Entertainment to the death, make a tokusatsu film that will crush the entire internet.

On the night the PV for "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Expedition" was released, the discussion on social media platforms continued until 3 a.m.

Countless people are asking the same question under this topic: "Now that the PV is out, when will the full movie be released? In a week? In two weeks? Or longer?"

No one expected the answer to come so quickly.

The next morning, Starlight Video's homepage banner was changed to a completely new promotional image without any warning.

Jotaro Kujo occupies the center of the screen, with the phantom of Star Platinum appearing behind him.

Above the banner, in gold lettering, is the text: "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Expedition premieres today at 12:00 noon, with a simultaneous online collaboration event on the Land of Light game platform."

Typically, there is a promotional period of at least several weeks or even months between the PV of a major animation and the actual film, which is used to generate buzz, warm up the audience, and maintain the topic's popularity.

However, the Land of Light skipped all the intermediate procedures, leaving no window for its competitors to snipe or follow up.

At the same time, the Honkai Impact 3rd game client pushed out an announcement that left all players stunned on the login screen.

"To celebrate the premiere of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusade,' all servers are receiving a free 30-pull of crystals!"

The following instructions are attached.

All players who logged in before the specified date can receive the supply crystals needed for a total of 30 consecutive draws in their mailbox upon logging in, without needing to complete any tasks, sign in, or have any recharge records.

Along with the rewards, a limited-edition decorative item, the Stardust Hat, also featured by Jotaro, will be given away.

"Wait, wait, wait!! Am I seeing things? 3,000 crystals? Thirty consecutive draws? Just given away for free?? No prerequisite quests at all???"

"I've played so many anime-style mobile games, and I've never seen such generous rewards before—the last time they gave out ten free pulls, I had to log in for seven consecutive days to claim it, but here in the Land of Light, they give out thirty pulls in a row, and you can claim it just by logging in?!"

"Holy crap! This isn't just being generous, it's practically shoving freebies into players' mouths!! Other games give things away like squeezing toothpaste, but the Land of Light just unscrews the cap and pours it right into your bowl!!"

"The last game that dared to give away 20 free gacha pulls is already on my phone's home screen, worshipped as a god of wealth. Is the Land of Light going to become the god of wealth itself??"

"Is this the real value of having both animation and games produced by our own company? No copyright fees, no licensing fees, no middlemen—so all the money saved goes to the players?!"

"It's confirmed, it's confirmed, it's confirmed! The animation department makes money and uses it to pay for the game department's benefits; the game department gains popularity and uses it to support the animation department's marketing and promotion—the ecosystem of Land of Light has been completed. Other companies are still trying to learn from it, but they can't."

"No need for further words, let's return the favor by going to see JOJO to show our support! You just wait, Hikaru, I'll pay you back with a super-sized monthly subscription!!"

"Count me in!!"

At 11:50 a.m., there were still ten minutes until the premiere.

On Starlight Video's server monitoring panel, the real-time online user curve has begun to climb.

The on-duty engineer in the technical department stared at the data stream on the screen and silently added two ice cubes to his coffee cup.

He already had a premonition of what would happen next.

It's exactly twelve o'clock.

The title screen of the first episode of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Expedition" appeared on time for all viewers.

The scene begins with a deep blue ocean shot.

The caption reads: "1983, Northwest coast of Africa, waters off the Canary Islands."

An old salvage ship is floating on the sea in the distance.

The steel cable made a dull sound as the winch turned.

The shadows beneath the water became clearer, and their outlines gradually emerged from the surface.

It was a huge treasure chest.

The iron box was covered with a thick layer of dark green seaweed and barnacles.

The latches on the lid are all located inside, meaning the box is locked from the inside and there is no way to open it from the outside.

The sailors looked at each other, but salvaging such an underwater caisson was inherently a matter full of uncertainties, so no one paid much attention to this detail.

It wasn't until someone scraped off a piece of seaweed from the surface of the treasure chest that the inscription underneath was revealed.

"D...I...O, is that a name?"

The camera focuses on the inscription, while the bass of the strings rises slowly in the background, carrying a hint of ominous lingering.

