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WARNING : And this is the final one... centering on a JoJo dad. Then I have the 4 kids to deal with... So I really need to think through how to keep them distinctive yet familiar...

THIS took me more time than expected because I really wanted it to look good. You knew what to expect from the start if you ever paid attention to my previous fanarts especially the ones concerning Stardust Crusaders.
Look, I am not doing these to slavishly stick to the manga (already did that 8 years ago so it's time to go 2 steps BEYOND). I am doing these with the mindset of how I would have JJBA adapted instead AND add the sweet sweet expansions from the spin-offs that ACTUALLY give more flavor to the lore. And screw "canon", CHARACTERIZATION is my deity ! So don't bother how this and that is not Araki canon when the man himself is pretty much allergic to his own lore. And before you dare tell me "each part stands on its own", FUCK THAT NOISE, that is the coward's way of thinking. I much prefer for a generational saga to have something of a cohesive feel even with different genres instead of blindly copying the material that was written by the author's seat of pants week by week... It is also something the OVA fucking GOT RIGHT while David Prod either made botch jobs without flair OR, in the case of Part III, made the flaws far more fucking glaring. But that's for another time...

So there you have the Kaisified Part III:
* This is mainly OVA-based because it is far more faithful to Part I and Part II in terms of atmosphere and consistency...and features its JoJo as the main lead ! Imagine that ! The OVA did what the manga did NOT do and in the supposedly more iconic part no less ! The issue is mostly that the battle system is Araki's main concern hence why the tale of the Joestars seems to take a backseat (till part 6 by the by...), the fucking padding instead of the creation of a proper lore for the stand (yeah, the stone mask and hamon people love to mock ? They were established WAY BETTER ! And at least, Hamon has to be fucking mastered through grueling training and NEVER made anyone invincible !) the tone is bordering on shizophrenic while it was masterfully handled previously and the LOST OPPORTUNITIES ! The OVA mostly fixes those issues.
Did I mention that the french dub has the BEST voices for the crusaders while the italians have the BEST DIO VOICE ?! No ? Well now you know. Also, the stands there actually FEEL supernatural and otherworldly so of course that's the direction I wanted to illustrate... On that note, I REALLY do not think stands are superior to hamon. At least, hamon forced Araki to focus on the characters drama and such instead of slumming with hit-or-miss pokemon battles. Yeah, you heard it RIGHT HERE: I find the early inexperencied Araki to be a better writer than the current one. He will THANKFULLY put his all for the final act then the show's over.
* The Crusaders are their OVA versions because I decided so. And because they feel like more grounded adventurers... and make far more sensible decisions like avoiding crowded places as much as they can since deaths have an actual weight to them in this version.
* It has about 3 or 4 fights that I would have personally kept from the manga in the adaptation (Atum is a bit of a take or leave though. I like Terrence D'Arby bit I don't want Kakyoin to be jobbed, so having Joseph and Jotaro Yu-Gi-Oh the fucker straight away is the best compromise...). There are 21 stands all in all in this here. Yeah, there are less villains but the ones I left out are some Craig's list dipshits that were wasting time and not advancing anything. I don't mind the occasional jobber but a pile of them ? Pfeh... and stands that are named after badass gods ?! COME ON ! That's just a waste.
I unfortunately had to trace the tarot cards outlines because I just could not replicate them properly. Not for a lack of trying mind you BUT I admit, I have my limits with some background decorations.... the rest is purely mine though.
* There is the lore love for the next parts (try finding all of them !), a certain current spin-off... and an unfairly maligned novel. The DIO you see here is based on the OVA static.jojowiki.com/images/6/6… (and I already explained WHY) and that particular light novel.
See, I DON'T think Nisio Isin misunderstood Araki's Dio. I would wager that he PERFECTLY GOT that Araki only wrote Dio as a CHARACTER in Part I and then hit him with the Kefka syndrome HARD ! Then the saving throw comes with Part VI BUT the issue remains due to how ultimately undercooked and underexplored DIO is in Part III and how it is just there to develop Pucci.
Araki does not even bother giving a single damn perspective chapter or pages on HOW he survived (only Maijo had the balls to both give an explanation THEN modify it for Part T's plot...but we'll be back to that LATER...) or how his stealing and defilement of JoJo's corpse affected him mentally. Araki had the tools for creating one of the most disturbing undead monsters, but he just threw his hands halfway through part III and basically rode on the coat tails of Phantom Blood. Because WITHOUT Part I, manga DIO is a fucking arbitrary dragon to slay. Seriously, ERINA HAS A BETTER ANTAGONISTIC DYNAMIC WITH DIO THAN BOTH JOTARO AND JOSEPH AND IT IS, story-telling wise, A GODDAMN GLARING ISSUE !
So FUCK what the fandom says, Nishio Ishin had the thankless task of giving some character consistency/lore coherence to post-Part I DIO AND I genuinely applaud him for that! Dude gave it a nice shot and, even if the prose is hammy and goes with the "unreliable narrator" gimmick, I take it over Araki giving Jack SHIT in terms of explanations or even exploration. And as for DIO being a misogynist... see this i.imgur.com/tTXU1LB.jpeg ? That is his starting point. See the women around him here ? That is his destination in that domain...
If you have an eye for detail, you'll notice something in common between DIO here, Straizo in the previous one and the vampires/undeads in the very first 2 covers. No ? Here's a clue i.pinimg.com/originals/66/a8/2…

