Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 1

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Dio the Invader (Volume 01)

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Jump Comics

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Volume 01)

Text on Dio: Dio the Invader

Text in the middle of JoJo and Dio: Two prisoners look out through the same bars. One sees the mud. And one sees the stars. (Frederick Langbridge "Immortal Poetry")

Mangaka: Araki Hirohiko

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Volume 01

Dio the Invader

Table of Contents:
Chapter 001: Dio the Invader
Chapter 002: A New Friend
Chapter 003: Beloved Erina
Chapter 004: A Battle Not to Be Missed
Chapter 005: Danny in Flames
Chapter 006: A Letter from the Past
Chapter 007: The Vow to the Father
Chapter 008: The Battle on Ogre Street

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Part 1, Jonathan Joestar: His Youth
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SFX: SWIISH

Name of the Series: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Name of the Chapter: Dio the Invader

SFX: Pant Pant

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Narrator: Blood is life!

SFX: WOOOSH

SFX: STAB

SFX: GUSH

Narrator: The blood spurts out of the maiden and seeps through the tiny cracks of the stone mask!

SFX: SWISH~~ SWISH~~

Narrator: The stone mask absorbs the fresh blood and comes to life!

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Name of the Chapter: Dio the Invader

SFX: CREAK CREAK

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SFX: SWISH SWISH

SFX: SWISH SWISH

SFX: CRUNCH

SFX: CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH

Aztec Chief: UHNN!

Aztecs: It was bizarre!

Aztecs: Bizarre I say!

Aztecs: The man still lives despite being stabbed in the head through several bone-like staples spouting from some kind of trap by the stone mask!

SFX: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

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Aztec Chief: I've finally recieved!!

Aztec Chief: Eternal life!

SFX: UOOOOOH

Aztec Chief: You! Do you wish to give me your life, slave?

SFX: UOOH-- AAH--

Aztec: Yes, my lord!

SFX: THUMP!

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SFX: SHWING!

SFX: SHWING! SHWING!

Aztec Chief: His life drains into me!

SFX: SNAP CRACK

Aztec Chief: Now! I've obtained the true power of a ruler from this stone mask!

SFX: THUD

SFX: CRASH

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SFX: UOOOOOOOOH

Aztecs: CHIEF! CHIEF! CHIEF!

Narrator: Between the 12th and 16th century AD, in the highlands of Mexico, there was a powerful kingdom whose culture was known for the national scale of its violent sacrifices and ceremonies involving cannibalism!

Narrator: They were known as the people of the sun, the Aztecs!

Narrator: Among them was another tribe that was blessed with the power of stone mask and intended to dominate the world!

Narrator: The stone mask was an instrument that was handed down from each generation... It could grant eternal life and the strength of true dominance!

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Narrator: But one day, that tribe somehow vanished from history without achieving its objective, leaving only ruins in the desert...

SFX: FRRRRRRSH FRRRRRRSH

Narrator: Why? What has happened to them!? The mystery is enclosed in the stone mask!

Narrator: This is the story of the mysterious mask discovered at an excavation in Mexico, the involvement of two boys, and their Bizarre Adventures...

Part 1, Jonathan Joestar: His Youth

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Dario: Dio... Did you hear what I said?

SFX: Cough Cough Cough Cough

Dario: Dio...... Cough.... Cough! Cough Cough Cough

Dario: Come over here...! Do you hear me, Dio...? Cough Cough Cough Cough

SFX: Cough Cough

SFX: SLAP

SFX: Hmph

Dio: What is it, father? Do you want the medicine?

Dario: N-No... I don't want any medicine... Dio! Come here a for moment! I need to talk to you!

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Dario: Now, I don't have long to live... I know...

Dario: ...I will die soon...

Dio: ............

Dario: Listen, Dio... My only concern is you, my son...

SFX: RATTLE

Dario: Cough! When I die... Bring this letter to the person marked on the address...

Dario: He owes me... And he will take care of you...

Dario: He's in debt to me, Hehehe!

SFX: SSSSSSSH SHH SSSH

Dario: Yes... It was 12 years ago, in 1868... It was a rainy day... But this I can't tell to my son, Dio...

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SFX: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

Dario: The cliff collapsed due to the rain......... Bringing down a carriage into the valley...

Dario: By chance I passed by them with a saloon girl who was with me...

Dario: Uh! Hehehehehehe!

SFX: OOOOOOH

Dario: Hey! Look, an accident!

Saloon Girl: Hey, boss! I don't like trouble, you know?

SFX: WOOOSH

SFX: SKID!

Dario: But I'm silent and besides that's a carriage from the rich... They're noble!

Dario: UGH!

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SFX: AAAAAAAHH

SFX: SSSH

Dario: URGH

Dario: What horror! This guy was killed instantly!

SFX: WAAAH! WAAAH!

Saloon Girl: Boss! The woman in the carriage is dead but the baby's still alive! She protected it with her body!

SFX: OOH!

Dario: A Child!? Forget the child!

SFX: SWIP SWIP

SFX: POP

Saloon Girl: Wh...... What are you doing?

Dario: Idiot! Can't you tell?

Dario: I think it's normal, no? Isn't the misfortune of some a good fortune to others? Wahahahaha!

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Saloon Girl: Yeah... that's right! You're smart!

Dario: I'm in luck! There's also a briefcase!

SFX: CLACK

Dario: What's this?

Dario: It's... Some disgusting mask... I don't want it!

SFX: SSSH SSH

Dario: Hey, help me to pull out his teeth...... We could take them to the dentist and sell them!

Saloon Girl: Yo... You...

Dario: I'm for sure! The nobles will buy the teeth! There's no mistaking it! What's wrong?

SFX: GRAB

Dario: URGHH!

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Lord Joestar: Yo......... You.........

Dario: UAAARGH~~~! H...... He's still alive!

SFX: SPROING

Lord Joestar: Yo......... You,

Lord Joestar: Are you taking care of me? Thank you.

SFX: SSH

Lord Joestar: Wife! ...... My wife...

SFX: SSSH SSH

Lord Joestar: My wife and son... What's wrong? Are they...... safe?

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Dario: Dead............ Both the woman and the driver. Ho... However, your son is safe.

SFX: SSSH SSSSH

Dario: It seems as though he believes that I saved his son.

SFX: SOB

Lord Joestar: I should have died instead of my wife......... However, is it fate that my son is alive?

SFX: SSSH SSSH

Lord Joestar: I'd like to thank you, however it seems as though I've been robbed of my wallet and ring.........

SFX: AHEM

Lord Joestar: My family name's Joestar, I want to thank you for saving my life.

Lord Joestar: Please, tell me your name so I can compensate your kindness accordingly.

Dario: What a fool...! .........Hehehe! There's no harm in telling him my name!

Dario: It's a pleasure to introduce myself, my family name's Brando.

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Dario: After that, with the large sum received by Mr. Joestar, I opened a saloon, but inevitably my wife died, the place was destroyed, and I fell ill and disgraced! Damn it!!

Dario: Dio, when I die, go to the Joestar residence!

SFX: GGH

Dario: You're smart, you can become the richest of them all... You will have no rivals!

SFX: WOOOOOOOOOOSSHH

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SFX: WOOOOOOOOOSSSHH

Dio: Disgusting dishonest scoundrel... You hurt my mother until her death... You've been a indecent father!

Dio: Become the richest of them all? I might do just that! I accept your "inheritance"! I'll live with my own strength but will use it if necessary against this Joestar family to become a man without a rival!

SFX: WOOOOO

SFX: PTUI

Dio: Goodbye!

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SFX: CHUU CHUU CHUU

Narrator: Nineteenth century! The era of industrial progress and trade that changed the lives and minds of humanity!

Narrator: And although the degree of malnutrition and poverty was atrocious as it was before, both adults and children began to dream of being able to live like the rich. Sooner or later...

Narrator: Their hunger was more terrible and dangerous than a storm!

SFX: GRAB!

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Boys: Yahoo!

SFX: FRULL FRULL

Boy Holding the Doll: Yeah!

Erina: Give it back! Give it back! You're going to break her arm!!

Boy Holding the Doll: Hey, Erina! Did your father buy this doll? Although he's a quack doctor, he makes the money, eh?

Boy Holding the Doll: OK, try to undress her, to see if that place is the same as the original!

SFX: SIGH SIGH

Boys: Hahaha! Erina's tearing like a fountain!

JoJo: Stop!!

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JoJo: Release the doll!!

Boy: You're sure you want it? Are you a friend of Erina?

