JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (TV series)

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 powers that they possess. The story is split up into unique parts, each following a member of the Joestar family, who typically have names that can be abbreviated to the titular "JoJo".

At a July 5, 2012, press conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the series and promoting an upcoming Hirohiko Araki art exhibition, Araki and his people announced that an anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was in production and would premiere in October 2012.[5] The 26-episode first season, which covers both the Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency arcs, aired on Tokyo MX between October 5, 2012, and April 5, 2013.[6][7]

Although teased at in the post-credit scenes of the finale,[7] the second season of the anime was officially announced in October 2013 in the November 2013 issue of Ultra Jump and the fifth tankōbon volume of JoJolion.[8] It was broadcast on Tokyo MX in two parts for a total of 48 episodes; the first from April 4 to September 12, 2014, and the second from January 9 to June 19, 2015. The Japanese broadcast censored scenes of underage characters smoking by overlaying black shadows on them.[9][10] At the "Last Crusaders" event for Stardust Crusaders, an adaptation of Diamond Is Unbreakable was announced.[11] It premiered on April 1, 2016 and ended on December 23, 2016. An OVA adapting the Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe manga spin-offs will be made available to those in Japan who buy every Blu-ray or DVD volume of the Diamond Is Unbreakable anime.[3][12] An adaptation of Golden Wind was announced at the "Ripples of Adventure" art exhibition on June 21, 2018.[13] The pilot debuted at Anime Expo on July 6, 2018, and formally aired from October 5, 2018 to July 28, 2019 on Tokyo MX.[13] JOESTAR The Inherited Soul is an exclusive anime-related event scheduled for April 4, 2021; the cast of main characters from each Part of the series will come together for the first time in history of the project.[14][15]

With the 2014 premiere of Stardust Crusaders, American-based website Crunchyroll began streaming the anime series for viewers outside Japan an hour after it aired in Japan.[16] Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released Parts 1 and 2 in a DVD set on September 22, 2015, with an English dub.[17] In July 2016, Viz Media announced they acquired the Blu-ray rights to the series and released it with an English dub in July 2017. On October 15, 2016, American cable block Adult Swim began airing the anime on its Toonami block.[17]

At the 2013 CEDEC Awards, the anime's opening sequence won in the Visual Arts division.[18] The first DVD release of the TV anime was the fourth best-selling animation DVD in Japan for the week of January 28 to February 3, 2013, with 4,510 copies sold.[19] Its Blu-ray version was the fourth best-selling animation Blu-ray for that same week, with 14,860 copies sold.[20] The second volume ranked sixth in both animation DVDs and Blu-rays for the week of February 18–24, with 2,764 and 12,501 copies sold respectively.[21][22] The anime's third volume was the sixth best-selling animation DVD, with 2,994 copies sold, and the second best-selling animation Blu-ray, with 13,536 copies sold, for the week of March 25–31.[23][24]

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure – An earlier adaptation, 13 episodes released in two parts. The first 6 episodes were released during 1993–1994 and the later (but chronologically earlier) 7 episodes were released during 2000–2002 by Studio APPP. This series was adapted from Part 3: Stardust Crusaders of the original manga, also the basis for the 2nd season of the 2012 TV series.

• Official website (in Japanese)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at IMDb
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia