Long ago, there lived a divine-like being
who possessed an insatiable appetite for power.
He could take flight like a bird, thrive in the water like a fish,
respire like a tree, and flow like a river.
Exposure to the sun, however, proved lethal.
To cope, he created a stone mask.
One day he would befriend the sun.
And the world would become his!
EPISODE 26: "THE ASCENDANT ONE"
Kars...
Did Kars take a dive into the lava?
Damn... you...
We did it!
Protection!
A shell... like a crab...
I must...
shield my body!
It's not working!
It's melted rock!
That lava is over a thousand degrees!
It's gonna sizzle you into oblivion!
Yeowch!
We did it!
Finally!
We finally beat Kars!
JoJo, the shock from the plane triggered an eruption!
We can celebrate after we get out of here!
Right. Hang on tight!
Such a beautiful cry.
It's music to my ears.
Oh how I've longed to hear that shriek, JoJo!
Kars... but how?
That's Kars's...
Now I understand. Kars is...
First, Kars enveloped himself in a crab-like shell.
But he was still organic.
His protective covering couldn't withstand the thousand-degree heat
and burned away instantly.
The secret to Kars's survival lay in his second layer of protection!
That second layer...
was foam!
With a layer of air
acting as a buffer between his skin and the lava,
Kars blocked out the heat.
As the outer layer burned,
he produced more foam to replace it,
allowing him to survive in the lava for several minutes!
The earth created life.
And yet! At long last!
Kars had conquered the earth!
Long, long ago, before the dawn of history,
a certain group of organisms
evolved their way into an earthly existence.
They were bound by the darkness of the night,
hidden from the deadly rays of the sun.
The caverns of the earth were their home.
By feeding on plants and animals,
they enjoyed long lives.
Early humans feared them as gods and demons.
But because few died, and few had little need to reproduce,
their population was small.
They knew not conflict and lived in peace.
But then...
a genius was born among them.
There is latent power within this body,
abilities undreamed of.
I will unlock even greater power!
The genius created a stone mask.
The mask granted him immortality,
but he required additional life energy to sustain it.
He had to kill more.
It seemed he would leave nothing behind.
The beings began to fear the mask
and its creator!
He is too dangerous to be left alive!
We must rid the world of his evil!
We must kill him!
Fools! Do you not wish to conquer the sun?
Do you not wish to rule over all?
Do you not wish to be free from fear?
Then die.
The genius slaughtered nearly his entire tribe,
including his very own parents.
The only survivors... his comrade and two infants
became his companions on a lengthy journey...
a journey in search of the ultimate power
and the perfect physical form.
And then, finally, ten thousand years later,
it became his!
He's a god. He's become a god.
We humans stand no chance against him!
All we can do is submit!
What was that? Did you just say something, JoJo?
Take this! Overdrive!
Ha... mon?
Hamon Overdrive?
JoJo!
That shock!
I'm melting! No!
My leg is melting!
-What? It's like he used... -It can't be!
That's right! It's Hamon, dimwit!
Did that puny brain of yours still think it was beyond me,
even after I conquered the sun?
What?
And it looks like my Hamon
is hundreds of times more powerful than yours.
Hundreds of times more powerful?
It's like being burned by the sun!
His flesh is liquefying and then vaporizing!
So how does it feel to get a taste of your own medicine?
An excellent answer.
Allow me to ease your suffering, then.
JoJo!
This is it. I'm going to die.
It's over.
JoJo calmly accepted his fate.
He had no fear; he felt no pain;
he held no regrets.
He gave it his all.
In the presence of the staggering evil that stood before him,
JoJo gazed at his dying self, looking on with chilling calmness.
Stroheim was no different.
Unable to move,
he felt like a frog about to be swallowed by a snake.
This way of breathing...
Such a fitting send-off into the black pit of death...
perfect for a Hamon-user like you!
Hamon...
hundreds of times stronger than mine...
Now, into the infinite abyss you shall disappear!
Hamon?
What?
The Red Stone!
What?
The Red Stone!
The Red Stone of Aja!
JoJo had no idea why he held up the Red Stone toward Kars!
It was instinct.
It was as if the Red Stone was being drawn toward the Hamon.
But JoJo's body knew.
To survive, his body awakened.
JoJo's will to live pushed his body into action!
The Red Stone is a Hamon amplifier.
And its energy
triggered the smoldering volcano to blow!
That rock isn't part of the volcano anymore...
They're airborne!
Impressive force, certainly!
But did you think a little eruption
would be enough to get rid of me, JoJo?
I'll transform into a bird and escape!
Goodbye forever, JoJo!
Earth surprises again!
Of course it shot up my severed hand!
Now, Kars!
Your next line will be, "Was this part of your plan, too, JoJo?"
Was this part of your plan, too...
Kars's momentary loss of focus from JoJo's severed hand
had sealed his fate!
