I love how terrifying the OVA’s time stop is. No bass boost or insane effects, just time stopping and no special effects which make it more realistic, not to mention the lack of noise when time stopping making Dio seemingly just teleport everywhere with darkness surrounding him is scary as hell in terms of how realistic it is
one thing i absolutely love about the OVA is how the setting looks, you can actually tell the cast is in cairo where as in the anime it feels like they're in yellow new york
They had to censor the manga long after it came out because holy Islamic architecture was destroyed so I doubt they were going to take a chance with the new anime. Don't blame davidpro for that one
Hot take: The OVA fight was better choreographed than the 2015’s fight. While the modern adaptation had better voice acting, better SFX, and a more polished color palette, the OVA’s choreography really showed more of why Dio was a threat, and why Star Platinum (at least in Part 3) really deserved the A ranking of power in its stats.
@@danielrojas-db9nq the overexageration (or however you spell that word) kinda makes sense though with the "bizarre" part of JoJo's *Bizarre* Adventure
I actually really like how Star Platinum here was defending Jotaro automatically in the beginning while time was stopped. I think it makes more sense than him suddenly be able to be conscious in Stopped Time.
I dont know much about lore but maybe just maybe since star is hella fast maybe he can actually keep on figthing Or just since he is the soul time stops doesnt matter to him
@@lucianogastonbuetdelgado7670 We learn at the beginning of the series that Star Platinum is somewhat sentient but acts according to Jotaro's will. For instance, Jotaro used Star Platinum to draw a picture of that Egyptian fly. At its core though, Star Platinum always does its best to protect Jotaro from harm's way and let him live comfortably. (Like when SP kept dragging in stuff into Jotaro's prison cell).
@@enthuast3370 I think all stands act automatically but in this case i think star platinum used it's 1 second in the time stop to protect jotaro which causes him to realize he can time stop too or at least move during said stop
we know that star platinum is way faster than jotaro and has enough reaction time to catch a bullet point blank consistently. It seems like it can be controlled both by Jotaro conciously and by it’s own instincts Since we know it can also stop time, we can probably assume it can resist time stop or have enough reaction time to act within time stop
The thing I like most about this version compared to both the manga and the anime is that Jotaro’s and Polnareff’s attacks on Dio during the heart stop sequence end up working together to lay him out, rather than Polnareff attacking to no real effect
I disagree. Ova is far more brutal and just as epic, if not more. You get to see Jotaro and Dio flying through the city, Jotaro throwing a building at Dio, Dio throwing cars at Jotaro, destroying the environment around them. The fight has got a much better flow to it. 2015 voice acting is far better but that’s all I can really provide it.
I like how jotaro looks scared half the time in this fight like he really is fighting for his life whereas in the later version he never really strays far from the angry confident look lol
4:14 God, I love how this scene made in OVA. Dio is cornered, he doesn't goes nuts and starts laughing or roaring. He's just quietly waiting and uses The world with no warning. And this 4:47. There's no that weird scene, when Jotaro gets out if manhole like he went through sewers just to prank Dio. As brute as he was whole Stardast crusaders he gets in the Dio's way.
Good things about 1993 version: The animation, the beauty of Dio's teleportation without any sound, they showed how powerful Dio is without his stand. Good things about 2015 version: The music, the powerful voice acting, ROAD ROLLA!!!!!
What I love most about the ova is the idea of directing scenes. It is true that half of the scenes in the ova were not present in the manga, but they designed very beautiful transition scenes, unlike the 2014 anime and also 90s art style really fit with jojo's bizarre adventure series.
1:47 i never expected to be genuinely uneased by dio but this sequence of him just vanishing shows how terrifying his stand is, this scene gave me chills
The anime, for as great as it was, never let us see just how fucking scary the power of the world really is, from a bystander. It really DOES fuck with you.
The way his time-freeze was executed so simplistically in the OVA kind of speaks volumes about how unnerving the stand is and why Jotaro seemed anxious. No special effects, sound cues, nor any buildup. One frame he’s in and one frame after, he’s vanished. From a realistic standpoint, it’s as if he teleported
The way Dio just effortlessly erases those poor civilians on the train, with a single swipe of his hand he just rips chunks of them away… just goes to show how much more terrifying and powerful he is being a vampire AND having a stand now.
I feel like this version is choreographed a lot better than the modern version, there’s a lot less time spent monologuing. They focused less on being accurate to the source material and more on being faithful, translating rather than transcribing. It’s nice.
This was WAY better than I was expecting it to be. Honestly, being able to see Jotaro's POV of DIO just teleporting everywhere is really haunting and shows how much of a threat he really is in contrast to the series that lets us see him move in the stopped time.
@@playedagus We get to see it a bit, but once Jotaro and him start fighting, we get to see DIO moving through the stopped time instead of Jotaro's perspective of him teleporting.
this is the video that single handedly got me into jojos years ago when phantom blood was just announced as a new anime. it was a very cold winter day and it was cloudy and i had the lights off. the atmosphere of that evening was perfect and suited the dark style of this OVA. it was perfect timing and a truly a dazzling time to see the chapters week to week.
I feel like if the dubs added an o at the end: *”THE WORLDO”.* It would give that same effect. Remove the O from ZA WARUD and it doesn’t have that same feeling right?
