JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean

In what can be considered the grand finale of Jojo, Stone Ocean has a lot to live up to. But does it deliver?

STORY: 9/10
Stone Ocean starts 10 years after Golden Wind. It follows Jotaro’s daughter, Jolyne, as she’s wrongfully imprisoned in a jail whose warden, the mysterious Father Pucci, my have ties to DIO.

Stone Ocean is one of the more dramatic Parts. It is much more story focused than other Parts, who used their stories as excuses to go on a voyage to encounter fight after fight. Stone Ocean’s plot is one that truly concludes Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure up until this point, and it delivers. In particular, the ending is one that deserves praise and offers a beautiful end to one of the most legendary manga series of all time…until Part 7 that is! Stone Ocean is a fantastic and dramatic ride that packs an emotional punch that hits harder than the physical ones thrown in fights.

ART: 9/10
I may be a tad biased because Stone Ocean is the only Part whose colored scans are fully translated in English. It has some truly beautiful artwork and the colors make it all the more better. Character designs take a minor hit however. Jotaro looks nothing like the bulked up beast he used to be, DIO is just ugggggh, and a character named Anasui is nearly a copy and paste design of Diavolo from Part 5. Others like Jolyne, Foo Fighters, Weather Report, and Father Pucci have excellent designs.

CHARACTERS: 8/10
The supporting cast is fun. Jolyne’s best friend Hermes is funny and badass, Foo Fighters is adorable and hilarious, Weather Report is very mysterious and his Stand power is crazy. However, Jotaro and Anasui are the weakest links. Jotaro is ruined in Part 6, a shell of his former Part 4 prime self and Anasui is literally a “muh waifu” edgelord.

The Jojo of this Part is the only female Jojo to date, Jolyne. She’s a very interesting and dynamic character who goes through serious change throughout the Part and is really fleshed out as her own individual. The main villain, Father Pucci, is my second favorite Jojo antagonist. He’s threatening and all-powerful, but he is not maniacal like his master DIO. Pucci is one of the most human Jojo villains and his backstory really justifies his actions and points of view.

ENJOYMENT: 8/10
Stone Ocean is a compelling and entertaining Part. The characters make it all the more great and you really care for each and every one. Jolyne’s adventure is one of the most mature and well-written character arcs in Jojo and the fights are awesome. It also has some of the most insane and devastating Stands and is easily the most “bizarre” Part.

OVERALL: 8.5/10
Stone Ocean is great. It’s a very mature turn for Jojo and foreshadows Jojo’s shift from shounen to seinen in Part 7 and is a great story period. The ending is one that commands discussion and interpretation and is one of the best I’ve ever read. Filled with compelling drama and blood boiling fights, Stone Ocean hits the reader with surprise after surprise and isn't afraid to take extreme and bold risks.

PT BR

Ok, aqui vemos pela primeira vez aquilo que certamente o Araki queria transmitir, e se você discorda de que essa é disparada a melhor parte das 6 primeiras, ai vemos problemas.
Em todas as partes anteriores vemos um problema grave que assola 95% dos protagonistas de JoJo: a falta de evolução. Nenhum personagem aparentemente presta, com poucas exceções todos possuem um plot razoável ou ruim e morrem de forma idiota e sem emoção, aqui nós vemos o total oposto disso, Jolyne é uma personagem muito bem feita ao longo dos capítulos, ela agindo de forma brutalmente feminina e humana faz essa parte ter um carisma totalmente a parte por causa dela, não sendo um poste ex machina como o Giorno, um personagem ruim que o roteiro força ser engraçado como o Joseph entre todos os outros com exceção do Josuke e isso eu falo na minha review de DiU.
O vilão certamente é um dos melhores, ao invés de ficar se escondendo e envolto de mistérios, todos nós sabemos quem é Pucci e ao longo da narrativa descobrimos sua história e seus objetivos, deixando a coisa mais clara possível, ao contrário do Diavollo que se esconde o mangá inteiro e quando se revela é um grande bostão. Esse tipo de narrativa envolta do Pucci me deixa animado, pessoalmente dizendo.
Confesso que o mangá se estende desnecessariamente focando na prisão, mas meio que nessa parte não tinha como o roteiro fugir.
Eu dispenso todos os comentários a respeito do final.

A fandom de jojo devia deixar de amar a terrível parte 2 e começar a valorizar mais essa.

This review is not spoiler heavy nor is it spoiler free...idk

I do like a lot the set up and the side characters, I do really appreciate the fact that the Stand of the main antagonist is pretty weak (at least at the begining) so he can't just rely on his powers. And for the fights they are very nice fights like Jolyne vs FF or Jolyne vs C-Moon, and at the other side we have like the fights against Dragon's Dream and Jumpin' Jack Flash which seem pretty tedious to me.

If I need to make a detailed examination (WARNING: Mild spoilers! it is difficult to talk about the story or characters without saying something).. I liked parts but disliked others. Most of the time spent in the prison felt like a drag. Jolyne's goal was repeated over and over for the first thirty chapters or so that it became repetetive and annoying.
We got to know the backstories of the side characters, but the only ones I feel I know even a little bit are Annasui and F.F. (because she was very vocal about all the things she knew now, and manifested her will solely to protect Jolyne). As for Weather Report, his backstory really helped him as a character, but his personality is never something I saw in real time, just something I was told through a backstory. It doesn't make Weather Report himself all that interesting to me, just his past that hasn't been a part of him for a very long time. They just weren't really given a lot of time to develop in my opinion. There was just so much going on at any one point and so many stands coming after Jolyne that I never got to see how these people were when they weren't in immediate danger of death.

Most of the stands within the prison were kinda forgettable, and Dio's three failures were just a disappointing and unwanted scene after spending all of VA absolutely loving Gio and marvelling over how he encompassed all of the best parts of his father. They just tarnished his name and made me feel upset on his behalf.

Now, what I did appreciate a lot is Jolyne's ability to grow up rather quickly. She spent most of her life vying for her father's attention, and that made her a bitter little girl. But as soon as she heard him say he cared about her, that idea of Hope brought her back around. And then when she learned more about Jotaro's past, she really began to understand that the world is a big place and her dad was a very well-known man.

After the break-out, the story starts to get much more compelling. The backstory of Weather Report and Pucci mostly made me feel for Pucci and understand him better than having much of an impact on Weather Report for me. I barely knew WR, and when he got his memories back, I knew him even less. So whatever. Without the constriction of a one-set story, things began to expand VERY quickly and I was happy for it. The fight at Cape Canaveral was pretty interesting. Pucci as a villain was more successful and intimidating than Dio, and not just because he won in the end. Pucci was the villain from the very beginning, always an active player. And as Weather said, he didn't even know he was evil.
Fastforwarding to the end, I liked Jolyne and Jotaro's final moments. The whole group went down like heroes, and Emporio was a reliable kid. Pucci's demise as a result of his own meddling with fate was enjoyable. Not only did he deserve his brother's hatred and bring it upon himself, his ability gave Weather the chance to get his revenge even after death. GRAVITY. Idk.

