Stardust Crusaders - Episode 47

“

Stopped time is a realm for one man... DIO, and DIO alone. (止まった時の中は一人……このDIOだけだ)

”

—DIO, Battle in Egypt BD/DVD Volume 6

DIO's World, Part 3 (DIOの世界 その3, DIO no Sekai Sono 3) is the 47th episode of Stardust Crusaders, the 23rd episode of the Battle in Egypt arc, and the 73rd episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It covers the second half of Chapter 256 through the first page of Chapter 262 of the manga.

The fight against DIO continues. Jotaro confronts DIO and while The World's ability to stop time gives DIO an overwhelming advantage, it is soon clear that Jotaro is not entirely helpless against it.

Summary

The clash between Jotaro Kujo and DIO continues. As The World and Star Platinum exchange blows, their Users begin to emit so much power that they start to float. The World eventually beats Star Platinum; a satisfied DIO thus proceeds to stop time to try and finish Jotaro. However, when Jotaro's finger briefly twitches in the stopped time, DIO becomes initially very distraught and began to realize Jotaro's words he said moments earlier about The World and Star Platinum being the same types of Stand could possibly be true.

Star Platinum punches through The World's abdomen

Time resumes and DIO asks Jotaro if he's seen him, but Jotaro plays dumb and simply flees from him, with DIO taking chase. The Vampire recalls the day he discovered his time stop ability and his belief in his supremacy. Stopping time once more, DIO then discovers a magnet on himself and Jotaro. Both magnets were on the same side, giving the illusion that Jotaro could actually move. DIO then moved in for the killing blow, but Jotaro, having lured DIO into a false sense of security, was able to land a powerful punch in the frozen time, indicating the magnets to be a red herring. DIO is sent flying into a shop but quickly regenerates with the blood of a nearby vendor.

Jotaro, surrounded by a terrifying amount of knives that DIO had thrown at him

DIO halts the battle and wonders how much Jotaro can accomplish in the stopped time. Jotaro tries to hide the fact that he can only briefly move for a moment, but then DIO devises a plan to make this irrelevant as he reveals his hands and belt full of knives. Worried, Jotaro tries to jump to safety but DIO stops time while he's in mid-air. With no way to escape, Jotaro sees DIO throwing dozens of knives from all sides. Jotaro was able to block several knives in frozen time but found himself unable to stop them all once time return to normal. He was stabbed multiple times and, for a good measure, The World throws an extra knife into Jotaro's hat, seemingly killing him as the student falls to the ground.

However, anticipating such an attack, Jotaro stuffed his jacket and hat with magazines, thus preventing his body and head from actually getting injured. But he still had been stabbed deeply in his arms and right leg. He decides to play dead as DIO approaches, and the Vampire is aware of the resilience of the Joestar. To make sure that he had truly killed Jotaro, he breaks a road sign and wields it like a halberd; DIO prepares to decapitate Jotaro until suddenly, Polnareff intervenes and stabs DIO in the head with Silver Chariot's rapier.

Polnareff attacks DIO

DIO stops time and easily swathes Polnareff aside. However, DIO now approaches the Frenchman, forcing Jotaro to divert his attention to himself to save Polnareff. He willingly twitches his finger to catch the Vampire's attention. Suspicious, DIO makes a policeman shoot in Jotaro's corpse. Surprisingly, Jotaro had used Star Platinum to catch the bullet aimed at his body. Dio then checks for any breathing or even heartbeat; Jotaro is forced to use Star Platinum to stop his heartbeat and almost dies as a result. DIO continued on with his original plan to cut Jotaro's head off but Jotaro was able to use this opportunity to land a strong blow directly into DIO's head and shattered a part of his skull, damaging the left hemisphere of his brain severely.

