Heaven's falling down
Opening Animation
The opening begins with Jolyne standing in front of the night sky with her back turned. As she turns around, it transitions to her father Jotaro, who summons Star Platinum to do a punch barrage against The World. The World then cracks as light shines through it. Star Platinum punches through the rubble and it zooms out to reveal the Stand on the reflection of a DISC. Savage Garden carries the DISC away and flies off into the sky. The scene pans diagonally downward to Romeo's car in the rainstorm. It quickly shows the back of his car, then Romeo holding the bloodied hitchhiker, and then a side view of Jolyne standing in shock by the car.
The scene cross dissolves into a black and white shot of Jotaro visiting Jolyne in the meeting room. Jolyne's stone pendant and hand appears on the center of the screen, transparent. The pendant falls onto her hand and she grasps it. More of Jolyne's body is revealed as it shows a frontal view of her holding the stone pendant with butterflies, her tattoo, and stars on her body. Meanwhile, the background transitions to Jotaro affected by Whitesnake's "Melt Your Heart" ability. Fully visible, the locket is open to reveal the photo of Jotaro and Jolyne's mother, which Jolyne tearfully looks at. Jotaro is shown sitting in bed, being treated by the Speedwagon Foundation. It fades back to Jolyne with a shot of her back and the Joestar Birthmark visible. She holds the pendant to her chest and turns around, looking at a light in the sky.
The center of the screen flashes with the effect of a CRT TV turning on, opening up to reveal a transparent Ermes with Kiss's stickers overlaid on her. The background is black and white with Sports Maxx torturing a man by a car. Kiss appears behind Ermes as the background wipes to Gloria Costello's corpse in the sea. Kiss starts punching while Ermes screams, leaving the screen for a transparent Anasui with wheels on his body to emerge after. Anasui poses while the black and white background shows his ex-girlfriend in bed having an affair. The background shifts to wheels and various items that Anasui took apart when he was younger, while a transparent Diver Down appears behind him. Anasui then runs off the screen and a transparent Emporio appears with a baseball and baseball glove pattern on his body. He throws a baseball up while the background shows his mother's skeleton. A transparent Weather Report springs up with clouds on his body and the background also covered in clouds. The scene distorts and squeezes downward with another flash, resembling a TV turning off.
Ermes, Emporio, Anasui, and Weather are now all by Jolyne's side, looking at the lone light in the sky. A close-up of Enrico Pucci's face zooms out to a frontal view with Whitesnake as well as silhouettes of DIO's sons (Ungalo, Rikiel, and Donatello Versus) in front of him. At Kennedy Space Center, a clock zooms outward and rotates upside down as Jolyne falls upward. She spins around and leaps toward a bright sky. The clouds shoot past to reveal the sun and Jolyne jumps downward with Stone Free punching. Ermes and Kiss do a diagonal kick downwards as Anasui and Weather each appear afterwards with their Stands. Emporio shoots his ghost gun with a panicked expression as cars and various other objects are floating in the background. The scene pans downward to Pucci looking up with DIO's shadow beneath him.
The scene fades to the wetlands where F.F. spins and flies up to the clouds. Finally, Jolyne confronts Pucci, as it shows her feet stepping in water. Pucci turns around as Whitesnake prepares to battle. Jolyne also readies herself and summons Stone Free. She and her Stand calmly walk forward before she starts running until her eyes are close up with her pupils filled with the flames of rage, similar to the ending of Sono Chi no Sadame, and she punches the screen. The Stone Ocean logo is overlaid on the imprint of her punch and snail shells can be seen on the bottom.
Version 2 (Stone Ocean 38)
In the final episode of Stone Ocean, the opening animation is significantly changed.
During the shots where Weather Report's silhouette is visible, the background is now revealed, showing the death of Perla.
Later, the frontal view of Pucci and DIO's sons now has everyone being revealed. As the shot transitions to the courtyard, the clock is now running at an accelerated pace. Suddenly, time stops and Jotaro Kujo appears with Star Platinum, the latter preparing to punch towards the screen. However, time resumes, surprising Jotaro and Star Platinum, but before they can recover, Pucci suddenly appears to confront them.
The scene changes to the underground Windknight's Lot tunnel at very start of the opening animation of Sono Chi no Sadame, showing manga panels featuring the JoJos appearing chronologically in quick succession with each animated panel showing at least two of their most memorable moments. Jolyne emerges from her panel, filling her body in color as the doors at the end of the tunnel smacks open to the staircase of the Joestar Mansion where Jonathan stood in front of Dio in the first opening of the series, Jolene being in Dios place. The scene spins to Pucci, posing alongside Made in Heaven, where the Statue of the Goddess of Love was in the original opening and accelerates time, windows showing a starry backdrop instead of stylized paintings as the background crumbles.
The scene shifts to a shot of all the JoJos chronologically posing in front of an abstract background, a Stone Free thread going around the Stone Mask, the Red Stone of Aja, Polnareff's beetle Arrow and DIO's Bone as sound effects of the Ripple, Stand summoning and Gold Experience's life giving play over the song followed by Stone Free's one.
The scene goes back to the crumbling staircase. As the camera rotates and flies upwards, the view catches up on Jolyne and Pucci confronting each other with their respective Stands out and a fiery aura surrounding them, reminiscent of Dio and Jonathan at the end of Sono Chi no Sadame as well as DIO and Jotaro at the tarot card sequence in STAND PROUD. Stone Free thus launches a punch towards Pucci and the camera flies up again as the staircase disintegrates and everything disappears in a flash of light.
