| Title | : | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1—Phantom Blood, Vol. 3 (Jojonium, #1) |
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| ISBN | : | 1421578816 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781421578811 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 339 |
| Publication | : | First published April 8, 1988 |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1—Phantom Blood, Vol. 3 (Jojonium, #1) Reviews
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Finally finished part 1 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures. Part 1 will never be the best drawn or the best story, but it's where a story for the ages all started even though so many died in the process. I will miss these thicc men and their fantastic story. This is definitely where you should start reading the manga, even if it's not the best part. But it's got heart, friendship and love to trump the betrayal, evil and ambition of Dio.
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Jonathan and Erina have my whole heart. I’ve already watched Phantom Blood, so I knew to savour all the time time they have together before Dio would ruin everything.
This volume definitely represents the best of part I, with several *bizarre* fights (including, but not limited to): hair that can hold swords, autonomous vampire heads, and undead knights used as puppets for greater evil. Jonathan might not be the most eccentric Jojo, but it’s easy to see why he’s beloved by the fandom for his honourable and gentlemanly nature. A humble start to a great series!! -
Excellent product! I got this as part of my Jojo manga collection and the book is so beautiful! (Not to mention Hirohiko Araki is a genius and the story is beyond excellent!) Would highly recommend!
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Finally finished my part 1 re read! Enjoyed it just as much as the first time, the art is so whacky and cool and I’m obsessed with it
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October 21, 2018: The final book of Phantom Blood cycle. As expected this volume was chock full of epic battles and featured a dramatic finale. There are also lots of references to classic rock music, especially in names, which I really appreciated. Ripple masters Dire and Straights? A quartet of vampires with such monikers as Paige, Jones, Plant, and Bonham? Yes please. I am disappointed that Robert E. O. Speedwagon (get it?) never fully realized his potential as a character. But as a whole, this bizarre adventure was a success.
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DIO BRANDO is the perfect antagonist. The best is the end of the first part owner this book
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Evan and I made a deal — I would read this, and he would read March by John Lewis. He clearly got the better end of the deal. ;)
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been a minute since I started this and I couldn't remember it all perfectly but I caught on pretty quick and finished it also pretty fast. fun read, still confused as to how I'm supposed to read the pages but whatever lol. anyways yeah it was a fun and quick lil read :)
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Aquí llega el fin del primer arco de Jojo, donde vemos uno de los enfrentamientos más importantes de toda la saga general: Jonathan contra Dio.
Sublime.
Resulta complejo hablar de este tomo sin spoilers, así que para no estropear nada a nadie tan solo digo que me ha encantado como expresa sentimientos el autor más allá de las peleas. De los sentimientos de Jonathan, e incluso de Dio. Un imprescindible para todo aquel que esté interesado en los clásicos y, sobre todo, los mangas especiales.
Pero eso sí, el fin de una historia es tan solo el comienzo de una nueva... -
*sigh*
forever a tragedy. -
Why haven't I read this sooner?
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serie che ha fatto la storia, bellissima, ma è solo l'inizio!
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Edición argentina, tercer y último tomo de la primera saga. Versión basada en la "pocket edition" japonesa pero en formato más grande. Este libro de 306 páginas traduce los últimos 15 capítulos de la saga protagonizada por Jonathan Joestar, más dos páginas de reflexiones y dos páginas de bocetos.
Índice
Descansar como un héroe
Restos de caballero
Campo de entrenamiento mortal de caballeros medievales
Heredero del valor del mañana 1
Heredero del valor del mañana 2
Heredero del valor del mañana 3
Los tres forasteros de un país muy lejano 1
Los tres forasteros de un país muy lejano 2
Los tres forasteros de un país muy lejano 3
Fuego y hielo, Jonathan y Dio 1
Fuego y hielo, Jonathan y Dio 2
Fuego y hielo, Jonathan y Dio 3
Fuego y hielo, Jonathan y Dio 4
Fuego y hielo, Jonathan y Dio 5
Fuego y hielo, Jonathan y Dio 6
Reflexiones de Hirohiko Araki *
Bocetos
* reproduzco también las reflexiones de Araki sobre la Part I:
Reflexiones sobre cuando empecé a dibujar “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure”
Últimamente no pienso mucho en ellos, pero cuando era joven solía hablar con mis amigos de cosas como: “¿cuál es tu monstruo favorito?”. “En Frankenstein sentís la tristeza de lo que es crear un monstruo”, “el Hombre Lobo es un estallido de los instintos primarios que yacen en lo más profundo del ser humano” y cosas parecidas, con la misma seriedad con la que podría discutirse
si en el futuro habría una guerra nuclear.