DIO is restored to his prime after feasting on Joseph's blood

Now heavily injured, DIO tries to crawl to safety. However, DIO is disabled, causing him to be unable to stand up. Jotaro catches up and plans to burn him with some oil. As a taxi passes nearby, DIO began to crawl away while simultaneously employing The World's time stop to assist him in distancing himself from Jotaro, pulled himself behind it, and allowed himself get dragged behind it but then Jotaro makes it crash with one of the knives stuck on him. DIO attempts to take shelter in a sewer but Jotaro is already under the cover. DIO is then violently pummelled away by Star Platinum. However, DIO has outsmarted Jotaro: he's manipulated Jotaro into sending him to his "escape route"; back to where Joseph's body was, and the old man's blood allows him to not only fully recover, but also completely syncs his body with that of Jonathan Joestar. On the other hand, Jotaro’s hatred for DIO intensifies to where, for the first time, Jotaro is visibly enraged.

Appearances

Characters

DIO

Jotaro Kujo

Jonathan Joestar

(Flashback)

Enya the Hag

(Flashback)

Nukesaku

(Flashback)

Marble Store Clerk

(Debut) (Death)

Jean Pierre Polnareff

Joseph Joestar

Stands

Star Platinum

The World

Silver Chariot

Credits

Staff

Script (脚本)

Yasuko Kobayashi

小林 靖子

Storyboard (絵コンテ)

Naokatsu Tsuda

津田 尚克

Episode Director (演出)

Taisuke Mamori
Yuuta Takamura
Yasufumi Soejima

守 泰佑
高村 雄太
ソエジマ ヤスフミ

Animation Director (作画監督)

Shin Hyung Woo
Lee Eun Young

Shin Hyung Woo
Lee Eun Young

Animation Director Cooperation (作画監督協力)

Megumi Itoi
Kyoko Kotani
Eri Ogawa
Satoru Nakaya
Masahiro Shimizu
Ryo Kobayashi
Masahiko Komino

糸井 恵
小谷 杏子
小川 エリ
中屋 了
清水 勝祐
小林 亮
小美野 雅彦

Assistant Animation Director (作画監督補)

Shunichi Ishimoto
Kenji Yokoyama
Miyuki Nakamura

石本 峻一
横山 謙次
中村 深雪

Key Animation (原画)

Satoru Nakaya
Ko Seong Woon
Shin Hyung Woo
Lee Eun Young
Park Myoung Whan
Azusa Nakano
Tsutomu Nishiyama
Shinichi Machida
Yuichi Nakazawa
Akihide Muraji
Ayu Tanaka
Risa Suzuki
Sae Akama
Shuhei Fukuda
Takenori Tsukuma
Takahiro Okawa
Nobuhiro Masuda
Nozomi Tachibana
Eri Kojima
Yui Kinoshita
Toshihiro Irie
Kimitaka Ito
Kiyotoshi Aoi
Rie Arakawa
Takayuki Nakao
Saori Nakashiki
Akihiro Otake
Kenji Yokoyama
Hitomi Shiroki
HIGA★KING
Hiroyasu Oda
Naoyuki Konno

中屋 了
Ko Seong Woon
Shin Hyung Woo
Lee Eun Young
Park Myoung Whan
中野 あずさ
西山 努
町田 真一
中澤 勇一
村司 晃英
田中 亜優
鈴木 理彩
赤間 紗枝
福田 周平
津熊 健徳
大川 貴大
増田 信博
立花 希望
小島 えり
木下 由衣
入江 俊博
伊藤 公崇
青井 清年
荒川 理恵
中尾 高之
仲敷 沙織
大竹 晃裕
横山 謙次
白木 仁美
HIGA★KING
小田 裕康
紺野 直幸

The World Illustration

Reki Taki

滝 れーき

2nd Key Animation (第二原画)

Makoto Yaguchi
Yuri Yamamura
Takashi Yasui
Mahora Muraki
Natsue Chibayama
Yuka Nagata
Kumiko Kawahara
Kyohei Okazu
Michiko Ishida
Sayaka Maruyama
Hajime Tadokoro
Yutaro Motohira
Yuji Tsuchiya
Natsuki Orikasa
Mika Hironaka
Aya Nishimura
Masahiko Komino
Anitus Kobe
Asahi Production
Jumondo

