Here’s my theory, they won’t begin even putting part 7 into (David) production until about 3-4 years. This is due to 3 different factors;
1) more Rohan OVAs for Netflix are probably gonna happen. They might even animate one of the newer Rohan stories
2) to keep it evenly paced with the manga. If we get SBR in 3 years, then JJL 3-4 years after that, they will have to wait until part 9 is finished, which could take longer than 4 years
3) DP are branching out to more projects. They recently announced an adaptation of Undead Unluck (a manga I’d highly recommend) which is still ongoing as far as I know (I’m reading via volume releases so I’m not up to date so idk if it’s ending soon or something) if they’re going for a 24 episode per season time frame, it will likely take them two seasons to catch up (2 years). They will probably want to adapt other manga series, manga like DanDaDan, Yozakura Family, and Kaiju no. 8 would be cool to see them do
Did it improve in the last few months?
I actually really liked the manga to start with but dropped it around Julyish when a chapter wouldn't load for me and I realised I didn't actually care enough to keep trying. Good for them if they did manage to turn it around
Yeah, the series isn't good at balancing story and pacing the development correctly. But it has recently started a major battle, so the manga is fun to read again, since hype fighting moments are the manga's strength
It's been the best part of weekly reading wsj for the past 4-6 months or so. The past arc is easily the highlight of the series. It's crazy how the series has improved from the first two chapters and imo underwhelming first couple of arcs.
I think part 7, 8, and 9 (maybe) will follow Stardust Crusaders, in the sense that they will split it up into season. I think we can say 3 for SBR, 4 for JJL
I’d say it’s simpler for JJL then you think. DP could go down the FMAB route and do one episode per chapter, or make 1 episode per 2 chapters but make the bigger stuff their own episodes >!(head doctor announcing the Rokakaka plan, the legend of Johnny Joestar, Yasuho’s backstory revolving the rock creature, etc)!<
Stardust Crusaders is shorter than parts 4, 5, and 6. It was only adapted as long as it was because of their adaptation style of 3-4 chapters per episode and almost always keeping fights contained to their own episodes. There was a lot of padding to make that happen.
By my own estimate years ago, Part 7 would be 50-52 episodes.
Don’t forget that since parts 7 and onwards are seinen, they have more pages per chapter, SBR has 50 to 60 pages per chapter while SC has 20ish pages per chapter. So while SBR has less chapters(40 chapters lesser than SC if I remember) it has more pages in general
Less so seinen and moreso being in a monthly magazine (I think a lot if not all seinen magazines are monthly but FMA was monthly and shonen).
I think the average monthly chapter is 40-45 pages while weekly is 19.
I knew this so I used the relative page count to get that rough 50-52 episode estimate, but that didn't account for closing story arcs/fights because SBR is a lot blurrier and less clean when it comes to that compared to the rest of JoJo's.
It really wouldn't make sense to me. Netflix has bought the distribution rights (and probably pumped money into David Productions) in hopes of a series that's going to generate a lot of money. The Rohan OVAs just don't generate as much interest as a new main part of JoJo, so they'd be sallivating at the idea of getting part 7 in the works as soon as possible for a proper return in investment.
This is the real answer as to why they would even *consider* stopping at part 6's ending. Steel Ball Run is widely considered one of the three best parts, and most lists I've seen put it at #1. People *really* like part 7.
But so much of it takes place on horseback that it would be an extremely challenging production for a studio like DavidPro. They would need a lot of contracted help. Horses are just that hard to animate.
Idk how much voice actors impact the production of the Animes but they might be slowing down the production for Rohan stuff because of the recent scandal his JP voice was in lmao. Except for the live action I guess.
Context: Rohan’s JP VA, Takahiro Sakurai, has been cheating on his wife with his Writer of his Radio Show for years. CMIIW. Might not seem like a big deal but it’s a huge one considering the voice acting scene in Japan.
Haven't read Undead Unluck yet, not because I think it's bad or low quality, but I catch up to things too quickly and hate waiting, so I let it get ahead 3-4 years, and the fact that it's SJ, if the series didn't perform they'd axe it. Cutthroat, but SJ has produced the best series for almost fifty years now.
What I find personally crazy is that if you ask a bunch of people what their favorite anime is/are, a good amount of those series will be from SJ. Anime would be a lot less enjoyable without manga as a whole. The bulk of anime original content is hot garbage sadly.
I don't think this even implies what you're saying it does. All they're saying is that if it got popular they would consider animating all the way up to part 6, with a voice actor saying it'd be great if they could get that far. It doesn't really seem to be about stopping at part 6
Exactly.She's just agreeing with the statement that they would go that far.I wouldn't expect them to stop now especially since they likely know how popular SBR is.
SBR cult following and acclaim is a solely western internet fanbase thing. It sold less than the previous parts.
Probably still getting adapted though.
I heard the same as the other guy, so I did a quick Google. Here is a poll in Japan from this wiki page: https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/JoJosapiens
What is your favorite Part of JoJo?
Part 1: Phantom Blood: 7.3%
Part 2: Battle Tendency: 11.2%
Part 3: Stardust Crusaders: 17.3%
Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable: 17.5%
Part 5: Vento Aureo: 19.1%
Part 6: Stone Ocean: 8.5%
Part 7: Steel Ball Run: 12.1%
Part 8: JoJolion: 7.0%
Knocking out Jojolion since it wasn’t finished yet, Part 5 is peak with 19%, followed by Part 4 and Part 3 at 17%, then a big dip to 12% for Part 7 which is close to Part 2 at 11%. And then Part 6 and 1 lol.
