Three in Japanese is "San", so if Awaking III Leaves is actually pronounced "Awaking San Trees" instead of "Awaking Three Leaves", it sounds almost exactly like Awaking Centuries.
If there is a reference, the Taiwanese pop duo "Awaking" is also a possibility. It's spelled the same and they actually had a moderate hit in the mid 00s in Taiwan, they're still by no means famous though. Plus the "III Leaves" part could just be tacked on randomly like Cream Starter and Milagro Man changing part of their names to suit them better (three leaves is just what Mitsuba's name means)
That would make sense, and it's around a timeframe where Araki would decide to reference a song. it's pretty crazy how many of theses things could be a reference, what an elusive stand
It is 1000% not "Awakenings No. 3". I was there the day the chapter dropped, and as soon as I saw that Stand name I searched it up on Spotify to see what it could be a reference to, and that song was one that came up. But at the time the plays on that song were probably less than four hundred. (I don't remember the exact number, that was years ago). The only reason it has as many views as it has now is it's one of the only songs that , has "Awak(en)ing" "III/3" and "Leaves" in its title, so people did the same thing I did and assumed it was the origin without a second thought. It's the same situation with Walking Heart being assumed to be "Walking Heart Attack" by Holland K Smith.
I see I see, i tried to find wayback machine stuff for the song but I couldn't find anything, so I just assumed it had a couple of thousand when the chapter came out. it having 400 views definitely makes it certain that it can't be the stand
@@HargMentorIt's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely. A few thousand views, or around ten thousand, is niche. 400 is essentially flat-out unknown, I've only ever encountered 1 single artist online that had fewer than a thousand views on their stuff, barring friends that share their Bandcamp tracks with me lol. And that artist had 0 monthly listeners so chances are people just listen to it once then leave. Again, not impossible, but that does make it quite unlikely.
Remember that a lot of what Araki listens to is via CD’s. James is pretty old, so I it’s safe to assume he didn’t upload his songs to Spotify himself. While it’s somewhat unlikely, it’s not impossible to assume that Araki may have gotten ahold of a CD of Jame’s music. Just a thought 🤷♀️
@@Jojodoss ok what about one thats a refrenced to the piano song "the banshee" and that song doesnt use the piano keys, its actually someone going into the piano strings and plucking them, if that didnt make sense then just look it up.
A stand that can "silence" (disable) other stands, making it so that no stand can be manifested in a certain area around itself. As such in order to beat the user the good guys have to find a way to beat the stand user while not being able to summon their stands.
Cream Starter is also a stand with no identifiable namesake. People have thrown around "Firestarter" by The Prodigy, but there's no basis for it other than the "starter" part, and JoJoWiki doesn't have a namesake listed for it. It may be another reference to Cream, but I also think that's unlikely due to, well, it already being referenced by a completely different stand. Planet Waves was originally called Earth Wind and Fire until Araki changed it after realizing he's already used that name, so it's not like he'd use the same band reference twice.
don't tell anyone, but I was thinking of making some sort of sequel video to this where I talk about some of the other strange stands in jojo that come to weird song references. Also that Planet Waves thing is really interesting, I didn't know that happened!
@moxbby4585 Love Deluxe and Love Love Deluxe are fundamentally similar, though. It's like a returning stand once removed. Cream and CS don't have anything in common to validate that.
I always thought it was weird that firestarter by the prodigy was listed as the reference on the wiki. It could be the band “Cream” or the song “Cream” by Prince. Or maybe even the song by Wu Tang.
I think I have the perfect response: The namesake is "So Far Away", a song by Carole King from her album Tapestry, which happens to be made a single from that album If you ask me "What that song has to do with anything?" I'll explain you so everybody will understand: The part of "Away" in the title of the song in japanese can be translated as "アウェイ" (Awei) and the Artist's surname, Carole King, can be translated in japanese is "キング" (Kingu), when you put it together it makes for "Awaking": "アウェイキング" (Aweikingu), and, meanwhile the song in japanese was titled as "去りゆく恋人" (Sari Yuku Koibito), it wouldn't be the first time Araki translates the japanese title to be exactly as the song (For Example: with "Oyecomova" which in japanese would be "僕のリズム"を聞いとくれ" (Boku No Rizumu O Kiitokure), translated by Araki as "オエコモバ" (Oekomoba) or with Heaven's Door (The original title in Japanese of the song is "天国への扉" (Tengoku E No Tobira), Araki changed it to katakana like "ヘブンズ・ドアー" (Hebunzu Doā), the song as I said it's a single from the Album Tapestry and it was a Hit even in Japan, the artist is well known and she helped to wrote the song "The Loco-motion" which was referenced in Part 3's manga And also, the song is about the *distance* in between the protagonist of the song's lover So yeah, I totally think that "Awaking III Leaves" references "So Far Away" by "Carole King", at least the "Awaking" Part, the "III Leaves" I think its just for the Stand name to make a little more sense Man, I'm finally able to share this with a lot of people, I feel excited, like if it was new year's eve and I just put a new pair of fresh underwear Anyway, Saludos desde Ecuador! XD
It's actually referencing the Pillar Men theme "Awaken" From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency (pretty obscure i understand why it wasn't in the video) and the III Leaves part is just to add a little spice to it.
@@needledealer9971 in fairness i also just feel it's unlikely to be a reference to the pillar men theme, since generally stands aren't named after the songs from the anime, i mean it could, but i wouldn't bet on it
Oyecomova and Boku no rhythm kind of do the same thing as Mitsuba and Awaking Three Leaves, where the user's name "Oyecomova" is the first word of the main chorus of the song and the stand's name "Boku no Rhythm wo kiitekure" is just the Japanese translation of the entire line.
@@mystrenula3911 Frankly, just listening to a video on current part 9 mueicsl references, I need to listen more of just about every song and group I like + find different ones.
What about the Yes masterwork, "Awaken", from their album Going For The One? Araki clearly had an awareness and appreciation for Yes, based off of his reference to Bruford, (their drummer Bill Bruford) all the way back in Part I. And need I point out the inclusion of Roundabout in the anime adaptation? I think it's just as plausible as the theories outlined here.
It is a complicated pun and reference. To a Japanese speaker the phrase, "Awaking the Centuries" (Aweikingu zaa senturizu) is pronounced similarly to "Awaking the Three Trees" (Aweikingu zaa san toriizu). "Awaking III Leaves" (Aweikingu Surī Rībusu) is a play on this to reference clovers. Like how "The Hand" was a reference to "The Band".
