Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan

Keeping this review simple and SPOILER free. This short series covers 4 stories told by or involving Rohan Kishibe, with each episode being a different story.

Each episode has a different twist and feels fresh watching whilst maintaining the Diamond is Unbreakable feel throughout (especially keeping with with Rohans character.)

It's a definite watch if you've watched at least Diamond is Unbreakable of JoJo, yet even so the story is pretty straight forward without that previous knowledge.

I love araki and anything Jojo, the guy has such a weird sense of humor and style. Thus spoke kishibe rohan has a very 'Goosebumps' feel to it. There are different short stories per episode. Great if araki ever wants to do something different, the guy is good at giving himself options. One thing I noticed though is that this is all supposed to be set around the year 1999-2000 and one woman is shown using a smart phone and there are flat screen TVs so there are some timeline Inconsistencies. I do hope they release more episodes in the future, david production also did a great job on this series.

I don't understand the reviews deriding this as if it's important to JJBA. Or the ones criticizing things that don't matter in an anthology series. Maybe some of you have never seen the shows this is an homage to. It's just for fun, and Kishibe is absolutely the perfect character to frame it, and it's good to see Koichi and Okyuasu again. It's just four strange stories that are like the Twilight Zone in the JoJo universe. I find it to be very enjoyable, and I had pretty low expectations. 8/10. I'm docking it for being so short at 4 episodes and because it doesn't feel like it was meant to be taken too seriously, not like JJBA is either, but this even less so.

Meh, this show is honestly not really doing it for me. The show feels like Araki came up with a bunch random side stories that he couldn't fit in jojo, so he put it here instead and then loosely connects it to Rohan. Unlike jojo, it doesn't really have a story, and in my opinion, the story of jojo helped make the bizarre elements a little more understandable which this show desperately needs. Although I do recognize that people mostly like it from what I've seen so I still recommend it for people for people who are fans of jojo, it just isn't for me sadly.

The only things i can appreciate from this show is the unique and ambitious art direction/design. other than that, all the other aspects technically and non are slightly below mediocre from the animation to the story/narrative.