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Pointless trivia about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Yes, I'm finally doing it.
The author of the manga, Hirohiko Araki, really likes dogs. His go-to way of showing that a character is pure evil is usually to have them hurt or kill a dog (such as Dio Brando killing Jonathan's beloved dog Danny in Phantom Blood).
He also really likes Western music, which is why a lot of characters and Stands are named after Western bands, albums or songs. He's even said that he prefers it to Japanese music. This is why a lot of the names had to be changed when the series was localised in English, since there would have been copyright problems if they hadn't done so (even in Japan, some of the names skirt dangerously close to the "copyright" line).
He's also very fond of Italy, with several Italian characters, things named after Italian food and fashion brands, and even Battle Tendency was almost entirely set in Italy.
Iggy the dog's favourite food is apparently coffee-flavoured chewing gum. This is very much not a good thing to give to a dog in real life. For one, dogs will inevitably swallow the gum (which can cause problems), and for two, coffee-flavoured gum probably contains caffeine, which is poisonous to dogs. And even if not, most types of chewing gum contan xylitol, which is also poisonous to dogs.
Also, in part 1, Jonathan and Erina feed Danny the dog grapes, which are poisonous to dogs.
In the manga, the cry of a vampire is most often spelled "UREEEEYYY" or simply "REEEEEE". It's hardly ever spelled "WRRYYYYY", even though that tends to be the most popular spelling on the internet.
One very oft-misquoted line from Stardust Crusaders is what DIO says after activating The World's time stop power. 99% of people will write it as "Toki wo tomare!" (something like "Time is/has stopped"), when the actual line is "Toki yo, tomare!" (which means "Time, stop!", as in addressing time (like a person) and commanding it to stop). The way DIO pronounces it makes it sound like "wo", hence the confusion.
There's a famous Flash short called mudah.swf on the internet which shows DIO going through a sequence of rapid-fire punches, stopping time, throwing knives, restarting time so all the knives hit the opponent at once, then dropping a steamroller on them and screaming "WRRRYYYY!" While he does more or less do all of these in his fight against Jotaro at the end of part 3, he doesn't do them all in quick succession like in the animation.
There's a bit of argument over how to spell the name of that Egyptian guy from part 3, though the truth is that in Arabic, the letters b and v and the letters u and o are interchangeable, so the name can correctly be spelled Avdol, Abdol, Avdul or Abdul. Official subs use Avdol, while fansubs mostly go for Abdul.
Fansubs tend to spell N'Dour's name as N'Doul, despite him being named after Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour. This is most likely a habit picked up from official translations, which used the N'Doul spelling to avoid copyright infringement.
In the anime for Stardust Crusaders, Thoth's name is consistently misspelled as Tohth on its card.
Contrary to fan belief, the nickname JoJo for the main characters did not come from the Beatles song "Get Back". Araki actually took it from a family restaurant chain in Japan called Jonathan's that he often had meetings at while working on his manga. He named his first protagonist Jonathan Joestar after the restaurant, and the "JoJo" name came from that.
At the end of Stardust Crusaders, when Joseph pretends to be possessed by DIO after Jotaro does a blood transfusion with DIO's blood to save his life, Jotaro quizzes him on obscure trivia to make sure it's really him. One of the questions he asks is "Who sang the parody of 'Beat It' called 'Eat It'?" to which Joseph gives the correct answer of "Al Yankovic". Weird Al actually saw this scene and posted it on his Instagram.
Darren Hayes, lead singer of Savage Garden, approved of his song "I Want You" being used as the ending to Diamond Is Unbreakable.
Diamond Is Unbreakable and Persona 4 have an almost identical plot - small town setting, a main cast mostly consisting of high school students, mental projections with supernatural powers that represent the inner selves of their summoners and a serial killer with serious issues regarding women. They're even both the fourth installment in their respective franchises. Though given that Personas were inspired by Stands in the first place, it might not be a coincidence.
Araki originally planned for Stardust Crusaders to be a modern retelling of Dracula, but all but one of the Shonen Jump editors thought it was a terrible idea, saying the series was already too focused on foreign settings and characters.
In part 3, Abdul (or however you spell his name) was supposed to have stayed dead, and Hol Horse would have joined up with the protagonists in his place. Due to Avdul's popularity and Araki realising Hol Horse was too similar to Polnareff, Abdol was brought back from the dead and Hol Horse remained a villain.
Araki initally wanted to make Lisa Lisa's design more realistic for a 50-year-old woman, but his editor prevented it for some reason.
Stardust Crusaders was initially meant to be the final part, as Araki had intended for the franchise to be a trilogy. He decided to keep going when the series turned out to be much more popular than he had expected.
The phrase "Lucky Land" appears numerous times throughout the series, a reference to Lucky Land Communications, the company Araki formed in order to formally hold copyrights for the series.
Though it's a meme that no one knows how King Crimson works, since its power is never explicitly explained in the series, it's actually not that hard to understand. It essentially has two abilities: Time Erasure, which allows it to delete portions of time for up to 10 seconds, and Epitaph, which lets its user see 10 seconds into the future.
Despite Stands being the most famous feature of the series, they don't actually appear until part 3 - the power in parts 1 and 2 is an energy-manipulation power similar to the concept of ki/chi in Japanese martial arts known as Hamon (sometimes translated as "Ripple"). Though Hamon still sort of appears in part 3 (Joseph's fighting style is to combine Hamon with his Stand, Hermit Purple, and DIO mentions how Hamon "gave him a little trouble" a hundred years ago), by part 4 it's all but disappeared, and Araki admitted he actually forgot about it.
Kishibe Rohan from part 4 is often seen as a stand-in for Araki himself, given that he's also a mangaka and Araki has admitted that Rohan is his favourite character.
