I’ll assume anyone wanting to read this has read up to the end of Stone Ocean, and as such this review has some spoilers for parts 3 and 6. It was certainly entertaining. Not my favourite version of Dio and doesn’t feel like canon but for the most part the changes could work out or are interesting aspects to consider. The story ends up following the plot of part 3, however the plot relevant for part 6 seems to have been altered. I always had the notion that Pucci and Dio met well before the crusaders’ trip started but that’s not the case in here. What I doappreciate the most in this fake diary however, is all the theories that were created to explain various plot points. Why those specific requirements for achieving ‘heaven’, what ‘heaven’ is really meant to be and why Dio wants it, how the fleshbuds actually affect people. Although I don’t agree with many of these bizarre explanations and would rather leave such things unexplained, they nonetheless spark theories of my own.

And, if it’s worth anything, I had a good laugh with this novel. Be it due to some especially outlandish explanation for something better left a mystery, or Dio getting unexpectedly emotional over some petty thing.