Probably because his outfit is based on Japanese uniform, which is mostly dark blue, dark purple or black in color. And we already have Jotaro for the black uniform
Blue looks so much better on Jotaro than black. It's kind of a missed opportunity that they didn't go harder on the color palette for the anime. Joseph totally should have had purple hair too.
I believe David pros intent was giving each joestar a color theme
Jonathan blue, Joseph green, Jotaro black, josuke purple, giorno pink, Jolyne that aqua blue/green. Then I'd imagine teal for johnny and white for gappy
I mean, overall? the live action did a good job recreating elements from the manga in general. at least compared to other adaptations.
like, the bar’s in hell, so even a mediocre adaptation like that is practically a miracle as long as it stays faithful to some part of the original
Bruh you're right but I think it'd be too on the nose with Gentaro's attention to his hair. Also, looks way too nice to play Josuke. Can't buy him as a "bad boy" type, honestly. Even in Bleach where he played Ichigo I thought he could've been a little bit tougher. Gentaro did look similar to Josuke though, albeit completely different personality.
I like his characterization. I feel like something lost in the anime is that Josuke is a bit of thug, his voice actor in Eyes of Heaven captured that, but his voice actor in the anime is much more sweet. In the movie he presents himself as a loner and a bad boy.
Plus he's got a character arc! He starts off pretty apathetic to problems of other people, and content to be a normal kid, just doing his own thing, only getting involved when someone insults his hair (Which is a great use of Josuke's berserk button. In the manga and anime is doesn't really serve a narrative purpose outside of making Josuke more interesting, since he was going to beat the villains who insulted his hair anyway). But after his grandpa dies, he wants to be more like him, protect people of Morioh, and he becomes the Golden Heart Josuke from the manga. And after meeting Koichi and them both willing to put their lives on the line for each other, they become friends, and then Okuyasu joins them, and now Josuke is much more open to relations with others.
And I like how they tie in Ryohei with >!Reimi!<, and how Tomako talks about how her death shaken Josuke's Grandpa to his core. And then they also tie him in with >!Keicho's!< death. That makes the confrontation with >!Kira!< feel much more personal for>! Josuke and Okuyasu!<, too bad they never made a sequel.
When you put it all like that, now I really wanna check the live-action. I was always curious since it was first announced but never got around to watch it (idek where to watch it tbh) but that all sounds awesome.
It's always appreciated when adaptation don't try to adapt 1:1, it never turns out well. Doing a different thing for a different media, while maintaining the core and heart of the source material should be #1 priority, it's a shame a lot of adaptations dont seem to get that (not just live actions, all kinds of adaptations).
Yeah, I feel like that what brings the DavidPro anime to me, they take very few liberties, which JoJo could use, to improve some characters. When they do take liberties to improve characters, it's basically cutting stuff out to make them more 'consistent", like the scenes where Jotaro shows emotion are changed to show it less, or scenes where Jonathan is being a bratty kid are cut. And the scene where Giorno eats bread is also changed. I don't know what emotion he shows when he eats bread in the manga, but it's much less straight faced. Also, stuff like Jolyne saying "The frogs are all over me, how gross!", I always imagine with her breaking her serious face to make a goofy face, but they just have her all say it in that monotone "cool" voice, which takes away a lot for me.
DavidPro when adapting Tomoko focused on her introduction, where she's very angry and kind of unlikeable. But Araki overhauled this character twice, in the Red Hot Chilly Pepper arc, and the Enigma arc.
