The Birth of a Superbeing!! (超生物の誕生!!, Chō Seibutsu no Tanjō!!)[1] is the twenty-fifth episode of season one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It is also the sixteenth episode of Battle Tendency. It covers Chapter 109 through most of Chapter 111 of the manga.
Kars has managed to become the Ultimate Thing, gifted with immortality and the ability to draw on nature's designs to modify his body. As the heroes feel despair over how they can defeat Kars now, Joseph has a plan.
Summary
Kars has outsmarted Stroheim and, combining the Stone Mask and the Red Stone of Aja, has finally managed to become the Ultimate Thing.
It is dawn and although Kars does not appear to have changed much, he takes everyone by surprise when he turns his hand into a squirrel. Said squirrel then decimates the Nazis and opens a hole in Stroheim's metal stomach before returning to its owner. The sun rises, killing the rest of the vampire minions, but Kars remains standing, immune thanks to the power of the stone. Kars's triumph is undeniable and the entire planet is seemingly doomed.
With the odds once again against him, Joseph has nonetheless a plan in mind: he grabs the stone and runs off with Smokey to lure Kars away from the others whilst thinking of a real plan. Eager to celebrate his apotheosis by killing the greatest thorn on his side thus far, Kars follows JoJo by growing wings and flying toward him. Leaving Smokey behind before he can tell him about Lisa Lisa, Joseph boards a plane to lure Kars away further.
On board, Joseph theorizes he may be able to beat Kars if he drops him into a volcano and heads towards a volcanic island of Italy. As Speedwagon attempts to stop Joseph by telling him about Lisa Lisa, the feathers that Kars had launched on JoJo's plane turn into piranhas, and octopus tentacles entangle themselves on the propellers, making the engines explode. As the plane starts to dive into the island, Joseph seemingly jumps down on a parachute. However, Kars approaches and sees too late that the parachute is a dummy; in reality, Joseph is still piloting the plane and is crashing it into Kars. The Ultimate Thing attempts to escape, but Stroheim, who is revealed to have been hiding in the pontoon stops him. The cyborg rescues Joseph once the plane explodes by sacrificing his own robotic legs when they hit the ground. The volcano begins to erupt, and Kars is flung into the lava and begins to melt.
Appearances
Credits
石本 峻一
Masashi Nomura
Masahiko Komino
Miyoko Shikibu
Yasuhiro Ito
Hirotaka Nii
Kenji Nishikawa
Mitsuhiro Yoneda
Manami Minakata
Shinichi Machida
Kenichi Higaki
Yoshinobu Ando
Daisuke Abe
Toru Yoshida
Takenori Tsukuma
Shunichi Ishimoto
Reiji Sakagami
Ryo Kobayashi
Yasuzo Ino
Yuki Terano
Manabu Akita
Kenta Mimuro
Tatsuya Shiraishi
野村 雅史
小美野 雅彦
式部 美代子
伊藤 康裕
仁井 宏隆
西川 憲二
米田 光宏
南方 麻奈美
町田 真一
檜垣 賢一
安藤 義信
阿部 大輔
吉田 徹
津熊 健徳
石本 峻一
坂上 れいじ
小林 亮
いいの やすぞう
寺野 勇樹
秋田 学
三室 健太
白石 達也
Aya Nishimura
Michiko Takegami
Kimitaka Ito
Kumiko Kawahara
Mari Futamatsu
Toshihiro Irie
Megumi Itoi
Natsumi Ishizaki
Tomoaki Kado
Kenji Yokoyama
Rie Omori
Kanayo Nakanishi
White Line
FAI Studio
Asunaro Studio
Hebaraki
Triple A
Jumondo
Jinbun
CL Corporation
AI
Ace Company
TAP
MSJ Musashino Production
Sunshine Corp.