SFX: TAP

JoJo: No, but I have enough reasons to fight you!

Boy: UGH!

SFX: THUD!

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SFX: GGGNNN

Boy: Bastard! I hate the type that wants to look good in front of a woman!

Boy: You're going to get it now!

SFX: POW POW POW POW POW

SFX: THUMP THUD!

JoJo: URGH!

JoJo: GHHH...

Boys: What a sissy!!

Boy 1: Hahaha! Look at that poor guy! It's really a pity! He arrives to defend and instead he takes! Hey! Do you know who he is?

Boy 2: Who knows? You're not the little son of Joestar are you!!?

JoJo: Pant Pant

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Boys: We don't like the rich! We have done nothing to them, but they don't like us. Because we're not the same. If this is one of the Joestar's who live there, we'll stuff him in a barrel!

SFX: ZOOOM

SFX: SWAP!

Boys: AH!!

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Boys: Bastard! Then he's really the only son of Joestar!

Boys: Bastard! You think you're better than us!

Boys: Let's get him!!

SFX: THUMP! THUMP! THUD

Boys: PTUI! Go play in your gallery of portfolios you theorists!

Boys: Let's go!

JoJo: Pant Pant

SFX: SLAP

JoJo: I don't need anything! Just leave me in peace!

JoJo: Begone! I didn't do this just to receive your gratitude!

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JoJo: I'm going to become a true gentleman!

JoJo: And, you were a woman in trouble! The gentleman has to have the courage to fight even if his enemy is stronger and he already knows he'll be defeated!

SFX: FRUSH

JoJo: But ... Someday I'll be able to win!

Erina: Jonathan Joestar...

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Erina: Why did he pull out the handkerchief from his pocket?

Erina: If he didn't show his name he wouldn't have been beaten like that... So... Instead...

Erina: Of course! Even that was necessary to become a true "gentleman" as he says...

SFX: RUMBLE

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SFX: SLAM

SFX: THUMP

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SFX: WOSH

SFX: TAP

SFX: SWISH

SFX: WHOOSH

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JoJo: Who are you...?

JoJo: Of course! He's the one called Dio Brando! The one and only son of the man who saved the life of my father... Now since his father has died, we'll take care of him! Together, he will live with us... He's also the same age as I am...

JoJo: You're Dio Brando, right?

Dio: And you're Jonathan Joestar...

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JoJo: Yeah, but everyone here calls me JoJo... in this place!

SFX: WOOF WOOF

JoJo: Danny!

JoJo: Hahahaha!

SFX: WOOF WOOF WOOF

JoJo: Meet Danny! He's my dog... and a great hunter!

JoJo: Don't be afraid, He doesn't bite!

Dio: Hmph!

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SFX: SMASSHH

JoJo: Wh...

SFX: THUD!

JoJo: DANNYYY!

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JoJo: Wh... What are you doing!? That's------ Unforgivable!

Dio: So... This is the one and only heir of the Joestar family... JoJo!?

Dio: I will drive him crazy! Until one day, I seize all of the fortunes from the house of Joestar!

SFX: GRAB

Danny: Twitch Twitch

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TN: So... I've been thinking and well, One of my all time favorite series on earth is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I've noticed many things about this series that's very different. It follows that horror feeling with that deep adventure feeling you can't get anywhere else. To my surprise before I learned Japanese I used to read the scans of it which were "incomplete", And they were literally lacking in what the actual manga says. Instead there was a changing of words going about.

Upon learning Japanese I've noticed tons of errors in the original translations as well. Looking at it now and with my skill, It looks like it's been really rushed out. To the contrary I can't read a proper Manga without the proper context, It makes the experience seem like nothing worthwhile. In This project, I wish to do the first two Arc's being: "Phantom Blood" (Volumes 1 to 5) and "Battle Tendency" (Volumes 5 to 12). And if those go good, I'll continue working on the series.

Many people have asked me already, Why do I want to do a series that's already been done before. It's pretty simple, I didn't like the rushed jobs of the past. No offense to the past translators, Also I'm not a fan of "misplaced words/phrases" and especially "Fan Service". I hate Fan Service, It ruins the whole concept of the story. Furthermore, Since most of the scans suck from the original "Scanlation" being that they were LQ's, I'd like to see this get a proper release as it should with HQ's, For everyone to enjoy.