JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is one of manga's great endurance acts, a generational saga in which Hirohiko Araki passes the Joestar lineage from one protagonist to the next and reinvents his own style each time. The collected volumes anchor the franchise, with the Stand system turning fights into puzzle-box battles of imagination rather than brute strength.

The adaptations took decades to catch up. A 1993 OVA covered the early arcs, but it was David Production's 2012 anime that finally cracked the property's fashion-spread aesthetic and propelled it to a global cult. A live-action Diamond Is Unbreakable film tried the story in flesh, while the natural overflow has been into fighting games like All-Star Battle R and Eyes of Heaven, plus the Jump Force crossover. Across books, anime, film and games, the Stand-versus-Stand combat is the engine, and the brawlers are where it feels most at home.

The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise spans 2 series, 1 books, 3 games, 2 films in the CrossBinge catalog.