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

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new Rohan chapter, new Rohan short story (for the novels), new Rohan movie for the live action covering At The Confessional, new third volume of the Rohan manga chapters being published (so EN will probably be getting that too), Rohan focus for the upcoming Jojo magazine...

A lot of food for the Rohan Simps - I say, as one of them.
 
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Personally, I don't have the more direct knowledge that comes with being able to read JP and the raw scans, but from what I've seen at least from the way the story was presented thus far, there's a lot more wiggle room in how Dragona's gender can be interpreted.

It could be where they're a trans woman and Jodio simply doesn't know the extent of how his sibling feels about their gender and body, where he honestly does believe it's all about his "brother" being "feminine". Like it was all "oh I just think these clothes would look cute on me", "oh I just like it for the aesthetic" as teenagers and they haven't had any kind of larger conversation about ~gender~ yet. So they'll need to have an extensive talk with him about it later. (I'm leaning towards this personally, but it's quite a bit too soon to call, I'm guessing.)

Or even like you imply, that Jodio hasn't accepted that part of them yet, and misgenders them not out of malice or anything but because he struggles with the concept of his brother becoming his sister, and their extensive talk will be skewed in a slightly different direction than in the prior example.

OR, as signaled by Dragona not correcting anyone's pronoun usage, they might simply not want to apply any labels and prefer to live the way they are where they have physical traits of both sexes and are ok with any perceived gender and pronoun.

OR Dragona themself will go through an arc about exploring their gender because it'll turn out that they haven't decided yet if they see themself as a woman, a feminine man, or someone in between in some way. That they haven't corrected anyone because they simply don't know what they prefer or what feels right.

I honestly could anticipate any of these becoming the plot concerning them, assuming Dragona doesn't die for Jodio's growth or something dated like that.

OR maybe it's all like Jodio says, and Dragona is effectively a crossdressing man - just one that passes really well and for some reason went as far as to get breasts. Not an option that I'm a fan of, but it's one that's still technically there.

So yeah, that's how discourse around them has been going because of no direct first-person confirmation so far of how they see themself: it all feels up in the air, and no one knows what pronoun to use! :p

I can tell it's very much deliberate because this is effectively just the start of a long-form story setting the groundwork for the characters and we're just getting around to some rising action, but yeah discourse until this is tackled later will be fuuuuuunnnnnn..........
All valid interpretations based on what we've been given, even the use of atashi. I chose to interpret the story in one direction based on that but I could very well be proven wrong. I like how open to interpretation it has been so far. I'm still a little shocked at how deliberate and naturalistic (for Araki) the storytelling is. I would not trust the Araki who wrote Stone Ocean with this storyline but I trust him with it here...for now. I doubt he will kill off Dragona considering how much he seems to like the character, but that hasn't stopped him before. Who knows...maybe he'll kill off Jodio and break everyone's hearts...

I forget sometimes the story is only a quarter or a fifth of the way finished, the chaos really is only just beginning.
 
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Feel like JoJolion was an extremely unlucky part; had to follow up on the best part in the series and is now being eclipsed by JoJolands 20 chapters in. Great chapter as usual!
 
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The art in this series is just 👌, love it. Damn I can't believe they ripped off some fingers from Meryl Mei
 

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