Jojo’s Adventures Get More Bizarre in Steel Ball Run Anime

After Stone Ocean ended backmost successful 2022, the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime is returning with an adaptation of Steel Ball Run.

Studio David Production announced the upcoming bid astatine the JOJODay signifier event. The abbreviated teaser reveals we’re going to 1890, 2 years aft the archetypal series, Phantom Blood & Battle Tendency. This period’s Joestar is Johnny, a paraplegic ex-jockey successful the United States who’s entered into a cross-country equine contention from San Diego to New York. There’s $50 cardinal connected the line, but for Johnny, the contention is simply a cleanable oportunity to larn astir Gyro Zeppeli, a chap racer and erstwhile Neapolitan executioner whose alloy balls concisely restored his quality to walk. Pretty soon, some men are connected the tally from different racers looking to termination them astatine the bid of the race’s sponsor, Steven Steel.

Steel Ball Run is the seventh main arc of Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo manga which ran from 2004-2011. Its mounting besides launched a marque caller continuity successful the Jojo’s saga, with has continued with JoJolion and the existent The JoJoLands manga, some acceptable centuries later. In solemnisation of the caller anime, there’s a caravan showing disconnected monochrome originals and colored reproductions of artwork from Steel Ball’s manga run. (Thanks, JoJoNews.) The accumulation volition besides diagnostic the transcript of Steel Ball’s first section and merchantability merch based connected it and its 2 sequel series. It’ll commencement successful Shibuya from April 13-24, past question to different locations crossed Japan.

As for the Steel Ball Run anime, it presently doesn’t person a merchandise window. But the archetypal measurement of its manga is getting an English-language mentation hitting North American stores connected May 27.

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