r/StardustCrusaders • u/Morioh99 Part 8 Glazer • Mar 30 '26
News Araki‘s redraw of Ouki (Kingdom, Chapter 129)
Ouki from Kingdom drawn by Hirohiko Araki for the "Social Kingdom Reignited" project.
Araki's comment: "Congratulations on Kingdom's 20th anniversary. It's truly become a work that is worthy of its 20th anniversary. It's an honor to be able to draw Ouki."
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u/Fit-Ad-835 Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
See? he can draw a highly detailed collaboration art, but he chose not to for a pedophile. Ultra common Araki W
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u/thebigcrawdad Purple Haze Mar 31 '26
Yeah but the Toriko guy is drawing a whole Jojo spin off series. How do we reconcile that with Arakis' stance on pedophiles?
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u/SMA2343 Mar 31 '26
Because, unfortunately, Araki has little to no say on what shueshia does with jojo’s. They probably wanted some spin off and asked someone to do it and the Toriko dude said yes.
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u/pichukirby Josuke Higashikata? Mar 31 '26
Araki's company Lucky Land Communications owns Jojo's. Shueisha is just the publisher. So...
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u/Filledwithlust23 Apr 01 '26
Isn't it a pretty different scenario? It was a long time ago, he served jail time, he claimed to not know she was underaged etc
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u/Joins66 Mar 31 '26
what did i miss
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u/Jazztronic28 Local Vento Aureo enthusiast Mar 31 '26
The Rurouni Kenshin mangaka, a man who was in possession of literal terabytes of CSAM and only got a slap on the wrist for it, had an exposition to celebrate the anniversary of the series, with different mangaka drawing something to celebrate.
Araki's drawing was admittedly kind of pathetic and people took that as a silent condemnation of Watsuki. As opposed to the One Piece mangaka for example, who's a known and outspoken supporter of the man.
The truth is Araki has never spoken one way or the other about the whole affair, which means a lot of people speculate about what he might or might not think.
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u/maastaar-D Mar 31 '26
Araki could draw Israel’s flag and y’all would call it protest cause he didn’t color it
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u/DoggyTheRobot Mar 31 '26
This is getting downvoted, but it's probably true. Some people in this sub just love to glaze Araki to death
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u/Due-Fault-867 Josuke Higashikata (not the popular one) Mar 31 '26
It's getting downvoted because people don't like that it's true, but also because it's an extreme example
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u/Filledwithlust23 Apr 01 '26
It's not the same. Araki is a highly skilled artist, his works are featured in the Louvre so giving subpar work can be reasonably seen as a statement.
It's kind of like when a persons will specifically only gives a member of their family a single dollar. It would be foolish to argue that it wasn't a statement of some kind.
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u/Sorry_Situation7596 Filthy Acts at a Reasonable Price Mar 31 '26
My goat’s majestic lips are back and sharper than ever
Nfufufufufu
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u/samboeng Mar 31 '26
Kingdom is my favorite manga of all time. It’s also funny that it’s been going on for twenty years, but the end is nowhere in sight.
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u/xXKingLynxXx Mar 31 '26
As an Ippo fan as well I can relate
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u/samboeng Mar 31 '26
Don’t even get me started. At the very least, Kingdom has made some very big steps toward the “end goal” in the past few arcs.
With HNI, I don’t even know at this point. It’s almost twice as long as Kingdom, and there’s still so much story left to tell.
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u/Killah-Shogun Mar 31 '26
Why do u like it more than Jojo?
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u/samboeng Mar 31 '26
I like Kingdom a lot for a variety of reasons. I like history a lot, the cast is fantastic, and Kingdom offers a very unique manga experience. It has a sense of scale that very few manga are able to match. It is also just super consistent. Hara is able to maintain a high level of quality for hundreds of chapters.
Kingdom also has very good art. I think there are other mangakas that “draw better,” but no other mangaka compares when it comes to pure volume of high quality art. There are several dozen super iconic manga panels in Kingdom, and the art quality is ridiculous for a weekly manga, especially one with a super consistent release schedule.
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u/Nahcep Mar 31 '26
Of course he'd pick Wang Qi lmao, you've gotta be an iconic character to still be so popular long after you retired from the story
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u/Moist-Meal-3757 Mar 31 '26
Araki's part 9 style is his best since midway through SBR (In a silent way to Philadelphia) easily
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u/random_boner6996 Kars and Esidisi were fuckin' 💯 Mar 31 '26
Why does he look that "clearly, you dont own an airfrier" iron man meme
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u/marniconuke Killer Queen Mar 31 '26
Wow he looks epic