JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 - Stone Ocean - Digital Colored Comics - Vol. 9 Ch. 75 - Father: Jotaro Kujo; Daughter: Jolyne Cujoh

[Nyves]

Let's all remember that this "hot take" on daddy issues is coming from some guy at, what I assume to be, a local police station. Araki is very aware of the shit that people will say to make someone out to be a "villainous" type person (see parts 3-5). JoJo main characters have been increasingly complex in their depth as parts go on and aren't just one note humans.

I think that's what Jolyne just realized. Just because some guy said something and she believed it and experienced some things related to it doesn't mean she has to be like that. Meeting Jotaro again at the beginning of the part and Jolyne's experiences up until now led her to realize that her actions aren't unlike Jotaro's. She had the chance to leave the prison and chose not to because she has a calling greater than herself much like Jotaro's absence was because of his calling.

Jolyne just went through hell getting sent to the Ultra Security Ward and getting hit by meteors (what a sentence!). She could be free and home with her mother but here she is looking for a bone to save her dad and she knows whatever he's doing must be grand and she's resolute in helping revive him to complete that task.

 

[Akhen09]

N- word what 14 jolyne doesnt look 14 at all

 

[Kaichem]

Long hair Jolyne YES YES YES YES

 

[Mr14]

@Kaichem is that a jojo reference

 

[shreyas16]

14 year old Jolyne has such a weird fashion sense.
To be fair, everyone in Jojo has weird fashion sense.

 

[slitheryy]

if your father doesn't carve his name into his forearm while he's in a empty shell with only the most powerful stand in the world occupying his body....get a new one.

 

[Alcorin]

Geez this comment section is a mess

 

[Dr_Monty]

Lmao the jolyine on middle-top of page nine has an extra long neck

 

[MoonSpider]

Wow, some of these comments.

Obviously, there is some truth to the doctors' findings. Having a paternal figure does wonders for your life lessons and your mental health, just fact. And most of the most toxic people you'll see on Twitter you know got some daddy issues too. Just look at the comments on Women's Day or Men's Day, and Mother's Day or Father's Day, and you know they'll take the opportunity to just trash talk deadbeat dads and their old boyfriends. When you want to ask that rhetorical, memey question "Who hurt you?!", someone might seriously respond "my dad". Like, in general, it's just one of the most basic ways in real society people get hurt and their emotional barriers put up, cases being very much like what we saw with a younger Jolyne.

However, obviously, that doesn't mean that that is the end of her journey, that there will be no moving beyond that. Idk how that got confused? Just because a character says so, that doesn't mean that's the overall message of the author now, c'mon. Next, you'll be telling me Araki truly believes that German science is the greatest in the world, among other things. Just like with any person (and I'm still reading this Part blindly, mind you), Jolyne's emotional issues with her father will be an obstacle to inch towards overcoming or being at peace with, not something that will harm her and stunt her emotionally forever because Doctor-background-character-#4 or whatever said so. He parroted true findings, followed by what has been extrapolated from them, lacking nuance in regards to any individual's circumstances and how they might grow over time. It's not just Araki being given a microphone to rant about the unmovable importance of father figures for however many pages.

We can give proper analysis to Jojo like any other show, of course, but yall need to chill on reading the author's intent. Misreading a character line as gospel of an author's perspective is Misstep #1 on how to fuck up the legitimacy of your analysis.

I'm with another comment here - the real hot take right now is how quickly she seems to "understand" Jotaro now. Like, we know he's busy, but with the exception of the arrow excavation and what happened in Morioh, what Stand-related business would be cropping up right now? What was happening when Jolyne was 14? Was it really just a matter of marine biology business that kept him in Tokyo, away from his daughter? Sorry sweety, daddy needs to write a new academic paper on this unique species and their observed habits? Because I don't see what she can be any more understanding about in regards to that.

 

[Kyber-Kun]

on page 4.... Is that Link?

 

[Unsilev]

Jotaro's instinct are telling him to protect the secret of his hat and hair