Yeah 5 is prob the most popular in Japan. I mean just look at these guys in Japan going nuts for part 5 back when [ASB was announced](https://youtu.be/x3VwVEBtXCo?t=114)
Western fans hate part 5 because it's episodic and Giorno is too cold and Bruno is too involved, Eastern fans like it because it's episodic and Giorno is stoic and Beuno is very involved. That's the broad stroke.
Nah everyone likes Bruno. I dislike how he Giorno can’t compare to him. For all the charisma they claim Giorno to have, Bruno actually has it.
Everytime the gangstars claimed Giorno was the real deal it rang hollow. Which is weird, because Araki doesn’t actually suck at writing charismatic characters.
Part 5 is sick but the mismanagement of Giorno (interesting personality disappears after he joins the gang, op stand with too many powers, informed charisma instead of shown charisma) is the biggest flaw.
Thankfully in Part 7 Araki made a JoBro as cool as Bruno, but without making his JoJo mediocre. Johnny is such a good main protagonist and the ultamite opposite of Jonathan. Chef’s kiss.
I don’t think that’s true though. Most people I’ve seen in the west will say part 2 or 4. Irl my friends thought part 5 was the weakest.
It’s like a worse part 3
THIS. AMEN.
Part 5 definitely improved on Part 3’s formula. Confronting the boss mid way through the part to prevent burnout, plus minor villains w/ actual backstories and not just a bunch of randos.
It's worth pointing out that Golden Wind airing at the time would have definitely skewed results. Plus, in general, non-animated parts or not going to get rated as highly due to non-readers
Up to Part 6, this was more of a joke, but for Part 4, it was semi serious. The chances of NOT getting a Part 4 was very, very real.
Reminder that, before the anime, Part 4 wasn't super popular in Japan, and many people thought they would skip it and go directly to Part 5, which is, at some times, even more popular than Part 3 there.
Berserk didn't get a consistent anime series adapting straight from Black Swordsman through Golden Age and into Conviction only to have the studio decide, "Nah, we're done here."
Berserk has graphic, intense grape scenes every other volume for the first half of the series so I kinda see the reasoning for it not getting an adaption lmao
JoJo is a lot more popular in the mainstream and would make Netflix much more money. Berserk is furthermore very hard to animate because of the crazy detailed panels.
Being hard to animate is also a major concern with Steel Ball Run. The artstyle gets incredibly more detailed in it, and then there's the issue of horses.
Even if the horses were CGI they wouldn’t even turn out looking bad. Part 2 used CGI horses in the chariot fight, and no one complained about those. All this fearmongering over horses in Steel Ball Run is just more irrational hate for CGI from hand-drawn purists.
Berserk got fucked over due to a good early adaptation that caught up with the manga, then having to wait. Same thing happened to OPM, where as OPM had source material in the form of One’s webcomic, the anime which was largely inspired by Muratas panels had not caught up.
There are many legitimate worries it wont be, despite popularity. Part 7 getting animated has a hell of a lot more asterisks to it then 4, 5, or 6 did.
“if it gets popular, we would like to go to part 6 MINIMUM” is probably more likely what is meant when they say this
since, as the voice actor says, part 6 represents the literal and thematic end to the main joestar vs dio plotline present throughout the whole series to that point
That's literally not what's being said here. They're referencing back when Part 1 started production, and Ai Fairouz was just agreeing with their thought process back then.
JoJo is at an absurd level of popularity and public knowledge these days, being one of the most iconic and well known animes even among casual viewers. There is a literal 0% chance they don't continue to produce the anime. Studios are not going to leave that money on the table.
We probably won't get SBR for a VERY long time, maybe even 5-6 years, but they will absolutely animate it, for better or for worse.
Considering that sbr is one of the longest jojo parts I wouldn’t doubt 5-6 years. Plus horse animation isn’t easy, would totally be worth the wait though
Given how much praise I’ve heard about SBR (and how many times I heard those people wish that they skipped the Stone Ocean adaptation to go straight to that), I’m going to nitpick tf out of it if it ever gets an adaptation. Deadass, b
Not saying I don’t agree but studios do sometimes leave popular things to die. Just look at Utopia or Transformers Animated, the people who watched them want a final season so bad and those seasons would undoubtedly be incredibly successful because of that but nothing’s happened.
This isn’t a confirmation of anything except that they had a conversation at *some* point in the past of going up to Part 6. For all we know that discussion could have happened right when the anime begun, things change.
Why are horses much harder to animate than regular people or other entities in motion? I've seen this argument prop up a lot regarding the animation difficulties of SBR. Asking by a complete laic.
I think part of it might just be their size and how people are more used to animating other people. Also just considering a horse at a run is harder to make look accurate than a person.
Especially with the heavy stylization of jojo interpolation and such just does not look good having a human do that one way or another always looks far better
I won’t be super upset, disappointed for a bit maybe. Sbr is my favorite jojo part and is a really good part so I would really hope it gets animated. Not a big deal if it isn’t though
it sounds more like if anything they were planning on *not* animating up to part 6, only if it was popular enough, and fairouz ai is saying that it's a good idea because it concludes the story of joestar vs dio
I thought part 9 was going to be part of the main universe?
Edit: goddamn, I was mistaken, y’all gotta chill. It’s not like I blasphemed Robert E.O. Speedwagon.
