User:ColeyPoleyHair
Current Goal
★ I am having so much fun learning the secrets of Araki's editors (and the insane amount of original storylines that were cut), so I'm translating the interviews of JOJOVELLER! Wish me luck! ★
👻 I shall waste my life away looking through Japanese auction sites for hours just to find blurry pictures of magazine chapter covers and their original taglines 🫡 why do I do this to myself 👻
⚓ And if I notice any minor issues and know how to code them properly, I shall ⚓
(P.S. Currently working at Target, so if I'm not posting for a while it's probably because I'm working long ass hours)
Magazine Oddities
Whenever anything gets retconned, whether it be major or minor, it always gets my attention (shoutout to Josefumi losing his birthmark). So, with my fascination of looking through the original magazine chapters, I want to detail some oddities or retcons that I find!
The final page of Chapter 24
This page seems to show an alternate title for Chapter 25 that was later scrapped! At least, I think that's what it's saying at the bottom of the page? I found the image on Mercari, so I have to just go off of what I can see.
Chapter 24 Last Page
Chapter 25 Potential Alternate Title
Chapter 24 Final Page Tagline
It seems that at the bottom of the final page, it talks about how the next chapter will be in WSJ Issue 27, then says it'll be a showdown between JoJo VS. Dio (after VS., you can see what looks to be "ディ" which is the beginning of Dio's first name), then it SEEMS to detail the chapter title being something along the lines of "Open The Gates Of Hell."
I can tell this is almost certainly the original chapter title because it is written as "『地獄の門を開けろ』の巻." Every chapter from 1 to around 290, Araki indicated what the chapter title was by ending each title with "の巻" which literally translates to "Chapter." I think he did this because he used to add a TON of taglines, so this was his way of separating the chapter title from the taglines.
Since this title has "の巻" at the end of it, and using context clues of him referencing what would happen in the next issue, it seems that this is the original chapter title! One week later, it was changed to The Mask's Blood-Chilling Power (血も凍る仮面
In Summary:
Final Page Tagline: Fighting Is Our Destiny (戦いが宿命, Tatakai Ga Shukumei)
Chapter 25 Potential Alternate Title: Open The Gates Of Hell (地獄の門を開けろ, Jigoku No Mon O Akero)
FULL TRANSLATION: An invitation to the end 👉 Issue No. 27, JoJo VS. Dio, "Open The Gates Of Hell" Chapter
The third page of Chapter 571
A couple minor edits, but nonetheless it should still be documented!
The second & third page of Chapter 165
Once again, just minor edits (including spelling Steely Dan's name wrong lol), but still good to archive!
Magazine Cover Sources
Currently going through an arc of endlessly scrolling through random Japanese sites for the slim chance of finding semi-decent quality photos of JoJo chapter covers with their original tagline. Here is what I have found so far!
- Chapter 348 links to where I found the magazine pages.
- Chapter 144 link to the magazine cover photo.
- Chapter 126 Bit close up and wonky, but at least the full tagline is visible!
- Chapter 571 No tagline ∅ I found 3 separate fucking auctions for this magazine and NONE showed the page before this that probably has the tagline. One day I shall spend all my money on old Shonen Jump mags just to preserve this shit.
- Chapter 170 You can count many pixels in the first pic and I'm sorry 'bout that, but I legit cannot find another. Second pic is pretty badass tho
7th photo; bottom left corner.
3rd photo.
- Chapter 165 technically not a cover but very very close. It has a tagline tho so it's important!!
My Sources
Some of the author's notes for Part 4 seem to be misplaced, so I will help fix them!
I am VERY passionate about explaining my reasoning for any changes. Here, I will show specific author's notes contradict those on the wiki, along with screenshots and links to the correct notes.
My JoJo Collection
My paycheck is not for my bank. It is for JoJo.
All hail Barnes and Noble and Kinokuniya! Seriously, if you have a Kinokuniya near you, GO TO IT!!
- JoJo 6251
- SBR Volume 1
- SBR Volume 2
- SBR Volume 3
- SBR Volume 4
- SBR Volume 5
- SBR Volume 24
- JoJoLion Volume 1
- JoJoLion Volume 9
- The JoJoLands Volume 1
- The JoJoLands Volume 2
- The JoJoLands Volume 3
- JOJO magazine 2022 SPRING
- JOJO magazine 2022 WINTER
- JOJO magazine 2023 WINTER
- Stardust Crusaders Volume 10
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak Volume 1
- JOJOVELLER (Full box!)