With that out of the way, MUSIC Muh Boi !

00) Stardust Crusaders - JJBA ASB OST
Fitting. As some threat is looming out there.

01) DIO's Theme - JJBA '93 OVA OST
Easily the best theme for the parasitic vampire. It has a creeping calm feel to it and works perfectly as a threat from the past coming back. Marco D'Ambrosio simply rules...

02) Glitter And Gold - Barns Courtney
The young and grumpy Jotaro is introduced to his family's legacy, something he is not too hot on inheriting... well he will have to deal with it because his great great granduncle made his mother stand sick (I wish this got more exploration instead of just having his young uncle also fall ill... but nope, unfortunately Holly is just a plot device and Dio does not even puppeteer her Evil Dead style... THAT would've been cool !And by the way, why not just make her a widow ? That would have given more context to her lenient nature and Jotaro's overall grumpiness !).

03) The A-Team - The Daniel Caine Orchestra
The Crusaders are almost all assembled before taking that SPW private jet !

04) Red Dawn - Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles
So they meet le roi des beaufs, Jean-Pierre Polnareff and captain Orang-Utan. Being a beauf, Jean-Pierre says "J'emmerde les rosebifs !" and slices Forever in half to help Jotaro. Yeah he's a crusader now and not a load like in the manga. Et il est beau même dans les pays pauvres ! Also no runaway girls because I believe in pragmatic trimming and most children get savagely mauled in JJBA...

05) Fake News - Christopher Lennertz
The Polnareff conflict against J.Geil and Hol Horse... mostly won because Kakyoin and Avdol were there to bail his ass out. BTW, ever saw how gruesome Sherry's last moments were in the OVA ? Cus her friend's decapitaton by the Hanged Man sure was a "JAYSUS !" moment for me.

06) Dream Warriors - Dokken
Basically the Death 13 fight... not much differences there, though in the end, the baby either happens to be an undead sent by DIO (which makes sense) or Kakyoin has him drink a FULL BOTTLE of imodium-laced milk as punishment.

07) Trioxin Theme - Nocturnal Symphony
The battle at the necropolis against Enya's Justice. Oh and by the by, Enya ? In the Manga , she was just the discount Kamek to DIO's Bowser. OVA Enya however actually feels like an occultist and well-versed in the dark arts, from tarot reading and shifting from her youthful form to her actual aged appearance... if you ask me, that version sells the whole "teaching Dio about stands" concept so much better.