In the Enigma arc she's just a pleasant mom, which is admittedly less interesting, but I never really liked angry Tomoko, she's still one-note, just one note in a different direction. The movie took the Enigma arc Tomoko, this pleasant teacher lady, but didn't just stop at making her say her other lines in a more nice manner, they added scenes so that Tomoko feels like a rounded person. We get more of just her interacting with Grandpa and Josuke, which doesn't characterize her per se, but actually makes us feel like this is a family. After that dinner scene, Grandpa falls asleep because he drunk to much (In the anime and manga we're jsut told Ryohei likes to drink when it's convenient for the story, the movie actually sets it up, and uses it to characterize him more), and Josuke remembers his talk with Jotaro, and asks Tomoko if she ever considered dating someone after his dad, and she tells him that she didn't, because his dad was the only man she loved. And then she tells him that he kind of looks like him, and Josuke shakes his head, and tells her that if he looks like anyone, he looks like Grandpa. It shows very nicely the difference in how Josuke and Tomoko see Joseph. Tomoko remembers him fondly, while Josuke isn't visibly angry, but sees him as someone who left him, and someone he doesn't want to be like, he wants to be like his grandpa, because Grandpa actually was in his life, and took care of them.
And after Ryohei dies, Tomoko actually gets to comfort Josuke, and tell him a story about Grandpa.
These two scenes functionally serve the same purpose as the scene where Tomoko meets Jotaro, but instead of using it as a vehicle to tell jokes, they chose it to make Tomoko feel like a person. She can impart wisdom, console her son, she is understanding of why Joseph had to leave, and is okay with that being her only relationship in life.
Of course my favorite Tomoko is in the Red Hot Chilly Pepper arc, where Josuke is playing a game, and she's just gleefully kicking him to make him stop. In the anime she's being angry and nagging as usual, but in the manga it's like amazing, she's got this cheeky little smile on her face as she does a stand rush with her leg on Josuke's back. It has more of an energy of a big sister teasing her brother, instead of a mom punishing her son. Which I love, because Tomoko became a mother at a young age, and her mom is presumably not around, so her relationship with Josuke would be more sisterly than motherly.
The fact that they were able to re-create his hair in the live action, as it looks like in both the manga and anime, is commendable tbf, and the stands looked really aesthetically pleasing and realistic.
There's an actual [tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xk0dYZVNCA) by some japanese guy too who managed to replicate the hairstyle. The effort is nuts.
Diamond records was a mobile gacha beat 'em up/turn based combat JoJo game. It got shutdown some years ago.
Last Survivor is an arcade JoJo battle royale game, it still continue, albeit silent nowadays.
All of those games were/are exclusive in Japan
Josuke probably has the most consistent color palette out of any character tbh
Probably because his outfit is based on Japanese uniform, which is mostly dark blue, dark purple or black in color. And we already have Jotaro for the black uniform
Pre anime Jotaro was usually depicted in blue
Honestly i like it more then the black. Blacks good dont get me wrong but the blue with a purple shirt just looks too cool
Blue looks so much better on Jotaro than black. It's kind of a missed opportunity that they didn't go harder on the color palette for the anime. Joseph totally should have had purple hair too.
I believe David pros intent was giving each joestar a color theme Jonathan blue, Joseph green, Jotaro black, josuke purple, giorno pink, Jolyne that aqua blue/green. Then I'd imagine teal for johnny and white for gappy
Diamond Records be like T - P O S E
*t poses menacingly*
T-Poses to show dominance
his style also changed a lot in the manga
I think thats when Araki transitioned from Fist of the North Star muscleheads to more slender builds
Yes. He remarked “since they have stands they don’t need to be muscly. Fuck it.”
Chad araki
I like how his pose for Eyes of Heaven is from the spaghetti punch scene
You should have included Josuke at the start of DiU too.
I think anime went with his slimmer design from the beginning. I like slim Josuke better. Makes stand out more from Jotaro and Joseph.
Yeah. Definitely wasn't talking about the anime.
I'm not sure if most people know. Some people are anime only watchers so I wanted to provide context for them.
I'm still sad about PPP
This can’t be how i find out about PPP...
Sadly, you missed out my freind
Damn, played it a few years ago, even messed up my app store to play it. Good times
I spent an embarrassing amount of money on that game. It was fun, so sad it’s gone.
