Created by Hirohiko Araki, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has become one of the most read series of all time. Araki started writing the manga back in 1987, and he has shown no signs of stopping. Unlike most manga where the story follows just one main protagonist, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is divided into multiple parts.
Each part focuses on a different protagonist, which makes it different in comparison to the rest of the manga series. One of the key components of any manga is its unique power, which in the case of JoJo are Stands. The Stands are given unique names, but in the English translation the names are lost due to localization, and this raises the question of what leads to the localization of Stand names?
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Before Stands were a thing, Hamon was the main power in the series, and they remained in that position for the first two parts, but as Araki continued to write and improve, he dropped the idea of Hamon, and created Stands to replace it. Ever since their introduction in Stardust Crusaders, Stands have retained their position as the main power in JoJo. Stands are the manifestation of a person's life energy, and they take different forms depending on the type of Stand. While making Stands was extremely careful about how he would use them in the story and how they would be named. Each Stand has a unique name, and they are based on different people, and even objects.
In Stardust Crusaders, the Stands in the first half were based on the Major Arcana of the Tarot, and the Stands in the second half were named after Egyptian Gods, which falls with the theme of Part 3. However, a few Stands were based on neither the Major Arcana nor the Egyptian Gods.
It is plausible to say that Stands
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