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Stardust Crusaders #8
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vol. 8
At last, Jotaro and his companions have made it to Egypt! Now only a journey down the Nile stands between them and their adversary...that, and nine new Stand users, the Great Gods of Egypt, who serve Dio with blind fanaticism. Gruesome death waits beneath the desert sands, and to stand a chance, the heroes must tame a new ally, a vicious brute whose Tarot Card is "The Fool"!
208 pages, Paperback
First published February 8, 1991
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Hirohiko Araki
659 books2,078 followersHirohiko Araki ( 荒木飛呂彦) is a Japanese manga artist. He left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.
He enjoys the baseball manga Kyojin No Hoshii (Star of the Giants); the video games Mario Kart and Bomberman; and likes Prince and other African-American singers, as well as jazz, rock, and rap.
He is a recipient the Tezuka Award for manga.
He enjoys the baseball manga Kyojin No Hoshii (Star of the Giants); the video games Mario Kart and Bomberman; and likes Prince and other African-American singers, as well as jazz, rock, and rap.
He is a recipient the Tezuka Award for manga.
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November 19, 2020
Iggy!!!!!
November 7, 2024
Très drôle, ce tome !
December 19, 2019
Going through this volume, I was still very much in the trough of disillusionment. With that in mind I, did not care of the conclusion of The Empress or the build up of The Fool. Introducing a Jo Doggo was weird and out of nowhere, but it's a dog so I'm not going to complain.
Once the boys get to dealing with a sound-sensitive enemy who is kilometers away, things get interesting. I've gotta shout out the coloring team, which really made Jotaro's blues pop against the tans of the desert. Araki's art has consistently improved with time, but the color team makes his work sing.
Avdol gets a moment to shine, but then his throat gets sliced. And again, I've got to question the point of giving characters such grievous injuries, only for them to be shrugged off by the time the next baddie rolls around a couple of chapter later. This makes Kakyoin's long-ish term injury feel weird, since we've seen the lads shrug off comparably serious damage.
Jotaro chucking the dog is one of my favorite moments from Part 3. It's simple and crude, but it's also the best solution given the situation. And then we get the sound guy's panicked inner monologue trying to make sense of the situation, which serves as buildup to the reveal that Jotaro is standing right behind him. As I've mentioned before, giving us more insight into the villains'mindset than the protagonist's is an effective way of making Jotaro's actions feel more intense and impactful. The reader is experiencing the same surprise and disorientation as the villain, followed by the visceral excitement of seeing a clever hail mary work.
Now we get to one of my favorite battles in part 3. Oingo Boingo is fucking hilarious. I don't know which one is Oingo and which is Boingo, so I will refer to each brother by their combined names. I mentioned before the idea of the crusaders suspecting that the work of a stand is afoot when the truth is that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. This is the opposite of that, where a stand user comes into play and self destructs without any of them realizing. The result is genuinely one of the funniest things I've read in manga. A lot of comedy is defying expectations, so Oingo Boingo's power is such a clever basis for comedy. It's a prophecy that a clown is desperately trying to make come true against a cascade of coincidences and bad luck. I really don't want to overanalyze this scene, so give it a read for yourself and have some fun.
At this point, I'm struggling to come up with terms to refer to Jotaro and friends. So, I'm going to have to go outside of the box from here on out.
Once the boys get to dealing with a sound-sensitive enemy who is kilometers away, things get interesting. I've gotta shout out the coloring team, which really made Jotaro's blues pop against the tans of the desert. Araki's art has consistently improved with time, but the color team makes his work sing.
Avdol gets a moment to shine, but then his throat gets sliced. And again, I've got to question the point of giving characters such grievous injuries, only for them to be shrugged off by the time the next baddie rolls around a couple of chapter later. This makes Kakyoin's long-ish term injury feel weird, since we've seen the lads shrug off comparably serious damage.
Jotaro chucking the dog is one of my favorite moments from Part 3. It's simple and crude, but it's also the best solution given the situation. And then we get the sound guy's panicked inner monologue trying to make sense of the situation, which serves as buildup to the reveal that Jotaro is standing right behind him. As I've mentioned before, giving us more insight into the villains'mindset than the protagonist's is an effective way of making Jotaro's actions feel more intense and impactful. The reader is experiencing the same surprise and disorientation as the villain, followed by the visceral excitement of seeing a clever hail mary work.
