by Behind the “Legend of Immortality” by Hirohiko Araki.
The popular manga “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” series. From December 1, 2021, the new animation “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean” will be distributed on Netflix (TV broadcast from January 2022), and the new spin-off drama “Thus Spoke Kishibe will not move” will also be in 2021. Broadcasting is scheduled for late December, and there is a lot of talks this winter as well.
Hirohiko Araki, the manga artist who created the blockbuster, has episodes as hot as the “Jojo” series, but all of them are the result of his “seriousness.” was.
You are already rejuvenated! ?? Stoic life that gave birth to the legend of immortality
The topic that cannot be avoided when talking about Dr. Araki is the “wonderful youth.” He was born in 1960 and is 61 years old, but when comparing his photographs when he was 20 years old with the present, he is astonished by his appearance. In Chimata, he is so immortal that he is said to be “the power of Jojo’s ripples” or “I think the teacher himself is a DIO.” But it’s not a supernatural phenomenon, and it’s the result of Dr. Araki’s serious, stoic life.
According to what I once said, Dr. Araki is practicing the “small meal health method.” He drinks his raw vegetable juice in the morning, eats mainly vegetables in the daytime, and does not eat supper. Or something. He wonders if he has a busy body that has been serialized for many years, but once he gets used to it, he feels better.
He seems to always have training not only for eating habits but also for maintaining physical fitness. Since he was young, he even designated Jim’s pool for his first date with his wife. He left his wife saying, “I’m playing around there,” and he said he was swimming.
Everyone is surprisingly young because they adhere to such stoic rules.
By the way, manga artists tend to imagine an irregular life that is commonplace all night long, but Dr. Araki seems to have decided his work schedule exactly. Although there are differences in the days of the week and the hours depending on the time of the interview, work starts in the morning and finishes by 24:00 with breaks, and off at least two days a week. You can see. However, it is a superhuman skill to keep it precisely in the deadline that comes without interruption.
“Jojo” characters are all alive.
I made too many characters and fell into a pinch.
The real thrill of the “JoJo” series will be the problematic enemies that appear one after another. Fans are always amazed at the mysterious ideas that can be said to survive the pinch of desperation, but according to the teacher, it’s just that the character lands naturally.
Such a thing happens because Mr. Araki is seriously creating the character. Since each person has to make a personality survey of more than 60 items such as personality, habits, and favorite foods before starting to draw, “Once the character’s personality is decided, the story can only go in a specific direction. It’s been decided, even before drawing. “
Because of the battle between the carefully created characters, it seems that sometimes it goes beyond the teacher’s expectations. The representative battle is the final battle between Josuke and Yoshikage Kira in Part 4, “Diamond Is Unbreakable.” Kira was so strong that Dr. Araki thought, “This may be the hero’s defeat.” Although he was the author, he seemed impatient, “What should I do? What should I do?”, But the reason I finally won was “I was crazy and thought about what to do.” At that moment, the teacher himself would have been fighting with Josuke.
By the way, no matter how difficult you may be, in the world of “Jojo,” the kamikaze will not blow, and you will win. According to Dr. Araki, “All Jojo’s people think and try hard to grasp. That is Jojo’s absolute rule.”
Jojo’s onomatopoeia made his wife scared.
One of the charms of the “JoJo” series is its unique onomatopoeia. In itself, it is a lively writing character like a living thing, and it is drawn as “Dodododo,” “Bagadoga,” “Dobababaa!”, Etc., creating a unique “Jojo” world. The reason why such a method was born is that, according to Dr. Araki, the movie’s influence is strong. Just as there are sound effects and music in the movie scenes, if you want this sound in this scene, you just put it in the letters, and it seems that you are not particularly conscious of it.
It is a very natural expression that seems to be Mr. Araki, who loves movies and music, but the writing site is quite intense. According to his wife’s testimony, when I brought tea to the workplace, the teacher was running the brush as if he was obsessed with something while making a strange voice like I heard that he decided not to see it by closing the door as it was because of fear. It may be said that I could see the seriousness of the teacher trying to find the onomatopoeia that fits the frame with all his heart.
It is a unique dialogue that colors Jojo World with onomatopoeia, but I am not thinking about it with particular consciousness; it seems that it is a feeling that naturally comes down while drawing with emphasis on rhythm and tempo. However, the famous line “What are you doing!” That Jojo shouted in the first volume of the first comics series is not the line that God dropped. Initially, it was “What are you doing!”, But due to a typographical error, it became a peculiar dialogue, and it became a wise saying.
2022 is the 35th anniversary of the start of the “JoJo” series. Let’s go through the years in the hope that new and exciting developments will occur.
