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Afterward

From what I remember, the first "picture" I read in "Jojo's Bizarre

Adventure" was of the doll-controlled "Ebony Devil" using a razor to cut off the

face of a hotel worker like it was a mask. Of course, at the time, I wondered how

that doll was moving, and then suddenly something that looked like an armored

warrior appeared and I kept on reading without even knowing what a Stand was.

But even so, or perhaps because of that, I can still remember that intense feeling

of being drawn in like it was yesterday. Well, I had actually read Weekly Shounen

Jump before then, and if I think back hard I believe I read the episode of Joutarou

guessing the true identity of "Dark Blue Moon's" Stand user as it came out. So I'm

clearly wrong about the other thing being my first memory of it, so what the hell

am I saying I remember like it was yesterday? Well, if I am to explain it in a way

that in a more favorable way, I guess the scene that had the most impact on me

as a child as the face-cutting-off scene. Nevertheless, you can't get away with

depicting a face getting cut off like a mask in today's Shounen Jump. So in that way,

I look back on that fondly. Times have changed a lot since those days, but one

thing that I don't think has changed is the trend that "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"

created which has been inherited in the magazine. Within it are people like me

that inherited it in kind of a misunderstood form.

And it's for that reason why this book is a novelization of a masterpiece

of this century, no, of many centuries. A masterpiece that will still be read 100

years from now, "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure This is the story of Dio. I think that one

could substitute "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" with "Dio's Bizarre Adventure And to

get the chance to write out Dio's story in this book, I feel so lucky to be an author

and at the same time, so lucky to be a fan. ......But it's also rare for me to write out

an honest afterward like this. And so, this has been the novelization of "Jojo's

Bizarre Adventure, "Over Heaven

By the way, I said I was really lucky as an author and as a fan, but

putting together this novel was a challenge unlike any I've ever had before. You

could say I had to make it through a lot of processes to get it all done. I have the

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