Stone Ocean - Episode 6

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Ermes's Sticker (エルメェスのシール, Erumesu no Shīru)[2] is the sixth episode of Stone Ocean and the one-hundred-fifty-eighth episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. The episode covers Chapter 21 to Chapter 25 of the original manga.

Jolyne returns to prison to retrieve Jotaro's discs. Ermes Costello discovers her new ability and a guard with discs in his head before she's attacked.

Summary

Emporio recaps the story of Green Dolphin Street Prison, in which he's always lived in hiding. At an obscure point in time, a strange murky power has begun manifesting in the prison: the Stand Whitesnake which can put people to sleep and then digest them with an acid, as well as stealing their "minds". Its real identity is unknown and why it keeps stealing minds and Stand abilities is unknown. It has recently stolen Jotaro's mind and his ability Star Platinum. However, his daughter Jolyne has decided to stay in prison and she believes that she can save her father by retrieving the DISCs that Whitesnake stole from Jotaro. Expressing his hope in Jolyne's confidence, Emporio awaits the moment Jolyne is freed from her solitary confinement to begin their plan. He also explains that he must contact another prisoner, Ermes Costello.

At the same time, we see a man mopping the prison floor. Seeing Ermes laying on a bed, the man sneakily approaches his hand and slips it inside of her dress, taking some money from her. Ermes, feeling the hand, suddenly awakens and calls the thief out, but he's already disappeared. Angry at the janitor, Ermes notices that she's on IV and that she's in the infirmary. Taking a sticker out of her palm and tossing it aside, Ermes remembers that back at the holding jail, she picked up a pendant stuck on the drain cover of a meeting room, picked it up but then cut her hand on it, then selling it to Gwess. She reads her examination card and realises that she's slept through six whole examinations from the doctor. However, Ermes now feels fine.

Ermes discovers her stickers power.

She then notices the sticker stuck to her palm again and picks it up, but a number of stickers still appear on her palm, which startles her. Confused and angry, Ermes then notices that a third shoe has appeared besides her normal pair of shoes, and then sees a sixth finger on her hand when she tries to grab the extra shoe. Panicking, she tries to shake the sticker off her hand and then tears it off, causing the sixth finger to fuse back to her normal finger, hurting her a bit. Fearing that her fever has made her delirous, Ermes notices that the chamber pot has been duplicated as well and when the sticker peels off, the duplicated pot fuses with the normal one, though the backlash breaks the pots. Ermes shrieks in disgust, which wakes the other prisoners in the infirmary, who all complain at her. After telling them to go back to sleep, Ermes realizes that her power is real and begins to understands the mechanics of her ability. When the janitor comes back to take his mop, Ermes sets up a trap for him. She's duplicated the mop and takes the sticker at the right moment so that the extra mop flies back to the original, whipping the janitor and trapping his head between the two shafts of the mops. The man is knocked out and Ermes feels satisfied at her mastery of her ability. She grabs the man by the pants and drags him closer to her, demanding where he's hidden her money. However, Ermes notices a pair of DISCs sticking out of the man's head and takes one of them without thinking. Confused, she hides from the janitor and wonders what is the disc she's taken out of the man's head.

Ermes is finally discharged from the infirmary. She asks the doctor what is the janitor's name, but the guards order her to move on. She then tries to ask other inmates about the janitor, but nobody knows who she's talking about. Ermes goes to the toilets to examine the DISC. Watching closer, she sees glimpses of a hiding place, and notably sees from the point of view of the janitor that the Stand Whitesnake has approached the man named McQueen. Baffled, Ermes quickly extracts the DISC out of her cheek, the DISC falling into the toilets. Suddenly, someone calls Ermes out from behind. She turns and sees the janitor, Thunder McQueen, who comments that he's never been followed by a woman. Ermes angrily asks what is up about him, but to her dismay, McQueen begins to cry, lamenting the fact that he can't remember what has happened and calling himself out for it. Ermes asks him if he's alright, prompting another mood switch. McQueen feels overjoyed at the idea that a woman could care for his well-being and feels happy but he rapidly switches back to dejection and decides to hang himself with his belt. Taken aback, Ermes then feels herself being lifted up as protusions equipped with propellers sprout from her neck and lift her in the air.

