User:Nabu/Sandbox

SBR BUnkos


 * "In 2004 i started drawing Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Part 7 Steel Ball Run,that being the story of Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli and their participation in the great race throughout the North American continent from San Diego on the West Coast to New York on the East Coast. I'd now like to share with you all some memories regarding the genesis of this work.

Part 1: The Protagonists Each one of them has their own family problems: Johnny and his relationship with his dad and Gyro with his lineage. Its almost as if their own births were a contradiction,therefore they accept the challenge of the race,pushed by a desire to take control of their lives. The other characters as well have a positive attitude and those who hide the power of a Stand are very confident in themselves. That being said,maintaining a positive attitude is a tiresome way to live life,afterall to find a bit of peace they only have 2 choices: retire from the race or reach New York." I'm gonna do these one at the time if you don't mind

Up until this work,in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure i created stands with the intent of representing through images those elements which are impossible to perceive with earthly eyes yet still exist. Basically,my target was all the physical phenomenons and the entire Creation (i think he means as in everything on Earth?) Transforming flames into characters or drawing time itself stuff like that. With the previous work "Stone Ocean" i had a sort of sense of fulfillment,as if i pretty much reached that purpose. So,what should have i done next? When i started drawing it,i had a a predilection for rotations (specifically the spiral rotations). The flames that i designed resembled whirlwinds,the splashes of water flew in vortexes,the body joints bended as if screwed together,hair grew in a sinuous way,the tree branches connected recurved to the main stem,the petals of flowers were like spirals,the shadows which touched rocks seemed like they were rotating etc.. By dint of drawing things like these i reached to the conclusion that rotations and spirals gave a clear explanation to every phenomenon in this world of ours. Had i made a stand out of them it probably would have been extremely powerful. Additionally by concentrating on the rotation as rebirth then most likely the story too would have gone back to it's starting point. It is by this reasoning that i convinced myself that SBR had to be set in the same time period as part 1,that being the end of the XIX century.
 * "Part 2: The Stands

I love stories in which characters grow through a journey,i think it's a universal experience. In the recent years you can just search on the internet to obtain whatever type of information,therefore research trips are no longer necessary. However,there are places which are necessary to be seen in person to perceive their magnitude and in which we must live to truly comprehend the other side of the coin,with their misery or inequity and understand what would happen if for example we were to find ourselves without milk. (I have absolutely zero clue what this entire paragraph means,maybe i'm just dumb) Pushed by the desire to experiment these sentiments i went on a discovery trip on a Cessna and in a car starting from a desert in the Far West. Not that it has anything to do with SBR but i was particularly by the abandoned cemeteries of planes right in the middle of nowhere. Subsequently i went for a walk of 5 days and 4 nights in the mountains of Kumano Kodo (a group of ancient pilgrimage footpaths,patrimony of UNESCO since 2004) in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan. I wanted to find out what would happen if i were to walk for 20 kilometers in a row every day,and so i did. See,now maybe this experience has some relevancy to SBR. Past four o'clock the marvelous panorama offered by the forests becomes increasingly darker,more than you could image. One day i happened to see an old lady,all alone,coming out of the dark and saying "If i hadn't met that kid i would have certainly been lost and i would have been in trouble!" (what kid was she talking about?!). After 2 days fo walking my muscles started to hurt a lot,the phone had no signal and it seemed to get so much heavier that each day i would ponder the idea of just throwing it away. These are the contradictions of useless inventions. Jesus man i can now safely say that Araki fucks
 * Part 3: Research

President Valentine who appears in the second half of SBR is the last boss,the worst enemy,the big bad,an extremely evil person. However i would like to explain why he is a villain from the POV of the protagonists Johnny and Gyro. President Valentine uses the Steel Ball Run race to collect the treasures neccessary to transform his native country into the greatest and biggest nation in the world and to steer it towards a new era. Basically,through the sporting event,he plans to conquer the the sympathy of the people and obtain the rights for his fellow countrymen. He is aware that the future will bring the passage from horses to machines and knows that democracy means the acquisition of rights of a capitalist economy. That being said,a person who doesn't know egoism is truly terrifying. In practice the ideas of President Valentine are much more valid than those of our protagonists Johnny,Gyro,Stephen Steel etc.. In the SBR this president who wants to follow the rightful path is the antagonist by antanomasia. (Look up the meanings online) In him resides the contradiction that exists between good and evil. It's sort of a paradox. However it may be...what is happiness? If happiness coincided with the victory of truth,then it would have to be the objective of this era? In the end will Johnny and Gyro really be able to achieve it? The publication of this work switched from being Weekly Shonen Jump to the monthly Ultra Jump,not just because after many years the weekly deadlines began to feel stressing,but also because I felt that in SBR the "Area" which i could draw had grew a lot (I'm referring to the number of pages per chapter) I sensed that i could improve on the proportions between backgrounds and characters and i felt that i found an ideal ryhtim to develop this manga which,by its nature,is more suited to being monthly.
 * Part 4: The Enemies
 * Part 5: Area