Stand fights stop being about winning and start being about how creatively you can kill someone in twenty-two minutes. Every Egyptian god user brings a power so specific, so absurdly tailored to one scenario, that you're watching the show invent new rules mid-battle just to make the next one land differently. The animation doesn't just show you these fights, it sells you on the idea that a man whose power is "bad things happen near him" is a legitimate threat to your hero, and you believe it, every single time.

After thirty days of traveling the world and fighting battle after battle, Jotaro Kujo and his companions Joseph, Avdol, Kakyoin and Polnareff finally reach Egypt, where the immortal vampire Dio waits. On arrival they pick up a reluctant new ally, Iggy, a mutt whose Stand is called The Fool. With all fourteen of Dio's Tarot minions defeated, Dio sends nine more Stand users against them, each wielding a Stand modeled on an ancient Egyptian god. Time is short: Jotaro's mother lies under a curse, and only defeating Dio can save her. The group pushes on toward Cairo to face Dio and his all-powerful Stand, The World, in a supernatural action adventure that continues the first half of Stardust Crusaders.