118 Fun Facts About JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Who writes and illustrates JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

Hirohiko Araki, born in Sendai in 1960, has written and drawn every part of JoJo since the series began in January 1987.

In which magazine was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure originally serialized from 1987 to 2004?

Weekly Shōnen Jump carried JoJo until 2004; the move to monthly Ultra Jump suited Araki, who has said weekly deadlines and short chapters restricted what he could draw.

In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, what are Stands?

Psycho-spiritual manifestations of a person's fighting spirit, Stands arrived in Stardust Crusaders, devised by Araki as a way to draw unseen psychic power as a visible figure beside its user.

In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, what is the sunlight-based breathing martial art used by Jonathan and Joseph Joestar called?

Hamon, also translated as the Ripple, focuses bodily energy into sunlight through controlled breathing, which is why it works so well on vampires.

Mainline members of JoJo's Joestar family share a star-shaped birthmark where on their bodies?

Above the left shoulder blade: because DIO steals Jonathan's body he carries the mark too, and passes it on to his son Giorno Giovanna.

What is the title of Part 1 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

Phantom Blood ends with its hero Jonathan Joestar dying at sea on his honeymoon, so Part 2 hands the story to his grandson Joseph.

Dio Brando becomes a vampire in Part 1 by using what ancient artefact?

A Stone Mask: caught poisoning his adoptive father, Dio puts it on as blood splashes it, and spikes pierce his skull to make him a vampire.

Who leads the Pillar Men that Joseph Joestar fights in Battle Tendency?

Kars ends up blasted into space by a volcanic eruption; unable to die and unable to return, he drifts until he finally stops thinking.

The Pillar Men are seeking which object, which will turn them into invincible superbeings?

The Red Stone of Aja would free the Pillar Men from their fatal weakness to sunlight; Lisa Lisa keeps the flawless Super Aja on her island off Venice.

In Stardust Crusaders, the heroes must travel from Japan to which country to defeat DIO?

The Crusaders cross Asia from Japan to Egypt, where DIO waits in Cairo, racing to save Joseph's daughter Holy, whose own Stand is slowly killing her.

What is the name of Jotaro's Stand?

Jotaro's Star Platinum has incredible strength, speed and precision, and in the fight with DIO it learns to stop time for a few seconds.

Araki modelled Jotaro, including his poses and catchphrases, on which American actor?

Clint Eastwood: Jotaro's finger-pointing pose copies the actor aiming a .44 Magnum, and his weary 'yare yare daze' imitates the kind of line Eastwood's heroes mutter.

Which Stand does DIO wield in Stardust Crusaders?

The World stops time, for five seconds at first and nine by the end, long enough for DIO to drop a road roller on Jotaro in their final fight.

Joseph Joestar's Stand Hermit Purple, like most Stands in Part 3, is named after what?

Hermit Purple takes its name from The Hermit tarot card, like the other Crusaders' Stands; Joseph uses its vines for spirit photography through cameras and TV sets.

Iggy, the Stand-using member of the Stardust Crusaders, is what kind of animal?

A Boston Terrier: Iggy lived as a stray no one could catch until Avdol trapped him for the trip, and the group keeps him calm with coffee-flavoured chewing gum.

Hol Horse's Stand, Emperor, takes the form of what object?

Emperor manifests as a revolver in Hol Horse's hand; the bullets it fires are part of the Stand, so Hol Horse can steer them in mid-air.

Muhammad Avdol's Stand Magician's Red manipulates fire, usually shaped like which symbol?

An ankh: his signature Crossfire Hurricane hurls several flaming ankhs at once, and Avdol himself is shot and left for dead in India, only to return alive.

Noriaki Kakyoin's long-range Stand attack, a blast of green energy, is called what?

Emerald Splash is a spray of energy shards from Kakyoin's Stand Hierophant Green; his dying shot wrecks a clock tower to tell Joseph the secret of DIO's power.

Jean Pierre Polnareff's Stand Silver Chariot is an armoured knight wielding what weapon?

