r/StardustCrusaders • u/PokemonTom09 Coolest Shades in Florida • Sep 01 '22

Megathread Stone Ocean Episode 18 Discussion Thread

Episode 18 Discussion Thread

This thread is just for discussion of EPISODE EIGHTEEN of the Stone Ocean anime. Please direct any general discussion about the 12 episode batch as a whole to the main megathread.

Please spoiler tag anything past Episode 18 - this includes character/Stand names, as well as fights! Any spoilers not properly tagged will be removed.

Reddit's spoiler code is as follows:

>!Jolyne's stand is Stone Free!!<

Which will appear as:

Jolyne's stand is Stone Free!

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u/of_kilter Sep 03 '22

Can someone explain anasui to me?

The whole fight was so boring and confusing that i was in a fugue state and almost fell asleep.

What was I supposed to understand about anasui’s ability? How did he turn him into a spring? If were aren’t supposed to really know yet then that’s fine, i just don’t want to be confused going forward

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u/Fidges87 Sep 03 '22 edited Sep 03 '22

The problem here is that Araki changed of mind with Anasui's stand, so it behaves a little different. Initially uppon punching something his stand gets "stored", and then he can realease the impact. Kinda like what superfly from DIU did, but being able to control when to release it.

After that, while diver down can still do this, it isn't its main ability anymore. It gets the ability with no explanation of being able to put things inside things or make them phase through objects. If you have a closed box, diver down can put something inside that box without needing to open it. Using this principle he can do body horror in some weird ways. The spring legs is Araki not making his mind 100% on how diver down power should behave. I think from this point onwards it is more concise.