part 1 :
honestly the pacing is better than I remembered , the dynamic between Dio and Jonathan is soo good . Araki sensei does a great job when is comes to writing characters like speed wagon and Zeppeli who even with less screen time are still really entertaining . I liked Jonathan much more in this time as he might seem generic at first but his character does have growth from wanting to be a gentleman and being tormented by Dio to genuinely being a good person he also displays some instances of intelligence like outing dio using his own pride against him and his history major actually helps him in a fight and his reasoning to kill Dio due to just pure hatred for what he did to the fallen warriors really works and Dio is just a very entertaining villain every time he is on screen he commands the screen and his relationship with jonathan going from looking down on him to pretending to care about him to actually acknowledge that he wouldn't have gotten the mask and become who he is if not for jojo and him having reservations to kill jojo was actually interesting and that turning to full blown admiration for him at the end and his perceived sense of superiority over humans due to evolution while somewhat generic works here . Jojo's death was also surprising if I wasn't spoiled already
part 2 :
can't believe I didn't like Joseph the first time around ( mostly because people were hyping him up too much ) his mannerisms and catchphrases during the battle are really entertaining and even though he acts all nonchalant him actually caring about speed wagon and his grandmother is sweet and his dynamic with Cesar is really interesting and Cesar is a fun character with his introduction making more sense with his backstory explains why he was so angry about jojo disrespecting their grandfathers and also the way his attitude towards jojo changes once they fight the pillar men n and he actually cares about him is quite great and him treating Lisa Lisa as his mother also works well and his death scene was handled really well ,almost made me emotional. The pillar men are pretty good antagonists while not as entertaining as Dio the way the first one adapts to and starts learning our language and this just absolute other worldly aura surrounding them that they just walk past humans is quite cool . Wammu is pretty cool as well the way he is just loyal to whoever is powerful and is actually quite respectful of jojo is nice . Stroheim changing his character completely once the pillar men felt somehow forced at first but makes sense as his main drive is patriotism and him coming back as a cyborg and fighting kars was really entertaining . Honestly only compliant is if they kinda wish they didn't sexualize lisa lisa like that and her and jojo could have at least gotten a scene with jojo's reaction at last imo. Kars actually serves as really nice antagonist to joseph as he jojo learns to fight for the sake of good for the first time from cesar 's death but kars gets small character moments of him being more rational from the start and him liking dogs and saving flowers which are a nice addition and his backstory is quite good as well and makes sense his final form is the ultimate accumulation of nature and his powers are quite unique . The ending at first felt like deja vu but the ultimate life form of earth loosing to space is quite poetic and makes sense for joseph of all people to think of something like that and his ending with kars wanting to die but unable to so he eventually stopped (thinking . The fake out deatj scene works because of Joseph( I hate numeric scores but it is mandatory so whatever )