Anubis PROVES that JJBA is a Horror Comedy

Today we'll be looking at Anubis from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. It's an extremely funny yet sinister Glory God stand with the powers of possession and dematerialization, based on real Egyptian lore.
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Correction at the 10 minute mark. Star finger does appear in the manga in other places, however Iggy’s farts, to public knowledge, still do not appear in the manga, and Polnareff’s two handed sword technique has yet to appear in All Star Battle R.

[@madeforcomments3643]

Jotaro used Star finger twice in the manga, once against dark blue moon and again against that orangutan.

[@SneedBass]

Forever, that's the name of the orangutan

[@bruhmongerer5060]

​@@SneedBass Pff, Forever a Pedophile more like.

[@Nagatem]

Honestly, I really do feel bad for poor Anubis. He was literally a loyal dog that was excited to serve a new master only to be forgotten once more poor guy.

[@Wandering_Weeb]

And the people we see he killed are bad and deserved it

[@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384]

He stole people’s bodies, and was glad to murder innocent people… I can’t say I feel bad for him, but you were right about him being loyal.

[@viceleapored710]

I mean, every dog we've seen died so.....

[@TheAzulmagia]

The Anubis fight is kind of wild in that it drops one of the Top 5 most difficult to beat Stand Users in the part casually at the beginning of the Egypt Arc, has him very nearly kill Jotaro at least twice, and then concludes with him getting stuck in a cow's butt before ending up at the bottom of a river begging crabs to touch him.

[@Rylainecchi]

I really like the interpretation of Nile River being the border between life and death. When I watch SC for the first time, the bit with Anubis lying in the Nile River reminds me of Kars, he's trapped between life and death. Not utterly destroyed, but also incapable of doing anything like a living being. I wonder if he eventually stopped thinking? :P

[@SneedBass]

The barber who gets possessed by anubis, is voiced by Tomar from Oneyplays

[@misterjersey5460]

Also the same barber (Khan) in the original sub shares voice actors as Goro Majima from Yakuza

[@SneedBass]

@@misterjersey5460 that's interesting.

[@ianfinrir8724]

"Hey, Tomar! It's you!"

[@marcusmvpgoat1236]

Wait fr?

[@ianfinrir8724]

@@marcusmvpgoat1236 Yeah, Tomar posted it on his KZbin channel

[@Jeff_Biden]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="470">7:50</a> he watches columbo and quotes one liners unironically, not that weird for him to read that

[@ellie7252]

JoJo only really became more comedic in part 3, where it gained a less 'ongoing' narrative that's more 'villain of the week'ish. before then, it had several phrases. it began as a character drama, and then become a horror-action. after part 3, we start with a more lighthearted tone, before digging into seriousness. then in part 5, there's hardly any comedy scenes, focussing entirely on being a combat manga. finally, in the original continuity, you have part 6, which in my opinion, is the perfect balance of drama, comedy and action. the only fights that felt not entirely necessary were Green Baby and parts of the 'Awaiting The New Moon' arc, as near the end, Araki slipped into his 'monster of the week' habit a bit more again. all and all, i feel as though part 6 perfects a balance in its storytelling, as the best part in the original continuity.

[@Jeff_Biden]

Part 6 fights are ass

[@emblemblade9245]

You’re really telling me part 2 and 4, the funniest parts of the original 6, aren’t funny?

[@ellie7252]

@@emblemblade9245 when did i say that they aren't funny?

[@Ramlock01]

I think you're right about parts 1 to 3, but I'm really confused at the idea that there is hardly any comedy in part 5. Staying very vague to minimize spoilers, almost every episode has comedy scenes, from the random meal conversations and childish antics between the crew early on whenever Bruno is away to maybe the most iconic darkly funny scene in the whole franchise, the torture dance. Even the serious battles often have a bit of comic relief. The literal teenage antics are masterful because they enhance rather than detract from their "battle personas". And near the end there is practically an essay on how to intermingle comedy and danger. It's very darkly comic, but to me it's the entire appeal.

