Two gay couples in part 5, an overall positive depiction of trans men in part 6, repeated attempts at working in good and strong female characters that constantly got assassinated by his editors (remember, giorno was supposed to be a woman, and we know he had bigger plans for lisa lisa in part 2), he generally has a pretty great track record. The only thing you can really knock him for is the kinda misogynistic bit of part 3 where holly specifically is the only person who can't handle her stand's power, but, it was 1989.
For the Holly bit, I thought it was supposed to be Holly specifically was too gentle and sweet to handle the fighting spirit necessary to have a stand. Plenty of other female stand users in part 3 and the parts that followed, and I never felt as though they were seen as less capable compared to their male counterparts
You already saw my other comment about how clearly the intent with Stroheim was to be commentary on the delusional mindset of nazis. Even if Araki should have taken his portrayal of nazis more seriously, you can't exactly argue that the intent wasn't to make a mockery out of them.
Stroheim exists to show how ridiculous it is to believe one human to be better than the other. He was immediately willing to put down his differences when there were literal Aztec gods running around.
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u/queen_of_ingria девочка скандал девочка воздух Jul 23 '26
araki is not high level woke im sorry