Web Animation / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: One Cartoonist's Dream

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: One Cartoonist's Dream is a duology of fan musical videos that fuse the characters and stories from the popular manga by Hirohiko Araki with Disney. Specifically, songs from Disney films are given new lyrics from the point of view of JoJo characters and sung by the project's vocalists, who base their performances on the characters' voices from The New '10s' anime adaptation, (or, barring that, the fighting games). Each song is accompanied by artwork consisting of the JoJo performing it traced from Disney characters who look and sometimes are similar to them. For example, Enrico Pucci from Part 6 has his song based on "Hellfire" and his artwork traced from Claude Frollo.

The result seems on the surface like a ridiculous combination, considering the parent franchise's completely opposing tones, but to many who see it, it just works. Both videos cover Parts One through Seven. The song bases for each Part and who sings them are listed below:

ver. HEROES

• Phantom Blood: "I Just Can't Wait to be King", with Jonathan Joestar, Robert E.O. Speedwagon, and William A. Zeppeli
• Battle Tendency: "You've Got A Friend In Me", with Joseph Joestar and Caesar Zeppeli
• Stardust Crusaders: "Friend Like Me" with Jotaro Kujo, Joseph Joestar, Noriaki Kakyoin, Mohammed Avdol, Jean-Pierre Polnareff, and Iggy
• Diamond Is Unbreakable: "Hakuna Matata" with Josuke Higashikata, Okuyasu Nijimura, Koichi Hirose, and brief appearances from Reimi Sugimoto and Rohan Kishibe
• Golden Wind: "Go the Distance" with Giorno Giovanna, Bruno Bucciarati, Leone Abbachio, Panacotta Fugo, Narancia Ghirga, and Trish Una
• Stone Ocean: "When Will My Life Begin" with Jolyne Kujoh, Ermes Costello, and Foo Fighters
• Steel Ball Run: "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" with Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli
• Epilogue: "That's How You Know" with Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, Josuke Higashikata, Giorno Giovanna, Jolyne Cujoh, and Johnny Joestar

ver. VILLAINS

• Phantom Blood: "Gaston", with Dio Brando and the unnamed goons who cheered him on
• Battle Tendency: "The Oogie Boogie Man", with Santana, Rudol von Stroheim, Wamuu, Esidisi, and Kars
• Stardust Crusaders: "Prince Ali" with DIO, Vanilla Ice, Nukesaku, Mariah, Midler, Enyaba, N'Doul, Hol Horse, Pet Shop, and Steely Dan
• Diamond Is Unbreakable: "Poor Unfortunate Souls" with Yoshikage Kira and his father
• Golden Wind gets two.
  • "Be Prepared" with Risotto Nero, Ghiaccio, Pesci, Melone, Prosciutto, Formaggio, and Illuso
  • "The Mob Song" with Diavolo, Vinegar Doppio, Cioccolata, and Secco
• Stone Ocean: "Hellfire" with Enrico Pucci
• Steel Ball Run: "This Is Halloween" with Funny Valentine, Scarlet Valentine, Pork Pie Hat, Dr. Ferdinand, Ringo Roadagain, Axl RO, Magenta Magenta, Mike O., Blackmore, the Eleven Riders, and Alternate Diego Brando
• Epilogue: "It's Our House Now" with Dio Brando, Kars, DIO, Yoshikage Kira, Risotto Nero, Diavolo, Enrico Pucci, Original Funny Valentine, and Alternate Diego Brando

The project was the brainchild of Nico Nico Douga user ぴーころ大魔王. JoJoJunkie subtitled them into English.

ver. HEROES can be watched with English subtitles here, and ver. VILLAINS can be watched with English subtitles here, but be warned that they contain major spoilers for all Parts.

Compare Undertale the Musical and Chrono Trigger: The Musical as Internet-based fan musical projects.

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Tropes found in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: One Cartoonist's Dream songs and artwork include:

• Adaptational Attractiveness:
  • Formaggio, while not exactly unattractive by any means, was a lot more gangly in the source material. Here, he's portrayed by the Hunky Prince Eric.
  • Pork Pie Hat Kid is rather cute compared to the Gonk he is in the manga.
  • Vocal example. Magenta Magenta is stated to have an extremely grating voice, not unlike (ironically) Donald Duck. Here, he has a deep, smooth voice.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Wamuu and Esidisi become goonish-looking Gonks.
• Adaptational Villainy: Meta example: "Prince Ali" was not a Villain Song in its movie of origin, but is the basis for DIO's song in ver. VILLAINS. And it works spectacularly.
• Adapted Out:
  • There is no mention of Part 8 anywhere.
  • Lisa Lisa never appears in either Part 2 song despite being a major character of Battle Tendency.
• Ambition Is Evil: La Squadra's song is all about their ambition to overthrow the Boss and take over Passione.
• And the Adventure Continues: ver. HEROES ends with "The blood of justice / will always shine / No matter how many more adventures!"
• "Arabian Nights" Days: Stardust Crusaders travels across Arabia and into Egypt. Both of its songs are from Aladdin.
• Bat Family Crossover: The epilogue of ver. HEROES has all the JoJos up to Johnny singing about their blood ties and how great it is to be alive.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Averted with Kars. Amusingly, the canon universe contains infinitely more shocking things than male nipples, yet plays this trope straight with regards to them, when the Trope Codifier of family-friendly animation generally depicts them.
• Card-Carrying Villain:
  • At one point, DIO calls himself "bottomless evil personified."
  • Everyone in the "It's Our House Now" parody.
• Crosscast Role: Of a sort. Blackmore is portrayed by Mulan and Johnny is traced from Jessie.