The new universe thing made me happy, but also slightly ruined it for me. The part of me that loves Jotaro and I guess kind of Jolyne (she was cool, but not a top JoJo) likes that the universe rewarded the Joestar's for their sacrifices and determination to finally bring an end to the curse of Dio. But then...if we assume that even if these aren't the 'same' Jotaro and Jolyne that they still share the same soul as those who fought Pucci, the sacrifice was almost anti-climatctic. The deaths of everyone didn't matter in the end (not that they mattered too much to me to begin with, I barely knew them), not when the universe was going to correct itself anyways.

Jolyne and Jotaro had the good father-daughter relationship they always wanted. Annasui/Annakiss presumably never murdered anyone since he isn't in prison. Hermes's sister was never murdered. Emporio got to leave the prison and start living a normal life. And Weather Report....I am actually kind of interested to know what happened there. Was he born as a twin or not? Was he still kidnapped at birth? Perhaps that dead baby the grieving mother switched out lived after all and the baby to die that day was instead Pucci? GRAVITY.

Overall, I liked part 6, but it is currently on the bottom of my list, right before Phantom Blood. Though, I liked certain parts of it better than some of my favorite parts. The ending was pretty awesome, which ranks it my second favorite ending after Battle Tendency, since I feel that those two did the absolute best with the feeling that what was going on was truly important AND exciting. If only Jolyne would have left prison earlier and had some time on the run to get to know her crew, to do something besides draw people in who wanted to protect her for one reason or another - to prove she was WORTH protecting by anyone.

I did particularly like her stand and it's capabilities. Very different for a JoJo and quite imaginative. At the end it definitely worked as a metaphor for the unravelling of the universe/fate.
The last thing I want to say... The art in 'Stone Ocean' is amazing and exactly the level of quality you would expect from Hirohiko Araki.

DISCLAIMER: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a currently ongoing series with (at the moment of writing), 7 complete parts and one ongoing one. It's important to first make the distinction that this is NOT one ongoing story split into parts, but rather 8 stories in the same universe following the Joestar bloodline, that share similar elements, plot points, and even motivations in some cases.
Due to that, this and my other JoJo reviews will follow an unique JoJo rating system, since in my opinion it cannot be easily compared to other manga, done in a beginner-friendly way so as to illustrate whether or not it is worth it to get invested in the series, and how it compares to other parts of it.
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The final installment in the original JoJo franchise, Stone Ocean is the finale and... that's about it.

The story is segmented into two big parts. Jolyne, Jotaro's daughter, trying to escape prison because of a crime she didn't commit (and fighting stand users in the process), and yet ANOTHER world-ending threat centered on Dio, who has been dead for quite a while now.

I'll just get this out of the way first, the main problem with Stone Ocean are the characters.
While reasonably interesting at first glance, unlike previous parts, they're just not written well outside of Jolyne. The main cast's chemistry is all over the place, and some are extremely caricatured to the point of annoyance.
Not just that, even though they all have wonderful situational stands with a lot of potential, they're rarely ever utilized, and some simply just... don't ever do anything otherwise they would win way too easily. So they simply become commentators, screaming out what's happening from the sidelines.

Four out of the six main characters are ultimately useless, which is as frustrating as Stardust's "wait until Jotaro gets here" fights, especially considering their stand abilities are diverse enough to create an interesting fight.
Jolyne being the only decent character isn't nearly enough to carry the main cast and as a result, I could barely care about what happened to the rest of them, and most frustrating of all, the other female characters are written terribly in this, like they're out of a C-tier 80s OVA that everyone forgot about.


The main villain this time is again, highly controversial. However this time it's not due to scan quality but due to how you have interpreted the JoJo series so far. You might like him as a conceptual stand-in for Dio in a final fight between him and the Joestar bloodline, or you might simply be unimpressed with anything that he does, like me.

For the grand finale of JoJo to be a fight between an incompetent ragtag bunch of inmates with no reason to fight, versus a Dio fanboy who has the dumbest motivation in the series, it almost feels disrespectful to read it.

Stand fights are again, situational puzzle fights. But there's only so many situations you can be in, in a prison setting, and the asspulls to REACH those situations can get pretty darn ridiculous at times. However once they are out of prison, it's slightly more interesting, but not by much, as the abilities are still mostly nonsensical, with the villain's ability in particular being able to do whatever he wants with it.

Now in Stone Ocean's favor, the art is still outstanding, and it still has a lot of bizarre funny moments, and Pucci's actions during the third act of the manga feel like they're straight out of a horror movie, as he continues to move forward, unstoppable, much like Michael Myers.
The problem being that he's not unstoppable because of his ability, he's unstoppable because the main cast is simply too dumb to figure out how to defeat him, and this leads to a very, very, disappointing ending for me, especially with how much they build it up.

I would like to say "skip this entry, it's just not good", but as it stands if you want to move on, you kinda have to suck it up and just read through this and try to not think too hard. Just enjoy the absurdity of it all like it's a fever dream and hope that you can enjoy it more than I did. Because really, if you can like the characters, you will have no trouble with this. But as it stands, it's currently the poorest and laziest part for me.

Stone Ocean, apparently has the same model of Golden Wind, however some points differ the quality between them. The real reason to be alike, is the plot that each one presents.
Story: A very good story, does not reach the masterpiece level, but still maintains the quality from the beginning of the manga. An imprisoned woman, a priest, a severe prison, all this has a good run throughout the manga, with exception for the party near the climax, despite having the originality of putting the "villain" in first person, this ends up leaving the work runs deep, and slow in the narrative, the same small mistake of "Diamond Wa Kudakenai."
Plot: As I said above, a young woman a maximum security prison, knowing the harshness of this reality, in contrast to her strong personality, leaves the conflicts and situations in a well-crafted tension. The near climax part may be a little accelerated, however, this is done in an interesting way, because in this part we have 2 "Stands" that affect the whole planet, not only the environment in which the narrative takes place. A good storyline, well creative, differs rather from sleeveless shounens, with the touch of originality.
Art: Although not very fan of the "gore", part 6 has a very satisfactory, that makes all sense with the inserted powers. The art of the characters remains well crafted, and would say better than the previous part.
Powers: Unlike other parts, where stands were played and needed to be defeated, "Stone Ocean" has "stands" perfectly suited to the proposed plot, being very connected with the situation where they are presented.
Characters: Jolyne Kujo, simply a wonderful person, despite losing a bit of focus during the "pre-climax", she remains charismatic and pleasing to the reader. Jolyne is probably one of the more complex "Jojo's" ever presented. A well-worked "villain", with motivations based on what he saw in his life and witnessed, besides the enormous influence of a famous character in the work. Some minor characters may have failed to captivate the reader, as is the case of F.F, a character even well used but who does not have much complexity and charisma. Hermes, in the beginning, is extremely satisfying as a tough feminine character, but loses a little the brilliance with the climax of the final bow.
What could have been better? Well, maybe a greater use of some minor characters, a bigger extension in the final fight, to be more detailed, a little bit closer to the next part, and more charisma in other characters that were important.
Stone Ocean is fun, tense, dramatic, well-set, a script that stays the same quality, stands more consistent with the plot, and avoid repetition elsewhere in relation to the enemy stands; a more diversified storyline than other previous parts, with the presence of flashy and attractive elements, a well-built and developed "villain"; a pleasant change in the "narrative person", putting the villain in the first person; a beautiful and well-designed art; intensity of the gore, to an exaggerated and coherent level, making it enjoyable.

