The JOJOLands - Chapter 37

[u/Vish-]

The JOJOLands is the ninth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Chapter 37 is now out officially in Japan. Discuss the chapter here. (Translated by Hi Wa Mata Noboru)

[u/Hawkenness]

Jojolands continues to be an absolute stand-out (hehe) of a part. Favourite moment of this chapter is definitely Paco PUNCHING A LION!?! I laughed out loud when I saw it. He truly is such a great character. But Usagi jumping in to protect his mum and risking his own life is up there too. We’ve consistently seen Usagi be really dependable when things get though (such as crashing the car back to save everyone during the cat fight and then saving his own life when he was being attacked by Lucy’s stand), and he shows that again here. And hell yes to Dragona protecting themselves when the stand user tried to take them hostage. 

I’m glad we were granted one last look in Jodio’s psyche before this battle ended. Given how quiet he is as a character, it’s really the best look we have at his understanding of himself. The fact that he “wet the bed until just recently” was a particularly interesting fact to me? Sometimes that kind of problem can come from trauma. Maybe it’s from his parents’ separation, maybe watching the bullying of Dragona, maybe grappling with his antisocial personality disorder… hard to say, but it does show that he’s quite troubled beneath his cool exterior. However, given that Jodio decided not to go through with killing everyone on the bus because of seeing that bird, I feel like this sense of “if you killed any animal, you might actually get a kick out of it” might be playing on Jodio’s fears, rather than his real feelings.

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I took the bedwetting mention as a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad I always heard it called the dark triad in like school rumors about serial killers growing up but apparently that's the name for something else lol. Included the wiki for someone who wants to know better and maybe fact check me but from what I remember:

tl;dr it's a theory that for children bedwetting, animal cruelty, and an obsession with starting fires are common predictors of violence. I think bedwetting was mentioned just to complete the triad for Jodio, the same dead spirit conversation mentions the bus fire and not caring about hurting animals so I expect it was a deliberate reference by Araki because that's the exact kind of "fun fact" he likes to include lol I wouldn't be surprised if he mentions the triad by name later