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Comprehension questions for Chapter 18: 凶人ジャック&奇人ツェペリ・切り裂きジャックと奇人ツェペリその1 (Participation is totally optional! Included as comprehension and discussion points)
Why is the woman afraid of Jack the Ripper? What does he do to his victims?
What’s Dio looking for?
How did Dio survive the burning of the mansion?
Who are Dio’s preferred victims and why?
What does JoJo think is weird about the new man’s jump?
I think this is the most physically blocked I’ve been from getting a week’s discussion posted lmao
Also, please enjoy the musical screenshot. It’s really an amazing work of art and I recommend seeing the few seconds that lead up to this particular point, heh
Because he’s out there exclusively killing women, and he disembowels them
Loyal servants
A pillar fell and crushed the statue that he was impaled on, and then he dug and crawled into the pillar to shelter from the fire. It feels like Wang Chan was right when he predicted before that Dio has miraculously good luck.
He says he wouldn’t mind targeting young women because they have a lot of life energy that he can suck up?
He jumps up super high from a sitting position by just using his knees! (I thought he had rockets attached to his legs for a second)
They seem to be suddenly healed!
Is the musical available to watch online anywhere?
It seems implied that he learned it from East Asian sources? Considering that he says there’s a different name for Hamon in the East.
Ripples in water. Did not know before that Hamon is actually a word in Japanese!
Through special breathing techniques.
Luckily totally fine!
Dunno if it’s totally clear, but it seems like it can pass through living beings or give more life to living things, but it can also be applied destructively to non-living things?
It’s apparently the flip side of Hamon? So if Hamon is like life energy, then the stone mask’s powers are like…death energy? (I guess it does suck life energy out of living things)
He’s been looking for the stone mask for many years in order to destroy it, and he thought it might’ve been at the Joestar mansion because of what he heard from Wang Chan.
He doesn’t want her to get dragged into the conflict with Dio and the stone mask.
A withering flower on it blooms again when JoJo touches the branch nearby! Zeppeli thinks that JoJo must have an incredible innate talent for using Hamon energy!
You’re right, that’s my bad on this question. He doesn’t say where/how he learned hamon in this chapter
Yeah, while Araki does sometimes make up words, this one isn’t at least
Yep! Non-living things can’t withstand hamon energy
I think rather than life/death, hamon is more like sun and the mask is more like night/the absence of sun
Yep, although I don’t think he heard it direct. It seems like Wang Chan was babbling in the streets about searching the manor ruins. Now I wonder if he told others about all the police dying.
Just realized that on page 54 of the tanko vol 3, Araki drew 2 fish in the same river, 2 birds in the same sky, and 2 birds on the same tree to drive home how similar JoJo and Zeppeli are to each other
What are the old women talking about? (hint: there are 2 things)
How does Dio feel about the women? What does he compare them to?
What info does Speedwagon share?
What does he request?
What did JoJo not do with Erina?
What’s up with the horses?
Got a Speedwagon song this time
Also, for once, I did the vocab for this chapter. I may go back and do more chapters since it helps with my project, but it also took at least 1 more hour than usual to do this week lol. Maybe I’ll be able to commit to that in the future, maybe not.
It’s very isolated geographically. There’s rocky mountains on three sides, and a cliff going to the sea on the fourth side.
It’s going to disappear?
They’re talking about recent happenings in the town: someone new just moved into a mansion to recover from illness, and a young couple has run away together.
He views them as just food to drain blood from. He sees them as being part of a hierarchical food chain where he eats them just like people eat pigs and pigs eat grass.
He’s confirmed that Dio is still living and is hiding in Windknights (deduced through hearing that Wang Chan was seen there).
He wants to stay with JoJo and Zeppeli to fight Dio and his followers, since he’s already stuck with them this far.
JoJo left on this trip without saying anything to Erina!
Jack the Ripper seems to have killed them by tearing their insides apart, and then hid himself in one of their bodies. The panel of his face peeking out from a horse’s neck was quite disturbing I’m a little unclear on why the coachman had a horse’s head on but I’m guessing Jack the Ripper just stuck it on for fun?
Hmm…I’m not sure I get it. We’re talking about this phrase: “これからこの町は消失する!”, right?
Ohhhh I didn’t realize earlier, but it’s gotta be Dio! And pretending that he’s recovering from illness is both half true and also gives a nice cover for people in the town to not look into him too closely!
I’m guessing one of the other guys who was with Speedwagon when we first met him? He does say that he pulled some strings in shadier circles.
Yeah, I get that he’s trying to prevent her from getting involved, but I feel like Erina would’ve been able to handle all the information fine!
Jack the Ripper is a zombie (and it seems he became that way because of Dio, and not from putting on the stone mask). He eats people instead of drinking their blood, and he also lives forever but he’s continuously rotting.
Zeppeli tells Jonathan to try to put himself in the shoes of the opponent to figure out what they might do.
He thinks maybe you shouldn’t try to put yourself in the shoes of someone so abnormal
It’s when you feel afraid, but then you conquer the fear. Bravery also helps you use Hamon!
That they can be brave (feel fear but conquer it)?
Zeppeli didn’t spill his wine!
Some pretty disturbing imagery this chapter! This one also feels like it’s starting to become more like later JoJo fight scenes with people using different powers!