En mi caso, el monstruo que me resulta más atrayente es el vampiro. Me parecen geniales, tienen muchísimo estilo y un pasado de nobleza y oscuridad. Y también porque me impacta esa estética intelectual que tienen al ser criaturas que viven de acuerdo a ciertas normas.
Me fascina que crean que, siendo monstruos tan poderosos, no les va a pasar nada malo mientras sigan estrictamente esa serie de reglas y normas (como haría, por ejemplo, alguien que practica kung-fu y corre 10 kilómetros todos los días e ingiere proteínas a base de sasami de pollo).
Por cierto, cuando era chico yo también hacía cosas parecidas.
Desde que un conocido me dijo que la pasta de dientes era abrasiva y blanqueaba los dientes desgastándolos, se me grabó la idea en la cabeza de que si me cepillaba los dientes con dentífrico, terminaría con caries. Incluso al día de hoy sigo la norma de cepillarme solamente con agua. Hablando de reglas, algo que sorprende a propios y extraños es que me encantan los mangas deportivos. El principal motivo es porque siguen estos mismos criterios. Para mí, la historia de un manga debe progresar en base a ciertas normas y reglas preestablecidas. Mientras pensaba en una historia usando los códigos de mis adorados vampiros, se me ocurrió: “sí, son vampiros, podría hacerlos así, muy poderosos, cómo decirlo… como un canto a la vida”.
A lo que mi editor de entonces me dijo:
“Eso no vendería”.
"Es que a mí me gustan las cosas siniestras mucho más", le insistí. Hasta que finalmente recapacitó.
Y así es como empecé a dibujar “Jojo’s”.
Hirohiko Arak -
I'll be honest, I don't give a shit about Tarkus. These build up fights got too much runtime.
That said, the chain gimmick was pretty interesting. and for my gripes about the 80's manga aesthetic, Araki draws violence and gore with a shocking level of detail. I'm amazed by what he got away with in Shonen Jump. It's pretty shocking seeing such a flamboyant character die so gruesomely.
I liked the battle with Dio well enough. I liked seeing Jojo use a sword, his spinning shoryuken move was pretty cool, and the amount of abuse he takes is impressive. The dude just tanks damage throughout his story.
And the conclusion was a very brave storytelling decision. I wish Jojo's death hadn't been spoiled for me, as I think I would have loved the shock ending. We get the typical good guy wins ending, then during the Jojo's ride off into the sunset, the baddie returns and Jojo has to sacrifice himself.
I can't give Araki enough credit for basically throwing out the majority of his cast at the end of each part. Even something like One Piece at least has the core of the Straw Hat crew to fall back on. But Jojo's is confident enough to ask readers to grow attached to a brand new cast of characters, what, 8 times? I really respect that confidence in one's writing. Things reach the level of mad genius when you realize Araki did all of this, without taking a single week off, for NINE YEARS. That is as much a condemnation of the manga industry as it is a testament to Araki as an artist.
But I'm still not enamored with Jojo's. Not yet, anyway. Phantom Blood is fine on it's own today. I like a lot of the ideas, but the execution has been limited. Especially since it influenced so much that would come after. I know things get better from here. I'm confident I'll only grow fonder of Phantom Blood as it becomes the bedrock of a decades long, generation-spanning saga, rather than a self-contained story. As it is, Phatom Blood is influential, while at the same time not feeling like a 30 year old manga. It's fine, but shows potential to become so much more. -
Content warnings: Body horror, dismemberment, gore, arson
The final volume takes us from one action set piece to another. The number of overdrives become hard to keep track of, and the rules around Hamon change a bit to fit the specific fight, but it works because it’s so earnest and sincere.
