Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a sigh with a swagger: Jotaro's way of declaring that he has seen the problem, found it tiresome, and is about to flatten it anyway. Its flat, weary cool made him the template for a whole breed of anime tough guys, and the phrase is a fixture of fan memes, cosplay and subtitled-versus-dubbed arguments over how to translate it. Saying it with a hand on your hat brim is a recognised in-joke.
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In context
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Jotaro Kujo is the hero of Part 3 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stardust Crusaders (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1989 to 1992), a school-uniformed delinquent who sets out from Japan with his grandfather Joseph Joestar and their allies to reach Cairo and defeat DIO. He mutters the line, usually rendered 'Good grief' in English, at nearly every absurd or irritating turn of the journey, and he keeps saying it in the later parts where he returns. Araki has said he modelled Jotaro on Clint Eastwood, and the catchphrase was an imitation of the laconic lines Eastwood's characters delivered.
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- Wikipedia: Jotaro KujoCreation and conceptionReference checked
- JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia: Jotaro Kujopage header quote and leadReference checked
- JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia: Stardust CrusadersSummaryReference checked
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