A rapier: Silver Chariot fences at blinding speed, sheds its armour to move faster still, and as a last resort can fire the blade off its sword.

Which servant of DIO kills both Avdol and Iggy inside DIO's mansion?

Vanilla Ice: his Stand Cream swallows whatever it touches into a void, yet DIO has made him a vampire, so Polnareff wins by forcing him into sunlight.

Diamond Is Unbreakable is set in 1999 in which Japanese town?

Morioh, modelled on a corner of Araki's home city Sendai, looks ordinary yet hides a serial killer; a quake-damaged version returns in JoJolion's separate continuity.

What is the big limitation of Crazy Diamond, Josuke's Stand that repairs objects and people?

It cannot heal its user, Josuke, nor raise the dead, so he could only close the wounds of his murdered grandfather.

What is the power of Yoshikage Kira's Stand, Killer Queen?

Turning any object into a bomb leaves no trace, which is how the mild-mannered office worker has hidden his murders for years.

Rohan Kishibe's Stand, Heaven's Door, does what to a person?

Turns them into a readable book: Rohan, a manga artist hungry for real material, leafs through a person's memories and can write commands on the pages that they must obey.

Whose Stand Echoes evolves through three forms called Acts?

Koichi Hirose gains each Act as he grows through the story; Act 3, which he unlocks in his first clash with Kira, pins a target to the ground by making it crushingly heavy.

Okuyasu Nijimura's Stand The Hand does what to whatever it swipes?

Erases the space it occupies: the gap then closes up, so Okuyasu can yank a distant enemy or object straight to him, a power Josuke thinks he is too slow-witted to exploit.

Golden Wind opens in 2001 in which Italian city?

Naples is where Giorno, DIO's son, joins the gang Passione, aiming to become its boss and stop drugs reaching the city's children; the story later moves on to Venice and Sardinia.

What is the name of Giorno Giovanna's Stand, which gives life to non-living things?

Gold Experience can turn a suitcase into a frog; pierced by the Arrow it becomes Gold Experience Requiem, which resets any action to zero and traps Diavolo in endless deaths.

In JoJo's Golden Wind, Bruno Bucciarati's Stand Sticky Fingers can put what on any object it touches?

A zipper: he can unzip a wall and walk straight through the opening, or take himself apart to dodge attacks.

Which number is missing from the six bullet-riding beings, numbered 1 to 7, of Guido Mista's Stand Sex Pistols?

#4 is missing because Mista has tetraphobia, a dread of the number four as bad luck, so his six Sex Pistols are numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.

Narancia Ghirga's Stand Aerosmith takes the form of what?

A tiny fighter plane armed with machine guns and bombs: its radar homes in on the carbon dioxide living things breathe out, so Narancia can track enemies he cannot see.

Pannacotta Fugo's Stand Purple Haze is dangerous even to allies because it releases what?

A deadly virus bursts from capsules on Purple Haze's fists and eats flesh in seconds; Fugo is also the one member who stays behind when the team turns on the boss.

What is King Crimson's second face, which predicts ten seconds ahead, called?

Epitaph, the face on King Crimson's forehead, shows the next ten seconds, letting Diavolo see attacks coming before his main power erases up to ten seconds of time.

What is the name of the boss's timid alter ego in Golden Wind, who unknowingly shares Diavolo's body?

Vinegar Doppio is the boss's timid second personality, a separate soul sharing Diavolo's body; he acts as go-between with Passione, taking the boss's 'calls' on any object he grabs.

Stone Ocean sends Jolyne Cujoh to Green Dolphin Street Prison in which US state?

Green Dolphin Street Prison is in Florida; Stone Ocean, set in 2011-12, was Araki's first part with a female lead, and Jolyne awakens her Stand from a pendant Jotaro sent her.

Jolyne Cujoh's Stand Stone Free lets her turn her body into what?

String: Jolyne gains the power when a pendant from her father, hiding a shard of the Stand-giving Arrow, cuts her finger just before she is jailed.

Enrico Pucci's Stand Whitesnake steals a person's Stand and memories in what form?