Getting through this part was a bit of a struggle considering the story kind of has trouble staying interesting, but I still enjoyed it. I don't really have much to say in regards to pretty much everything, so I'll just get right to what I did and didn't like.

The things I liked: Jolyne is a great protagonist and I found myself strongly relating to her. The side characters are a fun bunch that make the story feel more natural. Pucci, while being one of the less interesting antagonists, has motivations that I never really expected seeing in this type of series, and I found it refreshing and cool, and I do like how Dio was incorporated into it.

The things I didn't like: Since a prison is an inherently restrictive setting, Araki had to take a lot of liberties when writing it, but I feel like it still didn't match the type of plot we're dealing with. Araki, while writing some pretty interesting characters, missed the opportunity to unlock their full potential. Some of the beginning fights felt out of place and didn't really advance the story, and in the end are pretty forgettable.

Conclusion: While one of the weaker parts of the series, Stone Ocean still has its charm and is totally worth reading.

After watching all JoJo parts that currently had adaptations (parts 1-5), the only way to continue was giving the manga series a try. I haven't particularly loved the JoJo series and I am especially not fond of the first 3 parts, but thought the series had progressively gotten better with each part. After reading Part 6, this doesn't seem to be an exception [Some minor spoilers, nothing major]

[Story: 8]
This might be the best story up to this point, simply due to how varied the settings feel and how the pacing was close to perfect. The plot rarely stagnated or felt like Araki was spoonfeeding us a stand fight after another. This part also has the most epic ending arc of the first 6 parts, period. No arguments to be had.

Unfortunately it is JoJo however, meaning the story never feels incredibly well presented or written. We also (obviously) get a handful of new stand fights. The stand fights might not be as well made as in part 5, but they seem to have a lot more creativity put in... Some of the most bizarre ones up to date.

[Characters: 8]
Here our main character is Jolyne Cujoh, daughter of Jotaro Kujo. She is capable of showing a lot of emotion unlike her father, but while also having a way with her fists. I think she is the most complex JoJo character to date, and throughout the chapters she also gets a great amount of character development. I have never been blown away by the characters' personalities, but I believe Jolyne is one of my overall favourites and definitely stands out from the rest.

The side characters we mainly see weren't all to my tastes, even though I think they are all decent at the very least:
Hermes and Foo Fighters both being my favourites were both at times funny, but serious when time required it, and also had interesting character designs. Neither have much of a backstory, but are regardless great characters. Hermes however felt a little too absent at times with no good reason and her personality could have used a bit more time in the spotlight.
Annasui, Weather Report and Empyreo on the other hand didn't really stick. Annasui is first introduced as an emotionless shell, but out of nowhere we are informed that he is in fact love with Jolyne, but besides that his actions are left up for the viewers interpretation, as his personality is never truly explored. Weather Report, like Annasui is never truly explored and is nearly emotionless for over half the duration of the manga.'
Empyreo felt neither dull nor interesting, and his only reason for existing is to be an ally (similar to Speedwagon, just less interesting and a child).

The main villain Pucco is in my opinion the weakest villain in all of JoJo up to this point. Personality wise he might have the edge over Dio, but unfortunately I think he still comes off lesser due to him simply lacking the same evil villain vibe which Dio had.

[Art: 8]
Not having read parts 3-5, I don't know how much the art has improved and I also read the colored version. I personally found everything incredibly well presented, and nothing ever looked ugly. The art seems simply great, with only a handful of slightly odd looking panels. Even the coloring seemed well made most of the time and truly made things feel more alive.

[Enjoyment 8]
I found this part to be an improvement over the previous ones, with the exception that the characters couldn't really stand up to the cast in Part 5 or 4 as a whole. In part 5 there were next to no weak links and stand fights overall were slightly inferior, and in part 4 there were a few incredibly strong personalities.
Jolyne Cujoh being a great protagonist, and the story having a really good pacing however ended up making it the most enjoyable part thus far for me.

As someone who enjoys Jojo's, I think this one stands as one of my favorite parts (hah, get it?). Stone Ocean is a very underrated part if you were to ask me. I don't feel like the stands in the part were too gimmicky or theme-based, the characters felt dynamic and fleshed out (yes, that includes side characters) and the whole thing was, say it with me, BIZARRE.

From start to finish, I was lost, while at the same time, I felt involved with the story. I know that sounds strange, but allow me to elaborate on this. As the chapters went on, new things kept getting added to the mystery of achieving Heaven, which added to the suspense of time ticking by while the protagonists are filling in the lost pieces to the overarching enemy that is, yet again, DIO and his subordinates.

Overall, I think that the first Jojo Universe got the conclusion it deserved, with the idea of the Joestar curse being lifted through the resetting of the universe.

I'm very excited to see how DP adapts this into an anime in April 2021. For sure a fantastic part.

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean Review

(This review is not spoiler heavy nor is it spoiler free)

Story (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.50/10) Good

The story for Part 6 Stone Ocean was good but it definitely is probably the weakest story I've seen in any JoJo's Part before it (not including Part 1). Now the reason I say this is not because of it's plot which at the beginning had A LOT of potential and I was hype for it. I personally care far more about execution of a story you have versus what the story actually is. I feel the execution of Part 6's story left much to be desired. I don't care how much hype or suspense you built up in the synopsis or those first few chapters because when it's all said and done and you look back on how it went through and concluded I can't give this any higher than a 7.50. Which isn't bad 7 mean good to me. But coming from JoJo's that is quite low for me. What I think really killed it for me the absolute most was the ending and if you know how it ends then I don't need to say anymore. As far as I see majority of the people liked it because it gave them the "feels" or because it's the first female joestar protag but for me I can't cosign this as very good conclusion or an overall story.


