Wow ok, when people said the writing in this part is the best in the series, I never actually thought it was true but after reading it Johnny and Gyro have one of the best friendship dynamics since Goku and Krillin in the OG Dragonball

Speaking of characters, I felt sympathetic for Johnny and loved Gyro, I mean Johnny gets paralyzed and loses his fame...for skipping a line and screwing a kid over, I mean, yeah, he was a douche but in my opinion the punishment is one of the biggest examples of disproportianate retribution I've ever seen. Also as someone who's been trapped by crushing expectations and societal pressures I can relate to Gyro and his struggle to break from it to do what he truly believes is right and he actually becomes my 2nd favorite character in the series just below Jonathan

The rival Diego, also is one of my favorite characters in JoJo rivaling PB Dio Brando for my 3rd favorite character, his motivations is realistic and unlike PB Dio he actually seems to have a moral compass and feels regret for some of the actions he does(like screwing over Wekapipo), but on an off note, I hate the way he died

Speaking of death, it's one of my main gripes in the part, in the beginning, most characters of importance influences are still seen in the characters such as Ringo but at the end you have, Diego getting flattened...and only mentioned twice then forgotten, Hot Pants...falling off the train and not even mentioned, Valentine, a JoJo villain who are infamous for suffering horrific fates, just gets shot to death and Gyro, a Zeppeli, the guys who literally had to be cut in half, and hit with essentially an insta-kill attack and crushed by a cross, dies from fish bites and scratches...to his heart, but still imo, not exactly the blaze of glory the other Zeppelis got. Also Au Diego's death felt like a copout

Valentine, as a villain, gets the job done, but considering his philosophy, I ended up confused by his previous actions, not collecting the corpse parts but half of the other stuff he did like betraying Diego, killing suboordinates, and being an all around asshole, if he was as patriotic as his late chapters reveal wouldn't he want the best for not only his country but for ALL his citizens, with as little bloodshed as possible? I mean it made sense why he targeted Johnny considering he was collecting the corpse for selfish reasons but everyone else was just serving him faithfully(with probable exception to Diego)

But all in all I like the characters dynamic between the heroes and antagonists.

Shifting towards the artstyle I LOVED the beginning and Middle of the Part, I started to dislike it around Chapter 90 but that was the end of the part so I didn't mind too much

My biggest complaint is the ending fight, Pulling AU Diego at the very ending left a sour taste in my mouth, if he had been introduced in the middle of the Valentine fight I wouldn't mind so much, but not only is it Johnny's last opponent(Which I personally think doesn't fit considering his entire drive, as a starting jockey, was to defeat Diego and prove his father wrong but, it would've been better if RU Diego was the last opponent. I didn't mind Johnny losing the race at the end, it was him getting disqualified and losing to Diego that bothered me, not even the same one at that; why not just have Johnny and Diego go for a fair race at the end but lose at the last round because of their fighting getting something like, 4th and 5th respectively. As stated earlier Diego gets killed in what I feel is a BS way, dude gets jumped by Lucy(which considering this dude is more like PB Dio then anything, he should've just killed her outright) and dies with no real motive or goal that made me care about him.

TL;DR: Johhny and Gyro are awesome, Diego and Lucy are boss characters, AU Diego feels like a copout, Valentine or RU Diego should've been last villain So i give Stell ball run 10/10