08) DIO's Dervish - JJBA '93 OVA OST
They finally reach the land of Pharaohs and Adel Imem and are attacked by water and the blind. Because,yes, even blind people can be murderous assholes and sect members. The Geb fight is just amazing...

09) Just A Lad - Oingo Boingo
For all my gripes against the humor of the Part III manga, THIS is a bullseye I admit. Both Oingo Boingo fights are damn funny though I admit having a preference for the Hol Horse/Boingo combo.

10) Cross The Track - Maceo & The Macks
Meeting Daniel J.D'Arby at a café and Yu-Gi-Oh shenanigans ensue...

11) Miserlou - Dick Dale
So Iggy fights Pet Shop. Yeah, I think that falcon is fucking amazing ! What can I say ? I love the sight of torn flesh by talons and beaks !

12) Allnoise (The Void) - Mudeth
Vanilla Ice VS Polnareff and Iggy. I believe the OVA has the best intro for this fight (the fact that DIO was not only interacting with his nephews but used The World in combination with Ice's Cream to murder Avdol in front of them ? GENIUS !) and the manga has the best finish (what with Silver Chariot having the sun turn Vanilla into a pile of dust...). People say he's one note, but he fucking OWNS that note and much like most of DIO's Part 1 servants, Vanilla Ice is scary as hell ! Oh and another detail... NO SOUL SHOWN. I think it was a mistake to show them there, takes away from the impact frankly...

13) Holy Diver - Dio
The first phase of the DIO fight where he forces Charles Martinet to drive on the sidewalk, tries to convince Kakyoin to return to his service (and Noriaki tells him to fuck off basically) before executing him and avoids touching Joseph directly due to the hamon laced Hermit Purple. One Joseph stabbed in the neck later, Jotaro confronts DIO and declares "Il faut bien que je m'approche pour...TE CASSER LA GUEULE.". Jacques Albaret is best Jotaro, don't ask.

14) Black Sheep - Sonata Arctica
The final round of the journey ! Featuring time-stop spamming, knives thrown, Polnareff being useful to allow Jotaro to crush DIO's skull, DIO actually giving Jotaro actual hell by throwing a car and a boat at him, Dio eating civilians including a little baby in front of Jotaro, Star Platinum throwing the summit of a mosque at DIO who imitates Jonathan's punching overdrive, THE OIL TRUCK 'SPLOSION, The final exchange between The World and Star Platinum... kudos studio A.P.P.P, you guys SURPASSED the fight in the manga ! And as a muslim, I'll declare: FUCK the fanatics that cost the studio's rights of adaptation and Shueisha for being cowards ! BAH !

15) Echoes In Rain - Enya
There we go ! Holly is healed (I... still want to know the logistics behind this ..."miracle"), DIO's brains is pudding and thrown along with Jonathan's remains to the sea at large (WAY MORE FITTING THAN A RANDOM DESERT !), Iggy, Avdol and Kakyoin will be missed by yours truly (... Honestly ? No joke here, I actually really like those fellows.), Joseph will go further into irrelevance (at least OVA Joseph was treated as more than some senile meme) and Jotaro will grow up to be more like his great grandmother.

16) End Of Part III - JJBA ASB OST

As I am feeling generous, here there are my favorite versions of Good Ol' Kakyoin uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a… and Old Joseph fucking up the space time continuum imgur.com/a/rQYCN2z
Seriously though ? IF we can't have Hayama, then Omomuki High Jump/Konpane's depiction of JJBA characters is a damn close second and would have worked wonder in animated form. At least there's some goddamn style coherence/homogeneity between the 6 parts pbs.twimg.com/media/EMUGXitU8A… ! And whoever is scanning and translating those fan-comics ? BLESS YOU ! Also, if someone could translate more of their fan-comics, that'd be downright divine ! At least Underground 14 and the Time Acceleration one, they sound REALLY relevant to my interests...