Art (8/10) Very Good
More Specifically (8.75/10) Very Good+

The art in Part 6 was very good and out of all the categories I would say it's the best thing Part 6 had to offer was it's art style. It was definitely better than part 5. Character designs were better than the previous part also but I would consider it only a tad better for characters like Part 6 Jotaro, Enrico Pucci, Jolyne and Sports Maxx. The only design I didn't like was Annasui for the same reason why I couldn't get behind majority if not all of the designs for the Part 5 cast it's too flamboyant for me (And yes I do know Annasui was suppose to be a girl but either way not a fan of that character outfit design at least for a guy), I know this is JoJo's but at the end of the day I don't like it and characters like Jotaro prove that Araki doesn't have to make then look like drag queens especially when we see Annasui in his purple outfit now that's better. Anyway the fight choreography I had a quite few issues with back in Part 5 but Part 6 not so much. Part 5 it happen in almost every fight but in Part 6 I only really remember it happens about twice and see at that Part 6 is longer than Part 5 I do see that as an improvement because no one likes being confused. Lastly the art style on the character's faces did change through out the series but none of them where bad art style choices to me and it really wasn't even that noticeable when the change occurs which is a good thing because I saw it in Part 4 and Part 5 to a noticeable degree and I had to live with it.


Characters (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+

The characters in Part 6 Stone Ocean I thought didn't live up to what I usually expect from JoJo's. Coming into this Jolyne being the daughter of Jotaro I felt had great potential, her start was fun and extremely unique in comparison to any Joestar protagonist before her. She had some character development with her father and she stayed at a consistent pace of fun/chipper during regular downtime events and brave/fearless during serious/battle moments. I didn't have that big of an issue with Jolyne Cujo as I do this she is more entertaining than Giorno, Jotaro and to some degree Josuke. I would say she's a mix of Joseph and Jotaro entertaining like Joseph and fearless like her father and she knows when to stop her comedic relief and act serious and vice-verse where as Joseph as comedic relief all the time and Jotaro was serious all time (which isn't a bad thing but it helps Joylne as a character standpoint being more dynamic when comparing her to those two). Now as far as majority of the other characters in Part 6 this can't be said. Emporio was an ok character and I felt he was basically the Speedwagon, Robert E. O of this part where majority of the time his role was to commentate on what's going on during fight scenes which isn't a bad role it's just besides that I felt he didn't serve much of a purpose until the very very end of the manga I didn't care for him too much for majority of the manga. Annasui's character made no sense to me as he's first introduce as a character that apparently doesn't give a shit about anything according to Emporio and all of a sudden falls for you know who and it just felt out of no where and forced. Weather Report I felt was another dull character and aside of his backstory which we got close to the end of the manga he had nothing going from him as a character I'm suppose to stay interested in either. Costello Hermes was a decent character and although her backstory wasn't as entertaining as Weather Report and is a bid to similar to that of Polnareff in Part 3, she still ends of being entertaining and keeping up with Jolyne's wild/entertaining side the alligator scene just shows that Hermes and Jolyne were like to peas in a pod and it was always entertaining to read with little downtime we actually got in this part. Foo Fighters I felt was a random character, unique and debatable if I liked her or "it" as a character, I felt it died a bit too early and that hindered my final impressions on the character because I wanted to see more. Enrico Pucci is a very good villain as when every time he's shown suspense occurred within me he's a character with a semi-god complex and those types are always cool to me. His two backstories were also entertaining to read and gave us a better look at a side of a previous villain that we barely see. And other backstory he had the intertwines with Weather Report was also a very good but fucked up backstory. I never the Enrico Pucci by the end of Part 6 would leave this much of an impact on the entire series because when you think about it he left the biggest impact BY FAR. All of the side villains other than Sports Maxx and MAYBE Versace aren't really worth mentioning which is a bad thing. So with all that being said the only characters from Part 6 I can give my personally approval to is Jolyne, Hermes and Pucci which isn't closer to a bad thing than a good thing seeing as that's only 3 characters. (Jotaro doesn't count since he's a returning character and I maybe i would give some extra points if I saw a father/daughter ORA beat down but that never happened).



Enjoyment (6/10) Fine
More Specifically (6.75/10) Fine+

My enjoyment for Part 6 Stone Ocean was a roller coaster as when it first started I was really hyped as far as what I heard, people's rating of it, and the adventure of following the offspring of Jotaro. But once the cast is introduced and the constant flow of uninteresting enemies came flowing in I quickly became less interested and if it wasn't focused on moving the main plot forward or showing off a backstory it kind of felt like a shore to read which is a bad thing, people complained about the villain of the week formula that Part 3 introduced but I personally felt Part 6 did it far worse, a decent amount of them were far from entertaining, I'm sure when it gets animated it'll probably be more enjoyable to experience. My enjoyment went up around the end but then that ending left me extremely unsatisfied because I'm a guy that loves a good pay off conclusion and Part 6's conclusion I would consider controversial to the entire JoJo universe for obvious reasons I have no clue how anime watchers will reaction to such an ending when it ever gets animated. I've heard some people say they liked it and some like me say "wtf kind of ending was that".


Overall (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+

Part 6 was good but it in my opinion doesn't live up to the hype everyone gives it. This is probably my least liked part of JoJo's yet as now I would ranking them Part 4, Part 3, Part 2, Part 5, Part 1 and this one Part 6. I always wondered why Part 7 took place in an alternate universe and I thought that was a mangaka decision which was not on any affect of the part that happened previously to it. But I was wrong that ending felt like something you would expect from a DC or Marvel comic where the universe as to take place in a different one because of how messy it ended up getting in the previous parts before it and that's not a good thing in my books. Hopefully Part 7 lives up to the hype that everyone puts it at. A lot of people consider it "The best JoJo's Part Araki has ever created" now it just feels like moving from X-men 3 to Days of Future Past... we'll see when I read it in a couple of weeks..

I usually don't write reviews but I couldn't just let this one pass. Part 6 is by far my favourite part. I haven't read part 7 or 8, so I don't know if those are better. I really enjoy the fact that we have a woman Jojo for the first time. As the reader goes through the story, there are some flows and things that are there for the plot, but the amazing thing about the part is the end. To me, the end was a mindblow I didn't expect to happen. The art is stunning and the whole manga really enjoyable. The fights are awesome and Araki's philosophical point of view extremely interesting. As I said I loved this part for its ending. Overall I rated 10 and it's my second favourite manga after berserk.

I gave a review of the previous part, Vento Aureo/Ougon no Kaze (Jojo Part 5) and this review is going to echo that one quite similarly.
My views on Vento Aureo were that toward the end (the last third or so), the story began to drag on, the stands got far too ridiculously complicated, and the character designs became distracting and annoying. which I thought was a shame because the first two thirds were GREAT, with an awesome premise, cool characters, and neat stands.

