JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Episode 22
Joseph Joestar is about to begin a chariot race to the death against Wamuu. Joseph's Ripple and wits are thus pitted against Wamuu's wind powers and his genius as a warrior.
Summary
The details of the chariot race are explained to Joseph. Although he and Wamuu are driving chariots, the race remains a battle to the death. During each lap, weapons will be placed on a specific column on the tracks for the drivers to catch and wield against their opponents, the first of which is a War Hammer. Already Joseph plans to take it. The moon disappears behind a cloud and its reappearance will signal the start of the race. However, JoJo then steps down his chariot to clear the start of pebbles and the moon reappears: the race begins.
Joseph manages to get into position at the last moment and starts his chariot but Wamuu's chariot is obstructed with rubbles: as usual, JoJo has performed an underhanded trick and sabotaged the tracks while everyone was focusing on the moon. However, while Joseph takes the hammer, Wamuu grabs hold of the pillar itself and throws it into Joseph's chariot, forcing JoJo to fall down. Wamuu threatens to crush Joseph or attack him should he evade from the sides, but JoJo manages to use the hammer as a pole to avoid getting trampled by Wamuu's horses and jumps on the horse.
But, Wamuu has already hidden inside a horse and grabs his foot only for the boot to come but then uses his "Divine Sandstorm". But, JoJo then quickly ties Wamuu's arms with Ripple-infused reins to slow the rotation of the arms. Ultimately, he lands on his chariot relatively unscathed while Wamuu's arms are heavily damaged and is shocked to have had his ultimate technique beaten. Nonetheless, Wamuu is a warrior-born: gouging his eyes out as a psychic lock to regain his spirits, the Pillar Man reveals his horn to read the wind instead.
As the second lap offers a pair of Crossbows, JoJo ends up picking one that is too big for him to use. Wamuu uses the wind to guide his shots with the smaller crossbow, managing to hit one of JoJo's horses. Joseph makes the mistake of trying to keep the central fire between him and Wamuu, allowing the warrior to guess his position and hit his sides with a deflected shot. As Joseph is thrown to the ground, the momentum of the fall luckily allows him to cock his crossbow without the others noticing. JoJo takes the shot but seemingly utterly fails and appears cornered. However, as Wamuu is standing where JoJo was when he was hit, Joseph has used the same rebound trajectory to hit the Pillar Man from behind, although the much more powerful crossbow and the Ripple make it so the ball pierces Wamuu's chest.
Wamuu falls and is heavily disadvantaged, but as a last ditch effort, throws his severed arms at Joseph. They end up driving him into the walls of the central pillar and choking him, and the exhausted Joseph cannot move or produce the Ripple. For his part, Wamuu unleashes his Final Mode: the Atmospheric Rift.
Appearances
Credits
Tomoyuki Munehiro
Kazunobu Hoshi
Shigeki Sato
Mayu Matsushima
Ayaka Hakkaku
Hironori Tanaka
Noboru Kawamori
Teruaki Tokumaru
Yoshihiro Maeda
Kazuya Nakanishi
Sonomi Sugimura
Kazuya Sakamoto
Kasei
Makoto Shimojima
Miyuki Nakayama
Matsuko Taira
Shunsuke Imanaka
Keisuke Endo
Shingo Ogiso
Norikazu Ishigooka
Tatsuya Shiraishi
宗廣 智行
星 和伸
佐藤 滋記
松嶌 舞夢
八角 彩香
田中 宏紀
川森 昇
徳丸 輝明
前田 義宏
中西 和也
杉村 苑美
坂本 一也
火 星
下島 誠
中山 みゆき
平 松子
今中 俊輔
遠藤 圭佑
小木曽 伸吾
石郷岡 範和
白石 達也
Sonomi Sugimura
Tetsuya Takai
Ayaka Hakkaku
Nobuo Iino
Eiji Shirai
Sakura Takagi
Tomohito Matsuhiro
Sachiko Suzuki
Yoshiko Imazato
Maru Watanabe
Naoki Hiramura
Jia Mei Deng
Takeshi Moriyama
Masafumi Nakagawa
Aya Nishimura
Production EN
Asahi Production
Hebaraki
Pierrot
KJP
Studio Liberty
Candy Box
Trigger
White Line
杉村 苑美
高井 哲也
八角 彩香
飯野 伸夫
白井 英治
高木 さくら
松広 友仁
鈴木 祥子
今里 佳子
渡邊 マル
平村 直紀
鄧 佳湄
森山 剛史
中川 雅文
西村 彩
Production EN
旭プロダクション
ヘバラギ
ぴえろ
KJP
スタジオリバティ
キャンティーボックス
トリガー
WHITE LINE
Kazunari Araki
Haruka Itou
Ken Endo
Kenji Takeya
Masayo Tamaki
Yuka Chomei
Nana Hashiguchi
RIC
BEEP
White Line
Triple A
荒木 一成
伊藤 春香
遠藤 謙
竹谷 健司
玉置 雅代
長命 幸佳
橋口 菜々
RIC
BEEP
WHITE LINE
AAA
Takahiro Okawa
大川 貴大
Yoshifumi Terai
Gorou Murata
寺井 佳史
村田 護郎
Music
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Manga/Anime Differences
- In the manga, Joseph stalled Wamuu by collapsing the ground under one of his wheels. In the anime, he simply places rocks in front of it.
- The anime removed the scene where one of the zombies demonstrates the crossbows by firing one.
- The impact from Wamuu's pillar caused Joseph's chariot to lose a wheel in the manga. In the anime, it simply bent the chariot.
- In the manga, Joseph's chariot was already destroyed by the time he grabbed his crossbow. Joseph was already on the horse when Wamuu headshot it, forcing him to jump onto the other one. In the anime, Joseph's chariot was still intact, and it was only when Wamuu shot the horse's head did Joseph jump from the chariot onto the other horse.
Commentary
The steel spheres are really superb. They fly so fast you can barely see them (laughs). I love the conversation between Kars and Lisa Lisa. They are both spectators of the fight between Joseph and Wamuu and give commentary as twists come. They are on an emotional rollercoaster (laughs). It's particularly enjoyable to see Kars lose his composure.
On the whole, this episode is really exciting. There are lots of classy action scenes here and there. Wamuu is an honorable and particularly interesting character. Since the beginning of the series, I was apprehensive of the moment we'd have to adapt this chariot race. But in the end, we managed to go through it without ordeal.