@@RealLifeIronMan tbf until Araki actually says it anything goes and honestly someone pointed out it could be a reference to a song from Yes and that would also make sense since Araki clearly likes Yes
I feel bad for the team that has to change the stand names because araki just named every single stand after part 3 A music reference Like they gotta sit down and discuss what names should be chosen. Shining diamond for example is still a reference to the song shine on you crazy diamond. I do get that copyright doesn’t really matter in Japan unlike in America But still ZIPPER MAN Out of all names for sticky fingers copyrighted name At least his dub va makes it sound badass
That's big facts, it sucks that they have to deal with all of that. Maybe it's a big reason why the manga takes so long for official releases and why we don't have that much JoJo media aside from the manga and anime?
@@Jojodoss yeah Same thing with how It took a year for both ASB and EOH to come out in America ASB released in Japan in 2013 after the battle tendency anime was finished And it released in North America in 2014 after the first half of stardust crusaders finished. Same with EOH coming out in 2015 after The Part 3 anime concluded And in North America in 2016 while DIU was still airing. Though that might be more of a The anime was just starting to gain major popularity in The West
This and the stand “Remote Romance” have always been interesting to me, because yeah both are pretty obscure song references. Like going on UA-cam most uploads only have barely close to 2k views.
Awaking 3 Leaves is a reference to how it pushes things "Away", the common "King" motif of the Higashikata family, and the literal name "Mitsuba" meaning "3 leaves". If you have to go that far for an answer, assume there isn't one.
Ok, so here is my crackpot theory of the song - Could it be a reference to the song awake from the OST of Battle Tendency, where the three leaves represent the three pillar men? Probably isn’t, but imagine if it is, it would be a JoJo reference inside of JoJo itself. JoJosception?!
that would actually be really fun if true, this stand of ll things would be the ultimate jojo reference if so, since it would reference like three different thing in jojo
It is a slight stretch but I always thought the reference was Awaken from the Yes album Going for the one, especially since the album art has a naked man looking at a large city with bubbles around him
Here's a throwaway theory of mine. The first thing I thought of was when I saw Awaking was that it reminds me exactly of The King in Yellow from the color to how mysterious the stand looks not to mention the King in Yellow isn't actually about the King but it's multiple stories surrounding the play within the book sorta like how nobody can pinpoint a specific song to reference because in one way or another they're all connected. If Araki did that purposefully I would understand because the horror of The King in Yellow is mystery and the unexplainable and so keeping the stand so mysterious would be really faithful to the material. Not to mention stands originated from that meteor they made the arrows out of so Cosmic horror isn't a stranger to Jojo
Thanks for this! A while back I was making a playlist including every single music reference in jojo, then kinda forgot about it halfway thru diamond is unbreakable. This stand would've had me stumped ^^;
Atum is the primordial Egyptian god of life from which all of the gods originate from, a significant name symbolising the end cycle of the Egyptian god naming convention so I wonder if Awaking III Leaves symbolises anything
that's actually a real cool fun fact I didn't know of previously, crazy how that ended up being the final egyptian god stand. Do any of the other glory gods signify anything?
@@greenghoul157 If I remember correctly Thoth (Boingo's stand) is the god of knowledge so it makes sense that Boingo got a future prediction stand. Osiris is the god that rules the underwolrd and that judges the souls of the dead, so D'Arby the gambler gets a stand that steals the soul of who loses against him or is caught cheating
When I first read the chapter I thought of the song "Awaken" by Yes. But I knew it was wrong because of the spelling. "Awaken" it's the last song from the 1977 album "Going for the One". It is quite possible that Araki has listened to this song since he is a fan of Yes given the multiple times it has being referenced in JJBA. Sadly I don't think it has a connection to "three". It's the second song from Side B and fifth if we count all the songs. But it is a lengthy song, around 15 minutes. Fans of prog rock know that a lengthy song like that can be divided into parts. Perhaps it can be divided into three. However I can't find any official format where "Awaken" is divided in three parts. Like with the song "Starship Trooper" that has the names of it's parts on some releases. I personally don't think "Awaken" is the reference, but it would be cool since i really like that song lol.
I agree with this hypothesis! I actually commented on this before I saw yours. And I'd just like to express my appreciation for a fellow Araki/Yes fan. Starship Troopers (particularly the Yessongs version) is one of my favorite Yes tracks!!!
But what are the origins of the jojodoss channel? I bet it came sponteneously from a stand arrow with all the views, videos and subscribers already there.
I think awaken centuries is pretty likely knowing that araki already made references without putting the whole name of the said reference. Like with the hand referencing the band for example while not being called the band itself.
I like to think it's in reference to Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening with her name added to the end. They use the same katakana and we know Araki loves his jazz. That said it's likely Awakening by Judas Priest
His tastes are extremely varied and ranges from obscure to very popular. Some of the refrences are deeeep cuts. Your cutting him short in believing he only listens to popular music.
That's not the point. The point is that before jojo fans researching a reference for Awaking III Leaves, the song Awakening No. 3 Leaves floating on a slow stream had less than 1000 views on UA-cam. Literally nobody knew that song. Basically only the author of the song and his small circle knew about it before the jojo fans started their search. Before then it was basically a song that didn't exist
Rate my stand concept. My stand survivors instinct, has the ability to redirect an action, such as attacks, on my physical body back to the aggressor, just as hard, in doing so, my stand automatically heals my body, brining me back from death, But I can only do it every 6 seconds, for the healing, but each time I'm impaled, or slashed, or attacked in what ever way, that damage will fire back to the aggressor easily, if the aggressor survives they'd be more cautious in attacking me, in fear they'll take the damage. Giving me a chance to bluff for the next six seconds for my stand to heal the damages to my body. Doesn't matter if I'm distigrated, cut up, beheaded, my stand will always bring me back to life, as long as my stand is activated. However if I'm killed before my stand can activate again, the damage done to me will still defeat the aggressor leaving a stale mate. However, I can still defend myself, my stand has a c in speed, and A in power. Correct me if I'm wrong, how do they grade stats?
Alright this is gonna sound insane but... "So Far AWAY" by Carole KING. "Away" + "King" = "Awaking", and the "3 Leaves" is just what Mitsuba's name means.