The DISC's reflection displays in full what Whitesnake has told McQueen. Whitesnake admires the lack of animosity of McQueen since, it says, animosity will always encounter something stronger that will destroy it. However, McQueen possesses a particular kind of evil that makes it so he doesn't make trouble but thinks he's a victim. Thus, Whitesnake has bestowed him an ability so that he eliminates an enemy for him, which happens to be Ermes. Ermes feels herself being choked by an unknown force, but quickly understands that McQueen was somehow responsible by hanging himself. Suffocating, Ermes quickly tosses a sticker onto the belt, then takes the sticker out of the duplicate to make the two belt fuse. Damaged, the belt rips from McQueen's weight. Thus, he and Ermes are both saved.

When McQueen tries to commit suicide, he makes Ermes suffer the same fate.

Angry, Ermes orders McQueen to stay away from her although the latter is simply confused that Ermes would take an interest in her. Still angry, Ermes asks him why he would hang himself all of a sudden. McQueen explains that it was an urge that has taken him over and promises to treasure his life. McQueen seems ignorant about it and says he's indebted to her. Embarrassed, Ermes takes her gaze away for a short moment, but when she opens her eyes again, she sees McQueen drowning himself in a sink. Immediately, a liquid oozes from Ermes's nose and mouth, engulfing her face in a liquid ring that threatens to drown her as well. Ermes sees scars on McQueen's wrist and realizes that he's an unstable man with a severe suicidal streak. She realizes she must escape from him somehow. McQueen's ability forces Ermes to be upside down and she floats midair, unable to grab onto anything. Thankfully, she has the presence of mind of putting a sticker on her nose, developing an extra nose which allows her to breathe. This gives her the time to grab the mop and knock McQueen out of the faucet. Ermes understands that McQueen's ability must be linked to the DISCs she's seen. She decides to take the memory DISC in the toilet as McQueen begs Ermes to let him die because, in his own word, he's "trash". Ermes yells at McQueen and threatens to kill him if he approaches her again, but it only drives McQueen to beg her to personally off him. Flummoxed, Ermes decides to simply leave. Suddenly, McQueen's gaze becomes sharper and he becomes aware of the fact that the DISC in Ermes's hand belongs to him.

Ermes pushes her way through the crowd in the medical ward, wanting to go back to her cell. At the same time, she asks herself if there could be other people with similar abilities inside of the prison. Distracted, Ermes then meets Emporio while descending a staircase and is naturally perplexed to see a boy playing with a baseball, muttering about Stand abilities drawing towards one another and about finding her. Emporio then begins to explains the situation to Ermes, notably that the true enemy is Whitesnake, who is responsible for the appearance of the DISCs, which can contain either a Stand ability or the memories of the person from whom it's been extracted. Ermes presents the DISC she's taken from McQueen, and Emporio becomes interested in McQueen's Stand DISC, hoping that they could learn something from it. Their discussion is interrupted when Ermes's wrist begin bleeding and she then feels a shock. Ermes realises she's still under McQueen's ability's spell and that McQueen is trying to electrocute himself.

Emporio offers his help. Seeing that McQueen is trying to electrocute himself although he's stopped for now, Emporio theorizes that McQueen would go seek saline water to rise his body's conductivity and thus be able to actually kill himself via electrocution. Ermes realizes that saline water is stored in the medical ward for medicinal purposes and thus rushes to the storage room in said ward, only to find McQueen having tied himself with a nude electrical cord and about to pour saline water over himself. When he douses himself, Ermes tries to explain the situation to him and asks him to think about positive things. McQueen then begins to explains his story. Four years ago, McQueen was cleaning his shotgun in his apartment. However, it was loaded and the shotgun was triggered, shooting a slug into the window. By sheer back luck, a woman who was jumping down her window was hit and killed by the slug instead, and so he was condemned for murder. Ermes herself is taken aback by the sheer unluckiness of McQueen.

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Ermes wins against McQueen.

