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Chapter 30. There's a Traitor Among Us
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"Hello everyone. I believe that you all clicked on this video because, like me, after watching the second episode of Phantom Blood, you were shocked by the new OP that appeared in this episode, right?"
"How can there be such an explosive OP!?"
That's right.
This sentence truly speaks their thoughts!
Originally, people were just attracted by the title and wanted to see what the UP host who chose such a title wanted to say.
They recalled once again the moment when the OP of "Phantom Blood" played and the overwhelming shock they felt.
Even though many of them are used to skipping the OP and moving the progress bar just enough to watch the main content directly, at that time, almost all of them chose to watch this OP in its entirety without missing a single scene!
You can imagine.
The novel feeling that the OP of "Phantom Blood" brought to them was so shocking that when they saw on the video website that there were UP hosts who did not keep up with the times to explain the plot of "Phantom Blood" but instead specifically explained the OP which lasted no more than one and a half minutes, not only was there no surprise.
On the contrary, after seeing the title, I clicked on it immediately with great interest, wanting to take a look!
"Okay, after sighing, let's get into today's topic."
In the video, Kosaku Hata seriously opened this OP again.
"First, let's talk about the six characters that appeared at the beginning of the OP, which is what everyone is most confused about."
"I won't talk about the comic book style beginning here, after all, I don't know much about this aspect. But seeing how popular "Phantom Blood" is, it should be very good. So here, let's first explain who these six people are?"
"One of them is undoubtedly JOJO, there is no doubt about that. What about the other five?"
"After re-watching Phantom Blood, I can basically say with certainty that the first five characters did not appear in Phantom Blood!"
...Eh?
Is it true that this initial opening is used as the entry point?
Watching Kosaku Hata talking a lot in the video, Pucci is full of curiosity about what kind of impact this God-level OP, which caused a huge sensation even in 2012 when gods were fighting each other in his previous life, would have if it were placed in this parallel world.
After the second episode of "Phantom Blood" was aired, he also started searching for related content on the Internet.
After all, this parallel world is somewhat different from his previous life.
When the first part of "JOJO" "Phantom Blood" began to be animated, the "JOJO" manga had already been released to the eighth part.
For the six JOJOs from the old world at the beginning of OP, the audiences in Pucci's previous life could easily recognize these names and the famous scenes that accompanied them without any reminders.
And even for those who have never watched "JOJO", this is the first time they watch this OP. You only need to easily search on Google, or slowly watch the six "JOJO" animations, and you will naturally gradually understand the foreshadowing hidden in this OP.
But, this is for the audience in Pucci's previous life.
In this parallel world, since there is no foreshadowing of the "JOJO" comics, the story of "Phantom Blood" is more suspenseful and more attractive.
But this also makes it more difficult for them to understand the jokes in this OP, let alone guess the identities of the five people before Jonathan.
Even the Stand that appeared behind Jotaro Kujo and the others might be mistaken for a ghost.
How did the host of this video recognize them?
You can't say that he is also a time traveler, right?
Pucci was curious.
"But is it really so? As long as we are pausing here..."
Hata Kosaku quickly operated the keyboard to pause the image.
However, it seems that this picture is too difficult to pause.
After trying several times in a row, Hata Kosaku finally succeeded once and paused the scene he wanted.
Logically speaking, the audience should complain about the show's effect when UP was humiliated.
But at this moment, they seemed to have forgotten about it and just stared blankly at the scene in front of them.
Because what emerged from the flames and was stopped with great difficulty by Hata Kosaku was...
"Everyone, please look here!"
"Although there are only one or two shots, and even this shot will soon be blocked and covered by the title that emerges from the flames, this shot undoubtedly gives the names of the six of them!"
That's right!
The name that was paused was five "JOJO"s plus one... "GIOGIO"!?
"Everyone has noticed, right? There is a traitor among us! (No)"
"Isn't this weird? If it were just special effect characters for the accompaniment, they should all be "JOJO", not just a "GIOGIO" among a bunch of "JOJO"."
Hata Kosaku said as he circled the letters and arranged them together with the six-person screen in the previous screenshot.
"Is there a possibility that the true identity of these letters is actually the names of the six images?"
"And the five "JOJO"s plus one "GIOGIO" just correspond to the six people in the image that appeared at the beginning!?"
Amazing!
Although most of the details of the entire OP were already known to Pucci.
And it was after his story that Junpei Mizusaki processed the content and put it into the OP of "Phantom Blood".
But Hata Kosaku actually cut out this OP frame by frame in such a short time. And he actually found such a hidden clue...
Hata Kosaku, do you like JOJO so much?
It is difficult for ordinary people to notice that the picture pause only lasts for one or half a second.
Hata Kosaku: Of course. It is not the moral integrity of a gossip UP host to concentrate on watching a movie just to find faults.
"It probably makes sense why, in addition to JOJO, the images of these other five people were placed at the very beginning of the OP, and why the title was not "Phantom Blood" but "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure".