Okay, so you’ve gone on a bizarre adventure, but as an anime watcher, you’ve only gone on a portion of that bizarre adventure. If you are looking to become a Jojo manga aficionado, I can help with that.
Alternative Titles:
- JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken
Year Anime Premiered: 2012
Animation Studio: David Productions
Number of Seasons: 8 (Stardust is 2 seasons, Golden Wind 3 Seasons, Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency are 1 season combined) + 1 movie adapting Phantom Blood + 7 OVA adapting Stardust + 4 OVA Rohan spin-off
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Entry Last Updated: May 24th, 2024
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Manga After Anime
Where to pick up the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure manga after the anime really actually depends on where you read it. Jojo can be broken up into is separate arcs, so each arc would be its own manga series. In other cases, it is all just lumped into one big bag of chaos. The arcs/series are as follows in order:
- Phantom Blood (Has an anime)
- Battle Tendency (Has an anime)
- Stardust Crusaders (Has an anime)
- Diamond is Unbreakable (Has an anime)
- Golden Wind (Has an anime)
- Stone Ocean (Has an anime)
- Steel Ball Run (No anime)
- Jojolion (No anime)
- The JojoLands (No anime, ongoing manga)
Stone Ocean, the most current adaptation, is finished finished. So if you want to pick up Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure with its next arc, start at Steel Ball Run, which currently has no anime. If you are reading the lumped together complete series, that would translate to Chapter 753.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Spin-offs
As any long running series must, Jojo also has a variety of spin-offs to enjoy. It is mostly novels that build out the world.
The most notable spin-off is Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe, which also has an OVA anime. However, only chapters 5, 2, 9 and 16 were adapted, so if you have an interest, you still want to read that one from the beginning.
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Over Heaven (Novel, Complete) – Phantom Blood from Dio’s perspective
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Jorge Joestar (Novel, Complete) – Novel about Joseph’s dad, Jorge.
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Infinity King (Novel, Complete) – About the Arrow holder awakening stands set in between Battle Tendency and Stardust Crusaders
- Oingo Boingo Brothers Adventure (Manga, Oneshot, Complete) – About Oingo and Boingo trying to kill the Joestar group in Stardust Crusaders
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Heartbreakers (Manga, Complete) – About Hol Horse and the other livign assassins after Dio’s defeat after Stardust Crusaders
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: The Genesis of Universe (Novel, Complete) – Two side stories set during Stardust Crusaders
- Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe (Manga, Ongoing) – The bizarre adventures of Rohan Kisibe from Diamond is Unbreakable
- Rohan at the Louvre (Manga, Complete) – Another Rohan side story
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures – Dead Man’s Questions (Manga, Complete) – Side stories post-Diamond is Unbreakable
- The Book: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 4th Another Day (Novel, Complete – About mysterious murders in Morioh both before and after Diamond is Unbreakable
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure – Purple Haze Feedback (Novel, Complete) – About what Pannacotta got up to after he left in Golden Wind
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure II: Golden Heart, Golden Ring (Novel, Complete) – Story set during the second half of Golden Wind
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: The Witness for the Gangsters (Manga, Complete) – Mafia side story from Golden Wind
- Jolyne, Fly High with GUCCI (Manga, Oneshot, Complete) – Jojo marketing for Gucci.
- Fujiko’s Bizarre Worldly Wisdom – Whitesnake’s Miscalculation (Manga, Oneshot, Complete) – Side story in prison in Stone Ocean