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WARNING : And this is the final one... centering on a JoJo dad. Then I have the 4 kids to deal with... So I really need to think through how to keep them distinctive yet familiar...

THIS took me more time than expected because I really wanted it to look good. You knew what to expect from the start if you ever paid attention to my previous fanarts especially the ones concerning Stardust Crusaders.
Look, I am not doing these to slavishly stick to the manga (already did that 8 years ago so it's time to go 2 steps BEYOND). I am doing these with the mindset of how I would have JJBA adapted instead AND add the sweet sweet expansions from the spin-offs that ACTUALLY give more flavor to the lore. And screw "canon", CHARACTERIZATION is my deity ! So don't bother how this and that is not Araki canon when the man himself is pretty much allergic to his own lore. And before you dare tell me "each part stands on its own", FUCK THAT NOISE, that is the coward's way of thinking. I much prefer for a generational saga to have something of a cohesive feel even with different genres instead of blindly copying the material that was written by the author's seat of pants week by week... It is also something the OVA fucking GOT RIGHT while David Prod either made botch jobs without flair OR, in the case of Part III, made the flaws far more fucking glaring. But that's for another time...

So there you have the Kaisified Part III:
* This is mainly OVA-based because it is far more faithful to Part I and Part II in terms of atmosphere and consistency...and features its JoJo as the main lead ! Imagine that ! The OVA did what the manga did NOT do and in the supposedly more iconic part no less ! The issue is mostly that the battle system is Araki's main concern hence why the tale of the Joestars seems to take a backseat (till part 6 by the by...), the fucking padding instead of the creation of a proper lore for the stand (yeah, the stone mask and hamon people love to mock ? They were established WAY BETTER ! And at least, Hamon has to be fucking mastered through grueling training and NEVER made anyone invincible !) the tone is bordering on shizophrenic while it was masterfully handled previously and the LOST OPPORTUNITIES ! The OVA mostly fixes those issues.
Did I mention that the french dub has the BEST voices for the crusaders while the italians have the BEST DIO VOICE ?! No ? Well now you know. Also, the stands there actually FEEL supernatural and otherworldly so of course that's the direction I wanted to illustrate... On that note, I REALLY do not think stands are superior to hamon. At least, hamon forced Araki to focus on the characters drama and such instead of slumming with hit-or-miss pokemon battles. Yeah, you heard it RIGHT HERE: I find the early inexperencied Araki to be a better writer than the current one. He will THANKFULLY put his all for the final act then the show's over.
* The Crusaders are their OVA versions because I decided so. And because they feel like more grounded adventurers... and make far more sensible decisions like avoiding crowded places as much as they can since deaths have an actual weight to them in this version.
* It has about 3 or 4 fights that I would have personally kept from the manga in the adaptation (Atum is a bit of a take or leave though. I like Terrence D'Arby bit I don't want Kakyoin to be jobbed, so having Joseph and Jotaro Yu-Gi-Oh the fucker straight away is the best compromise...). There are 21 stands all in all in this here. Yeah, there are less villains but the ones I left out are some Craig's list dipshits that were wasting time and not advancing anything. I don't mind the occasional jobber but a pile of them ? Pfeh... and stands that are named after badass gods ?! COME ON ! That's just a waste.
I unfortunately had to trace the tarot cards outlines because I just could not replicate them properly. Not for a lack of trying mind you BUT I admit, I have my limits with some background decorations.... the rest is purely mine though.
* There is the lore love for the next parts (try finding all of them !), a certain current spin-off... and an unfairly maligned novel. The DIO you see here is based on the OVA static.jojowiki.com/images/6/6… (and I already explained WHY) and that particular light novel.
See, I DON'T think Nisio Isin misunderstood Araki's Dio. I would wager that he PERFECTLY GOT that Araki only wrote Dio as a CHARACTER in Part I and then hit him with the Kefka syndrome HARD ! Then the saving throw comes with Part VI BUT the issue remains due to how ultimately undercooked and underexplored DIO is in Part III and how it is just there to develop Pucci.
Araki does not even bother giving a single damn perspective chapter or pages on HOW he survived (only Maijo had the balls to both give an explanation THEN modify it for Part T's plot...but we'll be back to that LATER...) or how his stealing and defilement of JoJo's corpse affected him mentally. Araki had the tools for creating one of the most disturbing undead monsters, but he just threw his hands halfway through part III and basically rode on the coat tails of Phantom Blood. Because WITHOUT Part I, manga DIO is a fucking arbitrary dragon to slay. Seriously, ERINA HAS A BETTER ANTAGONISTIC DYNAMIC WITH DIO THAN BOTH JOTARO AND JOSEPH AND IT IS, story-telling wise, A GODDAMN GLARING ISSUE !
So FUCK what the fandom says, Nishio Ishin had the thankless task of giving some character consistency/lore coherence to post-Part I DIO AND I genuinely applaud him for that! Dude gave it a nice shot and, even if the prose is hammy and goes with the "unreliable narrator" gimmick, I take it over Araki giving Jack SHIT in terms of explanations or even exploration. And as for DIO being a misogynist... see this i.imgur.com/tTXU1LB.jpeg ? That is his starting point. See the women around him here ? That is his destination in that domain...
If you have an eye for detail, you'll notice something in common between DIO here, Straizo in the previous one and the vampires/undeads in the very first 2 covers. No ? Here's a clue i.pinimg.com/originals/66/a8/2…

With that out of the way, MUSIC Muh Boi !

00) Stardust Crusaders - JJBA ASB OST
Fitting. As some threat is looming out there.

01) DIO's Theme - JJBA '93 OVA OST
Easily the best theme for the parasitic vampire. It has a creeping calm feel to it and works perfectly as a threat from the past coming back. Marco D'Ambrosio simply rules...

02) Glitter And Gold - Barns Courtney
The young and grumpy Jotaro is introduced to his family's legacy, something he is not too hot on inheriting... well he will have to deal with it because his great great granduncle made his mother stand sick (I wish this got more exploration instead of just having his young uncle also fall ill... but nope, unfortunately Holly is just a plot device and Dio does not even puppeteer her Evil Dead style... THAT would've been cool !And by the way, why not just make her a widow ? That would have given more context to her lenient nature and Jotaro's overall grumpiness !).

03) The A-Team - The Daniel Caine Orchestra
The Crusaders are almost all assembled before taking that SPW private jet !

04) Red Dawn - Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles
So they meet le roi des beaufs, Jean-Pierre Polnareff and captain Orang-Utan. Being a beauf, Jean-Pierre says "J'emmerde les rosebifs !" and slices Forever in half to help Jotaro. Yeah he's a crusader now and not a load like in the manga. Et il est beau même dans les pays pauvres ! Also no runaway girls because I believe in pragmatic trimming and most children get savagely mauled in JJBA...

05) Fake News - Christopher Lennertz
The Polnareff conflict against J.Geil and Hol Horse... mostly won because Kakyoin and Avdol were there to bail his ass out. BTW, ever saw how gruesome Sherry's last moments were in the OVA ? Cus her friend's decapitaton by the Hanged Man sure was a "JAYSUS !" moment for me.

06) Dream Warriors - Dokken
Basically the Death 13 fight... not much differences there, though in the end, the baby either happens to be an undead sent by DIO (which makes sense) or Kakyoin has him drink a FULL BOTTLE of imodium-laced milk as punishment.

07) Trioxin Theme - Nocturnal Symphony
The battle at the necropolis against Enya's Justice. Oh and by the by, Enya ? In the Manga , she was just the discount Kamek to DIO's Bowser. OVA Enya however actually feels like an occultist and well-versed in the dark arts, from tarot reading and shifting from her youthful form to her actual aged appearance... if you ask me, that version sells the whole "teaching Dio about stands" concept so much better.

