JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is the first season of the television anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, produced by David Production and Warner Bros. Japan. It is an adaptation of Parts 1 and 2 of the manga, Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, respectively. It was first announced on July 5, 2012 at the Hirohiko Araki JoJo Exhibition 2012. The season aired over the course of 26 episodes from October 5, 2012 to April 5, 2013.
Creation and Development
The first season of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime adaptation was greenlit in 2011, and was planned to adapt the first two parts of the manga. However, pre-production for the first season did not begin until as late as March 2012.[1]
After recieving the offer to animate the JoJo project, producer Hisataka Kasama decided to hire more than one director for the series, despite such a practice being very uncommon in the anime industry at the time. The two chosen directors were Naokatsu Tsuda and Kenichi Suzuki, for their comedic and action direction skills respectively. After Tsuda was chosen, he admitted he probably would not have agreed to work on the project if it weren't for his partnership with Suzuki, overwhelmed at the prospect of helming a series as big as JoJo on his own. Suzuki, however, was less hesitant to participate, excited to present his own spin on the JoJo series. After the directors were chosen, Yasuko Kobayashi was added to the team as the series's screenwriter after a recommendation from Shueisha's editorial department, and Yasufumi Soejima was brought on as a visual director.
By the time production on the series began, the core team was composed of Tsuda, Suzuki, Kasama, Omori, Kobayashi and Soejima. The team decided to follow the source material down to every minute detail, one of them being the unique onomatopoeia used in the manga. The team felt that if they didn't follow the manga so faithfully and resorted to using general anime production techniques, it would no longer be JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but rather JoJo's Ordinary Adventure. The guidelines the team set for themselves in the first production meeting became a sort of overall guide for how the series would be produced moving forward throughout future seasons.[2]
Distribution
The media distribution service Crunchyroll obtained the streaming license for the season after its initial airing, releasing the Blu-ray edition of the anime with English subtitles on its website on April 4, 2014.[3] In 2015, it was announced that director Naokatsu Tsuda would premiere an English dub of the season at that year's Anime Expo, later to be released on DVD by Warner Bros.[4] VIZ Media would later release the English dub on Blu-ray.[5] On July 21, 2016, it was revealed that the English dub would begin airing on Adult Swim's Toonami block on October 15, 2016,[6] concluding on April 15, 2017.
Cast

