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Each week, the first post about the week’s reading will be linked in the schedule. The first link will always be this thread’s first post.

Date # Chapter Title (original・bunko)
2024.11.04 1 (45) ニューヨークのジョジョ・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その①
2024.11.10 2 (46) 生きた彫像・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その②
2024.11.18 3 (47) 悲痛な知らせ・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その③

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Vocab SRS Vol 5(Renshuu.org)

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CW: Some gore

Questions for Chapter 1 (45) ニューヨークのジョジョ・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その①
  • How did Speedwagon (the man with face scars for folks new to JoJo) become wealthy?
  • What’s the same about him and Straizo (ストレイツォ)? Why is Speedwagon jealous?
  • What does the vendor infer about Joseph (bulky handsome guy)?
  • What can we infer about the vendor based on his speech patterns?
  • What can we infer about the first policeman based on his speech patterns?
  • What does the policeman say will happen to Smokey?
  • What offer does he make Smokey?
  • How does Joseph initially speak to the police? Why does he speak this way?
  • For those who read Part 1, what is Joseph’s action in the question above a throwback to?
  • How does the policeman act towards Joseph and why?
  • What does Joseph say to the second policeman?
  • What meaning does ブツ・ブッ add to verbs?
  • What do we learn about Joseph’s physicality?
  • What abnormal things happen with the coke?
  • Who is narrating the story?
  • What do we learn about Joseph’s family?
  • What is Smokey surprised by?
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Hype Battle tendency answers
  • 石油 jackpot
  • 同じ年 but Straizo is lookin dapper (it’s funny that (small spoiler for future) this will become a plot point)
  • That he is a 外国人
  • That he has a heavy ニューヨク accent?
  • He’s 豚 incarnate
  • Will go to jail for a while
  • Give him a portion of his stolen goods and a fee to be able to rob (豚のおまわりさん indeed)
  • He’s playing coy
  • Actually now I’m not sure
  • Disrespectful, cause he a 豚
  • “What are you gonna do, shoot me?” -Man who got shot
  • I feel like it’s usually more aggresive or violent? like ぶっ壊す
  • He’s a hulkin mass of macho
  • The cap just no capped the cop. Also this frame is amazing
  • Smoky, who really didn’t expect his afternoon to go this way. Also maybe to be called a 黒人 so much (though it is 1938 I guess)
  • Dad dead, mom gone, エリナばあちゃん will kill him for this
  • Him being best Jojo (indisputably) and this early in the story as well
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Chapter 1•45

Nice!!

  • that or that he’s very ignorant
  • A while is an understatement imo
  • Sorry I can’t tell which question you’re referring to. I’ll start using numbers instead of bullet points tomorrow
  • lmao yeah
  • Yeah, absolutely
  • agreed :handshake:
  • It’s not slur, if that helps. I get called 白人 too much :skull: but not a slur or derogatory.
  • Yep :ok_hand:
  • We’ll see lol
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Questions for Chapter 2 (46) 生きた彫像・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その②
  1. How do Speedwagon and Straizo describe the man in the pillar? What kind of words are these?
  2. On page 6 of the chapter, the bottom panel, what kind of じゃ is Speedwagon using?
  3. Is this the first time that Speedwagon has been to this place? What has he observed?
  4. What do the men want from Speedwagon and his company?
  5. What’s weird about Joseph’s reaction?
  6. Why does Joseph get angry at the men?
  7. What’s Straizo’s reason for what he does?

thus begins Joseph’s long personal history with planes and piloting

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CW: minor gore of hands

Chapter 3 (47) 悲痛な知らせ・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その③ Questions
  1. Is the car a taxi?
  2. What does Joseph imply about Erina and Speedwagon?
  3. What do we learn about Erina and her descended husband (on page 6)?
  4. Who is narrating?
  5. What is the man at the restaurant’s problem?
  6. What does the waiter tell the rude man?
  7. How does Erina tell Joseph to act?
  8. Why has this other man suddenly appeared?

Sorry, the vocab sheet is incomplete. There are a lot of older insults and I couldn’t get results for what they all mean.

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Chapter 47
  1. No but it is now lol
  2. He comments on the very strange fact that they have both been single for so long and haven’t gotten it on (which gets him rightly smacked square in the face)
  3. They say Jonathan died in an accident on a boat, and that Joseph’s parents (of which his mom was the baby erina saved from the “”“ship accident”“”
  4. The new outsider character now that Speedwagon is having fun in メキシコ (Smoky)
  5. He racist
  6. Anyone that pays can eat there
  7. To kick his ass (but not bother the other customers)
  8. He is the supervisor of the racist pig (kinda literally) and also in the speedwagon foundation (or something), and also happens to know that speedwagon is possibly dead in メキシコ.

This last part is really weird, I don’t know why Araki wrote it this way. Like what are the odds of all of these things being true, pretty low. And also, this kinda paints the people that speedwagon associates himself with as thugs, which isn’t really what you want. Really weird

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Chapter 47
  1. lmao, I love your phrasing
  2. More like “are you sure you haven’t already gotten it on? Is Speedweed truly a bachelor?” or at least that’s the vibe I get lol
  3. well the ship was attacked by an octopus of sorts ;p
  4. Now that you say that, the narrator in the anime (sometimes) and the musical is Speedweed, but I don’t think he was in the manga.

Re the last part, it is established in Part 1 that Speedweed is well respected in the criminal underworld and has many connections prior to all the oil and whatnot, so I don’t think it’s all that surprising. Although I do think it is a little funny how often Araki depicts the police negatively

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Sorry, I thought I’d be able to get the next chapter up this morning, but I’ve run out of time. I will try to have it up tonight after work.

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Sorry! I forgot to post here