Cartoon Sunday: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Recap With Stardust Crusaders Music References

{As of 2020, videos with the following music references have recently been updated. This blog was previously published in 2017.}

How's it going lurkers? If you read yesterday's Song Saturday blog, it was mostly about The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian." 

In that same blog, I mentioned that the Pop-Rock band's song was used as the ending theme song for its 2nd season, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

Toonami premiered the 1 hour season finale of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, 2 weeks ago. The finale did NOT  disappoint. There were so many twists. 

Watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's season finale felt like I was watching a Supernatural Soap Opera with namesake characters of legendary musicians.

This can especially be said about Lisa Lisa secretly being Joseph Joestar's biological mother. Cue the dramatic music!

Dramatic Music

As campy and uproarious as this Supernatural Action Anime can be, the last scenes of Battle Tendency were violent as well as intense. 

Sometimes there were times, when I was close to falling off my bed from laughter, after watching certain scenes.

For example, there was a scene of Kars strumming Lisa-Lisa's legs like he was playing a guitar right before stabbing her in front of her long lost son, Joseph!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency "Kars Simulates A Guitar Solo With Lisa Lisa's Legs" (2013)

 

That scene was definitely a WTF?! Moment. Because Kars was close to killing Lisa Lisa, Joseph had to rescue mummy. 

 

While continuing his battle with Kars, Joseph theorized how he could possibly destroy Kars with the planet.

Eventually, Joseph defeated Kars by using Super Aja, which caused an eruption. That same eruption knocked Kars off the planet Earth, sending him into space.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency "Kars Is Launched Into Space" (2013)

 

After Kars was sent into space, everyone automatically assumed Joseph was dead and held a funeral for him. I believe the funeral was the BEST scene of Battle Tendency's finale.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency "The Funeral Scene" (2013)

The funeral scene had me in STITCHES! 

 

Without Hirohiko Araki (the Mangaka of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) saying so, we the fans can tell that he favored his replacement protagonist, Joseph Joestar over Jonathan.

Joseph has a lot more personality than the original protagonist, Jonathan Joestar. Jonathan was too obsessed with becoming a "gentleman" and defeating his adopted brother, Dio Brando. Dio is supposed to be in the 2nd season, Stardust Crusaders.

Every time I watch MTV Classic and a classic music video from the late Ronnie James Dio plays on the network, I start snickering; Whenever I hear the late vocalist and his name, I NOW think about the supervillain of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dio Brando.

Dio Brando's depravity is off the charts. In the next season, there are more villains, who are this supervillain's flunkies. 

In fact, the next season and list of characters for Stardust Crusaders are much longer than both Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency combined, from what I can see.

During the last 2 minutes or so of Battle Tendency, there was a time skip to the 1980's. By that time, Joseph became an old man complaining about how much he hates Japanese people, while listening to a tape on a Sony Walkman.

For all those who didn't already know, Sony Walkmans were portable audiotape players made in Japan.

As I was saying, the end of Battle Tendency showed a 67-year-old Joseph Joestar. 

Then, it segues into a scene with his grandson, Jotaro Kujo, which shortly segues into the beginning of the next season, Stardust Crusaders.

We COULD have a few more months, until Adult Swim's Toonami block premieres Stardust Crusaders. 

Let's all hope that Stardust Crusaders premieres on Toonami with "Walk Like An Egyptian" playing as the ending theme song, after Attack On Titan ends.

Before I forget, here is the following link to the previous blog about characters' names from Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, in case you missed it, 2 months ago.

Cartoon Sunday: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood & Battle Tendency Music References (2017)

Since I already mentioned 3 Stardust Crusaders namesakes, here is the list of the next set of namesake characters of talented musicians and music references for today's Cartoon Sunday.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Music References (2020)