Jonathan's journey to confirm the potion takes him into a random Asian drugstore, where he runs into everyone's favourite character from Phantom Blood - Robert E.O. The later seasons will get better at how tasteful the colour-palette-swaps are, but in the first season and especially Phantom Blood, it always feels like they dragged on these sequences a bit too long. I'm not sure what this is in reference to (the manga is black and white, after all), but it did catch me off-guard when Dio screams out loud about how his bastard father never had any honour, and suddenly everything is bleached in different colours. We also have the first negative-colours palette swap that the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure regularly employs in climactic conflicts. Jonathan's defining character trait is his earnestness and naivety, though this is a bit of an eye-rolling moment for me. and in one of the sillier things that Jonathan does, leaves Dio relatively unguarded and alone as he goes off to investigate the drug. Jonathan ends up figuring out that Dio has been feeding George some slow-acting poison, and after a scuffle where Jonathan manages to overpower Dio's "thumb in your eye" trick, pushes Dio off the second floor.
The conflict of this episode is quickly thrown in, with George Joestar dying. It definitely does feel a bit repetitive, but they do try to be pretty faithful to the source material and I can't fault them for it. Again, a good chunk of the episode is still devoted to the rivalry between Jonathan and Dio, which, while more subtle now (manifesting mostly as monologues during the rugby match). Oh, and to continue with the establishment of time, Jack the Ripper's been killing people left and right, apparently. After the first episode's over, we quickly jump into a sudden time skip, leading to seven years after their initial encounter and their childhood rivalry and traumatic dog-burning, and both Jojo and Dio are now young adults with rippling muscles.
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