JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) is an adaptation of Stardust Crusaders, produced by Studio A.P.P.P.

The original six-episode series in 1993 begins with Jotaro, Joseph, Avdol, Kakyoin, and Polnareff in the Egyptian desert on their quest to find DIO (Volume 20 in the manga). The series offers very little exposition, assuming the viewer is already familiar with the backstory and first half of Stardust Crusaders. A prequel seven-episode series was released in 2000, offering an explanation for those unfamiliar with the story in the previous series. It starts at the beginning of Stardust Crusaders with Joseph arriving at Japan to explain Jotaro's strange behavior (Volume 13 in the manga).

Super Techno Arts published an English dub of the 2000 series from 2003 to early 2004 before putting the publication on indefinite hiatus, eventually releasing a dub for the 1993 series throughout the latter half of 2005.

Controversy
In May 2008, both Studio A.P.P.P. and Shueisha halted OVA/manga shipments of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after a complaint had been launched against them from, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that had the villain, DIO, reading a book depicting pages from the. This recall affected the English-language release of the manga as well, causing Viz Media and Shueisha to cease publication for a year. Even though the manga did not feature that specific scene, Shueisha had Araki redraw scenes that depicted characters fighting on top of, and destroying,. Viz resumed publication a year later, with the eleventh volume being published on April 7, 2009, though distribution of the OVA had been permanently cancelled.

The controversy was such that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed the issue in an official report about this incident.

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Trivia

 * Satoshi Kon (writer and director of films such as Perfect Blue, Paprika, Millenium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers) was involved with the production of some of the 1993 OVA episodes.
 * A preview for Super Techno Arts's release of the OVA makes a brief appearance in an ad for Shonen Jump by VIZ Media.
 * During production of the 2000 OVA, Studio A.P.P.P. had considered using traditional cel animation like the 1993 OVA, before it was changed to digital color in the final version.
 * N'Doul's French voice actor, Emmanuel Gradi, will later voice Kars in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation.