and try it!?"

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Chapter 168: The rice is cooked

The audition process of Green Dolphin Studio is very fast.

It's better to say that Jolyne Kujo didn't intend to shoot seriously, but to make trouble.

How could she carefully select the actors?

Of course, it must be as fast as possible, before others react.

The rice is cooked, and these "waste" actors are selected!

So when the new episode of "Stardust Crusaders" is broadcast.

Higashikata Josuke, who was once again excited by Kakyoin and Polnareff's handsome declaration of revenge, wanted to come here.

Only then did he realize that the conditions for him to come here were really so simple? !

There was no such trick as "I, Qin Shi Huang, send money".

There was no such test as "although he had passed the difficulty, there were still many difficulties to pass before reaching the end, and he had to continue the audition.

Instead, when he got the document of passing the recruitment audition, it meant that he had really passed and became a contracted actor for the next work of Green Dolphin Studio! ?

This was really a bit...

"Disappointing."

"...Huh?"

Such a voice suddenly came to his ears, and Higashikata Josuke couldn't help but look back in the direction of the voice.

He saw a fashionable young man who seemed to have come here because of the successful recruitment audition like him, and handed the document in his hand to the staff beside him.

While commenting on the surrounding situation, he said, "Although the reason I came here was just because of the stand, and I wanted to understand what kind of ability the stand has?"

"And the occupational disease of cartoonists is that they have to consider any possible situation at any time and in any place, such as "what actions will the protagonist of the cartoon take in this situation" and so on. "

"In other words, only by getting in touch with these various people and things can we find some refreshing answers through different perspectives, and not be limited to our own thinking..."

Just like in a comic, there are not only protagonists but also supporting roles.

There are not only young and inexperienced protagonists who are just starting out, but also mature protagonists who have been struggling in society for many years.

There are orthodox stories, such as fighting all the way from the novice village to the demon king's castle to save the world, and there are also evil stories, such as being obsessed with the guide to evaluating heterosexual girls.

As a cartoonist, Kishibe Rohan certainly would not feel anything wrong with the actors carefully selected by Kujo Jolyne.

Not to mention these obvious factors.

The performance of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" alone also shows that the selection of Green Dolphin Studio The vision of the people is ahead of the industry!

After all, apart from those amateur series, there are really not many crews in the industry who always want to use all newcomers when filming works.

Not to mention that these newcomers are more powerful than each other, it is simply God's gift, begging them to be the best actor and actress.

In the industry, no one will think that Green Dolphin Studio's vision for selecting people is not good.

But!

"But this does not mean that we will not choose those who are interesting at first sight to act as the protagonist, but choose those who look uninteresting to readers as the protagonist or important role~~"

Just a moment after entering, Kishibe Rohan took in everyone here and their actions.

This can also be regarded as an occupational disease of cartoonists.

The basic skills of drawing comic storyboards and composition for many years have enabled Kishibe Rohan to easily arrange the complex scenes in front of him and the information in them neatly, which is equivalent to memorizing the various details in comics.

In addition, in order to find comic materials, he has unknowingly developed a knowledge reserve and character analysis ability.

It not only enabled him to see that among the actors here, there are not only students, bikers, milk deliverymen, guitar singers, chefs, beauticians, but also him, a cartoonist... and so on, none of them are non-professionals who are full-time actors.

In terms of appearance characteristics, it also takes into account the distribution of people with different characteristics, such as short, tall, thin, fat, ugly, beautiful, etc.

What stands out is that it is a mixed bag, and... it is simply incomprehensible.

"But it's interesting to be uncharacteristic, isn't it?"

He passed by Higashikata Josuke. Obviously, he seemed to be more confused than Higashikata Josuke, but in terms of action, he was more comfortable and confident than everyone here, and walked in quickly.

“No matter what elements there are, the best comics have only one characteristic - that is fun. Other things like friendship and passion are just add-ons to make comics more interesting.”