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The official account of Starlight Video of the Land of Light posted a message containing only a poster and a sentence.

"The first PV for 'JOJO's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Expedition' will be released tonight at 8 PM. Don't miss it!"

The poster has a dark purple background, with a silhouette of a man in a school uniform in the center, his right hand outstretched and his index finger pointing out of the frame.

In the lower right corner of the poster, there is a line of small text printed in gold foil.

"The beginning of destiny."

When Da Mi, an editor at Starlight Video, saw this post, she felt uneasy.

In his view, the story of JoJo is complete enough.

In the first film, Jonathan Joestar grows from a noble boy into a true gentleman, and his fateful duel with Dio runs throughout the entire film.

The ending, in which he perished together with the enemy in the fire, brought countless viewers to tears and dehydration.

Joseph Joestar in the second film takes the stage in a completely different way from his grandfather, cracking jokes, using tricks and outsmarting opponents in all sorts of unbelievable ways.

Finally, with perfect timing, location, and manpower, they launched a desperate counterattack from the crater, sending the ultimate life form Kars into outer space.

After such a successful conclusion, is a third installment in the works?

It's not that he doesn't trust Yang Qian; no one would distrust someone who continuously creates phenomenal works.

But trust is one thing, worry is another.

The ending of the second part has already drawn an epic conclusion.

Now you need to write a new comma after this period, and then try to tell everyone that the story isn't over yet.

This in itself is a huge risk.

His concerns were quickly confirmed in the comments section.

The news of PV's release spread quickly across the platform.

Click to enter the comments section:

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is getting a third part? Wasn't the ending of Part 2 satisfying enough? Joseph's getting old, wouldn't it be better for the story to end naturally?"

"Any work will drop in quality once it starts endlessly refilling; this is an ironclad rule in the entertainment industry, and the Land of Light is no exception."

"Although I have great faith in Hikaru's creative abilities, to be honest, the Ripple system in the second part has already reached its peak. If we continue writing, it will just be another enemy stronger than Kars and then continue the Ripple battle, which is nothing new."

"Who is the protagonist of the third part? Joseph's son? Or Joseph's grandson? Having a descendant of the Joestar family continue to fight monsters with Ripple? That's not surprising at all."

"I strongly suggest that the Land of Light invest its production resources in new original IPs instead of rehashing old ones. It's not that I don't love JOJO; it's precisely because I love it so much that I can't bear to see it become one of those long series that's being forcibly extended just to make money."

He scrolled down the screen page by page, and the comments section was even less optimistic than he had expected.

He opened his phone and typed a message.

Da Mi: Guangda, the comments section is full of negative reviews for the third installment. Should we release some background information before the official PV goes live to stabilize audience expectations?

Yang Qian replied very quickly.

"unnecessary."

Da Mi's typing speed slowed down noticeably again.

"But the negative sentiment in the comments section is..."

Before he could finish typing, two new messages from Yang Qian popped up at the top of the screen.

"The audience will know when the PV is released."

"This one wasn't Ripple from the very beginning."

Dami stared at the screen and blinked several times.

Not ripples?

The core combat system of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has been Ripple since the first part.

The energy generated by breathing, its conduction, and its application—the entire series' underlying combat logic is built upon the concept of Ripple Breathing.

Is a core concept that's been used in two consecutive installments really going to be changed so easily?

He didn't know what to reply, so he could only delete the few lines of "public opinion response plan" that he had typed in the input box, word by word.

Yang Qian closed the chat window with Dami, placed her phone face down on the table, and leaned back in her chair.

The more heated the argument in the comments section, the better the reversal effect.

He knew that there was an unbreakable rule in the entertainment industry.

What is most easily underestimated is never a new work, but a sequel to an old work.

Audiences naturally view sequels to older works with a critical and discerning eye.

Because the first film was so amazing, the standards have been raised to an almost demanding level.

In the general public's perception, a sequel to a good work is equivalent to repetition.

This means that producers must use even higher standards to impress audiences again, otherwise it will be a poor sequel.

But Yang Qian knew that "Stardust Expedition" was different.

Starting with Part 3, the story of JoJo will no longer rely on the Ripple Breathing technique, a fighting system that has been used for two parts.

The Ripple era had completed its mission by the end of the second part.

The moment Joseph used Ripple and Volcanic Eruption to send Katz into space was the most magnificent and unsurpassable ending to this system.

Replacing the ripples is something that has never appeared in any previous fighting manga...

substitute!!!

A guardian spirit, a manifestation of spiritual energy, possessing an independent form and unique abilities.

Each Stand is unique, with no distinction between strong and weak; only the user's wisdom and imagination determine the outcome.

The emergence of Stands is no longer just a new superpower concept!

It will fundamentally and completely change the combat logic of JOJO.

It's important to understand that all battles in the Ripple Era were based on a common foundation.

All users of Ripple are within the same system, following the same set of physical rules and energy conduction laws. Their strength depends on the intensity of the Ripple and the skill in its application.

But in the world of Stands, this common foundation no longer exists.

Each Stand has completely different abilities, and every battle is a completely new game of rules.

Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum is a close-range power-type Stand that can deliver hundreds of punches in a second.

But his opponent might possess a Stand that can attack from within a mirror, a Stand that can control fire, a Stand that can accelerate the flow of time...

With each new enemy, the rules reset, and the battle is no longer a head-on clash of strength.

It's not about fighting with wits, psychological warfare, breaking the rules, and making a last-minute comeback.

This is his trump card.

It was exactly 8 p.m.

The preview trailer for "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Expedition" was released simultaneously on all major platforms.

The PV begins with darkness, absolute darkness where not a single ray of light can penetrate.

Then a deep, magnetic male voice rang out from the depths of the darkness.

"...A hundred years...I've returned from the seabed..."

The darkness shattered instantly.

—Deep in the ocean, a treasure chest is being salvaged and loaded onto a ship.

The tank emitted a series of dull thuds under the immense water pressure.

The camera zooms in, revealing the treasure chest that appeared at the end of the first movie.

The scenes quickly shift, presenting the Joestar family, the Stone Mask, and Jonathan and Dio's past to the audience.

At this moment, the audience realized that something was wrong.

"This is happening? Oh no, could it be DIO returning?"

"DIO is back? So what? Times have changed. Joseph took down the three pillar men, so beating DIO will be a piece of cake for him."

"Exactly, is DIO really stronger than an ultimate life form like Kars?"

"Shh! Katz has given up thinking!"

The scene abruptly shifts to the modern era.

Jotaro Kujo, the protagonist of the third part, is currently imprisoned in a cell in a prison.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, his face stern, the brim of his hat pulled low, obscuring most of his face.

"There's something inside me... something I don't quite understand. It appears when I'm angry and hurts the people around me."

Before he finished speaking, a blurry shadow appeared out of thin air behind him.

The shadow gradually became clearer, eventually appearing fully before the audience in the form of a guardian spirit.

Platinum Star!!!

Its entire body was purple, and its messy black hair moved erratically in the void without any wind.

His body proportions perfectly conform to all the standards of the ultimate combination of strength and beauty in human aesthetics. His fists are clenched, confronting everyone outside the camera who tries to get close to Jotaro.

"What is that?! It's not a ripple, it's definitely not a ripple!!"

"The ripples are golden arcs of electricity, but this thing is... materialized!!"

"The system in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 has changed?! A new battle system has been introduced?!"

"Wait a minute, Jotaro Kujo's last name is Kujo... Isn't that the name of the Sakura Prefecture? Joseph moved to Sakura? That can't be right?"