JoJoVELLER

JoJoVELLER

Hi ya! Welcome back for more JoJoFashion!

This time I made a review of JoJoVELLER, yes, that new JoJo History Book!

First thing first, I’ll review this book as a whole, and then reviewing the art, and last but not least, reviewing the fashion on Hirohiko Araki’s art!

Let’s start, JoJoDachis!

Release Date	September 19, 2013 (Limited Edition) Spring 2014 (Standard Edition)
Pages	~320 (Book 1) ~160 (Book 2) N/A (Book 3)
ISBN	978-4089081853
Author(s)	ARAKI, Hirohiko
Publisher	Shueishia, Lucky Land Communications

JoJoVELLER is not an ordinary art book, it consist of three books of arts and two blu-ray discs from JoJo 25 Years Anniversary Exhibition. It’s really pricy for an art book, 20.000 JPY = about 2.300K IDR. But I think it’s really worth the price, not only you can have three books in one go, but also if you can’t go to the JoJo Exhibition, you can see the footages with the BR disc provided on this book.

Now on to the books!

 

First is “Book One” - Stand Book 

It’s a complete Stand guide (Stand is a power that can be used by JoJo characters from series 3 to 7, it’s similar to Persona from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, inner strength that took form of something that resemble the user’s personality) similar to the previous JoJo A Go!Go! book, but it has JoJo part 6 and 7 as the addition that is not included on JoJo A Go!Go! It also includes the complete information about the Stands it self, and the user of the Stands are referred as Masters.  It’s really a complete guide, so I’m sure you’ll understand each of them perfectly later on after reading this.

JoJo Characters and Their Stands

Second book is about JoJo History from JoJo part one that is published on 1984 to JoJo part seven that is published on 2011. It also includes Hirohiko's comment about his 25 years with JoJo and other authors too. This second book will make you understand why is JoJo can be considered as a Japan's Heritage.

Hirohiko (right) talking with another author about JoJo (right book) is JoJo's first edition on Jump Magazine

JoJoVELLER Cover

Last but not least, is the third book, the real JoJoVELLER which is an artbook of Hirohiko's oldest until recent works. Also including art from JoJo Exhibition and other JoJo Conventions.

Art of JoJoVELLER

Now let's a make a clear review about this part three of JoJoVELLER!
Arts:

(left) Hirohiko's 1984's artwork and (right) Hirohiko's 2012 artwork

As you can see, Araki's artwork is GREATLY changed for this past 25 years (well of course), at first he has this Hokuto no Ken's style but now he has his own Manga Realistic style. He also uses daring colors for his recent artworks. 

What you can see from Hirohiko's artwork is that "Don't be afraid to mix colors". He rarely use calm colors together but always put them with a bright color. 

Also, another unique point of his art is the poses for the characters. JoJoposes or also known as JoJoDachi is one of the JoJo's appealing side. Like this. 

We also can say that, Hirohiko's a daring person, his stroke on his line art, his color of choice and the poses of the characters are really unique and it doesn't make it a bad art, it makes it master piece. This is why JoJo artbooks always sold out. You can not find art like this anywhere. You may get realistic art or get a cute and soft manga art, but you will never get a JoJo art. 

Fashion:

Another aspect that made me so drawn in to JoJo is their fashion aspect. You can see it clearly above that JoJo Characters does have a quirky sense of fashion. It's not ugly quirky but awesome quirky. JoJo also uses unique poses to define the fashion inside them. This is clearly a thing that you can't find in any manganimegame art book. 

You can see on above that Jolyne (left) has that unique details on her boots, it may looked like it won't be a thing that you will use in daily life, but hey, that's style! 

And last but not least! Here are some JoJo CM (commercials) and previews for JoJo BluRay Discs on the box, you know, it's really worth it to buy but it's really limited.
That is for now folks! I'll see you around for more JoJo Fashion!

Commercial:

BluRay Previews: