List of Story Arcs

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This page lists each story arc contained in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Story arcs are composed of sequential chapters sharing a title, followed by a count. They do not include every chapter in the series.

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Phantom Blood

It narrates the misadventures of a young noble boy named Jonathan Joestar and how his new adoptive brother, Dio Brando, tries to ruin his life in various ways.
Jonathan Joestar discovers and attempts to prove that Dio Brando is trying to poison his father George.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Jonathan's adventure in the slums of London and his meeting with Robert E. O. Speedwagon, as Dio discovers the supernatural effects of an ancient Stone Mask.
Jonathan's desperate struggle against Dio, who has become a Vampire using the Stone Mask.
Jonathan, Will Anthonio Zeppeli and Speedwagon encounters Jack the Ripper and then Dio soon after, who has developed a counter to the Ripple.
The battle between Jonathan and Dio in Windknight's Lot. Not long after, they have a final confrontation aboard a yacht where Jonathan is celebrating his honeymoon.

Battle Tendency

Fifty years after the events of Phantom Blood, Joseph Joestar, the grandson of Jonathan, exposes Speedwagon's discovery of a man encased in a pillar surrounded by Stone Masks and Straizo's betrayal.
After transforming into a Vampire, Straizo clashes with the cunning Joseph in the streets of New York.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Joseph investigates Speedwagon's whereabouts in Mexico, where a fight between him, the nazi officer Rudol von Stroheim, and the Pillar Man named Santana ensues. Later on, the Ripple User Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli is subsequently introduced, who happens to be the grandson of Will Anthonio Zeppeli.
The three other Pillar Men, Wamuu, Esidisi and Kars, finally awaken. Joseph and Caesar fight subsequently lose against Wamuu, who can create violent wind gusts by twisting his limbs.
Joseph and Caesar begin their arduous training under the Ripple Master Lisa Lisa in Air Supplena Island, where Joseph later encounters Esidisi for another match.
Joseph, now a proficient Ripple User battles the devious Esidisi, whose blood is hot enough to set things on fire.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
In the aftermath of the battle between Joseph and Esidisi, although the Pillar Man is reduced to a brain and his nerves, he infiltrates Lisa Lisa's island and steals the Red Stone of Aja.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Joseph, Caesar, and Lisa Lisa's ventures in Switzerland pursuing the Red Stone of Aja where they suddenly encounter Kars and Rudol von Stroheim, who is now a cyborg.
Joseph and Kars both struggle trying to seize the Red Stone of Aja as it slips toward a cliff.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Caesar's attempt at attacking the lair of the Pillar Men alone and his battle against Wamuu.
Following Joseph's victory against Wamuu, Kars ambushes Lisa Lisa from behind and unleashes his army on Joseph, who is saved thanks to the intervention of the nazis and the Speedwagon Foundation.
An exhausted Joseph clashes against Kars, who has taken Lisa Lisa hostage. Despite his loss, Kars manages to transform into the Ultimate Being.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
With Kars' triumph at his newfound invincibility, Joseph's desperately struggles to somehow defeat his enemy.

