Jojo's Bizarre Explainer

Since we have officially run out of animated JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, we have decided to switch to talking about the manga. But not part 6, no, because that is presumably becoming an anime in 2 years or whatever. Instead we are talking about part 7 of JoJo's, Steel Ball Run, the greatest gay cowboy romance ever told. And our favorite arc of JoJo's. Put on your nicest chaps, sit back, and brace yourself to hear about America in 1890, the invention of prizes, the second amendment, completely unproblematic child brides, and custom leather ballsacks. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease

Here we are at the end (or the beginning?) of Vento Aureo, and boy do we have opinions! First and foremost about sculptor Jesus. Eliz describes the gayest sculpture ever made. Mista's stubbornness has... uh, some consequences. We figure out that Polnareff's fate is really the best possible outcome for him. And we learn the most valuable lesson: someone can be the head of an international crime cartel, but as long as they're not selling drugs to children, they're a good person. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional dog deaths,

Dio's back, figuratively and figuratively-literally. We finally get some good opening credits. Once again we talk about why Diavolo is not a well written villain. Araki can't stop himself from writing Kishibe Rohan Twilight Zone stories. Speaking of, we meet a young woman whose boyfriend is such a bad artist she throws herself off a building. We discuss Koichi's fate. Also Leaky Eye Luca's fate, for some reason. And we try to figure out how infinite autopsies work. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional dog deaths, and ineffabl

If you've watched the opening credits, you probably aren't surprised by what happens in this episode. Everyone is now back in their normal body, including, crucially, Benedict the Living Dog. We talk about the bullshit rules of... soul... bulbs? Diavolo develops character traits as suddenly and conveniently as Giorno develops stand powers. Speaking of Giorno developing stand powers, he is now the proud owner of a finger-laser-shooting robot. And we also discuss, hopefully once and for all, why Diavolo is not a particularly great villain. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the ru

Today we discuss the bullshit rules of requiem stands. (There are many, many of these.) We discuss whether Silver Chariot Requiem is also a Terminator. We say goodbye to Doppio and it's uhhh kind of sad I guess. Everyone in Rome gets a full scholarship to sentient boil community college. We spend five whole minutes talking about why we think Diavolo is one of the least interesting JoJo's villains. And Giorno still has too many powers but at least the one in this episode involves a mole. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional do

We're back from our, uh, second pandemic hiatus! And the entire gang is still body-swapped. We learn about peak dog performance and speculate more on Dio's laboratory in Wind Knights Lot. We learn that watching JoJo's is not a substitute for an education. We see Fugo, briefly, and are ambivalent. Courtney stans all himbos. Our tolerance for muder has increased dramatically since season 3. And we finally give you the Scooby Doo lore analysis you've been waiting for. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional dog deaths, and ineffabl

This episode is a welcome wacky hijinks break from what has been some really intense action. We finally get to the villain OP and, well, it's no Diamond is Unbreakable but that could be the name of our entire podcast. We once again question the sartorial choices of the Italian mafia. We learn that turtles have the physiological ability to speak human language but either lack the intelligence or the will to do so. We get a rare instance of body swap humor that just works. We learn the fate of Jean-Pierre Polnareff, and it's, uh, not good. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the ru

We finally get to talk about the boss' character design. To say we do not like it would be an understatement. Mista invents the concept of Instagram influencers. The boss apparently decided to do an archaeology internship at some point? And discovered a box of discarded arrow heads, like you do? We get to learn what the Stardust Crusaders boys were up to in the 1990s (okay, three of them? not much). Iggy appears in a flashback and we aren't happy about it. And we meet Twink Jotaro who presumably is the result of a Dio-style chimera experiment: the head of a Jotaro on the body of a twink. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, an

Gosh, don't you love the escapism of JoJo's? It's a good thing a city in chaos due to a deadly pathogen has nothing to do with the real world in March 2020. We discuss the line between life and death. Gold Experience somehow develops even more powers. We complain about the light novels because hey, why not. Secco might say that Cioccolata is a weak asshole but we all know he's just in denial. We compare Secco to Iggy, and Secco gets an honorary JoJo's Bizarre Explainer Dog Death Minute. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional do

We are blessed with another episode of Cioccolata and Secco and we discuss what it means when one character says "I love you" to another character (it means they love them, just fyi). We gaze in awe at Secco's pockets. Giorno and Mista manage to somehow be even gayer this episode. Courtney has a BONE to pick when it comes to prehensile spines. We discuss the line between life and death. And we try to figure out what the latest Jojo stag beetle gambit even means. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional dog deaths, and ineffable c

Welcome to the Good Boy Apology Hour! This week we cover maybe the purest villain couple of the season. Darius is forced to explain the most horrifying local landmark of Worcester, Massachussetts. Courtney makes the mistake of asking a question on this podcast, which Darius and Eliz insist on answering, and we're going to have to live with ourselves. We explain what's going on with the paintings inside the turtle. The red string of fate is less kinky than it sounds like. Giorno and Mista continue to be soulmates. Araki must have recurring anxiety dreams about walking up stairs. And we find the one (1) plot hole in the entire season regarding the timeline of events. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Biza