Kazuyuki Okitsu

Johnny Yong Bosch

Ricardo Bautista

Sergio Mesa

Wendel Bezerra

Pattarawut Samutnawi

Simon Herlin

Jacopo Calatroni

Vincent Fallow

Yoku Shioya

Joe Ochman

César Garduza

Jordi Pineda

Marcelo Pissardini

Peerasak Gaysorn

Vincent Violette

Gigi Rosa

Florian Krüger-Shantin

Yoji Ueda

Keith Silverstein

Víctor Ruiz

Angel del Río

Sílvio Giraldi

Bancha Hemabutr

Laurent Sao

Gianluca Iacono

Johannes Berenz

Ayako Kawasumi

Michelle Ruff

Montserrat Aguilar

Nuria Samsó

Luciana Baroli

Sansanee Tinkeradees

Charlotte Hervieux

Valentina Pallavicino

Patrizia Carlucci

Masashi Sugawara

Marc Diraison

Dafnis Fernández

Ramón Rocabayera

Luiz Antônio Lobue

Ekachai Pongsamai

Philippe Catoire

Claudio Moneta

Norbert Langer

Yumiko Kobayashi

Amanda C. Miller

Jared Mendoza

Julia Chalmeta

Michel Singer

Pornprapha Sawangsak

Brigitte Lecordier

Francesca Tretto

Peggy Pollow

Tamio Ōki

Geoffrey Chalmers

Fabián Rétiz

Joaquin Casado

Hélio Vaccari

Kosit Krittinan

Benoît Allemane

Cesare Rasini

Thomas Kästner

Taketora

Paul St. Peter

Mauricio Pérez

Juan Miguel Díez

Roberto Garcia

Phichapop Phatarakunniyom

Jean-Philippe Pertuit

Luca Semeraro

Felix Spieß

Nobuo Tobita

Dave Mallow

Roberto Salguero

Enrique Hernández

Alexandre Marconato

Rob Petchprasit

Vincent Vilain

Andrea Moretti

Marcus Off

Takehito Koyasu

Patrick Seitz

Marc Winslow

Carlos Sianes

Francisco Júnior

Itthipol Mameket

Vincent Bonnasseau

Maurizio Merluzzo

Marios Gavrilis

Hiroshi Naka

Doug Stone

José Luis Miranda

Juan Miguel Díez

Gileno Santoro

Peerasak Gaysorn

Gabriel Le Doze

Luca Ghignone

Joachim Kaps

Naomi Kusumi

Paul St. Peter

Héctor Moreno

Ramón Rocabayera

César Emílio

Phichapop Phatarakunniyom

Stefan Godin

N/A

Marco Kröger

Kenjiro Tsuda

Tony Oliver

Eleazar Muñoz

Artur Rius

Gabriel Noya

Rob Petchprasit

Constantin Pappas

Massimiliano Lotti

Jaron Löwenberg

Tetsu Inada

Taylor Henry

Óscar Rangel

Eduardo Diez

Charles Dalla

Ekachai Pongsamai

Frédéric Souterelle

Andrea Fallia

Marko Bräutigam

Hidenori Takahashi

Anthony Hansen

Elliot Leguizamo

Juan Miguel Díez

Dado Monteiro

Phiphat Boonsitlert

???

N/A

Georgios Tzitzikos

Yuichi Ishigami

Kirk Thornton

Óscar López

Daniel Oliver

Ivo Roberto

Pattechin Sasipatthada

???

Davide Quartini

Georgios Tzitzikos

Tadashi Miyazawa

Steve Kramer

José Luis Orozco

Francesc Rocamora

Carlos Silveira

Kosit Krittinan

Patrice Melennec

Pietro Ubaldi

Jan Spitzer

Aya Endō

Johanna Luis

Monserrat Mendoza

Ana Romano

Thaís Durães

Wichaya Wangcherdchuwong

???

Elisa Giorgio

Amelie Plaas-Link

Masayuki Katō

Christopher Hackney

Mauricio Pérez

Francesc Rocamora

Marcelo Salsicha

Pattechin Sasipatthada

???

N/A

Mario Klischies

Toru Okawa

David Vincent

Tommy Rojas

Tasio Alonso

Armando Tiraboschi

Kaiwan Wattanakrai

Laurent Jacquet

Alessandro D’Errico

Armin Schlagwein

Tomokazu Sugita

Ben Diskin (Adult)
Richard Epcar (Old)

Miguel de León

Jordi Navarro (Adult)
Ramón Rocabayera (Old)

Guilherme Briggs (Adult)
Mauro Ramos (Old)

Chakkrit Hanwichai

Sébastien Baulain (Adult)
Frédéric Souterelle (Old)

Dimitri Winter (Adult)
Oliviero Corbetta (Old)

Leonhard Mahlich (Adult)
Torsten Münchow (Old)

Takuya Sato

Bryce Papenbrook

Carlo Vázquez

Hermógenes Alonso

Dláigelles Riba

Apinan Teeranantakul

Julien Lucas

Federico Viola

Tim Knauer

Atsuko Tanaka

Wendee Lee

Vianney Monroy

Ana Romano

Raquel Marinho

Sophita Rangsiyothai

Sophie Planet

Gea Riva

Bettina Weiß

Atsushi Imaruoka

Dan Woren

Dafnis Fernández

Artur Rius

Fábio Azevedo

Phichapop Phatarakunniyom

Rémi Pous

Marco Balzarotti

Uve Teschner

Yoji Ueda

Keith Silverstein

Víctor Ruiz

Angel del Río

Sílvio Giraldi

Bancha Hemabutr

Patrick Noérie

Gianluca Iacono

Johannes Berenz

Ayako Kawasumi

Michelle Ruff

Gabriela Guzmán

Julia Chalmeta

Rosa Maria Baroli

Sansanee Tinkeradees

???

