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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 04/10/2026

New JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Nanoblock and Mini Nano figures release in April 2027 Nanoblocks: Josuke/Crazy Diamond, Okuyasu/The Hand, Rohan/Heaven's Door, Kira/Killer Queen Mini Nanos: Josuke, Koichi, Okuyasu, Rohan, Shigechi, Kira

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 30/09/2026

New anime-style illustrations of the JoJos and main villains (+ Diego) for THE★JOJO WORLD Tokyo and Osaka

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 23/09/2026

Poster for the "SPIN" single by Kroi with a new visual of Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli. It releases physically on October 28, 2026.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 16/07/2026

The JOJOLands Chapter 38: "Lately, I've been completely obsessed with Dua Lipa's 'Live from Mexico' album. Every time it ends, I get that post-concert sadness, like, "Wait, she's leaving the stage already? When can I see her again?" - Hirohiko Araki, Ultra Jump August 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 29/06/2026

Excerpt of a column by Yoshihiro Togashi (Yu Yu Hakusho/Hunter x Hunter) about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. - HIROHIKO ARAKI WORKS (2012) He likes how Polnareff and Okuyasu easily switch gears. The Stand he would want is Harvest. He couldn't decide on his favorite JoJo part.

There are many series that can stun you with their first chapter. For me, the reaction is always twofold. As an artist, I'm impressed, thinking, “I see, so that was another way to approach it!” But as a reader, I'm simply excited, thinking, "This is incredible! It’s definitely going to be great!"

It's a strange sensation, like a rush of both cool, analytical admiration and hot, passionate excitement all at once. But a series that delivers a shock equal to, or even greater than, its debut multiple times throughout its run is incredibly rare. Almost nonexistent. That is the kind of manga JoJo is.

Each character's distinct worldview, the onomatopoeia, the dialogue, the poses, the system of passing down the role of protagonist, the visualization of psychic powers... People may say this is all old news, but you simply can't talk about JoJo without covering these points. Every time I reread it, the feelings from that time come flooding back to me: the pure joy I felt as a reader, and simultaneously, the sense of defeat I felt as a creator. To me, that is what JoJo is.

A manga artist has to play many roles alone. Needless to say, you are the director, but you also write the script, act out the roles (and for every single character!), handle the staging, prepare the costumes, apply the makeup, do the sets, props, location scouting... there’s just so much to do. When you juggle so many roles, some of them are bound to be mediocre. It's a common story in manga: you have a lineup of good-looking characters but they all act like cardboard, or the visual beauty is incredible but the script is garbage. But JoJo is on a different dimension. The staff and cast of JoJo are all incredible. Everything involved in JoJo seems to be arranged with an almost inevitable sense of purpose, all to make JoJo what it is. This is incredibly difficult.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 27/06/2026

The official English localized name of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is Devilish Deeds Done Damned Coldly

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 17/06/2026

The JOJOLands Chapter 37: "I just returned from a trip to Venice. I wasn't able to go there during the filming of At a Confessional, but it really is a remarkable city." - Hirohiko Araki, Ultra Jump July 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/05/2026

Cool Shock High School Student B.T.: The "Wicked Boy vs. Makeup Girl" Incident by Nisio Isin and Posuka Demizu released in Ultra Jump today. Hirohiko Araki's comment: "Thank you for reviving it after all these years. Please continue to support the series going forward."

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/05/2026

The JOJOLands Chapter 36: "I feel like there are way more bicycles around lately. Were there always this many? For the record, I don't really ride one myself." - Hirohiko Araki, Ultra Jump June 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 07/05/2026

Marisa's new EX Color in Street Fighter 6 is based on Yoshikage Kira.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 01/05/2026

Yasuhiro Kimura discusses the direction of the Steel Ball Run anime, teasing an anime-original addition in a future episode that will complement the manga and touching on changes to JoJo's signature visual direction. - From SCREENα (April 10, 2026)

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 27/04/2026

The Giorno Giovanna S.H.Figuarts figure releases in October 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 24/04/2026

New Requiem Arrow merch goes on sale on May 26, 2026. It lights up when you press the button.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 16/04/2026

The JOJOLands Chapter 35: "To achieve a soft, fluffy texture, I steam abalone with sake for two hours. It's still a work in progress, so during my trial runs I'll check on it occasionally while I work on my manuscript." - Hirohiko Araki, Ultra Jump May 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 10/04/2026

Merchandise with new art of Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli, and Diego Brando are being sold in Don Quijote stores in Japan starting on April 25, 2026.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 05/04/2026

The light novel Synchronicity in Morioh features two new Stands in Chapters 2 and 3. One of them is Sleep Trance, which belongs to a Part 4 character who did not have a Stand before. jojowiki.com/Sleep_Trance

Sleep Trance is a Stand that Police awakens after accidentally swallowing a fragment of a Stand Arrow hidden in a piece of a discarded ham. The fragment is one of the scattered pieces of Yoshihiro Kira's shattered Arrow.

Sleep Trance only activates while Police is asleep. While it is active, Police dreams that he is drifting through the air inside the Stand's body. When the Stand enters another person, it possesses their body and puts them into a trance-like state similar to sleepwalking, allowing Police to move through them while still asleep. The Stand can pass from one person to another, but Police cannot wake up until the Stand returns to his own body alongside the person his Stand is possessing.

Because Police was unfamiliar with the Stand when it first awakened, it moved wildly and uncontrollably, tearing through the Hirose house like a poltergeist and wrecking much of the first floor.

An unnamed Stand awakened when a crow accidentally bites a fragment of a Stand Arrow. It allows the crow to protect a chosen area by making anyone who enters forget why they came there.

When the Stand is active inside a room, it flies around so quickly that it is nearly impossible to see. The moment someone steps inside, their objective is erased. A person entering to retrieve something, investigate, or carry out any specific task will immediately forget that purpose until they exit the area. Even written reminders become useless, and voices from outside cannot properly get through to them.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 03/04/2026

New Johnny Joestar + Slow Dancer and Gyro Zeppeli + Valkyrie XrossLinkMAX figures release in October 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 03/04/2026

SCREENα Vol.7 releasing on April 10, 2026 features new art of Johnny Joestar on the cover and bonus poster. It has interviews with Shogo Sakata, Yohei Azakami, Kenta Miyake & Rie Takahashi, Kaito Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Kimura, Toshiyuki Kato, Yasuko Kobayashi, Daisuke Tsumagari, and Yugo Kanno.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 02/04/2026

Josuke Higashikata S.H.Figuarts figure revealed, releasing in September 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 01/04/2026

Announcement: Following our acquisition by Netflix, the wiki will now pivot away from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and instead focus on real-world coverage of certain "eccentric" individuals.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 01/04/2026

The second Stardust Crusaders Machiboke ("waiting in vain") figure pack with Kakyoin, Avdol, Iggy, and DIO releases in mid April 2026.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 28/03/2026

Super Figure Art Collection Johnny Joestar & Slow Dancer / Gyro Zeppeli & Valkyrie on display at AnimeJapan 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 24/03/2026

An interview with Kenta Miyake (voice of Muhammad Avdol/Steven Steel/Urmd Avdul) and Toshiyuki Kato (series director). Kato discusses the difficulties in adapting Steel Ball Run into an anime. - From JOJO magazine 2026 SPRING (March 23, 2026)

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 23/03/2026

Hirohiko Araki talking about his lithograph art featured at the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco from September 27 to October 25, 2025. - From JOJO magazine 2026 SPRING (March 23, 2026)

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 23/03/2026

New art of Jonathan, Joseph, Jotaro, Josuke, Giorno, and Jolyne from Ichiban Kuji JoJo's Bizarre Adventure The Gathering of STARS

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 22/03/2026

Several JoJo's Bizarre Adventure characters drawn by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko) for his Enya the Hag's Fangirl Diary spin-off released in JOJO magazine 2026 SPRING.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 21/03/2026

Shueisha Manga Expo is a special website for Shueisha's 100th anniversary where they present "memorable chapters" selected by the manga artist alongside comments. Hirohiko Araki selected JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Volume 1, Chapter 3, where Jotaro fights Avdol.

About one or two weeks before Part 2 of JoJo ended, the editor in charge at the time said, “People are starting to get tired of Ripple (Hamon), so let’s switch to something different and move on to Part 3.” I panicked, thinking, “What am I going to do?”

Even so, I wasn’t given any time off, so in about two weeks I somehow came up with the idea of “Stands” and moved into Part 3. With “Ripple,” I had been depicting supernatural abilities by drawing ripple patterns, so I wanted to take it in a different direction. That led to the creation of a new rule where humanoid energy forms fight.

It was an extremely harsh challenge both in terms of schedule and difficulty, but looking back, it was a happy and memorable moment.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 20/03/2026

Take this with a grain of salt, but according to the manager of Netflix Chile's TikTok account, the Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime will be released weekly. www.tiktok.com/@netflixchil...

