Was Part 1 a big detriment to you getting into Jojo or did you like it well enough?

I do like how the further into the series you go Part 1 starts to feel like an old legend about an epic confrontation rather than the relatively simple story that it actually was. At least, that's what happened to me. DIO's presence is specially strong once you've seen Part 1.

I disagree; Part 2 feels, to me, like the broadest step up in engagement. It might be too soon for me to tell because I'm still catching up, but the jump on to parts 3 and 4 felt more minor in comparison.

>Part 2 feels, to me, like the broadest step up in engagement.
Explain how?

I liked it a lot because it sort of has this old anime kitsch with a new anime makeover. Does that make sense? 2 was probably my favorite, then 1, then 3. after that I didn't really like the characters so much. I can't really explain it they're just not as entertaining. Maybe I'm just into muscles.

Yes. I thought Jonathan and Dio were annoying, the rest of the cast were nothing characters, and the fights and Hamon were boring. To this day it's still the only part I dislike and find nothing good in. Part 2 was a massive improvement, although the characters were still shallow and Hamon got too asspully.

part 1 was fine. boring at times, but not bad overall

I think that the jump from Jonathan to Joseph is all around more daring, specially considering the context of the times. Changing your protagonist at the time Jojo was being published was kind of risky, so that's admirable on Araki's part. This might just be personal preference, but Joseph is a more engaging protagonist than Jonathan, both personally and as a fighter. Not to discredit Part 1's fights (I think they're more well thought of than they are given credit for), but Joseph's trickery is just so much more entertainingly absurd and exciting. I also like the supporting cast more; Caesar is a pretty good rival/friend, and Lisa Lisa is a tougher and more interesting coach than Zeppelin. Speedwagon I feel is more interesting here as well, although just because of what was built upon from Part 1.
The uses of Hamon are also more intricate and creative than in Part 1, I feel. All around, I think that Part 2 was Araki finally stretching his muscles and not playing it save while also being a lot more confident in his own vision.
Part 3 did introduce the Stands, which is a other giant leap, but the changes and improvements from Part 1 to 2 are more general and rooted on the show's bases than those from Part 2 to Part 3.

Unpopular opinion, but the introduction of stands made me drop the series. Hamon is unoriginal shit in the grand scheme, but I found the fights way more satisfying with it.

I started reading the manga before the anime came out and I don't remember disliking part 1. But my feelings are kind of different since I'm caught up on the series. And especially when I got around to watching the anime, while I didn't dislike it, even for as short as part 1 is it I didn't particularly care for the fights with those 2 dead knights.

When I was first introduced to the Stands I also thought that'd I'd miss Hamon and wasn't really sold on the idea, but they rapidly grew on me the more I realized just how crazy they could get. The fact that every fight would be sort of different from the previous one really got me to care about stands.

It's okay. Dio does carry the part a bit for me, but I do like Jonathan well enough considering it was the 80s and the beginning of the series. Phantom Blood has objectively the best jojo-villain relationship by virtue of making them share screentime early in the story instead of making them arbitrarily meet each other near the end.

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not unpopular at all, the first time through Stardust Crusaders was a struggle. Upon reqatching though it became one of my favorites purely for the comedy

I actually came into jojo comepletely blind. I enjoyed part 1, the only thing that threw me off is that it didnt feel "bizarre" at all, kinda felt like a standard vampire story. As things progressed though it earned the title

I appreciated it more as I got further into JoJo. It was a really slow start for me when I started with part 1.

Jonathan looks much better in modern JoJo style.

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Part 1 is my favorite and Jonathan is my favorite Jojo and the concept of Hamon/Ripple was really interesting for it's time. I actually liked the idea that Stands were an evolved form of Hamon but unfortunately, it immediately got retcon'd after the bow and arrow were introduced. I still don't understand why everyone hates it.

eww faggot shit as fuck

I liked Part 1 a lot, not only are Jonathan and Dio great but a lot of the supporting cast like Speedwagon, Zeppeli, and even Bruford are good. It's also short enough that the most lackluster aspects of it don't really weigh it down.

Admit it. He actually looks like the handsome rich noble boy he really is instead of some schwarzenegger caricatiture mixed with HnK.

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Part 3 stands are boring, I liked how Part 5 took a lot of the Part 3 stands and remade them into something interesting.

Part 1 is great you mong

he looks like a faggot. Part of the fun of Jojo, especially when watching it for the first time, was the retardedly buff (which made no sense, adding to bizarre premise) dudes. Now they look like average faggot twinks.

At the time I would have been perfectly okay with Jonathan being a long term protagonist

Credit to Araki for not only switching things up, but usually doing really at well at having it be satisfying

>I liked how Part 5 took a lot of the Part 3 stands and remade them into something interesting.
How? Some of them have slight similarities but they're all downgrades in terms of creativity. Man in the Mirror is worse than Hanged Man, White Album is worse than Horus, Sex Pistols is worse than Emperor, etc.

>HnK ripoff is better than the iconic later parts of Araki artwork
Are you also an animeonly by the way?

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>Man in the Mirror is worse than Hanged Man,
About the same I'd say. Maybe you could say it's worse though.

>White Album is worse than Horus,
Horus is just shooting ice. White album has its use as the suit, freezing the actual air itself as defense, and several other things. At worst though they work similarly sometimes.

>Sex Pistols is worse than Emperor
A gun with homing bullets is one of the least creative things you can think of. Having little creatures that kick bullets around is much more creative and interesting.

yeah. Never go full weeb, faggot.