The Plot of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' Definitely Lives up to the Name

By Callie (Carlos) Cadorniga

Nov. 30 2021, Published 2:38 p.m. ET

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There are few anime and manga that have had fairly as long-lasting a power on pop culture as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The unique manga artist was honored at the Louvre for his paintings on the series. The anime has generated several popular memes. The theme music for the brand new season has hit over 7 million perspectives in less than two days. If you're even a little bit acquainted with anime, you've got indubitably seen JoJo around, and also you may well be asking of yourself what the display is even about.

The original manga began its run back in 1987 and has been ongoing ever since. Though a feature-length movie was launched in Japan in 2007, the legit anime sequence started in October 2012, when the franchise celebrated its 25th anniversary. The anime has since endured with new seasons adapting different arcs of the manga, with the latest season premiering in December 2021.

Even an skilled JoJo fan like myself may have hassle breaking down the intricacies of the full plot, however there is a strategy to the anime's madness. Here's what you want to grasp about the story of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

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What is 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' about?

At its core, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure follows members of the family from different generations of the "Joestar" bloodline. The anime is divided into other arcs, continuously known as numbered "Parts," and each and every part tells an absolutely other tale. But in each and every Part, the primary protagonist is a member of the Joestar family whose name can continuously be abbreviated to "JoJo." The manga recently has eight different Parts, but the anime has up to now lined the primary six.

Part 1 is known as "Phantom Blood," and follows Jonathan Joestar. After his wealthy father adopts the formidable and sinister Dio Brando, Jonathan must give protection to his circle of relatives legacy from being inherited by way of his new and nefarious brother. To make issues worse, Dio eventually taps into an historical power that turns him into a near-unstoppable vampire.

While Phantom Blood lays the groundwork for the rest of the collection, every new Part makes a speciality of a different descendant of Jonathan's. The sequence spans a number of many years and other settings from World War II–technology New York to Japan in the 1990s. Each new JoJo in the bloodline has their very own distinctive adventure, transferring well beyond the vampire battles with which it started. But every arc turns into even more bizarre than the last.

Part 6 introduces the primary feminine JoJo.

In the most recent season, the anime features the franchise's first female lead personality to inherit the "JoJo" name. Entitled Stone Ocean, the new Part follows Jolyne Kujoh. After being wrongfully accused of a DUI and vehicular manslaughter, Jolyne is sentenced to fifteen years in the fictitious Green Dolphin Street Prison in Florida. Once there, she encounters extraordinary occurrences that threaten each her lifestyles and the arena at large. She must depend on her newfound powers to flee jail and in finding who framed her.

Stone Ocean will start streaming on Dec. 1, 2021, completely on Netflix.

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