Stardust Crusaders

The grandson of Joseph, Jotaro, meets his grandfather and the fortuneteller Muhammad Avdol, where they discover Jotaro's Stand power.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
A fight ensues between Jotaro and Noriaki Kakyoin, a Japanese student sent to assassinate him.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
In Hong Kong, a duel ensues between Muhammad Avdol and a Frenchman Stand User named Jean Pierre Polnareff.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
The Joestar Group boards a ship where Jotaro and the Impostor Captain Tennille battle on their way to Singapore.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
The Joestar Group encounters a mysterious freighter in the middle of the sea.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Polnareff is ambushed by Devo the Cursed and his Ebony Devil just as he enters his Singapore hotel room.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Jotaro is ambushed by Rubber Soul, who uses his Stand to impersonate Kakyoin.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
In Calcutta, Polnareff, Kakyoin, and Avdol battle the gunslinger Hol Horse and his partner J. Geil, whose Hanged Man can attack from mirrors and who murdered Polnareff's sister.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
After arriving in Varanasi, the parasitic Stand Empress grows in Joseph Joestar's arm and frames him for murder.
A malevolent driver in his car ambushes the Joestar Group on their way to Pakistan.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
The Joestar Group encounters Enya the Hag, who feigns being a gentle hotel owner to get the opportunity to kill Polnareff.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
In Karachi, Steely Dan takes Joseph hostage with his weak but elusive Lovers, forcing Polnareff and Kakyoin to have their Stands fight it inside Joseph's brain while Jotaro is coerced into becoming Steely Dan's servant.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
While crossing the Arabian Desert, the Joestar Group discovers that the Sun is an enemy Stand.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Kakyoin desperately attempts to save the Joestar Group from Death Thirteen, which attacks people in their sleep as the group tries to fly across Arabia.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Polnareff's finds the so-called wish-granting genie Judgement. At the same time, Avdol returns to help him.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
The group is ambushed inside their submarine by High Priestess while crossing the Red Sea.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Iggy, the dog Stand User, joins the group. At the same time, the group is ambushed by N'Doul and his Stand Geb in the middle of the Sahara.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
An arduous battle between PolnareffJotaro, and the sentient sword Stand Anubis ensues.
Joseph and Avdol get magnetized in an ambush attack by the Stand user Mariah.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
While alone by himself, Polnareff gets rejuvenated into a small child by Alessi.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
On the outskirts of Cairo, the Joestar Group gets cornered in several gambles against Daniel J. D'Arby, a Stand user who can steal souls.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Hol Horse and Boingo comically attempt to assassinate the Joestar Group with the Stand Tohth.
As the group tracks DIO's hideout Iggy clashes with the falcon Stand User, Pet Shop, who guards DIO's mansion.
The group enters DIO's mansion, only for Jotaro, Kakyoin, and Joseph to be invited into a video game session by Telence T. D'Arby.

Diamond is Unbreakable

Koichi and Josuke stumble upon Okuyasu Nijimura and Keicho Nijimura, two brothers who are both Stand Users whom eventually awakens Koichi's Stand because of the mysterious Arrow.
With his new profound Stand Echoes, Koichi encounters the extortioner Tamami Kobayashi.
Josuke and Koichi investigates about Toshikazu Hazamada, whose Surface impersonates Josuke and tries to assassinate Jotaro Kujo.
Okuyasu and Josuke battles against Red Hot Chili Pepper and its User Akira Otoishi as they try to stop them from assassinating Joseph, who is coming to Morioh.
Josuke and his father Joseph Joestar share awkward moments before discovering Shizuka, an invisible baby with the Stand Achtung Baby.
Koichi and Hazamada meet the notorious manga author Rohan Kishibe, who tries to force Koichi to stay near him and exploit the boy's everyday adventures as material for his manga.
Josuke and Jotaro hunt for a pair of rat Stand Users.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Josuke and Okuyasu befriends Shigekiyo Yangu, a boy Stand user whose Harvest can collect small items.
In the aftermath of Shigechi's death, Jotaro and Koichi are attacked by Yoshikage Kira's Sheer Heart Attack while investigating the killer's true identity.
Jotaro and Josuke are ambushed by the ghost of Yoshihiro Kira, father of Yoshikage Kira, as the Joestar Group investigates Yoshikage's house.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
In the first few days of Yoshikage Kira impersonating Kosaku Kawajiri, he attempts at not raising suspicion.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Josuke and Okuyasu encounter the self-styled alien Nu Mikitakaze Nshi. Josuke subsequently attempts at cheating at a game of cee-lo against Rohan with the help of his new alien friend.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
After Rohan's ambush by the Stand Highway Star, it chases Josuke across Morioh as he tries to reach Highway Star's unknown User and save Rohan.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 8
As Yoshikage Kira continues his life as Kosaku Kawajiri, Shinobu Kawajiri finds a cat in the basement of the house, which subsequently reborns as the cat-plant Stand Stray Cat.
Josuke and Yuya work together to find the enemy Stand user Terunosuke Miyamoto, whose Enigma can trap anything and anyone inside paper.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Hayato Kawajiri rightfully suspects his "father" of being an impersonator while attempting to avoid being caught and murdered.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
The malevolent Cheap Trick attaches itself on Rohan as it wreaks havoc on his life.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6