08) DIO's Dervish - JJBA '93 OVA OST
They finally reach the land of Pharaohs and Adel Imem and are attacked by water and the blind. Because,yes, even blind people can be murderous assholes and sect members. The Geb fight is just amazing...

09) Just A Lad - Oingo Boingo
For all my gripes against the humor of the Part III manga, THIS is a bullseye I admit. Both Oingo Boingo fights are damn funny though I admit having a preference for the Hol Horse/Boingo combo.

10) Cross The Track - Maceo & The Macks
Meeting Daniel J.D'Arby at a café and Yu-Gi-Oh shenanigans ensue...

11) Miserlou - Dick Dale
So Iggy fights Pet Shop. Yeah, I think that falcon is fucking amazing ! What can I say ? I love the sight of torn flesh by talons and beaks !

12) Allnoise (The Void) - Mudeth
Vanilla Ice VS Polnareff and Iggy. I believe the OVA has the best intro for this fight (the fact that DIO was not only interacting with his nephews but used The World in combination with Ice's Cream to murder Avdol in front of them ? GENIUS !) and the manga has the best finish (what with Silver Chariot having the sun turn Vanilla into a pile of dust...). People say he's one note, but he fucking OWNS that note and much like most of DIO's Part 1 servants, Vanilla Ice is scary as hell ! Oh and another detail... NO SOUL SHOWN. I think it was a mistake to show them there, takes away from the impact frankly...

13) Holy Diver - Dio
The first phase of the DIO fight where he forces Charles Martinet to drive on the sidewalk, tries to convince Kakyoin to return to his service (and Noriaki tells him to fuck off basically) before executing him and avoids touching Joseph directly due to the hamon laced Hermit Purple. One Joseph stabbed in the neck later, Jotaro confronts DIO and declares "Il faut bien que je m'approche pour...TE CASSER LA GUEULE.". Jacques Albaret is best Jotaro, don't ask.

14) Black Sheep - Sonata Arctica
The final round of the journey ! Featuring time-stop spamming, knives thrown, Polnareff being useful to allow Jotaro to crush DIO's skull, DIO actually giving Jotaro actual hell by throwing a car and a boat at him, Dio eating civilians including a little baby in front of Jotaro, Star Platinum throwing the summit of a mosque at DIO who imitates Jonathan's punching overdrive, THE OIL TRUCK 'SPLOSION, The final exchange between The World and Star Platinum... kudos studio A.P.P.P, you guys SURPASSED the fight in the manga ! And as a muslim, I'll declare: FUCK the fanatics that cost the studio's rights of adaptation and Shueisha for being cowards ! BAH !

15) Echoes In Rain - Enya
There we go ! Holly is healed (I... still want to know the logistics behind this ..."miracle"), DIO's brains is pudding and thrown along with Jonathan's remains to the sea at large (WAY MORE FITTING THAN A RANDOM DESERT !), Iggy, Avdol and Kakyoin will be missed by yours truly (... Honestly ? No joke here, I actually really like those fellows.), Joseph will go further into irrelevance (at least OVA Joseph was treated as more than some senile meme) and Jotaro will grow up to be more like his great grandmother.

16) End Of Part III - JJBA ASB OST

As I am feeling generous, here there are my favorite versions of Good Ol' Kakyoin uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a… and Old Joseph fucking up the space time continuum imgur.com/a/rQYCN2z
Seriously though ? IF we can't have Hayama, then Omomuki High Jump/Konpane's depiction of JJBA characters is a damn close second and would have worked wonder in animated form. At least there's some goddamn style coherence/homogeneity between the 6 parts pbs.twimg.com/media/EMUGXitU8A… ! And whoever is scanning and translating those fan-comics ? BLESS YOU ! Also, if someone could translate more of their fan-comics, that'd be downright divine ! At least Underground 14 and the Time Acceleration one, they sound REALLY relevant to my interests...