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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been on my mind quite a lot recently, kind of odd when you consider it’s a series I’ve neither read nor watched, and only really experienced through cultural osmosis. That of course hasn’t stopped me from nailing down a few opinions though: at a glance, Araki is a very interesting artist with extremely potent stylings. Echoes of Michelangelo, Antonio Lopez, pop iconography, fashion photography. I’m not turning over any new rocks here. He’s widely beloved for this rather peculiar aesthetic he’s cultivated over the years. The ubiquity of his work also leads to funny instances where JoJo now becomes certain people's single point of reference to process imagery well within the traditions of the fashion world. A model creating interesting shapes with their body is actually doing “ JoJo poses”. Someone dressed in high fashion is “dressed like a stand user”. The list goes on.  Another opinion I’ve also settled on is that the JoJo anime adaptations look ho...