Now we get to one of my favorite battles in part 3. Oingo Boingo is fucking hilarious. I don't know which one is Oingo and which is Boingo, so I will refer to each brother by their combined names. I mentioned before the idea of the crusaders suspecting that the work of a stand is afoot when the truth is that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. This is the opposite of that, where a stand user comes into play and self destructs without any of them realizing. The result is genuinely one of the funniest things I've read in manga. A lot of comedy is defying expectations, so Oingo Boingo's power is such a clever basis for comedy. It's a prophecy that a clown is desperately trying to make come true against a cascade of coincidences and bad luck. I really don't want to overanalyze this scene, so give it a read for yourself and have some fun.
At this point, I'm struggling to come up with terms to refer to Jotaro and friends. So, I'm going to have to go outside of the box from here on out.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 11, 2013
Primero leí el final de la pelea contra la Papisa (***/) y los seis capítulos de Iggy y N'dour (***/), todos muy entretenidos.
Después chequeé el índice y me dio lástima que la pelea que faltaba, contra Oingo y Boingo, ni siquiera termina en los tres capítulos que le restan a este tomo, sino en el primero del tomo que viene. Pero pese a la "sherezada" del autor de dejar el final, la aparición de estos dos personajes me resultó fascinante.
Oingo y Boingo son dos hermanos que arman un equipo combinando los poderes de sus stands:
Jnum "El que modela", es el stand de Oingo, el mayor. El poder de su stand le permite reconfigurar su rostro para tomar la apariencia de cualquiera, y él utiliza esta habilidad para engañar a sus enemigos y molerlos a palos o tenderles trampas.
Y Tot es el stand de Boingo, el menor, que me resultó muchísimo más interesante. Su stand tiene forma de libro de historietas que va prediciendo el futuro a corto plazo en forma, justamente de historietas. Hete aquí que cuando Boingo estaba solo en la calle, un historietista se le acerca diciendo que le gusta coleccionar comics de distintos países para poder apreciar cómo es el arte de la historieta en las distintas partes del mundo. Cuando ve la peculiar estética de la historieta de Boingo, el historietista extranjero se asombra de lo original y chocante de sus dibujos. Lo que me sorprendió a mí, lector de ambas historietas, de ese original y chocante dibujo fue una enorme similitud con alguna cara del viejo Breccia de algún cómic que ni siquiera sé si leí. ¿A dónde voy con esta larga, torpe y agramatical explicación? Después de comer (o en la reseña que viene) veo si si me explico.
Después chequeé el índice y me dio lástima que la pelea que faltaba, contra Oingo y Boingo, ni siquiera termina en los tres capítulos que le restan a este tomo, sino en el primero del tomo que viene. Pero pese a la "sherezada" del autor de dejar el final, la aparición de estos dos personajes me resultó fascinante.
Oingo y Boingo son dos hermanos que arman un equipo combinando los poderes de sus stands:
Jnum "El que modela", es el stand de Oingo, el mayor. El poder de su stand le permite reconfigurar su rostro para tomar la apariencia de cualquiera, y él utiliza esta habilidad para engañar a sus enemigos y molerlos a palos o tenderles trampas.
Y Tot es el stand de Boingo, el menor, que me resultó muchísimo más interesante. Su stand tiene forma de libro de historietas que va prediciendo el futuro a corto plazo en forma, justamente de historietas. Hete aquí que cuando Boingo estaba solo en la calle, un historietista se le acerca diciendo que le gusta coleccionar comics de distintos países para poder apreciar cómo es el arte de la historieta en las distintas partes del mundo. Cuando ve la peculiar estética de la historieta de Boingo, el historietista extranjero se asombra de lo original y chocante de sus dibujos. Lo que me sorprendió a mí, lector de ambas historietas, de ese original y chocante dibujo fue una enorme similitud con alguna cara del viejo Breccia de algún cómic que ni siquiera sé si leí. ¿A dónde voy con esta larga, torpe y agramatical explicación? Después de comer (o en la reseña que viene) veo si si me explico.
April 13, 2017
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is probably my favorite manga series. The characters and the powers they have are so imaginative, and there is a good balance between action and comedy. This volume marks the arrival of the main characters in Egypt, where they have to face down a group of mysterious people with the powers of the Egyptian gods.
February 26, 2020
Memes in this volume:
Here teeth were hard as diamonds, but I thought diamond is unbreakable??? ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJzQ... iconic
Here teeth were hard as diamonds, but I thought diamond is unbreakable??? ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJzQ... iconic
August 5, 2021
3 estrellas.
La historia se encuentra a la mitad del desarrollo, en este punto puedo empezar a ver y a poder decir las verdades del desarrollo de los personajes.
El personaje de Polnareff me parece uno muy bueno, incluso sus acciones pueden ser comprensibles, incluso para mi el podría llevar el manto del protagonista, y no me molestaría.
Joseph es el mejor Jojo presente en esta parte, sigue siendo el mismo, aunque obviamente con una actitud bastante madura, Abdul y Kakyoin me parecen personajes que se mantienen estables, sin ningún cambio que los empeore.
Ahora, Jotaro me parece un personaje poco empatizable, me cae bien el como parece sereno y listo para todo, pero se mantiene así siempre, no tiene ningún momento de flaqueza o algo.
La historia se encuentra a la mitad del desarrollo, en este punto puedo empezar a ver y a poder decir las verdades del desarrollo de los personajes.
El personaje de Polnareff me parece uno muy bueno, incluso sus acciones pueden ser comprensibles, incluso para mi el podría llevar el manto del protagonista, y no me molestaría.
Joseph es el mejor Jojo presente en esta parte, sigue siendo el mismo, aunque obviamente con una actitud bastante madura, Abdul y Kakyoin me parecen personajes que se mantienen estables, sin ningún cambio que los empeore.
Ahora, Jotaro me parece un personaje poco empatizable, me cae bien el como parece sereno y listo para todo, pero se mantiene así siempre, no tiene ningún momento de flaqueza o algo.
April 24, 2024
Los hermanos que predicen el futuro es buenísimo, porque justamente juega con eso, con predecir situaciones obvias con momentos muy divertidos. Me reí muchísimo, disfrutando cada momento del equipo, haciendo estupideces en Egipto. El dibujo de las predicciones me mata, como si le pidiera a un niño de 6 años dibujar esas viñetas, y quedan perfecto para marcar un cambio. Y la pelea contra el dios egipcio es buena, si bien la situación fue muy random, me gusta plantear un personaje con tales características, haciendo un interesante desafío estos próximos rivales.
October 24, 2024
SUE ME. ONIGO BONIGO ARE FUNNY. SORRY. ok but N'Doul was so good. A blind stand user and uses the sound and the water??? its just so smart and I think one of my favorite stands and stand users yet. Also the other stands are Egpyitan Gods and its as soon as they get to Egpyt?? yeah I'm eating this up. KAKYION. YOUR BEAUTIFUL EYES AND VISON 3 and ofc the man the myth the LEGEND IGGY HAS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. such a bizarre.... adventure
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 7, 2025
Jotaro and his companions must face the High Priestess Stand before they can finally reach Egypt, but though a reluctant ally awaits bearing his own powerful ability, they will be challenged by Dio's inner circle of followers, those who can strike at the slightest sound and predict the unchangeable future! Araki delivers another exciting and tense entry that readers will be glued to with every panel.
June 23, 2017
Jotaro! Coolest Jojo :p
May 9, 2018
Great art and I can finally say starting to be a very addicting story😻😻😻👌❤️❤️❤️
April 3, 2022
Okay. A DOG WITH A STAND?
I'm sold.
(and I'm laughing my ass off now... those "Jotaro"'s facial expressions!!)
I'm sold.
(and I'm laughing my ass off now... those "Jotaro"'s facial expressions!!)
August 13, 2023
⭐️⭐️✨
January 12, 2025
3.5 - Ganhou mais pontos pelas gracinhas. Eu acho esse grupo mto maneiro kkkkk
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April 5, 2015Admito que vi el animé primero (para el horror de Fefu) pero me gustó lo suficiente como para leerme todo el manga cuando pueda.
Y aunque acá haya dejado de ser el protagonista y esté peinando canas, sólo puedo decir ¡Cómo le entro a Joseph! <3
Y aunque acá haya dejado de ser el protagonista y esté peinando canas, sólo puedo decir ¡Cómo le entro a Joseph! <3
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