Compact discs: Whitesnake pulls Jotaro's memories and Stand out as two discs, leaving him in a coma, and Jolyne spends most of the part trying to win them back.

What was Pucci's final Stand called during serialization, before it was renamed for the collected volumes?

Stairway to Heaven was the name in the magazine run; the collected volumes made it Made in Heaven, the Stand that speeds time up until the universe ends and a new one is born.

Steel Ball Run is a cross-country horse race held in the United States in which year?

The Steel Ball Run starts in San Diego on 25 September 1890 and ends in New York; President Funny Valentine uses the race as cover for collecting the parts of a Saint's Corpse.

Johnny Joestar's Stand Tusk initially lets him fire what at people?

His fingernails: Tusk spins them and fires them like bullets; the paraplegic ex-jockey joins the race to learn Gyro's Spin after it makes his legs move for a moment.

The Steel Ball Run racer known as Gyro has what real given names?

Julius Caesar is the birth name of Gyro, an executioner who enters the race to win an amnesty for a boy on death row.

Funny Valentine's Stand D4C does what when he is pressed between two objects?

Travel between alternate dimensions: Valentine slips into a parallel universe whenever he is pressed flat, and he can pull people, even other versions of himself, back across.

Diego Brando's Stand Scary Monsters lets him transform into what?

A dinosaur: Diego is first turned into one against his will by Dr Ferdinand's Stand, then keeps the power for himself by seizing the left eye of the holy corpse.

The Josuke of JoJolion is a fusion of his universe's Yoshikage Kira and which other young man?

Josefumi Kujo fed a dying Kira a healing fruit that takes its price from someone else; buried together by the 2011 earthquake, the two were fused into the amnesiac Josuke.

The bubbles of Soft & Wet, Josuke's Stand in JoJolion, do what?

Steal an aspect of whatever they touch: Josuke takes the sight from an attacker's eyes and the friction from a floor, and later learns to fire explosive bubbles he dubs Go Beyond.

Part 9, The JoJoLands, follows Jodio Joestar and his sibling Dragona in which US state?

Hawaii: Jodio, a teenage hustler on Oahu who dreams of getting rich, is sent to steal a diamond from a holidaying Japanese manga artist, who turns out to be Rohan Kishibe.

Which studio, also behind Fire Force, produced the JoJo TV anime that premiered in 2012?

David Production launched the anime in October 2012; less than two years later, while Stardust Crusaders was airing, Fuji Television bought the studio.

The Stone Ocean anime debuted worldwide in December 2021 on which platform before Japanese TV?

Netflix released Stone Ocean worldwide in three batches from 1 December 2021, a month before Japanese TV; earlier parts had streamed weekly on Crunchyroll right after each broadcast.

Which director made the 2017 live-action JoJo film based on Diamond Is Unbreakable?

Takashi Miike shot the story's Japanese town in Sitges, Spain, judging it the closest real match to the manga's setting, with Kento Yamazaki as Josuke.

From 1993 to 2002, a 13-episode OVA adapting Stardust Crusaders was produced by which studio?

A.P.P.P. made the 13 OVA episodes (1993-2002), which, with Capcom's 1999 fighting game and a 2005-2010 English release of Stardust Crusaders, gave the series its only Western exposure before 2012.

Which publisher released the 2013 fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle?

Bandai Namco published the CyberConnect2 fighter; for its English release, Stands named after real music were renamed to avoid legal trouble, so Crazy Diamond became Shining Diamond.

Which museum showed Araki's art in 2009 and is the setting of a full-colour Rohan Kishibe story?

The Louvre showed Araki's pages in its 2009 comics exhibition; his 123-page full-colour story sends Rohan to Paris in search of a cursed painting tied to his own family.

Which fashion house hosted a 2011 Araki exhibition and features in one-shots starring Rohan Kishibe and Jolyne Cujoh?

Gucci hosted the show at its Shinjuku store to mark its 90th anniversary, and Araki drew Rohan Kishibe Goes to Gucci and Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci for a fashion magazine.