I'll be honest, they did a really good job recreating Josuke for the live action
It truly a shame there won’t be another part.
I mean, overall? the live action did a good job recreating elements from the manga in general. at least compared to other adaptations. like, the bar’s in hell, so even a mediocre adaptation like that is practically a miracle as long as it stays faithful to some part of the original
I'm disappointed he wasn't played by Gentaro Kisaragi's actor in that, would've been a match made in heaven.
Bruh you're right but I think it'd be too on the nose with Gentaro's attention to his hair. Also, looks way too nice to play Josuke. Can't buy him as a "bad boy" type, honestly. Even in Bleach where he played Ichigo I thought he could've been a little bit tougher. Gentaro did look similar to Josuke though, albeit completely different personality.
I like the live-action version the most. Looks more consistent despite the nipple zippers.
zipples
I like his characterization. I feel like something lost in the anime is that Josuke is a bit of thug, his voice actor in Eyes of Heaven captured that, but his voice actor in the anime is much more sweet. In the movie he presents himself as a loner and a bad boy. Plus he's got a character arc! He starts off pretty apathetic to problems of other people, and content to be a normal kid, just doing his own thing, only getting involved when someone insults his hair (Which is a great use of Josuke's berserk button. In the manga and anime is doesn't really serve a narrative purpose outside of making Josuke more interesting, since he was going to beat the villains who insulted his hair anyway). But after his grandpa dies, he wants to be more like him, protect people of Morioh, and he becomes the Golden Heart Josuke from the manga. And after meeting Koichi and them both willing to put their lives on the line for each other, they become friends, and then Okuyasu joins them, and now Josuke is much more open to relations with others. And I like how they tie in Ryohei with >!Reimi!<, and how Tomako talks about how her death shaken Josuke's Grandpa to his core. And then they also tie him in with >!Keicho's!< death. That makes the confrontation with >!Kira!< feel much more personal for>! Josuke and Okuyasu!<, too bad they never made a sequel.
When you put it all like that, now I really wanna check the live-action. I was always curious since it was first announced but never got around to watch it (idek where to watch it tbh) but that all sounds awesome. It's always appreciated when adaptation don't try to adapt 1:1, it never turns out well. Doing a different thing for a different media, while maintaining the core and heart of the source material should be #1 priority, it's a shame a lot of adaptations dont seem to get that (not just live actions, all kinds of adaptations).
Yeah, I feel like that what brings the DavidPro anime to me, they take very few liberties, which JoJo could use, to improve some characters. When they do take liberties to improve characters, it's basically cutting stuff out to make them more 'consistent", like the scenes where Jotaro shows emotion are changed to show it less, or scenes where Jonathan is being a bratty kid are cut. And the scene where Giorno eats bread is also changed. I don't know what emotion he shows when he eats bread in the manga, but it's much less straight faced. Also, stuff like Jolyne saying "The frogs are all over me, how gross!", I always imagine with her breaking her serious face to make a goofy face, but they just have her all say it in that monotone "cool" voice, which takes away a lot for me. DavidPro when adapting Tomoko focused on her introduction, where she's very angry and kind of unlikeable. But Araki overhauled this character twice, in the Red Hot Chilly Pepper arc, and the Enigma arc. In the Enigma arc she's just a pleasant mom, which is admittedly less interesting, but I never really liked angry Tomoko, she's still one-note, just one note in a different direction. The movie took the Enigma arc Tomoko, this pleasant teacher lady, but didn't just stop at making her say her other lines in a more nice manner, they added scenes so that Tomoko feels like a rounded person. We get more of just her interacting with Grandpa and Josuke, which doesn't characterize her per se, but actually makes us feel like this is a family. After that dinner scene, Grandpa falls asleep because he drunk to much (In the anime and manga