The Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2004, before being transferred to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2005. The series can be broken into nine distinct parts, each following a different descendant of the protagonist of the first part on different quests. The ninth story arc, The JoJoLands, started in February 2023.
The chapters are collected and published into tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on August 10, 1987.[1] During Part 5, which takes place in Italy, the series' title was written in Italian as Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio. After volume 63, the beginning of each Part has reset the volume number count back at one.
The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. However, instead of starting with Part 1, they chose to only release Part 3: Stardust Crusaders, which is the most well-known. The first volume was released on November 8, 2005,[2] with the first twelve volumes summarized in an eight-page summary written and drawn by Araki himself,[3] and the last on December 7, 2010.[4] Viz Media began publishing the JoJonium edition of Part 1: Phantom Blood digitally in September 2014, with a three-volume hardcover print edition that includes color pages following throughout 2015. They began publishing Part 2: Battle Tendency in the same format digitally in March 2015 and in print in November 2015.[5] [6] They began re-releasing Stardust Crusaders in November 2016, this time in the same hardcover edition as the previous two parts.[7] JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has also seen domestic releases in Italy by Star Comics,[8] in France by J'ai Lu and Tonkam,[9] [10] Taiwan by Da Ran Culture Enterprise and Tong Li Publishing, and in Malaysia by Comics House.
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See main article: Stardust Crusaders.
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See main article: The JoJoLands.
. Hirohiko Araki. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Volume 1. 2005. Viz Media. 5. 978-1-59116-754-9.