Personally speaking, I prefer the development of Johnny Joestar over Gyro. That being said, I like how the pair of Johnny and Gyro develop their relationship together over the course of the race. Even though his development is a bit outshone by Johnny, I still think he is one of the best JoBros in terms of the depth of his character and how dynamically he changes in response to the events in his life.
Hi! I am sorry for the late reply. My job and the dreary autumn made me sleep on it for too long. -_-" Thank you for your kind words about my review and for congratulations!
I have recently completed reading Jigokuraku and I considered rewriting my review to add the fact that its ending had several good emotional moments. It even offered a proper emotional and ethical payback for Gabimaru’s story. The scene on the ship where the antagonist recognized herself in his love for his wife and let him live was nice. The way he insisted his wife was real despite everyone telling him otherwise was also endearing. I doubted myself, lmao. But then I decided against rewriting, because it was hard and because I felt that my overall impression stayed mostly the same.
I don’t think that the characters are bad, they are pretty nice, esp. conceptually. But I also don’t think they are explored enough, and there’s a bit too many of them. Also while all of them were humanized in the end, it was hard for me to agree that all of the criminals deserved a second chance. The girl from a subjugated tribe – definitely, she was innocent. But as for the asshole brothers – I am not so happy with their new immortality. It’s also that the death obsessed ninjas are just too comical, for example.
I liked Jogokuraku, it has a great world, incredible art, and some good points in its story. It also can boast a true impactful ending, which is a rare achievement. But I believe it would’ve been even better if it had cut some characters, like the ninja fodder and some of the more weird and quirky ultra loyal samurai, for example. The pattern of explaining characters purely through flashbacks cheapened many of them and stalled the narrative too. I mean it probs could have been done better, but it ain’t bad at all as it is, in my eyes. It's just that for me some parts were a drag to read.
But it's all a matter of priorities and tastes in the end. I put considerable emphasis on characters, some people don’t mind them much, and for some characters are the main thing. In my review I simply wanted to warn character enjoyers. I believe that Jigokuraku wouldn’t serve them all that well.
I'm always wary of franchises that's marked as shounen but has bishounen cast obviously geared towards non-shounen demographic, like Bungou Stray Dogs or Kuroshitsuji.
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I have recently completed reading Jigokuraku and I considered rewriting my review to add the fact that its ending had several good emotional moments. It even offered a proper emotional and ethical payback for Gabimaru’s story. The scene on the ship where the antagonist recognized herself in his love for his wife and let him live was nice. The way he insisted his wife was real despite everyone telling him otherwise was also endearing. I doubted myself, lmao. But then I decided against rewriting, because it was hard and because I felt that my overall impression stayed mostly the same.
I don’t think that the characters are bad, they are pretty nice, esp. conceptually. But I also don’t think they are explored enough, and there’s a bit too many of them. Also while all of them were humanized in the end, it was hard for me to agree that all of the criminals deserved a second chance. The girl from a subjugated tribe – definitely, she was innocent. But as for the asshole brothers – I am not so happy with their new immortality. It’s also that the death obsessed ninjas are just too comical, for example.
I liked Jogokuraku, it has a great world, incredible art, and some good points in its story. It also can boast a true impactful ending, which is a rare achievement. But I believe it would’ve been even better if it had cut some characters, like the ninja fodder and some of the more weird and quirky ultra loyal samurai, for example. The pattern of explaining characters purely through flashbacks cheapened many of them and stalled the narrative too. I mean it probs could have been done better, but it ain’t bad at all as it is, in my eyes. It's just that for me some parts were a drag to read.
But it's all a matter of priorities and tastes in the end. I put considerable emphasis on characters, some people don’t mind them much, and for some characters are the main thing. In my review I simply wanted to warn character enjoyers. I believe that Jigokuraku wouldn’t serve them all that well.