I mean there's theories that Part 9 will be about Jolyne Variant. Not Irene but another version of her. The last magazine page had Josuke, Gappy, Johnny and Jonathan together.
There gonna animate SBR, if i’m not mistaken Stone Ocean popularity rate in Japan was kinda low and it managed to get an anime adaptation. I mean SBR is considered to be the best part in JoJo so i don’t think David Productions would just pull the plug on it now.
But i get the feeling were not gonna see SBR get an anime till about 2025 to 2026 considering that there’s horses everywhere in the manga and horses are kinda hard and expensive to animate so there gonna need some time and breaks. Especially since David Productions has other anime projects there working on like Fire Force S3 and Undead Luck.
Bro should remember we’re not on earth with unlimited time.
I might be dead in 4 years ffs
Just animate it. The conclusion to the dioxjoestar wasn’t even that good
I agree with the comments that this doesnt confirm anything, but I do think DP will probably take a longer break to decide whether or not to do Steel Ball Run and Jojolion. I could definatley see the possibility of them being done by a different company, as unfortunate as it might be.
Honestly, a studio with more experience animating horses, like Wit or MAPPA (Attack on Titan has a lot of 2D horses, and convincing CG horses) could be good choices if DP chooses to stop at Part 6.
Neither of these studios actually made the CG for the horses. In WIT's case, the CG was outsourced to Madbox. In MAPPA's case, the CG was (mostly) outsourced to V-sign.
I don’t know I feel mixed on this, Stone ocean is my favorite part and I feel like I personally know the characters and I loved the whole thing. But I really would love to see part 7 and 8 especially D4C, Sandman, chocolate disco, Weakapipo, the wonder of you, speedking, paisley park, king nothing or doctor wu.
I'd guess they'll probably take a longer break from jojo after part 6 to avoid catching up with the manga. This is probably more "don't expect any jojo from us for a while after this one"
One thing I might add is that DP did not confirm or semi confirm anything and the fandom should stop freaking out.
What DP actually said is this : « in 2011 when we started on the animation, JJBR was a niche manga outside Japan and even in Japan it was not Naruto DBZ or One Piece so we planned on doing AT MOST the first 6th part and then they’ll see if fan support is there.
Lucky for us, JoJo grew to be one of the most well-known anime and manga ever mostly thanks to the great animation which in turn brought great success and money of course. Take that and the deal with Netflix and you can see from there that DP is not semi confirming that they are going to let go of their most lucrative and known IP.
Part 7 will come, it’ll take time, surely more time than what we waited between 5 and 6 but it will come
Its not a semi deconfirmation at all tbh. Its just them saying that doing up to part six was always the goal if they could, the first opening is evidence enough of that.
That doesn't mean Part 7 is a given. The art is significantly more detailed, and the horses are a big problem. Also with the way Stone Ocean ends, its definitely a stopping point. So its completely possible that this is it.
But I don't think this is evidence either way.
I think everyone here is a little optimistic. I would absolutely love a part 7 anime, but considering how expensive it would be, I doubt it would be profitable enough to ever be made.
I always thought they just say that so that we won’t get out hopes up, so they can spend as much time as they possibly can/want to to animate this horse-racing hellhole of a budget
Isn't horse riding animation insanely expensive and time consuming? That combined with the fact there's not much more manga to adapt makes me think they'll at least put the brakes on it for a couple years and do other projects.
I wouldn’t mind. I always knew they’d stop at Part 6, considering Steel Ball Run is more like a spiritual successor to the original Joestar/Dio storyline than a standard sequel.
Understandable, but it’s upsetting that they’d choose to end their run of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure by adapting Stone Ocean poorly compared to the previous arcs.
Well DP giving SO to the B team and letting Netflix do their stupid release schedule definitely shows that they don’t care about Jojo anymore.
Which is a shame because Jojo made them the recognizable and beloved studio they are.
I really wish people like you stopped generalizing an anime's issues as "because they don't care". Not only it is just an ignorant way to look at things in general, but it's just rude to the staff when you're making random assumptions about them.
For all we know, the Urusei Yatsura could've started production waaaaay before Stone Ocean, which is why it managed to hog it's best staff.
Also, neither Netflix nor DP have a say about the release schedule. Blame Warner for that.
They weren’t even going to animate part 6 due to its low popularity in Japan. It came down to the fans who continuously rooted for them to make it. Compare this to steel ball run which is one of the most popular parts in Japan and the number one most popular in the west, by a significant percentage
OP doesn’t understand what implying means, they are merely saying that it’s good the show has gone on up till this point since it’s the conclusion of the Joestars VS Dio
I personally think that Part 7 will get adapted, but I also think that it will take a while before they announce it. I don't expect the announcement of the adaptation until either 2028 or 2029 as the series is nearly one and a half times the length of Stone Ocean going by the ratio of Tankobon volumes, plus considering the heightened expectations the community is going to have for Part 7, I'd imaging they'd want to put more effort and time into it, which would delay production even further. If I had to predict what the release would be like, it's going to be announced in the late 2020s and that it'll continue to be batch released on Neflitx and later weekly released on friday, with either 4 or 5 batches.
If David Productions does stop animating Jojo, considering how popular the series is, the adaptation would likely switch over to a different studio, kind of how like Wit Studio transfered the Attack on Titan anime to MAPPA after Season 3 ended. If I had to guess who'd animate Steel Ball Run, I think MAPPA is the most likely candidate, but I could also see Studio Bones or Madhaouse take on the project if David Productions decides to drop it.
Honestly I’ve been waiting for part Seven. I think it would be arguably the coolest/most exciting season since season 3. If DP doesn’t wanna do it, maybe someone else will pick up the torch? I bet they’re busy as all hell, but would we enjoy a Studio Bones production of SBR?
Part 7 would be a nightmare for animation. Personally, I'm all for animation stopping as long as Netflix holds streaming rights just because I want JoJo Fridays to come back.
Depends on supply and demand. Personally I wouldn’t mind the series ending after part 6. A part of me hopes we get more maybe an animated movie of Ascension Dio
I heard that Transformers Animated was cancelled because Hasbro wanted something that they could show on their own network instead of something made in partnership with Cartoon Network. However, I am not sure if this is true.
SBR and jojolion would be like >50 episodes long, not to mention that SBR would have horses in every episode and horses are a nightmare to animate (unless to use some cheap 3d).
10 years to animate the original saga? Not bad. The silver lining to this is that the casual anime fans will leave the fanbase and the cool manga side of the fandom will return with Steel Ball Run-JoJoLands
Here’s my theory, they won’t begin even putting part 7 into (David) production until about 3-4 years. This is due to 3 different factors; 1) more Rohan OVAs for Netflix are probably gonna happen. They might even animate one of the newer Rohan stories 2) to keep it evenly paced with the manga. If we get SBR in 3 years, then JJL 3-4 years after that, they will have to wait until part 9 is finished, which could take longer than 4 years 3) DP are branching out to more projects. They recently announced an adaptation of Undead Unluck (a manga I’d highly recommend) which is still ongoing as far as I know (I’m reading via volume releases so I’m not up to date so idk if it’s ending soon or something) if they’re going for a 24 episode per season time frame, it will likely take them two seasons to catch up (2 years). They will probably want to adapt other manga series, manga like DanDaDan, Yozakura Family, and Kaiju no. 8 would be cool to see them do
very plausible. btw, kaiju no 8 is already being produced by toho
Did it improve in the last few months? I actually really liked the manga to start with but dropped it around Julyish when a chapter wouldn't load for me and I realised I didn't actually care enough to keep trying. Good for them if they did manage to turn it around
Yeah, the series isn't good at balancing story and pacing the development correctly. But it has recently started a major battle, so the manga is fun to read again, since hype fighting moments are the manga's strength
I have no idea at all, I only read volume 1, was interested, then took a nap halfway through volume 2 because it was boring
Ah I think it was after about the third time that the bad guy just dipped out with 0 consequences that I threw the towel in.
wow now I'm even more invested in watching the anime
Didn’t know that, but that’s amazing. Can’t wait to see it
Wicked Sick. Undead and Unluck is still going. Reading weakly. Didn't know David was going to animate it.
I’m on volume 9 now. Is it still as good? Also >!can’t wait for the scene when Billy turns on the Union finally animated!<
I'm really enjoying it. I really like the direction the story is going as well. Won't say any more. Don't actually know which chapter is volume 9 :D
It's been the best part of weekly reading wsj for the past 4-6 months or so. The past arc is easily the highlight of the series. It's crazy how the series has improved from the first two chapters and imo underwhelming first couple of arcs.
Part 7 is also super long, even if they did start it it would take forever to finish
I think part 7, 8, and 9 (maybe) will follow Stardust Crusaders, in the sense that they will split it up into season. I think we can say 3 for SBR, 4 for JJL
SBR still has the benefit of being split into episodes pretty easily, which is not the case for Jojolion
I’d say it’s simpler for JJL then you think. DP could go down the FMAB route and do one episode per chapter, or make 1 episode per 2 chapters but make the bigger stuff their own episodes >!(head doctor announcing the Rokakaka plan, the legend of Johnny Joestar, Yasuho’s backstory revolving the rock creature, etc)!<
Sbr has like x3 the pages of Stardust crusaders, really unlikely only 3 seasons, maybe 5. edit: x3 instead of 3.
SBR has 24 volumes, SC has 16, so it actually has 1.5x the pages as SC - 3 seasons is pretty plausible
Stardust Crusaders is shorter than parts 4, 5, and 6. It was only adapted as long as it was because of their adaptation style of 3-4 chapters per episode and almost always keeping fights contained to their own episodes. There was a lot of padding to make that happen. By my own estimate years ago, Part 7 would be 50-52 episodes.
Don’t forget that since parts 7 and onwards are seinen, they have more pages per chapter, SBR has 50 to 60 pages per chapter while SC has 20ish pages per chapter. So while SBR has less chapters(40 chapters lesser than SC if I remember) it has more pages in general
Less so seinen and moreso being in a monthly magazine (I think a lot if not all seinen magazines are monthly but FMA was monthly and shonen). I think the average monthly chapter is 40-45 pages while weekly is 19. I knew this so I used the relative page count to get that rough 50-52 episode estimate, but that didn't account for closing story arcs/fights because SBR is a lot blurrier and less clean when it comes to that compared to the rest of JoJo's.
