70 Fun Facts About JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Who writes and illustrates JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

He was born in Sendai in 1960, and the series began in January 1987.

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

In 2005 it moved to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump, where Steel Ball Run and its successors have run since.

What are Stands, the powers at the centre of JoJo battles from Part 3 onward?

Araki said the idea came from wanting to draw the heart and soul, and it shifted the series from physical to mental battles.

What is the sunlight-based breathing martial art used by Jonathan and Joseph Joestar called?

Also translated as the Ripple, it lets a user focus bodily energy into sunlight through controlled breathing, which is why it works so well on vampires.

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

Each part's hero also has a name that can be shortened to 'JoJo', from Jonathan Joestar to Jodio Joestar.

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

Set in late 19th-century England, it introduces Jonathan Joestar and his adopted brother Dio and runs just five volumes.

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

He then destroys the Joestar estate; the mask itself was later revealed to be the work of the Pillar Men.

In Battle Tendency, Joseph Joestar fights the Pillar Men. Who is their leader?

He is finally blasted into space by a volcanic eruption, where his immortal body freezes solid, unable to die.

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

German researchers first found the trio in 1938; the perfectly cut version of the stone is guarded by Lisa Lisa in Venice.

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

Araki refused to write a tournament arc and instead built a 'road movie' inspired by Jules Verne's globe-circling novel.

What is the name of Jotaro's Stand?

It has incredible strength, speed and precision, and later gains the ability to stop time for a few seconds.

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

His hair, meanwhile, was drawn from foreign fashion models and from Rudol von Stroheim's look in Battle Tendency.

Which Stand does DIO wield in Stardust Crusaders?

Its power is to stop time, and Jotaro's own Stand later gains the same ability.

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

He uses its vine-like power to make predictions through cameras and television sets.

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

The stray dodged New York animal control for years, and the group keeps him calm with coffee-flavoured chewing gum.

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

Araki liked his 'why be number one when you can be number two' outlook so much that he later gave it to Yoshikage Kira.

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

Its signature attack, Crossfire Hurricane, hurls several flaming ankhs at once.

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

His Stand, Hierophant Green, was originally called Hierophant Emerald and can shrink to control people from the inside.

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

Casting off its armour makes it faster still, at the cost of its defence, and the character inspired Street Fighter's Guile.

Which vampire, DIO's last creation, kills both Avdol and Iggy in DIO's mansion?

Polnareff finishes him by using Silver Chariot to draw him into sunlight, where he disintegrates.

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

Josuke Higashikata lives there, and it returns in JoJolion, devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, in a second continuity.

Crazy Diamond can restore objects and mend injuries, but which of these is beyond it?

It can turn lemonade back into water, sugar and lemons, but it can neither revive the dead nor mend its own user.

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

The explosions leave no trace, which is how the office worker has hidden his murders for years.

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

The prickly mangaka draws the series Pink Dark Boy and stars in his own spin-off, Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe.

Koichi Hirose's Stand Echoes has how many distinct forms, or Acts?

He can only summon one at a time, and Act 3 shows a sentience of its own, which is rare for a Stand.

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

It is a devastating power that Okuyasu, not the sharpest member of the cast, rarely uses to its full potential.

Golden Wind is set in 2001 in which Italian city?

Giorno Giovanna, conceived while DIO was using Jonathan's body, sets out to take over the mafia to stop drugs being sold to children.

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

Once pierced by the Arrow it becomes a Requiem form that can return any process to zero, trapping Diavolo in endless deaths.

Bruno Bucciarati's Stand Sticky Fingers can put what on any object it touches?

He can unzip a wall and walk straight through the opening, or take himself apart to dodge attacks.

Guido Mista's Stand Sex Pistols consists of six numbered bullet-shaped beings. Which number is missing?

Despite being Italian, Mista is tetraphobic and treats the number the way many East Asian cultures do, as bad luck.

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

It tracks targets by carbon dioxide on a radar display, so it cannot tell enemies from bystanders or open flames.

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

Fugo has no immunity to it, and he later leads his own light novel, Purple Haze Feedback.

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

The main power erases up to ten seconds of time, and his alter ego Doppio can borrow the Stand's arms and this ability.

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

He is treated as a separate soul in one shape-shifting body, and serves as the boss's go-between with his gang.

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

Set in 2011-12, it was Araki's first part with a female lead, and she gains her Stand from a pendant her father Jotaro gave her.

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

The thread is elastic but relatively fragile, and she can unravel her whole body into it.

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

He takes Jotaro's discs early in Stone Ocean, and Jolyne spends most of the part trying to get them back.

