I just got caught up on Jojolion today

And I don't think the calamity is vague, after all we've had dozen of examples in the last 15 chapters.
If you try to pursue the head doctor or watch his back, a collision energy crashes into you. Collisions can happen through multiple objects coming into you or through people touching you (the man with the broken neck, the policeman).The force of the collision is based on your karma (Jobin is defeated soon after his FIRST encounter with the stand, Poor Tom is oneshotted, while Josuke and Rai last more).

Its nice to see thinking brains around here.

The Wonder of (You) follows most of the classic Stand rules: the longer the range, the weaker the physical strength, and the longer the range, the more the power is specific, automatic, conditional or subject to some other restriction. The Wonder of (You) basically has an attack power of zero. The only thing it does is show a projection of itself and cause bad luck as a defensive automatic reaction to being pursued. Being long-range and sentient isn't strictly impossible. Example: Red Hot Chilly Pepper and Paisley Park.

The thing which DOES seem highly irregular is that it changes between the head doctor appearance and stand appearance while also being implied to be Tooru's stand.

>semiautomatic
Are there any other examples of this? Because it sounds like a hefty dose of headcannon and cope to cover up bad writing.

This seems pretty sound though, thanks.

>''show, don't tell''
Aka draw random shit and let the fans put an explanation together for you

Wonder of you choose spontaneously to pursue Josuke and talk to him and Rai, while calamities happen exactly when people want to pursue the head doctor. See the last chapter: WOU doesn't know what to do with Rai being point blank to him, but then the calamity works automatically.
Regarding other semiautomatic stands, we have:
King Nothing, Norisuke can use it when he wants, but can also set it on a specific smell. In fact, when Jobin arrives, Josuke notices that K Nothing transforms automatically into the rokakaka using Jobin's handkerchief
Paisley Park: At the beginning, Yasuho doesn't know she has a stand, and PP many times act of its own will
Ozone Baby: If buried, the stand works automatically, but when Poor Tom arrives, he can control the stand even when is no more buried
Harvest: works automatically around the city picking things, but can also by used by Shigechi's will

When the writer puts elements in the story that let you understand it fully, even if it was just a single panel, I think there's no problem.
See ''Zombie Bucciarati'', it's never wrote explicitly ''Bucciarati doesn't die until a certain point due to Mista changing fate with Rolling Stone'', but if you pay enough attention to things showed, not written, you'll see that Jojo is a well written manga. Sure, has its problems, but hey, there are 125 volumes.
Forgive the off-topic outburst, but that's the problem with modern fiction. People pretend to be fed with every single piece of information written explicitly, the obvious but unwritten things create problems for the viewer. And Jojo is the perfect example

Brainlet.

If it's not written then you can't prove that the author ever intended it. It's just your fan theory.

A stand acting on its own when the user doesn't know they have a stand, doesn't count. That's just part of manifesting and grasping the ability of your stand. So Harvest and Paisley Park aren't it.

King nothing is a low power long distance stand whose ability is scent tracking, it isn't semiautomatic or even automatic for that matter.

Poor Tom and Ozone baby I don't currently have a rebuttal for though.

Calamity

>More simply, Araki has always been ''show, don't tell'', it has been his way of working for about 25 years.
Is this bait?

Araki has always been ''show, don't tell'', it has been his way of working for about 25 years

Attached: x8.jpg (780x1200, 144.79K)

No, more simply is a way to write a story. "show dont tell" or "tell dont show" (or both). One way is not better than the other, it's your preference, but not expect that Araki will say "Wonder of you can do this, this, and this", it's not is way of doing things (way that, I repeat, it's neither good or bad, just a way), and moreover in a manga of superpowers, when said powers are more often shown, and not (fully) explained in every single detail

25 years and not 30 because I was not counting the first 2 series, that were more "tell". I should have wrote "from part 3 onwards". And by the way I was referring to story elements, not simple powers explained by a character

It's just not true. Araki is famous for long winded dialogue and exposition dumps. He loves to tell.

>And by the way I was referring to story elements, not simple powers explained by a character

Attached: 36-1efe7fd6a2b299933b77552ff0d7c1f876bb3f22bdd3a464fdb6c52d054faab2.jpg (900x1400, 243.84K)

??? They are just character's thoughts, not story elements

So is everything just a character thought and not a story element unless it's delivered by the narrator?

No, it's a character thought because Josuke is thinking those things.

But he's thinking about story elements.

I had a dream last night about Araki releasing a chapter preview on his website, and it was a double page spread of Josuke lying on his stomach naked. There were some smaller panels below it with Josuke looking smug and the Head Doctor looking extremely worried. I remember one speech bubble had Josuke saying," This is my ultimate goal!" or something like that. It was weird

Prophetic

Zombie Bucciarati has nothing to do with Rolling Stones.

You have already forgotten there are two stands. The Wonder of You and Crazy Train. The astral projection and omnipresence is the power of Crazy Train. I mean, Tooru gave a whole speech about pitching "free-range energy" to tech companies.

araki is delaying the final fight