西村 彩
武上 みち子
伊藤 公崇
河原 久美子
二松 真理
入江 俊博
糸井 恵
石崎 夏海
かど ともあき
横山 謙次
大森 理恵
中西 かなよ
WHITE LINE
F.A.I
あすなろスタジオ
ヘバラキ
AAA
寿門堂
じんぶん
CLコーポレーション
AI
エースカンパニー
TAP
MSJ武蔵野制作所
サンシャインコーポレーション
福田 周平
赤間 紗枝
david production
Sae Akama
Takahiro Okawa
Asami Yamaguchi
Makoto Yaguchi
Hiroyuki Moriguchi
Dai Misawa
Shota Sugimoto
赤間 紗枝
大川 貴大
山口 朝美
矢口 真琴
森口 弘之
三沢 大
杉本 将太
Ku Ja Chun
Kim Yun Hui
Park Jin Hee
Park Hee Joung
Byun Jin Sun
Sin Jin Eun
Yang Hyo Jung
Lee Hye Kyoung
Jung A Yung
Cha Hyun Ju
Chae Youn Kyung
Ku Ja Chun
Kim Yun Hui
Park Jin Hee
Park Hee Joung
Byun Jin Sun
Sin Jin Eun
Yang Hyo Jung
Lee Hye Kyoung
Jung A Yung
Cha Hyun Ju
Chae Youn Kyung
Ace Company
Jumondo
CL Corporation
AI
Jinbun
TAP
MSJ Musashino Production
Sunshine Corp.
Hayashi
エースカンパニー
寿門堂
CLコーポレーション
AI
じんぶん
TAP
MSJ武蔵野制作所
サンシャインコーポレーション
ハヤシ株式会社
宝谷 幸稔
石神 潤
糸井 恵
村田 護郎
Kayo Kudou
工藤 かよ
LandQ studios
(株式会社ランドック・スタジオ)
Ryuta Kayahara
Tomonori Maekawa
栢原 隆太
前川 知範
Akiko Morinaka
森中 亮子
Naoyuki Seki
Hiroka Fujita
関 直幸
藤田 広香
Wong Wai
王 偉
工藤 かよ
Puavaranukroh Taweeporn
Music
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 25: The Birth of a Superbeing!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manga/Anime Differences
- There is an added scene in the anime where Joseph flies past Speedwagon and the others before shooting Kars in the plane.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
超生物の誕生！！ | The Birth of a Superbeing!! |
 Chinese |
超級生物的誕生！ | The Birth of a Superbeing!! |
 English |
The Birth of a Superbeing | |
 Spanish |
¡¡El nacimiento del ser supremo!! | The birth of the supreme being!! |
 Portuguese |
O Nascimento de um Super-Ser (Crunchyroll) O Nascimento do Super-Ser (Crunchyroll's subtitles) O Nascimento do Ser Supremo (Netflix) |
The Birth of a Superbeing The Birth of the Superbeing The Birth of the Ultimate Being |
 French |
La naissance de l’être suprême ! | The birth of the supreme being! |
 German |
Die Geburt eines Superwesens | The Birth of a Superbeing |
 Hebrew |
לידתו של יצור על | The Birth of a Super Creature |
 Arabic |
ولادة الكائن الأعلى | The Birth of the Supreme Being |
 Italian |
La nascita dell'Essere Supremo | The birth of the Supreme Being |
 Czech |
Zrození superbytosti | The Birth of a superbeing |
 Danish |
Et overvæsens fødsel | A superbeing's birth |
 Polish |
Narodziny superistoty | The Birth of a superbeing |
Commentary
CommentaryWe'll take note of our shaky plane, which does make you really feel the urgency of the situation. It's a 3D model and Suzuki had coincidentally debuted in 3D animation. He's had the model corrected to no end, and Yasufumi Soejima was no doubt exhausted from the ordeal (laughs). I think you really get the feel of this new Kars's "perfection". The squirrel alone is a highlight in itself. We even changed our staff for it: it's one of our female animators who personally took care of animating it until it became ferocious, then Masahiko Komino takes over to draw the violent beast. I appreciate a lot Smokey's line : "In fact, it looks rather cute." This small moment of relief in the middle of the tension... you really see how Hirohiko Araki plays with horror tension.
Suzuki gathered all his strength to show us a magnificent Kars. The perfect being. I would love it if the explanation chart was commercialized. For instance, what do you think about a table-mat stamped with "Sex: useless" (laughs)?Gallery
Trivia
- A common style for animes during their final episodes, the intro to this episode has sound effects added to its scenes. This includes scenes such as the Clackers hitting each other, the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" logo exploding, Caesar's Jump and Wamuu's Divine Sandstorm.