The live chat had now switched to a full-on teasing mode:

"Congratulations, brother! Inside is a treasure that has been sleeping for a hundred years, along with a 200-pound blond vampire, delivered to your bow of the ship free of charge."

"What the hell is this treasure? It's just the blonde beauty DIO. I just want to know, how will DIO die this season? He was defeated by Jonathan and sank to the bottom of the sea in the first season. He didn't appear in the second season, but the Joestar family always lived in his shadow. It's time for a complete reckoning in the third season."

"How about you sailors open it during the day? It's easier to find something at night, but the problem is this cargo has fangs."

"Sold out? It must be a vampire! You guys should rename your salvage ship the 'Emperor of Luck'. After pulling from sunken ship blind boxes for so long, we've finally gotten the biggest bomb."

The following day, an unmanned small boat was spotted on the sea.

It was the same ship that carried out the salvage mission yesterday.

There was no one on the ship, no bloodstains, no signs of a struggle, and the treasure chest had already been opened.

The box lid was wide open, and the inside was completely empty.

The camera then shifts to the Cherry Blossom Prefecture, a few months later.

At the police station, a middle-aged woman with blonde hair was hurrying in.

"Jotaro has been locked up in prison the whole time. Did he kill a lot of people?!"

"Ah! I won't listen! I won't listen!"

The police officer rubbed his forehead with a helpless expression and quickly explained, "Madam, please don't get agitated. Your son didn't kill anyone; he was just fighting."

"The four armed thugs were all taken to the hospital, suffering a total of fifteen fractures."

The officer's expression was a mixture of indescribable complex emotions. "One of them was injured in a particularly unfortunate location. The doctor said the damage to his genitals is irreversible."

The screen remained silent for less than a second.

"??? What did you say??? Reproductive organs what???"

"What did I just hear? It exploded?? It really exploded?! He smashed the thug's balls?!?!"

"Jotaro achieved the feat of 'ball-crushing' in his very first battle—a record that's absolutely phenomenal in the entire JoJo's Bizarre Adventure world!!"

"Madam, you don't need to imagine it now. We are the ones who need to imagine what it feels like to be blown up. Just typing this line makes me feel a chill down there."

In the prison corridor, Holly followed the prison guards through one iron gate after another.

The scene cuts into Holly's mind.

Young Jotaro bounces a ball and adorably calls out "Mama."

Young Jotaro stood under a cherry blossom tree with his schoolbag on his back. He was slender and tall with delicate features.

Jotaro, a high school student, stands at the school gate, wearing a perfectly pressed black school uniform without a single wrinkle, his face still clean and handsome.

He's a handsome young man, and has always been his mother's proudest and most obedient child.

The comments section was struck by the beautiful young Jotaro in those few flashback frames.

"His profile in high school was so handsome, with that clean-cut, youthful look."

"My wife said that Jotaro was especially well-behaved and polite when he was a child, and I believe that, because young Jotaro was just ridiculously cute."

"But... but the Jotaro in the PV and the Jotaro in this flashback are completely different people?! What has time done to you?!"

"Madam, are you sure you didn't switch babies? How did this beautiful little boy grow up to be able to beat someone to a pulp?!"

The flashback ends, and Holly is standing at the cell door.

"Jotaro!!"

"Shut up! You're so noisy, you stinking woman!!!"

An angry growl came from deep within the cell.

Camera angle change.

A young man wearing a dark school uniform and a black baseball cap is sitting cross-legged on a metal bunk bed.

He was about 1.95 meters tall, and his school uniform was stretched taut by his overly muscular chest and shoulders.

The brim of his hat was pulled low, covering most of his face, revealing only his sharp jawline and tightly pursed lips.

He simply sat there, radiating an aura that made people hesitant to approach him.

The live chat exploded with comments!

"Madam, is this the well-behaved, adorable child you described, the one who even makes way for ants when walking?! Do you have some serious misunderstanding of the word 'well-behaved'?!"

"That muscle mass!! That shoulder width!! That fullness!! Ma'am, are you sure your son's training only consists of reading and doing homework?? Didn't he tell you he also goes to the gym to lift weights??"

