JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

*Dragon Ball*. *Stop!! Hibari-kun*. *Maple Town* (which isn't aimed at boys). *Fist of the North Star*. What do all those have in common? All but one of them were shonen serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, and all were made into anime in the 1980s.

Then came 1987. You surf through your copy of Weekly Shonen Jump, hoping to catch up on *KochiKame* or the aforementioned *Dragon Ball* or *Fist of the North Star*. What do you see on the cover? *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*, a manga that has been running since 1987 and is still going. The series only follows one member of the Joestar family per arc (when it first started, it was Jonathan Joestar; as of *Golden Wind*, it's Giorno Giovanna).

Known for being so increasingly adult, it was actually taken off the Weekly Shonen Jump, effective from Steel Ball Run onward.

Notable for being referenced in (almost) nearly every shonen series (within *Jump* and outside *Jump*) since its debut (and not to mention a few shoujo and a kodomomuke as well). Also notable for its big sack of memes it carries around. Not to mention it's also notable for one of the manliest cases of Shoujo Jump in manga.

For a more kid-friendly (at least in America) version, see Shaman King. For JoJo's inspiration-of-sorts, see Fist of the North Star.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: One of the rarest examples licensed by Viz- the anime is simulcast by Crunchyroll, not Hulu. It got to the point where it's possible Hulu only hosts the dub.
	+ Also played straight between the US and LatAM, a rarity for any anime broadcast on the channel space of Cartoon Network in the US.
	+ Averted for both the anime and manga- Viz licensed both and are free to publish DVDs/Blu-rays of the *JoJo* anime under their Shonen Jump banner.
* Size Changing: Iggy, during and after his fight with Pet Shop. Rare in this series otherwise.
* Obscurity, much?: The A.P.P.P OVA, thanks to a little fact they did not check: they simply copy-pasted Arabic text onto a book that one of the characters was reading. We can't reveal where the text came from, for obvious reasons.
	+ That only applied to Japan. For why it's obscure in America, not only did the licensor go through Bionix Bankruptcy, causing the OVA to go out-of-print, but the OVA was misplaced by the 2012 anime's *Stardust Crusaders* adaptation. The DVDs are still available second-hand, but while prices for individual volumes are reasonable, it'll take a big sum of cash to get the entirety of the OVA.
* Popularity Killoff: *JoJo* mangaka Hirohiko Araki anticipated this so he could end his series on *Stardust Crusaders*. What happened instead was an inversion of this trope- *JoJo* ended up surpassing *Fist of the North Star* in terms of chapters by the time *Diamond is Unbreakable* ended, and currently surpasses *One Piece* in number of *volumes* (130 vs. One Piece's 98, as of May 2021) despite *One Piece* surpassing *JoJo* by number of chapters (1013 compared to JoJo's 953 as of May 2021). In contrast, *Bleach* and *Naruto*, both considered part of the big three manga, ran for less (volume-wise) than that.
* This gave us inspiration: Not directly, but Tetsunoshin, in the first episode of the anime he appears in, uses one of Joseph's most frequent quotes.
* Confined to Your Room: Thanks to *Phantom Blood* being set in 19th-century England rather than Japan, it makes more sense that Jonathan and Dio would be sent to their rooms for fighting than it would if they were locked out of the house.
* Samurai Jack Timeskip: By the time Joseph Joestar's grandson Jotaro gets his stand. That said, due to his own stand, he's slightly stronger in *Stardust Crusaders* than he was in *Battle Tendency*; come *Diamond is Unbreakable*, it was no longer the case.

TBA.