JOJO的奇妙冒险 星尘斗士

Stardust Crusaders (2014) is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure : the Animation (2012)'s sequel. But if you think about it seriously, there are a thousand things that are different between the two seasons, and which make undoubtedly SEASON 1 > SEASON 2. To some extent, you could speak of a DIFFERENT anime.
I took a quick look on the reviews of other websites a moment ago : senscritique (barely), anidb (clearly) & anime news network (surely) all agree with me on which season is better, only douban doesn't and that can be explained easily : the community of douban does not understand SHIT to anime. All hail anidb !

Since I consider Jojo's Bizarre Adventure the Animation (2012 = season 1) as the best shounen anime of all time, this review is mostly going to be a comparison between the two, a comparison between the Master and the student.

Characters : Stardust Crusaders' has the worst Jojo so far. His look is definitely GAR, but the "R" in here is getting too much closer to an "Y". The chain on his neck, the hat on his head and that stupid cape make his design far less enjoyable than the two first ones.
Personality wise, he is an empty shell, and this hurts even more since they had 24 episodes to develop him, whereas they had far less for the two previous Jojo's who had to share out the 24 episodes.
When the two first Jojo's had a few first episodes to lay down some background (usually without much fights or as an appetizer) and stories in order to introduce the protagonists, their values & skills (honesty & raw force for the first, naughtiness & smartness for the second), this one only gets the bare minumum. The end result is that there will be no empathy for the character during the whole show. This 3rd Jojo's has almost no dialogue lines : he looks cold, avoids to talk, does the job (i.e. the killing) when necessary and contains all his emotions. The "Yare yare" (Good grief) that he keeps on repeating in every circumstance is DEFINITELY not cool...
This goes to the extent that we might at some point doubt who is the main character... since this one does not get so much attention when the stories unfolds, & the creator focuses more on the other characters. This is also a big difference with the first season, in which one Jojo's is the boss & the others are only there in a support (Zeppeli the teacher) / secondary (Zeppeli the descendant) / commentary (Speedwagon) role and usually end up dying or beat up.
In Stardust Crusaders, there are actually TWO Jojo's simultaneously. One plays the role of the Dark Powerful Silent Protagonist and the second of the Experienced Funny Talkative "secondary" character. + 3 other characters that actually get a lot of attention and a bit of development (especially Polnareff) : Avdol (the Wise & Temperate guy) whose Stand skills are Power & Fire, Kakyoin (Common Sense & Stabilising member of the group) whose Stand skills are Flexibility & Variety, Polnareff (the Silly & Funny guy with whom the viewer will often adopt the subjective point of view : i.e. Avdol's death) and whose Stand skills are Precision & Velocity. Of course the characters are created so that there is an Equilibrium & Complementarity in the group, and so that no one is powerful enough for overtaking the Protagonist's role. Classicaly, who will face the new bad guy depends on the powers that they each have, and on how powerful is the enemy. Sometimes they will face altogether some enemies which is pretty cool in terms of interaction and symbiosis.

