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Jolyne Cujoh is quite a fascinating case when it comes to misogyny in action media, you know? Because they won't admit they hate women, they just don't care about women and will invent reasons for each case post hoc. And this is pretty easy to do, since most of the female characters they end up interacting with are written by more of these dudes. But Jolyne is just devoid of the usual targets, she's a boilerplate determined badass shounen protag who's a woman, and crucially her background sidesteps the whole... paradox of presentation. The action girl tends to go one of two ways, you can be a femme fatale who can do it Just As Well As The Boys, which men hate, or you can be a little masc, which men hate even more. But the characters in Stone Ocean don't need to sacrifice or enshrine their femininity in order to be the Cool Guy, because in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure the cool guy has been wearing lipstick and dressing for a gay bar for like a decade by the time the main character was a girl. The way they present is neither conspicuous to normative gender roles or to the paradigm of their media, so that fails to become a target. Stone Ocean kind of falls to the wayside in discussion because nobody can explain why they don't quite resonate with it as much, even though they all fuckin' know.

I feel like I might be reading into Okuyasu's character too much but I always saw Okuyasu's lack of intelligence not as something he was just born with but more so as unintentional conditioning from Keicho because for almost his whole life he had been protecting and taking care of Okuyasu and so eventually Okuyasu built up a almost total reliance on Keicho and I feel like Keicho kinda resents this dependents on him because he did have to basically give up his whole life or at least having a chance at a life to take care of Okuyasu but due to he fact he had been caring for Okuyasu for so long he doesn't know how to stop and due to the fact Okuyasu had spent his whole life relying on Keicho he doesn't know how to really stop either and due to Keicho's death Okuyasu is kinda forced him to learn how to live independently I feel like the part that really drives this have for me is earlier into the part we are told he often wishes his brother was still there to tell him what to do but at the end not only does Keicho not tell him what to do but he chooses to stay in morioh where he can make decisions for himself and doesn't go with his brother even though that would mean that he could get told what to do again

I really like the fact that Josuke’s taller than Okuyasu idk why it just fits so well