Which pre-JoJo Araki manga follows a boy infected with a bio-weapon parasite?

Baoh: The Visitor (1984-85) follows Ikuro, a 17-year-old who, helped by a young psychic girl, escapes the secret organisation that infected him; it became an OVA in 1989.

Which family's men die helping a JoJo in Parts 1, 2 and 7?

The Zeppelis fight beside the hero and die in each of those parts; Araki took the name from Led Zeppelin, partly to offset a cast full of names beginning with J.

Araki took JoJo's idea of two families with intertwined destinies from which John Steinbeck story?

East of Eden gave Araki the two entwined families, and the saga Roots the idea of following one bloodline down the generations.

Robert E. O. Speedwagon makes his fortune in what industry, funding the Speedwagon Foundation?

Oil: the former Ogre Street thug strikes it rich in America and pours the fortune into the Speedwagon Foundation, which aids the Joestars in nearly every later part.

Lisa Lisa, the martial-arts master who trains Joseph in Battle Tendency, is secretly his what?

Lisa Lisa is Joseph's mother: born Elizabeth, she was the infant Erina saved on the night Jonathan died, and later married George Joestar II, Joseph's father.

Nazi officer Rudol von Stroheim, later a cyborg fighting the Pillar Men, is said to have died at which 1943 battle?

Stalingrad: Stroheim, who blew himself up to stop one Pillar Man and came back rebuilt to fight the rest, is reported in the epilogue to have died there in 1943.

The Pillar Man Santana is found sleeping in 1938 in ancient ruins in which country?

Mexico: Nazi scientists wake Santana to study him, and when he breaks loose Joseph and Stroheim trick him into sunlight reflected up a well, which turns him to stone.

Which company began publishing the JoJo manga in North America in 2005, starting with Stardust Crusaders?

Viz Media began with Stardust Crusaders, the third part, in 2005; English readers had to wait until 2014 for the first part and the start of the Joestars' feud with Dio.

Which American cable block began airing the JoJo anime in October 2016?

Adult Swim's Toonami began airing the anime on 15 October 2016; in June 2020 it had to pause Golden Wind mid-run when the pandemic delayed the English dub.

The Stand Arrow, introduced in Diamond Is Unbreakable, gives a Stand to anyone pierced by it who is what?

Mentally strong enough: anyone pierced who lacks that strength dies instead, and the Arrow was later revealed to be where DIO's Stand, and through him the Joestars', came from.

What does Spice Girl, the Stand awakened by the boss's daughter Trish Una in Golden Wind, do?

Softens any material like rubber, which makes it nearly unbreakable: as the Stand itself tells Trish, what is soft outlasts any diamond.

Which amnesiac Stone Ocean ally, secretly Pucci's twin brother, has the Stand that finally kills Pucci?

Weather Report lost his memories to his twin's Stand; after his death the boy Emporio wields Weather Report's power, flooding a sealed room with pure oxygen to kill Pucci.

Which Jules Verne novel inspired the 'road movie' plot of Stardust Crusaders?

Around the World in Eighty Days gave Araki a journey to hang the story on; he chose it to avoid the tournament arcs then popular in boys' manga magazines.

The Steel Ball Run's $50 million horse race across America finishes in which city?

New York: the rider who crosses the line first is disqualified for missing the ceremonies, so the $50 million goes to Pocoloco, who had overslept at the start.

In 2008 Shueisha halted JoJo shipments after complaints about a scene in which DIO reads what?

A book showing pages of the Quran appeared only in the anime version of the scene; Shueisha still had Araki redraw manga panels of fights on top of mosques for later printings.

Which Street Fighter character's look was based on JoJo's Rudol von Stroheim and Jean Pierre Polnareff?

Guile's name is a second nod, referencing another JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character who was named after The J. Geils Band. Tekken's Paul Phoenix was inspired by Polnareff too.

