JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 9 - The JOJOLands - Ch. 24 - Dolphin Bank's Debt Collection Part 3

[MangaDex]

 

[DreadKaiser]

More bad day for billionaires!

 

[endorphinmachine]

juicy paco lore

 

[Shadow1015]

Howler over here losing his mind won't be surprised if he gets betrayed

 

[JoseitoHirose]

Mi gente latino 🗣️

 

[DarthMolgy]

Damn, Meryl (allegedly, could've been Ningbo somehow) lost a few fingers, and now they know about the shop... I'm guessing Lulu is going to play a crucial role in the upcoming fight.

Also, Charming Man saying "We have to do something" BRO YOU CAN CREATE ILLUSIONS

 

[mkoookm]

Under US law any contract signed under duress is null and void, and Howler has witnesses that the bank is saying Howler will lose everything unless he signs the papers. (Though Howler will probably go to jail for possession of counterfeit bills, assault, threats of violence, attempted manslaughter, and attempted bribery if this ever went to an actual court)

 

[OwUmbreon]

God tier

 

[OwUmbreon]

Under US law any contract signed under duress is null and void, and Howler has witnesses that the bank is saying Howler will lose everything unless he signs the papers. (Though Howler will probably go to jail for possession of counterfeit bills, assault, threats of violence, attempted manslaughter, and attempted bribery if this ever went to an actual court)

I can totally see that becoming a plot point, where Howler gets super cocky for a second because of that before charmingman hits him with the "the government is already on our side because we're cooperating with them, they won't care"

 

[mangaburner1979]

The tension in the first half of this chapter was peak Jojo's, so good. Paco backstory has me wondering if we'll see him using his stand for forgery again.

For all his competence and cleverness, Jodio can be so dense sometimes, maybe the densest Jojo's protagonist. There was some dark humor to be had in a deranged Howler continuing to gender Dragona as a woman as he pointed a gun at her in a pile of money, while her own family went out of the way to do the opposite. It's like Jodio learned nothing from when those two cops assaulted and almost raped Dragona.

I was worried when Araki first introduced Dragona that he wouldn't do the character justice, but he has surprised me by being very intentional and sensitive with the characterization, giving depth and subtlety to someone that would be nothing more than a cruel cheap punchline in the hands of other authors. I wonder if Dragona will eventually get fed up and use Smooth Operators for its most obvious purpose. An author like Araki doesn't give a character like Dragona a Chekhov's plastic surgeon stand that can shrink down to cellular scale for no reason.

The Meryl Mei office scene was some disturbing horror, at first it hit you with visceral remnants of violence, the blood, the broken keyboard, the severed fingers. Then the second layer of surreal horror sets in, that this woman was disappeared by security contractors pretending to be police officers, leaving behind a bloody crime scene, and two school police officers are pretending like everything is normal and nothing happened.

 

[kohelemon]

There ain't no way Acca's checking out so early! Darn it! Now we have to wait till May to figure out what happens next!
Glad we got to see a bit of Paco's past. Doesn't get rid of the mental trauma but, at least he had his stand to soften his father's hits. How'd he get his stand though, his mom? grandparent? Hmmmm

 

[spectralSpices]

ABSOLUTE CINEMA DRAGONA?!

 

[spectralSpices]

The tension in the first half of this chapter was peak Jojo's, so good. Paco backstory has me wondering if we'll see him using his stand for forgery again.

For all his competence and cleverness, Jodio can be so dense sometimes, maybe the densest Jojo's protagonist. There was some dark humor to be had in a deranged Howler continuing to gender Dragona as a woman as he pointed a gun at her in a pile of money, while her own family went out of the way to do the opposite. It's like Jodio learned nothing from when those two cops assaulted and almost raped Dragona.

I was worried when Araki first introduced Dragona that he wouldn't do the character justice, but he has surprised me by being very intentional and sensitive with the characterization, giving depth and subtlety to someone that would be nothing more than a cruel cheap punchline in the hands of other authors. I wonder if Dragona will eventually get fed up and use Smooth Operators for its most obvious purpose. An author like Araki doesn't give a character like Dragona a Chekhov's plastic surgeon stand that can shrink down to cellular scale for no reason.

The Meryl Mei office scene was some disturbing horror, at first it hit you with visceral remnants of violence, the blood, the broken keyboard, the severed fingers. Then the second layer of surreal horror sets in, that this woman was disappeared by security contractors pretending to be police officers, leaving behind a bloody crime scene, and two school police officers are pretending like everything is normal and nothing happened.

Honestly, I think misgendering Dragona was to throw Howler off and make him not focus on her as much. Even if his damnably woke mind wouldn't allow him to ignore her clear gender presentation!
I'm loving Howler as a character-he's half antagonist, half hapless stooge being fucked over by this Lava Rock flow of value shit. It's great, especially when he starts freaking out and pointing his gun at everyone.

 

[mangaburner1979]

Honestly, I think misgendering Dragona was to throw Howler off and make him not focus on her as much. Even if his damnably woke mind wouldn't allow him to ignore her clear gender presentation!
I'm loving Howler as a character-he's half antagonist, half hapless stooge being fucked over by this Lava Rock flow of value shit. It's great, especially when he starts freaking out and pointing his gun at everyone.

Everything we've read so far has indicated that Dragona is willing to deal with Jodio's level of half-understanding acceptance rather than trying to have that conversation with him and risk rejection. Not that Jodio would do that, but that's my guess at what's going on here. Araki is leaving some things as subtext or unspoken for now. One thing which underlines Jodio's continued density is that Dragona uses a female first-person pronoun (atashi) in the original Japanese from the first chapter on, something that doesn't translate into English.

I think Jodio genuinely believed Dragona was in danger here and misread her fear of getting killed for having the lava rock as the fear of being exposed. He's always trying to protect her in his flawed way, even his stand reflects that.

Howler is already becoming one of my favorite Jojo's villains, a spoiled himbo whose only two powers are willingness to use extreme violence to solve problems and a Stand that is only slightly more powerful than a stock app on a mobile phone. My expectation is that his violent tactics will significantly escalate in response to being cornered like this, though at what scale is yet to be seen.

 

[rabidfish]

wonder what happened to Meryl Q. Don't really think she died off-screen like that, tbh. Probably has a stand.

 

[rabidfish]

Howler is already becoming one of my favorite Jojo's villains, a spoiled himbo whose only two powers are willingness to use extreme violence and a Stand that is only slightly more powerful than a stock app on a mobile phone.

has he used his stand yet? is he even aware he has one?

 

[Axichaos]

Smooth Operators creating counterfeit money is one of the most big brain moves I have seen until now

https://imgur.com/a/DDtRQJg

 

[mangaburner1979]

has he used his stand yet? is he even aware he has one?

He talks about detecting "movements" in the flow of money in this chapter and chapters before, which would imply he at least has use of it, if not awareness the same way other stand users in this part have. When it is first introduced in Chapter 17, the stand is briefly shown but not explicitly stated what the stands power is beyond a mention of "a sudden change in the system of money flow"

 

[jackjack9]

Turning the cash into worthless paper to stop the lava rock from working. That was very clever.

Want more of Paco's backstory.

 

[lukasguldmann]

Reasonable crashout