[@ellie7252]

@@Ramlock01 in my own feelings, i found the comedy scenes not to my comedic tastes. Mista giving food to his Stand kinda just pissed me off, and him shooting himself every fight went from funny to frustrating really quick. and while the torture dance is kinda funny i suppose, it's just four panels, you know? and with how short it is, it's kind of a "lol random" kinda moment in the first place, which while can be funny from the absurdism, just kinda leaves you going "what? do they do this every time they torture someone? i have no many questions. was this even to do with them torturing, or did they just happen to feel like dancing while they coincidentally were torturing?" i feel a similar way about mista feeding his Stand. like, if they aren't a physical stand, how are they consuming matter? food goes through a natural cycle inwhich we eat it, then secrete it as waste. what happens to the natural cycle if we're feeding our salami to our Stands? why do they get hungry? etc. so all and i all, i found part 5's attempts at comedy more frustrating than anything, and with the frustratingly complex fights that try too hard to be clever, unlike in part 4 or 6 where they're much more down to earth puzzle solutions, it made part 5 a far less fun experience for me other than a few stand out moments. further so, to be honest, i didn't find the 'teenage antics' all that relatable. for me, part 4 fit far more into that context, with these silly teenage boys being idiots with one another. so, generally speaking, it just wasn't my cup of tea.

[@DataFire2025]

Loved it, definitely agree jojo is a horror comedy

[@thanksomuch1557]

Another comment points out when Jotaro used star finger in the manga, but he also uses it in the OVA in the Strength fight, and the OVA also includes the Iggy fart gag. The OVA doesn't include the Anubis fight, though, so that could explain why that wasn't included in All Star Battle.

[@stargoldinum3798]

Love the video. For me when jojo got it’s most tense is iggy vs pet shop or the gang vs Dio. In both fights the respective crusaders were just being DOMINATED taking blow after blow

[@rattled6732]

Jojo is a bit of everything

[@syrupmancer]

Vitamin C vs the higashikata family in part 8 is another really good comedy-horror couple of chapters, though it's more comedy slowly turning into horror. If the anime ever gets that far, i'm really excited to see how it'd clean up some of the pacing in part 8 and heighten moments like that

[@alex_miner4717]

Part 8 has the most horror fights. Ozon baby, WoU, Doctor Wu, that zombie virus. I would say that part 8 is mystery-horror, and re-reading previous parts after 8 really opens your eyes on how much horror jojo really has in it.

[@Joppio05]

Wow awesome video I really like your sort of take through and discussion style, keep it up I really enjoy these Jojo videos :)

[@Mark0ut]

Love your videos, I thought you had a lot of subscribers considering the quality. Keep makin these, they're fun.

[@chasethecringewolf2195]

Anubis honestly deserved better. The first stand in the story historically. He is an extremely strong and skilled warrior to get neglected by Dio. And going from 500 years of isolation in a museum to potentially decades of rusting. Sucks.

[@Val-gv3vu]

I noticed a few errors in this video. One of them being your mentioning of star finger as an “anime only” technique which isn’t entirely true.While this specific use of the technique was only in the anime star finger appeared earlier in the manga during the dark blue moon fight.

[@schrelaxo]

And during the strength fight

[@Val-gv3vu]

@@schrelaxo true but it made its debut during the dark blue moon arc

[@bartvansliedregt5482]

Cool video bro!

[@smoogbrain-hehe69]

Woah I thought this was a popular channel but damn. Guess it goes to show the quality your videos have. Good job man! Keep it up!

[@TCG_Academia]

Great stuff. The horror elements of JoJo more seem to be sprinkled in. There is the hotel scene where they meet the old lady and zombies come out and in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan and the mountains/corn story. Just two off the top of my head.

[@dominic8916]

keep doing jojo content

[@borger8045]

"as a nod to later parts" dude he likes sea creatures n shit ofc he'd read about their habitat

[@enmunap]

It's action too

[@anyone3171]

NEED MORE JOJO CONTENT

[@lukewilsontv]

✍️✍️✍️🔥🔥🔥

[@ronan8517]

censoring the gore in these videos will be pretty funny if you black it out like how the TV releases did it

[@distinguishedkorok]

Song in tha background at the beginning

[@lukewilsontv]

It’s the intro to the cascade kingdom from super Mario odyssey, then goes into Yo-Yoshi from yoshi story n64

[@GiornoCuh]

Idk why but the anubis episode was the only boring one in stardust crusader. It could be because i got spoiled about it in games like yba but still it felt stretched out and boring. (Parasite stand without a user is a cool on paper but it didnt have any shock or novelty factor)

[@dennisthegreatcorpas6159]

Not shadow pedid, or vampire

[@GiornoCuh]

Idk why but the anubis arc was the only boring one in stardust crusader for me. It could be because i got spoiled about it in games like yba but still it felt stretched out and boring. (Parasite stand without a user is a cool on paper but it didnt have any shock or oh my god factor)