Welcome!
This is an informal scheduled book club for the manga JoJo’s Bizarre adventure. If you’re not already familiar with it, JoJo follows various members of the Joestar family tree on the adventures that change their lives. Even if you haven’t heard of JoJo, chances are you’ve seen references to it, especially in other anime and manga and even in some media originating outside of Japan.
Discord
Book Club Home (Natively)
Book Club Home (Wanikani)
Schedule
The plan is to start on New Years of 2024 and read 1 chapter per week, which was the original publishing rate of JoJo. You’re welcome to drop in and out whenever you want though. Each week I’ll do my best to include comprehension questions to help check for understanding. You’re welcome to suggest questions as well.
If you prefer, you can also join the club on Natively
Now Reading:
二部:戦闘潮流 Part 2: Battle Tendency
ジョセフ・ジョースター Joseph Joestar
(for past Part threads, check the details in the second post)
Each arc will get its own thread. There are many different editions of JoJo- the original tankobon, bunko, conbini special edition, collectors edition, digital, and digital color- and they all have slightly different divisions. By working with chapters and arcs, these differences won’t matter as much. If the same chapter has a different name, the later given name is listed after a raised dot like this ・. I’ll do my best to keep things beginner friendly. You can see the list of arcs in the second post of this thread.
Guidelines
Please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions, and questions either here or in the relavent thread. If you have a question, chances are that someone else has the same one too.
Please make sure to spoiler any spoilers. Even though JoJo is over 35 years old, it still might be new to many readers joining us. Please make sure to put any spoilers between spoiler tags> [spoiler]your spoiler typed out here[/spoiler]
. In addition, to make things easier, please add the Part the spoiler is from before the spoiler. For example, 3a certain someone returns from a previous Part.
Content Warnings
JoJo and the mangaka, Araki sensei, are known for body horror. There are many scenes that may make readers uncomfortable. If you watched the anime on tv or Crunchyroll, these were typically censored. In the Japanese manga, they are not censored. Additionally, some of the fashion and other scenes may be considered nsfw in various countries/workplaces (although they would earn a pg13 rating in American theaters I believe). Does the dog die? Araki sensei often uses animal abuse to show how awful a character is, so chances are yes. If you want to ask about a certain dog/animal, please feel free.
Polls
(All polls public)
- Of course, it’s great daze
- Maybe later
- Sometimes
- Just for the highlights, yareyare
- I’m just here to click
- This is my first book club
- I’ve participated in the Absolute Beginner Book Club
- I’ve participated in the Beginner Book Club
- I’ve participated in the Pre-Intermediate Book Club
- I’ve participated in the Intermediate Book Club
- I’ve participated in the Advanced Book Club
- I’ve participated in an informal book club
- clicky clicky
- Hamon
- Stands
- Spin
- I guess I’ll find out what these are later?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- Kishibe Rohan/Other Spinoffs
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7 (not yet out 2023)
- 8 (not yet out 2023)
- 9 (not yet out 2023)
- Kishibe Rohan
- tankobun (purple spine)
- bunko (black spine)
- collectors edition
- conbini editions
- digital (b/w, follows bunko divisions)
- digital (color, mostly follows tankobun divisions)
- Shonen Jump app
- other
Other JoJo on WaniKani’s Forums
JoJo Appreciation Thread (I often post news here)
Original Part 1 Book Club