The debris he would have ordinarily dodged
sent him flying even higher!
Was this part of your plan, too, JoJo?
You bet it was! I planned every little detail!
Sucker!
Well, maybe not exactly...
But a little twist of the dagger couldn't hurt!
The red-hot material from the eruption
was launched beyond earth's atmosphere!
The power of the earth wasn't enough to kill Kars!
But it had...
blasted him into outer space!
Stars? No!
It's over.
Granny... Stroheim...
Uncle Speedwagon...
Smokey...
And Lisa Lisa...
Farewell, everyone.
Jo...
JoJo!
Eight hours later,
Stroheim returned with a message for Speedwagon.
FEBRUARY 28, 1939, ISOLA DI VULCANO, MEDITERRANEAN SEA
JOSEPH JOESTAR DECEASED
I'm in outer space?
I'll use jets of air to change my trajectory and return to Earth!
It's not working!
I'm freezing!
The air is freezing around me!
It turns to ice the moment it leaves my body!
I can't change my trajectory!
I can't return!
Kars never made it back to earth.
He became part fossil, part living organism,
and floated through space for all eternity.
He longed for his life to end, but was unable to die.
Instead, he stopped thinking.
NEW YORK SUBURB, APRIL 1939
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done, on earth
as it is in heaven.
Goodbye, JoJo.
Now I realize, we met only six months ago.
But I'll never forget you,
for as long as I live.
Come, Erina, you mustn't catch cold.
Let's go.
Just a bit longer.
Guess who?
Hey, everybody!
I finally made it back to New York, but nobody came to meet me!
I heard you were all at a funeral. I've been looking all over!
Hey, Master Lisa Lisa! Are you all healed up?
And Messina, you're here too!
I wanted to ask Stroheim
if he could make my hand a little more useful.
But it looks like Germany's going to war!
Hey, who the hell do you think you are?
This is a funeral, you idiot!
Who's an idiot?
Hey, did you just call me an idiot?
Just calm down. Let's go have a talk.
It's...
No way!
Hey! Don't start any trouble!
Bastard! Did you just call me an idiot?
-JoJo! -JoJo!
JoJo's alive!
Alive?
Hang on, now! What's with all the surprise?
It's like you've seen a ghost!
What the? What's my name doing on a headstone?
-Don't tell me this funeral is... -JoJo!
You shouldn't be out in the rain while you're still recovering!
Have an umbrella.
You're Suzie Q.
What's that ring on your finger?
You don't know about my wife?
Your wife?
Your wife? Oh, my!
You can't just introduce me like that...
I'm...
so embarrassed!
-Right? -Don't "right" me!
So nobody knows that when the volcano erupted,
sending that rock and me flying,
the rock actually protected me and, luckily, landed in the ocean.
Then a Venetian fisherman picked me up.
And you nursed me back to health in Venice for two weeks!
No one knows any of this?
You sent them the telegram, right?
Telegram?
Yeah, you said you would!
Let's not get all creaky now.
Sorry! I forgot!
Oh no! I don't believe it!
What were you thinking, woman? Get back here!
JoJo is alive!
I said I'm sorry!
Sorry doesn't cut it!
JoJo...
Later, Lisa Lisa, Elizabeth Joestar,
revealed her true identity to JoJo.
Together they moved to America,
where, in 1948, she remarried, to a Hollywood screenwriter.
Erina Joestar continued her work as an elementary school teacher.
At the age of 81, in 1950, she died peacefully,
surrounded by those she loved.
Robert E. O. Speedwagon continued his work
as an oil magnate and foundation head,
furthering American business and medical science.
He passed away of a heart attack in 1952 at the age of 89.
He never married.
Smokey Brown
worked his way through college, majoring in political science,
and became the first African-American mayor
of his home state of Georgia.
Rudol von Stroheim never saw JoJo again.
He died an honorable death as a proud German soldier
on the front lines of Stalingrad in 1943.
We are the world's greatest!
And the years passed...
KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 1987
Then, a new generation.
JoJo...
Oops! Now lookie here. Does it hurt?
Sorry, but you should really watch where you're going.
It's all right. I'm fine.
We all make mistakes.
Wait a minute. Are you Japanese?
Yeah, why?
Then I take that back!
Alitalia flight 285 for Tokyo is now boarding.
My only daughter has been married
to a Japanese man for over 20 years now.
Why did she have to go off and get married
on the other side of the world?
My own grandson doesn't even remember my face!
I'll never forgive that damned Japanese!
But...
I do like my Walkman.
PART 2 - BATTLE TENDENCY END
CANARY ISLANDS, ATLANTIC OCEAN, 1983
Yahoo!
We finally got it!
Relax! Just bring it up!
It's a hundred-year-old treasure chest!
Let's pop it open!
Subtitle translation by Matthew Hunter