Development (structure & fights) : Far less epic than Stardust Crusaders for many reasons. One of them is that there are too many enemies (representing for some weird reasons a card in the Tarot game, which is not adding anything to the show - except perhaps selling the fucking cards later ?). On average, each new enemy has a two-episodes span life, including half an episode of silly jokes and progress in the map, a cool or stealth entrance, the fight lasting 1 episode with a couple of predictable twists and then a conclusion with everyone being happy and teaching the bad guy a good lesson. It's almost a pokemon-like structure... The worst is that Dio never appears in any fight... He is far away "waiting" for the characters in the darkness, raping bitches and looking strong & cool with the Jojo's family star on his back. This again reminds a lot of the old european cartoons of the 90's, in which the main antagonist keeps sending small fries without moving his ass, while he's posing and showing his best evil laughter. The show is structured in a way that we know at each episode that the bad guy is going to get his ass kicked and that a new one is coming next and so on... If the characters were not road tripping from Japan to Egypt and if we didn't know that opponents are limited in number (Dio will necessarily run out of those FUCKING Tarot cards), the anime would have been simply BORING. Hopefully the road trip enables to see different settings and is helping for building the jokes (toilets in India, 讨价还价 in Arab countries, rigorous rules in Singapore etc...). It goes without saying that the MYSTERY of season 1 (related to the Mask, to the ancient cultures evil forces etc.) is completely absent. In the first season, the stakes were generally much higher : badass & super dangerous enemies (including Dio and the mask's embodiments) with some depth & backstory would show up and give a real hard time for the protagonists (causing heavy injuries, deaths and big emotional fuss). In Stardust Crusaders, everything is too easy and taken lightly. Except once, all superficial injuries disappear at the end of the fight and, opponents come one by one and end up begging for their lives without any dignity.
And that leads us to one of the main points of this review : if you think about it in another way, one could argue that Jojo's is less of a shounen with serious fights than a funny comedy with loads of gag (adding the traveling adventure aspect, and it starts having a couple of common points with One Piece). This is not necessarily a critique, since the show is REALLY super funny, but mechanically less Epic and thrilling.

Other aspects : Aesthetically speaking, IMHO the first season's added effects were clearly better and engaging. They would for important moments, freeze the picture for a "cool phase" and add layers of colors and geometric forms all around in order to emphasize a situation and making it classy, usually during fights. This technique has sadly almost been abandoned in this anime... I thought it was brilliant in the first season. In the same spirit, moments when the colors of a given setting would start to beautifully distort and change are also less common in the sequel. The sceneries depicted were also more elaborate and beautiful in the latter.
Otherwise the animation of this sequel is really well-made, even though the artistic value is a bit inferior to the predecessor.
The music (including OP and especially the masterpiece song for the ending) is not as good as season 1 but still fits what's happening in the screen overall. The references to the rock n' roll & heavy metal world are also very rare compared to the first season, since the creators focused their references into general knowledge (geography, cultural aspects and bit of history) while describing the place where the characters stopped during their road trip.

Wish they do a sequel with more epicness, and with DIO !!!!!!! for God's sake.

作者：六壁坂

“妥协就是死”。

这是动画·CG制作公司“神风动画”的社训。


自从2012年的JOJO TV动画OP一炮打响之后，这个游离于传统动画公司之外、对动画业界全新可能性进行追究的年轻公司也走进了国内观众的视野。

神风以其独特的3D→虚拟2D渲染技术，创造出充满漫画般速度感的镜头效果，很难想象这些大部分是3D的CG。这也是因为他们不断挑战技术的边界，化不可能为可能，才给我们带来了许许多多的视觉奇观。

神风动画创立于1998年，在JOJO的OP之前，他们主要活跃于游戏CG（主要是OP）的制作。《最终幻想 狮子战争》的OP就出自神风之手。对于近期的玩家来说还有《火焰纹章 觉醒》OP、《幻想生活》OP、《数码宝贝 赛博侦探》OP。对手游玩家来说，《白猫PROJECT》的OP也是神风制作的哦。

神风的触手早已伸到了原创实验动画、游戏CG、实写电影特效、广告、音乐MTV等等，TV动画只是它的一个新阵地，然而积累了如此多不可复制的经验，它的表现可以说是不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。自为david production外包了JOJO TV版OP之后，他们又为龙之子制作了《科学小飞侠Crowds》的OP，下一个作品会是什么？想必是JOJO第四部的OP吧！

第1期OP1（第一部）的导演水崎淳平在访谈中曾提及：对方还没把JOJO这个词说完，他就一口答应了一定会做。OP1考虑到作品有长达25年的历史，基本理念是再现出世界观、展现作品基本魅力、又能被广泛的年龄层所接受，采用了强调演出技术的“王道动画”。演出主题着重于“JOJO的血缘”“DNA”等，围绕着螺旋阶梯运镜，最终才有了观众所看到的冲击影像。




