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|date = September 19, 2013
|interviewee = [[Hirohiko Araki]]
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==Interview==
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Dio serves as an evolution of [[B.T.]], the main character in ''[[Cool Shock B.T.]]'' As a character, he exceeds B.T. in demonstrating the darker aspects of human emotion, such as jealousy and hunger. Even portraying Dio, the villain of the work, might have had an effect on my own mental state. I don't get frustrated often, but in my day-to-day life I would, for example, suddenly think dark thoughts or look down on people from Dio's perspective, as if they were mere insects. Just like when I was working on ''Cool Shock B.T.'', I was aiming to create a kind of anti-shonen manga with Parts 1 and 2, a cheeky attempt to challenge and explore ''[[Weekly Shonen Jump]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s world of friendship, perserverance, and triumph.
[[Joseph Joestar|Joseph]], the protagonist of Part 2 of the series, was also given his name simply to be a "[[JoJo]]" like Jonathan, and again it has no deeper meaning. The reason for his light-hearted personality was to create a contrast between him and Jonathan, who was more serious. What I wanted to do within the story was depict the strongest and most terrifying kind of person. By using [[Pillar Men|ultimate lifeforms]] as the enemies, I was able to depict precisely that, the apex of the food chain.
At the time, I was anxious about having to create my own style. My predecessors, the famous writers of the 1970s, each had their own individual style. I believed there was some important meaning behind that. But just because my manga wasn't popular, I thought, that's no reason to suddenly switch to drawing sports manga or romantic comedy manga. I began to believe that "I have to push myself to the limit," and that "I can't let myself falter." I had to push myself to live up to that at first, but I've kept it up to this day. If I ever hit a dead end, that might just be the end of it... if I let myself believe that there's always a path forward, that is.
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The name of Part 4's protagonist, [[Josuke Higashikata]], also doesn't have any deep meaning. The idea behind it is that the name of the protagonist should be memorable. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but as long as it's somewhat unrealistic and abbreviates to JoJo, it should be fine.
In Part 4, I thought a lot about the antagonist. In Part 2, I depicted the ultimate lifeform [[Kars]], and in Part 3, I depicted [[
Murder as a hobby is a terrifying concept, and it fits with the city setting. Yoshikage Kira is a man who doesn't resent his cursed life. He is a character who recognizes the curse of his obsession with beautiful hands and tries to move forward nonetheless. In that sense, he is just a bit different from the villains in my other works.
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Incidentally, the subtitles were first added in Part 6. As for the title of ''Stone Ocean'', I included the word "ocean" to symbolize the femininity of the main character. Like in the phrase "mother ocean" and like how ships are usually named after women, the sea symbolizes womanhood all over the world. The word "stone" evokes the image of a stone prison. So ''Stone Ocean'' represents both a prison and a woman's heart. And her [[Stand]], [[Stone Free]], symbolizes breaking free of the prison, or something like that.
The subtitle of ''Part 3: Stardust Crusaders'' references the word "stardust," which is associated with the [[Joestar Family]] and Star Platinum. The image created is that of a crusade against the enemy, DIO. ''Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable'' is an indomitable fighting spirit that simply cannot be broken, no matter what. And Part 5 is ''Vento Aureo'', the image of the air or wind (''vento'') of the four elements and the refreshing feeling Giorno gives off. I had put minerals like platinum and gold in the names of the previous protagonists' Stands, so I wanted to reflect that in the subtitles of the parts after Part 3, along with the four major elements of nature: air, fire, earth, and water. So I included the names of minerals such as gold (''aureo'') and diamond. It was also around this time that I published the artbook ''[[JOJO A-GO!GO!]]''.
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'''Parts 7-8: ''[[Steel Ball Run]]'' and ''[[JoJolion]]'''''
I envisioned ''Steel Ball Run'' as a story about starting again from a place where everything has been destroyed. The story of Stands ended once in Part 6, but I wanted to revive it once more, or perhaps I could even call it a renaissance.
When it was first serialized in ''[[Weekly Shonen Jump]]'', the title was just ''Steel Ball Run'', without any mention of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo]]''. This was a request from the editorial department, who thought that calling the work a new series would attract more readers. But in my mind, it was always ''JoJo''. That's why I brought the ''JoJo'' title back when I moved to ''Ultra Jump''. If I may talk about the drawings for a bit, I wanted to create a western atmosphere for ''Steel Ball Run''. I tried to make the lines I drew a bit more jagged to evoke the desert atmosphere, and I also tried to make the lines on the faces and the proportions thinner.
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''Ultra Jump'' prints better than ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' (haha), so I wanted to make my drawings more realistic. It wasn't that I had a theme before and wanted to change it, but rather that I didn't want to lose out to the print quality, and the change came about naturally. Even with color illustrations, ''Ultra Jump'' gives off the feeling that the colors will come out deeper in print. At first, I didn't really understand that, so there were times when I thought, "I should have applied a few more layers of color here." But once I understood it, I changed the way I applied the colors instead. The story of ''Steel Ball Run'' itself had the image of "rebirth," but after the transfer, I feel that the way I draw manga was also able to be reborn.
''JoJolion'' is also a kind of parallel world. It's a world
The origin of the title is as I wrote in the cover comment of [[JJL Volume 2|Volume 2]]. I wanted to include the word ''JoJo'', and I also wanted it to have a monumental meaning. So I just connected the two and came up with ''JoJolion''. When I first asked my editor, Mr. Ito, about it, he said, "Huh? What do you mean?" and I thought, "Well, that's not good." Haha. I came up with a lot of other titles. One of them was ''JOJOmenon''. It was later used as the title of [[JOJOmenon|a mook]]. I also thought about ''JoJo Town'', since it takes place in Morioh. I didn't take it very seriously. I just wanted people to get the feeling that the title was a little archaic. Even if they didn't understand the meaning, it was fine. All they needed to know was that it was the new ''JoJo'' work.
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{{Size|20|'''JOJO<br />JOURNEY'''}}<br />
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'''荒木飛呂彦 インタビュー'''
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{{Size|15|'''★ 第1部 ファントムブラッド<br />★ 第2部 戦闘潮流<br />★ 第3部 スターダスト クルセイダース'''}}
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