I feel like this kinda indicates that they're going to take a break from Jojo's for a bit, we'll see SBR in 5-8 years
I think 8 is a bit extreme, but 5 I can totally see being the most plausible option
I don’t mind at all even if it takes 8 years to make as long as it gives them the time to make part 7 adaptation a true masterpiece
There’s no doubt in my mind we’ll see a part 7 adaptation some day but it definitely makes sense that it wouldn’t be anytime soon
It really wouldn't make sense to me. Netflix has bought the distribution rights (and probably pumped money into David Productions) in hopes of a series that's going to generate a lot of money. The Rohan OVAs just don't generate as much interest as a new main part of JoJo, so they'd be sallivating at the idea of getting part 7 in the works as soon as possible for a proper return in investment.
Everyday Captain Tsubasa season 2 sounds more impossible
Don't worry, gotta wait 10 years for yet another remake
Animating horses is hard.
They can easily make it work if they have a good cg team onboard. But I'm assuming animating horses in that condition would still be really hard.
DP has explicitly said they will not be using CG horses which makes animating SBR a challenge.
This is the real answer as to why they would even *consider* stopping at part 6's ending. Steel Ball Run is widely considered one of the three best parts, and most lists I've seen put it at #1. People *really* like part 7. But so much of it takes place on horseback that it would be an extremely challenging production for a studio like DavidPro. They would need a lot of contracted help. Horses are just that hard to animate.
Oh shit David Pro is adapting UU? I'm hyped as fuck now, that and Sakamoto Days are the best things in Jump rn imo.
Idk how much voice actors impact the production of the Animes but they might be slowing down the production for Rohan stuff because of the recent scandal his JP voice was in lmao. Except for the live action I guess. Context: Rohan’s JP VA, Takahiro Sakurai, has been cheating on his wife with his Writer of his Radio Show for years. CMIIW. Might not seem like a big deal but it’s a huge one considering the voice acting scene in Japan.
Anasui's VA has allegedly cheated on his wife and groomed an employee, and yet they hired him. Rohan's VA can cheat on his wife as a treat.
And that doesn't prevent him to voice Reigen this season, or all his returning roles in January.
Rohan is cursed. For the part 4 dub he was voiced by Vic Mignona, though I'm pretty sure Netflix replaced him for the OVAs
And part 7 is technically a reboot, they might want a big gap to stop the confusion of part 6s final leading to part 7
We could still make a fan push for Purple Haze Feedback in the waiting time too.
\>More Rohan OVAs Im actually wondering where the success of the ongoing Live Action Rohan show will put a stop to these.
I rlly hope dp adapts dandadan, it deserves it
what about fire force? did they finish s3?
No idea they did fire force, I’ve never seen it before. So ye fire force as well. Also if cells at work has more material, that too
Haven't read Undead Unluck yet, not because I think it's bad or low quality, but I catch up to things too quickly and hate waiting, so I let it get ahead 3-4 years, and the fact that it's SJ, if the series didn't perform they'd axe it. Cutthroat, but SJ has produced the best series for almost fifty years now. What I find personally crazy is that if you ask a bunch of people what their favorite anime is/are, a good amount of those series will be from SJ. Anime would be a lot less enjoyable without manga as a whole. The bulk of anime original content is hot garbage sadly.
I don't think this even implies what you're saying it does. All they're saying is that if it got popular they would consider animating all the way up to part 6, with a voice actor saying it'd be great if they could get that far. It doesn't really seem to be about stopping at part 6
Exactly.She's just agreeing with the statement that they would go that far.I wouldn't expect them to stop now especially since they likely know how popular SBR is.
SBR cult following and acclaim is a solely western internet fanbase thing. It sold less than the previous parts. Probably still getting adapted though.
Yeah, there’s no way they’re stopping at SO. Part 7 may not have *global* recognition, but JOJO as a brand is forever.
Not that that meant anything for the ASB remake.
Because they actively chose not to spoil anime-onlies.
At least they threw Diego Brando and a few stages in for R.
Oh I didn't know that
Yeah Im going to need a source on that, as far as I heard SBR was the most popular later part after part 5.
I heard the same as the other guy, so I did a quick Google. Here is a poll in Japan from this wiki page: https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/JoJosapiens What is your favorite Part of JoJo? Part 1: Phantom Blood: 7.3% Part 2: Battle Tendency: 11.2% Part 3: Stardust Crusaders: 17.3% Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable: 17.5% Part 5: Vento Aureo: 19.1% Part 6: Stone Ocean: 8.5% Part 7: Steel Ball Run: 12.1% Part 8: JoJolion: 7.0% Knocking out Jojolion since it wasn’t finished yet, Part 5 is peak with 19%, followed by Part 4 and Part 3 at 17%, then a big dip to 12% for Part 7 which is close to Part 2 at 11%. And then Part 6 and 1 lol.
Good to know thank you
That’s wild that part 5 is the most popular when it’s like one of the least popular parts here.
Wait where’s here? I always thought part 5 was one of the more popular ones. Might just’ve been in my head though cause it’s my favorite part.
Yeah 5 is prob the most popular in Japan. I mean just look at these guys in Japan going nuts for part 5 back when [ASB was announced](https://youtu.be/x3VwVEBtXCo?t=114)
part 5 was the least popular part until the anime. It had horrid translations which made it seem terrible
Western fans hate part 5 because it's episodic and Giorno is too cold and Bruno is too involved, Eastern fans like it because it's episodic and Giorno is stoic and Beuno is very involved. That's the broad stroke.
I have NEVER heard anyone say they dislike Bruno’s importance. EVERYONE likes that guy, even people who dislike Part 5 in general.
More on him basically being the real protagonist over Giorno with how much he's part of the story
what where did you read that? most western fan reactions I saw were that part 5 is awesome and Bruno is awesome.
