So I finally finished watching Diamond is Unbreakable, and I was pretty disappointed overall. I'm not saying it was shit or anything like that, but if the name of the show and characters had different designs, I wouldn't have been able to identify this as anything other than an anime knockoff of Jojo rather than it actually being a Jojo series. My main complaints for the series that it took much too long for anything plot related to happen. The plot was setup more for an excuse to have a whole bunch of Stand battles, but while that worked in Stardust Crusader because they were always moving toward a clearly defined goal, the end goal of Diamond was to find Kira. But at no point did they ever really seem to actually look for him, other than Jotaro and Rohan. They say they're "looking" for him but they never show them doing so unless it's an episode where they actually get closer to Kira, and those are pretty far and in between. Heck, in the end, they only figure out who Kira is through the efforts of another character that only got introduced near the very end of the story, and had literally no relation to any of the main characters.
The other big problem is the fact that Josuke isn't even the main character. He's a cool guy, and has a solid character, but most of the series focuses on either Koichi or Jotaro. In fact, in the first half, Koichi seems to get multiple fights where he is 1v1 against other stand users, but when Josuke gets into fights, he usually has some sort of back up, and his fights never really come off as being particularly clever. There are a few exceptions, but I can mainly think of only 4 moments that had me going "Oh SHIT!" when he revealed a plan, when previous Jojos had that happening 3-5 times in every fucking fight. Instead Josuke usually seems to be relegated to being the calvary. Someone else will pull of something incredibly dangerous and sacrifice life/limb, and their sacrifice gets him to realize there's a Stand fight happening, and then he shows up to Doradora the fuck out of them. And in the end, his final fight with Kira is basically that same principle, except done badly. Josuke only wins because everyone found the fight happening, but he wasn't even trying to get them to realize that was happening. So he survives off a healthy dose of pure luck, and then Jotaro gets to be the one to actually save everyone anyways with his Time Stop.
On top of all of that, there was this weird attempt at a theme about the town coming together, but that doesn't pan out because they never really stuck with it. In the OPs and multiple scenes they try and portray it as all the Stand users are working together to stop Kira, except none of them take part in anything that fucking matters, other than the scenes where the meet with Reimi. And even then, most of them are fucking psychopaths who were never shown to have any good qualities. So why did the story pretend they were actually supposed to be considered as some of the heroes?
Lastly, the final fight was pretty underwhelming. It had some good moments, but it wasn't any better than most of the other stand fights that happened throughout the series. And that happened right after the "Bites the Dust" episodes which were actually REALLY FUCKING GOOD. And they pretty hamfistedly kept multiple main characters out of the final fight despite them being right next to a bunch of explosions and screaming going off, even though Killer Queen had been portrayed as giving them quite a bit of trouble even before Kira got an extra two Stand Abilities for the final fight. It seemed weird to throw those characters all away and just ignore them for the final big fight.
Anyways, I just wanted to post my thoughts on it since it seems to be pretty well regarded over here, and I was curious to see what other people specifically liked about it. Once again, I'm not calling it SHIT or anything, but this really seemed like basic standard anime to me, which is a shame after seeing shit like Battle Tendencies and Stardust Crusaders.