@@Jojodoss Carole King also co-wrote the song "The Loco-Motion" which was referenced in the Part 3's manga I also added my comment explaining what this dude just say but longer
regarding Awaking: it is not completely out of the question for a syllable to be dropped, swapped, or misplaced between languages. For example, in part 5, the OST "ristrante bar" is misspelled. It should be ristorante. There is also the track oscurita, which ought to have an accent (oscurità). Bucciarati should be Buccellati (a type of biscuit), Naracia seems to be some confusion between Italian arancia and Spanish naranja, and Fugo seems to have been the result of dropping the N in fungo (mushroom), given his spores. This is part 5 alone, and I am sure if I scoured the other parts, I could find more errors. While none of these are exactly the same error as with Awaking, assuming it is Awakening, it is not out the question either
I think it's 100% Awaking just because all the other Higashikatas in jojolion have "King" in their stand name. Like WalKING heart, Nut KING Call, and Speed KING
@@Jojodoss almost definitely. I was just putting it out there that it is marginally less improbable, just... still probably not the case by a long shot
Narancia is actually just "un'arancia" ("an orange in italian). In some dialects also the u isn't pronounced so we get "n'arancia". And it so happens to be that the neapolitan dialect is one of the ones where the u falls. Considering that part 5 starts in Naples and Araki is a japanese man that isn't fluent in italian he probably misunderstood n'arancia (= an orange) for narancia just meaning orange instead of the correct word "arancia". The Buccellati/Bucciarati thing is just due to how the japanese language works with the l and r sounds, it's a Luffy/Rufy situation. For Fugo yeah I also believe the fungo/mushroom theory, but it could also be the latin verb "fugo" even though I think it's unlikely
@lordfreezer5631 that also makes sense. I didn't consider it from that angle, despite one of my favourite songs being 'O Sole Mio (live Pavarotti version ofc), which shows that feature in the first line lmao
Not gonna lie but you said ''this is the first stand that does not follow the convention of song/band names!!'' and i expected you to try to relate the character's story to explaining the Awaking part but you instead just speculate on how it could actually be a song name.
Zeppeli isn’t named after a band a Zeppoli is a type of Italian pastry. Also, the name of his fighting powers hamomcomes from the Spanish word for ham.
@@Jojodoss it is also a reference to The Hand's ability. The first time Okuyasu uses The Hand he deletes a kanji from a word on a sign, doing so the meaning of the text on the sing was also changed. Just like The Hand being an altered version of The Band
Omg i realized something when you showed the songs in the album i realized the titles have meaning Dawn of creation - josuke higashikatas conception The four horsemen - poor tom , wu tomoki, urban gorilla ,tooru ( reason why is because cmon its the last 4 stand users and if i remember awaking was introduced the later parts of the story so i couldn't be damos group ig) Lost love - literally losing love/love ones like jobin her husband War - rock humans vs the higashikatas Revelation - ig the revelation of josuke being a fusion cuz of kyo? But hey thats just a theory, A JOJOS BIZZARE THEORY Edit you can take my opinion with a grain of salt its just i noticed it when i looked at the album and thinking about the arcs in jojolion Also yeah theres no doubt its Not the album maybe its named after and reference with all 3-2 songs?
sheesh you're absolutely cooking there Justice Maniac Though some of these could be coincidences it is a nice parallel to see Also personally I'd remove Tooru and add Dolomite to that four horsemen thing since Tooru is something even greater than that
@@Jojodossay thanks also make sense, I kinda excluded dolomite because he's only being bribed by jobin to assassinate josuke and heck being considered a rock animal by even his own kind and kinda make sense the final bosses/the four doctors being the four horsemen. I have a theory that the stand is a reference to multiple songs 3-2 of them atleast or maybe the titles, idk if there's a stand like this and if not and this is true that means that awaking three leaves is the first stand to have multiple namesakes and like the other comments I saw being a play on "awaking San trees" sounds like the haggard song, I kinda realized it being the consistency of the number 3, kinda reminds me of mista noticing and hating the number 4. I think the arcs are kinda in reference in this album cuz I kinda remember araki using music to arcs as well like wonder of u about Elvis talking about his mother where the whole theme of this part Is about motherhood And the Judas priest band make sense since the significancy of religion in these parts
3 Leaves could mean Fall/Autumn since it's the third season of the year and that's when leaves fall. Awaking is interesting. If it was waking up it would be in the beginning... if it was in the end, it would be sleeping. But since it's awake it's in the middle. Is this a reference to the song Wake Me Up When September Ends?
When 'Awakening No. 3 Leaves floating on a Stream' came up, I thought back to what A3L's power did And the explanation of how the song, a flute song, was about conveying the flow of leaves on a stream and such It made me think about her part in JoJolion was similar I mean, she leaves the family after committing a crime, and seen by Dad Higashikata like a dead leaf falling off the branch Eventually she returns despite being unable to stay, like that leaf was carried about on a stream back to where it came from but can never be a part of that branch And when everything in the story starts to happen, when the Rock Disease begins to fester and the family is under threat by enemies, when the tree the leaf fell from is about to wither lose the rest of them, she's the only constant who's been through the rough times and has the power to guide danger away from everyone when the time comes We can say the song is so obscure Araki probably hasn't heard of it, but we've all seen that one clip of his backroom library of CDs, so maybe, perhaps, it isn't that it wasn't a song he listens to actively, but it may have come and inspired him at just the right time, like a leaf floating on a stream Perhaps it's not just the stand that was inspired, but Mom Higashikata's dynamic tself as someone who's fallen into an increasingly unsafe stream until she was guided back to where she came from to help the other fallen leaves as the tree began to die After all, her power is about redirection, and all she ever wanted was to keep danger away from her family I'm definitely just reaching here though, mostly for the analogy, but I think there's logic to it if the song really is about giving the sense of falling leaves following a stream, you never know where it'll take them and who knows what'll happen along the way. And that's why I think it's the most fitting for an enigmatically designed stand like A3L and its User.
