Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean E27
🕑 Added 2025-04-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTCnot the rods
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Georgie
oh whaat??? no they haven't??
Angel Barrera
OH Georgiee I just remembered! Has anybody warned you to put a trigger warning for episode 31 yet?
Angel Barrera
jolyne using her threads to have fire a few inches away from her body to stop the rods makes sense, but rikiel setting himself on fire was just hilarious.
Peep Gravy
I’m not gonna lie this has always felt like one of the weakest fight scenes for me.
PocariCalpico
Ah yes Jolyne inheriting Joseph's proclivity of crashing aero-vehicles lol I thought it was interesting that Rikiel shows up as a cover/splash page on Netflix for part 6
Muntaacas
Soo, Rods aren't actually Rikiels stand. It is implied that rods were always surrounding us, just that Rikiel could control him with the thingy on his arm. Rods were actually thought of new lifeforms, that were first discovered in the 90s by videocameras. The believe first was that the human eye just cant see them. In reality, rods were identified as images of flying insects recorded over several cycles of wing-beating on video recording devices. The insect captured on image a number of times, while propelling itself forward, gives the illusion of a single elongated rod-like body, with bulges. Basically motion blur and poor camera equipment led to these 'rods' appearing on photos. Araki really liked this idea, and then later added that they feed of body heat.
Tidu
Skyfish are a cryptid that is pretty popular in Japan for some reason (I've seen it in like three series, completely unrelated) and they are usually visualised Like That. I think the implication is that they really exist and work by sapping body heat, and the guy's stand (the beetle-like thing on his arm) is to control them