An aged but familiar face returns.
His eyes, that scar... they are unmistakable.
We finally meet again, Speedwagon.
I've heard of your great success in American oil.
Thank you, but...
I see you haven't aged a day, Straizo.
No one would believe we are the same age.
Hamon truly is life energy. I envy you.
Forty-nine years after Jonathan's death,
the torch has been passed to a new generation.
Straizo, successor to Master Tonpetty and leader of a new crew,
stands together with the oil magnate Speedwagon.
They now set out for Mexico, the land of their latest investigation.
This time, Speedwagon's foundation
has made an intriguing archeological discovery.
A finding known only to them.
What you are about to witness will send chills down your spines.
I warn you a dreadful finding awaits us.
I fear it's even worse than the terror
wrought by Dio 50 years ago.
Such a vast site!
This is why I summoned you.
It's...
the mask!
Hordes of them!
NEW YORK, 1938
It was the autumn of 1938.
And as usual, I was desperate for some loot.
You've got to be kidding!
You've never heard of it?
Judgin' from your accent, I'd say you're from England.
On vacation?
Oh? You just moved here, eh?
Anyhow, if you wanna drink, hand over the cash.
Money will getcha lots on this side of the pond.
Hey, Limey! He's got your wallet! Better run!
What a goof! Like taking candy from a...
Hey, Smokey. Looks like I finally caught you red-handed!
You worthless street scum!
I'll make sure they lock you up for 20 years!
Take it easy! I only pinched a wallet!
I hate all of your bottom-feeding kind!
But I'm a nice guy.
Bring me twenty dollars every week.
Plus half of what you steal.
Um...
Oh, it's the stooge who got robbed.
I'm keeping your wallet as evidence.
Well, how should I put this? Let's see...
Thing is, officer, that wallet was actually a gift from me to him.
The 195 cm giant of an Englishman was covering for me!
So I need you to let him go along with the wallet.
What's that?
Like I said, it was a gift.
He's my buddy, you see.
Now let him go.
Your buddy, eh?
So tell me your buddy's name.
Don't lie to me!
You want to spend some time in the pen?
You bonehead!
I beg your pardon, but...
I'm puzzled.
The purpose of that is what?
There is no purpose! I do what I want, dimwit!
You know what they say: right cheek a booger, left cheek a...
Don't push it, pig!
Think you can resist arrest?
Go ahead, shoot! But be prepared.
The second you pull that trigger, I'm gonna break your finger like a match!
Not from over there! I'll blow your brains out!
It was at that moment that I thought I saw his body glowing.
It was like magic.
He launched the cap so powerfully,
he blew that copper's finger straight off!
Argh! My damn temper!
Now I'm really in trouble.
Granny Erina's gonna be furious!
What a nutcase!
He just beat up two cops and he's worried what his granny'll say?
Hey, Stickyfingers, let's beat it!
When I asked him about the bottle cap, he said he had no idea.
That he's always been able to do it.
Apparently his late grandpa could do the same.
But his dad, a pilot who died in the War, couldn't.
Seems his mom died, too.
I owe you big time.
The name's Smokey. And you?
Joestar.
Joseph Joestar.
BATTLE TENDENCY
Call me JoJo.
EPISODE 10: "NEW YORK'S JOJO"
This thing carved into the pillar... Who-what is it?
This is no carving!
He has amino acids. He has cells.
I feel the faintest warmth. It has a pulse!
It's alive!
Straizo, we may not know what this is, how long it's been here,
the purpose of these masks, or the purpose of this being,
but none of that matters!
I've called you here for one purpose only!
I want you to completely destroy it
with your Hamon while it sleeps.
Nothing more!
What about Joseph Joestar?
How is the young man?
I hear he once saved you with his Hamon.
Why bring JoJo up now?
I believe it was back when he was 13.
Ah yes, your plane was hijacked for ransom.
Hey, punk! What're you doing back here? Get up front!
You're hijacking Speedwagon's plane, right?
I'm just a bystander. I have nothing to do with this.
I'll be reading my comic. Please, just carry on.
-Watch yer mouth, kid! -JoJo!
Oh no!
It's the blood on his shirt from Miss Erina,
not the blow, that'll set him off for sure!
Calm down, JoJo!
You're hijacking a plane,
so I'm guessing a crash wouldn't scare you, right?
Was that Hamon?
The kid's crazy! He's gonna crash the plane!
-Someone grab the controls! -We can't fly a plane!
Uncle, hold onto this! We're jumping!
You never think things through!
I do.
Enough to keep you and Granny Erina safe...
You're my only family, after all.
He may look like his grandfather,
but he has none of his gentlemanly qualities.
That was when I discovered Joseph could use Hamon.
So he inherited Hamon breathing from his grandfather, Jonathan.
Yes...
But why bring that up now?
What are you doing?
I killed these men.
And after I kill you,
surely Jonathan's grandson will be consumed with grief and anger.
He will grow to hate me.
Straizo!
Straizo...
Have you gone mad?
Quite the contrary. My thinking is very clear.
I chose the way of Hamon to train my body.
But the more I trained, the more I felt the pains of age.
Hamon gives only the slightest edge over ordinary people.
Its practice cannot stave off aging completely.
In the battle with Dio fifty years ago, I secretly admired him.
His power, his beauty,
his immortality!
I coveted the power of the mask.
I didn't care who stood in my way!
You're sick, Straizo.
Your blood will now grant me immortality.
