The scene continues.

The background music suddenly switches to a fast-paced rock song, with drums and bass bursting out simultaneously.

Platinum Star threw a powerful punch.

Jotaro remained standing still, but Star Platinum had already completed a full combo for him.

The live chat exploded.

"Hundreds of punches per second?? That's a Stand attack!!"

"Holy crap, this really isn't Ripple!! The combat style of this system is completely different?! Ripple is about energy conduction, this directly summons a combat unit to fight!!"

"No wonder A-Guang wasn't panicking at all... He completely changed the combat system!!"

"DIO has returned from the sea... If Jotaro, the third protagonist, has a Stand... does that mean DIO also has a Stand?!"

"The Land of Light is playing something very new; they've rebuilt a completely new combat system!!!"

The scene continues to unfold, and more characters appear.

Joseph appears as an old man with white hair and a white beard, but the cunning and vitality in his eyes have not been diminished by the years.

Kakyoin Noriaki, wearing a green school uniform and with red hair, has a green body floating in front of him when the camera focuses on him.

The Emperor's Green.

The scene cuts to a flashback of Kakyoin's first encounter with Jotaro in the desert, with green tentacle Stands surrounding Star Platinum from all sides.

Jean-Pierre Polnareff, his silver hair fluttering in the wind, with a silver double appearing behind him.

Silver Chariot!

The silver chariot held a longsword, the tip of which sliced ​​through the air at incredible speed, producing a sharp, piercing sound.

Muhammad Abuder stood silently before a burning bonfire, with a hawk-like figure with wings made entirely of flames hovering behind him.

The Red Magician!!!

The outline of the flames spread outwards in waves of heat as the falcon flapped its wings.

The screen went black.

A line of text appeared in bold white font on the black screen—

"I'm not human anymore! JOJO!"

This is Dio's most classic line from the first movie, and now it's placed at the end of the third movie's PV, making it a perfect echo of the beginning and the end.

The entire PV lasts for two minutes and fifteen seconds.

From beginning to end, the comment section remained relatively quiet until the moment the screen went black, at which point the comments flooded out.

"I'm done being human—JOJO!! This callback!! I'm going to ascend to heaven on the spot!!"

"Avdol's Stand is red flame! Kakyoin's is green! Polnareff's is silver knight! Jotaro's is Star Platinum—each Stand has a different design!!"

"This isn't the third installment of the Ripple Wars series with unlimited refills!!! It's a completely different fighting system!! Stands!! This is called a Stand!!"

"Those who previously accused me of rehashing old ideas, please change your IDs to 'Today is another day I've been slapped in the face by A-Guang,' and then go to the comments section to issue a formal apology!!"

Da Mi sat at her workstation, stunned.

"Director Yang, I was wrong. I'll go and arrange a special page for the stunt double's design right now."

When Yang Qian saw the message, she was at her desk reviewing the final storyboard draft for the third part.

After reading the news about rice, he chuckled, put down his phone, and turned to the next page.

Less than ten minutes after the PV was released, JOJO-related topics completely dominated the trending topics on major social media platforms.

Ordinary viewers are still repeatedly watching the battle scenes, analyzing the Stand's appearance details and possible fighting styles frame by frame.

Numerous content creators have already produced the first batch of analytical videos with astonishing efficiency, and are conducting in-depth discussions on the attributes of the main characters' stand-ins that have been revealed.

Among them, the well-known UP master [Not a Cat Girl] uploaded a video titled "In-depth Analysis of the Substitute System: A Standard Narrative of 'New System Rise to Power'" less than 45 minutes after the PV was released.

He compared the Ripple battles in the first and second parts with the Stand abilities shown in the third part's PV, item by item.

"All battles in the Ripple Era were based on the same energy foundation. Breathing, energy conduction, the intensity of Ripple, and the skill in using it determined the outcome, but Stands are different."

Jotaro's Star Platinum is a close-range power type, meaning his fighting style is close-range suppression;

Kakyoin's Emperor's Green can unleash ranged attacks, meaning his role leans more towards mid-to-long-range control.

Each Stand is an independent combat system, and each battle is a completely new understanding and game of strategy.

After the video was released, it was quickly pushed to the homepage recommendation position by the platform's algorithm, and thousands of comments flooded the comment section within twenty minutes.

The top-rated comment only had one sentence: "UP, didn't you say in the comments section an hour ago that JOJO Part 3 was just rehashing old material?"

The content creator replied with a bowing emoji with hands clasped together.

"Please leave this video on the pillar of shame where I have already been publicly executed. From now on, I am also a staunch supporter of the Stand system."

On Weibo, #JOJOPart3Stand# became the number one trending topic just half an hour after the PV was released.

Upon entering the topic page, the first things you see are the top few posts.

"Before the PV was released, I said something like this: any work will drop in quality once it starts endlessly refilling. Now I take back what I said. Sorry! I spoke too loudly."

"Those who were pessimistic about Part 3 before, including myself, were essentially using the ceiling of the Ripple system to measure the upper limit of the JoJo universe's possibilities. But Hikaru never intended to stay below the ceiling; he ripped it off."

"From the Golden Spirit to the intense battles to the new strategic combat, I can't even find a suitable category to define the genre of the third installment, which means we will see entirely new battles."

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, this is truly bizarre!! Everyone, I'm starting to look forward to Part 3!!"

The second hour was spent in the community of anime and manga enthusiasts and fan creators.

Someone extracted frame by frame from the high-speed fighting scene in the PV where Jotaro summons Star Platinum and made it into a GIF. The caption for the repost was only two words.

"A divine product."

Someone started a creative contest under the topic, asking "What would your stand-in be?" and the comments section quickly turned into a huge exchange of creative ideas.

Some have envisioned a stand-in capable of manipulating sound frequencies, while others have conceived of a stand-in that could turn back time by three seconds.

Some people have seriously argued, "If a Stand's ability is to prevent all instant noodles from cooking properly, what can it do in battle?"

All sorts of bizarre and outlandish stand-in designs are springing up like mushrooms after rain, so fast that people can't even finish reading each one before being overwhelmed by new ideas.

"I'm going to make a bold statement: Stardust Expedition will redefine the framework of battle anime."

Fan art began to appear in large quantities less than two hours after the PV was released.

The artists responded to the impact of this work with an almost frantic pace of creation.

An illustration of Star Platinum's purple figure standing side-by-side with Jotaro; a black-and-white sketch of DIO extending his arm from the iron coffin at the bottom of the sea; a chibi-style manga of Joseph appearing as an old man...

The number of shares and likes under each picture is climbing at an astonishing rate.

In the third hour, an even more unexpected phenomenon occurred: female audience members entered the theater.

In the typical user profile of long-running battle anime, female viewers are usually not among the first to respond.

However, in the PV data report for the third installment, the viewing time and interaction rate of female viewers showed a clear upward trend.

"The existence of Stands means that combat is no longer entirely dependent on physical strength. This means that female characters can participate in combat in a more diverse way, no longer limited to the Ripple system that has strict requirements for physical fitness."

"I've been following the series since the first part, but to be honest, while the Ripple system's fighting style is exciting, it doesn't feel very engaging to me. The Stand system makes me feel like I can create my own Stand—everyone can have their own ability in the world of JoJo, and that feels so different."

When the final playback data was released, the head of the publicity team stared at the graph in the background for a long time before silently typing a message in the work group.

"Director Yang, we can start drawing storyboards for the fourth film."

The next day.

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Expedition" has officially started airing!

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