I disagree with your reasoning for on a slow stream. I read that Araki grew up reading a lot of American fiction growing up, and he credits that as the reason why Jojo takes place in so many countries, why it even started in England to begin with was because he had such a rich interest in foreign literature. As for finding on a slow stream, obscure music isn't that hard to find. All it takes is a random youtube video or listen to the song at any point, whether it be the radio and he can just find it. That's how I found out about a strange Niche artist Nick Lyons after learning about ascensionism ( a supposed cult tied to Kanye Quest, an RPG maker game). And considering Rohan talked about needing a sense of realism for his work in part 4, iirc he was a self insert for part 4. Meaning that a lot of his inspiration comes from real-world sources, so for a strange song to be added, he may have found it through bizarre means, maybe even somehow related to a discussion on Vectors in some way. He likes cultivating a sense of mystery so maybe he gave it a strange name as a real head scratcher.
5:27 You never know with how out of wack youtube's recommended videos are getting. Don't you ever get a random recommended video from 13 years ago with 9 views?
@@Jojodoss shit idk lmao I just like names. For the longest time I hoped we got a stand named smooth criminal and then we got smooth operators in part 9 and that made me feel good lol.
@@vOrbZv There is a stand named that in the spin-off one-shot "Fujiko's Bizarre Worldly Wisdom -Whitesnake's Miscalculation-". The one-shot isn't canon, and it wasn't made by Araki, but it was an official spin-off created to celebrate JoJo's 35th anniversary. Since it isn't canon, it's possible Araki could still make his own Stand called Bad Romance, but I really doubt it. I think if he had any intention of ever naming a Stand that, he would have told the author to use another name.
I honestly think that Araki needs to start naming syands names that just make sense and sound good. They can come from songs fine but they shouldn't seem like random bullshit. A stand named Red Hot chili peppers having the power of electricity is random bullshit!
I don't know why you brushed it under the rug so quickly but the awaKING argument here (8:51) is too big a coincidence to not hold any water. It could be possible in early development of part 8 Araki had the idea of a boy being raised as a girl for Mitsuba but changed it to Tsurugi at one point, maybe even having the naming scheme of both male and female of the family had Mitsuba be even transgendered or something similar before dropping the idea, maybe the name was just a place holder to fit the naming pattern of the other characters and a new name was never made. Im just saying it wouldn't be the first time Araki integrated something in the story and just moved on.
So because someone listens to mainstream music they couldn’t possibly know of more obscure bands? What a dumb thing to assume. How do you think mainstream bands become mainstream? Someone discovers an obscure band.
Three in Japanese is "San", so if Awaking III Leaves is actually pronounced "Awaking San Trees" instead of "Awaking Three Leaves", it sounds almost exactly like Awaking Centuries.
Oh damn that's actually fire
Letsss goooo
Why would it be trees instead of leaves though
@@Fabiocean2000Oh yeah.. my bad. Wrote this comment in a hurry lol 😅
Still not a proper namesake
Some new band should call their song Awaking III Leaves just to get that JoJo clout. “Araki named a Stand after our song!”
That's real, we should do make it together for real for real
Bonus points if Araki actually likes the song
You mean they should make a
If there is a reference, the Taiwanese pop duo "Awaking" is also a possibility. It's spelled the same and they actually had a moderate hit in the mid 00s in Taiwan, they're still by no means famous though.
Plus the "III Leaves" part could just be tacked on randomly like Cream Starter and Milagro Man changing part of their names to suit them better (three leaves is just what Mitsuba's name means)
That would make sense, and it's around a timeframe where Araki would decide to reference a song. it's pretty crazy how many of theses things could be a reference, what an elusive stand
It is 1000% not "Awakenings No. 3".
I was there the day the chapter dropped, and as soon as I saw that Stand name I searched it up on Spotify to see what it could be a reference to, and that song was one that came up. But at the time the plays on that song were probably less than four hundred. (I don't remember the exact number, that was years ago). The only reason it has as many views as it has now is it's one of the only songs that , has "Awak(en)ing" "III/3" and "Leaves" in its title, so people did the same thing I did and assumed it was the origin without a second thought.
It's the same situation with Walking Heart being assumed to be "Walking Heart Attack" by Holland K Smith.
I see I see, i tried to find wayback machine stuff for the song but I couldn't find anything, so I just assumed it had a couple of thousand when the chapter came out. it having 400 views definitely makes it certain that it can't be the stand
A song not being well known doesn't automatically invalidate it from being referenced, people have their niche music picks in their playlists
@@HargMentorIt's not impossible, but it's highly unlikely. A few thousand views, or around ten thousand, is niche. 400 is essentially flat-out unknown, I've only ever encountered 1 single artist online that had fewer than a thousand views on their stuff, barring friends that share their Bandcamp tracks with me lol. And that artist had 0 monthly listeners so chances are people just listen to it once then leave.
Again, not impossible, but that does make it quite unlikely.
Remember that a lot of what Araki listens to is via CD’s. James is pretty old, so I it’s safe to assume he didn’t upload his songs to Spotify himself. While it’s somewhat unlikely, it’s not impossible to assume that Araki may have gotten ahold of a CD of Jame’s music. Just a thought 🤷♀️
araki should make a stand called "4:33" and its a refrence to that song where its just 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence
what would be hilarious, this needs to be done. Any other funny songs out there that would make funny stands?
@@Jojodoss ok what about one thats a refrenced to the piano song "the banshee" and that song doesnt use the piano keys, its actually someone going into the piano strings and plucking them, if that didnt make sense then just look it up.
A stand that can "silence" (disable) other stands, making it so that no stand can be manifested in a certain area around itself. As such in order to beat the user the good guys have to find a way to beat the stand user while not being able to summon their stands.
@@bleflar9183 so...weapons? stands arnt the only way to fight people!
@@theguy5855 Yeah, but the stand user can still use his, so its a bunch of standless people vs a guy with a stand.
Cream Starter is also a stand with no identifiable namesake. People have thrown around "Firestarter" by The Prodigy, but there's no basis for it other than the "starter" part, and JoJoWiki doesn't have a namesake listed for it. It may be another reference to Cream, but I also think that's unlikely due to, well, it already being referenced by a completely different stand. Planet Waves was originally called Earth Wind and Fire until Araki changed it after realizing he's already used that name, so it's not like he'd use the same band reference twice.
I actually wonder if it's named after a Japanese grooming / makeup product of some sort... Much like Mandom, which was introduced in the same arc.
don't tell anyone, but I was thinking of making some sort of sequel video to this where I talk about some of the other strange stands in jojo that come to weird song references.
Also that Planet Waves thing is really interesting, I didn't know that happened!
