This week, Viz is releasing volumes 11 and 12 of the new, digital edition of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders on their own platform, Nook, iBookstore, Kindle, Google Play and Comixology. These are notable for featuring material from the 2000 OVA that first adapted the series, and for featuring a long standing urban legend that still fascinates Japanese fans.
Recently, a fan put together a video to explain it…
In 1991, the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga kicked off the story “‘Khnum’ Oingo and ‘Tohth’ Boingo,” in which the heroes encounter Oingo (localized as Zenyatta), with the physical appearance altering stand Khnum, and his brother Boingo (Mondatta), whose stand predicts the future via extra-abstract manga.
According to fans who have spent too much time studying Jojo‘s, this story predicts the 9-11 Twin Tower attacks. The half-serious obsessives point out that it not only features a figure wearing a “911″ like design on his shirt who ends up hanging from a utility pole with an airplane flying by, the predictive vision mentions the time 10:30, which is apparently close enough to the 10:28 collapse time for the second World Trade Center tower.
While it’s far from the only anime/manga urban legend, and while it’s not one that many people take seriously, it is at least a departure from the familiar pattern of suggesting that a kids’ series hero is secretly dead or brain damaged.
via RocketNews24 and KnowYourMeme
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain’t It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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