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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