STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Shares New Stand Showcase

Warner Bros. Japan began streaming the new footage on Tuesday in Japanese and English. It spotlights Stands, entities that manifest their owners’ special abilities in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

The Japanese version follows:

The English version is also available:

The anime’s official website also shared an image.

The second and third stages premiered on September 25. Netflix streams new episodes every Friday, with 11 episodes in total across those two stages.

Netflix describes the release as split cours. A cour is a quarter-year broadcast period. This format usually means roughly three months of episodes, followed by a break of at least three months before another three-month run.

The first stage debuted on Netflix on March 19 as one 47-minute episode. Netflix exclusively streams the anime worldwide.

The adaptation draws from Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run manga. Its cast includes:

• Shōgo Sakata as Johnny Joestar
• Yōhei Azakami as Gyro Zeppeli
• Kaito Ishikawa as Diego Brando
• Rie Takahashi as Lucy Steel
• Kenta Miyake as Steven Steel
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Sand Man
• Kenichirō Matsuda as Pocoloco

Kroi performs the opening theme, “Spin.” Yūki Chiba performs the ending theme, “Shinu ka Ikiru ka” (To Die or Live).

Viz Media licensed the manga in English and released its first volume digitally and in print in May 2025.

The story follows Johnny Joestar, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down. He attends a race drawing riders from around the world to the Wild West.

After watching Gyro Zeppeli fight a duel, Johnny briefly regains the ability to walk. He joins Gyro in the race across the American frontier to learn more about that power.

Araki launched the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 2004. It moved to Ultra Jump in 2005 and ended in 2011.

The series spans 24 volumes, numbered 81–104 within the overall JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga.

Studio david production’s anime adaptations began with Part 1 and have covered the manga through Part 6, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Netflix released Stone Ocean globally in three batches:

• Episodes 1–12: December 2021
• Episodes 13–24: September 2022
• Episodes 25–38, the final batch: December 2022

Araki launched The JOJOLands, the ninth and latest part of the manga series, in Ultra Jump in February 2023.

Other recent franchise projects include video games, a stage musical, and live-action adaptations of Araki’s spinoff Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai).

Studio david production is producing STEEL BALL RUN, with the following staff:

• Directors: Yasuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi, co-directors of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.
• Series director: Toshiyuki Kato, Stone Ocean’s director, whose other franchise work includes storyboards.
• Series scripts: Yasuko Kobayashi, returning from earlier franchise entries.
• Character design: Daisuke Tsumagari, an animation director on Golden Wind.
• Music: returning composer Yūgo Kanno.
• Sound direction: returning sound director Yoshikazu Iwanami.
• Sub-character design: Yui Kinoshita, Grand Guerilla, Minoru Murao, and Chii.