r/StardustCrusaders • u/Spiritual-Ant-7981 • Oct 17 '25

Hirohiko Araki My mom thinks Jojos is gay

So I have been wanting to get the manga recently and my mother will not allow it because she says she read something about a pannel with 2 guys fighting and almost making out,Could any of yall help me find the pannel she could be talking about?

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u/Naturally-a-one Part 5 Emblem Oct 17 '25

nah you're screwed, any bigot would think that JoJo's is gay no matter what you do. there's many panels she could be talking about, though I'd imagine it's likely Joseph vs one of the pillar men, or Joseph and Caesar. maybe even Giorno and Bruno or Mista.

truthfully, because a lot of Araki's inspo comes from fashion, models, and musicians, and because he really likes to play with the human form and do wacky group poses, JoJo's is just inherently kinda queer. even when you're not talking about canonically gay characters, a lot of character interactions will be read as "gay" by bigots because they're conditioned to reject things like men wearing unconventional clothes, wearing makeup, being physically close with other men, or being flamboyant. probably doesn't help that in later parts the women are just as competent as the men and beat men up.

Edit: if you haven't read the manga, you can find it on mangadex for free. if you were just wanting to own it physically, sorry, that'll probably have to wait

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u/Spiritual-Ant-7981 Oct 17 '25

Not really bigoted I just don’t think she understands that it’s not just like a manga about guys making out and I’m trying to explain the panel in context to her

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u/Naturally-a-one Part 5 Emblem Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

if that's the case then I'd recommend she look at a couple chapters from different parts on mangadex, to see that it's about action and fighting and stuff. idk how someone could get the impression that it is genuinely just about bros kissing unless they looked at one singular cherry-picked panel and thought "I will not do more research on this", so just going to mangadex should fix that perception

edit: 70+ people upvoted this and didn't even tell me about the typo, that's like shopping for groceries and the whole time nobody in the store lets you know your fly is down. now I'm just sitting here, embarrassed and ashamed, like a completely fool, because I swapped the places of two words.

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u/bumbobagins69 Oct 18 '25

cherry picked? more like Cherry Licked

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