Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times (太古から来た究極戦士, Taiko kara Kita Kyūkyoku Senshi)[1] is the fourteenth episode of season one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It is also the fifth episode of Battle Tendency. It covers Chapter 61 through half of Chapter 66, of the manga.
Joseph Joestar is redirected to Rome where three other Pillar Men slumber. In the city, Joseph meets Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli, Will Anthonio Zeppeli's grandson. The two initially hate each other and have a battle. Meanwhile, the Pillar Men awaken and kill several Nazi officers.
Summary
Joseph arrives in Rome and waits for the one Stroheim told him to meet in a restaurant. He becomes irritated by a player at another table who turns out to be Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli, grandson of Will Zeppeli and the one that was to meet Joseph. Meanwhile, Speedwagon is revealed to be alive and the stone remains of Santana were transferred to the foundation headquarters. They discover that despite its immobile state, the remains are still very much alive, but they can use UV Lights to subdue it. They also discover the masks to the other Pillar Men, with Santana's appearing to be in the lowest tier.
Speedwagon meets up with Joseph and Caesar at a fountain where he introduces the two. The two don't get along well, as Caesar holds a grudge against Joseph's grandfather for letting Will Zeppeli die. He also comments on Joseph's lack of skill and assumes his victory over Santana was merely luck. Joseph becomes enraged by Caesar's comments and tries to attack him, only to be stopped by a lady Caesar had kissed and was controlling using the Ripple. The lady throws Joseph into the fountain, and Caesar follows with his secret Ripple technique, Bubble Launcher. Caesar unleashes a massive torrent of Ripple-infused bubbles that knocks Joseph away and surrounds him in a giant bubble. Joseph is unable to escape the bubble and slowly loses consciousness. Fortunately, Caesar attempts to kiss the woman again, only for a ripple-infused pigeon to come flying out of her mouth and into Caesar's. The fight ends, and the group heads to the hotel.
In the hotel, Joseph and Caesar have a game of cards, after which a car sent by their Nazi contacts arrives. The driver of the car is a young man that goes by the name of Mark, who came to deliver them to where the Germans found the other Pillar Men. Along the way, Caesar reveals that the Nazis have been interested in the Ripple and using it to figure out a way to defeat the Pillar Men.
Under the Colosseum, the Nazis investigate a hole appearing in one of the Pillar Men statues. The superior hopes that after cutting the pillar out, they will seal it up, so they never again see the light of day. Suddenly, a spike impales one of the Germans, and the Germans try to set up more UV lamps, but the horn kills more of the soldiers and uses their blood and brain matter to block out the lights. The statue awakens and is revealed to be Wamuu. He then fuses the hands of the soldiers and the officer together before sucking all of the Nazis' life forces out of their bodies, leaving them little more than empty husks. Wamuu then awakens his masters, Esidisi and Kars.
The heroes arrive at the cave where the Pillar Men are supposed to be kept under watch only to find out they have already awakened and killed the Nazis within. Mark attempts to run away, but Wamuu walks into him, and thus half his body is absorbed. Kars explains his plan to find the Red Stone of Aja, that was once possessed by the Roman Emperor, to unlock the power of the Stone Mask. Caesar is forced to use the Ripple to end Mark's life and challenges the Pillar Men on his own.
Appearances
Credits
Yuichi Nakazawa
Yasuhiro Ito
Yoshie Matsumoto
Miho Okawa
Toru Iino
Shigemi Aoyagi
Yi Zhang
Tomoki Koda
Hideaki Matsuoka
Kohei Ashiya
Atsushi Kashiwa
Kazuyuki Ikai
Yoko Iizuka
Hiroki Saito
Hiroki Kusuda
Takashi Hirabayashi
Shunsuke Igarashi
中澤 勇一
伊藤 康裕
松本 淑恵
大川 美穂子
飯野 亨
青柳 しげみ
張 益
香田 知樹
松岡 秀明
芦谷 耕平
柏 淳志
飯飼 一幸
飯塚 葉子
斉藤 弘樹
楠田 博樹
平林 孝
五十嵐 俊介
Daiki Ito
Masahiro Yoshida
Tsuneta Ando
Shunichi Ishimoto
Megumi Itoi
Aya Nishimura
Yuu Kaneshiro
伊藤 大喜
吉田 将広
安東 恒太
石本 峻一
糸井 恵
西村 彩
金城 優
White Line
Kawn Hyun Ae
Sim Myung Ju
Kawn Hyun Ae
Sim Myung Ju
東 拓矢
福田 周平
布施 拳蔵
清水 妙子
誠品動画
david production
Kirara Kikui
菊井 きらら
Yasufumi Soejima
ソエジマ ヤスフミ
Naoyuki Seki
Hiroka Fujita
関 直幸
藤田 広香
Wong Wai
王 偉
工藤 かよ
Puavaranukroh Taweeporn
Music
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Manga/Anime Differences
- A scene of the Speedwagon Foundation members reading the words on the wall in the projector image to see when the four Pillar Men will awaken (2852 in the Mexican calendar, calculated to the year 1938) is cut.
- The Chance card game is seen before the awakening of the Pillar Men.
- Caesar smoking (along with Joseph telling him not to smoke in a small room due to the smell) before Joseph deals him cards is cut.
- In the manga, Wamuu tells Kars that he overheard the Nazis speaking about the status of Santana. The scene is not present in the anime.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
太古から来た究極戦士 | Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times |
 Chinese |
來自遠古的終極戰士 | Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times |
 English |
Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times | |
 Spanish |
Antiguos guerreros de élite | Ancient Elite Warriors |
 Portuguese |
Guerreiros Supremos Primordiais (Crunchyroll) Guerreiros Supremos da Antiguidade (Netflix) |
Primordial Ultimate Warriors Ultimate Warriors of Antiquity |
 French |
Guerriers d’élite ancestraux | Ancestral Elite Warriors |
 German |
Elite-Krieger aus der Antike | Elite Warriors from Ancient Times |
 Hebrew |
לוחמים מימי קדם | Warriors from Ancient Times |
 Arabic |
نخبة المقاتلين القدماء | Elite ancient fighters |
 Italian |
L'Essere Supremo del passato | The Supreme Being of the past |
 Czech |
Nejtvrdší vojáci ze starověku | The Toughest soldiers from ancient times |
 Danish |
Ultimative krigere fra gamle dage | Ultimate warriors from ancient times |
 Polish |
Absolutni wojownicy ze starożytnych czasów | Absolute warriors from ancient times |
Commentary
CommentaryToshiyuki Kato really directed the episode well. I do think about Mark's death, but the squid ink spaghetti scene was also spot on, with Joseph's black tongue or the details when Caesar throws Joseph's attack back at his glass.
Note how Caesar honors his grandfather, the Baron Zeppeli: they have the same top hat and the way they jump, then sit in midair before falling into the chair (laughs).
For the soundtrack, Taku Iwasaki wanted to find a suitable transition between the last scene and the ending, and I must say it really works.Gallery
Trivia
- The scene in which Caesar redirects the spaghetti Joseph shot at him bears great resemblance to a scene from Fist of the North Star where Kenshiro catches a crossbow bolt that was fired at him and throws it straight back into the shooter's head.