Since we had finally gone over it in the anime,
it’s about time I’d cover this. The thing is, instead of the analysis approach,
I just more so want to go about what I loved in the arc. I’ve always put this as one of my favorite
arcs in Part 5 and probably high up there when it comes to all JoJo arcs. Now on why. Bruno in this arc shines so aggressively hard. This is with us coming off the ‘White Album’
fight where we had talked about resolve previously with
Giorno and Mista. So, in this arc we get a view on Bruno’s
resolve and how strong his passion burns to follow through with his beliefs. I’ve talked it a bit over with friends and
off the arc alone, and I concluded that the Boss is just everything that Bruno hates and
more. If we’re looking at the Part through a protagonist
and antagonist focus, The Boss is more of an antagonist to Bruno than Giorno honestly. Especially with how intertwined Bruno’s
history is into the mix of everything we know now. So, to see him go as hard as he did in the
arc was amazing. He
had even gone against his own approaches towards danger and instead dead charged the boss before
finding workarounds to King Crimson. Also, the iconic, “You’ll never understand
how I feel” is just amazing. And
when we had gone back to his past to see this understanding child group up the way that
he did, what he had gone against to protect his people? See, this is why I can resonate with Abbacchio
when he just follows Bruno everywhere. My heart had gone out to Bruno so hard before,
but this arc solidified him for me when first reading. Onto the Mystery of the Boss. A huge thing that I loved here is that the
viewer here is as unaware of what’s going on as Bruno and the rest of the gang are. Well, except we know what the wrath of the
boss looks like because of what had happened with Sorbet and Gelato. He’s a very brutal man, so I don’t think
that our group would expect the most going in. Going into this with an optimistic approach
was cut short because Bruno had told everyone to stay on their toes and that counted us
too. Then we have this ominous environment, the
sound effects in the manga had shown us that this is going to be eerie, but the sort of
unsettling silence we have in the anime amplified it. Trish is completely unsettled in all of this
is, and it made a lot of sense too because it’s a complete shift in life. Bruno had tried to make her think about everything
in a better light. Being optimistic, and instead of looking at
Trish while this was happening, he had his eye on the elevator, and so did we. So, when he had turned around to see Trish
not there, and with a severed hand in his own, everyone is in shock. You! Me! Bruno! Araki probably shocked himself! He wasn’t trying to reunite with her! He wanted to take her out to cover himself! Who is this Boss! This complete opposite of Bruno! What type of person is this! And then when Bruno is getting the dropped
on him while being filled with this drive to stop him, he calls him out! The music does not help the Bruno defense
team, but man, it is amazing for this interaction. Now there’s other things that I loved like
the gang’s separation from… well the Gang, Trish experiencing her life changing situation
that makes her one with the group, the fight itself, but I want to have one last point
of focus. We find ourselves, in the court of the Crimson
King. I love the anime’s adaptation of The Boss
and King Crimson’s first official entrance. The Boss’s voice echoing throughout the
room, wondering where Bruno went wrong. Though people crossing him isn’t anything
new, it’s just that Bruno’s reason were new and was genuinely odd to him, but his
reasons don’t matter. It’s the fact that he’s challenging his
throne. *King Crimson coming from the shadows*. This shot alone gives so much to the grand
scheme of the boss. Still masked in mysteriousness, shrouded by
the shadows. Unable to be contested, and GOD look at that
pose. But what I love the most out of everything
that had happened here, is that in the end of it all, Bruno had completely humbled the
Boss. Even with an ability that Bruno himself calls
invincible, he knows that the Boss himself isn’t and can be contested mentally. This is the Bruno that we know. We aren’t too familiar with the one that
rushes in there, but we know the Bruno that’s able to bounce back after any bad interaction
and still somehow come out the victorious one. So even with all this mystery surrounding
the boss, victory is always possible, and it’s up to fate on where we end up.
