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Vocab
Vocab SRS Tanko Vol 5(Renshuu.org)
Vocab SRS Tanko Vol 6(Renshuu.org)
Questions (Chapters 1-18)
CW: Some gore
Questions for Chapter 1 (45) ニューヨークのジョジョ・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その①
- How did Speedwagon (the man with face scars for folks new to JoJo) become wealthy?
- What’s the same about him and Straizo (ストレイツォ)? Why is Speedwagon jealous?
- What does the vendor infer about Joseph (bulky handsome guy)?
- What can we infer about the vendor based on his speech patterns?
- What can we infer about the first policeman based on his speech patterns?
- What does the policeman say will happen to Smokey?
- What offer does he make Smokey?
- How does Joseph initially speak to the police? Why does he speak this way?
- For those who read Part 1, what is Joseph’s actions in the question above a throwback to?
- How does the policeman act towards Joseph and why?
- What does Joseph say to the second policeman?
- What meaning does ブツ・ブッ add to verbs?
- What do we learn about Joseph’s physicality?
- What abnormal things happen with the coke?
- Who is narrating the story?
- What do we learn about Joseph’s family?
- What is Smokey surprised by?
Questions for Chapter 2 (46) 生きた彫像・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その②
- How do Speedwagon and Straizo describe the man in the pillar? What kind of words are these?
- On page 6 of the chapter, the bottom panel, what kind of じゃ is Speedwagon using?
- Is this the first time that Speedwagon has been to this place? What has he observed?
- What do the men want from Speedwagon and his company?
- What’s weird about Joseph’s reaction?
- Why does Joseph get angry at the men?
- What’s Straizo’s reason for what he does?
thus begins Joseph’s long personal history with planes and piloting
CW: minor gore of hands
Chapter 3 (47) 悲痛な知らせ・ニューヨークのジョセフ・ジョースター その③ Questions
- Is the car a taxi?
- What does Joseph imply about Erina and Speedwagon?
- What do we learn about Erina and her descended husband (on page 6)?
- Who is narrating?
- What is the man at the restaurant’s problem?
- What resolution does the waiter propose?
- How does Erina tell Joseph to act?
- Why has this man suddenly appeared?
Chapter 4 (48) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ①・ストレイツォの野望 Questions
- What does Smokey say about the man regarding his occupation and Smokey’s feelings about him?
- How does the man respond?
- How is the pillarman described?
- What rules govern the pillarman? What could happen to those rules?
- Why are Joseph and Smokey troubled by the magazine?
- What does Joseph notice about the man outside? What’s odd about how Joseph talks (and acts)?
- What does Joseph notice about the man outside once he’s also outside?
Chapter 5 (49) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ② ・ゲームの達人 Questions
- Why is Erina upset/worried?
- What does Joseph tell Erina he will do?
- What are the 3 ways to defeat vampires? What word does Joseph use instead of defeat?
- What does Joseph tell the women at the shop?
- What does Straizo say Dio’s problem was?
- What comparison does Straizo draw about killing his plan to kill Erina?
- What does Joseph reveal about the situation and specifically about the lack of care that Straizo exercises?
- What insult does Joseph create (p17)? How does Joseph throw Straizo’s words back at him (p18)?
CW gore and nudity. Perhaps not the best chapter to read in public
6 (50) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ③ ・不死身の化け物 Questions
- What is special about Straizo’s scarf?
- What comparison does Straizo draw drawn between the scarf and hamon vs lightning and earth/the ground?
- How old is hamon?
- What does Joseph say he thought hamon was? (8) What on the previous page might have caused him to say that? (7)
- How and why does Smokey freak out?
- What is Joseph’s fallback plan?
Chapter 7(51) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ④ ・冷酷非情ストレイツォ Questions
- What does the large man plan to do and why?
- What does the woman with the camera plan to do and why?
- Why does Straizo have the woman?
- What does Joseph want out of this encounter?
CW for nudity and nazis
Chapter 8 (52) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ⑤ ・ナチスと柱の男
- Why does Joseph grab Straizo? Do you believe him? Does Straizo believe him?
- Why did Straizo dump the bodies in the river?
- What was Straizo afraid of? What did he want in life?
- What does Straizo do to himself?
- If you want to skip the page with all the info dumping about nazis, you’re probably fine to. A very short summary would be they want to take over the world and subjugate “inferior” peoples and they’re studying all sorts of stuff to do it. Think Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Arc
- How does the woman shaving speak to the nazi major and what does it reveal about their relationship?
- What did the nazis find and what’s the new status of what they found?
- What does Joseph do?
- Why is the woman angry? Do Joseph’s actions and words help or hinder? Why?
CW: off-camera attempted suicide and you can assume that a chapter may or may not have nazis from here on out for Part 2
Chapter 9 (53): 柱の男 蘇生実験・「柱の男)」Questions
- What are Stroheim and company up to?
- What does he want to do to Speedwagon?
- What does Stroheim propose to the people in the cage?
- What do they do and what happens to them?
- What does Stroheim say about their choices/actions?
- What do the bandits say they’ll do to Joseph and why?
- What does Joseph do or is implied to do?
Chapter 10 (54) “柱の男” 対石仮面の男・「柱の男・サンタナ」その１Questions
- What does the way Stroheim speaks to Speedwagon show about how he feels about Speedwagon and their relationship?
- What is Stroheim’s opinion of Santana? What relationship does he see himself to Santana?
- What is the experiment they preform and what are the conditions of it?
- How does the experiment go specifically?
Chapter 11 (55) 砂漠の追尾者・「柱の男・サンタナ」その２ Questions
- What does the map tell us about Joseph’s location, where Santana was found, where Speedwagon was found, and the building where those two are now?
- What does the man in the desert think of Joseph? Why does he think he’ll win?
- What’s Joseph’s tone with the man? What lines or word choice make you believe so?
- Why does everyone freak out at the end of the chapter?
CW: sexual abuse/exploitation
Chapter 12 (56) 消えたサンタナ・「柱の男・サンタナ」その３Questions
- When will Joseph tell Erina that Speedwagon is alive?
- What do the nazis want from the women? (Please use speech appropriate the platform where these questions are)
- Why do the women come to this place?
- How does Joseph’s speech contribute to his disguise?
- Why is everyone freaked out?
- What frightens or impresses Speedwagon the most?
CW: major body horror
Chapter 13 (57) JoJo VS.究極生物・「柱の男・サンタナ」その４Questions
- Can you sum up what each character (Speedwagon, Stroheim, JoJo) is concerned about in a few words? (how about under five for a challenge)
- What comparisons does Stroheim make regarding Santana?
- Why is Santana’s speech in katakana?
Chapter 14 (58) 究極生物に波紋！・「柱の男・サンタナ」その５ Questions
- What is Joseph trying to get Santana to do? How specific is he?
Chapter 15 (59) 完璧なる作戦ッ!!・「柱の男・サンタナ」その６Questions
- What does Joseph compare Santana to? Why?
- What does Stroheim compare the situation to? Why?
- Why is Speedwagon freaking out?
- Why does Joseph try this method? How does he describe his choice to use this method?