"Madam, who was that gentle, handsome young man you showed me in the flashback?! Didn't your conscience hurt when you used that photo to lie to me?!"

"Okay, let me give a preliminary conclusion to this season of JOJO: the first generation JOJO was a noble gentleman, the second generation was a street thug, and the third generation was a young master of the underworld. The Joestar family bloodline has finally moved towards dominating the Sakura Province in this generation."

However, that is the truth.

Jotaro Kujo is the burly, bull-like, and terrifyingly angry young man standing before you.

And he is none other than Holly's biological son!

There was no mix-up at birth, no adoption, and no external factors that could provide a reasonable explanation for this stark contrast.

Genes are just that unpredictable.

No one knew that after the genes and bloodline of the two Qiaos, who had roamed various battlefields, were passed down to his delicate and beautiful daughter, a fierce tiger would grow from his grandchildren.

Holly didn't react to the roar; as a woman of the Joestar family, she naturally viewed Jotaro through a motherly lens.

"Jotaro, you can go home now. The police said you acted in self-defense and you don't need to bear any responsibility."

Jotaro rolled over. "You go back first. I'm going to stay here a little longer."

Holly was naturally unwilling; she had finally seen her son, how could she just go back like this?

Seeing this, Jotaro finally told the truth, "I'm possessed by an evil spirit. I don't know it's there or when it will appear."

"Even during the fight, I was desperately trying to stop that evil spirit, but..."

He didn't continue.

The comments section was no longer filled with jokes and laughter.

"He locked himself in jail because he was afraid that evil spirits would harm innocent people; he was just a seventeen-year-old boy."

"The same Golden Spirit as Jonathan: facing danger himself to protect others from harm. The Joestar family's Golden Spirit is passed down through generations."

"A child who has been so well-behaved since childhood was suddenly possessed by a power that he couldn't understand. He watched helplessly as his fists broke four people's bones, and he had no way to control the burst of power. Anyone would be afraid of him."

To prove that his words were not just an excuse, Jotaro demonstrated his abilities.

Beer that shouldn't exist in prison, comic books floating into his hands, and broadcasts that started playing without any control.

Everything proves that evil spirits really exist!

But Jotaro didn't stop; he reached out his hand.

A semi-transparent hand appeared out of thin air, extending from behind Jotaro's shoulder.

The officer's sidearm was grabbed by that semi-transparent hand.

The pistol was suddenly pulled out and flew into Jotaro's hand.

Jotaro then pointed the gun at his own head.

boom! ! !

The bullet left the barrel, and everyone saw the bullet fly straight toward his skull—

But... the bullet hovered less than two centimeters from Jotaro's temple, gently pinched between the index and middle fingers of that hand.

"Catching a bullet with bare hands is so cool! This is the only image that's left in my mind right now."

"Officer: What did I just see...? A gunshot...? The bullet missed...? Wait, what caught the bullet?"

Jotaro released his grip, and the bullet clattered to the ground. "See? This is the evil spirit."

The scene shifts to the exit of Sakura Province International Airport.

Holly walked quickly through the crowd until her gaze locked onto a familiar figure, and her eyes immediately welled up with tears.

"dad!"

A tall, robust, white-haired old man stood at the exit of the station.

Although his hair was completely white and his face was etched with wrinkles that bore the marks of time, he stood ramrod straight.

Joseph Joestar, the previous generation of JOJO, the second Joseph Joestar.

The comments section erupted again the moment this shot appeared:

"Holy crap! It's Joseph Joestar!!"

"At the end of the last movie, he was a muscular hunk, but now he's become a muscular old man!!"

"I knew it!! Holly really is Joseph and Suggie Q's child!! Now everything makes sense!!"

"Grandpa, you were a master of manipulation in your youth, capable of punching Pillar Men and kicking vampires. Now that your grandson is possessed by an evil spirit, you've finally arrived!!"

"Two generations of JoJo in the same frame!!! This season features a grandfather-grandson duo!! So awesome!!!"

Joseph came specifically to deal with the "evil spirit possessing Jotaro" that Holly mentioned in her letter.

At the same time, he was accompanied by a man in a dark robe, Abdul.