The JOJOLands ARE REEAAAAAL!
Part 9 starting off strong with another Araki ACAB moment. I wonder if he ever had a terrible encounter with US police while visiting, he’s been consistently portraying them as the scum of the earth since part 2. Literal Nazis are portrayed more sympathetically than any US cop in Jojos I can think of.
I can’t find the quote but on the Dogs Must Die podcast they mentioned that Araki thinks police are cruel idiots.
Hell yeah, good to know we have some word from the man himself on the matter. The only thing that leaves me wondering is that US cops in particular are always portrayed as especially grotesque in Jojos, japanese cops I remember being mostly bumbling and ineffectual, lots of other countries cops get pinned as being corrupt or rude, like the Pakistani (I think?) cops in part 3 that they bribe to get out of town after Avdol is shot, or Abbacchio’s former coworkers in part 5, but only American cops get drawn as these brutish monsters that are constantly trying to beat and humiliate people just for being within reach.
