Anime serious famous for its dramatic sound effects and fashionable heroes makes one out of the other with cool and clever artwork trick.
The unmistakable aesthetic of anime/manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is built on two pillars. One is the bombastically beautiful poses of cast of its fashionable fighting supernaturalists, and the other is the inventively dramatic sound effects, like “TAKOSU!” that not only fill the pages of creator Hirohiko Araki’s comic, but even visually appear in its recent anime adaptations.
At first glance, this jumbo-sized piece of promotional JoJo’s art seems to be saluting the series’ sound effect ドドドドド (dododododo), which was devised by Araki to represent the sound of tension in the air.
新宿駅ーーーーーーｯｯｯ！！！！！！！ https://t.co/iec1tMJEK4
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🍖桐谷🍖再録！ザワえ08b (@kiritani88) August 27, 2018
But relax your eyes and let them focus on the bigger picture, and you’ll see that all those sound effects are taking the place of line art, and each ド is carefully sized and oriented to form the faces of some of JoJo’s most important figures.
新宿駅、荒木飛呂彦の狂気炸裂してて 最高だ #jojo https://t.co/iHi9mIfG1p
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ガッテム竹内(元ハガキ職人) (@gtt214214) August 29, 2018
ジョジョ展の新宿駅ポスターw https://t.co/cWtIxmHCp3
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1️⃣🐴🍸🎲りかこ@生涯山北推し (@rkk_sakisama) August 28, 2018
The monochrome mural can be found in the Metro Prominade underground section of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the same stretch of hallway which previously hosted an array of every Yu-Gi-Oh! card ever printed and a collage of decades’ worth of distinctive anime eyes.
▼ Eight key characters, hailing from various arcs of the 31-year-old franchise, are hiding in plain sight.
昨日新宿駅で出会った！！！！😂💓💓💓 早くジョジョ展行かないとな🤔 https://t.co/NFwkcig0kw
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しいな (@shiiiirabi) August 29, 2018
▼ We’re not sure if this shot was taken at an angle for visual flair, or because the photographer happened to be striking a diagonally oriented JoJo’s pose at the time.
なんかさ？ 昨日新宿駅行ったらこんなのが…← JOJOのコラボなんかな。 全部「ド」で書いてあってん！！！笑 #新宿駅 #JOJO https://t.co/4zaBMq3av7
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原ちゃん(´・∀ (@satoyan0828) August 28, 2018
While loyal fans will tell you that any time is an appropriate one to stop and appreciate the awesomeness of the Joestar family and their non-normal narrative, the mural is up now to promote an exhibition of Araki’s artwork, dubbed JoJo-Ripples of Adventure, that recently opened at Tokyo’s National Art Center.
▼ Yes, a Japanese government institution realized that it needed to pay proper respect to JoJo’s.
東京メトロ丸ノ内線新宿駅メトロプロムナード、新宿メトロスーパープレミアムセットB面「国立新美術館 荒木飛呂彦原画展 JOJO」 #メトロプロムナード #国立新美術館 #ジョジョ展 #荒木飛呂彦 #ドドド #交通広告 https://t.co/yAPrqQ1YkE
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USNO (@sephiroticvm) August 29, 2018
新宿駅構内の通路でジョジョ展の看板を発見したドドドドドドドド https://t.co/HxdDd9zJTu
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Singh (@djsingh_2S) August 27, 2018
新宿駅のジョジョ全景 https://t.co/pLx5uwpNiJ
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あお002 (@ao002dayo) August 28, 2018
However, while JoJo’s popularity seems to be eternal, there are tighter temporal constraints for the mural. Since it occupies one of the most coveted advertising spaces in all of Japan, odds are it’ll only be up for a few days more. You can still take heart, though, in knowing that the JoJo’s exhibit at the National Art Center runs until October 1.
Related: JoJo-Ripples of Adventure website
Source: Otakomu
Featured image: Twitter/@rkk_sakisama
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