November Rain's True Power | The JOJOLands Chapter 5 Review 

This chapter was hydrogen bomb vs coughing babies and the coughing babies won

I was pretty curious about Jodio not having a punching ghost stand like all the others, but with his brains I’m sure he’ll be able to stand on equal footing. This kid is scary

With Jodio’s ability to control the weight of his raindrops, I feel like by the end of part 9, Jodio is going to raining black holes on some fools

November rain chapter 5: yeah it is heavy rain November rain chapter 87: with this rain i can restart the universe and stop time

It feels like Araki is making up for the teammate betrayal that was meant to happen in Part 5 with a betrayal in Part 9.

Rohan played the role koichi did in part 5, only this time he is the one aware of what is happening. In part 5 giorno was the one who knew about passione while koichi was the clueless one, and giorno played on koichi being a nice person. Here the one who doesnt know what is happening is jodio, and rohan plays on his greed.

I like to imagine in like a couple chapters later jodio will use his stand in such a smart way he will use the rain as a punching barrage and my god if this actually happens imma go FERAL

One thing I know about Hawaiian Lava Rocks is that they supposedly *bring Bad Luck* to people who take them away from the islands. Same goes with Uluru rocks in Australia. In both cases it's documented that tourist mail these rocks back with apology to reverse the bad luck. Maybe Araki is taking on this tale and sort of reverses it - these specific rocks bring good luck.

I like when jojo characters don’t have “punchy stands” makes fights a lot more interesting.

4:09 i believe Jodio didn't want to hurt Rohan because of how much he respects him

Can't wait to we reach to the end of part 9 and Jodio discovering that the true filthy richness is the friends we made along the way or something

I feel that while November Rain has mostly been dealing in heavy weights, I feel like Araki having an earlier use send cactus needles through the rain was his attempt to suggest the rain does more than just produce heavy weights. It's hard to tell though, but if it seems to only be weight for a while, I could see November Rain potentially evolving with Acts.

After you said “make it rain” I immediately imagine Jodio raining money everywhere 😂

It's interesting that the lava rocks are the items linked to supernatural abilities. I'm not a historian by any means but I am Hawaiian so I know quite a bit about the folklore and culture. Taking lava rocks is a known taboo in Hawaii, people who have done so have always sent them back no matter where they are in the world because they bring misfortune. This is due to the Goddess of fire and creator of the islands, Pele, being a very jealous and vengeful god. If Araki is tying the supernatural to the Hawaiian Gods I will be overjoyed.

"Jodio could've pinned Rohan with water drops just like he did to the cops" He specifically says he doesn't want to hurt him

Rohan's worst enemy: teenage Joestars destroying his house for money.

Poor Dragona looked terrified out of their mind in this chapter which makes so much sense when you remember their age and what the police threatened to do to them

jodio developing an entire ideology around a few sentences that his favorite manga author said hits a bit too close to home lol

The lava rocks are like the corpse part’s everyone wants it for their own gain and desires.

the rock is actually one of Shigechi's fossilized spike hair thingies

i think november rain will evolve as the story progresses because the song is actually the middle part of a multi-part ballad. the others being don't cry and estranged. it could be that november rain is actually already it's second form.

i think that jodios big confusing main jojo endgame power might be the ability to warp space time with his rain drops like einsteins theory of relativity using his heavy raindrops to bend space time

The fact that there are more than one cat chasing the group and Rohan saying that they were beeing followed reminds me of Jodio saying that no matter how many people they would have brought with them to steal the diamond, it wouldn't be enough at the end of chapter 1. I wonder if this has something to do with Jodios statement.

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Jodio: here call the cops Rohan: nuh uh Jodio: fym nuh uh?

I was honestly scared for Rohan I didn’t want him to die lmao. But I was like nah Jodio likes him too much. And yeah PHEW

I like the idea of November Rain being a bit underpowered in comparison to the Super OP Soft & Wet

i can see them giving their principal the diamond but not the lava rock and it comes back to them when they leave

Im not Hawaiian, but I do remember hear elsewhere that taking lava rocks from the island is bad luck. So either the bad luck is happening in a subtle way (like the gang being chased by cats) or there is some kind of karmic balance thing, where for every piece of good luck, there is some bad that will happen.

New challenge: find the actual villa in real life 🤣🤣

I think jodio will have a top 3 powered stand by the end. Controlling mass? Black hole rain?gravity? He could control fate itself.

I don't know why more people are not talking about the four circles work. There could be a possibility that Jojolands is set in the same setting as Hot Summer Martha. Hot Summer Martha emphasizes the four circles drawing through the whole chapter.

i gotta say i love how xforts always talks about jojo with such passion and excitement

12:25 I'm 100% sure it's this. She reminds me of Polpo.

So are the cats what the narration from chapter 1 was referring to?