Congratulations, aliens are real and JJBA is now science fiction. We finally have a name for The Boss, so we can stop almost-spoiling you all every week that we record. This is the week we finally all get to learn about rare commemorative stamps from Greenland in the late 1970s. We are collectively very salty about how much better cell phones are in Japan than the US. Kids, beware any strangers online trying to convince you to travel to them in order to learn "hidden knowledge" from magic accessories (or don't! Your life can be as short as you like!). The villains in this arc are, wait for it...bad guys. And Mista's catch phrase is proof that he is the origin of The Yeehaw Agenda as well as Hol Horse's son. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver

In this episode we get very sad about Abbacchio, and so does the gang. Since we've already established that the afterlife involves you taking a semi-ironic job in relation to your mortal life, we use science to figure out Abbacchio's semi-ironic job. Once again, the mechanics of vampirism rear their head in the JoJo's universe in unexpected ways. We blatantly spoil the most famous plot detail from the 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy 7. And we ponder whether our podcast needs a Frog Death Minute, but it's really hard to find facts about frog deaths so we're definitely not going to do it. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton

Welcome to the episode where we actually have a canonical reason to talk about the US district court case Metallica et al v Napster Inc. Why does King Crimson have a tiny detachable face, and why is said face's name localized differently? (Spoiler: we never answer this.) Since when do iron filings allow you to perfectly blend in with your surroundings? (Spoiler: we never answer this either.) We DO explain some of the ways psychology has developed since 1500s Germany vis a vis dissociation. This episode was better the first time, when it was Hol Horse trying to kill Dio. And Eliz possibly cracks the code on why nobody on the podcast cares much about Doppio; he's the opposite of a Champion Ass-Haver. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking

We finally manage to connect part 5 to Ogre Street, the Pirate Club, the Speedwagon Foundation, and Santana beer, and all it takes is a little ghost sex. We are confused about a lot of things about Doppio but somehow we manage to make it work. Darius goes on a riff about the Ishmaelite sect of Islam and it is somhow relevant to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. We meet the hottest clown in the world. And on a serious note, we talk about dissociative identity disorder and its very unserious treatment in entertainment media. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinati

Trish’s Persona awakens, which of course means we get to talk about the Persona series of JRPGs and its connection to JoJo’s. We learn that when you finally develop agency, one of the first things that anyone does is turn a large vehicle into a condom. Eliz has so many stories about the Spice Girls and in this episode we bless you with all of them. And finally, we ask the only possible hard-hitting question: what’s the deal with airplanes? -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running motifs, fascinating weirdnesses, occasional dog deaths, and ineffable charm of JoJo's Bizarre

Abbacchio can fly a plane because he's seen a movie where someone flies a plane. Notorious B.I.G. is the stand that has by far the most in common with its musical namesake. Is it the most powerful stand in the JoJo's universe? Well, no, but it's a contender. Bruno manages to be both naive and romantic, which is either wildly out of character or wildly in character. We learn that Gold Experience is useless without its hands. We go on a digression about what would happen if Dio had Gold Experience. We also go on a digression about The Twilight Zone. And once again, getting on a plane in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure proves to be an extremely bad idea. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here

We talk about how to enjoy media made by people who suck and you can be absolutely sure that this is yet another one of our Harry Potter references. This episode contains far too much tongue-related body horror, Polnareff would be appalled. Fortunately the tongue horror is made up for by the presence of a gay murder/suicide/revenge for the ages. We have questions about gunshot residue. Eliz would like all of her body parts replaced by custom-made Giorno Giovanna ladybug pieces. And Lil' Bomber develops the power that it was meant to have all along: gaydar. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast w

Soup: is it good for you, or does it contain an enemy stand? We discuss the new opening, about which we are firmly lukewarm, and the new ending, about which we are firmly lukewarm. We meet the most iconic gay villain couple from Vento Aureo. We are finally back in our comfort zone: bathroom hijinks, and we learn that Narancia desperately needs to hydrate. Mista can’t imagine not wearing leather, and frankly, we also can’t imagine him not wearing leather. And we spend probably too much time talking about how much we miss part four. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running m

If you've been wondering, for years, how Vento Aureo's villain stand works, 1) join the club and 2) be grateful that the anime actually does a decent job of illustrating it! (Goodness knows we are.) Giorno develops *yet another* additional Gold Experience power, and this isn't even the last time he'll do that. King Crimson is probably the best-looking outcome of putting a little face on another, pre-existing face. And we say goodbye to Fugo, and hello to yet another opportunity for the Bruno/Abbacchio and Giorno/Mista ships to sail. -- JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Either you love it, or you've never seen it. But what exactly is JoJo? Why is everyone talking about it? Why is it so great? Whether this is your first foray into Hirohiko Araki's decades-spanning masterpiece, or you're a seasoned JoJo Opinion Haver looking for more of your kind, JoJo's Bizarre Explainer is here for you! Hosted by Elizabeth Simins, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi, this podcast will tease out the running