Patrizia Scianca

Katharina Lopinski

Yū Hayashi

Robbie Daymond

Rolando de la Fuente

Víctor Gómez

Cadu Paschoal

Siwaphan Bunyaratphan

Damien Page

Lorenzo Briganti

Marco Eßer

Hidetoshi Nakamura

Geoffrey Chalmers

Óscar Rangel

Enrique Hernández

Henrique Reis

Ekachai Pongsamai

Éric Herson-Macarel

Giorgio Bonino

Sven Brieger

Yutaka Nakano

Ray Chase

Mauricio Pérez

Daniel Oliver

Tatá Guarnieri

Sanya Subongkot

Pierre-Louis Bonnat

N/A

Martin Schubach

Sachiko Kojima

Stephanie Sheh

Ximena de Anda

Nuria Samsó

Patt Souza

Kornkran Chongsakul

Dorothée Pousséo

Giulia Maniglio

Rieke Werner

Ryōta Ōsaka

Kyle McCarley

Manuel Campuzano

Víctor Gómez

Rodolfo Novaes

Apichit Likitlimpreecha

???

Davide Fumagalli

Lasse Dreyer

Jin Yamanoi

Doug Stone

Emmanuel Bernal

Juan Miguel Díez

Ricardo Vasconcelos

Sanya Subongkot

???

Federico Danti

Matthias Klages

Kazuhiko Inoue

John DeMita

Jorge Badillo

Juan Miguel Díez

Felipe Grinnan

Piya Chamnarnkit

Emmanuel Gradi

Lorenzo Scattorin

Peter Lontzek

Keiji Fujiwara

Chris Jai Alex

José Antonio Macías

Joaquin Casado

Alex Barone

Peerasak Gaysorn

Olivier Cordina

Luca Graziani

Matti Klemm

Akio Otsuka

Paul St. Peter

Salvador Reyes

Carlos Sianes

César Marchetti

Kosit Krittinan

Antoine Tomé

Matteo Brusamonti

Peter Sura

Kenji Nomura

Kaiji Tang

Cuauhtemoc Miranda

Ramón Rocabayera

Cassiano Ávila

Pattechin Sasipatthada

Bruno Magne

Francesco de Angelis

Stefan Bräuler

Nobuo Tobita

Dave Mallow

Roberto Salguero

Enrique Hernández

Alexandre Marconato

Rob Petchprasit

Vincent Vilain

Andrea Moretti

Marcus Off

Satoshi Tsuruoka

Mike Davis

Mauricio Pérez

Daniel Oliver

Roberto Rocha

Phiphat Boonsitlert

Marc Saez

Luca Ghignone

Andi Krösing

Kenichirō Matsuda

Ray Chase

Mauricio Pérez

Juan Miguel Díez

Gilmar Lourenço

Sanya Subongkot

Loïc Houdré

N/A

Christoph Banken

Toru Okawa

David Vincent

Tommy Rojas

Tasio Alonso

Armando Tiraboschi

Kaiwan Wattanakrai

Laurent Jacquet

Alessandro D’Errico

Armin Schlagwein
Episode List










Home Video Releases
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 1
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 1)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles, Promotional Videos
Limited Edition Bonuses: Phantom Blood (Destiny) OST
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1: Dio the Invader
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 2: A Letter from the Past
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 3: Youth with Dio
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 2
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 2)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles, Part 1 Promotional CM
Limited Edition Bonuses: Phantom Blood Key Animation Collection
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 4: Overdrive
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 5: The Dark Knights
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 6: Pluck for Tomorrow
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 3
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 3)

- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 7: The Successor
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 8: Bloody Battle! JoJo & Dio
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9: The Final Ripple!
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 4
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 4)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles, Clean OP/ED
Limited Edition Bonuses: Battle Tendency (Leicht Verwendbar) OST
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 10: JoJo of New York
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 11: Master of the Game
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 12: The Pillar Man
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 5
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 5)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles
Limited Edition Bonuses: Pillar Men Relief Mousepad
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 13: JoJo vs. the Ultimate Being
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 14: Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 15: A Hero's Proof
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 6
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 6)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles
Limited Edition Bonuses: Pillar Men T-Shirt
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 16: Ripple Teacher Lisa Lisa
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 17: Laying a Deeper Trap!
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 18: Stroheim's Unit Strikes Back
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 7
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 7)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles
Limited Edition Bonuses: Poison Rings Strap
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 19: Race Toward the Cliff of Death
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 20: Caesar: A Lonely Youth
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 21: The Hundred vs. Two Strategy
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 8
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 8)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles
Limited Edition Bonuses: Santana USB Memory Stick
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 22: A True Warrior
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 23: The Warrior Returns to the Wind
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 24: The Bond That Binds JoJo
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 9
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Vol. 9)