McQueen then yells and prepares to switch the electricity on, but Ermes stops him. Desperate, Ermes proposes to give him her panties, just so he has a positive experience with women in his life. She tries to play up her enthusiasm and tries to inspire him to see things in a better light, but McQueen is reminded of the day of his arrest when she tries to talk about "the fun Saturday". McQueen sees through Ermes's game and says that she's only being nice to save herself. Depressed by how little people care about him, McQueen still wants to go through with his suicide. Having had enough, Ermes then calls him out on his selfishness. Crying from joy, McQueen comes to truly admire Ermes and decides to kill himself and take her with him so he won't die alone. Ermes rushes towards McQueen but he flips the switch and both of them suffer from a violent electric shock. Thankfully, Ermes has managed to put a sticker on his face, making a duplicate of his head attached to him. As Ermes has planned, the sticker burns out from the electric shock and the two heads of McQueen merge together. The backlash snaps the electric cord and also knocks McQueen out. The Stand DISC comes out of McQueen and Ermes can take it, neutralizing McQueen for good.

Ermes remembers the precious $5000 McQueen has accumulated and hidden and plans on taking the money, but also decides to take on Whitesnake as she wants to get rid of the person responsible for this mess. Thus, Ermes decides to go seek Jolyne and cooperate with her.

Appearances

Characters
Thunder McQueen
(1st appearance) (Retired)
Gwess
(Flashback)
Prison Doctor
(1st appearance)
Suicidal Woman
(1st appearance) (Flashback) (Death)
Stands
Kiss
(1st appearance)
Whitesnake
(Flashback)
Highway to Hell
(1st appearance)

Credits

Staff
Script (脚本)
Shinichi Inotsume
猪爪 慎一
Storyboard (絵コンテ)
Tatsuma Minamikawa
南川 達馬
Episode Director (演出)
Tatsuma Minamikawa
南川 達馬
Chief Animation Director (総作画監督)
Takashi Muratani
村谷 貴志
Animation Director (作画監督)
Eita Toyoshima
Tomoyuki Makabe
Yoshiko Saito
Naoki Hitatsune
Haruki Miura
Tetsuro Taira
Jouji Yanase
豊島 英太
眞壁 智之
齊藤 佳子
久恒 直樹
三浦 春樹
平良 哲朗
柳瀬 譲二
Assistant Animation Director (作画監督補)
Eri Kojima
Nana Yamazaki
Kazunori Shibata
小島 えり
山崎 菜奈
柴田 和紀
Key Animation (原画)
Yuta Shinohara
Yasuhiro Saiki
Sakuya Abe
Atsushi Itou
Misaki Imanishi
Kiichirou​ Ohara​
Mariko Kubo
Masahiro Sasaki
Etsuko Minami
Hiroaki Shimizu
Koichi Takai
Nobuo Takahashi
Shiori Nakasone
Yuri Naminoue
Masato Nishikawa
Yūko Hineno
Midori Matsumoto
Sachiko Mori
Shihoki Watanabe
篠原 佑太
才木 康寛
阿部 咲夜
伊藤 篤志
今西 美沙希
小原 木一郎
久保 茉莉子
佐々木 正広
三波 悦子
清水 博明
高井 浩一
高橋 伸郎
中曽根 詩織
浪上 悠里
西川 真人
日根野 優子
松本 緑
森 幸子
渡辺 志歩紀
2nd Key Animation (第二原画)
David Production
Sakura Shiba
Eri Kamata
Rie Ishiwatari
Shuna Fukushima
Mio Morishita
Yui​ Endo
Mina Inagaki
柴 さくら
鎌田 英理
石渡 理衣
福島 珠奈
森下 みお
遠藤 柚衣
稲垣 美奈

