First Stage: 15,000 Meters (1st.STAGE 15,000メートル, Fāsuto Sutēji 15,000 Mētoru) is the second volume of Steel Ball Run and the eighty-second volume of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It covers the events during the first stage of the Steel Ball Run.
Since seasons pass and man evolves during his life, I think it's important to build what I call the theme of one's work by basing it on the foundations of their previous works, and that wanting to cut oneself one from that past is a mistake we shouldn't make. Thus, in Steel Ball Run, you will meet characters whose names are similar to some of the characters in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure saga. You can see them as their ancestors, or as their incarnations in a parallel world. However, the theme remains the same: a hymn to humanity. What will happen to these people plunged into the strange race of life?