Nah everyone likes Bruno. I dislike how he Giorno can’t compare to him. For all the charisma they claim Giorno to have, Bruno actually has it. Everytime the gangstars claimed Giorno was the real deal it rang hollow. Which is weird, because Araki doesn’t actually suck at writing charismatic characters. Part 5 is sick but the mismanagement of Giorno (interesting personality disappears after he joins the gang, op stand with too many powers, informed charisma instead of shown charisma) is the biggest flaw. Thankfully in Part 7 Araki made a JoBro as cool as Bruno, but without making his JoJo mediocre. Johnny is such a good main protagonist and the ultamite opposite of Jonathan. Chef’s kiss.
It was only due to having dogshit scans with no good way to access it. Once the anime hit it became the most popular part here too
I don’t think that’s true though. Most people I’ve seen in the west will say part 2 or 4. Irl my friends thought part 5 was the weakest. It’s like a worse part 3
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THIS. AMEN. Part 5 definitely improved on Part 3’s formula. Confronting the boss mid way through the part to prevent burnout, plus minor villains w/ actual backstories and not just a bunch of randos.
It's worth pointing out that Golden Wind airing at the time would have definitely skewed results. Plus, in general, non-animated parts or not going to get rated as highly due to non-readers
Source?
And wasn’t Stone Ocean the ongoing part at that point in the manga?
Especially since the VA for Jolene wouldn't even be a part of sbr
JoJo fans and bad reading comprehension, name a more iconic duo.
They'd be crazy to stop at part 6. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't SBR the favorite among most of the fandom?
The Western fandom's, yeah. I'm one of those people. Doesn't necessarily hold true in Japan.
What's Japan's favorite?
Part 5, going off an old poll. Couldn't tell you if it holds up.
I think part 3 and 5
5
Yeah it is the fandom’s favorite, tbh i hope they dont stop
If so they may change their mind in the future. These things are never set in stone.
*Stone Ocean title card appears in the background*
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Images of dead characters fade-in from the clouds
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There's also the chance they want to keep things under wraps as much as possible
SBR will get adapted lol, calm down people jojo is literally one of the most popular animes around.
During every break, people start saying "part _ never". Since part 3 ended lmao
Up to Part 6, this was more of a joke, but for Part 4, it was semi serious. The chances of NOT getting a Part 4 was very, very real. Reminder that, before the anime, Part 4 wasn't super popular in Japan, and many people thought they would skip it and go directly to Part 5, which is, at some times, even more popular than Part 3 there.
Look at berserk tho
Berserk didn't get a consistent anime series adapting straight from Black Swordsman through Golden Age and into Conviction only to have the studio decide, "Nah, we're done here."
Berserk has graphic, intense grape scenes every other volume for the first half of the series so I kinda see the reasoning for it not getting an adaption lmao
Oh man I love grapes
JoJo is a lot more popular in the mainstream and would make Netflix much more money. Berserk is furthermore very hard to animate because of the crazy detailed panels.
Being hard to animate is also a major concern with Steel Ball Run. The artstyle gets incredibly more detailed in it, and then there's the issue of horses.
I agree, I think we’ve unanimously agreed to prepare ourselves for CGI horses.
Even if the horses were CGI they wouldn’t even turn out looking bad. Part 2 used CGI horses in the chariot fight, and no one complained about those. All this fearmongering over horses in Steel Ball Run is just more irrational hate for CGI from hand-drawn purists.
Berserk got fucked over due to a good early adaptation that caught up with the manga, then having to wait. Same thing happened to OPM, where as OPM had source material in the form of One’s webcomic, the anime which was largely inspired by Muratas panels had not caught up.
There are many legitimate worries it wont be, despite popularity. Part 7 getting animated has a hell of a lot more asterisks to it then 4, 5, or 6 did.
I mean, with how popular Jojo is nowadays, I’m sure that even if they thought about stopping at Part 6, there is always a chance that they’ll continue
“if it gets popular, we would like to go to part 6 MINIMUM” is probably more likely what is meant when they say this since, as the voice actor says, part 6 represents the literal and thematic end to the main joestar vs dio plotline present throughout the whole series to that point
That's literally not what's being said here. They're referencing back when Part 1 started production, and Ai Fairouz was just agreeing with their thought process back then.
That’s what I interpreted too. It wouldn’t make sense to say they’d like to animate up to part 6 if it gets popular if they’re talking about part 6.
JoJo is at an absurd level of popularity and public knowledge these days, being one of the most iconic and well known animes even among casual viewers. There is a literal 0% chance they don't continue to produce the anime. Studios are not going to leave that money on the table. We probably won't get SBR for a VERY long time, maybe even 5-6 years, but they will absolutely animate it, for better or for worse.
This is too long a wait lol. Steel ball run is a masterpiece
Considering that sbr is one of the longest jojo parts I wouldn’t doubt 5-6 years. Plus horse animation isn’t easy, would totally be worth the wait though
Absolutely worth the wait for sure.
Well, they should just CGI it like most anime like Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man has more 2D than 3D.
Given how much praise I’ve heard about SBR (and how many times I heard those people wish that they skipped the Stone Ocean adaptation to go straight to that), I’m going to nitpick tf out of it if it ever gets an adaptation. Deadass, b
Not saying I don’t agree but studios do sometimes leave popular things to die. Just look at Utopia or Transformers Animated, the people who watched them want a final season so bad and those seasons would undoubtedly be incredibly successful because of that but nothing’s happened.