• Casting Gag: According to the credits, the same vocalist voiced Kars and Magenta Magenta. The latter's fate is a Call-Back to the former's, even using the words "stopped thinking."

• Crowd Song: Most of Funny Valentine's and parts of DIO's songs are performed by their entourages.
• Disneyesque: You think?
• Easter Egg: There are a few Hidden Mickeys to be found in the artwork, such as on Kira's tie and Mike O.'s balloon animal, because if there's no Mickey, this shit ain't Disney.
• Evil Laugh: Kars and DIO each indulge in one at the end of their songs.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Every Big Bad except the alternate Funny Valentine and, should you count him, Doppio, as in canon. Many of the supporting villains as well.
• Fan Disservice: "Fatty Valentine", portrayed by Governor Ratcliffe with a Heavy Voice, seemingly getting really excited in the Legion of Doom song.
• Funny Background Event: Kira calls Kosaku Kawajiri's boss to let him know that he'll be late for work the next day while all the other villains are talking over each other. For a short time, on top of that is Kars doing air guitar again.

• Gratuitous English:
  • The opening narrations for both videos.
  • Wamuu, Kars, and Esidisi call themselves the Pillar Men instead of Hashira no Otoko in order to fit the tune of "The Oogie Boogie Song."
  • DIO's followers declare him "King of The World."
  • The Golden Wind heroes' song contains a lot of this despite all characters involved being Italian.
  • Combined with Mood Whiplash in Gyro and Johnny's song. Justified in that Steel Ball Run takes place in America, so they actually are speaking English.
    Goodbye forever, for my best friend...
    • On the other side of the same Part, Valentine's "napukin."
• Heavy Voice: "Fatty Valentine" in the villains' epilogue sounds noticeably different than the slender Valentine in the preceding song.
• Mythology Gag: Too many lines to list are references to details from JoJo canon.
• Large Ham:
  • Stroheim only has a few lines, but what memorable lines they are. From the same song, Kars.
  • DIO, as usual.
• Legion of Doom: The epilogue for ver. VILLAINS has all the BigBads somehow meeting up and singing about how the Joestar family will never be able to stop them now.
• Literal-Minded: One of Ghiaccio's two lines references this trait of his.
  Ghiaccio: But I thought drugs didn't have legs?
• Lyrical Dissonance: Given how wildly different in tone and content Disney movies and JJBA are, this was inevitable in some songs.
  • Jolyne's song is based on the upbeat and sunny "When Will My Life Begin," but contains references to masturbation, hiding money in one's breasts, and sharing panties.
  • Johnny and Gyro's song starts out cheery and goofy, with Gyro's Cheese Song and the fun times the duo share, but then takes a sharp turn into this when it becomes about Gyro's death and Johnny saying goodbye to him.

• Obsession Song: Much like its source material, Pucci's. His obsession is Dio.
• Only Sane Man: Kira just wanted to have a quiet night, but gets dragged into a party with all the other villains.
• Only Six Faces: Many, many male characters are traced from Hercules, Aladdin, or Tarzan.
• Race Lift: Few characters are the same ethnicity as their bases. Most obviously, the White French Polnareff is portrayed by Shang, making him look more Asian than most of the Japanese characters.
• R-Rated Opening: Much like its source material, Jolyne's song begins with masturbation.
• Recursive Fanfiction: Riverdude Covers wrote and performed a song for Part 8: "Out There" with Norisuke and Josuke.
  • Empty Universe is making animatics for each song.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Possibly Kakyoin and Avdol (and Iggy), who are still the only ones to sing the line "even if our lives end here". When the Stardust Crusaders sing of parting at the end of their journey, these characters' voices are still among them, but the lines quoted from the manga of Jotaro, Joseph, and Polnareff parting at the airport do not add them.
• Title Drop: From the epilogue of ver. HEROES, sung by all the JoJos:
  Our bizarre adventures / are tied through our bloodline...

• You Don't Look Like You: You'd hardly know that the modified Tarzan in ver. VILLAINS Part 2 was supposed to be Santana just from his appearance. His hair is the wrong length and color, he only has one horn, and he lacks the blue gear-shaped marking under his eye.

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