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Johnny Joestar, [b] born Jonathan Joestar, is a former horse racer from Danville, Kentucky, who is paralyzed from the waist down. He participates in the Steel Ball Run to follow Gyro Zeppeli in the hopes of using his Spin technique to regain use of his legs. He uses the Stand Tusk, [c] which allows him to shoot his finger nails as bullets.
Steel Ball Run, set in a rebooted-universe introduces a version of Jonathan named Johnny Joestar who was a Kentucky-born horse racing prodigy that got paralyzed from the waist down. He participates in the Steel Ball Run competition to have Gyro Zeppeli teach him to use the Spin technique to regain his mobility while developing his Stand Tusk.
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 ...
The JoJoLands (stylized as The JOJOLands) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, and the ninth part of the larger JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, as part of the rebooted continuity depicted in Steel Ball Run (2004–2011) and JoJolion (2011–2021).
Despite following the rule of the ever-progressing hero, Araki decided to bend the rule and have Jonathan die to save his wife and child: he acknowledged that dying is as far negative as a hero can go, and called it unthinkable to do such a thing in a shōnen manga, but said that since he wanted to pass down the Joestar family's lineage, he ...
He decides to take part in the Steel Ball Run horse race across the United States. He encounters the protagonists Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli and is controlled by Dr. Ferdinand's Stand Scary Monsters ( スケアリーモンスターズ , Sukearī Monsutāzu ) , which transforms him into a dromaeosaurid dinosaur .
For Steel Ball Run, having not specifically set out on creating a disabled character, Araki explained that Johnny Joestar's Paraplegia was a natural result of wanting to show a character who could grow, both physically and mentally, during a race where "he would be forced not only to rely on other people, but horses as well".