- About working on the title sequences of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) : The opening sequence should serve as the intro to the show but also get the audience hyped up. The ending sequence, though, needs to leave audiences feeling like, "Aw man, it's done?"
- About "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure": I'm glad that the title includes the word "bizarre." It really gives us free license to do what we want to do.
- The written words that show up in JoJo's is something that we call a "word effect." This comes directly from the manga, where if you look directly at the panel, the written sound effects are an integral part of the layout. Usually, when you animate a graphic novel, all those sound effects would be taken out, but that also changes the visual layout of the panel in translation to the screen. Now when you look at streaming culture today in Japan, especially when you look at websites such as Niconico, all the users just paste up their text reactions as part of the video stream, and that's part of the actual fan culture. My takeaway from that was younger audiences of today don't actually have any problem seeing written sound effects onscreen. So rather than changing the original manga layout, we wanted to incorporate that into the anime as well and use word effects in choice places for favorite lines and favorite sounds, perhaps sound effects that the viewer might want to shout out along with the show. So it's just thinking about things backwards and then making them work out. I don't think you actually need to be able to read the text, because it's more of a visual element than a language thing.
- My favorite Jojo Stand is Gold Experience because its really strong. When it comes to what Stand I'd work with, I think "Heaven's Door" is what I'd pick. It'd be very convenient for meeting deadlines.
- I think the world of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure would be incomplete without the sound effects there.
- About the Oingo Boingo episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012): Boingo is an enemy who uses manga as their gimmick, so for the ending we thought this could be the first and only instance of a character song. I thought it would be something that the viewers would be very happy to see.
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