矢口 真琴
山村 有理
安井 貴司
村木 麻保良
千葉山 夏恵
永田 有香
河原 久美子
大薮 恭平
石田 充知子
丸山 沙也香
田所 はじめ
元平 祐太郎
土屋 友次
折笠 奈津樹
廣中 美佳
西村 彩
小美野 雅彦
アニタス神戸
旭プロダクション
寿門堂

In-between Animation (動画)

Digital In-Between Animation
David Production

Mai Oshima
Yusaku Nagahama
Rie Takahashi

大島 舞
長濱 佑作
高橋 梨恵

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David Production
White Line
Triple A
Sunshine Corporation
TAP
Ace Company
Core
Studio μ
A-line
Beep
Big Owl
Sea Company
Studio Kuma
Sunlight
Banshanmen
Reboot
Masahiko Komino

david production
WHITE LINE
Triple A
サンシャインコーポレーション
TAP
エースカンパニー
コア
Studio μ
A-line
BEEP
Big Owl
SEA COMPANY
スタジオ九魔
サンライト
半扇門
reboot
小美野 雅彦

Design Cooperation (デザイン協力)

Kenji Yokoyama
Aya Nishimura
Kimitaka Ito
Eri Ogawa
Gakushi Maeda

横山 謙次
西村 彩
伊藤 公崇
小川 エリ
前田 学史

Production AI

Junko Nagasawa

長澤 順子

Egyptian Arabic Dialect

Ehab Ahmed Ebeid

イハーブ　アハマド　エベード

3DCGI

David Production

Kenichi Higaki

檜垣 賢一

WELZ Animation Studio (ウェルツ)

Nobuaki Kikuchi
Hiiro Fuchino
Chie Yokomori
Masako Senba

菊地 信明
淵野 ひいろ
横森 千恵
仙波 正子

Graphic Model Cooperation

Bandai Namco Entertainment
CyberConnect2

株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス
株式会社サイバーコネクトシー

3D Modeling (3Dモデリング)

Yuu Okafuji

岡藤 ユウ

Digital Works (デジタルワークス)

David Production

P. Taweeporn

タービーポン

Eyecatch Illustration (アイキャッチ原画)

Masahiko Komino

小美野 雅彦

Manga/Anime Differences

• Some lines from the narrator and DIO in the manga are not in this episode.
• In the manga, the man who fires the shotgun only shows his two hands. In the anime, that man is Nukesaku.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Japanese	DIOの世界 その3	DIO's World, Part 3
English	DIO's World, Part 3 Dio's World, Part 3 (Netflix)
Spanish	El Mundo de Dio - Tercera parte	Dio's World, Part 3
Portuguese	O Mundo de Dio - Parte 3	Dio's World, Part 3
French	Le monde de Dio, Partie 3	Dio's World, Part 3
German	Dios World, Teil 3	Dio's World, Part 3
Hebrew	עולמו של דיו, חלק 3	DIO's World, Part 3
Arabic	عالم ديو، الجزء 3	DIO's World, Part 3
Italian	Il Mondo di Dio, parte 3	Dio's World, Part 3
Polish	Świat Dio: część 3	Dio's World: part 3

Commentary

“

In this episode, time stops during the opening itself. At Kamikaze Douga, which is the studio in charge of the animation, it was something that Junpei Mizusaki wanted to direct ever since the beginning of the Battle in Egypt arc.

The confrontation between Jotaro and DIO is full of power. The animation is striking in the power it conveys, and the casting was just as good, they were both remarkable.

Mr. Mimuro, our key animator, had bought a model of a human heart to use as reference for the scene where Jotaro manually stops his own heart. To this day, this model stands on my desk. (laughs).

The second part of the episode is dedicated to Jotaro's furious counter-attack against DIO. But at the very end, a sudden twist reverses the situation, next stop: the last episode for the conclusion...

This episode being dedicated to the fight, it was surely one of the heaviest episodes in terms of production. It is full of action scenes which will be impossible to reuse. The number of shots is also well above the average of the season. I want to deeply thank the whole team for having held the line despite this considerable work.

”

—Naokatsu Tsuda, Blu-ray limited edition commentaries

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