JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | |
Cover of the first volume featuring Dio Brando (left), Jonathan Joestar (right) and Danny (In front of Jonathan).
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| ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 (JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) | |
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| Genre | Adventure, fantasy, supernatural[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hirohiko Araki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Shōnen, seinen |
| Imprint | Jump Comics |
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| Original run | January 1, 1987 – present |
| Volumes | 125 |
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| Light novel | |
| Written by |
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| Illustrated by | Hirohiko Araki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | November 4, 1993 |
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| Light novel | |
| Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio II: Golden Heart/Golden Ring | |
| Written by |
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| Illustrated by | Hirohiko Araki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | May 28, 2001 |
| Light novel | |
| The Book: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4th Another Day | |
| Written by | Otsuichi |
| Illustrated by | Hirohiko Araki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | November 26, 2007 |
| Light novel | |
| Purple Haze Feedback | |
| Written by | Kouhei Kadono |
| Illustrated by | Hirohiko Araki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | September 16, 2011 |
| Light novel | |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Over Heaven | |
| Written by | Nisio Isin |
| Illustrated by | Hirohiko Araki |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | December 16, 2011 |
| Light novel | |
| Jorge Joestar | |
| Written by | Ōtarō Maijō |
| Illustrated by | Ōtarō Maijō |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Jump J-Books |
| Published | September 19, 2012 |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Hepburn: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is a Japanese mangaseries written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2004 before being transferred to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2005. There have been eight story arcs produced to date, and the current and eighth story arc, JoJolion, commenced publication in 2011. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is currently Shueisha's second largest manga series with its chapters collected into 125 tankōbon volumes and counting.
A six-volume original video animation adaptation of the latter half of the series' third story arc was released from 1993 to 1994 by studio A.P.P.P., followed by another seven-volume series covering earlier parts of the arc from 2000 to 2002. A.P.P.P. also produced a theatrical film of the first arc in 2007. In 2012, an anime television series produced by David Production began broadcast on Tokyo MX and covered the first two-story arcs of the manga in 26 episodes. A second 48-episode season covering the third arc was broadcast in 2014 and 2015, a 39-episode season adapting the fourth aired between April and December 2016, and another 39-episode season adapting the fifth premiered in October 2018 and ended in July 2019.
The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga has over 100 million copies in print, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history, and has spawned a large media franchise that includes several novelizations and video games, action figures, a jewelry line, and even snack foods. From 2003 to 2005, Super Techno Arts released both OVA series in North America. Viz Media released a translation of the third part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in North America from 2005 to 2010, but began publishing the series from the beginning in 2015
Contents
Plot
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure tells the story of the Joestar family, a family whose various members discover they are destined to take down supernatural foes using unique powers that they possess. The manga is split up into 8 unique parts, each following the story of one member of the Joestar family, who inevitably has a name that can be abbreviated to the titular "JoJo". The first six parts of the series take place within a single continuity, while parts 7 and 8 take place in an alternate continuity.
- Part 1 Phantom Blood (ファントムブラッド Fantomu Buraddo)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure volumes 1 to 5. In late 19th century England, the young Jonathan Joestar meets his new adopted brother Dio Brando, who only wants to usurp Jonathan as heir to the Joestar family. However, his attempts are thwarted and he resorts to using an ancient Stone Mask which transforms him into a vampire. Jonathan, with Italian Hamon master Will A. Zeppeli and former street thug Robert E.O. Speedwagon at his side, uses his newly found affinity for Hamon to stop Dio whose sights are set on nothing less than world domination. With this Hamon, Jonathan has discovered the only power that can kill a Vampire, and thus is especially necessary in his rivalry against Dio, who has tormented him his whole life.
- Part 2 Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流 Sentō Chōryū)
- Battle Tendency volumes 1 to 8 (JoJo volumes 5 to 12). In New York City in 1938, Joseph Joestar, grandson of Jonathan, has a natural affinity for Hamon. After hearing of Speedwagon's supposed death during an excavation, Joseph decides to investigate and becomes entangled with the revival of the Pillar Men, ancient humanoids of impossible power who are tied to the creation of the Stone Mask. Joseph ultimately teams up with Caesar Zeppeli, Will's grandson, and Caesar's teacher Lisa Lisa, who is mysteriously tied to Joseph. Under the pressure of poisons implanted in Joseph's body, Joseph must master Hamon as they try to stop the Pillar Men from obtaining the Red Stone of Aja, a mystical artifact in Lisa Lisa's possession that will grant them complete immortality and bring about the end of the world at their hands.
- Part 3 Stardust Crusaders (スターダストクルセイダース Sutādasuto Kuruseidāsu)
- Stardust Crusaders volumes 1 to 16 (JoJo volumes 12 to 28). In 1989, Jotaro Kujo, a Japanese high school student, places himself in jail because he believes he is possessed by an evil spirit. His mother Holly calls on her father Joseph Joestar to talk sense into Jotaro. With the help of his ally the Egyptian fortune teller Mohammed Avdol, Joseph reveals that Jotaro has in fact developed a supernatural ability known as a Stand that has run through the family due to a newly resurfaced Dio Brando having fused his head to Jonathan Joestar's headless body. After thwarting an assassination attempt by transfer student Noriaki Kakyoin, who is under Dio's thrall, Jotaro and Joseph discover that Holly is dying from her own Stand. Jotaro resolves to hunt down Dio, and Joseph leads him, Avdol, and Kakyoin to Egypt, using their Stands to battle more Stand-wielding assassins along the way before 50 days elapse and Holly dies. As they progress, they gain allies in the French swordsman Jean Pierre Polnareff, who wishes to avenge the death of his sister, and the Boston Terrier Iggy, who bregrudgingly accompanies the group on the way to Cairo.
