It's Finally A Friday

About

“It’s Finally A Friday” is a three pane comic edit of a page from the Japanese manga series JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure normally used to display happiness or relief at the end of a wait for something. Within the JJBA community, the edit has been associated with an airing of a new episode of the TV anime adaptation.

Origin

The original image (pictured below, left) comes from a page in Chapter 179 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders^[1], where the characters Jotaro Kujo, Joseph Joestar, Jean Pierre Polnareff, Noriaki Kakyoin, and Mohammed Avdol finally arrive near Egypt after a long journey from Japan and numerous enemy encounters. The original image though only features the former three.

The earliest appearances of the image coincide with the airing of the first episode of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure TV anime adaptation’s second season^[2], as in April 4th, 2014, a NeoGAF user Ezlac posted a comment with the image hotlinked from Tumblr^[3].

Spread

On September 4th, 2014, it was mentioned on TV Tropes^[4]. On September 5th, 2014, the day when the episode covering the original scene aired, a Tumblr user Seviper uploaded a collection of gifs, depicting the comic in anime form^[5]. Over 8 months, the post got over 19,753 notes. On October 1st, 2014, a Tumblr user sassybang uploaded a derivative comic, used to show excitement for at the time upcoming release of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS. As of May 2015, the post had around 6,596 notes^[6].