Which notorious name from Victorian London joins Dio Brando's zombie army in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

Jack the Ripper attacks Dio, is overpowered and turned into a zombie, then ambushes Jonathan Joestar's carriage. Will Zeppeli badly injures him and Jonathan delivers the killing blow.

Which song by the prog band Yes closes each episode of the first JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime season?

Roundabout returned as the ending theme of Stone Ocean's final episode, a nod to where the anime began. Yes released the single in 1972, forty years before the show first aired.

Yoshikage Kira's obsession in Diamond Is Unbreakable began with which painting, seen in childhood?

Mona Lisa set off the hand fixation behind Kira's killings when he saw the painting as a boy. He keeps each victim's severed hand as a 'girlfriend' until it begins to decay.

Josuke Higashikata of JoJo's Diamond Is Unbreakable flies into a violent rage whenever someone insults what?

His hair is a pompadour worn in honour of an unknown delinquent who got the gravely ill young Josuke to hospital through the snow. An insult to it feels like an insult to his rescuer.

At the end of JoJo's Golden Wind, the soul of the veteran hero Polnareff lives on inside which animal?

A turtle named Coco Jumbo becomes his home after his own body dies. The turtle's Stand, Mr. President, hides a hotel-like room inside its shell that the gang uses as a mobile safe house.

After defeating DIO in Stardust Crusaders, JoJo hero Jotaro Kujo goes on to follow which scientific career?

Marine biologist is how Jotaro reappears, ten years on, in Diamond Is Unbreakable. By Stone Ocean the former delinquent is listed as an oceanographer.

At the climax of JoJo's Battle Tendency, a volcanic eruption blasts the Pillar Men's immortal leader where?

Into outer space he goes, where his immortal body freezes solid. Unable to die, he drifts for the rest of time and eventually stops thinking altogether.

In JoJo's Battle Tendency, what is the 'secret technique' that Joseph Joestar saves as a last resort?

Running away looks cowardly, but Joseph uses it to stall while he thinks up a plan and to lure his opponent to a spot where he holds the advantage.

Jotaro Kujo's JoJo catchphrase, 'Yare yare daze', is usually rendered in English as what?

Good grief is the standard English rendering of the weary line. JoJo's creator says Jotaro is now so well known that he could act as a 'synonym' for the whole saga.

Dio Brando's rapid-fire battle cry in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, 'Muda muda muda', means what in English?

Useless is what 'muda' means, and the cry sits beside 'WRYYY' and 'It was me, Dio!' among the villain's lines that became Internet memes.

In JoJo's Stardust Crusaders, whose uncontrolled Stand is slowly killing her, forcing the hunt for DIO?

Holly Kujo is Joseph Joestar's daughter. Stands awaken across the family once DIO, wearing Jonathan Joestar's stolen body, gains one of his own, but hers turns against her.

During stopped time in the final battle of JoJo's Stardust Crusaders, what does DIO drop on top of Jotaro?

A road roller comes down on Jotaro, who survives by learning to stop time himself at that moment. The vampire's ease in lifting one is a frequent source of pop-culture references.

In JoJo's Stardust Crusaders, the gambler Daniel J. D'Arby stores the souls of people he beats as what?

Poker chips hold each loser's soul, an idea drawn from the author's belief that the money you gamble with represents your soul. Jotaro wins them back by out-bluffing the gambler.

In JoJo's Stardust Crusaders, the killer J. Geil and his parent Enya the Hag share which physical oddity?

Two right hands were, for years, the only clue Polnareff had to the man who murdered his sister. Enya, who shares the trait, serves as DIO's adviser.

After an enemy Stand kills the pilots in JoJo's Stardust Crusaders, the heroes' plane ditches off which city?

Hong Kong is where Joseph Joestar brings the jet down safely. The group then meets Polnareff there, when he joins them in a restaurant and attacks as one of DIO's assassins.

In JoJo's Stardust Crusaders, what does DIO implant in Noriaki Kakyoin's forehead to control him?

A flesh bud sends a tendril straight into the brain and forces loyalty to DIO. Jotaro pulls it out with his Stand, and the freed Kakyoin joins the journey.

