It’s a Wonderful World
Jolyne seems to be in a rage, while Jotaro seems to be trying to calm her down. It’s clear that something is wrong.
Jolyne, Jotaro, Anastasia, and Ermes’s souls don’t exist in this new world.
Pucci plans to kill Emporio in order to create a new, peaceful world where no one can hurt him. Emporio tries fleeing, but Pucci says it’s futile. Emporio learns that the events that transpired in the original world occur similarly to this one. However, Emporio desires to stay and fight against Pucci, despite knowing the risks. ..
Emporio hears a guard from the previous world remember events. Pucci enters the hallway and knocks them out. He tells Emporio there’s no point in challenging fate as Emporio flees into another room using his powers. Emporio ponders Pucci’s words about alternate realities and recalls his studies about this phenomenon from books he read.
Pucci enters the next room and starts chasing Emporio. During his chase, Pucci talks about this new world’s laws. He claims that everyone who transferred over to this alternate world can recall the future and have their souls blessed. This is the happiness Pucci strived for with Maiden Heaven since people can now prepare for the future. ..
Emporio finds a gun he had dropped in the ocean and promises not to head for the Ghost Room since Pucci knows it exists. When trying to flee, Emporio gets hurt by a nearby mop and is sent falling down some stairs. Pucci towers over Emporio. While he knows some details may vary, Emporio cannot change fate. Before Pucci strikes Emporio, they both get sent into his ghost room.
Emporio inserts Weather Report’s memory and Stand disc into his head. In the ghost room, Emporio reveals that Pucci accidentally inserted the disc into his head when he punched him into the crack. He gained the other disc from Jolyne during their exchange. The two begin their fight, and before Pucci strikes he gets sent flying into the piano.
Pucci is baffled by this development as he finds it difficult to stand up. Emporio explains that Oxygen is the most prevalent toxin that surrounds living organisms. While living beings need oxygen to survive, it can’t surpass 40% saturation. Pure oxygen is toxic to humans as they will die if they’re exposed to it in high concentrations. In high concentrations, it destroys the body’s organ systems one at a time. ..
Inhaling pure oxygen causes people’s limbs to become paralyzed and their eyes to burst, causing blindness. Acceleration time won’t help Pucci in this case as he’s experiencing everything Emporio explained. Emporio says he’s been filling the room with pure oxygen, so Pucci will eventually lose consciousness. Emporio says he doesn’t cause this, this is the rage Weather Report built up that’ll lead to Pucci’s demise.
Pucci begs for his life and offers to stop himself from achieving Maiden Heaven at Cape Canaveral. Pucci doesn’t want to perish as it’ll undo everything he’s accomplished. He argues preparation brings true happiness, and to eradicate that would be villainous. Emporio and Weather Report’s Stand punch Pucci so hard that it causes the universe to reset again. ..
Emporio wakes up in a strange place near Green Dolphin Street Prison. He hears Ermes yelling at a bus driver on the bus. He investigates the area and learns that Ermes doesn’t remember who he is or what they’ve done together. The bus driver throws Ermes’s belongings out of the bus, leading her to yell at Emporio for wasting her time. Anastasia offers to give them a ride somewhere if they hand him cash for gas and meals.
Anastasia reveals to Jolyne that she is in this universe and that she is unsure if her father will give them their blessing for marriage. Jolyne introduces Emporio to them with tears in his eyes.
In the episode, Anastasia picks up a man on the road and he turns out to be Weather Report. Jolyne asks Anastasia to pick him up so that everyone from F.F. and Jotaro has survived in this universe but doesn’t retain the memories from the previous world.
The Episode Review
The finale of Stone Ocean delivers a charming yet bittersweet send-off to the series. Hearing JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’s first ending theme play as our heroes drive off into the sunset filled me with joy and wonder. While it isn’t perfect, Stone Ocean’s finale delivers a fitting end to the series. ..
Many fans will likely feel nostalgia at the ending, which doesn’t hold back on its factor. Besides the ending, David Productions included a neat homage to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’s history too. We get a brief snippet of every JoJo protagonist from Phantom Blood to Stone Ocean. These extra additions will surely get a cheer and smile from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fanbase. ..
This episode also surprised me with Pucci’s defeat, as I’d anticipated that he’d won. The whole chase sequence dragged on for a long time, though. Many may feel the same as Emporio enters his ghost room. While it’s fitting for Pucci to lose to the same entity he trapped years ago, their bout felt somewhat contrived. To some extent, it would’ve been great to receive one more episode to flesh out the fight between Emporio and Pucci.
The ending of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean was bittersweet. It had some fun action, breathtaking visuals, and hard-hitting nostalgia for long-time fans, but it didn’t sit well with me that the universe reset itself in an elongated chase sequence. ..