OP2（第二部）强调与第一部的阴暗风格截然不同的轻松气氛，以及世代交替的传承感。所有负责人都换成了公司的年轻一代！不光更换了导演和图像设计，还重新审视了OP1的繁重作业量，为了将轻松的氛围融入到作品中，还给员工定下了“禁止通宵工作、禁止休息日加班”的规定，最终这种轻松的心境果然融入作品，让观众的心境也跟着乔瑟夫与西撒翩翩起舞了呢。



短短的两段OP当中融入了许许多多的实验性质尝试，本文篇幅有限实在无法详述，比如说OP1中除了角色之外，连拟声词、漫画速度线都是建模拍摄的；




第1部中非常著名的拟声词「ズキュゥゥゥン」也同样利用建模进行拍摄

OP2最后镜头出现的那颗晶莹剔透的艾哲红石，是建模、打高光，并在镜头外设置宇宙空间贴图，全程渲染出的3DCG，更不要提Credit中很多字都通过中间帧的方式藏了种种彩蛋。

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第三部的两个OP也是同样的出色，在精彩之余，作品的彩蛋藏得满满当当，充满了暗示、隐喻，信息量爆棚，以至于一播出就会有详尽的彩蛋分析。

这就是决不妥协的神风动画。

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动画第一部至第三部OP全音效版

不灭钻石

去年（2015年）10月24日，为纪念JOJO TV动画第三部圆满完结，举行了现场特别活动“THE LAST CRUSADERS”，6名主役声优来到现场与观众狂欢，告别这段漫长的旅程。活动最后，众望所归地，公开了JOJO第四部“不灭钻石”动画化的好消息。因为这场活动事先宣布不会推出BD，我们没办法听到现场的欢呼声，但是心情仿佛已经飞到了现场。

去年12月，动画公布了主视觉图和PV1，又一场似曾相识的口诛笔伐和激烈争论来了。当然，是因为又换了人设和声优。这回的人设由“马越左膀右臂”的西位辉实担当。配合第四部轻松和缓的基调，人物设定的线条进一步简练而圆润，色调参考了原作彩页，更偏纯色并挑选鲜艳跳跃的颜色。马越嘉彦最推崇的原画师是羽山淳一，猛地前后文呼应了，这莫非是一种循环www

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全新的作品风格摆明了要和一到三部“血之神话”的基调彻底割裂，走一条自己的嘻哈路线。对于老读者来说这显然是期待与担心并存的。

战战兢兢地经过三个月之后，我们在上周等来了在东京、大阪、仙台三地同时于广告大屏幕现场播出的PV2，打消了我们的许多顾虑。主视觉图中承太郎奇怪的头身问题似乎已经不成问题，而疯狂钻石带着钻石光芒的登场方式更让人眼前一亮！

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平心而论，除了配色比较跳之外，第四部的画风应该是找到了一种概括原作画面的折中方式。特别是对角色表情的描绘，也许会是目前最好的。而从PV2（应该包括了1~3话的画面）看来，作画质量如果能稳定在PV水准，也将是目前最好的。

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我们有充分的理由相信，第四部可以成为至今最棒的一部JOJO。也相信，第四部之后，还会有第五部、第六部……不再有什么不可能的事。

笔者的心情不禁回到了8年前第一次看JOJO第四部的时光。那时候虽然网络漫画阅读早已盛行，但是还不存在漫画APP这回事。学校的网速很是捉急，我在电脑室同时开着4、5个网页轮流载入页面，只为快那么几秒钟看到故事后面讲了些什么。绝对不会想象到现在还有几天就能看到TV动画了，这对于我已经太奢侈了。

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笔者不再打算再堆砌那些词汇，再说一遍“少年漫画王道设定、剧情螺旋上升”之类的废话，就两个字：好！看！

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