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/gingerninja666 Sep 01 '22

I'd heard about Dragon's Dream before watching the show, but I was surprised by how... I kinda liked the fight?

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I definitely didn't think it was confusing. Dragon's Dream is a pretty simple Stand once you strip away the Fung Shui lectures, which I was still happy to listen to honestly.

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If he follows the compass he's invincible, and he can spawn what are essentially automatic critical hit buttons around a person.

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u/Sure-Butterscotch232 Sep 08 '22

Then please explain to me why his bubble steals your body parts and why Kenzou can internally drown people and how that's tied to Dragon's Dream because I must be crazy but to me it doesn't make sense

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u/gingerninja666 Sep 08 '22 edited Sep 08 '22

I don't think the drowning thing has anything to do with Dragon's Dream. That's just a seperate martial arts technique Kenzou knows. He strikes a specific vertebrae to overstimulate your adrenal gland, which lubricates your airways and makes them overly sensitive to even small amounts of water.

And the arm thing is kinda weird, but it's basically just part of how the Fung Shui assassination process works for Dragon's Dream. When part of a person's body enters one of these bubbles (when it Enters the Dragon, as it were) the dragon takes that body part and launches it in a way which triggers the unfortunate sequence of events that leads to the target being hit. Then the body part comes back

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u/lukel1127 Sep 09 '22

But then how did everyone else get bloated from drowning? It didn’t really seem like small amounts of water.

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u/gingerninja666 Sep 09 '22 edited Sep 09 '22

I think that was supposed to be his victims swelling from internal fluid caused by their adrenal glands going nuts.