Vento Aureo

Koichi Hirose meets Giorno Giovanna, the estranged son of DIO, in Naples, Italy.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Giorno is interrogated by Bruno Bucciarati, a member of the Mafia gang Passione, and the two subsquently form an alliance.
After Giorno defeats Bucciarati, he directs him to meet Passione's capo, Polpo, who tests him before he can become an official member of Passione.
After Giorno "fails" Polpo's test, he battles against the shadow Stand Black Sabbath with the assistance of Koichi.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Giorno joins Team Bucciarati as they head to Capri to retrieve the late Polpo's treasure where they are ambushed on a boat, prompting the investigations of Bruno Bucciarati and Leone Abbacchio with the aid of Abbacchio's Moody Blues.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Bucciarati and Abbacchio continue their investigation and discover that their boat had been layered on by another boat with the Stand Soft Machine.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Arriving in Capri, Guido Mista battles fellow Passione member Sale.
A slowly shrinking Narancia Ghirga battles the assassin Formaggio from Squadra Esecuzioni looking for Trish Una, the Boss' daughter, while under Team Bucciarati's care.
Team Bucciarati boards a train inside the turtle Coco Jumbo as they are trailed by two assassins from Squadra Esecuzioni.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Mista and Bucciarati battle against the duo of assassins Prosciutto and Pesci, whose Stands can dramatically age and weaken people and hook people with a Stand fishing rod respectively.
Giorno encounters Melone's homunculus Stand Baby Face, which can decompose itself into cubes, as they try to kidnap Trish.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 7
Giorno, Mista, and the La Squadra Esecuzioni assassin Ghiaccio, clad in a seemingly invincible ice armor, get into an icy battle as they reach Venice to retrieve a mysterious item.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 7
After arriving in San Giorgio Maggiore Island and receiving new orders from the Boss, Bucciarati is forced to escape with Trish from the Stand King Crimson's time erasure power.
Narancia is forced to lie by Tiziano's Talking Head and lure everyone near water, where Squalo's shark-like Clash lurks.
While in the plane on the way to Sardinia, Team Bucciarati's plane is hijacked by the Stand Notorious B.I.G.
In the battle between Team Bucciarati and the invincible Notorious B.I.G, Trish awakens her Stand, Spice Girl.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Vinegar Doppio, a personal agent of the Boss, encounters Risotto Nero, the head of La Squadra Esecuzioni.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
A tense battle ensues between Doppio, who wields but a fraction of King Crimson, and Risotto Nero, whose Metallica threaten to end both Doppio and the Boss' lives.
A mysterious ally gets in contact after Team Bucciarati's attempts to investigate the Boss, who reveals a way to defeat King Crimson through the Arrow.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Doppio, revealing himself to be Passione boss Diavolo, approaches Polnareff to steal his Stand Arrow before Team Bucciarati arrives.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
The confusion caused by Chariot Requiem's activation wreaks havoc in Rome, prompting Team Bucciarati to retrieve the Arrow from Chariot Requiem, despite its power over souls.
Team Bucciarati and Diavolo struggle to seize the Arrow first as Chariot Requiem's weakness is uncovered.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
With the Arrow, Giorno takes matters into his own hands and awakens Gold Experience Requiem against Diavolo's King Crimson.
Before the events of the meeting between Giorno and Bucciarati, Team Bucciarati sets off to investigate a woman's death while Mista attempts to save Bucciarati from his fate to Scolippi's Rolling Stones.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5