I love how Polnareff's attack was directly useful in the OVA instead of just being a distraction to buy Jotaro some time. Dio even did the DBZ Yamcha pose after that lol
The way Stands are conveyed in this version are amazing. Love the lack of music and emphasis on how it looks to bystanders. Feels like they're legitimately fighting with ghosts.
Realistic ≠ Better. The lack of sound effects completely kills the tension of most scenes. Take the road roller scene for example, the extreme quietness of it made it extremely boring and weak.
The ova feels more "realistic" in a way while the anime feels more dramatic. The lack of audio makes it so much more realistic while the anime has like a fuck tons of sound effect (bass boosted time stop, shotgun punches)
Now even tho I still prefer the 2015 anime version of this fight (just coz it's so goddammit EPIC), but holy shit this is actually really good. There's so much tension, and the lack of music makes it feel like a horror film. And the fact that we can actually see that Jotaro's scared of Dio's ability unlike in the 2015 adaptation where Jotaro just has a serious face the entire time, that is one part that I think the OVA did better than the anime. Also, the animation is actually really freaking good. This animation is more fluid than in the anime. I think the only thing that the OVA is lacking is the voice acting. Not that it's bad or anything, and maybe I'm just biased with the voice actors in the anime. It's just that Dio's "Za Warudo" here doesn't have as much impact as Takehito Koyasu's.
It's interesting to think that the whole reason the Road Roller wasn't used in this version was because that attack was a reference to the 1983 Kinnikuman Anime and they worried about stepping on toes. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about; Kinnikuman's anime adaptation had the main character's outbursts in response to his partner calling him weak, useless, or cowardly cranked up to 11 and so instead of just yelling at him, he'd do something insane. In one instance, he pulls a ROAD ROLLER out of NOWHERE and promptly chases him with it before throwing it at him. It was so out of left field, and because Kinnikuman has such a massive cultural impact, Araki referenced it in the JJBA manga as DIO's final attack. However, the 1993 OVA was only 10 years out and said steam roller may have looked both campy and/or too easily recognized as having come from Kinnikuman, hence the replacement with a tanker truck in this version.
While I love the current version, in the OVA, I really liked how both Jotaro and Dio used the environment to their advantage. They’re just throwing cars and buildings like toys and that just adds immersion into the fight because it emphasizes the power both stands have instead of in the regular anime both of them are just barraging each other repeatedly.
This might be better than the 2015 version (in my opinion), everyone seems more human and Dio is better portrayed as a very serious threat. The change in how everything sounds in timestop and the fact that the stands also sound human is great
I genuinely like this fight better because it actually feels like a fight, during the 2015 battle there was lots of talking, and a lot happens in this version where there’s more people who happen to get killed and involvef
@@GameoftheYear-fx4mq Focusing solely on the fight though, the ova feels miles better. Dio is convincingly menacing and makes you fear his power, and the flow of combat is so much better; no overly drawn out monologues either.
That's bc the anime was actually faithful to the manga instead of taking liberties. The OVA has the more enjoyable fight, but the anime's fight is more faithful to the actual manga, bc ultimately that is what makes Jojo...Jojo. Buff men posing and monologing each other while making 200 IQ plays.
@@DopeioThePhoneBoi I guess when you put it that way it's fair. The manga is the source content, so the anime isn't watering it down, it's just keeping things as it is supposed to be.
Literally the exact same things happen in the 2015 version with exception to a bit more fighting towards the end. The difference is its a lot more dramatic in the 2015 version
ova realy displayed how strong the two actualy were like the boat, dio tearing apart those people with one jab and the tower scene shows how intense and chaotic the fight was
i really like that they didn’t add any type of noise to when he teleports (I’m sorry if it’s not teleporting I’ve never seen this anime but this one scene has been stuck in my head for a month)
I like how in the OVA Jotaro is far more expressive than in the 2015 anime, he actually shows fear, anger, other emotions here on his face, sure in the anime he does it too but far less than here
@@Candlelight10the animation is alot more fluid tho , i dont mind the artstyle but its obviously not part 3 artstyle But sfx , voice acting , etc all goes to the anime
@@edwardprall6289 Doesn't every stand protect its master? I remember that in the first episode of stardust in the prison when Jotaro shot himself and star platinum caught the bullet
BROO imagine you look outside at the next door house at night, and you just see that and then a split second later the dude fukin vanishes bruh I would just shit myself
That’s basically how it would appear to anyone even in the anime, although it adds the sound effect I’d assume that’s only audible to the viewer or to people in time stop
@@monjirou6134same i really dont like mappas cgi but i will admit they were limited on time and the character degsin is great other than the titans i also dont support people attacking mappa staff
3:45 I can watch this scene a million times... The heartbeat, DIO looking back, The Time Stop, The comeback, The Punch, The Defeat... Everything is perfect.
The OVA time stop is awesome, just an expanding bubble of negative color, with what sounds like a distant muffled F1 car flying by as all other sound disappears.
the way dio was just teleporting around like an analog horror demon was a really nice touch, definitely a different vibe than david production’s iteration. i honestly prefer this one though, because it genuinely instilled fear, something that the series wasn’t really able to do very often.
4:50 I like this better than Jotaro just f*cking appearing in the sewer, but him appearing in the sewer could mean he learned to stop time at that point