LuckyYounes proudly presents this modern manga review:

- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a long running manga written by the most popular influential manga artist (mangaka), Hirihiko Araki, the Japanese immortal man. He was born on June 7, 1960 in Sendai, Miyagi. He started publishing his magnum opus in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1987, and his deep love to the western culture made this franchise have a very unique and diverce plots and interface. Particularly, we will have the spot on its 7th part; Steel Ball Run. That was published from January 19, 2004 to April 19, 2011 in Ultra Jump.
- The story is about a horse race where the jockeys have to cross more than 10000 Kms from San Diego to New York in a weird shaped route with 9 stages and the prize is 50 Million Dollars. That time, it was a heavy number, with some calculations that prize in 1890 is equal to 1,3 Billion Dollars in our days. The main protagonist, Johnny Joestar, the crippled former jockey , his fans call him “Joe Kid” or “JoJo”. He wanted to watch the race start in San Diego. There he encounters his future ally, Gyro Zeppeli, a racer and former executioner with two steel balls instead of guns. JoJo witnesses Gyro use one of them in a duel to unleash some superpowers. In the midst of chaos, Johnny happens to touch the other steel ball in his waist and feel a power surging through his legs, allows him to stand up for the first time in 2 years, spoiler alert it’s called rotation. Joe Kid vows to find the secret behind all of this and decides to compete in the race so his bizarre adventure begins. For the narrator, he was simply defined as Johnny because right at the end of the first chapter, he said “ This is my story how I got back my ability to walk two years ago”. For the vocabulary, you don’t really need a dictionary because the hard word are bold and illustrated so you can comprehend it while reading the dialogue in the bubble text and that’s a cool thing. For the events’ order, you can say it’s well ordered but in a bizarre way because for a new reading who started from part 7 and it’s a frequent phenomena because part 7 takes place in an alternative universe so it’s like a reboot for the franchise and whatsoever. So they will find some difficulties with the main superpower “Stands”. For that, the author made a special chapter (27.5) to explain everything about “Stands” but that won’t hurt the order because on each fight they win, the closer they get to solve the mystery behind the Steel Ball Run race and beat the Antagonist as known as the 23rd USA president, Funny Valentine.
- In conclusion, the characters might seem realistic because most of their appearance and ideology are inspired from real life artists and western songs. Even their back-stories are a reference too; For exemple, Funny Valentine’s back-story is a reference to Putch’s from the 1994 American Film “Pulp Fiction”. And though, one of the most accurate reason why I can say Steel ball run is one of the best comics ever written is due to its creative and original story plot. Nonetheless, I recommend intellectual people to start reading it hopefully they like it.