The English Dub makes it better as Joseph shouts "Run for your life!", with Smokey's shouting cutting straight to Kars shrieking like a madman. When Joseph runs away from Kars, Smokey loses it, exclaiming he knew he'd run away like he always does.Technically incorrect: while Jonathan never used it, he did tell someone to flee in a dire situation: Erina.Made better because Jonathan never used that, and he refers to it as if it was passed down the family line.The Joestar Family's Secret Technique : RUN AWAY!.Unfortunately for him ( Initially), he underestimates the personality difference between Joseph and Jonathan.Įsidisi: You'll look like a lovely birthday cake, covered in candles, flickering with their merry little red flames! He ends up taking an innocent bystander hostage on the basis that Joseph, like his grandfather, couldn't bear to see an innocent get caught in the crossfire. The now villainous Straizo decides to make it his first order to track down Joseph and kill him because he doesn't want to make the same mistake that Dio did with Jonathan.Joseph: You really are serious about cleanliness. You should be ashamed that you have to resort to cheating and gimmicks to beat me! Joseph: Huh?~ Whatever do you Ĭaesar: Deal the cards properly, Joestar, or play elsewhere! But as long as Hirohiko Araki still has stories to tell, the Bizarre Adventure will never truly be over.Caesar: I saw that, JoJo. These new JoJos are less concerned with legacy and family bloodlines, so while there are still descendants of the Joestar family out there having Bizarre Adventures under the name of JoJo, there's also a very real sense in which the Joestar line runs from George Joestar to Jolyne Cujoh, where it ends along with their world. The eighth JoJo's Bizarre Adventure story arc, "JoJolion," is set in the same continuity and stars a new version of Josuke, living in Morioh in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. He also befriends Gyro Zepelli, from whom he learns a technique called The Spin, which is sort of like Hamon but with more spinning balls. He has a Stand named Tusk which allows him to shoot his fingernails like bullets (is this Adventure Bizarre enough yet?). Johnny is paraplegic, but able to ride a horse, which enables him to enter the cross country race known as the Steel Ball Run. Jonathan sacrifices himself in an attempt to thwart Dio once and for all, and save Erina, already pregnant with Jonathan's child. Unfortunately, it turns out that Dio is still alive as a disembodied head, and with the help of one of his undead minions, he plans to steal Jonathan's body for his own. Thinking evil defeated, Jonathan marries his love, Erina Pendleton, and the two depart on a Honeymoon cruise to the United States.
Hamon enables the practitioner to channel their breathing into energy that they can manipulate to create various effects, which are particularly effective against monsters like vampires.Īfter a convoluted series of encounters - which some might call a Bizarre Adventure - Jonathan manages to destroy Dio's body with Hamon, seemingly killing him.
Speedwagon, but then they meet a strange Italian man named William Anthonio Zeppeli, who trains Jonathan in an ancient and entirely fictional martial art called Hamon (sometimes referred to as "the ripple" in English translations). Initially all he has is a hoodlum sidekick named Robert E.
It's up to Jonathan to thwart the world conquering plans of the now-immortal Dio. So let's start at the beginning, and explore the Bizarre and Adventuresome history of the Joestar family. More specifically, a JoJo is any member of the Joestar bloodline who has special powers and a name that can be abbreviated as "JoJo." Only the first two JoJos actually have the last name Joestar, but we'll get into how the later ones are still connected to that family when we get there. There are eight story arcs so far, with each one featuring a different JoJo (although the last two JoJos are alternate versions of earlier JoJos, but we'll get to that). The simplest explanation, which is also a bit of a cop-out, is that a JoJo is the protagonist of a story arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a long-running manga series by Hirohiko Araki, which has been adapted into an anime series, some movie-length videos, and one live action film. There's really only one JoJo at a time, even though sometimes two or three of them meet and hang out. It can be confusing, the way that fans take about JoJos, plural, even though the title seems singular.
If you're on the internet, you've almost certainly heard of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but if you're not into anime you may not know quite what it is.