The Pillar Man (柱の男, Hashira no Otoko)[1] is the twelfth episode of season one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It is also the third episode of Battle Tendency. It covers Chapter 54 through Chapter 57 of the manga.
Joseph heads to Mexico to find Speedwagon while the Nazis experiment on the Pillar Man. While Joseph works his way towards the Nazis' laboratory, the Pillar Man named Santana awakens and attacks the Nazis.
Summary
In the middle of the Mexican desert, Joseph is confronted by one of Stroheim's men, Donovan. Donovan is a trained special forces soldier but Joseph makes short of work of him thanks to the Ripple: he remotely makes chollas explode near Donovan's face and then takes him down before interrogating the soldier. JoJo thus learns that Speedwagon is still alive and imprisoned in a hacienda near their position. Leaving Donovan to his fate, Joseph then reaches the base where Speedwagon is kept prisoner. Ensues a comical scene during which Joseph tries to infiltrate the compound, poorly disguised as a woman. Caught, Joseph then knocks out the guards.
Meanwhile in the underground laboratory, Stroheim manages to awaken the Pillar Man, naming him Santana after the winds of Mexico. To test him, Stroheim sends a Vampire. At first, it seems that Santana is defenseless, but then the Pillar Man effortlessly absorbs the monster into his body to feed himself. Moreover, Santana's superior intellect begins to manifest as he easily masters the contemporary language. To Stroheim's shock, Santana manages to escape his cell by twisting his body through the air vents and launches himself into the body of one of his men. When the guards riddle the man with bullets, the possessed Nazi then simply fires them back with his fingers.
Just as Santana reveals himself and begins to fire bullets in Speedwagon's direction, Joseph finally comes out of his disguise and uses some hair to block the bullets, puzzling the Pillar Man as to how this man could stop the bullets. The battle between Joseph Joestar and Santana begins.
Appearances
Credits
石本峻一
糸井恵
亀井 隆広
Tatsuo Amemiya
雨宮 達夫
Tatsuo Amemiya
Shinya Nogami
Shinpei Koikawa
Rui Kondo
Motoki Yagi
Rika Kanetaka
Toshihiko Masuda
Shinichi Suzuki
Hirotaka Nii
Shouichi Funaki
Yuichiro Hayashi
Koji Miura
Keiko Yamamoto
Ryousuke Senbo
雨宮 達夫
野上 慎也
鯉川 慎平
近藤 瑠衣
八木 元喜
兼高 里佳
増田 敏彦
鈴木 伸一
仁井 宏隆
舟木 翔一
林 裕一郎
三浦 弘二
山本 径子
泉保 良輔
Minoru Morita
Meta Studio
Seigasha
Tokyo Animation Center
Studio Izena
Studio Mark
森田 実
メタスタジオ
靑画舎
東京アニメーションセンター
スタジオ イゼナ
スタジオマーク
Ming Zhe Qiu
Mutsumi Sasahara
Young-Ung Lee
Hanil Animation
Yades
Big Owl
AI
Jumondo
Beep
J&K Corporation
Triple A
Hayashi
邱 明哲
笹原 睦美
李 英熊
韓一動画
Yades
ビッグオウル
AI
寿門堂
BEEP
J&Kコーポレーション
AAA
ハヤシ株式会社
david production
赤間 紗枝
大川 貴大
菊井 きらら
宇治部 まさと
Gorou Murata
村田 護郎
工藤 かよ
Puavaranukroh Taweeporn
Music
Manga/Anime Differences
- The scene where Joseph beats up some Mexicans is removed from the anime.
- Donovan doesn't reveal his knife's hidden function to unravel.
- In the anime, Joseph undresses both gatekeepers after they're knocked out, while in the manga, he only undresses one of them.
- When taking his jacket off in the anime, the Star Birthmark can be seen near the back of Joseph's neck; in the manga, it isn't seen since the concept of the birthmark wouldn't appear until Stardust Crusaders.
- Donovan getting a magnetic compass in his eye (with Joseph calling him pathetic) and the note that says "Hello Adolph!" on the cactus he's tied to is cut.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
柱の男 | The Pillar Man |
 Chinese |
柱之男 | The Pillar Man |
 Chinese (Hong Kong) |
柱中的男人 | The Man in the Pillar |
 English |
The Pillar Man | |
 Spanish |
El Hombre del Pilar | The Man of the Pillar |
 Portuguese |
O Homem do Pilar | The Pillar Man |
 French |
L’homme du pilier | The pillar man |
 German |
Der Mann in der Säule | The Man in the Pillar |
 Hebrew |
איש העמוד | The Man of the Pillar |
 Arabic |
رجل العمود | Pillar Man |
 Italian |
L'uomo del Pilastro | The man of the Pillar |
 Czech |
Muž z pilíře | The Man from the pillar |
 Danish |
Søjlemanden | The piller man |
 Polish |
Człowiek z filaru | Pillar Man |
Commentary
CommentaryNotably, Joseph disguising as a woman in an oh so crazy scene. He's walking with an up and down motion, a little like a character from an old video game. You also find out fabulous Stroheim's famed shouts in episode 11 (laughs). He's voiced by Atsushi Imaruoka who gave everything at work, just like the rest of the cast. The recording sessions are as always vivacious "He is in the air duct!"
A good notable animation sequence: the time when the German soldier possessed by Santana gets shot.
Globally, Episode 12 works because of the diversity of the cast's personalities; everything ties together well. For the physical releases, we had to remake several plans so that the experience will be different than that of the TV broadcast.Gallery
Trivia
- The intro to the song played during Joseph's Ripple hair attack is similar to the intro of the song, Owner of a Lonely Heart, by Yes.
References