This sentiment also rings true with Stone Ocean.
The Premise is cool as hell: Jolyne Kujo has to escape from a prison infested with stand users? Awesome!
The characters too, were pretty great with some pretty creative stands.

But, yet again the last third (closer to halfway) drags on significantly, where I just wanted it to friggin' end already. they keep introducing new characters with overly complicated stands, then characters whose stand abilities keep changing, stands based off of ridiculous obscure phenomena and urban legends and it goes on and on for friggin' volumes.
and it gets worse and worse and worse as it nears its end. and then it ends, and it's a terrible end.

That's why I give it an overall 4 and 4 for story. because while the first two thirds are so goddamn great and enjoyable to read, the ending is just THAT BAD that it brings the score down significantly.

Yet again, i'm telling you to stop following Jojo after part 4.

I started Part VI in the same day i finished part V. To cut long story short, this part is a little bit better than part V, but they are both 'fabulous' and just great. Characters... there are some i really like (Annasui, Jolyne, Weather), and some i dislike (Hermes) or even hate (F.F.). Main antagonist has a reason to 'be evil', and... he is evil, unlike Diavolo, who wasn't truely bad. Well, he wanted to kill his own doughter, but Father Pucci, main antagonist of Stone Ocean wants to rule the world~ instead. In brief.
Story is interesting and it's base is ridiculous and bizarre- so it's just as it should be. Priest wants to go to Heaven thanks to baby thanks to bone thanks to summoning ghosts or... something (minor spoilers).
As always, first half is less interesting and fun than second. We have some boring and some quite nice fights, but real fun starts from Special Ward fights (maybe in ~40% of the story) and from that points, it gets only better and better. Until the very last fight with- spoiler- main antagonist, Pucci. And that fight was just MARVELOUS. And the ending was... well, Araki gone mad, he created bizarre and twisted ending. Well, it is done how it should be done.
Again, fights are based on phisics, anatomy and other scientific stuff. There are way more 'world-range' stands, for example- Bohemian Rapsody, under world and heavy weather. I don't mind it- Underworld and Heavy Weather arcs were brilliant.
Just like before- i have been reading 1 or 2 volumes per day, but the last i've read 4 volumes, just like when i was reading Part IV.
Art is, as always, great. Characters- the same. Enjoyment? Great. Story? Typical simple JoJo plot, but i liked it.
And, if you compare aprt 4,5 to 6, you can see that 4 and 5 could be named fillers or side-stories. Stone Ocean is the final of some threads, and it's the begining to new ones. Again, there is DIO somewhere in the background, his role is key, but he appeares only in flashbacks. Jotaro returns for the 4th time, but this time- he also has key role.
It's JoJo in its finest, nothing changed- still awasome manga. You will regret that you had finished it.
And now, i'm going to read part VII, which is, so far (volume 4), even better than Parts before.

Definitely worth your time.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 is a nasty piece of shit and helped confirm in my mind how lazy Hirohiko Araki's writing truly is. Any positive points to make about this part are completely over shadowed by Araki's mediocre and laughably shallow "Stand User of The Week" formula, which has been prevalent in previous JoJo parts but has been no more detrimental to the story than it is here, as an abundance of irrelevant fights take place over a large number of chapters all for the sake of padding out this incredibly shallow story. In parts 3 and 5 this formula at least fits the story as the characters are on a journey to a destination and the main villain wants to stop them from getting there. Here there is absolutely no reason for most of these battles and the fact that they're confined to a prison with very little variety in setting really doesn't help either.

I usually love fights in shonen anime and manga and they usually serve as my favourite parts of a story but here they feel so inconsequential.
Although it's a shame that the structure of this story and its formulaic fights are so appalling because beneath that is an entertaining cast, who could have been fleshed out more if not for these unnecessary "filler fights." Jolyne and Pucci are great characters but don't see each other for most of the story.

Araki seems to have two story types: The journey type where characters are trying to reach a destination and the mystery type where the characters are trying to figure something out that the reader already knows. Stone Ocean is the latter. Both are pretty formulaic usually but, Stone Ocean goes out of its way to make it even worse by confining its cast to a boring prison setting, writing fan favourite character Jotaro out in the first few chapters and moving its story at a snails pace(lol) due to constant filler and interruption
So basically what you have at its core is a manga that takes 100 chapters to get good or to actually do anything. I don't even mind that the ending was depressing, that was the good part. I know JoJo fans are almost robotic in their assertion that "YoU CaN't SkIp PaRtS!!!!!" but if something isn't worth your time drop it. I was already growing tired of Araki's "Stand User of the Week" formula by the middle of Part 4 and this part put the nail in the coffin.

This part sucks ass, skip it or just stop reading JoJo at this part entirely.

I don't really bother with stuff like this but considering Vento Aureo's adaptation finished a little bit ago, this is probably the last chance I'll get to do so. [Mild Spoilers]

I'll get right into the meat of it: Stone Ocean is full of great and interesting ideas that don't quite see the full connection they deserve, for one reason or another.

Story: You know the deal by now, the year is 2011 and the location is Florida. Jolyne is the daughter of Part 3's protagonist, Jotaro, and she gets framed for a murder that was technically done by her (ex)boyfriend Romeo, sending her to prison. The initial goal set up is to escape the prison and clear her name, but it is later revealed that the murder was a setup executed by followers of DIO to lure Jotaro out of hiding because of knowledge he knows. It gets more complicated, but that's the gist of it. The story takes place almost entirely in a prison, which I can respect, but the issue that really begins to show is that the formula Jojo's has had all this time doesn't really change despite this setting difference. In Part 4, we saw the main cast limited to a relatively enclosed environment (the town of Morioh). Since this setting was inherently a lot more laid back, there was a lot more room for character-driven arcs and subplots. Part 6 is basically Part 4 but if it tried to be like Part 3. It's still a "villain of the week"-type deal, and very rarely do I find Araki actually attempt to take advantage of the setting (he should have just watched Shawshank or something). You could argue this is more of a complaint on the character writing, but I find this main weakness ties directly into the plot, so I'm putting it here. 6/10.

Art: This part is a bit tricky. If you know anything about Araki's art, you'll know that he continuously changes his style to match cultural appeal - when the 80's action hero fell out of fashion, he swapped to more standard-built, relatable designs. This all works fine, but I think he has yet to completely figure out how to draw female models at this point in time. Very frequently does Jolyne have strange proportions (hell, you can see it on the cover image for this very article), and overall you can tell this is a very awkward transition period for him. It's kind of complicated to explain, but the only way I can describe it is it doesn't feel like all of the components match. All this said, there are still a lot of very appealing panels here, and Araki's character designs definitely more than make up for any inconsistencies that exist in the art. 6/10.

Character: A lot of this ties into the "story" aspect, as I mentioned. While there are some very redeeming character arcs, such as Jotaro and Jolyne's relationship, most of them feel very strung together, and most of the reason for this is because I feel like despite his confidence, Araki still can't quite write female characters the way he can write his male ones.
Allow me to do another history lesson, but in the 80's, Araki's views on women were highly stereotypical and embracing of gender roles, seen mostly in Gorgeous Irene. Once he got married, his perspective on them changed quite a bit and at this current time in his career he sees women as mostly equal to men. While this sounds very reassuring, when you read through bits and pieces of Stone Ocean you can see past Araki tugging at the present Araki's leg. The two male characters in the Joestar group are automatic potential love interests for her, and her introductory scene is literally just her getting caught rubbing one out (which has made a few people I've preached Part 6 about to drop it before they even begun). All that said, Jolyne is still a real character, and shares many of her personality traits with Jotaro, but with the slight tinge of innocence that Jotaro's character never got the space to develop in Part 3's environment.
Foo Fighters is an amazing character and probably Part 6's best in my opinion. A highly intelligent, sentient stand that is made up entirely of plankton whose purpose was to protect the main villain's stash of Stand Discs, who then has a brief existential nightmare before befriending Jolyne and Ermes by taking over the body and identity of a deceased prisoner. That description is pretty out there, but FF's main appeal is how they act after this, probably displaying more life than any other character in the cast.
Enrico Pucci (the main villain), is also a pretty interesting character because of his relationship with DIO before his defeat in Part 3, and how it ties into his underlying goals. There are a few ways to interpret his goals, however, and while some of them definitely tie into his righteous beliefs on humanity, a lot of it comes off as a typical power-hungry antagonist. For what it's worth, Pucci absolutely feels like a real character despite that description.
As far as the other characters go, there really isn't much going on. I'm not going to go into full-on character synopsis' here, but the general theme here is characters following a basic archetype that was done in a previous part, a character having some semblance of an identity that is never used, or a character's identity essentially being asspulled at the last minute with full expectation on the reader to feel for them. Overall, a 6. This would be higher if it weren't for the amount of burden characters, because there is some genuinely good writing here, but alas.

Enjoyment: This might be weird because it goes against all of my past criticisms, but I think the enjoyment factor of this Part is pretty high up until the last leg of it. Araki has said multiple times that at this point in the story, he felt he had exhausted all of his ideas to their limit and that he was beginning to feel very demotivated in terms of actually writing the story. You can feel this in a few different ways, but the biggest and ironically best way I can see is this at play is all of the crazy things that are thrown at you. Sure, it is Jojo and this is expected, but I think among the Stand concepts and some character tropes, it kind of feels like a fanfiction in a (good) way. Without getting too spoilery - Pucci removes his ability to see because if he has it, he will be convinced he is turning into a snail so much that he will be unable to move. 3 of the main Joestar group is trapped within the spirit of a plane that crashed some years ago, killing all but 2 passengers - the 3 now using that information to try and survive the crash. There is an arc where Kenshiro, Raoh (from Araki's own pre-Jojo manga), Mickey Mouse, and many others are not only plot points, but exist in Jojo's universe.

Overall: It depends on what you enjoy really. This goes without saying, but I've found enjoyment on Part 6 varies the most from person-to-person compared to many of the other Parts, with not many thinking it's "okay", usually it's either a favourite or least favourite.
I'll probably stick to 7/10.
I think if you enjoy the earlier Parts and just want to see both more of what's going on there, alongside a true continuation on Phantom Blood's story, then Part 6 is probably very worth it. If you're more of a casual Jojo consumer, I wouldn't really recommend it unless what you see really piques your interest.
My MAIN recommendation for anyone is that you wait for it to be adapted by David Production, because the last quarter of this Part is painful to read and I personally think will improve tremendously with both a reworking and by actually being in-motion. The con to this is that well, we don't know if they'll even adapt Part 6, but... come on now.

Pretty boring at first, the story gets more interesting over time, but still isn't super interesting. I even took a few-months break from JoJo at some point. If I hadn't read the last two chapters I would probably give this part a 7, maybe even a 6. However, it has the best ending of all parts of JoJo I've read so far and probably one of the best endings of all time. The ending is great, shocking and amazing and I absolutely love this part for it. I don't write reviews really often, but I just HAD to complement the ending, thank you Araki for it.

Part 6 has a good premise, had awesome moments, the protagonist is one of the best in the series, the main group is great and the story is interesting. So, why am I giving such a bad rating? Because of the ending. The ending is the worst in every possible way.

I'm leaving the Story part to the end.
Art (9/10)
What can I say? It's just good. Araki improved his drawing skills a lot through the years and this part proves it. Also, the character design is crazy as ever, you can see it specially in Jotaro, Jolyne and Pucci.

Character (5/10)
If you read my other reviews, something I always criticize is a bad protagonist. Being the main lead of the story, him/her being hateful and useless harms it a lot of ways, and that's what takes me away from anime like Evangelion. This doesn't happen in Stone Ocean. The protagonist is one of the best and she is the first in the series to have a real development as you see her growing from a moody teen to a badass woman. Her stand is weaker than previous ones, but she's smart enough to use it well, and I like it's a realistic smartness, she's not an edgy 15-year-old humanized wikipedia or something. Being that good, it's hard to believe she belongs to this part. Unfortunately.
With a female lead in a female prison, it's hard to believe this part only has three girls on the main group (remember Vento Aureo when they had literally one female character in the entire part?), but both Hermes and FF are good. However, Hermes' disappearence after she defeats Maxx feels longer than Kakyoin's, was it like 2/3 of the part? Because of that, she unfortunately ends being the second most forgettable JoBro, topped only by part 8's JoBro. We have female villains and that's great, yet female representation continues to be an issue in this series, like the fact that Jolyne's mother doesn't even have a name.
Annasui has a few plotholes in his story but I like him, he has a fun personality and is a good character. But one of the reasons I'm giving this section a 5 is because of the homophobic retcon made by Shounen Jump to change his gender to male so Jolyne wouldn't have a female love interest. It's good that Araki left the magazine after this part ended. As for the others, Weather is good, Jotaro might be his best self in this part, and I'll get to Emporio in the end.
The main villain of this part, Pucci, might be the worst character, probably in all of the series. In part 5 I criticized Diavolo for being a bad version of Dio, and now I could say Pucci is just another Vanilla Ice, a villain we know only for being devoted to Dio, and Pucci is basically that. We have his backstory, but in the end everything revolves around Dio. His reason for defeating the Joestars? Dio. His main goal of retrieving Jonathan's last bone? To bring Dio back. His reason for resetting the world? Also Dio. Didn't we have enough villains like this in part 3?
Talking about Dio, I really liked his sons. Ungalo, Rykiel and specially Donatello had amazing stands and reasonable personalities. Being linked to Pucci, they really feel connected to Dio and a part of JoJo's in general.
Another character mistreated in this part was Jonathan Joestar. Being dead since part 1, a part of his body, who Dio stole, appears here as "Dio's bone". Also his sons.

