
The first continuity includes Parts 1 to 6, detailed in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1986 to 2003, while the second continuity includes Parts 7 to 9, detailed in seinen magazine Ultra Jump from 2004 to the present. The story in JoJo is divided between two continuities.
List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Chapters. Its range of other merchandise includes several adaptations in video games, including three fighting games of international release JoJo's Venture/ Heritage for the Future by Capcom (on the CPS-3 board) in 1998 All-Star Battle by Bandai Namco Games for the PS3 in 2014 and Eyes of Heavenfor the PS4 in 2016. However, the official anime TV series finally made its debut on Octo(separating the manga and anime debuts by twenty-five years) designed by animation studio David Production. JoJo was previously the longest Shueisha manga series to have not received an animated adaptation for television. It is perhaps most popularly known for its Stand phenomenon the Stardust Crusaders arc and its characters Dio Brando/DIO and Jotaro Kujo the expressive rendition of its proud, glamorous personalities and its hundreds of nominal references to Western popular music.Īdding to the JoJo canon to varying degrees, Araki has authored several spin-offs and related artbooks and several light novels have also been produced, all containing his illustrations. JoJo's genre spans Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Thriller, Comedy, Tragedy, Mystery, Slice of Life, and Horror. Publication in English of the earlier parts of the series is ongoing. Filling over 130 volumes, it is Shueisha's second longest-running manga series. In 2016, the series had 100 million copies in print. The series has over 120 million copies in print, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. The series is collected in a variety of formats ranging from standard Tankōbons to special edition volumes such as Bunkobans and Kanzenbans all of which contain the manga as it was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and Ultra Jump with some differences such as chapter names being different and dialogue changes. JoJo was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1986 until 2004, when it then transferred to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump, where the current story continues.