I judge the writing based on how emotional I feel about it when I finish. I judge books based on my disorientation after putting them down, I stole the second line from a Tumblr post but tbh the writing is great.
Sure scummy characters are common and easy to use but just being an asshole isn't enough, it's the fact that everyone is just so scummy that it hurts. Reading this tilts me but I won't stop.
I stopped Jojo specifically because when I finished episodes I felt a wave of depression that the experience was gone, it was so goddamn good it hurt because I knew even if I rewatched it, it wouldn't be the same