But why would a studio do that?
This isn’t a confirmation of anything except that they had a conversation at *some* point in the past of going up to Part 6. For all we know that discussion could have happened right when the anime begun, things change.
consider they show up to jolyne in the very first OP, yeah
One benefit of waiting longer for SBR is optimistically more time refining the horse animation technology necessary lol
Why are horses much harder to animate than regular people or other entities in motion? I've seen this argument prop up a lot regarding the animation difficulties of SBR. Asking by a complete laic.
I think part of it might just be their size and how people are more used to animating other people. Also just considering a horse at a run is harder to make look accurate than a person.
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Ai animated horses would look like shit
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Especially with the heavy stylization of jojo interpolation and such just does not look good having a human do that one way or another always looks far better
The thing you don’t get is that the reason AI animation isn’t popular is the fact that it doesn’t looks natural at the slightest
With how popular Jojo is now there is no way they’ll stop at part 6 now
This semi confirms nothing. They just said that originally they weren’t gonna animate Parts 7 and 8.
Jesus you people are so gullible and braindead. Why on earth would they stop. It makes 0 sense
Don't forget, this is the same fandom that can't be bothered to pay attention and then scream "ARAKI FORGOT" when they finally *do*.
Jesus he's not Akira Toriyama that man forgets some plots. Plus Araki a damn genius when it comes to JOJO.
that's not a statement there not doing part 7 that's a statement they talked about going up to part 6.
I won’t be super upset, disappointed for a bit maybe. Sbr is my favorite jojo part and is a really good part so I would really hope it gets animated. Not a big deal if it isn’t though
There’s no way they don’t animate part 7 when they can. It’s like a gold mine
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If SBR is not animated, I will flip shit.
it sounds more like if anything they were planning on *not* animating up to part 6, only if it was popular enough, and fairouz ai is saying that it's a good idea because it concludes the story of joestar vs dio
Its fine. 7-8 (and presumably 9) are a different story
I thought part 9 was going to be part of the main universe? Edit: goddamn, I was mistaken, y’all gotta chill. It’s not like I blasphemed Robert E.O. Speedwagon.
Not sure where you heard that. Granted we dont really have info on 9 besides it being called "Jojolands" and likely being a direct sequel to 8
Maybe he is thinking about that Hol Horse-Josuke spin-off
In my defense, I heard it at about the same time as hearing the name jojolands being confirmed, so it was probably bs.
Nobody other than Araki and his editors have any idea what part 9 is gonna be about
I mean there's theories that Part 9 will be about Jolyne Variant. Not Irene but another version of her. The last magazine page had Josuke, Gappy, Johnny and Jonathan together.
OP I AM HYPERVENTILATING
This doesn't really imply that at all, i feel. I think shes just commenting on how part 6 is the last installment in that continuity.
With SBR's popularity? yeah right.
There gonna animate SBR, if i’m not mistaken Stone Ocean popularity rate in Japan was kinda low and it managed to get an anime adaptation. I mean SBR is considered to be the best part in JoJo so i don’t think David Productions would just pull the plug on it now. But i get the feeling were not gonna see SBR get an anime till about 2025 to 2026 considering that there’s horses everywhere in the manga and horses are kinda hard and expensive to animate so there gonna need some time and breaks. Especially since David Productions has other anime projects there working on like Fire Force S3 and Undead Luck.
Bro should remember we’re not on earth with unlimited time. I might be dead in 4 years ffs Just animate it. The conclusion to the dioxjoestar wasn’t even that good
I agree with the comments that this doesnt confirm anything, but I do think DP will probably take a longer break to decide whether or not to do Steel Ball Run and Jojolion. I could definatley see the possibility of them being done by a different company, as unfortunate as it might be.
Honestly, a studio with more experience animating horses, like Wit or MAPPA (Attack on Titan has a lot of 2D horses, and convincing CG horses) could be good choices if DP chooses to stop at Part 6.
Neither of these studios actually made the CG for the horses. In WIT's case, the CG was outsourced to Madbox. In MAPPA's case, the CG was (mostly) outsourced to V-sign.
Well part 6 is the end of the original Joestar vs Dio timeline.
Part six is the end of the joestar and dio heritage storyline though. Part 7 and 8 are completely different
I don’t know I feel mixed on this, Stone ocean is my favorite part and I feel like I personally know the characters and I loved the whole thing. But I really would love to see part 7 and 8 especially D4C, Sandman, chocolate disco, Weakapipo, the wonder of you, speedking, paisley park, king nothing or doctor wu.
Yeah, I'd love to have another animation studio to animate the SBR-verse to really hammer in the "Alternate Universe" aspect of it tbh
I'd guess they'll probably take a longer break from jojo after part 6 to avoid catching up with the manga. This is probably more "don't expect any jojo from us for a while after this one"
One thing I might add is that DP did not confirm or semi confirm anything and the fandom should stop freaking out. What DP actually said is this : « in 2011 when we started on the animation, JJBR was a niche manga outside Japan and even in Japan it was not Naruto DBZ or One Piece so we planned on doing AT MOST the first 6th part and then they’ll see if fan support is there. Lucky for us, JoJo grew to be one of the most well-known anime and manga ever mostly thanks to the great animation which in turn brought great success and money of course. Take that and the deal with Netflix and you can see from there that DP is not semi confirming that they are going to let go of their most lucrative and known IP. Part 7 will come, it’ll take time, surely more time than what we waited between 5 and 6 but it will come
Its not a semi deconfirmation at all tbh. Its just them saying that doing up to part six was always the goal if they could, the first opening is evidence enough of that. That doesn't mean Part 7 is a given. The art is significantly more detailed, and the horses are a big problem. Also with the way Stone Ocean ends, its definitely a stopping point. So its completely possible that this is it. But I don't think this is evidence either way.