Miyuki Kawano
Yuka Sato
Asahi Yoshimura
Kaichi Baba
Eniku Okazaki
Cocomantot
Jhun Zulueta
Alexsander Mayor
Rui
Jomz
Ra Craft
Pine Jam
Studio Live
Angle
Project No.9
Asahi Production
Triple A
河野 美由紀
佐藤 夕香
吉村 朝陽
馬場 海地
岡崎 円郁
Cocomantot
Jhun Zulueta
Alexsander Mayor
Rui
Jomz
Ra Craft
パインジャム
スタジオ・ライブ
アングル
project No.9
旭プロダクション
Triple A
In-between Animation Inspection (動画チェック)
David Production
Daiki Ito
Satsuki Mizoguchi
Haruka Watanabe
伊東 大輝
溝口 さつき
渡邉 はるか
Inspection Assistance
Kyoka Nanji
南治 京花
In-between Animation (動画)
Asahi Production
Eternity
Triple A
旭プロダクション
Eternity
Triple A
Design Cooperation (デザイン協力)
小島 えり
石本 峻一
3DCGI
IKIF+, Inc.
IKIF+, Inc.
CG Animator
Hiroyuki Sato
Kiyoshi Hara
Kengo Nakatani
Yudai Ueno
佐藤 博行
原 聖
中谷 謙吾
上野 雄大
CG Animation Cooperation
Studio51 (Studio51株式会社)
Huiling Yang
Momo Huang
Zhengyang Wang
Xu Hong
楊 恵玲
黄 濛濛
王 正陽
許 紅
3D Modeling (3Dモデリング)
CG Modeling
Yoshiki Sato
Tatsuki Ishida
Atsuhiko Ikezoe
佐藤 良樹
石田 龍樹
池添 敦彦
Digital Works (デジタルワークス)
2D Works
Kanako Yamada
山田 可奈子
Eyecatch Illustration (アイキャッチ原画)
篠原 佑太

Music

Stone Ocean Episode 6: Ermes's Sticker
Start End Title OST Description

00:13
01:31
Ghost Room
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Emporio narrates Jolyne's punishment/Ermes wakes up in the infirmary ward
01:32
03:01
STONE OCEAN (Opening)
STONE OCEAN (Opening)
Opening
03:29
04:04
Quietness
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes remembers how she cut her hand
04:07
06:27
Sticker
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes discovers her stickers and uses them to incapacitate McQueen with his mop
06:31
08:17
Disc
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
McQueen's DISCs are revealed/Ermes investigates McQueen and his memory DISC
08:23
08:30
???
???
McQueen catches Ermes stalking him
08:32
08:41
???
???
Ermes confronts McQueen about the DISCs
08:43
09:18
Sorrow
Stardust Crusaders (Journey)
McQueen cries
09:24
09:46
Gentle Sunlight
Stardust Crusaders (Journey)
Ermes momentarily cheers McQueen up...
09:48
09:59
Sorrow
Stardust Crusaders (Journey)
... but he proceeds to hang himself
10:02
10:12
High Tension
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Propellers appear on Ermes' neck
10:02
10:12
Eye Catching (Voice Ver.)
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Eyecatch
10:25
11:35
Pale Snake
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
McQueen is the worst kind of evil/Ermes breaks free of McQueen's propellers
12:26
13:09
High Tension
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
McQueen tries to drown himself in a sink
13:16
13:59
Something is Wrong
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes takes McQueen's DISC and leaves
14:00
14:17
Impending Crisis
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes runs away from McQueen
14:18
16:10
Tense Air
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Emporio explains the DISCs to Ermes/Ermes gets electrocuted
16:13
18:30
Creep on
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes runs back to find McQueen about to electrocute himself again
18:31
18:40
Daily Conversation
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes offers McQueen her panties
19:18
20:19
Surrounded
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
McQueen calls out Ermes for being dishonest/Ermes tells McQueen he's being used
20:22
20:38
Sorrow
Stardust Crusaders (Journey)
McQueen realizes Ermes is a nice person...
20:39
21:43
Tense Air
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
...but he tries to electrocute himself anyways
21:48
22:15
Sticker
Stone Ocean O.S.T.
Ermes' stand Kiss is fully revealed
22:16
23:46
Distant Dreamer
Distant Dreamer
Ending

Manga/Anime Differences

  • Added shots of Jolyne in the disciplinary ward.
  • Shortened the scene of Ermes' confusion when she discovers her stickers.
    • Ermes refers to Bugs Bunny's birthday instead of Mickey Mouse's birthday.
  • Added scenes of Ermes inquiring about McQueen in the medical ward.
  • Cut one scene of Whitesnake describing McQueen as a an evil man who drags people down with him when Ermes looks inside of the DISC for the first time.
  • The scene where Emporio introduces Ermes to Burning Down the House, Weather Report, and Narciso Anasui was moved to episode 10, with Jolyne in Ermes' place.

Gallery

Trivia

  • According to Mutsumi Tamura, Ermes's voice actress, this is the director's favorite episode.[3]

References

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