JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

                       

Imagine an anime full of drama, energy and hair-raising action. Now imagine this anime on steroids and that's probably what JoJo's Bizarre adventure is. JoJo has an army of avid and to be honest, scary followers almost like it's a cult, and once you dive in you'll see why. The show stands out as one of its kind with no close peers in the way it's animated or even the unique take it adopts on story progression. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has soap opera levels of drama and a sense of style that I can only describe as pizzaz or jazz hands. It has riveting story progression and gets you so involved in the characters that you'll want to learn all their family histories. 

Now I have to be careful here so that I don't give away any spoilers. You will be following the story of a character nicknamed JoJo who is someone that just emanates with indestructible energy and righteousness. He happens to attract others to follow him with his charisma (and pizzaz) as he always gets wrapped up in one bizarre predicament after the next. These problems include apocalyptic vampires, murderous Egyptians, Italian gangsters and powered up high school kids among others (only JoJo fans will know how clever I just was in explaining this). Now astonishingly you're not really going to care much about the story. JoJo is all about its execution and style over anything else, much like watching a fancy Broadway musical. You'll find yourself doing weird things like yelling at your screen, repeating JoJo catchphrases in your own mind, trying out JoJo poses and then bam... you're suddenly a JoJo cultist. In all honesty, props to this anime for what its pulled off. Every character is complex and multi dimensional including the villains. In fact Dio, who is introduced early in the show, is one of the best anime villains created till date. Additional credit for setting the anime in many different locations and not just Japan and also for stellar use of music, it's small things like this that gives JoJo extra traction. 

Now please don't start pelting at me JoJo cultists, but let's be real, JoJo is deeply flawed in many aspects despite how great it is. Although that's part of its charm, all forms of common sense and realism go right out the window as the story progresses. In fact, just start believing that anything goes because the show will literally make up anything to tie up loose ends and maintain a facade of sense. That's it though, have mercy JoJo fans! Also please watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in the right order to enjoy it and that's (in season names): Phantom Blood, Stardust Crusaders, Battle in Egypt, Diamond is Unbreakable and then Golden Wind with more coming soon. 

       

My personal Ratings are:

Story: 3/5
Character Development: 5/5
Dialogue: 4/5 
Music: 5/5 

Overall Recommendation: Muda! Muda! Muda! Muda! Muda!

In India catch different seasons of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure on Netflix and Crunchyroll (watch for free here with ads).