JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Original title: JoJo no Kimyô na Bôken

TV Series
2012–
12
24m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

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Unshô Ishizuka, Takehito Koyasu, Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Ono, Kenta Miyake, Daisuke Hirakawa, Kazuyuki Okitsu, and Fuminori Komatsu in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)

The story of the Joestar family, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the adventures each member encounters throughout their lives.

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The story of the Joestar family, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the adventures each member encounters throughout their lives.The story of the Joestar family, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the adventures each member encounters throughout their lives.The story of the Joestar family, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the adventures each member encounters throughout their lives.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

42K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

552

Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 23 nominations total

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Trivia
Hirohiko Araki is a big fan of Western music, and many of the characters and Stands in the show are named after musicians and songs.

Goofs
Dio is introduced as having three moles on his left ear. This detail is inconsistent throughout the entire series and the moles disappear and reappear regularly between shots regardless of scale or detail.

Quotes
[repeated line]
Dio Brando: [activates his Stand] Za Warudo!

Crazy credits
At the start of the "Sono Chi No Sadame" title sequence, the series title appears with a quick montage of all the JoJo heroes (Jolyne, Giorno, Josuke, Jotaro, Joseph, Jonathan) in manga comic pages flipping together, representing the Joestar family and the saga starting with the first JoJo.

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Most Satisfying Deaths in Anime (2016)

Soundtracks
JoJo ~Sono Chi no Sadame~
Lyrics by Shôko Fujibayashi
Music by Kôhei Tanaka
Arranged by Kow Otani
Performed by Hiroaki Tominaga (as Hiroaki 'TOMMY' Tominaga)

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Featured review

8/10

great fun!

Don't know why this anime was split into parts 1 and 2. I just watched episodes 1-26, so I'm going to review it as one show.

It starts with a rich family (the Joestars) adopting a poor boy named Dio. Dio is the same age as the Joestar's son, Jonathan, and they become fierce rivals at everything trying to get the attention of Jonathan's father. Initially, Dio is better at everything, but as they grow up, Jonathan catches up to Dio, making him bitter and twisted. One day, he finds a stone mask, that when attached to his face, transforms him into an evil vampire...

The shows stretches over 3 generations of Joestars and each son is nicknamed Jojo. They spend their lives fighting vampires and other, stronger immortals.

What I really liked about this show was the humour. The characters were all great and the animation and action scenes were awesome, but the humour turned what could have been a dark, horror type story into something really fun. Normally, I'd prefer them to have left out the humour and gone down the dark path, but in this case, it really works well. Definitely worth a watch!