After 10 years of publishing, part 8 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Jojolion, has come to an end. This is the piece where Araki really showed the world how good he is in writing stories. While there were inconsistencies in the story, I think Araki did a great job. I just wanted to quickly point out before starting the review that a monthly schedule is a lot to handle in terms of consistencies, because there is a long time between chapters and Jojolion has been published for over 10 years straight, to remember everything correctly would need a super brain. So I will not take inconistencies into account when reviewing Jojolion.

So let's start with the story itself.
At the beginning of Jojolion we are greeted by our two main protagonists, Josuke Higashikata and Yasuho Hirose. Yasuho finds Josuke in the ground, naked and Josuke doesn't know who he is. He is taken out of the ground and gets adopted by the Higashikata family. When trying to find the answer to who he is, the owner of the hat shop that Yasuho and Josuke are in says that he is Kira Yoshikage, the man who ordered a sailors hat at the store. This is our first and possibly one the most important clues throughout Jojolion. After that Josuke finds more pieces that lead to his true identity. We are introduced to the rockhumans, a mysterious race that serve as the primary antagonists. In the middle of Jojolion, we finally know who Josuke really is. Kira Yoshikage and Josefumi Kujo, who merged with the Rokakaka fruit in the wall eyes. After that, the story shifts from finding Josukes true identity to the mystery of the Rokakaka fruit and the Rock humans. We are being told that the Rock Humans want to sell the Rokakaka fruit as a revolutionary medicine, the so called Rokakaka 6251, a new version of the old Rokakaka. After we see the presentation where Satoru Akefu presents the new Rokakaka, we enter the Wonder of You saga. Which will lead us almost to the end of Jojolion. In this arc Josuke, Yasuho and Rai try to chase the head doctor, The Wonder of You (the stand of Tooru), but our crew is hit by a lot of calamities. In the pursuit of the head doctor a lot happens in the story, I'll list a few of them: The Wonder of You is revealed to be the stand of Tooru (Yasuhos ex-boyfriend), Rai and Kyo die in the fight with Tooru, Jobin tries to save the Higashikata family by helping the rock humans, Josuke unlocks Soft & Wet: GO BEYOND. After the fight with Tooru, we get a flashback for the last 1.5 chapters. The Radio Gaga Incident, in whick Lucy Steel tries to find the Rokakaka fruit. After the flashback we return to modern day Morioh and see Josuke, Yasuho and the rest of the family for the last time. Kyo, Rai and Jobin have died, Norisuke survived and the remaining Higashikata family celebrate the victory.

Characters
Jojolion has my number 1 favorite JoJo of all time, Josuke Higashikata. He is in my opinion the best JoJo that Araki has ever created. He has a really unique and beautiful design, I really like his personality and his stand Soft & Wet is my favorite stand design in the series. Yasuho is also a great second protagonist, she helps Josuke so much throughout the story with her stand Paisley Park and is just overall, a really likeable character. Rai Mamezuku, is also easily one of the best character in Jojolion, I love his design, his stand Doggy Style really reminds me of Jolyne with Stone Free which in my opinion is a really nice touch, and is just like so many characters an awesome character.

I can go on about Jojolion for so long so I will just list the last thing that I found interesting.

The Tooru problem
Tooru is a name in the JoJo fandom that everyone knows as the hit or miss antagonist from Jojolion. Apart from his amazing design and good flashback, I think Araki wrote himself into a corner. Because with Tooru, Araki could've done two things. 1. Just like how Araki did with Jojolion, introduce him late into the story and don't even mention him for half of the story. Or 2. Araki could've introduces him early into the story, but, if Araki would've done that he would've had to end Jojolion a lot earlier. Because Arakis approach with Jojolion was not the stand of the week format like in Stardust Crusaders and Golden Wind. So Araki couldn't have send an almost unlimited amount of rock humans to Josuke, let them fight for 1/2 chapters and the repeat until they finally arrive at the Morioh Hospital to fight Tooru. It would've simply not worked with the story format of Jojolion. So you can have your own opinions about Tooru, but I absolutely love him.

So in the end, Jojolion is an awesome written story. It presents us to a beautiful location, with amazing characters, fantastic stands, interesting and badass fights and amazing story telling, never seen before in JoJo. While Jojolion has his flaws, I just love this part so much and I really want to reread Jojolion someday.

With Part 9 announced, we can look forward to a couple more amazing JoJo years.