Kujo Jotaro
Fours years ago near the Canary Island, a trio of treasure hunters bring up a casket bearing the engraving name "DIO" around dusk. When the ship was found days later, only the empty coffin remained
The story begins in 1987 with Holy Kujo, daughter of Joseph Joestar, visits her son Jotaro after learning he is in jail for having beaten up four people. But Holy learns she was called by the police because Jotaro refuses to leave the cell, explaining his possessed by an evil spirit which has been sneaking in items while intimidating Jotaro's cellmates. He demonstrates this possession by having the "spirit" steal a gun from one of the officers and then shoots himself with the entity catching it. Only Holy can see the "spirit" as Jotaro restates his intent to stay in his cell for everyone's wellbeing.
Some time after being called by his daughter Holy to come to from New York to Japan, Joseph Joestar arrives and has a moment with his daughter before she takes him to the police station. There, believing he has an idea what he is dealing with, Joseph orders Jotaro to leave his cell so that they can go home, but Jotaro refuses to listen while his "spirit" tore off the pinky of his grandfather's prosthetic hand. Now certain of the identity of the "spirit", Joseph reveals the fortuneteller Muhammad Avdol who followed him and Holy. After Joseph gives Avdol permission do what he must to force Jotaro out of his cell. Avdol summons Magician's Red, a being similar to the one Jotaro possesses, and binds the teenager with fire.
Joseph explains to Jotaro that the "evil spirit" is actually his Stand, a powerful representation of one's life force which stands beside its user. Jotaro floods his cell to dose the flames while having his Stand rip out two bars from the entrance of his cell with the intent to attack Avdol. But Avdol turns away as he managed to get Jotaro to step out of his cell. Joseph then explains that the mortal enemy of the Joestar bloodline, DIO, escaped from his coffin and is roaming free.
Rating: 8.5/10
Kakyoin Noriaki
DIO, hiding in an unknown place, thinks about how he survived at the bottom of the ocean and plans to kill the descendants of Jonathan Joestar.
Meanwhile, Jotaro recovers from his fall and notices that his left knee is cut. He meets Noriaki Kakyoin, who gives him a tissue to clean the bleeding, but Jotaro is suspicious of the boy. When Jotaro gets his wound examined in the school's infirmary, he notices the tissue had a note from Kakyoin saying "Jotaro Kujo, I will kill you today with my stand!".
Suddenly, the nurse goes berserk and stabs the eye of one student with a fountain pen. She then tries to stab Jotaro who realizes that her strength is unnatural. Kakyoin reveals himself as one of DIO's minions, and that his Stand Hierophant Green can possess people. Jotaro's Stand manages to pull Hierophant Green out of the nurse's mouth and a proper fight begins. Jotaro's Stand overpowers Hierophant Green and Kakyoin is taken down with severe wounds. Jotaro then decides to bring him back to his house.
Avdol examines Kakyoin and discovers that he is controlled by one of DIO's flesh buds. Avdol also narrates his fateful encounter with DIO in Egypt four months ago and how he felt like DIO's words calmed his heart, but fled since he was warned about DIO by Joseph earlier. Using his Stand, Jotaro successfully extracts the flesh bud which Joseph destroys with the Ripple, thus saving Kakyoin.
Rating: 8/10
Silver Chariot
After their plane landed off the coast the Hong Kong due to the machinations of Gray Fly, the group discus their status over a meal in a Chinese restaurant as they cannot take another plane with endangering the lives of others further. Using Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days as a reference, Joseph Joestar suggests they take a route by boat across the India Ocean to Egypt with Muhammad Avdol agreeing with the decision.
The group are then joined a French tourist who asks them for help reading the menu. Joseph decides to let the man join them as he orders the wrong food due to his failure to understand kanji. But the french man reveals himself to be another of DIO's assassins as he is immediately attacked by Avdol's Magician's Red. The Frenchman summons his Stand Silver Chariot to deflect the attack at a turned over table. The flames hit the table and turn into a clock, at which point the Frenchman introduces himself as Jean Pierre Polnareff while leading the group to the nearby Tiger Balm Garden to courteously allow Avdol to use his Stand without restraint.
The fight begins almost immediately, though not before Polnareff makes a prediction that Avdol would die by his own flames. Silver Chariot starts the fight off with a flurry of sword strikes, most of which Magician's Red quickly dodges and counters with a several fire blasts. Polnareff further demonstrates Chariot's power by deflecting the shots toward a nearby statue and carving it to resemble Magician's Red. Avdol retaliates with his special technique, Crossfire Hurricane, and launches an Ankh-shaped flame at Polnareff, whom is able to once again deflect the blast at Avdol himself. Seemingly burnt by his own flames as Polnareff predicted, Avdol launches Magician's Red at Chariot. Polnareff strikes back before realizing his Stand attacked the craving of Magician's Red Avdol used as a decoy to land a Crossfire Hurricane on Polnareff.
While it seemed to be the end, Polnareff claps while revealing his Stand absorbed the flames while casting off its armor. This now enables Silver Chariot's speed to greatly increase to the point of producing several after-images. Though overwhelmed at first by the Stand's onslaught of attacks, Avdol reveals a variation to his previous technique, Crossfire Hurricane Special, which is able to strike Polnareff by shooting several ankhs, once of which comes straight out of the ground. Defeated while offered a knife to commit suicide so would not suffer being burned alive, fighting the temptation to stab Avdol from behind, Polnareff refuses to take a cowardly act and accepts his death with honor. This convinces Avdol to extinguish the flames upon seeing Avdol's act of chivalry. The group discovers a flesh bud on Polnareff's forehead, which Jotaro easily removes. Later at the docks, Polnareff joins the group in hopes that he might cross paths with the man who murdered his sister.
Rating: 8/10
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