With you gone, only Erina and Joseph Joestar will know of the mask.
Once I slaughter them,
I'll take all the time I need to become even greater than Dio!
You mustn't!
The mask holds unspeakable horrors not yet known!
Eri... na...
Jo... Jo...
Why don't you look where you're going, dolt?
Go find a dog to lick yer ass!
Now get out of the way, you...
Hello! What was that? Slow down...
Sorry, could you repeat that again?
Or else I might need to call an interpreter!
Depending on what you said, I might have to give you a whacking!
JoJo.
What are you doing?
Granny Erina!
What are you doing to that man?
Well, uh, you see...
Taxi!
I was just grabbing a taxi.
Oh, JoJo, how considerate.
Come now, Smokey. It's time to go.
A grandmother and her grandson...
That's the Joestar family.
Little by little, I learned about their past.
Granny,
Speedwagon had us move all the way to New York,
and now he's off on holiday somewhere? He's got some nerve.
I'm sure his oil business has him tied up.
Hey, Granny...
Are you and Speedwagon really just friends through Grandpa?
That's all? Really?
What are you implying?
Well, he's single, right?
And you've been widowed for a while.
Just wondering if that's all there is to your relationship.
How incredibly rude!
Sorry! Ow!
I'll never say anything like that again! Forgive me!
I know Speedwagon is a loyal guy!
The Joestars all die so young.
Erina lost her husband in an accident at sea.
The boy she was carrying at the time grew up,
along with the girl she saved from the wreck.
The two married and had JoJo.
But seems the war took his dad, and disease his mother.
Granny Erina had the most generous heart...
to a punk like me and to everyone else.
Who knows. Maybe it was loneliness.
JoJo wasn't any different.
And that kindness got him in trouble.
All for my sake.
-Hey, waiter! Waiter! -Yes?
You let that stinking animal into a place like this?
His stench is getting on my food! Get that damn thing out of here!
My apologies sir,
but we serve everyone who can pay for a meal.
What? So you'll let pigs feast on pigs in here?
I'll just be on my way.
JoJo!
Granny, you aren't going to stop me, are you?
No. People are free to have their opinions...
but I cannot allow him to publicly insult our friend.
Take him down, but mind the other customers!
Right away.
Pickin' a fight, kid?
Hey Gramps! If you're looking for your brass knuckles,
you won't find 'em in your coat pocket!
Check your back pocket!
Impossible!
Now you'll say, "How did you know that, bastard?"
How did you know that, bastard?
Judging from the marks on your dominant hand,
I know you recently brawled using those brass knuckles.
Plus, the blood on your shirt isn't yours.
You just came from a fight.
And since the blood is on your shirt and not your jacket,
I know you took your coat off to fight.
So when you removed your brass knuckles,
you had to put them in your back pocket.
Now you'll say, "So what, you little punk?"
So what, you little punk?
Gotcha!
Still think you're hot stuff, eh?
I'm afraid you missed.
What do you think you're striking?
It wasn't me you were giddily throwing punches at.
I can read any move that simple brain of yours makes.
Don't you get that, moron?
Please forgive my subordinate, madam.
You're Erina Joestar, are you not?
I do a lot of business with Mr. Speedwagon.
He told me all about you in London a while back.
I'm glad to meet you.
I just received some under-the-table information;
American newspapers are still in the dark.
Mr. Speedwagon has been killed.
What did you say?
Rumor has it a Tibetan monk did him in.
A monk?
Straizo?
It seems the bodies of Speedwagon and his team
were discovered down a river, deep in the Mexican jungle.
No one knows why they were killed or where the monk went.
I think I might know.
It has to do with something Speedwagon said long ago.
It must involve the stone mask and Dio.
JoJo, that guy's a mafioso!
Don't trust him!
He's just trying to extort money from you!
Believe what you want.
If you're looking for your lighter, it's in your breast pocket.
Thanks for the warning, Smokey, but I believe what he's saying.
These guys are only after money.
Information like that is valuable to the Mob, so I believe it.
But!
Even if it's true,
you can't just say something like that to Granny Erina.
Do you see how you've upset her?
You idiot!
The events from 50 years ago still haunt us today.
Don't be scared, Granny.
I'll always protect you.
No, Joseph. I'm scared for you!
I don't want you to get wrapped up in this.
I'll be fine.
If it's my fate, I accept it.
I had no idea what was happening,
but I knew they shared an extraordinary and difficult past.
Hey, Smokey.
Sure is chilly today.
Take a look at this!
What is it?
It's supposed to push 'em up!
What's this? "Go from an AA cup to a C cup."
What a scam! We've gotta be careful.
What's that?
I think $1.25 a pair is too...
Let's see...
I say.
You look kind of familiar.
Do I know you from somewhere?
Why is it that I can't see your breath in this cold weather?
Call me crazy,
but I think I just saw a pair of fangs.
Or did I?
Don't try to fool me.
I don't care if we're in public.
JoJo, your life is mine!
Before those abilities awaken!
Is that so?
I knew he was crazy, but...
There are people around!
Where did he even get that Tommy gun?
Straizo! I was waiting for you.
I don't think you'll go down so easily.
That was for Speedwagon.
This is war!
NEXT EPISODE
So this is a vampire!
I'll demolish you, Straizo!
German medicine is the world's greatest!
You don't understand a thing!
Apologize in hell!
EPISODE 11: "THE GAME MASTER"
Subtitle translation by Matthew Hunter