Joseph Joestar's suave partner in JoJo's Battle Tendency fights the Pillar Men with what weapon?

Soap bubbles, blown from specially made gloves, can be shaped into discs or used as lenses. JoJo's creator chose them as a 'representation of his fate and the burden he is carrying'.

Which toy does Joseph Joestar wield as an early weapon against the Pillar Men in JoJo's Battle Tendency?

Clackers are only his opening gambit. Joseph relies more on mind games than on brute strength, and his creator calls him a trickster beside his serious grandfather Jonathan.

At the end of JoJo's Battle Tendency, a presumed-dead Joseph Joestar turns up alive at which event?

His own funeral is under way because his new wife, Suzi Q, forgot to tell anyone he had survived. He arrives with the prosthetic hand he received from Stroheim.

Besides killing in secret, what does Yoshikage Kira want above all else in JoJo's Diamond Is Unbreakable?

A quiet life is the office worker's whole ambition, and one story arc is titled 'Yoshikage Kira Wants to Live Quietly'. He uses his Stand to erase any evidence of his crimes.

The serial killer of JoJo's Diamond Is Unbreakable finally dies when he is run over by what?

An ambulance arriving at the scene crushes his skull after Jotaro, with help from Koichi, knocks him into its path. Spectral hands then drag his spirit away.

Josuke Higashikata of JoJo's Diamond Is Unbreakable is what relation to Jotaro Kujo, the hero of Stardust Crusaders?

His uncle: Josuke is the illegitimate son of Joseph Joestar, who is Jotaro's grandfather. The Joestar family only learns that the boy exists in 1999.

Rohan Kishibe, the abrasive JoJo character who stars in his own spin-off stories, works in which profession?

Manga artist Rohan draws a series called Pink Dark Boy, and his Stand later takes a form resembling its unnamed hero. As a small child he was saved from a killer by his babysitter.

Which crime family does Giorno Giovanna join in JoJo's Golden Wind, planning to overthrow its boss?

Passione is the gang Giorno wants to reform from the top by ending its drug trade. His dream of becoming a 'Gang-Star' began when he rescued a wounded mobster as a child.

Before joining Bucciarati's gang in JoJo's Golden Wind, what was Leone Abbacchio's former profession?

Police officer Abbacchio accepted a bribe, and his partner later died taking a bullet fired by the same criminal. Labelled a dirty cop and drinking heavily, he was recruited by Bucciarati.

The Arrows that awaken Stands in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were crafted from what, found in Greenland?

A meteorite that crashed there carried a virus, which kills most of the people it infects but gives superhuman abilities to those who survive its effects.

Enrico Pucci, the villain of JoJo's Stone Ocean, holds which post at Green Dolphin Street Prison?

Chaplain Pucci met DIO at fifteen, while on the path to the priesthood, and received an Arrow from him. Inside the prison he works to carry out the dead vampire's plan.

In JoJo's Stone Ocean, the ally known as Foo Fighters is really a sentient colony of what?

Plankton given a mind by a Stand, F.F. was created to guard something stolen, then sided with Jolyne out of gratitude after losing to her and took over a dead inmate's body.

Green Dolphin Street Prison, the setting of JoJo's Stone Ocean, goes by which watery nickname?

The Aquarium holds Jolyne Cujoh on a 15-year sentence. JoJo's creator visited a real American prison while researching the story.

The cross-country horse race in JoJo's Steel Ball Run ends in New York City, but where does it start?

San Diego hosts the start, with riders arriving from all over the world. The race is organised by the eccentric promoter Steven Steel.

In JoJo's Steel Ball Run, President Funny Valentine uses the race to gather scattered parts of what?

A saint's corpse, some 1,900 years old, promises limitless power to whoever reassembles it. Valentine already holds its heart when the race begins.

What was the profession of Johnny Joestar, the paraplegic hero of JoJo's Steel Ball Run, before his injury?

A jockey and horse-racing prodigy from Kentucky, Johnny enters the race to follow Gyro Zeppeli, whose Spin technique is the only thing that has let him stand again.

