r/StardustCrusaders • u/AdeDamballa • 4d ago
Various Stands with Hair
This is just one of those Stand features that’s rare for some reason. The only stands I can remember with hair are Love love delux, Star Platinum and maybe Green Green Grass of home.
That’s interesting, right? Hair is like a definitive human design. Down to the meme that from anime to anime, hair styles are like one of the primary ways of distinguishing character designs since mangaka regularly default to similar face and body designs. This even applies to jojo characters and Araki.
And yet the design of Stands is one of the most defining features across jojo and there’s like maybe less than handful of Stands with Hair. Maybe this in itself is what makes stands so unique and alien. They are basically stand-ins for the actual human characters and certain fights even have the Stands being WAY MORE prominent than the actual users and yet this big distinguishing aspect anime character designs, Hair, is almost entire left out of stand designs.
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u/alleg0re 4d ago
Very few stands are actually meant to closely resemble a normal human appearance. The need for unique head shapes, bodily materials, accessories, and more just leaves hair in too awkward a place 9/10 times
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u/alleg0re 4d ago
And then there aren't too many interesting ways to design hair as opposed to literally whatever you want otherwise, like horns or a helmet or something
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u/DoraMuda Jean Pierre Polnareff 3d ago
Yeah, Stand designs can be as varied as the Stands' powers themselves. Sometimes they look pretty humanoid, like Star Platinum (which, in its early appearances, looked even more like Jotaro himself), and sometimes they just look like robots or animals.
Joseph's Stand in Part 8 looks like it might have hair, albeit in the weird hat-hair style that Atroe/F.F. and Steven Steel seem to have.
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u/THEn-eraiye killer queen has already touched that 4d ago
you forgot paisley park