I hate Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. I immediately lose respect for anyone who watches it, and especially those who praise it. Here’s why:

Name 20 successful people that watches it. Popular series basically run the show when it comes to anime. This includes shows like Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, Sailor Moon, Death Note, Attack On Titan, Sword Art Online, Love Live!, Nichijou, Clannad et al. Popular series has shows making significant contributions to the entire anime industry.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure on the other hand pulls most of the heavy weight packaging from teenage angst with each season. They then lay basic fight scenes and a joke of a protagonist on it. It generally lags behind popular series by a mile or two in inventiveness. I never seen the show on TV or been mentioned by anyone over the age of 25.

So tell me again, how exactly do Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure innovate? It’s team even struggle to release a new theme with each season, and character design is about the only original thing with this show.

Yes, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is stable because they are standing on the shoulders of socially awkward teenagers. Most of the hard work is hashed out before it’s creators ever start making “anime”. This is fine, and what anime is all about, but I prefer to be in with the leaders rather than the followers.

What really irks me and what has really brewed my hatred are Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure fans. They seem to think Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is responsible for all that is good in the anime world. I have just proven how false this is. In my experience, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure fans (virgins, teenagers, and manchildren) are much less helpful than the alternative.

If you want nice fight scenes, watch Dragon Ball Z or One Punch Man. If you like music, K-ON. If you prefer, Clannad or Anohana. But please, don’t feed the idiot magnet that is Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure!

Idk if it’s a really unpopular opinion, but among my friend circle it really is. I hate the show so much. For so many reasons.

The art style bugs me. Its the use of classic rock and metal as some sort of pun or joke bothers me. But most of all the rabid fanbase drives me crazy.

One of my friends has slowly devolved into only quoting the show in every conversation. An example is that we were hanging out and Dio came on my Spotify. For the rest of the playlist all, he would say we’re weird ass quotes and “ora ora”. It’s genuinely become a problem to the point that I don’t want to hang out with him anymore.

For some context, he hasn’t just started watching it. He’s been watching it for a year or longer. The meme has slowly gotten to the point that I swear his mind has been erased and refilled with shitpost style content.

I like Jojo like I like root beer. It’s enjoyable to a point but there’s so many better things I could be watching. I personally think It’s incredibly overrated. But then I also think My Hero Academia is overrated. Both fandoms think I’m trash who hates on things just for being popular, never mind the fact that my favourite anime are Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack On Titan, which are also popular as heck.

What do I dislike about it? Simple: the writing is atrocious.
The comedy is some of the cringiest shit I’ve ever seen, ranging from fart jokes to gay sex jokes (which I have no issue with, except they weren’t funny in the slightest). The plot is dull and the story telling is awful, being a villain of the week type show in a series that up to now has had good flowing story telling.
I never really felt much passion with the battles either. The villains were never built up nor very interesting or intimidating or even particularly funny.

Also: never add a dog to an established cast. That is pretty much the number 1 rule for writing cartoons or anime.