This part is definitely going to deal with fortune, bad luck, and the concept of humankind and it’s strive for a god complex/egotism

i'm gonna make a prediction and say that a volcano is gonna be a stand in the future

I think the lava rocks is like a reference to the “don’t take anything from Hawaii” where people sometimes try to take the rocks or something and it’s bad luck but idk

Maybe the mechanism is attracting what you want, you "you" consider valuable. Jodio starts wanting wealth but maybe there will be a change of heart along the way

I hope Rohan does stay in the rest of the part instead just appearing for one arc

I’m literally visiting Hawaii in a month. Find this too cool.

I also noticed that the cats' faces have a diamond symbol on them, the one that is usually seen on playing cards.

What if Jodio first heard the term mechanism from a manga created by Rohan ?

Love how Rohan is not being a asshole and helping the main character

So long Rohan. I eagerly await your return to Part 9 in April 2028.

Ny fav element of JoJoLands so far is how seeming runaway gags are actually crucial to the plot, very mature writting skill from Araki

Is it perhaps the law of desire? The mechanism that exists within ‘nature’ itself, as all natural things have a form of desire in some sense, especially seen in JoJo. Even animals can be seen having desires to grow, or to fight, or something else, like when Stray Cat was capable of choosing who he liked, similar to Kira he seemed to want to live a peaceful life, that’s a desire. To Rohan, the Rock is a value of study, therefore it showing it’s mechanism by bringing an object of monetary value, despite Rohan not caring about money, would make sense considering it would be quite easy for Rohan to figure out using that.

The Cats’ Stand will be called Cat Food. A King Crimson reference.

Hawaii is actually a pretty popular tourist destination for the Japanese, so I'd imagine Araki has been there.

I wonder if the rock's mechanism is the idea of "ownership." That's something abstract enough to warrant a 'mechanism' but is also concrete enough to convey that money is the best way to go about using and empowering it.

I think the reason Jodio didn’t want the rain to land on Rohan because he respects and is a fan of him

I think Jodios Dtand is purposefully simple. But it sounds like mass manipulation which could be interesting!

I personally think the lava rocks attract things that help in our society, since money is what we use for everything in the world the lava rock attracts things that help you gain money.

also dont forget that even though we beat rohan, jodio still said in chapter 1 "it wouldnt have mattered how many people were on our team" so we're not in the clear yet

I have another take on Rohan talking about mechanisms. It's possible that Jodio has this passionate vision of mechanisms in nature since he was a little kid as a way to explain nature itself. When JoJo saved Dragona, only his name was revealed to Rohan, but he was able to tell Jodio's full name and age. My theory is that when Rohan read Dragona's information, he caught a glimpse of their relation and used the mechanism thing as "counter leverage". Maybe JoJo could've spoken about the mechanisms sometime in the past and Dragona kept it in mind ever since trying to understand what Jodio meant as a display of care, empathy and/or curiosity.

I realized that Rohan being here at the beginning of the story is yet another callback to part 5, as that part had a different part 4 character interact with and attack our main jojo. People might of made this connection months ago, but something I just realized now.

It's seeming like jodio can control the weight of individual raindrops even after they've hit the floor or choose what they effect. Edit: maybe a little wild but initially I was thinking jodio can manipulate things hit by his raindrops

I feel like the law of nature from the rock is either good luck, or in the case of a universal constant, maybe it's the law of attraction. It starts attracting that which the holder desires most, in the case of Jodio, valuables!

this is definitely on the natural laws of luck which is associated a lot with wealth (lottery, slot machines, gambling, etc). Would be cool if luck is gonna be the main driving force that makes the events happen in this part

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I liked the theory that said that the lava rocks prevent you from having your possession taken away from you and that the way to exploit them to become rich is basically an infinite money glitch. Spend money and they eventually come back to you.

The rocks could be a more literal law of attraction Not like gravity and fate but literally attracting wealth

Jodios stand is interesting to me because it isn't humanoid. Every other jojo had a humanoid stand, with Tusk act 4 becoming humanoid and joseph/Johnathan not being mcs of part 3. If this is a part 5 parallel, the lava rock might act like the Requiem arrow to evolve a stand. The natural force provided by the rock could be desire. Jodio is a sociopath pretty much, and so it may be that he only desires money and wealth, so the rock attracts the holder's desire. I initially thought that they couldn't take the diamond/money from Rohan due to him writing "You cannot steal from Rohan Kishibe" with Heavens Door, and him letting them go released the stealing aspect. Part 5 was to originally have a betrayal, so Araki might go through with it this time. All the stands seem really weak strength wise, so relying on each other and enguinuity will probably be major themes, as we saw last chapter

i can tell 100% araki went to hawaii before writing this part, a lot of the details he included are way too specific for someone who has never been there before. in particular, the inclusion of stuff like kona airport and highways along the lavafields indicate that he really did take a pretty extensive tour

So odd for hamon beat to upload this before you 😂

I started to think about Rohan when he said do u trust ur allies and it made me think how in the original part 5 fugo was meant to betray the team but araky couldn’t write about it but maybe he will do it this time

Heavy rain is going to be some time of "Spin" related stand like the other two In the new universe

I sorta believe that every word Jodio said to Rohan was probably laced in condescending sarcasm and I love it.

