Job #14: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stage - Cairo
Cairo is the capital of the country of Egypt, and the largest city in the Arab world. During the events of
Part 3: Stardust Crusaders, DIO took residence on
a mansion located there, and most of the final battle took place on its streets at nighttime. Cairo has then become an iconic location in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, appearing in all 3 fighting games of the series.
The stage takes place on the rooftops of two separate buildings, one shorter than the other, it takes place at nighttime and the city's lights can be seen, making it similar to Fourside in Smash.
Muhammad Avdol,
Jean-Pierre Polnareff,
Noriaki Kakyoin,
Iggy and
DIO appear as background characters, watching the fight on the rooftops, except for DIO, who floats observing the battle.
Occasionally, Iggy will stand up and bark, summoning his Stand,
The Fool. It will grow wings and glide into the air, and will swoop down on the stage three times, dealing damage to anyone that touches it. It then returns to Iggy and disassembles back into a pile of sand.
Job #15: 1970's Fighters
For a Jump part of this job, I'm re-submitting this for
Speed Weed
. Click a quote post to see his entire essay itself. There's other Jump mangas such as
Kinnikuman and
Space Adventure Cobra, in case people are having a hard time on thinking what to submit for this part.
Jump Fighter - Kankichi Ryotsu (KochiKame - 1976)
I'm repurposing my Ryotsu submission from the Jump vs. Capcom thread, with a few small changes. I think he deserves to be in a general anime/manga fighter just as much as in a Jump fighter cause Kochikame really is that huge. I'll see if I can come up with something for the non-Jump side of things, but Jump is definitely what I'm more familiar with when it comes to anime/manga stuff so I make no promises
Non-Jump Fighter - Captain Harlock (Space Pirate Captain Harlock - 1977)
Captain Harlock is the titular protagonist of the eponymous manga series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, created by
Leiji Matsumoto (also known for
Galaxy Express 999 and
Space Battleship Yamato) and published for Akita Shoten in 1977. He is the archetypal romantic hero, who started as an outcast and turned into a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life, after he rebelled against Earth's government and humanity's general apathy, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes while leading his outlaw crew aboard the
starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth's oppressors.
The manga itself received multiple adaptations and sequels such as Toei Animation's anime show in 1978 by a well-known anime director Rintaro himself (who even made a film, Mystery of the Arcadia, the same year), prequel series
Gun Frontier (in which he showed up as Tochiro Oyama's sidekick), origin story
Arcadia of My Youth, OVA series
Harlock Saga and
The Endless Odyssey in 1999/2002 respectively and a 2014 re-telling,
Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage. In 2013, a
3D CG movie was released on theaters in Japan, pretty much as awesome as "Lupin III: The First", since Marza Animation Planet also worked on it (both animes shared a same voice actor, Makio Inoue, who
unfortunately passed away.
Mr. Robotto
)
Harlock himself has achieved
notable popularity and cultural impact such as having won a "favorite character" award in the first annual Anime Grand Prix, appeared in the third set of "Anime Heroes and Heroines" stamps and inspired many manga/anime characters thanks to his strong, stoic appearance and manners, like Sailor Moon's
Tuxedo Mask, Osamu Tezuka's creation
Black Jack (presumably), Last Exile's
Alex Row and Cowboy Bebop's
Vicious (even having a bird on his shoulder;
Hadokeyblade
may like this). His series was
referenced in western creations such as Megas XLR by
Captain Warlock, Star Wars by
Lando's disguise in Marvel's original comic series and Steven Universe as a inspiration for
Lars' outfit in the episode "Lars of the Stars". It even worked as
one of the inspirations for SEGA's
Skies of Arcadia, as shown by "Arcadia" on a title, flying ships and Vyse's design (hairstyle, eyepatch and scars, check).
For his moveset, Harlock is able to utilize
his combat skills such as martial arts for his melee/normal, agile attacks and weapons like his signature weapon, the
Gravity Saber (sword/rifle combo), the
Cosmo Dragoon (gun) and
throwing knifes. Of course, one of his ultimate moves would involve the iconic
starship Arcadia itself, able to wreck up and shoot down opponents with it's powerful weapons such as
neutro bombs,
a underslung cannon, turrets, etc. albeit similarly to Ruby Heart's Partenaire Hyper Combo in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.