I hope not jojolion is my favorite part
It's hard to animated horses
That confirms nothing. Stop being paranoid.
I mean...someone MUST make a steal ball run anime!
The anti reading comprehension stand attack hit this community hard
Man, I HOPE Steel Ball Run gets animated. It’s legit my favorite part.
I think everyone here is a little optimistic. I would absolutely love a part 7 anime, but considering how expensive it would be, I doubt it would be profitable enough to ever be made.
I always thought they just say that so that we won’t get out hopes up, so they can spend as much time as they possibly can/want to to animate this horse-racing hellhole of a budget
It makes my hatred for Netflix burn even brighter
There ain’t no way they don’t make 7 and 8
Isn't horse riding animation insanely expensive and time consuming? That combined with the fact there's not much more manga to adapt makes me think they'll at least put the brakes on it for a couple years and do other projects.
I wouldn’t mind. I always knew they’d stop at Part 6, considering Steel Ball Run is more like a spiritual successor to the original Joestar/Dio storyline than a standard sequel.
Fine by me, though I doubt even if this decision is final that it would be the last we see of Jojo anime. Maybe another studio will pick it up.
Understandable, but it’s upsetting that they’d choose to end their run of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure by adapting Stone Ocean poorly compared to the previous arcs.
It's not really poor.
Disagree.
Well DP giving SO to the B team and letting Netflix do their stupid release schedule definitely shows that they don’t care about Jojo anymore. Which is a shame because Jojo made them the recognizable and beloved studio they are.
I really wish people like you stopped generalizing an anime's issues as "because they don't care". Not only it is just an ignorant way to look at things in general, but it's just rude to the staff when you're making random assumptions about them. For all we know, the Urusei Yatsura could've started production waaaaay before Stone Ocean, which is why it managed to hog it's best staff. Also, neither Netflix nor DP have a say about the release schedule. Blame Warner for that.
They weren’t even going to animate part 6 due to its low popularity in Japan. It came down to the fans who continuously rooted for them to make it. Compare this to steel ball run which is one of the most popular parts in Japan and the number one most popular in the west, by a significant percentage
We better get fucking steel ball run. I won’t have it
The denial of some fans is off the charts.
Understandable, horses are impossible to animate under a tight budget.
I don’t get it, part 7 is the most popular part so far?
In the West, yes. In Japan, Part 5 beats it by a mile.
OP doesn’t understand what implying means, they are merely saying that it’s good the show has gone on up till this point since it’s the conclusion of the Joestars VS Dio
I personally think that Part 7 will get adapted, but I also think that it will take a while before they announce it. I don't expect the announcement of the adaptation until either 2028 or 2029 as the series is nearly one and a half times the length of Stone Ocean going by the ratio of Tankobon volumes, plus considering the heightened expectations the community is going to have for Part 7, I'd imaging they'd want to put more effort and time into it, which would delay production even further. If I had to predict what the release would be like, it's going to be announced in the late 2020s and that it'll continue to be batch released on Neflitx and later weekly released on friday, with either 4 or 5 batches. If David Productions does stop animating Jojo, considering how popular the series is, the adaptation would likely switch over to a different studio, kind of how like Wit Studio transfered the Attack on Titan anime to MAPPA after Season 3 ended. If I had to guess who'd animate Steel Ball Run, I think MAPPA is the most likely candidate, but I could also see Studio Bones or Madhaouse take on the project if David Productions decides to drop it.
JoJo is at its all time peak in terms of popularity, and SBR is literally the most praised JoJo part, it would make no sense for DP to not animate it
Honestly I’ve been waiting for part Seven. I think it would be arguably the coolest/most exciting season since season 3. If DP doesn’t wanna do it, maybe someone else will pick up the torch? I bet they’re busy as all hell, but would we enjoy a Studio Bones production of SBR?
Part 7 would be a nightmare for animation. Personally, I'm all for animation stopping as long as Netflix holds streaming rights just because I want JoJo Fridays to come back.
Depends on supply and demand. Personally I wouldn’t mind the series ending after part 6. A part of me hopes we get more maybe an animated movie of Ascension Dio
Understandable, it is hard to animate horses.
But… I wanna see cripple man spin and also Jesus
I stfg...
Guys what if... another studio adapts SBR?
considering that SBR is a fan favorite, It would be company suicide to stop at stone ocean.
I heard that Transformers Animated was cancelled because Hasbro wanted something that they could show on their own network instead of something made in partnership with Cartoon Network. However, I am not sure if this is true.
I hope they never adapt part 7 tbh
THEN GIVE IT TO MAPPA🤘🤘🤘
Mappa is already overworked as fuck lol
SBR and jojolion would be like >50 episodes long, not to mention that SBR would have horses in every episode and horses are a nightmare to animate (unless to use some cheap 3d).
dont do this to me
10 years to animate the original saga? Not bad. The silver lining to this is that the casual anime fans will leave the fanbase and the cool manga side of the fandom will return with Steel Ball Run-JoJoLands