Episode 1

Dio the Invader is the first episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. It covers chapters 1 through 5 of the manga.

Summary
In the year 1868, a carriage accident had occurred which had been carrying a couple and their baby son. A theif named Dario Brando and his wife saw the crash and decided to steal whatever valuables there were from the corpses. The nobleman George Joestar had survived the crash, as did his son, but his wife had died. Thinking Dario had come to save him, George offered Dario a reward for his "help". Years later, Dario, on his death bed, tells his son Dio of a debt that a man owed him. He tells Dio to go to the Joestar mansion to pay the debt. Not long afterwords, Dario dies and is buried. As a "goodbye", Dio spits on his father's grave.

In another area, two kids are bullying a small girl named Erina Pendleton by taking her doll. However, a young boy named Jonathan Joestar intervenes and helps the girl. While he gets beaten up by the bullies, he's able to get the doll back.

Soon after, Dio arrives at the Joestar mansion and meets Jonathan. Jonathan's dog, Danny, comes running towards them but, without a thought, Dio knees Danny in the jaw. Jonathan becomes enraged by this. Dio then thinks to himself that he now must destroy Jonathan mentally in order to gain the Joestar's wealth. Since then, Dio had defeated Jonathan in a boxing match, isolated him from all his friends, kissed Erina, Jonathan's love affair, and burned Danny to death in an incinerator.

Manga/Anime Differences

 * The Aztec Ritual at the beginning wasn't shown in the anime.
 * George mentions that he would have rewarded Dario with money if he had not lost his wallet. This wasn't in the anime.
 * In the anime, one of the bullies states that he doesn't have a grudge agaisnt rich people, but doesn't like people like the Joestars. In the manga, he says he hates all rich people.
 * There is a scene after Jonathan is dismissed from the table due to bad table manners, where he is crying in his bed. A picture of his mother is shown above his bed. Jonathan then eats the chocolate found at his bedside. None of this was shown in the anime.
 * There was a manga only scene before the boxing match between Dio and Jonathan that involved Dio gambling all of his allowance on the fight.
 * Dio tells the crowd of people not to tell Jonathan his fighting techniques, but in the manga he tells them not to tell Jonathan how to make his homemade firework.
 * The scene where Dio discusses with George about the Stone Mask is not shown in the anime.
 * Originally, Jonathan was smoking a pipe in the tree, in the anime he is just sitting.
 * Jonathan breifly fights the group of boys who accuse him of being snitch. In the anime, they simply run away.
 * The entire flashback of how Jojo met Danny wasn't shown in the anime.
 * In the manga, the butler opens the incinerator and Danny jumps out from it on fire. It was only revealed that Danny was in the incinerator when Jonathan got home, in the anime.