Do you think that theres a connection between water falling from the sky [🌧 november rain] and fire coming from the earth [🌋 lava]?

When Usagi is revealed as the fourth member of the team, Jodio says something like "Is this another of the world's mechanisms? 8:15

I'm thinking the rocks are more tied to willpower or desire, and Jodio's desire is just to be richer.

A reason why Jodio rained on the carpet to immobilize Rohan instead of pinning him like the cops could be for the same reason he didn’t want his friends to hurt Rohan. Jodio respects Rohan so doesn’t want to hurt the guy. It could also be so they could question Rohan as the other way could knock the guy unconscious.

I wonder if his stand has to due with like sins, rain normally being seen as a symbolism of cleansing/becoming clean. The police officers were corrupt and attacked jodio and his brother so the rain made them heavy of their sin or something

just read the chapter and immediately cheked to see if you had uploaded and you did that exact second lol

I think the law that Araki is portraying is the law of Monopoly. It's not exactly a traditional law of nature but when everyone trades eventually one person will own everything. So my guess Araki is trying to portray that law or concept on how Monopolies are form as a law of fortune

9:53 oh boi did they fuck up bad with that move

I actually thought he could manipulate the weight of the raindrops, making them light or heavy at will

THE ICONIC "I REFUSE" IS THERE AGAIN

Really excited to see the reveal of the antagonist and their stand ability

i forget if you've used that intro before but DAYUM that shit's cold

Da king is back baby he neva miss

intro is so good

I’m loving part 9 !

When I first saw Rohan falling through the floor I assumed that it was because Jodio can control when the raindrops are heavy. Making them heavy as soon as Rohan was in the right position for the floor would break but that might just be me overthinking or misinterpreting it

perhaps this law of nature is just the idea of prosperity in general? Like in nature prosperity exists, and those who are more prosperous have a greater survival advantage. In nature it would be more things like resources than money, like food, materials to construct shelter, etc.

Jodio is going to use the lava rock like Diavolo used the arrow.

I think the mechanisim is around desire/ambition. Just seems in line with the particular themes.

Hell yeah man this was the best chapter so far! We finally got a bit more info and I’m excited to see where the rock story goes plus it’ll be interesting that theirs a traitor

I thought jodio turned the rain heavy after it seeped through the carpet, making a carpet pitfall trap with no floor under it

It could be possible Jodio didn't directly attack Rohan because, as you later brought up, he respects Rohan. Perhaps he doesn't wanna attack him, but he had to subdue him somehow.

I'm not sure if this could be it but my thought I had for the significance of the lava rocks might be the concept of luck cuz in one of the comments I saw, as well as how the alternate universe's stories work with Steel Ball Run focusing on good luck and Jojolion focusing on bad luck. I think that through the lava rocks, both good and bad luck would be applied in the story. Or maybe I am just completely wrong cuz Araki is one of the most unpredictable mangakas. (As for people that recognise me from numerous other things. I watch a lot of different things in youtube).

I finally got caught up and I'm now realizing that I'm going to have to wait a month for every new chapter

This is just idea but maybe the rocks has to do with desire and desire from life which might go with law of nature, creatures always have a desire for something like Jodio’s desire for the diamond

Tbh I have yet to actually read part 9 because xForts puts so much effort into his reviews and is like an in depth audio book

Looks like my life has been spared thank the Lord the Diamond wasn't a stand

Loved this chapter overall. This felt like Araki's love letter to his foreign fans. He's like "I know you're out there, foreign fans. I appreciate you all." when Jodio gave that speech which touched Rohan. Even if Jodio's the type who'd pirate his manga.

If he can make things wet with his rain and make them heavy. Then he should fight with those water missile things that soak up water and you hit people with

I'm sure November Rain will be much more powerful than we give it credit for. Like Jolynes ability was just producing string; but the way she used that string made it into some of the most inspiring uses of a Stand ability in the series. Also I believe it may undergo a transformation, based on the previous JoJos Stands transforming towards the end of their part. I'm going off of pattern recognition though so I can be wrong.

The cats just reminds me of the boom family from part 7

Oh its the opposite of Soft and Wet, It adds a mechanism to his Reign. Consider them being Heavy or Pointy being properties imposed onto his Rain needing him then to apply the rain.