

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.
