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  Chapter 145. The Joestar Family's Straionship With Women

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  At this point, Cujoh Jolyne and the industry insiders harbored different expectations.

  Even though some of these people were seasoned insiders, like Akiyuki Shinbo, the supervisreen Dolphin Studio, he still had s. After ing back to his senses, he clearly uood the impact of the "Stand" teology on the industry.

  But, just like the first person who ate a mushroom might actally eat a poisonous one, when a certain truck driver beed from eological advances and started making loads of money, didn't others in the industry think about doing the same by researg teology to earn their own bes?

  Of course, they did!

  After witnessing the success of eology, not only did people see the possibility of rec the previous iments with profits, but they could also create a successful new IP that would keep making money and go down in history. Who wouldn't be tempted in the industry?

  But hoeople succeeded?

  Hardly any.

  There are people who 't even hose early works that used eology. For instance, does anyone know the name of the first movie that used puter-geed effects? Without cheg Wikipedia, most people probably don't know.

  This is because that movie was released around the same time as "Star Wars", a traditional special effects masterpiece that was dominating the era. The emerging puter-geed effects stood no ce against "Star Wars" at its peak... The movie wasirely fotten, thanks to some oisseurs in the industry.

  Still, that film could only pave the way for future pioneers.

  Akiyuki Shinbo's was the same.

  If "Stardust Crusaders" didn't mao turn a profit and couldn't recover the iment in the eology, the rest of the industry would surely take the opportunity to collectively push down the lising cost of this eology.

  In a worst-case sario, the teolhts might even be used to offset debts.

  Not knowing about Jolyne's system or the bag of the SPW Foundation and Joestar Real Estate behind Green Dolphin Studio, Shinbo looked at the industry with the harshest possible outlook.

  But now, all he could do was trust Pucd believe that "Stardust Crusaders" had some hidden charm he hadn't yet discovered...

  And so, under many expet gazes, "Stardust Crusaders" aired its new episode this week.

  Life or death?

  This was the moment!

  …

  "Yare yare daze."

  Jotaro Kujo instinctively tugged his student hat lower, perhaps trying to use the tighto keep himself calm.

  But calming down was the st thing he could dht now.

  It wasn't just about yesterday when his grandfather busted him out of prison and told him about the Stand on his back or how his great-grandfather's body had been stolen.

  Nor was it about how his mother, just this m, still wao give him a good luck kiss before he left for school, like when he was a kid.

  It was also because...

  "Ah, it's JoJo!"

  "JoJo?"

  "It's really JoJo!"

  "Good m, JoJo!"

  "..."

  After being jailed for four days due to his Stand, Jotaro was finally able to go to school today.

  But all he had to do was walk along the path to school, and he was already the ter of attention from... yes, his female cssmates.

  "Shameless, these students nowadays. Josuke, if you ever meet i girls like that, be careful not to get tricked by them!"

  Even though in the first episode of "Stardust Crusaders", Jotaro's debut disappointed some fans, who felt his character wasn't well-developed pared to others, this was mostly for those who wao see if Jotaro could live up to the "JoJo" name.

  But for others, especially Joseph's fans, while they saw the Stands of others being these cool humanoid figures, Joseph's Stand was... vines? Not to mention, his power was to break a camera a a photograph? It left many people feeling strange.

  However, recalling that Joseph had never been a powerhouse character since "Battle Tendency", a vine-based Stand that could be used iive ways seemed to suit his intelligence more than a humanoid Stand. So, this minor oddity didn't stop fans from eagerly watg the new episode of "Stardust Crusaders".

  Tomoko Higashikata was no exception.

  She quickly pulled Josuke over to watch the new episode of "Stardust Crusaders".

  And then they saw it: Jotaro, iing the bizarre womanly charm of the Joestar family, being surrounded by high school girls who were fighting over him.

  "Even if you get lonely and want to find a girl, Josuke, make sure you choose someone as virtuous as your mom, not some untrustworthy girl like those!"

  Tomoko warned him, adding, "Don't girls who don't seem det, alright!?"

  Perhaps because Jotaro bore such a resembo the young Joseph, his grandmother, Tomoko, took a particur liking to him.

  Seeing those high school girls fuss over him left her deeply annoyed!

  If they could intervene iory, Tomoko would probably have joihe jealous schoolgirls in yelling at them.

  Josuke, watg his mother, thought for a moment about how she wasn't that different from the girls, but kept his thoughts to himself, replying, "Yes, I uand."

  Then again, this se was oddly retable.

  Though Josuke also ied the Joestar family's strange appeal to women, he didn't have the o call his own mom an "old hag" like Jotaro could. Still, he shared Jotaro's frustrations with female attention.

  At least now, seeing how Jotaro hahings, Josuke felt like he could learn a thing or two.

  As he watched, a sense of kinship emerged within him, ahought to himself, ""Stardust Crusaders" might actually be pretty iing after all."