Enjoyment (4/10)
This part is good, mostly. Most villains may be forgettable, but the fights are great. But yeah, if you care about the series as a whole, you will probably hate it.

Story (1/10)
Stone Ocean had potential to be great. Most of the story is good, but things get worse and worse after the Underworld arc. In the end, Pucci just kills everyone and resets the universe, then Emporio kills him and resets the universe again, we see Irene and it ends there.
There are various reasons why I think this ending is the worst possible one. And remember, it's just my opinion. Here they are:

a) Pucci
As I said, Pucci is just an edgy version of a generic part 3 villain who was granted an absurd amount of power. What he has in power and number of stands he lacks in personality. A villain finally defeats the protagonist for the first time since part 1, and it's fucking Pucci. He doesn't even try to be reasonable like part 7's villain or part 5's antihero Risotto Nero, nor he is likeable like Kira, he is just trash.

b) Giorno
Why did Pucci encountered Donatello, Rykiel and Ungalo at the same place at the same time? Because they were Dio's sons, and it was bonded by "fate". So, if Giorno is also a son of Dio, shouldn't he be with them? Well, he isn't. He is nowhere to be seen in this whole part, and the excuse given is the worst possible, some "he was there, just not on the right spot" bullshit.

c) Requiem stuff
Others say Giorno wasn't in this part because Gold Experience Requiem would've defeated Made in Heaven, but are you sure about that? I mean, the requiem ability fulfills the user's last wish, and Giorno gained the power to defeat Diavolo. And may I state, Made in Heaven is THOUSANDS stronger than King Crimson. So he wasn't there just because Araki gave up on him rushing part 5's ending and don't know how requiem works.
Talking about requiem, it's not mentioned ever again. Polnareff knew about it in part 5, so why wouldn't Jotaro?

d) This is the end of the original universe
As you probably know, part 7 and 8 are in a different universe because the previous one ends in this part. Yet, this ending doesn't end the world where we spent almost 2/3 of the series properly. Joseph Joestar was confirmed by the author of still being alive in part 6, yet we don't see him again. Nor Josuke and every character who was still alive. The universe ends and they just die "off-camera", not even being mentioned, treated like they don't exist. Why wouldn't Josuke be called by Jotaro to help in the final fight, for instance?

e) Emporio
Emporio was an ok character but his story took a stupid turn in the end. Everything of it feels forced. It's so random that he got to be the only creature in the universe who survived, and also the one who confronted Pucci in the end. It's weird, because he was never a protagonist nor a focus-character in this part. He was just there.
What makes it even worse is that Pucci actually lost to him, after having defeated the power of Stone Free, Star Platinum, Kiss and Diver Down combined. You could say Emporio won because he had Weather Report's disc, but remember that Pucci and Weather had a fight before, and Pucci won with Whitesnake? And now, with Made in Heaven, he should have easily won, not dying instantly.
If it was Jolyne in Emporio's place, it would've been better. I'm not saying this because I like Jolyne but because it would make SENSE. Imagine if in part 4 it ended with Josuke, Okuyasu, Koichi, Rohan and Jotaro all dying to Kira and Hayato being the one alive to beat him at the end? It's basically the same.

f) Dio, the philosopher
Dio was presented here as a guide, a mentor to Pucci. They work together to achieve heaven, an ultimate goal that Dio "always" had in mind since they met.
This fails because we know Dio from parts 1 and 3. He is not a philosopher nor a genius, being a stupid and arrogant villain who sees himself as smart was always the base of his character. He never had any complex plan and his only goal was world domination by using his powers. Dio being shallow doesn't make him a bad character, but the fact that he is overused in JoJo's, here playing a role that make no sense for him.

Overall (3/10)
This part had some good stuff, and generally I would say it's better than part 5 and 8. I loved Jolyne and Jotaro, I liked some other characters and Bohemian Rhapsody arc was amazing. But, as for all I have said, this part is terrible. You may like it like a lot of people do, yet I feel like it's the worst ending in JoJo's.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean is a but divisive among fans of the series. It's considered one of the worst in the series and... I'd be lying if I said I didn't see why. Is it bad? No. Not at all. I still consider it to be pretty great. It just has a lot of confusing and unexplained plot points. The story is great, but it feels small in comparison to even parts four and five. I think it's mostly the fault of the setting. A prison. Yeah, not a lot of opportunities there. But, I think it has some of the best and most interesting stand battles in all of JoJo. They're also some of the visually weirdest and I'm excited to see what they do with an anime adaptation.

I usually take this time in my JoJo reviews to gush about how great the villain is. And, he really isn't the best. He's good for a villain, but not great compared to the likes of Dio, Kars, Kira and Diavolo. Instead, it rather gush about the hero, the JoJo. I think the only girl JoJo is the best main character since Joeseph. She is an absolute badass in every sense of the word. Her character is deep and fleshed out and she's still entertaining as hell to watch. Even her involvement with the story and interaction with the villain is great. It's a very personal story about saving her father, Jotaro. It especially works because we, the audience, already cares about Jotaro. Yeah, I like it a lot.

Admittedly, this is one of the weaker parts of JoJo. I didn't even mention the side characters, because I only thought a few of them were all that interesting. The villain works, but he's not memorable like a JoJo villain should be. A lot of the plot points, especially the ending, are very confusing. I heard it was made that way on purpose, but that doesn't make it better to me. Still, the story is great, the main character is one of the best I've seen in a comic book ever, and the fights are a true delight to read. Part five is still my favorite, and part six is better than part one and right around part three, but not quite up to part four. I still haven't read part seven, but I'm looking forward to it because everyone tells me it's one of the best.

i just finished Stone Ocean and im just amazed about the battle techniques of the protagonist Jolyne kujo like her quick decision making skills are mind blowing for example of how she turned her body into an infinite loop symbol with Stone Free to defend herself from getting turned inside out. White snake also known as Enrico Pucci is a really great antagonist by how he got out of so many sticky situations and a villain that appeared earlier than other jojo villains and also being Weathers twin brother, i never knew that you could actually fuse your stand with another stand, his will to attain heaven is really cool and i really like the way his hair are reaching over his face making his design look interesting and how he is a follower of DIO. One of my favorite character being Weather Report, his ability to control the weather is really cool, his character design is magnificent, and i really liked the concept of weather reports stand of going out of control making him a very interesting character. Hopefully after the COVID-19 pandemic is under control, we see an anime adaptation, anyway im not going to talk about the other characters because i just cant wait to read Steel Ball run, stay safe! :)

Women in prison. Ok, got your attention.

Featuring one of the most ridiculously tense and violent games of catch-ball ever, Stone Ocean is even better than part 5 of the JoJo saga. If Golden Wind was the zenith of the JoJo franchise, then Stone Ocean is the apex. Ok, they both mean the same thing but you get the idea.

Starring the daughter of the stoic, bland, yet incredibly powerful Jotaro, the story has jumped a few years to 2011, Florida, USA. Jolyne is in a 'pinch' as the Japanese love to say. She's on her way to a sprawling prison complex off of Florida, she's been framed, she's starting to hear voices in her head and a string just appeared out her finger for no apparent reason. Shit just got real.

The JoJo saga has featured a vast array of unique characters and abilities, but at its core it’s about a very simple thing. The violent clash of two bloodlines: Joestar versus Dio and his minions. Stone Ocean is no different, albeit lacking Dio himself it still carries his influence still plaguing the unlucky Joestar bloodline. Its free of the overt humour of Part 4 and after part 5's unbelievably powerful abilities, Araki himself was in a pinch, where does he go next?

So what better way to get out of it by allowing more females into his saga and using a claustrophobic locale brimming with lots of potential. A maximum security prison complex halved between females on one side and males on the other. Jolyne is thrust into a violent world with no allies, forced to learn the rules of prison society, like how to bribe people just to make a phone call.

The abilities are still named after famous artists and bands, but they're so much more offbeat and WTF-based than usual. You have to love it. The imagination on display in the JoJo saga constantly hits you in surprising ways, and you're usually left in awe at Hirohiko Araki's imagination, pitting two veteran stand-users against a newly born baby for example. You will be beaming or pumping your fist into the air at how Araki can sustain so much tension and danger to the characters, pushing them to the very limits and then pulling them out of the fire, and it never feels like a copout, he always makes their efforts to get out of danger believable and earned.

Jolyne is a good character, she's feminine yet brash like all JoJos are, she's intelligent and has a very handy ability that she uses to its full potential, regularly getting out of tight corners and giving violent beatdowns to punks who push her too far.

Stone Ocean is another great addition to the JoJo saga, a brilliant shonen that has enough horror traits to almost veer it into seinen territory. The battles are ingenious and often brutal, packed with body mutilation and as usual for an Araki manga; featuring climaxes that are the result of characters acting intelligently and not because of contrived power-ups, as seems to be the rage in the post-millennium decade.

In terms of rating the last battle of this volume to other volumes, it definitely ranks as one of the best, a vast improvement over Part 5's battle in Italy. There are crazy powers causing utter mayhem on a global scale and insane counterattacks that come from nowhere but are always consistently logical in the context of the manga.

I love the author; he always comes up with crazy solutions to crazy problems. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is as enduring and consistently entertaining as the JoJo blood line.

This review will contain spoilers

If I were to describe Stone Ocean in one word, that would be confused. To be more precise than one word, Stone Ocean feels like it doesn't know where it is going and what it wants while being forced to move in a direction. Though I may have given it a 2, I still found it to be worth reading, as I have finished it. But what good will I have towards this part is showered in complaints and confusion that made the whole 3 days journey I took reading this a very rocky road. But I can't be this vague, so I'm gonna try and compile my thoughts into something digestible, and maybe people that disagree with my stance can at least come to an understanding of my viewpoint.

So to start, I feel a story is based in the strength of it's characters. That doesn't mean that a good story needs good characters, but that is the lens of which the narrative is told. The triumph of Giorno in part 5 was only special because we saw all the hardship Buccellati's gang had to go through, as well as the connection made between them along the way. So in my opinion, the cast of Stone Ocean is really bad. Jolyne and friends don't really get to know each other, as much as they are around each other. Hermes is just a girl, and she killed Sports Max so thats the end of that development. I can't name a single thing unique to Emporio as a character other than that he is a child with the ghost room stand. Weather Report is kind of neat with his connection to Pucci and all. Annasui is just a simp for Jolyne, which is more interesting than Emporio and Hermes. Jolyne is not a good MC, as her motivation is very poorly defined, and she just left very little impression on me. The best character in part 6 is probably F.F., a microorganism gaining life and expanding her understanding of the world past Pucci's role for her was really cool, and her death is something I wished happened a little bit later so we would get more time to flesh her out. Jotaro is gone for almost the entire part which sucks, but I guess he's too OP. And Pucci is uh... ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Pucci sucks ass, in both implementation and execution. First he relies on Dio for motivation, which make it the second time Dio is used in some form in the big bad of the series. Now I could be biased in the fact that I have Stardust Crusaders and Phantom Blood as my least favorite JoJo parts, but even if I were to ignore that, it just makes Pucci boring. Diavolo and Kira were both interesting antagonists that challenged the protagonists in an interesting thematic way, which is something I cannot say for Pucci. Secondly, his whole plan is never clear until literally the last fucking chapter. So it starts with Jotaro's stand disc to find what was in Dio diary, then it changes to the green baby, which then becomes going to this Nasa place where gravity gets all weird, and then he resets the universe. It's all handled so messily as plot point sorta just converge until all our main guys are near Pucci and then they fight and its not earned in the slightest. Third, Dio's children are dumb and stupid. I don't think I need to explain this one, but even if you could, I just don't like them. In general, I feel the encounters with Pucci don't have any weight to them like the villain encounters did in other parts. Kira was hidden amongst the crowd of Morioh, keeping everyone alert after his reveal. Diavolo was known to be in the colosseum during Chariot Requiem. Pucci is just in the prison wandering around, theres no weight to his encounters, they just sorta happen, except during the fight with F.F.'s death which was actually pretty decent.

Speaking of which, the prison setting is just way too restrictive. I feel bribing guards and whatever can only happen so many times that your suspension of disbelief is going to be broken at some point. Like in any of the fights, were they at least caught on camera doing shit like jumping around in antigravity, or executing someone by throwing a baseball at them 1000 times, or when survivor turned the whole ultra security section into a battle royale. And the tight corridors is just too controlling when it comes to spacing and really hampers the grasp on any particular enemy.

I feel most of the fights suck in part 6, because it sorta has the part 3 problem of sorta just ending when our heroes find one solution to the problem, instead of having momentum swing back and forth like parts 2 and 5. I liked the ending that was neat, and uh thats it.

I think though the the one reason i was able to stick it out to the end though was the fact that it is JoJos. And not that it's part of a pre-existing saga, more of that it looks and feels like the parts of old. The body horror is absolutely fantastic, the stands are neat, the character designs are gorgeous. It's Jojo, through and through, and thats why I can't give it a 1, because it's still worth reading if you're into Jojo. But yeah I hope this was helpful see yah.