Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

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Shadow8 said:

To answer your question, yes the manga does make it pretty obvious that it was Josuke that saved himself. Araki was planning to do something with that, but eventually just dropped it halfway through Part 4. However, I think that he might do something with this in Part 8, but that might just be me overthinking things.

As for the OP, I can understand that it may not have the same impact as the previous ones, but the amount of references and foreshadowing from the very first second to the last one is amazing and shows how much love David Production puts into this series. It really sets up the tone shift that this Part is about to have soon. Just like each Part is different, so to should the OPs be to highlight that moment in a Jojo's life. The first OP for Josuke was really fun and just about him living his life like usual and here you can tell that things are gonna head south real fast in a chase(hehe). I think while the Part continues, you'll start to like it more like the other Jojo OPs. 

Ah...so that's what you meant earlier. *nods*

And yeah...maybe it'll grow on me. The song itself is really catchy, and the animated sequence was well done, but overall it just seems...different from the other openings. All of the openings so far have seemed like they were written specifically with the arc in mind. For example, the first opening was basically telling the story of Jonathan and Dio, with the singer even shouting "JOJO!" in the end. It seemed like the rest of them did something similar, and the 4th opening bringing the first three singers together to shout "ORAORAORAORA" was amazing.

I guess there's a certain charm to realizing an OP is written specifically for an anime, rather than an existing song being selected because it fits the theme...and looking at the lyrics for this one, I feel like this OP might be the latter case. But hey, maybe I'll eat my words as it goes on...I'll acknowledge I'm speaking out of ignorance right now. I do like what you said about the OP matching the tone shift.

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In other news...I watched the first episode Psi Nan. It's funny...but holy god do I need to learn to read faster. There's constantly two rows of subtitles moving at once; I probably missed half of the dialogue. It's usually not a problem for me...but it was a little too much here.