I mean he has used the same name twice with Love Deluxe and Love Love Deluxe
@moxbby4585 Love Deluxe and Love Love Deluxe are fundamentally similar, though. It's like a returning stand once removed. Cream and CS don't have anything in common to validate that.
I always thought it was weird that firestarter by the prodigy was listed as the reference on the wiki. It could be the band “Cream” or the song “Cream” by Prince. Or maybe even the song by Wu Tang.
I think I have the perfect response:
The namesake is "So Far Away", a song by Carole King from her album Tapestry, which happens to be made a single from that album
If you ask me "What that song has to do with anything?" I'll explain you so everybody will understand:
The part of "Away" in the title of the song in japanese can be translated as "アウェイ" (Awei) and the Artist's surname, Carole King, can be translated in japanese is "キング" (Kingu), when you put it together it makes for "Awaking": "アウェイキング" (Aweikingu), and, meanwhile the song in japanese was titled as "去りゆく恋人" (Sari Yuku Koibito), it wouldn't be the first time Araki translates the japanese title to be exactly as the song (For Example: with "Oyecomova" which in japanese would be "僕のリズム"を聞いとくれ" (Boku No Rizumu O Kiitokure), translated by Araki as "オエコモバ" (Oekomoba) or with Heaven's Door (The original title in Japanese of the song is "天国への扉" (Tengoku E No Tobira), Araki changed it to katakana like "ヘブンズ・ドアー" (Hebunzu Doā), the song as I said it's a single from the Album Tapestry and it was a Hit even in Japan, the artist is well known and she helped to wrote the song "The Loco-motion" which was referenced in Part 3's manga
And also, the song is about the *distance* in between the protagonist of the song's lover
So yeah, I totally think that "Awaking III Leaves" references "So Far Away" by "Carole King", at least the "Awaking" Part, the "III Leaves" I think its just for the Stand name to make a little more sense
Man, I'm finally able to share this with a lot of people, I feel excited, like if it was new year's eve and I just put a new pair of fresh underwear
Anyway, Saludos desde Ecuador! XD
I love this theory!
Best theory so far, yeah
Not gonna lie, Awaking III Leaves is one of my favorite stands of all time. Glad you made a video on them.
It's actually referencing the Pillar Men theme "Awaken" From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency (pretty obscure i understand why it wasn't in the video) and the III Leaves part is just to add a little spice to it.
what does the stand have to do with the pillar men though?
@@Jojodossawaken my masters *pillar men theme plays*
The stand was created before the anime released
@@mawinstallation6626 No the Doctor Wu and Awaking III leaves came out in like 2020, and anime is from 2012. I'm pretty sure SBR wasn't even done.
@@needledealer9971 in fairness i also just feel it's unlikely to be a reference to the pillar men theme, since generally stands aren't named after the songs from the anime, i mean it could, but i wouldn't bet on it
Oyecomova and Boku no rhythm kind of do the same thing as Mitsuba and Awaking Three Leaves, where the user's name "Oyecomova" is the first word of the main chorus of the song and the stand's name "Boku no Rhythm wo kiitekure" is just the Japanese translation of the entire line.
Oyecomova is also the song name. Catchy song, catchy name, oye como va ese nombré!
@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 I know, I was just mentioning the direct connection between the names. I really like all of Santana's music.
@@mystrenula3911 Frankly, just listening to a video on current part 9 mueicsl references, I need to listen more of just about every song and group I like + find different ones.
Funny enough, "Oye como va" is a spanish phrase
It means "Hey how's it going?"
What about the Yes masterwork, "Awaken", from their album Going For The One?
Araki clearly had an awareness and appreciation for Yes, based off of his reference to Bruford, (their drummer Bill Bruford) all the way back in Part I. And need I point out the inclusion of Roundabout in the anime adaptation?
I think it's just as plausible as the theories outlined here.
Awaking III Leaves is a reference to Haggard’s Awaking the Centuries
This is included within the video 😄
It is a complicated pun and reference. To a Japanese speaker the phrase, "Awaking the Centuries" (Aweikingu zaa senturizu) is pronounced similarly to "Awaking the Three Trees" (Aweikingu zaa san toriizu).
"Awaking III Leaves" (Aweikingu Surī Rībusu) is a play on this to reference clovers. Like how "The Hand" was a reference to "The Band".
@@RealLifeIronMan tbf until Araki actually says it anything goes and honestly someone pointed out it could be a reference to a song from Yes and that would also make sense since Araki clearly likes Yes
Jojodoss is underestimating Araki’s hipster level in flute music.
I feel bad for the team that has to change the stand names because araki just named every single stand after part 3
A music reference
Like they gotta sit down and discuss what names should be chosen.
Shining diamond for example is still a reference to the song shine on you crazy diamond.
I do get that copyright doesn’t really matter in Japan unlike in America
But still
ZIPPER MAN
Out of all names for sticky fingers copyrighted name
At least his dub va makes it sound badass
That's big facts, it sucks that they have to deal with all of that. Maybe it's a big reason why the manga takes so long for official releases and why we don't have that much JoJo media aside from the manga and anime?
To be fair the localized version of d4c being filthy acts at a reasonable price is amazing
@@Jojodoss yeah
Same thing with how
It took a year for both ASB and EOH to come out in America
ASB released in Japan in 2013 after the battle tendency anime was finished
And it released in North America in 2014 after the first half of stardust crusaders finished.
Same with EOH coming out in 2015 after The Part 3 anime concluded
And in North America in 2016 while DIU was still airing.
Though that might be more of a
The anime was just starting to gain major popularity in The West
I mean we got stand names like maiden heaven so its so good
true that name is funny
This and the stand “Remote Romance” have always been interesting to me, because yeah both are pretty obscure song references.
Like going on UA-cam most uploads only have barely close to 2k views.
I've never heard of that until now, thank you! It seems like a really cool stand, strange to see the various types of music Araki listens to
What is Remote Romance? I don’t remember that stand.
@@silverstream4048non-canon stand from the 2012 Jojo exhibition
Awaking 3 Leaves is a reference to how it pushes things "Away", the common "King" motif of the Higashikata family, and the literal name "Mitsuba" meaning "3 leaves".
If you have to go that far for an answer, assume there isn't one.
