For various reasons, I have decided to discontinue this project. You may assumed as much from the fact that it stopped updating almost half a year ago! It just seemed kinda silly and pointless, I guess. If you’re interested in JoJo, just read the manga, there are great translations over at JoJo Project.

Or, better yet, watch the anime which is currently ongoing! It’s really amazing, perfectly capturing what’s so great about this series. Just look at the ending! It’s wonderful, they covered Phantom Blood in just 9 episodes, and have already moved on to the second part, Battle Tendency.

If you like me, go watch my LPs and follow me on twitter!

-Behemoth

Sorry for the wait, I’ve been dealing with THINGS.

Anyway, where were we? Ah yes, Dio was shot and killed by so many policemen (who had been hiding in Joestar Manor all along) that his body was propelled across the room and out the window. Dang, I know he had just stabbed someone, but that seems a little extreme.

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So, the mysterious stone mask that Dio put on the random thug didn’t kill him with it’s myterious tentacles like he thought it would. Instead, the mask is emitting a mysterious light!

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So, before JoJo runs off to have the poisonous medicine from the mysterious orient analyzed (to make sure it’s really poison), he makes sure Dio doesn’t just continue poisoning his father. He collects a gaggle of doctors from the local hospital and hires them to care for Lord Joestar in his absence, forbidding everyone else, including the old faithful butler, from his presence.

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So! Where were we?

Ah yes, seven year later: 1888! Jack the Ripper is stalking the foggy streets of London! And JoJo and Dio are… friends?

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So, we left off with JoJo giving Dio a well-deserved beating.

Indeed, the beating is so severe, much to Dio’s amazement, that some blood goes flying across the room and gets on the stone mask. This causes it to activate and shoot out it’s bone spikes, but luckily nobody was wearing it so it just kind of flops around on the floor for a little while and doesn’t turn anyone into a vampire.

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So, Dio is kissing Erina while his friends look on in admiration! Shock and horror!

Actually this does turn out to be kind of a big deal, this being the 19th century after all. And JoJo and Erina are… noble? I think? Old Man Joestar is a high-class merchant at any rate, and Erina is a high-class girl so the fact that Dio stole the first kiss means that… she can’t see JoJo again for some reason.

Ah, old-timey romantic problems.

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I missed a day!

Thus, in accordance with the ancient bylaws of daily blog projects, I will do two entries today.

In today’s chapter, Dio steals Jonathan’s pocket watch! What a dick! Just straight up broke into his room and stole his watch and then gloated about it.

Then we find out how Old Man Joestar got the vampire mask: he bought it. He keeps it hung on the wall in memory of his wife, who died when he happened to be taking it home, in that carriage accident back in the first chapter.

Luckily, Dio isn’t interested in the mask at all. I’m sure it won’t come up again.

JoJo, more baffled by his pocket watch theft than anything, goes out to smoke a pipe in a tree. That is not a euphemism, this is literally what he does. I kinda get the feeling that pipe-smoking was not necessarily something that teens did back in the 19th century, but really, who knows. It very well could have been! He invites his friends to come smoke a pipe with him (again, not a euphemism) but they’re having none of it. Indeed, they flee from him, calling him a snitch. Apparently Dio’s ruse of… throwing a firecracker last chapter totally worked and now his friends hate his guts.

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So, Dio starts making JoJo’s life miserable. And not in a subtle, sneaky way either. He straight up just starts beating him after Old Man Joestar leaves the room. And then insults his dog some more. However, I’m confident the dog is definitely going to survive the coming chapters. Probably even be a mascot for the series!

Anyway, then we see that Dio is better than Jonathan at everything. He’s more refined, smarter, stronger, you name it. And he’s doing that old trick of only appearing eeeeeeevil when Old Man Joestar is out of the room so Jonathan just looks petty and incompetent. This could be a variation on the old theme of “low-born” people actually being as good as or better than “high-born” people if Dio wasn’t a complete asshole. Remember, kids: if someone’s parents were criminals, they’re probably also rotten to the core.

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