The Bond That Binds JoJo (JOJOを結ぶ絆, JoJo o Musubu Kizuna)[1] is the twenty-forth episode of season one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It is also the fifteenth episode of Battle Tendency. It covers Chapter 107 and Chapter 108 of the Battle Tendency manga.
After Kars's treachery, a tired Joseph must find a way to defeat Kars and keep Lisa Lisa alive. Meanwhile, Speedwagon reveals Lisa Lisa's mysterious past.
Summary
Being forced to cling onto a rope to stop Lisa Lisa from falling to her death, Joseph is at a huge disadvantage against Kars. Meanwhile, Stroheim's corps and the Speedwagon Foundation must still battle Kars's Vampire army. Feeling he has a plan, Joseph sets his scarf on fire, stating he will finish Kars off before it fully burns. Kars then cuts the rope in the hope of sending both Joseph and Lisa Lisa to their deaths but falls into a snare laid out by Joseph, freeing him while Kars is now weighted by Lisa Lisa. Kars and JoJo perform a last exchange of blows during which Joseph exhausts the last of his Ripple to win over Kars's blade and damage his arm, sending him falling while Joseph catches his mother.
As Joseph rescues Lisa Lisa, Speedwagon explains to Smokey how Lisa Lisa, her real name is Elizabeth, was brought up by Straizo who taught her the ways of the Ripple. She later met and was courted by Jonathan Joestar and Erina's son George Joestar II, with their marriage resulting in the birth of their child Joseph. Unlike his father and son, George II had the ability to use the Ripple, but was not trained in it at all, and instead joined the Royal Flying Corps, battling in the Great War. However, a zombie who had survived the downfall of Dio Brando and the destruction of the first Stone Mask soon sought vengeance for Dio's death, disguising himself as a high-ranking RFC officer and cornering George II, easily killing the young man who had no Ripple training to defend himself. When Elizabeth discovered the treachery, she hunted down the zombie and easily killed him with her Ripple powers, but she was caught in the act by an RFC official who thought she murdered a human in cold blood. On the run from the law, Speedwagon meets up with her; using his foundation to erase all trace of her past, he places her on Venice's Air Supplena Island where she changed her name to Lisa Lisa. Upon learning of the events, Erina began raising Joseph on her own and asked Speedwagon to make sure that the young JoJo never learns the truth of the events that had unfolded so he may never learn the Ripple and have such a terrible fate befall him as had happened to the rest of her family.
With Speedwagon's story over, Stroheim attempts to finish off Kars with multiple blasts of ultraviolet beam, but as it seems that victory will be achieved, at last, Kars turns his head toward the ultraviolet beams, revealing that he put on the Stone Mask with the Red Stone of Aja in place. Before Stroheim can call off the attack, the artificial sunlight from all the German soldiers and Speedwagon Foundation operatives channels through the Super Aja, activating the Stone Mask and sending its undiluted energy into Kars, who undergoes the ultimate transformation.
Appearances
Credits
Daisuke Saito
Sachiko Mori
Yasuzo Ino
Yuu Kaneshiro
Hirotaka Nii
Toshiharu Sugie
Tsukasa Sorimachi
Yuki Terano
Toru Yoshida
Gi Cheul Shin
Takeshi Moriyama
Yasuhiro Ito
Ayako Karatani
Miyuki Nakayama
Yoshiki Mizuno
Koki Sugawara
Yoshinobu Ando
斎藤 大輔
森 幸子
いいの やすぞう
金城 優
仁井 宏隆
杉江 敏治
反町 司
寺野 勇樹
吉田 徹
申 起徹
森山 剛史
伊藤 康裕
柄谷 綾子
中山 みゆき
水野 佳樹
菅原 浩喜
安藤 義信
Rie Omori
Kumiko Kawahara
Michiko Takegami
Aya Nishimura
Ace Company
CL Corporation
Jinbun
FAI Studio
大森 理恵
河原 久美子
武上 みち子
西村 彩
エースカンパニー
CLコーポレーション
じんぶん
F.A.I
david production
Takahiro Okawa
Asami Yamaguchi
Makoto Yaguchi
Hiroyuki Moriguchi
Dai Misawa
Shota Sugimoto
大川 貴大
山口 朝美
矢口 真琴
森口 弘之
三沢 大
杉本 将太
Ku Ja Chun
Kim Yun Hui
Park Jin Hee
Park Hee Joung
Byun Jin Sun
Sin Jin Eun
Yang Hyo Jung
Lee Hye Kyoung
Jung A Yung
Cha Hyun Ju
Chae Youn Kyung
Ku Ja Chun
Kim Yun Hui
Park Jin Hee
Park Hee Joung
Byun Jin Sun
Sin Jin Eun
Yang Hyo Jung
Lee Hye Kyoung
Jung A Young
Cha Hyun Ju
Chae Youn Kyung
CL Corporation
Jinbun
F.A.I
Triple A
Hayashi
MSJ Musashino Production
CLコーポレーション
じんぶん
F.A.I
AAA
ハヤシ株式会社
MSJ武蔵野制作所
宝谷 幸稔
石神 潤
糸井 恵
村田 護郎
工藤 かよ
Puavaranukroh Taweeporn
Music
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Manga/Anime Differences
- The anime included an extra scene in Lisa Lisa's flashback where she meets George Joestar II and another where she is on the run after killing the Zombie officer. And in this scene, Lisa Lisa's clothes are different in the manga.
- In the anime, the Nazis brought in a much larger Ultraviolet machine to fire at Kars. In the manga, the soldiers surround Kars and fire their own beams instead.
- In the anime, Kars does one final jump off of the spikes and lands near the soldiers before collapsing, while he simply lies still in the manga.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
JOJOを結ぶ絆 | The Bond That Binds JoJo |
 Chinese |
與JOJO的深厚情結 | The Deep Complex With JoJo |
 Chinese (Hong Kong) |
連接JoJo的牽絆 | The Bond That Binds JoJo |
 English |
The Ties that Bind JoJo | |
 Spanish |
Los lazos que atan a JoJo | The ties that bind JoJo |
 Portuguese |
Os Laços que Prendem JoJo (Crunchyroll) Os Laços de JoJo (Netflix) |
The Ties That Bind JoJo JoJo's Ties |
 French |
Les liens qui unissent JoJo | The ties that unite JoJo |
 German |
Die Bänder, die JoJo binden | The Ties that bind JoJo |
 Hebrew |
קשרי המשפחה של ג'וג'ו | JoJo's Familial ties |
 Arabic |
رابطة جوجو | JoJo's Bond |
 Italian |
I legami di JoJo | The Bond of JoJo |
 Czech |
JoJova pouta | JoJo's bonds |
 Danish |
Båndene der binder JoJo | The bonds which bind JoJo |
 Polish |
Więzy krępujące JoJo | The bonds which embarass JoJo |
Commentary
CommentaryIn the scene where Kars puts on the Stone Mask and the Red Stone of Aja, his body becomes semi-translucent, and the mask really pierces into the skull. We may have overdone it on the visual effects because we don't really see what's going on.
The episode's first half focuses on Kars's defeat, and the second one unveils the past of the Joestar lineage. I prefer the second half, first because Speedwagon's narration is enough to overshadow everything else, but there's also Smokey's reaction and the close-up on his tears at the end of the flashback, which uses as much frames as was necessary. Let's not forget we also get some of Stroheim at the very end (laughs).