Which grim trade did Gyro Zeppeli ply before entering JoJo's Steel Ball Run to save a condemned child?

Executioner was the Zeppeli family's work in the Kingdom of Naples, done with the same Spin technique they used in their medical practice. Gyro believes the boy was wrongly convicted.

JoJolion, the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, opens in the aftermath of which real disaster?

The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011 throw up strange formations called the Wall Eyes, and an amnesiac young man is found buried beneath them.

In JoJolion, which secretive group traffics the healing Locacaca with the help of Jobin Higashikata?

The Rock Humans are stone-based beings who seek to infiltrate human society. Their prized Locacaca can heal one part of the body, but only at the expense of another.

The '-lion' in the title JoJolion comes from 'evangelion', an Ancient Greek word referring to what?

The Gospels are the reference. JoJo's creator said that joining the word to 'JoJo' was meant to signify the existence of the protagonist Josuke in this world.

On their first heist in The JoJoLands, Jodio Joestar's crew finds what object that attracts anything of value?

A lava rock turns up while the crew is robbing a villa, and its pull on anything valuable inspires a far bigger scheme: taking every asset of the Howler company.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure switched magazines partway through Steel Ball Run, moving to which monthly title?

Ultra Jump, a monthly seinen magazine, took over in March 2005 after the first 23 chapters of Steel Ball Run had appeared elsewhere. JoJolion and The JoJoLands later launched in the same magazine.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has run for decades, but its creator originally planned the whole story as what?

A trilogy was the plan, with the final confrontation taking place in present-day Japan. The author also refused to make Part 3 a tournament story, a format then popular in boys' manga.

Which voice actor, also the English voice of Levi in Attack on Titan, plays Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's English dub?

Matthew Mercer took the role for the Stardust Crusaders anime. Away from the recording booth he developed the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role and served as its Dungeon Master.

Which veteran Japanese voice actor plays the villain Dio Brando in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV anime?

Takehito Koyasu took over the vampire for the TV anime, after Nobuo Tanaka had voiced him in the earlier OVAs. The other three names here play Jotaro, young Joseph and Kira.

The live-action film of JoJo's Diamond Is Unbreakable shot its town scenes in which European country?

Spain supplied the streets of Sitges, a coastal city the director remembered from visiting its film festival. He had to work there with a local crew that did not speak Japanese.

Which company developed the arcade fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future?

Capcom built it with the team behind Street Fighter III, and it was the last game released for the company's CPS-3 arcade board. The first version was sold abroad as JoJo's Venture.

The first JoJo's Bizarre Adventure video game, released for the Super Famicom, belonged to which genre?

Role-playing was the format: the 1993 release adapted Stardust Crusaders, five years before a fighting title based on the same story arc reached arcades.

Which studio, known for its Naruto fighting games, developed JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle?

CyberConnect2 followed All Star Battle with a second JoJo fighter two years later. The studio is also known for its work on the .hack games.

Which Australian pop group's hit 'I Want You' is the ending theme of JoJo's Diamond Is Unbreakable anime?

Savage Garden's 1996 single continued the anime's habit of closing on Western pop: the season before had used a 1986 hit by The Bangles.

JoJo's creator once drew an enzyme as a Stand for the cover of which scientific journal?

Cell ran the artwork on its September 2007 issue, the enzyme being a ligase. JoJo-style art later adorned a 2008 collection featuring Yasunari Kawabata's 'The Dancing Girl of Izu'.

Scientists honoured the JoJo Stand Love Deluxe by giving its name to a newly found species of what?

Tardigrade species Neostygarctus lovedeluxe was named in 2013 by Shinta Fujimoto and Katsumi Miyazaki. The Stand belongs to the lovestruck schoolgirl Yukako Yamagishi.

JoJo's creator cites which French Post-Impressionist painter as an inspiration for the manga's unusual colours?

Paul Gauguin's influence shows in pages where realistic drawing meets surreal colour, with the colouring worked out by calculation rather than kept consistent.