Ok, so here is my crackpot theory of the song - Could it be a reference to the song awake from the OST of Battle Tendency, where the three leaves represent the three pillar men? Probably isn’t, but imagine if it is, it would be a JoJo reference inside of JoJo itself. JoJosception?!
that would actually be really fun if true, this stand of ll things would be the ultimate jojo reference if so, since it would reference like three different thing in jojo
Nope lil bro
It is a slight stretch but I always thought the reference was Awaken from the Yes album Going for the one, especially since the album art has a naked man looking at a large city with bubbles around him
sorry but what does the album art have to do with Awaking III Leaves?
@@Jojodoss tbh not much its just similar to gappy's intruduction
Here's a throwaway theory of mine. The first thing I thought of was when I saw Awaking was that it reminds me exactly of The King in Yellow from the color to how mysterious the stand looks not to mention the King in Yellow isn't actually about the King but it's multiple stories surrounding the play within the book sorta like how nobody can pinpoint a specific song to reference because in one way or another they're all connected. If Araki did that purposefully I would understand because the horror of The King in Yellow is mystery and the unexplainable and so keeping the stand so mysterious would be really faithful to the material.
Not to mention stands originated from that meteor they made the arrows out of so Cosmic horror isn't a stranger to Jojo
this stand is so cool bro
Thanks for this! A while back I was making a playlist including every single music reference in jojo, then kinda forgot about it halfway thru diamond is unbreakable. This stand would've had me stumped ^^;
I tried to do it as well but the horses in part 7 made me pause for like 3 years now lmao
I like to imagine that Araki is oblivious to this discussion, and is just enjoying his niche flute song that he named stand after.
Dragon's Dream isn't named after a musical reference either, it's actually referencing an art book
Aqua Necklace from part 4 also has no name origin
It's a reference to Aqualung by Jethro Tull, isn't it?
@@awesome15902 it could be, but like the stand in the video, it’s not exactly agreed upon
I haven’t seen anything for walking heart either
@@Ender-oz5buHolland Smith's "Walking Heart Attack."
Might be a reference, might not be a reference, but it is good music.
Surprised you didnt mention Aqua Necklace regarding the lack of an actual reference behind its name
One of my favorite stands in the series
Awakenings: No. 3. Leaves Floating (On a Slow Stream), thats the song reference
According to the Jojos wiki of Fandom
Atum is the primordial Egyptian god of life from which all of the gods originate from, a significant name symbolising the end cycle of the Egyptian god naming convention so I wonder if Awaking III Leaves symbolises anything
that's actually a real cool fun fact I didn't know of previously, crazy how that ended up being the final egyptian god stand. Do any of the other glory gods signify anything?
@@Jojodoss Geb is associated with water hence the stand being water related I guess
@@greenghoul157 If I remember correctly Thoth (Boingo's stand) is the god of knowledge so it makes sense that Boingo got a future prediction stand. Osiris is the god that rules the underwolrd and that judges the souls of the dead, so D'Arby the gambler gets a stand that steals the soul of who loses against him or is caught cheating
araki got the music video randomly in his yt recommendations
When I first read the chapter I thought of the song "Awaken" by Yes. But I knew it was wrong because of the spelling.
"Awaken" it's the last song from the 1977 album "Going for the One".
It is quite possible that Araki has listened to this song since he is a fan of Yes given the multiple times it has being referenced in JJBA.
Sadly I don't think it has a connection to "three". It's the second song from Side B and fifth if we count all the songs.
But it is a lengthy song, around 15 minutes. Fans of prog rock know that a lengthy song like that can be divided into parts. Perhaps it can be divided into three.
However I can't find any official format where "Awaken" is divided in three parts. Like with the song "Starship Trooper" that has the names of it's parts on some releases.
I personally don't think "Awaken" is the reference, but it would be cool since i really like that song lol.
I agree with this hypothesis!
I actually commented on this before I saw yours. And I'd just like to express my appreciation for a fellow Araki/Yes fan.
Starship Troopers (particularly the Yessongs version) is one of my favorite Yes tracks!!!
But I do think Awaken is one of, if not, their best works.
I like to think that araki made the stand name like that so he can name an ost/song after it when the anime eventually comes out
But what are the origins of the jojodoss channel? I bet it came sponteneously from a stand arrow with all the views, videos and subscribers already there.
Potentially so, thank you for reading the description
I think awaken centuries is pretty likely knowing that araki already made references without putting the whole name of the said reference. Like with the hand referencing the band for example while not being called the band itself.
or it could be her name being club so three leaves, and how you awaken a stand.
I like to think it's in reference to Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening with her name added to the end. They use the same katakana and we know Araki loves his jazz. That said it's likely Awakening by Judas Priest
I always thought of this stand as just Accelerator from Raildex but worse, meaning it could still be super powerful
My favorite character Jumpscare omg
what do you mean by that specifically?
@@Jojodoss I don’t see much people talk about Mitsuba so I was genuinely shocked to see A3L on my feed
Also messmer, especially in his second phase only has one eyed open just like guts.
But what are the origins of the jojodoss channel? 🤔
His tastes are extremely varied and ranges from obscure to very popular. Some of the refrences are deeeep cuts. Your cutting him short in believing he only listens to popular music.
That's not the point. The point is that before jojo fans researching a reference for Awaking III Leaves, the song Awakening No. 3 Leaves floating on a slow stream had less than 1000 views on UA-cam. Literally nobody knew that song. Basically only the author of the song and his small circle knew about it before the jojo fans started their search. Before then it was basically a song that didn't exist
Rate my stand concept. My stand survivors instinct, has the ability to redirect an action, such as attacks, on my physical body back to the aggressor, just as hard, in doing so, my stand automatically heals my body, brining me back from death, But I can only do it every 6 seconds, for the healing, but each time I'm impaled, or slashed, or attacked in what ever way, that damage will fire back to the aggressor easily, if the aggressor survives they'd be more cautious in attacking me, in fear they'll take the damage. Giving me a chance to bluff for the next six seconds for my stand to heal the damages to my body. Doesn't matter if I'm distigrated, cut up, beheaded, my stand will always bring me back to life, as long as my stand is activated. However if I'm killed before my stand can activate again, the damage done to me will still defeat the aggressor leaving a stale mate. However, I can still defend myself, my stand has a c in speed, and A in power. Correct me if I'm wrong, how do they grade stats?
Namesake:
"III Leaves": Clubs (三葉, Mitsuba, lit. "Three Leaves")
from the jojo wiki
he mentions this in the video, but disregards it because it goes against every other stand name before and after this
Alright this is gonna sound insane but... "So Far AWAY" by Carole KING.