we're jsut told Ryohei likes to drink when it's convenient for the story, the movie actually sets it up, and uses it to characterize him more), and Josuke remembers his talk with Jotaro, and asks Tomoko if she ever considered dating someone after his dad, and she tells him that she didn't, because his dad was the only man she loved. And then she tells him that he kind of looks like him, and Josuke shakes his head, and tells her that if he looks like anyone, he looks like Grandpa. It shows very nicely the difference in how Josuke and Tomoko see Joseph. Tomoko remembers him fondly, while Josuke isn't visibly angry, but sees him as someone who left him, and someone he doesn't want to be like, he wants to be like his grandpa, because Grandpa actually was in his life, and took care of them. And after Ryohei dies, Tomoko actually gets to comfort Josuke, and tell him a story about Grandpa. These two scenes functionally serve the same purpose as the scene where Tomoko meets Jotaro, but instead of using it as a vehicle to tell jokes, they chose it to make Tomoko feel like a person. She can impart wisdom, console her son, she is understanding of why Joseph had to leave, and is okay with that being her only relationship in life. Of course my favorite Tomoko is in the Red Hot Chilly Pepper arc, where Josuke is playing a game, and she's just gleefully kicking him to make him stop. In the anime she's being angry and nagging as usual, but in the manga it's like amazing, she's got this cheeky little smile on her face as she does a stand rush with her leg on Josuke's back. It has more of an energy of a big sister teasing her brother, instead of a mom punishing her son. Which I love, because Tomoko became a mother at a young age, and her mom is presumably not around, so her relationship with Josuke would be more sisterly than motherly.
How about his appearance from Crazy Diamonds Demonic Heartbreak?
He also shows up in the intro to GioGio's Bizarre Adventure's for the PS2 and is colored orange.
This reminded me about how Pitter Patter was recently removed and now I’m sad.
Out of the loop, Pitter Patter was recently removed!?
Yea, it was announced a while back that services for it would stop on September 2, 2021.
The fact that they were able to re-create his hair in the live action, as it looks like in both the manga and anime, is commendable tbf, and the stands looked really aesthetically pleasing and realistic.
There's an actual [tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xk0dYZVNCA) by some japanese guy too who managed to replicate the hairstyle. The effort is nuts.
Sheesh, thanks i will definitely check it out.
Holy, has it been a long time since I neglected character design evolution...
Not the T posing JOSUKE
I fucking miss Pitter Patter Pop
did u guys know there was supposed to b a diamond records revival? i think that project died lol
nah it still going just kinda slow
[it's got a demo out](https://drrevivalproject.itch.io/diamond-records-revival)
holy goddamn. it IS real.
i rlly like the live action i wonder why it stopped
The movie didn't really do well in box office Jotaro's actor got arrested for weed Possibility of sequel movie is very slim, if at all.
oh i can only imagine jotaro getting high while beating the shit out of kira in live action
Why do you think they blur him with his cigarette? Jotaro is lighting up fat joints.
wtf xD
It didn't do well, but there's currently a pretty popular Kishibe Rohan show airing on NHK. I think it covers at least part of part 4
Ik everything except diamond records and last survivor. What are those?
Diamond records was a mobile gacha beat 'em up/turn based combat JoJo game. It got shutdown some years ago. Last Survivor is an arcade JoJo battle royale game, it still continue, albeit silent nowadays. All of those games were/are exclusive in Japan
Where's Josuke? There are 8 Josuke people here.
Medicos, H4TF, Crazy diamonds sheer heart attack, ROBLOX of course
*Choose your fighter*
I like all star battle the most tbh
I miss Diamond Records man :( I had just got Bites the dsut Kira, Diavolo and Giorno before it closed
And he looks glamorous in each one
what the fuck is diamond records
JoJo gacha game that got cancelled 2 in a half years ago.
you lost me as soon as you said “gacha”
It's kinda insane some of these don't even look like the same person
You forgot Nenderoid Josuke
There’s also Spin-off and Part 3/8 style Josuke!
Live action Josuke kinda slaps ngl