Stone Ocean - Episode 14
Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 2 (愛と復讐のキッス その②, Ai to Fukushū no Kissu Sono 2) is the fourteenth episode of Stone Ocean and the one-hundred-sixty-sixth episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. The episode covers Chapter 54 to Chapter 57 of the original manga.
The fight against Sports Maxx continues. Although Ermes has killed Maxx, the latter's Stand, Limp Bizkit, has allowed Maxx to resurrect as an invisible zombie who can summon other zombies from nearby corpses.
Summary
As the alligator leaps toward Jolyne, she summons Stone Free, but the animal is powerful and quick enough to slap her and send her flying into a wall. The animal disappears and Jolyne deploys a network of strings on the floor to sense vibrations around her. Jolyne and Ermes use the respite to clarify the situation about Sports Maxx and his power. Ermes expects the power to disappear once Sports Maxx dies. Jolyne wonders why her string hasn't detected the alligator yet but it turns out that it crawled on the wall to avoid it. It bites Jolyne in the shoulder and tears off a big chunk before retreating again. Ermes yells to draw the enemy to her, but F.F. willingly exposes her arm to bait the alligator. As soon as it bites into F.F.'s arm, she makes her pistol parts appear and shoots inside of the reptile's mouth, killing it on the spot.
However, Ermes notes that the pipe has been broken and that Sports Maxx has broken out from the visible wet handprints on it.
We see Sports Maxx freshly out of the sewage pipe, haggardly walking away while complaining about being thirsty. Confused, Sports Maxx heads for the chapel, barely remembering that Whitesnake tasked him with finding a body somewhere in this prison. Deciding he must relax a bit, Maxx makes a detour to the women's ward to visit his favorite prostitute here. He quickly bribes a guard who ignores him, and approaches the woman, caressing her while asking for her company. The woman then kicks a prisoner nearby, telling him not to touch her.
Meanwhile, Ermes fears the worst. She cannot see Sports Maxx's corpse and isn't sure whether he's actually dead. For her part, F.F. is alive but gravely wounded and immobilized for the moment. She expects that Sports Maxx is now also an invisible zombie, and tells Jolyne that there is a connection between Maxx and Whitesnake and thus that it is a lead to Jotaro Kujo's memory DISC. Jolyne and Ermes thus head out to find him and extract his memory DISC.
Sports Maxx has dragged a prisoner with him to the graveyard, which the prostitute followed out of curiosity. While Maxx searches for the prisoner's money and drugs, the woman stands near, confused by what she thinks is the prisoner wanting to pay for her. When Sports Maxx finds and injects himself with the man's drugs, it immediately flows out of his arm. Seeing himself leaking liquid which he recognizes as sewage, Sports Maxx finally remembers that he's dead. Maxx attacks the woman and devours her brain. Furious, he remembers his death and who Ermes is, and is overwhelmed by his hunger for human flesh.
Incidentally, Jolyne and Ermes arrive at the graveyard. They have no idea of Sports Maxx's abilities and suddenly find themselves trapped when Maxx slams the gate of the graveyard shut. Jolyne deploys another string barrier all around her and Ermes to feel the enemy coming from any direction. Jolyne feels a string moving above and kicks the enemy, breaking some bones in the process. However, this invisible foe is a corpse and thus still grabs Jolyne's leg and drags her up to attack her. Jolyne still manages to envelop the enemy in strings and pummels them. Ermes declares her victory but it turns out that the dead prostitute was the enemy.
Ermes tries to warn Jolyne but Jolyne still receives a heavy blow to the shoulder. Ermes comes in to protect her friend and tells Jolyne that it is her problem to deal with, though Jolyne says that they've gone past this. Suddenly, the tombs of the graveyard break open, letting loose a group of invisible zombies. Jolyne suggests that they retreat strategically, but Ermes stand her ground instead. She expects Sports Maxx will want to deal the killing blow out of revenge, and thus this gives her an advantage. Additionally, Ermes has her own score to settle no matter what happens.
Several strings snap as the zombies come closer to Ermes but she persists in facing the enemy. The zombies begin to bite and tear at Ermes, who suffers agony but patiently waits for the killing blow. Indeed, Ermes feels Sports Maxx bite at her head and tear a chunk of it before swallowing it. However, Ermes split her head with a sticker, creating a dummy head to absorb the bite, and she summons Kiss to pummel at him. Unfortunately, Kiss hits nothing beneath Sports Maxx's head. It is revealed that Maxx tore off his own head to misdirect Kiss, having been expecting a trick. Putting himself together, Maxx even tells Ermes that Gloria deserved her death and tells her that he will devour her brain. He takes off Ermes's sticker, fusing back Ermes' heads. The backlash hurts Ermes and makes her trip, which gives the opportunity for Maxx to jump on her to kill her. However, the chunk of flesh he bit off Ermes suddenly comes out of Maxx's stomach, Kiss's power forcing all the bits of Ermes' duplicated head to return. Jolyne understands that it was all part of Ermes' plan to reveal Maxx's location at the crucial moment. Ermes violently kicks Maxx, bursting out a few teeth, and she declares that it was for Gloria. Maxx sics his zombie on Ermes and tries to escape but she's already duplicated his head by putting a sticker into it. Ermes proceed to pummel Maxx violently, destroying his body. The heads of Maxx fuse, knocking out his DISCs, and Maxx dies for good, also destroying the zombie mob.
Standing still, Ermes suddenly tears up, but her head has been split open. She falls unconscious and Jolyne has to call for help. As F.F. rushes to treat Ermes, Maxx's DISCs are seen on the floor.
Appearances
Credits
柴田 和紀
森下 勇輝
津曲 大介
Music
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Manga/Anime Differences
- F.F. asks what's going on instead of Ermes just shouting that they're under attack by a Stand.
- Removed the shot of the alligator chewing apart F.F.'s torn off leg.
- Jolyne doesn't ask Ermes whether the Stand user is Sports Maxx and instead internally ponders that he must have gotten a Stand DISC from Whitesnake.
- Removed Jolyne mentioning she knows the story about Ermes' sister.
- Removed Ermes' reply about how Sports Max is attacking her because she put his body into the pipe and that he's a natural born Stand user.
- Jolyne's comments that Sports Max must be looking for something related to Jotaro's stolen memory are moved to be earlier.
- Removed F.F. commenting that she's thirsty, among other things about her injuries.
- Instead, Ermes unprompted brings her a bucket of water.
- Added scene of F.F. healing Ermes' wounds.
- Scene with F.F. and Ermes discussing the nature of Sports Maxx's ability moved to happen before showing that he has escaped the pipe.
- Added flashback showing Whitesnake telling Sports Maxx to find the bone instead of him just saying it.
- Sharon no longer comments that she doesn't want to get involved with drugs.
- Added flashbacks when Sports Maxx talks about him remembering that he died.
- Added new flashbacks showing more shots of Ermes and Gloria's body.
- Added new flashback showing Sports Maxx supervising Gloria's murder.
- Added new flashbacks showing various scenes of Ermes and Gloria cut between the beatdown on Sports Maxx.
- Added Gloria as a ghost hugging Ermes after Sports Maxx and the zombies vanish.
- Scene of Jolyne calling for F.F. is shown from her perspective instead.
