Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Gets Updated English Release in 2025

Viz Media announces that Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run will be released with an official English translation on Summer 2025.

Announcement: Paralyzed former jockey Johnny Joestar witnesses the mysterious power of Gyro Zeppeli before the famous Steel Ball Run race, launching his quest to regain mobility. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 7–Steel Ball Run, by Hirohiko Araki, releases Summer 2025. pic.twitter.com/v1WJUXxmd4

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) October 4, 2024

While Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is one of the most legendary ongoing manga of all time, the manga’s official English release remains incomplete as only 6 of its 9 parts have been translated by Viz Media.

Ever since the end of the Stone Ocean (Part 6) adaptation in December 1, 2022, many fans have also been expecting a Steel Ball run adaptation in the works.

Steel Ball Run Clickbait. I thought it was an anime adaptation https://t.co/DPS0a92RtS pic.twitter.com/TQalcTVBKv

— Kurffy | Clearing my Backlog (@KurffyKRF) October 4, 2024

Parts 1-6 of  Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure are currently the only ones with official English translations while Parts 7 to 9 are translated unofficially, limiting official access to the rest of the manga internationally.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (or Jojo’s for short) is a long-running action manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki for Shueisha since January 1, 1987.

As such, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure has accumulated over 135 volumes as of August 2024 and has sold over 120 million copies in circulation by August 2023, making it one of the biggest manga franchises of all time.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is the story of the entire Joestar family, spanning generations over two centuries, multiple countries, and even different universes.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is divided into nine parts: Part 1: Phantom Blood (1987–1988), Part 2: Battle Tendency (1988–1989), Part 3: Stardust Crusaders (1989–1992), Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable (1992–1995), Part 5: Golden Wind (1995–1999), Part 6: Stone Ocean (1999–2003), Part 7: Steel Ball Run (2004–2011), Part 8: JoJolion (2011–2021), and Part 9: The JoJoLands (2023–present).

For its first six parts, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1987 to 2004, with the first 20 chapters of Steel Ball Run being weekly releases.

In 2005, Araki moved to Ultra Jump with a monthly release schedule for Part 7 onwards.

The current story, Part 9, remains in the Steel Ball Run universe, with Jodio Joestar in Hawaii and his delinquent misadventures with a gang going after mysterious Lava Rocks.

Although receiving an OVA adaptation of Stardust Crusaders by A.P.P.P. (Another Push Pin Planning) from 1993-1994,  the series would be propelled into greater fame internationally with the release of the 2012 anime adaptation by David Productions (Fire Force, Undead Unluck).

It is likely that with the English release in Viz Media, the possibility of an anime adaptation for Steel Ball Run draws even nearer.

Source: Twitter

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