"The protection of gods is no longer needed in the world of man. As proof, I built a fortress, and you all answered my call. I know now, with certainty, that it was no mistake. And now this final trial will test it, and us, to the utmost.
Now is the time to deny the primordial gods and begin the Age of Man! Mind yourselves, my elite warriors! This is the battle for true separation from the gods! Give your lives to me, the king! Pass on the glory that is Uruk to generations to come, to the last man!"
~ Gilgamesh's declaration to Uruk in Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia
"It's all meaningless. No matter what dreams or hopes you had... No matter how blessed of a life you've lived... It's all the same if you're shredded by rocks. Everyone will die someday. Does that mean that life is meaningless? Was there even any meaning in our being born? Would you say that of our fallen comrades? Their lives... were they meaningless? NO, THEY WEREN'T! It's we who give meaning to our comrades' lives! The brave fallen! The anguished fallen! The ones who will remember them... are us, the living! We die here, trusting the living who follow to find meaning in our lives! That is the sole method in which we can rebel against this cruel world! MY SOLDIERS, RAGE! MY SOLDIERS, SCREAM! MY SOLDIERS, FIGHT!"
~ Erwin in Attack On Titan
"And there you go. You heard her, Iri. Our Heroic Spirit over there considers a battlefield to be better than hell. What a joke! A battlefield is Hell itself. There's no hope to be had on one. There is nothing but unspeakable despair. Just a soulless crime we call victory, paid for by the pain of the defeated. But humanity has never recognized this truth. And the reason is that, in every era, a dazzling hero has blinded the people with their legends and kept them from seeing the evil of bloodshed they bring. True human nature has not advanced a step beyond the Stone Age."
~ Kiritsugu Emiya in Fate/Zero
[ to be updated ]
15 August 2019
12 August 2019
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Stone Ocean's ending
I absolutely detest this ending in which the universe is reset, thus effectively erased everything we know. All the characters in the previous Parts are replaced by alternate versions of themselves so they aren't the same characters that we know anymore. The timeline that we know is gone. Everyone IS dead and the result IS a fresh universe. This is the biggest defeat for the Joestars and their allies.
1/ You can say that "Jolyne is reborn as Irene" and "everyone from Parts 1-5 still exists as they are" but that is not the same characters that we know. This is NOT similar to the case of Dio where he just glued his head to Jonathan's body. This is a complete overwrite - an analogy is rewriting a hard disk in your computer = all your data got replaced by new data. Jolyne's group did not simply kill Pucci and be done with it; when Pucci dies, the universe is reset into a new universe where he doesn't exist. A universe where the course of events doesn't allow for Pucci's existence simply cannot be the same universe. Even IF the new timeline is 100% similar to the old one, it is still a different one. Not to mention that in this timeline, the characters have lived different lives with different relationships: 'Anasui' dating 'Jolyne', Jotaro being a good father, the gang not in prison, etc.
The Joestars are freed from Dio's curse and having completely new lives.
Also, for the Dio Curse to go away, there must be a substantial change to all events in time.
No Dio curse = no Part 3 = no friendships with Kakyoin, Polnareff, Avdol = no character development for Jotaro = Part 5 changes completely without Polnareff.
An analogy is if you created a clone of yourself before you died and the clone lived on, the clone is still NOT you. It is just a copy of you. It doesn't change the fact that YOU - the original version - had died.
2/ Memories and experiences are a large part of what makes you who you are. The character F.F. shows us that: when F.F. died, she was dead because her memories were destroyed. That's why it was important to Jolyne to keep her father's memory disc from fading away, because she knew that those memories were what made Jotaro Jotaro.
These new universe versions might have happy lives but they're strangers to us the readers. It's not a happy ending.
3/ There are other ways to free the Joestars from Dio's curse. For instance, I would like Part 6 if the author let Giorno show up and use his Gold Experience Requiem to PREVENT Pucci from resetting in the universe in the first place, then eliminate him. That would be a logical conclusion. (I'd also like Giorno to meet the other JoJos). Then Araki could have made the characters in the later Parts descendants of Jolyne or Giorno.
4/ Because of this kind of ending, I don't feel like I can enjoy the later Parts of JJBA as much because everything thereafter takes place in a different universe. Even though Part 7 is considered the best Part by many people, I'm really not a fan of it starting a new universe. I fell in love with the universe and the characters we already had, and it was special how everything was connected in one way or another. But now we leave it behind and move to new, different stories that frankly don't have the same weight.
1/ You can say that "Jolyne is reborn as Irene" and "everyone from Parts 1-5 still exists as they are" but that is not the same characters that we know. This is NOT similar to the case of Dio where he just glued his head to Jonathan's body. This is a complete overwrite - an analogy is rewriting a hard disk in your computer = all your data got replaced by new data. Jolyne's group did not simply kill Pucci and be done with it; when Pucci dies, the universe is reset into a new universe where he doesn't exist. A universe where the course of events doesn't allow for Pucci's existence simply cannot be the same universe. Even IF the new timeline is 100% similar to the old one, it is still a different one. Not to mention that in this timeline, the characters have lived different lives with different relationships: 'Anasui' dating 'Jolyne', Jotaro being a good father, the gang not in prison, etc.
The Joestars are freed from Dio's curse and having completely new lives.
Also, for the Dio Curse to go away, there must be a substantial change to all events in time.
No Dio curse = no Part 3 = no friendships with Kakyoin, Polnareff, Avdol = no character development for Jotaro = Part 5 changes completely without Polnareff.
An analogy is if you created a clone of yourself before you died and the clone lived on, the clone is still NOT you. It is just a copy of you. It doesn't change the fact that YOU - the original version - had died.
2/ Memories and experiences are a large part of what makes you who you are. The character F.F. shows us that: when F.F. died, she was dead because her memories were destroyed. That's why it was important to Jolyne to keep her father's memory disc from fading away, because she knew that those memories were what made Jotaro Jotaro.
These new universe versions might have happy lives but they're strangers to us the readers. It's not a happy ending.
3/ There are other ways to free the Joestars from Dio's curse. For instance, I would like Part 6 if the author let Giorno show up and use his Gold Experience Requiem to PREVENT Pucci from resetting in the universe in the first place, then eliminate him. That would be a logical conclusion. (I'd also like Giorno to meet the other JoJos). Then Araki could have made the characters in the later Parts descendants of Jolyne or Giorno.
4/ Because of this kind of ending, I don't feel like I can enjoy the later Parts of JJBA as much because everything thereafter takes place in a different universe. Even though Part 7 is considered the best Part by many people, I'm really not a fan of it starting a new universe. I fell in love with the universe and the characters we already had, and it was special how everything was connected in one way or another. But now we leave it behind and move to new, different stories that frankly don't have the same weight.
Best fights in anime
- Conan and Akai vs. the Black Org. (Detective Conan)
- Iskandar vs. Gilgamesh (Fate/Zero)
- Levi vs. Beast Titan (Attack On Titan)
- Kakyoin vs. Death 13 (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Iggy vs. Pet Shop (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Doppio vs. Risotto (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Kenshin vs. Seta (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Archer vs. Assassin (Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel)
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