Missed opportunity to call it "rotation." "Ripple" and "rotation" like Gyro does.
Or also "spin." the steel balls are only a tool to use that technique. Gyros shown it with hardening his skin, and even outright says it early on that you can apply rotation to anything, when teaching Johnny with the spinning corkscrew.
But I'm going off for no reason haha. I don't mind, just over explaining.
This was such a a nostalgic chapter. I loved seeing all our old crew from all the years. So many good references. And they were all drawn updated more similar to Araki's current style, or at least more detailed and slim. A lot more detailed. Thin lines everywhere, too. Was so great. I wish he included references to Battle Tendency though!
But seems he hasn't forgot much at all! Lol surprising... Makes me wish he'd write a side story with our old universe.
Interesting that he included the Stone Mask when talking about tools that enable stands.
Also shows the Devils Palm but weirdly Johnny lost his stand when he lost his corpse part, although everyone else gained a stand who survived it, so why didn't Gyro?
I'd love to see Ripple (Hamon) + Rotation (Spin) combined. That'd be wild. Then they'd prob unlock a stand according to Araki haha.
He finally, concretely laid out his stand rules and it made sense! (Like other power systems e.g. HxH's Nen system)
Obviously as we all have seen, though lol this has been broken in the past. So it's not 100% but generally, yeah.
Interestingly though, he did so much explaining about "Stands" physical manifestation's but SBR almost nobody has or uses their stand manifestation to fight. We've seen Johnny's once, Ringo's didn't fight, etc. they mostly just use their power.
Whereas Jotaro uses his stand to fight (and that's the rules they explain), Johnny just shoots his nail guns.
Jolyne was a combo and had her string but could also have her stand fight.
Also funny Araki chose Polneroff / Silver Chariot as the example of 'a stand being harmed harms the user' since SC specifically has an armor meant to protect against that lol
Overall a very great extra chapter based on all the nostalgic art and seeing everyone over this long adventure.