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 19/03/2026

The main theme of the Steel Ball Run anime, "Dance with STEEL BALL RUN", will be out on streaming platforms tomorrow on March 20, 2026. nex-tone.link/A00212972

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 19/03/2026

A bonus illustration card of Steel Ball Run and The JOJOLands that comes with The JOJOLands Volume 8.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 19/03/2026

Diego Brando & Silver Bullet Nendoroid DX Figure announced

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

BANDAI FASHION COLLECTION is selling merchandise of Johnny Joestar's hat, releasing in August 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

The JOJOLands Chapter 34: "I'm really looking forward to cherry blossom viewing again this year, but what really makes it special is the way the entire atmosphere suddenly changes all at once. That's what makes sakura so amazing." - Hirohiko Araki, Ultra Jump April 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

Preview for The JOJOLands Volume 9, which releases in Summer 2026.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

The JOJOLands Volume 8: Author's Note - Hirohiko Araki (March 19, 2026)

In my life, there are exactly two "yokai" (supernatural creatures) that I know of, despite both being human. One of them is an extremely picky eater whose diet consists almost entirely of fatty meat and watermelon; he doesn't eat rice or anything. He also claims to sleep only three hours every other day. The other one is notably thin but they're able to eat whatever they want with no limits. Their face is also always sunburned for some reason.

Both of them have managed to blend into society and earn steady incomes, though the exact nature of their work is a bit unclear (laughs). Even their marital situations are something of a mystery. The two have nothing to do with each other, but to me they seem like yokai in human form.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

Araki's sketches/tailpieces for The JOJOLands Volume 8 ☆ Chapter 29 (Jodio) ☆ Chapter 30 (Dragona) ☆ Chapter 31 (Hacca Howler & Eclipse Eight Info) Howler's Stand is Eclipse Eight, likely referencing Pink Floyd's "Eclipse" or Journey's album. 8 = H being the 8th letter & Hacca being the 8th head.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

Photo of Hirohiko Araki from The JOJOLands Volume 8

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

Illustration of Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli, and Slow Dancer by Hirohiko Araki as a B4 Poster that can be ordered in the April 2026 issue of Ultra Jump (released today on March 19)

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

Clean art of Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli, Joseph Joestar, and Caesar A. Zeppeli from the preview of JOJO magazine 2026 SPRING

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 18/03/2026

New shots from Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure episode 1, revealing Urmd Avdul

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 13/03/2026

Mometria figures of Jolyne Cujoh and Enrico Pucci are set to release in August 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 13/03/2026

Ultra Jump April 2026 Cover - Contains The JOJOLands Chapter 34 - Mail-order bonus is a B4 poster with a new illustration of Johnny Joestar, Slow Dancer, and Gyro Zeppeli by Hirohiko Araki - Releases on March 19, 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 11/03/2026

Localized names for the characters and Stands from Steel Ball Run Volume 6 ★ Nightfly → Nocturnal Fly ★ Sugar Mountain → Snow Mountain ★ Sugar Mountain's Spring → Snow Mountain's Spring ★ TATOO YOU! → Man in Tatoo (they kept the typo) ★ Tubular Bells → Tubular

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 10/03/2026

Yohei Azakami (Gyro Zeppeli) and Shogo Sakata (Johnny Joestar) - anan #2487

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 10/03/2026

Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli - anan #2487 Special Edition

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 06/03/2026

The JOJOLands Volume 8 Cover "System Reversal / Total Destruction" - Contains Chapters 29-32 - Releases on March 19, 2026

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 06/03/2026

Cover of JoJo's Bizarre Quizzes 555 - Releases on March 19, 2026 (the same day as Steel Ball Run episode 1, The JOJOLands Chapter 34/Volume 8/Colored Volume 7, and the digital version of The Lives of Eccentrics)

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 01/03/2026

New Stardust Crusaders Machiboke ("waiting in vain") figures release in March 2026. The first pack has Jotaro, Joseph, Polnareff, and Iggy. The second pack has Avdol, Kakyoin, DIO, and Iggy's redesign.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 24/02/2026

New JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Collection Figure Rich figures of Jonathan, Will A. Zeppeli, Dio, Joseph, and Caesar release in June 2026.

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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 21/02/2026

Prototypes of the Steel Ball Run Ichibansho Masterlise figures. The Lucy figure and the Steven Steel accessory case (along with the Mini Horses) can be seen.

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