JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Book Club (Volume 1) [Volume Finished]

To reply super late since now I’m getting Ultra Jump for the foreseeable future, it seems like very few manga in it have furigana. Only 3 out of the 27 chapters (one was the spinoff JoJo) had furigana

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Finally sitting down to read volume one chronologically since I’ve started rewatching Part 1 with Japanese subs. So far I’ve learned, I am a slow reader :smiley:
of subs at least. We’ll see how the manga goes.

Title page : (どろ) how fun, I’m learning that on my current level

Chapter 1: on page 6, there’s a line missing furigana :eyes:
(すう)(ほん)(こつ)(しん)・a number of bone spikes/spines (according to Jisho and ime, a made up phrase)
This priest looks like he’s at a rock concert
I just tried holding a book like young Dio, and it works, but holding it normally works fine
I love that we get to see how little Dio cares with … … … … …
Pg 17: Does the woman Dario’s with say that he’s doing the wise thing or is it Dario talking about himself?
I don’t like seeing 人々written as (ひと)びと
33 JoJo: すぐ(なか)よしになれるさ Dio: instantly choosing violence

Well that’s one chapter down. 7 more to go to meet my weekly goal :sweat_smile:

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I’m having trouble tryin to parse a bit on page 72. It says

ジョジョはいまだにみじめさ()()んだ気持(きも)ちがつづいていたが…!

How should I break up this part? It doesn’t seem to be one word, but I can’t get parts to show up in a sensical way on Jisho. :sweat_smile:

Edit: got an answer: いまだに & みじめさ

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I wonder if Volume 1 has a name? But 2-5 all have one, according to links found in this community.

Volume 1
Volume 2: 血の渇き
Volume 3: 暗黒の騎士達
Volume 4: 双首竜の間へ
Volume 5: 最後の波紋

According to Amazon it’s 侵略者ディオ !

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Searching works in both Amazon and Bookwalker, but I can’t find the actual text…

Furthermore, Amazon has only colored, while Bookwalker has only monochrome.

Bookwalker search

Furthermore, monochrome and colored versions have different number of chapters in a volume, in part 2 戦闘潮流(せんとうちょう). in this volume 1 too. (Bookwalker Mono vs Amazon Colored)


I can’t really verify this as well. (I can’t make use of Kindle JP, though I can only preview.)

Here you go:

Amazon link

I’ll check inside my copy when I get home, but I’m pretty sure this text appears in the first volume chapters.

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Yep, it should be on the table of contents as both the first chapter and volume title :slight_smile:

It really is found in Amazon.com, but not in Amazon.co.jp.

I guess the money isn’t only about offering, but also about limiting to what can be easily bought.

TOC just says Phantom Blood. First chapter is Prologue. Volume title says the same as TOC.

Though, I realized very well that the original volume versions might be different from Part’d version (like split into Phantom Blood / Battle Tendency / …). Reason: I’ve got 違法 scanned version (from before I know of Bookwalker); so actually I already have it verified.

I’ll double check when I get home, but I’m quite certain about the volume name being Dio the Invader

I just checked, and the first colorized volume has no title on the volume cover, but 侵略者ディオ is the name of the first and longest arc (there is an unnamed prologue chapter before it starts) in the volume, taking up half the chapters in the book. It’s pretty standard to name the volume after whatever the longest/most prominent arc in the volume is. The publishing info in the back does not have any specific volume title other than Phantom Blood Vol 1. I’m guessing it did not originally have a volume title, but some outlets or maybe even publishing version may have given it one in keeping with convention.