- Part 4 Diamond Is Unbreakable (ダイヤモンドは砕けない Daiyamondo wa Kudakenai)
- Diamond Is Unbreakable volumes 1 to 18 (JoJo volumes 29 to 47). In the fictional Japanese town of Morioh in 1999, Jotaro arrives to tell Josuke Higashikata (the kanji 助 in his name is read in the on'yomi form as jo) that he is the illegitimate son of Joseph Joestar and to warn him that Morioh is becoming filled with Stand users. This is due to a mystical Bow and Arrow that bestows Stands on those struck by the arrowheads. After Josuke takes revenge on a Stand user who killed his grandfather, he agrees to help Jotaro hunt down the holder of the Bow and Arrow. He gains allies in Josuke's friend Koichi Hirose, who is hit by the arrow; Okuyasu Nijimura, whose brother Keicho was using the Arrow until it was stolen from him; Rohan Kishibe, a famous manga artist; and even his estranged father Joseph Joestar. Along the way, the group deals with the various new Stand users throughout Morioh, including several of Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu's classmates. Eventually, the death of one of their friends leads to the discovery that one of the new Stand users is the serial killer, Yoshikage Kira.
- Part 5 Golden Wind (黄金の風 Ōgon no Kaze)
- Golden Wind volumes 1 to 17 (JoJo volumes 47 to 63). In 2001, Koichi Hirose is sent by Jotaro to Naples to investigate Giorno Giovanna, whom Jotaro has discovered is Dio's son fathered via Jonathan's body before his defeat in Cairo 12 years earlier, to see if the boy has a Stand and if he is evil. Koichi ultimately discovers Giorno's Stand and his pure goals for reforming a mafia organization from the inside out, and Jotaro lets him live his life uninterrupted. Giorno ultimately joins Bruno Bucciarati's squad within Passione, a Stand-using mafia, who leads Giorno, Leone Abbacchio, Guido Mista, Narancia Ghirga, and Pannacotta Fugo on a mission to Capri to retrieve Bruno's former superior's riches. In addition to being attacked by rival mafioso along the way, they are then tasked by Passione's boss to escort his daughter Trish Una throughout Italy and protect her from others in the gang who wish to use her to find out his identity.
- Part 6 Stone Ocean (ストーンオーシャン Sutōn Ōshan)
- Stone Ocean volumes 1 to 17 (JoJo volumes 64 to 80). In 2011 near Port St. Lucie, Florida, Jolyne Kujo is arrested and sent to the Green Dolphin St. Prison for murder. Her estranged father Jotaro visits her and reveals that she has been set up in order for one of Dio's disciples to kill her within the prison. After revealing that a gift he gave her has awoken her latent Stand powers to protect her, Jotaro is attacked, and his Stand and memories are stolen from him by the prison chaplain Enrico Pucci, Dio's disciple. Jolyne works with fellow inmate Ermes Costello, who has also had a Stand awoken in her, to retrieve her father's Stand, gaining allies in the boy Emporio Alniño; fellow inmates Narciso Anasui and Weather Report; and the sentient Stand-using plankton colony “Foo Fighters” to save her father and stop Pucci before he can use his Stand to recreate the universe in Dio's image.
- Part 7 Steel Ball Run (スティール・ボール・ラン Sutīru Bōru Ran)
- Steel Ball Run volumes 1 to 24 (JoJo volumes 81 to 104). In an alternate timeline in 1890, Gyro Zeppeli travels to the United States to take part in a cross-country horse race known as the Steel Ball Run. His skill in a mystical martial art known as Spin, which he controls with steel balls, garners the interest of former jockey turned paraplegic Johnny Joestar, particularly after a Spin-infused ball briefly restores Johnny's ability to walk. Johnny travels with Gyro on the race to learn the art of Spin from him in hopes he can walk again, but they soon discover that the race is a ploy set up by Funny Valentine, the President of the United States, to search the country for the scattered parts of a holy corpse that imbue their holders with a Stand, so the President can use the entire corpse to his own patriotic ends, even if it means the disruption of other dimensions with his Stand's ability. Gyro and Johnny work together, along with fellow racers Mountain Tim and Hot Pants, and race organizer Stephen Steel and his wife Lucy, to stop the President from achieving his plans, as they threaten the very world, all while dealing with Valentine's hired assassins in the race, including the charismatic racer Diego Brando.
- Part 8 JoJolion (ジョジョリオン Jojorion)
- JoJolion is currently being published, beginning with the 105th overall volume of JoJo. In 2012, in the same universe as Steel Ball Run, the town of Morioh has been devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which has caused mysterious faults colloquially known as the "Wall Eyes" to appear in town. Local college student Yasuho Hirose is near one of the Wall Eyes when she discovers a young man buried in the rubble and a strange bite mark on him. She nicknames him "Josuke", as he cannot remember his own name, and after following a lead that he may be "Yoshikage Kira", an attack by a Stand user leads them to find the real Yoshikage Kira's corpse. Josuke is put in the care of the Higashikata family, whose patriarch Norisuke IV seems to know more about Josuke than he initially lets on, but Josuke himself discovers that the Higashikata family and Yoshikage Kira's family are linked due to Johnny Joestar's marriage to Rina Higashikata in the late 19th century. Josuke and Yasuho ultimately discover that Josuke is in fact Yoshikage Kira, mysteriously fused with another person, and Yoshikage Kira possessed the knowledge to cure a curse that has plagued the Higashikata family for centuries. Norisuke IV wants that knowledge back to save his grandchild from the same fate he and his family has suffered, but a mysterious race of rock men and Norisuke IV's own son Jobin seem to be conspiring against them to both prevent Josuke from regaining his memories and from lifting the curse on the Higashikata family.
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