"Away" + "King" = "Awaking", and the "3 Leaves" is just what Mitsuba's name means.
that would be fun but just seems like a coincidence than anything else imo, has Carole King been referenced anywhere else in jojo?
@@Jojodoss Carole King also co-wrote the song "The Loco-Motion" which was referenced in the Part 3's manga
I also added my comment explaining what this dude just say but longer
Its not too weird to be named after Awaking The Centuries
After all, we have Cream Starter which is apparently a reference to FireStarter
W
A W indeed rigincin
regarding Awaking: it is not completely out of the question for a syllable to be dropped, swapped, or misplaced between languages. For example, in part 5, the OST "ristrante bar" is misspelled. It should be ristorante. There is also the track oscurita, which ought to have an accent (oscurità). Bucciarati should be Buccellati (a type of biscuit), Naracia seems to be some confusion between Italian arancia and Spanish naranja, and Fugo seems to have been the result of dropping the N in fungo (mushroom), given his spores. This is part 5 alone, and I am sure if I scoured the other parts, I could find more errors. While none of these are exactly the same error as with Awaking, assuming it is Awakening, it is not out the question either
I think it's 100% Awaking just because all the other Higashikatas in jojolion have "King" in their stand name. Like WalKING heart, Nut KING Call, and Speed KING
@@Jojodoss almost definitely. I was just putting it out there that it is marginally less improbable, just... still probably not the case by a long shot
Narancia is actually just "un'arancia" ("an orange in italian). In some dialects also the u isn't pronounced so we get "n'arancia". And it so happens to be that the neapolitan dialect is one of the ones where the u falls. Considering that part 5 starts in Naples and Araki is a japanese man that isn't fluent in italian he probably misunderstood n'arancia (= an orange) for narancia just meaning orange instead of the correct word "arancia". The Buccellati/Bucciarati thing is just due to how the japanese language works with the l and r sounds, it's a Luffy/Rufy situation. For Fugo yeah I also believe the fungo/mushroom theory, but it could also be the latin verb "fugo" even though I think it's unlikely
@lordfreezer5631 that also makes sense. I didn't consider it from that angle, despite one of my favourite songs being 'O Sole Mio (live Pavarotti version ofc), which shows that feature in the first line lmao
It would be nice if in story awaking III leaves awaken and be like IIII leaves
Not gonna lie but you said ''this is the first stand that does not follow the convention of song/band names!!'' and i expected you to try to relate the character's story to explaining the Awaking part but you instead just speculate on how it could actually be a song name.
it makes sense
What does?
Ther's a lot more without song references in part 3
so much brainpower
I only have this brainpower because you have helped me along the way my dear friend
@@Jojodoss it is an honour my bro
Isn't Mitsuba technically an in-law? Interesting her name follows the same naming convention as the rest of the family
Zeppeli isn’t named after a band a Zeppoli is a type of Italian pastry. Also, the name of his fighting powers hamomcomes from the Spanish word for ham.
Led Zeppelin bruh
Idk. Also could be a reference to the akebia trifoliata. The three leaved akebia. A japanese fruit.
Oh my lordy lord you're cooking 😽
thank you Harper, I can also cook due to my goated audience
@@Jojodoss 😈
Real
Real indeed Creep
@@Jojodoss Rai is the jobro of Part 8 and the goat
is boku no rhythm named after a song or album??(if im not wrong oye como va is the stand user's name)
"Oye cómo va" is the song name, and "Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure" is one of the lyrics translated to japanese
@@Jojodoss I didn't know that thanks for the info :)
8:44 shame they didn't bump the firth song up one.
its literally a haggard song
that stand has sick desing, too bad it´s ability has little usage
at least the stand ability is a really cool concept, but yeah it feels like a stand made to specifically go against doctor wu
@@Jojodossit actually could also kinda be useful against Bags Grooves if you think about it. The fight is kinda the same
Love the video but you pronounce Mitsuba in a weird way. The "u" is not the main vowel, the"i" is. Its "Mi-tsba"
my bad, I tend to pronounce stuff is really weird ways. I still say Morioh and Higashikata weird according to people lol
@@Jojodoss all good, just subbed!
What about dragons dream
the hand
The Hand in japanese (ザ・ハンド) has very similar writing to the band called "The Band"
@@Jojodoss :(
i'm sorry Arrislium
@@Jojodoss it is also a reference to The Hand's ability. The first time Okuyasu uses The Hand he deletes a kanji from a word on a sign, doing so the meaning of the text on the sing was also changed. Just like The Hand being an altered version of The Band
@@lordfreezer5631 :)
The yankee with no brim
You're spitting
*Dragon's Dream casually not being a song reference and named after an artbook but literally no one cares cuz its a sh¡t stand.*
Omg i realized something when you showed the songs in the album i realized the titles have meaning
Dawn of creation - josuke higashikatas conception
The four horsemen - poor tom , wu tomoki, urban gorilla ,tooru ( reason why is because cmon its the last 4 stand users and if i remember awaking was introduced the later parts of the story so i couldn't be damos group ig)
Lost love - literally losing love/love ones like jobin her husband
War - rock humans vs the higashikatas
Revelation - ig the revelation of josuke being a fusion cuz of kyo?
But hey thats just a theory, A JOJOS BIZZARE THEORY
Edit you can take my opinion with a grain of salt its just i noticed it when i looked at the album and thinking about the arcs in jojolion
Also yeah theres no doubt its Not the album maybe its named after and reference with all 3-2 songs?
sheesh you're absolutely cooking there Justice Maniac
Though some of these could be coincidences it is a nice parallel to see
Also personally I'd remove Tooru and add Dolomite to that four horsemen thing since Tooru is something even greater than that
@@Jojodossay thanks also make sense, I kinda excluded dolomite because he's only being bribed by jobin to assassinate josuke and heck being considered a rock animal by even his own kind and kinda make sense the final bosses/the four doctors being the four horsemen. I have a theory that the stand is a reference to multiple songs 3-2 of them atleast or maybe the titles, idk if there's a stand like this and if not and this is true that means that awaking three leaves is the first stand to have multiple namesakes and like the other comments I saw being a play on "awaking San trees" sounds like the haggard song, I kinda realized it being the consistency of the number 3, kinda reminds me of mista noticing and hating the number 4. I think the arcs are kinda in reference in this album cuz I kinda remember araki using music to arcs as well like wonder of u about Elvis talking about his mother where the whole theme of this part Is about motherhood
And the Judas priest band make sense since the significancy of religion in these parts
Her name is Kei not Kyo
Yes it does?
what is it?
