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The first season of the 2012 anime television series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) by David Production, also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, adapted the first two arcs of Hirohiko Araki's manga of the same name: Phantom Blood (ファントムブラッド, Fantomu Buraddo) and Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流, Sentō Chōryū).
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is an anime series adapted from Hirohiko Araki's manga of the same name, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump in 2005. The series focuses on the mysterious adventures of the Joestar family across generations, from the end of ...
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released Parts 1 and 2 in a DVD set on September 22, 2015, with an English dub. [24] In July 2016, Viz Media announced they acquired the Blu-ray rights to the series and released it with an English dub in July 2017. On October 15, 2016, American cable block Adult Swim began airing the anime on its Toonami block. [24]
At a July 2012 press conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of the series, Araki announced that an anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was in production and would premiere in October 2012. [43] The 26-episode first season, which covers the Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency arcs, aired weekly on Tokyo MX between October 2012 and ...
To celebrate the series' anniversary, a video game adaptation was released in 2006 by Bandai for the PlayStation 2, and a Phantom Blood anime film adaptation, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, was produced by A.P.P.P. and released in Japanese theaters in 2007. [55] [56] The film has never been released on home video. [57]
It was released on six DVD volumes from 2003 to 2005, dubbed in English, with all 13 episodes also featured in chronological order. [1] In 2008, distribution for the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OVA series was indefinitely suspended following the controversy over the presence of the Qur'an in Episode 6. [2] [3]
Jonathan "JoJo" Joestar (Japanese: ジョナサン・ジョースター, Hepburn: Jonasan Jōsutā) is a fictional character in the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Jonathan is the main protagonist of the series' first story arc, Phantom Blood.
Giving it a 3 out of 5 rating, the Nerdist's Scott Beggs called JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I energetic, imaginative and fun, but fatally flawed. He praised the detailed visuals which result in a "movie that uses real people and places to look like an anime" and the fast-paced first half as consistently funny ...