Features: Digipak Jacket, Outer Case, English Subtitles
Limited Edition Bonuses: Battle Tendency Key Animation Collection
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 25: The Birth of a Superbeing!!
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 26: The Man Who Became a God
Re-Edited
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Re-Edited is a compilation of the first season that condenses all 26 episodes into three film-length features. The first film highlights the events of Phantom Blood, while the other two summarize Battle Tendency. The Re-Edited edition omits several scenes, but includes newly-recorded narration to fill in gaps in the story. Several sound effects have also been replaced or updated. The physical release also includes multiple discs containing all 35 interviews of JOJOraDIO, a web radio program hosted by Yoji Ueda.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Re-Edited Volume 1
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 総集編 Vol. 1)


Features: Digipak with new illustrations by Takako Shimizu, Clear sleeve with tabletop stand, Picture Label, Commercial Video
Bonuses: JOJOraDIO Vol. 1
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1: Dio the Invader
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 2: A Letter from the Past
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 3: Youth with Dio
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 4: Overdrive
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 5: The Dark Knights
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 6: Pluck for Tomorrow
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 7: The Successor
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 8: Bloody Battle! JoJo & Dio
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9: The Final Ripple!
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Re-Edited Volume 2
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 総集編 Vol. 2)


Features: Digipak with new illustrations by Takako Shimizu, Clear sleeve with tabletop stand, Picture Label, Commercial Video
Bonuses: JOJOraDIO Vol. 2
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 10: JoJo of New York
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 11: Master of the Game
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 12: The Pillar Man
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 13: JoJo vs. the Ultimate Being
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 14: Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 15: A Hero's Proof
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 16: Ripple Teacher Lisa Lisa
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 17: Laying a Deeper Trap!
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Re-Edited Volume 3
(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 総集編 Vol. 3)


Features: Digipak with new illustrations by Takako Shimizu, Clear sleeve with tabletop stand, Picture Label, Commercial Video
Bonuses: JOJOraDIO Vol. 3
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 18: Stroheim's Unit Strikes Back
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 19: Race Toward the Cliff of Death
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 20: Caesar: A Lonely Youth
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 21: The Hundred vs. Two Strategy
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 22: A True Warrior
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 23: The Warrior Returns to the Wind
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 24: The Bond That Binds JoJo
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 25: The Birth of a Superbeing!!
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 26: The Man Who Became a God
Schedules
Network | Air Time |
Tokyo MX | (Oct 5, 2012) Fridays at 24:30 |
MBS | (Oct 6, 2012) Saturdays at 25:58 |
CBC | (Oct 10, 2012) Wednesdays at 26:30 |
TBC | (Oct 9, 2012) Tuesdays at 25:30 |
RKB | (Oct 8, 2012) Mondays at 26:00 |
BS11 | (Oct 12, 2012) Fridays at 24:00 |
Animax | (Jan 29, 2013) Tuesdays at 19:30 (repeats 22:30 - 27:30) |
au Hikari | Fridays at 24:00 |
J:COM | Fridays at 24:00 |
Tsutaya TV | Tuesdays at 24:00 |
Nico Nico TV | Thursdays at 12:00 |
Nico Nico Live | Thursdays at 23:00 |
Bandai Channel | Thursdays at 12:00 |
Hikari TV | Fridays at 24:00 |
Video Unlimited | Fridays at 12:00 |
Toonami | (Oct 15, 2016) Saturdays at 12:30 |
Soundtracks
Opening Themes
Ending Theme
Credits
Gallery
Videos
Trivia

- The key art used for the Phantom Blood portion of the season, featuring Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando, is based on the cover used for both the series's debut in Weekly Shonen Jump and its first tankōbon volume.
References
- ↑ 『ジョジョ』シリーズ主題歌の制作秘話に迫る!ベスト・アルバム『TVアニメ ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 THEME SONG BEST「Generation」』リリース記念、大森啓幸プロデューサーインタビュー
- ↑ Interview:Animation Series Production Note (March 2021)
- ↑ It's Official! Crunchyroll to Stream "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" Anime!
- ↑ Anime Expo to Premiere English JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Dub With Director Naokatsu Tsuda
- ↑ Viz Media to Release JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 on Blu-ray Disc
- ↑ Toonami Will Air Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in October
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 1
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 2
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 3
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 4
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 5
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 6
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 7
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 8
- ↑ Official Site - Blu-ray Vol. 9