Finally the "Stone Ocean" title appears with a brief flash in front of a cosmic background, and the pendant appears then falls. Several clouds appear and the scene ends in a shot of the road on which Emporio meets Irene.
Appearances
Second Version
Lyrics
Destiny is mine 恐れ知っても
すべての未来途切れぬように
Shoot a thread of light
Destiny is mine osore shittemo
Subete no mirai togirenu you ni
Shoot a thread of light
Destiny is mine, in spite of all my fear
So that the future may continue on its path
Shoot a thread of light
痛みを乗り越えるたび
心は銳利に 研ぎ澄まされる
(Never give up)
Itami wo norikoeru tabi
Kokoro wa ni togisumasareru
(Never give up)
Every time we manage to surpass pain
Our hearts and minds can only grow more powerful
(Never give up)
繰り返される 宿命の際果てで
光散る海に誓う
Getting through 生きる意味を
世界に遺すから
Kurikaesareru shukumei no sai hate de
Hikari chiru umi ni chikau
Getting through ikiru imi wo
Sekai ni nokosu kara
When the cycle of our fate is
finally pushed right to the very edge
I swear on the glimmers in the sea
Getting through is the meaning of life
That's what the world has passed down to me
Heaven’s falling down 空を落としても
望みを砕こう 狂気の神の
Destiny is mine 恐れ知っても
すべての未来途切れぬように
灯す炎が
Heaven's falling down sora wo otoshitemo
Nozomi wo kudakou kyouki no kami no
Destiny is mine osore shittemo
Subete no mirai togirenu you ni
Tomosu honoo ga
Heaven's falling down! And if the sky should fall
If some wicked god above should shatter all our hopes
Destiny is mine, in spite of all my fear
So that the future may continue on its path
My fire will burn
運命は選び取る物
自由の翼を奪われぬように
(Never forget)
Unmei wa erabitoru mono
Jiyuu no tsubasa wo ubawarenu you ni
(Never forget)
Fate is a choice that we all make every day
Don't let your wings of liberty be
enslaved and torn apart
(Never forget)
微かに見える 道に今理解させた
賭けてみる価値はある
Stay with me 共に行こう
この身は滅びても
Kasuka ni mieru machi ni hikari ga saseta
Kakete miru kachi wa aru
Stay with me tomo ni yukou
Kono mi wa horobi demo
I see glimmers of a path, and
now at last I seem to understand
Betting on all this is worth the price
Stay with me, let's move forward as one
Regardless of whether I survive
Heaven’s falling down 世界各地でも
この血に宿る 正義は変われず
Destiny is mine 降伏はしない
鼓動の限り 希望を放つ
Shoot a thread of light
Heaven's falling down sekai kakuchi demo
Kono chi ni yadoru seigi wa kawarezu
Destiny is mine kyoufu wa shinai
Kodou no kagiri ki no wa ketsu
Shoot a thread of light
Heaven's falling down! But all across the world
The justice in my blood will never be erased
Destiny is mine, and I will not give in
As long as my heart beats, I'll radiate hope
Shoot a thread of light
受け継がれる 星は深い
闇の中ほど 強く輝く
Uketsugareru hoshi wa bukai
Yami no nakahodo tsuyoku kagayaku
Starlight from the depths is what I have received
The darker the sky becomes, the brighter it will shine
Destiny is mine 恐れ知っても
すべての未来途切れぬように
灯す炎が 命の煌めき
(Destinyは弁慶じゃあない)
Destiny is mine osore shittemo
Subete no mirai togirenu you ni
Tomosu honoo ga inochi no kirameki
(Destiny wa benkei jā nai)
Destiny is mine, in spite of all my fear
So that the future may continue on its path
My fire will burn, the glimmer of my life itself
(Destiny's not invincible)
Destiny is mine
My fear won't bother me
That never-ending flow of love is in my heart
Shoot a thread of light
I feel no pain
That one is gone with the wind
My heart and soul are sharpened by
The brightest light of all (Brightest by far)
On and on I hear your voice
Your voice will guide me as in my fate
So I swear to the shining ocean now
Guide me through
I will survive and show you someday
The reason I'm here
Heaven's falling down
The sky is breaking down
But I know I will survive
Until the end of time
Destiny is mine
My fear won't bother me
That never-ending flow of love is in my heart
Shoot a thread of light
I chose my fate
No one can take it away
The wings of hope and freedom will
Always be on by my side (On by my side)
I see fading lights ahead
And I can hear a prayer in my heart
I believe this is worth fighting for
Stay with me
I need you by my side
No matter how hard it might be
Heaven's falling down
My world is breaking down
It's all in my blood
Until the end of time
Destiny is mine
I won't surrender
As long as I can fight
The power is in me
Shoot a thread of light
The stars shine more
In darkest blaze above
So I turn the flame of light
Will burn bright in me
Destiny is mine
My fear won't bother me
That never-ending flow of love is in my heart
Shoot a thread of light
The glow of life is in my eyes
Tracklist
- Heaven's falling down
- Heaven's falling down -English Ver-
- Heaven's falling down (Instrumental)
Credits
サイバーコネクトツー
Music Staff
TBA
Gallery
F.F. floating into the clouds
Trivia
- The manga montage from version 2 shares no panel with Sono Chi no Sadame except for Jolyne's one, originally from Stone Ocean Chapter 96: Jail House Lock!, Part 1 which is here slightly tweaked to convert into its 3D model, notably without her prisoner bracelet.
- Heaven's Falling Down is also the name of a song by the power metal band Dawn of Destiny[5], which coincidentally, is the name of Enrico Pucci's theme in All-Star Battle as well as the Weekly Shonen Jump title of SO Chapter 156.
