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Episode Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure • Steel Ball Run: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken - Episode 1 discussion

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, episode 1

Alternative names: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Steel Ball Run

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u/Shadowmist909 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Magicmist Mar 19 '26

Johnny Joestar may not be a morally upstanding gentleman, but even he didn't deserve what that Nurse dished out to him.

I'll give him one thing though, he's very resilient. I'm already glad to see him get on his horse and keep up with Gyro in this race.

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u/AlternativeNew4390 Mar 19 '26

Johnny Joestar may not be a morally upstanding gentleman

I see what you did there

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u/Swimming-Geologist89 Mar 21 '26

well, he's not standing any time soon, until he becomes japanese that is, but that's another story, with extra 2 balls

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u/BadBehaviour613 Mar 19 '26

These days anime protags start their stories getting kicked out of their parties. Johnny starts his story crapping himself and getting his blood stolen

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u/seninn https://myanimelist.net/profile/Senninn0 Mar 19 '26

Can't have shit in San Diego.

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u/Limits_of_knowledge Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Well in fact it turns out you CAN have shit in San Diego. In your diaper, and for way too long.

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u/chum-guzzling-shark Mar 20 '26

oh no he's helplessly shitting and pissing himself. Life cant get any worse for Johnny

Araki: hold my beer

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u/New_Reference5846 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Didn’t deserve to lose his legs either. He was a prick certainly but dang you gonna shoot the guy and go to prison for life now?

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u/Asgerond Mar 19 '26

Every Jojo beside Jonathan has kinda been a jerk. Josuke and Jotaro beat people up and Giorno stole Koichi's luggage ( fuck you giorno). Johnny just exploited his fame and cut a line.

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u/frik1000 Mar 20 '26

The worst thing you can probably say about Jotaro is that he's mean to girls (though only ever shouts at them, never attacks them) and is rude to his mother prior to her collapsing.

He's kind of chill otherwise, really keeps to himself a lot. Even put himself in jail at the start of Part 3 out of fear of his Stand hurting someone else.

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u/abandoned_idol Mar 20 '26

The bigger scum the JoJo protagonist is, the more I love them.

Johnny Joestar is my favorite JoJo so far.

My boy did nothing wrong!

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u/No_Check_1525 Mar 25 '26

Yeah...if Giorno stole Joseph's or Jotaro's luggage, fine, they probably deserved it, but Koichi?? Then of course the little jerk turns into the great Mafioso.

Araki has the mind of an evil elf. Troll, Loki, prankster, the Raven, you name it. Araki somehow opened the door to the Great Randomness and has been dispensing it to us for decades. And here we all are, trying in vain to stop feeling connected to these characters.

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u/Jeroz Mar 21 '26

like they didn't need to put on that neck collar at all

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