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

The name was changed for the collected volumes; its power speeds time past a Big Crunch while preserving all living things.

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

President Funny Valentine puts up a $50 million prize, but the race is a cover for collecting the parts of a Saint's Corpse.

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

The paraplegic former jockey rides a horse called Slow Dancer and learns the Spin from Gyro so he can stand again.

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

The disgraced Neapolitan executioner rides Valkyrie and channels the Spin, based on the golden rectangle, through his Steel Balls.

Funny Valentine's Stand D4C activates when he is sandwiched by two objects. What does it let him do?

He uses it to swap his mind into another version of himself, usually to cheat death.

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

An alternate-universe Diego later arrives wielding the same time-stopping Stand as the original DIO.

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

The two were buried alive by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and merged through the New Locacaca fruit.

JoJolion's Josuke has the Stand Soft & Wet, which produces bubbles that do what?

It can take a person's eyesight or the friction of a floor; combined with a bomb ability it later becomes Soft & Wet: Go Beyond.

Part 9, The JoJoLands, follows Jodio Joestar and his brother Dragona in which setting?

Their crew discovers the Lava Rock, which attracts anything of value its user touches, and aims it at $50 billion in assets.

Which studio has produced the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure television anime since 2012?

By December 2022 it had made five seasons and 190 episodes, reaching the end of Stone Ocean.

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

Its second batch followed in September 2022 and the finale in December that year; Steel Ball Run took the same route in 2026.

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

Kento Yamazaki starred as Josuke in the Toho and Warner Bros. co-production.

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

It gave the series its only real Western exposure before the 2012 TV anime, alongside a 1999 fighting game and the 2005-2010 English manga release.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle was released in 2013 to mark which anniversary of the manga?

A JoJo-themed train ran on Tokyo's Yamanote Line for two weeks to celebrate the game's launch.

Which museum exhibited Hirohiko Araki in 2009, prompting a full-colour Rohan one-shot set there?

The 123-page full-colour story sends Rohan to Paris to find a cursed painting tied to his family.

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

The Shinjuku show marked the brand's 90th anniversary and featured Araki drawing its actual autumn/winter collection.

Roughly how many copies of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were in circulation by August 2023?

That makes it one of the best-selling manga in history across 139 tankōbon volumes and counting.

Araki's earlier manga about an 'ultimate being', considered JoJo's spiritual predecessor, is which title?

That concept resurfaced as the vampires of Part 1 and the Pillar Men of Part 2.

The Zeppeli family name is derived from which rock band?

Music references run through the series, from Stands like Killer Queen and Aerosmith to Sticky Fingers.

Araki's iconic 'JoJo poses' were inspired by his studies of which artist's sculptures on a trip to Italy?

He has also cited Paul Gauguin for colour and 1980s Western art for shading.

Araki took the idea of intertwined destiny and rivalry between two families from which novel?

He also looked to Roots for its family-centred storytelling across generations.

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

The former Ogre Street thug's foundation goes on to help the Joestars in nearly every later part.

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

Born Elizabeth, she was the infant Erina saved on the night Jonathan died, and later married George Joestar II.

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

Before the war he supplied Joseph with his artificial hand.

The Pillar Man Santana is discovered in 1938 inside a pyramid in which country?

Joseph turns him back to stone by trapping him in a well at high noon.

Which company has licensed the JoJo manga, TV anime and live-action film in North America since 2005?

Its first release, Stardust Crusaders, renamed several characters and Stands for legal reasons and had Araki himself redraw some scenes.

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

Crunchyroll had streamed it outside Japan since the 2014 premiere of Stardust Crusaders, one hour after Japanese broadcast.

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

It was later revealed to be the source of DIO's Stand and the Joestars' Stands as well.

Trish Una, the boss's daughter in Golden Wind, awakens a Stand named Spice Girl. What does it do?

Araki decided to give her a Stand while writing, and created Carne's Stand purely for her to fight it.

Which amnesiac Stone Ocean ally becomes the key to Pucci's downfall after his Stand is turned into a disc?

Emporio ultimately uses that Stand to kill Pucci and lives on as the lone witness to Jolyne's story.

Araki made Stardust Crusaders a 'road movie' inspired by which Jules Verne novel?

He originally planned JoJo as a trilogy but wanted to avoid the tournament format then popular in Shōnen Jump.

What prize does President Funny Valentine offer the winner of the Steel Ball Run race?

He secretly uses the race to gather the scattered parts of a holy corpse.

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

The recall also hit the English releases; the OVA was permanently discontinued.