The author of the manga, Hirohiko Araki, really likes dogs. His go-to way of showing that a character is pure evil is usually to have them hurt or kill a dog (such as Dio Brando killing Jonathan's beloved dog Danny in Phantom Blood).
He also really likes Western music, which is why a lot of characters and Stands are named after Western bands, albums or songs. He's even said that he prefers it to Japanese music. This is why a lot of the names had to be changed when the series was localised in English, since there would have been copyright problems if they hadn't done so (even in Japan, some of the names skirt dangerously close to the "copyright" line).
He's also very fond of Italy, with several Italian characters, things named after Italian food and fashion brands, and even Battle Tendency was almost entirely set in Italy.
Iggy the dog's favourite food is apparently coffee-flavoured chewing gum. This is very much not a good thing to give to a dog in real life. For one, dogs will inevitably swallow the gum (which can cause problems), and for two, coffee-flavoured gum probably contains caffeine, which is poisonous to dogs. And even if not, most types of chewing gum contan xylitol, which is also poisonous to dogs.
Also, in part 1, Jonathan and Erina feed Danny the dog grapes, which are poisonous to dogs.
In the manga, the cry of a vampire is most often spelled "UREEEEYYY" or simply "REEEEEE". It's hardly ever spelled "WRRYYYYY", even though that tends to be the most popular spelling on the internet.
One very oft-misquoted line from Stardust Crusaders is what DIO says after activating The World's time stop power. 99% of people will write it as "Toki wo tomare!" (something like "Time is/has stopped"), when the actual line is "Toki yo, tomare!" (which means "Time, stop!", as in addressing time (like a person) and commanding it to stop). The way DIO pronounces it makes it sound like "wo", hence the confusion.
There's a famous Flash short called mudah.swf on the internet which shows DIO going through a sequence of rapid-fire punches, stopping time, throwing knives, restarting time so all the knives hit the opponent at once, then dropping a steamroller on them and screaming "WRRRYYYY!" While he does more or less do all of these in his fight against Jotaro at the end of part 3, he doesn't do them all in quick succession like in the animation.
There's a bit of argument over how to spell the name of that Egyptian guy from part 3, though the truth is that in Arabic, the letters b and v and the letters u and o are interchangeable, so the name can correctly be spelled Avdol, Abdol, Avdul or Abdul. Official subs use Avdol, while fansubs mostly go for Abdul.
Fansubs tend to spell N'Dour's name as N'Doul, despite him being named after Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour. This is most likely a habit picked up from official translations, which used the N'Doul spelling to avoid copyright infringement.
In the anime for Stardust Crusaders, Thoth's name is consistently misspelled as Tohth on its card.
Contrary to fan belief, the nickname JoJo for the main characters did not come from the Beatles song "Get Back". Araki actually took it from a family restaurant chain in Japan called Jonathan's that he often had meetings at while working on his manga. He named his first protagonist Jonathan Joestar after the restaurant, and the "JoJo" name came from that.
At the end of Stardust Crusaders, when Joseph pretends to be possessed by DIO after Jotaro does a blood transfusion with DIO's blood to save his life, Jotaro quizzes him on obscure trivia to make sure it's really him. One of the questions he asks is "Who sang the parody of 'Beat It' called 'Eat It'?" to which Joseph gives the correct answer of "Al Yankovic". Weird Al actually saw this scene and posted it on his Instagram.
Darren Hayes, lead singer of Savage Garden, approved of his song "I Want You" being used as the ending to Diamond Is Unbreakable.
Diamond Is Unbreakable and Persona 4 have an almost identical plot - small town setting, a main cast mostly consisting of high school students, mental projections with supernatural powers that represent the inner selves of their summoners and a serial killer with serious issues regarding women. They're even both the fourth installment in their respective franchises. Though given that Personas were inspired by Stands in the first place, it might not be a coincidence.
Araki originally planned for Stardust Crusaders to be a modern retelling of Dracula, but all but one of the Shonen Jump editors thought it was a terrible idea, saying the series was already too focused on foreign settings and characters.
In part 3, Abdul (or however you spell his name) was supposed to have stayed dead, and Hol Horse would have joined up with the protagonists in his place. Due to Avdul's popularity and Araki realising Hol Horse was too similar to Polnareff, Abdol was brought back from the dead and Hol Horse remained a villain.
Araki initally wanted to make Lisa Lisa's design more realistic for a 50-year-old woman, but his editor prevented it for some reason.
Stardust Crusaders was initially meant to be the final part, as Araki had intended for the franchise to be a trilogy. He decided to keep going when the series turned out to be much more popular than he had expected.
The phrase "Lucky Land" appears numerous times throughout the series, a reference to Lucky Land Communications, the company Araki formed in order to formally hold copyrights for the series.
Though it's a meme that no one knows how King Crimson works, since its power is never explicitly explained in the series, it's actually not that hard to understand. It essentially has two abilities: Time Erasure, which allows it to delete portions of time for up to 10 seconds, and Epitaph, which lets its user see 10 seconds into the future.
Despite Stands being the most famous feature of the series, they don't actually appear until part 3 - the power in parts 1 and 2 is an energy-manipulation power similar to the concept of ki/chi in Japanese martial arts known as Hamon (sometimes translated as "Ripple"). Though Hamon still sort of appears in part 3 (Joseph's fighting style is to combine Hamon with his Stand, Hermit Purple, and DIO mentions how Hamon "gave him a little trouble" a hundred years ago), by part 4 it's all but disappeared, and Araki admitted he actually forgot about it.
Kishibe Rohan from part 4 is often seen as a stand-in for Araki himself, given that he's also a mangaka and Araki has admitted that Rohan is his favourite character.
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