JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is my favorite manga series. I grew up reading American comics (Batman being my favorite); and about 2 years ago when I finished the anime, to this year when I caught up with the current chapters of part 9, JoJo’s has beaten my nostalgia and Araki has made a comic that I put at an equal love for Batman.

So I love JoJo’s, but compare that to my favorite Novel series that I’m reading “Malazan Book of the Fallen” and there’s a lot of noticeable differences. The MBOTF written by Steven Erikson and the concurrent NotME series written by Co-creator Ian C Esslemont are very different than JoJo’s. JoJo’s is whacky, random, fun, emotional, and has very strong themes. The complexity lies within the fights and Araki layers the narrative into the action itself, being a shonen (at least that’s how it started). However, Malazan is a lot more slower paced, and like a Shakespearean play a majority of the characters are waxing poetic about their worldview, societal and anthropological problems, personal philosophies. All the while epic complex fantasy plots are being woven with some great action (one of the best sieges ever written in Book 3). Also Malazan is very theme heavy, some who want a pure action fantasy will be disappointed as some have labeled the series as navel gazing.

So 2 very different series in terms of pace, narrative style, subject matter, novel Vs manga, etc. However the similarities are more striking. Malazan has over 400 characters that you get the POV of, and JoJo’s (while not having that many) goes against the grain by having different main characters to the point that there is not a single one. This is one quality both series share and execute well. And is the reason I wanted to try each series, it sounded ambitious.

Now, I don’t need to explain all the crazy shit that happens in JoJo’s, so I’ll explain for Malazan my next similarity. Both series have a lot of shit that sound completely ridiculous, but both series take themselves seriously enough to where it’s believable within said series. I’ve described Malazan a bit, but in addition to what I’ve said it’s a very dark setting, not grim-dark due to the hopeful message, but it’s does breach into territories of SA, child abuse, addiction, trauma, etc. But Malazan also has zombie dinosaurs with swords for arms. Abbot and Costello-esque characters where one is an eccentric mortal and the other a bored elder god. A fat mage self obsessed, addiction with pastries, speaking in the third person with many soliloquies, and could quite possibly be a god but you don’t know. Both JoJo’s and Malazan allow room for really whacky elements, but still have so much heart put into it that you take it seriously while it also seeming ridiculous.

Now, I’m not the first person to compare Malazan to an anime, it has a lot of anime-esque moments. But my main reason for posting is to hopefully interest you into checking out Malazan if it sounds interesting, but moreso to ask: How different is your favorite novel or other literary medium of story compare to JoJo’s, what are the heavy differences vs the striking similarities that tell a lot about who you, as the reader, are in your taste in stories?

TL;DR : OP gushes about JoJo’s and a Fantasy Novel series about their differences and similarities, and wants to know if others relate and what it says about them as a reader.

Thank you for reading, love to hear responses from anyone that reads this.

I am currently in chapter 17 on SBR how much reading time is expected in duration form, i currently have school and have 3 free afternoons, i am questioning this since i have to read a 700 page book until January and i am planning to read SBR first. Thank you

I mean, he literally controls the genuine force of calamity itself, which is directly implemented within fate and logic. My guy can manipulate fate itself, why? I mean he’s practically a god? (Religious ppl don’t come for me I said A god, like the mfs in them Greek mythology stories n shii)

And what would happen if Tooru were to stab wonder of you with a requiem stand? Or use the Heaven plan? Wonder if u is calamity itself, to making calamity itself requiem? Or heaven ascended? How would it work? Better yet, what if tooru stabbed himself rather than wonder of u and it became a bites the dust type stand? What ability would be obtained? Would he obtain the ability to control good luck? So many questions haha.

The title is autocorrect btw. I meant tooru.

i’ll include non canon too

No idea if I’m misinterpreting the ending, but from what i understand emporio basically undid everything pucchi did with made in heaven, so the events of part 6 never happened at all and jolyne didn’t go to prison.

Jolyne got her stand in prison due to the actions of pucchi technically, so doesn’t that mean that in the ending she is a normal person without a stand?

The other 22 chapters had problems to move from one place to another in the prison because it was a very big prison, with many armed guards 1 kilometer away from the city surrounded by an ocean, but one day they say “I'm going, time to escape from the prison” and the next frame they are already outside.

I love both art styles but jotoro looks so different it actually scary. Pls tell me its not just me

I'd assume so, right?

And why the fuck are they so caked up. 🍑

I passed out while watching last night and I honestly don't even know wtf is going on.

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In the Ghost Alley episode, when Rohan uses Heaven's Door in Reimi's Face, you can see (X-1)(X-Y)2=XY, which translates to the second image.
Someone knows if this means something? Maybe is the shape of the alley? Or is just a coincidence?

I am looking for JoJo's merch to buy. I don't care if it's just JoJo inspired merch I just want find something cool to buy

These came in 14 days early

I also made a little paper frame so it doesn’t bend and is just presented nicer

what if hol horse actually shot dio in the brain and didn't give him time to react? would dio just regenerate ,and then kill hol horse or actually die?

holhorse