JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was originally created by Hirohiko Araki for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1987. Currently the second longest running series in the magazine with over 100 volumes collected, the series tells the story of the Joestar family, who are each entwined in a destiny battling outrageous foes. The series has been split up into eight parts, with each part following a different generation of the Joestar family.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is the fifth and currently airing part of Hirohiko Araki's series, and follows Giorno Giovanna, the son of former series villain Dio Brando, as he joins the mafia group Passione in order to change and reform them into reputable thieves and crooks from the inside. The anime adaptation premiered last October, and can be currently found streaming on Crunchyroll.

When it was first announced that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind would be getting an anime adaptation, one of the first things fans had on their list of things to see was the famous "seven page Muda." In Hirohikon Araki's original manga, Giorno unleashed a barrage that was stretched over seven pages and fans wanted to see how it would be translated in the final anime cut.

Fans weren't disappointed as the "seven page Muda" became a "Muda Muda Muda" barrage that lasted for over 30 seconds in the anime, and needed six different animators to put it all together. But apparently there's a quirky story about how this scene came to life.

During a special JoJo's Bizarre Adventure panel at Anime Expo, of which ComicBook.com's Megan Peters was in attendance, it was revealed that six animators had a different cut of the scene and they actually competed to see who had the best one. It was previously revealed that the episode actually had a special "Muda Muda Key Animation" staff credited, so now fans have an idea of how they actually worked together.

The main adaptation needed for a modern audience would be in the visuals. If you look at the original JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the lines are very detailed and I question if a modern viewer would be able to relate to these details. Also, we do need to simplify the lines for animation. So simplifying the lines was something we definitely prioritized. But the JoJo's graphic novels, over the years, have become something of an internet meme, or at least they are the source of a lot of internet memes. One thing we can do today that wouldn't have been possible 20 years ago is pick up on already established memes and see how we can pull those into the anime. Many parts of the series are already finished, so we are in a unique position today where we can do a wholesale retrospective on them. Also, modern audiences have a preference for higher-paced dialogue, so that's also different today from how it would've been adapted back then.

Yes, in fact that was fully intended. We wanted to make a show where a fan could watch the animated episode and then go back to the graphic novel and see that their idea of JoJo was faithfully animated. We wanted to make something that could be shared as a new source of fan memes, and something where everyone's idea of JoJo could come to life through it.

For the music, I really wanted to incorporate film-style music rather than something that resembled a variety show. When you use music in film, it's often set to a specific character or emotion or scene. In the first two parts of Jojo's, the music is really set to the scene and only once in a while is it set to the emotions of the moment. Part 1 takes place in 19th century England, which isn't exactly a place anyone has first-hand experience living through. So we used the music to establish a sense of history and location and period that we can relate to. Then we skip over to Part 2, which takes place in Art Deco America. So we had to establish something more stylish and pop in tone there. Since there's a graphic visual difference between Part 1 and Part 2, we wanted the audience to be transported 50 years forward through the music as well as the visuals.

It seems that with each page of the original scene gave the animators an angle to work with, each one competed with one another for which one that stood out the most. Regardless of who won at the end, fans are happy to see a scene they have been waiting to see animated since the late 1990s. Luckily, that spirit of competition certainly delivered one of the most memorable moments of the entire Golden Wind series.

This Jojo reference works so well with Ancient Gear deck.

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Them, set Floodgate Traphole and evily rub their hands.