You said you would make a bad movie, but you are going to make JOJO? Chapter 068

Pucci had dealt with Kars.

At Green Dolphin Street Studio.

Since Jolyne Cujoh intended to press on with her advantage, or rather, she didn’t want to miss out on the current hype of Phantom Blood and wanted to use the completely different Battle Tendency to shatter the audience’s imaginations.

So, not long after the filming of Phantom Blood was completed, and the staff had rested for a few days, Jolyne Cujoh, with triple wages (which also came with a raise), painfully yet happily began filming the new Battle Tendency.

However…

“Is this really okay?”

Looking at the staff, who had been trained by Phantom Blood and were motivated by triple wages—a base wage that had been raised due to the great success of Phantom Blood, effectively six times their original pay—they burst forth with an enthusiasm that made it seem as if the company was their own.

Their efficient work did not make him happy.

Instead, Akiyuki Shinbo, who was worried about it, said uneasily, “The internet is already like this. We should at least let JOJO’s son live.”

Although Akiyuki Shinbo felt great while filming JOJO’s death, after the thrill, he inevitably entered a state of ‘sage mode.’

Especially when he saw that almost all the audience on the internet believed Pucci’s words, which he had written under an alias, and were looking forward to Battle Tendency, the second part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Akiyuki Shinbo felt as if he could see the audience, who couldn’t accept the plot, ready to strangle him at any moment.

“Shinbo, do you think it would be more acceptable for the audience if JOJO’s son became an old hooligan, or if JOJO’s grandson became an old hooligan?”

“…His grandson,” Akiyuki Shinbo replied after some thought.

“Then it’s settled,” Pucci said calmly. “Even you think so; I believe the audience will understand our difficulties.”

It was still the same point.

Pucci didn’t know what kind of mood or pressure Hirohiko Araki was under when he wrote such a plot.

But judging from how Araki-sensei still looked like an ageless, perfect being in his previous life, this plot twist and innovation in the industry should not have been a problem.

Otherwise, how could Araki-sensei have lived safely into the 21st century?

So, “Daijōbu, mondai nai.” (It’s alright, no problem.)

He secretly copied Akiyuki Shinbo’s Wikipedia information to Green Dolphin Street Studio’s official website, emphasizing that Akiyuki Shinbo was a senior professional in the industry with an impressive resume and works.

In stark contrast to his own resume, which was blank, with his only work, Phantom Blood, having been filmed together with Akiyuki Shinbo.

Anyone would think that Akiyuki Shinbo was the director in charge of all matters in the production team, and he was just a rookie director here to gain experience.

Having made these two preparations, Pucci murmured with satisfaction, “These are necessary sacrifices.”

No choice, he was just that kind.

Seeing that Akiyuki Shinbo seemed to lack confidence, he immediately added another entry to his resume, making him famous in the industry to help him regain his confidence!

That’s right, he definitely wasn’t chickening out!

“What?”

Akiyuki Shinbo looked over, sensing something. “Did you say something, Director Pucci?”

“What? Did I say something? …You must be too nervous, Shinbo, causing you to hear some strange sounds,” Pucci confirmed. “And instead of worrying about such small matters, you should continue to train Nobuo Tobita.”

“Although he has great potential within him, if he can’t realize that potential, then it’s just potential.”

“So Director Pucci, you know that too.”

Akiyuki Shinbo, who was also quite troubled by the Major, a ‘cancer’ in the industry, was successfully distracted. “If that’s the case, Director Pucci, why did you choose Nobuo Tobita?”

“Even if President Kujo doesn’t understand, it can’t be that even Director Pucci doesn’t understand, right?”

“And looking at Tobita’s physique, the German army would be crazy to let him pass a military physical and promote him to Major!”

Nobuo Tobita, who was 160cm tall and weighed roughly the same, was already at a disadvantage in terms of physique.

Moreover, compared to a position like Major, which required real combat, especially in the German army, where even the best-performing bulletproof helmets at the time were directly abandoned by the high command because they weren’t aesthetically pleasing, it would be extremely difficult for Nobuo Tobita to become a Major.

He was more suited for another kind of job that also required “real combat,” a home security guard.

“But in other words, if we instill the idea that Nobuo Tobita is a German Major deep into people’s hearts, then wouldn’t he become a unique secret weapon?”

“…Ah, this, indeed.”

After all, if even a character like Nobuo Tobita, who didn’t look like a Major at all, could be genuinely accepted by the audience for various reasons, then what else could the audience not accept?

So Pucci struck while the iron was hot, saying, “It’s up to you now, Shinbo. There’s about one episode left until Tobita’s Major makes his appearance.”

“You have this one episode to properly train Nobuo Tobita, so that he can integrate with the template we’ve set and become a qualified soldier.”

“…Huh!?”

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[ 1938, New York]

What was America like in this era?

Of course, it was a vibrant and thriving nation, with the Great Depression and racial conflict intertwined.

After all, during World War I, America had profited handsomely.

But unlike World War II, where the entire population of Europe was decimated, scientists, politicians, capitalists, and ordinary people all fled to America, either to escape the war, seek political asylum, or simply to avoid being held accountable as war criminals by other countries… for all these reasons.

This brought a large amount of advanced technology, as well as a large number of workers and people, to America, transforming it from a backwater upstart into a new empire that surpassed Britain and France after World War II!

Of course, this was all later.

For America at the time.

Although it had successfully diverted the economic crisis by profiting from the war, racial tensions had intensified as a result.

After all, at this time, Black people didn’t have the Black Panther Party, which gained political power through the barrel of a gun, nor did they have Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” to fight for equal rights.

Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” only transformed them from comfortable serfs into cheap laborers who worked day and night until they died without rest.

Furthermore, the money earned by workers was, during the previous economic crisis, successfully stolen by white people led by the KKK, after the higher-ups shifted the blame by saying that Black people had stolen their jobs, making them poor.

However, this was also just background information.

JOJO was a hero, but if the people didn’t rise up and resist, one or two heroes alone couldn’t change anything.

So, Smokey Brown, forced by this harsh living environment to “freely” live by petty theft, met the second JOJO, Joseph Joestar, against this backdrop.