This volume also runs a little long, mostly because of the number of threads to tie together. The ominous energy permeating from the final frames, which I won’t spoil, definitely foreshadows more epic battles to come.
Phantom Blood works as an introduction to the rules and world-building of this manga classic, with its grounding in the real world with some very strange artistic licenses that work together to bring something wonderful. -
There's something delightfully over the top about this series, which is the only place outside of an 18th century Gothic novel where you'll see so many dramatic statements and exclamation marks taken seriously. I understand why Araki felt he had to end this part as he did, but I think I'll always feel a bit of regret at Jonathan's fate.
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Loved the opening act & ending though everything in between dragged a bit for me. Still a fun read & fascinating to see where/how Jojo's started out. Made even better knowing it only gets better from here!
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El melodrama y el homoerotismo? Legend
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While Phantom Blood has never been my favorite part of Jojo's, and it still isn't, reading it again makes me realize more and more how absolutely indispensable as a setup for the rest of the 1 - 6 saga. There's so much that's done to set up the overarching theme of fate in this part that drives the whole series that I didn't appreciate before now - the whole "pluck" thing with Jonathan's sword is literally a meme, but it actually a serious thing that means something symbolic in relation to both Jonathan and Dio which I won't explain here, but seriously look it up if you are a fan and are unaware of the meaning behind that.
While this isn't entirely this volume specific, I also don't think I ever quite appreciated the aspect of Jonathan, Dio, and their dad all dying or "meeting their fates" as a direct result of their own actions: George is killed at the hands of Dio because he bails his dad out and takes in Dio as his own son due to his unfailing compassion, Dio (from the perspective of the ending of this part) dies at the hands of Jonathan, who only became the paragon of buff boy gentlemanly virtue because of the unfailing cruelty that Dio believed would lead him to sucess, and conversely, Jonathan dies at the hands of Dio because his unfailing courage and hope made Dio gain enough respect for him to decide to steal his body. There's so many more tiny little details that I could absolutely overanalyze, too, but I think this was the biggest new thematic takeaway that I got out of it this time around!
Quote of the Volume:
"KWAHHH! That's a nice feeling CAROTID you've got there, Jojo! So WARM and THICK!"
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Action oozed on every page but I fear the OTT over-the-topness bugged me more in this volume. First, the fight with Blueford and Tarukus went on a little too long for my liking, and it was the bit in the anime I struggled with too. Second, when did every hamon-powered move become an OVERDRIVE version? If I took a shot everytime "overdrive" was mentioned in this volume, I'd surely be drunk.
In any case, Part 1's arc wraps up in a way I wasn't expecting but now knowing this, I can see how the series has had multiple arcs through history. I quite like that and am looking forward to see where this Bizarre Adventure takes us to next. -
It took me a few times to get into this series; I started the anime twice then decided to just read it. I thought it was pretty good, although some action scenes were hard to comprehend. I'm told that the series gets better with each part so I'm hoping part 2 is better
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I když jsou souboje s Hamonem lepší v anime, pořád to byla bomba. Dio je prostě epic (který upír vám střílí lasery z očí? Edward asi těžko...) a Arakiho kresba je neuvěřitelná.
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⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Critical Score: B-
Personal Score: C
Reading Experience: 📘📘📘/5
I’m conflicted. In a way, these are epic and fantastical and exciting, and in another way they’re just one indulgent battle scene after the next. Some scenes I love, others I skim and leave me wanting to quit the series. -
i was skeptical throughout volumes 1&2, but this was really brought it home 👀
I think most people agree that part 1, is relatively weak to the rest so I’m looking forward to more!! -
Ains <3.
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If Nicolas Cage was the embodiment of a manga book it would be this. This is one of the most insane things I've ever read and I loved every moment of it.