The namesake for Dragon's Dream (the stand of Kenzo from part 6) is also uncertain I believe. Probably not even a music reference as well
3 Leaves could mean Fall/Autumn since it's the third season of the year and that's when leaves fall. Awaking is interesting. If it was waking up it would be in the beginning... if it was in the end, it would be sleeping. But since it's awake it's in the middle. Is this a reference to the song Wake Me Up When September Ends?
When 'Awakening No. 3 Leaves floating on a Stream' came up, I thought back to what A3L's power did
And the explanation of how the song, a flute song, was about conveying the flow of leaves on a stream and such
It made me think about her part in JoJolion was similar
I mean, she leaves the family after committing a crime, and seen by Dad Higashikata like a dead leaf falling off the branch
Eventually she returns despite being unable to stay, like that leaf was carried about on a stream back to where it came from but can never be a part of that branch
And when everything in the story starts to happen, when the Rock Disease begins to fester and the family is under threat by enemies, when the tree the leaf fell from is about to wither lose the rest of them, she's the only constant who's been through the rough times and has the power to guide danger away from everyone when the time comes
We can say the song is so obscure Araki probably hasn't heard of it, but we've all seen that one clip of his backroom library of CDs, so maybe, perhaps, it isn't that it wasn't a song he listens to actively, but it may have come and inspired him at just the right time, like a leaf floating on a stream
Perhaps it's not just the stand that was inspired, but Mom Higashikata's dynamic tself as someone who's fallen into an increasingly unsafe stream until she was guided back to where she came from to help the other fallen leaves as the tree began to die
After all, her power is about redirection, and all she ever wanted was to keep danger away from her family
I'm definitely just reaching here though, mostly for the analogy, but I think there's logic to it if the song really is about giving the sense of falling leaves following a stream, you never know where it'll take them and who knows what'll happen along the way. And that's why I think it's the most fitting for an enigmatically designed stand like A3L and its User.
Bro you have been mistaking Mitsuba and Caato's characters 💀
@@lordfreezer5631 yeaaah
I had that feeling I was forgetting characters
I haven't thought about JoJolion since Radio GaGa
Writing all of this just to realize you're talking about the wrong character is crazy i'm so sorry my had to do all that
@@Jojodoss Nah, I'm dumb, it's fine
@@Jojodoss In retrospect, I realise now the mom's stand was Space Trucking and a deck of cards
And it just never came to me while I was writing
iirc mariah carey wasnt really super popular or well known yet when she was referenced in part 3, so obscure references could be more likely
so which of the three songs do you think is most likely? or perhaps a different song that I didn't mention in the video?
I disagree with your reasoning for on a slow stream. I read that Araki grew up reading a lot of American fiction growing up, and he credits that as the reason why Jojo takes place in so many countries, why it even started in England to begin with was because he had such a rich interest in foreign literature. As for finding on a slow stream, obscure music isn't that hard to find. All it takes is a random youtube video or listen to the song at any point, whether it be the radio and he can just find it. That's how I found out about a strange Niche artist Nick Lyons after learning about ascensionism ( a supposed cult tied to Kanye Quest, an RPG maker game). And considering Rohan talked about needing a sense of realism for his work in part 4, iirc he was a self insert for part 4. Meaning that a lot of his inspiration comes from real-world sources, so for a strange song to be added, he may have found it through bizarre means, maybe even somehow related to a discussion on Vectors in some way. He likes cultivating a sense of mystery so maybe he gave it a strange name as a real head scratcher.
To be fair Calamity by Endless isn't too well known but it definitely has been referenced by Araki
It has not
5:27 You never know with how out of wack youtube's recommended videos are getting. Don't you ever get a random recommended video from 13 years ago with 9 views?
Considering the other metal that araki has referenced, I think he'd be more likely to listen to judas priest than haggard
When are we getting a stand called [Bad Romance] tho?
I mean there's a lot of famous songs that don't have a reference, but you never know. What kind of ability would you give that stand?
@@Jojodoss shit idk lmao I just like names.
For the longest time I hoped we got a stand named smooth criminal and then we got smooth operators in part 9 and that made me feel good lol.
@@vOrbZv There is a stand named that in the spin-off one-shot "Fujiko's Bizarre Worldly Wisdom -Whitesnake's Miscalculation-". The one-shot isn't canon, and it wasn't made by Araki, but it was an official spin-off created to celebrate JoJo's 35th anniversary. Since it isn't canon, it's possible Araki could still make his own Stand called Bad Romance, but I really doubt it. I think if he had any intention of ever naming a Stand that, he would have told the author to use another name.
yeah i was going to say there is Bad Romance in the non canon one shot
"a japanese man could never find a random song on the internet in 2018" is a very strange statement
I honestly think that Araki needs to start naming syands names that just make sense and sound good. They can come from songs fine but they shouldn't seem like random bullshit. A stand named Red Hot chili peppers having the power of electricity is random bullshit!
Isn't Cream a song stand?
Cream is based off of a band
Ah I see
I don't know why you brushed it under the rug so quickly but the awaKING argument here (8:51) is too big a coincidence to not hold any water. It could be possible in early development of part 8 Araki had the idea of a boy being raised as a girl for Mitsuba but changed it to Tsurugi at one point, maybe even having the naming scheme of both male and female of the family had Mitsuba be even transgendered or something similar before dropping the idea, maybe the name was just a place holder to fit the naming pattern of the other characters and a new name was never made. Im just saying it wouldn't be the first time Araki integrated something in the story and just moved on.
0:38 who the hell doesn’t use Wham and Straits?
People say Wamuu and Straizo way more often
So because someone listens to mainstream music they couldn’t possibly know of more obscure bands? What a dumb thing to assume. How do you think mainstream bands become mainstream? Someone discovers an obscure band.
I mean James J Pellerite has 44 subscribers, I just find it hard to conceive that Araki would know who he is
@@Jojodoss especially since he isnt a native english speaker. i imagine only very popular western music even hits japan as a whole
There's obscure artists and there's guys you can't find on UA-cam despite typing in the exact song name and band kind of obscure