Stone Ocean

Jolyne Cujoh, daughter of Jotaro Kujo, is falsely imprisoned for murder at the Green Dolphin Street Prison, Florida.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
On Jolyne's first day in jail, she meets her new cellmate Gwess, who steals Jolyne's pendant from her.
Shrunken and under Gwess' Goo Goo Dolls, and Jolyne fully awakens her Stand Stone Free.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Jolyne meets the strange child Emporio Alnino. Jotaro Kujo visits his daughter where a fight against the sniper Johngalli A. subsequently causes the theft of his Stand, Star Platinum and his memories by the mysterious Whitesnake.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 9
Fellow prisoner Ermes Costello awakens her Stand Kiss as she gets into a confrontation with the suicidal Thunder McQueen.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Jolyne and Ermes join forces to look for Jotaro's Stand DISC in the swamps until a mysterious enemy Stand infiltrates their group.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Jolyne and Ermes confront Foo Fighters, a sentient plankton colony/Stand.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Prisoner Miraschon dares Jolyne, Ermes, and F.F. to throw a ball between them one hundred times until Ermes is trapped into an inescapable debt.
Jolyne and prisoner Weather Report attempt to defeat Lang Rangler and his Stand Jumpin' Jack Flash, who can remove the gravity of anyone he spits on, in order to deliver Star Platinum's DISC to a mysterious contact.
With Star Platinum's DISC in hand, Jolyne attempts to deliver it to her contact from the Speedwagon Foundation as Whitesnake intervenes to stop her. Meanwhile, Enrico Pucci is hidden nearby.
Ermes Costello executes her brutal revenge on her sister's murderer Sports Maxx, who unfortunately uses his Limp Bizkit to resurrect himself.
F.F. is confronted by Kenzou, an elderly master of the Feng-Shui assassination technique who wields Dragon's Dream in battle, with the aid of prisoner Narciso Anasui.
As they recover from the battle, F.F., Anasui, and Jolyne witness the birth of The Green Baby.
Jolyne and Anasui take The Green Baby and escape through the swamp, accompanied by the servile but malevolent Yo-Yo Ma. At the same time, F.F. looks for its master, D an G.
F.F. wastes no time in finding D an G until Enrico Pucci appears from the shadows and reveals his true identity as Whitesnake.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
After F.F. flees from Pucci, Jolyne and Anasui face against the guardian of The Green Baby, Green, Green Grass of Home.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
With the defeat of Green, Green Grass of Home, Enrico Pucci ambushes the protagonists and finally confronts Jolyne.
The "true guardian" of Green Dolphin Street Prison, Miuccia Miuller, makes escape impossible for Emporio and Jolyne.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
After escaping prison, Anasui and Weather Report are caught inside the effects of Bohemian Rhapsody, which makes every fictional character come to life.
Jolyne, Ermes and Emporio head to Orlando where they are confronted by Rikiel, who can somehow cause illnesses to his enemies.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Jolyne and Ermes are caught inside an impending plane crash due to Donatello Versus and his memory-unearthing Stand Under World.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Weather Report rampages with Heavy Weather in Orlando. As the rest of the group escape it, Pucci's past causes a clash with Weather Report.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 13
Thirty-two hours before the New Moon, the group drives off to Cape Canaveral while Pucci awakens C-Moon.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
A tense fight ensues in Cape Canaveral's Space Center between Jolyne and C-Moon, all the while gravity shifts around them. Later on, Jotaro aids in fighting Pucci.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 8
Made in Heaven's power of time acceleration proves to be near unbeatable by the group as they desperately attempt to stop Pucci once and for all.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 9

Steel Ball Run

Racers Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli struggle as the Boomboom Family raise the stakes for the Steel Ball Run competition.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Johnny awakens his Stand Tusk while competitor Mountain Tim aids him and Gyro in defeating the Boomboom Family.
Gyro's reason for joining the Steel Ball Run is revealed. Meanwhile, at the next checkpoint, Oyecomova awaits him.
Johnny and Gyro confront Oyecomova, the terrorist from Gyro's country.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
The real truth behind the race is revealed as well as President Funny Valentine's shady involvement in it. Pork Pie Hat Kid is sent out to stop Gyro and Johnny from hindering the president's plans.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
As they move to find the next corpse part, competitor Diego Brando is turned into a dinosaur and attacks Johnny and Gyro.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
After a rocky encounter with racer Hot Pants, Johnny and Gyro are trapped inside Mandom's constant time rewinding during their duel against the gunslinger Ringo Roadagain.
Lucy Steel infiltrates a governmental building to investigate President Funny Valentine's plans.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
While Lucy escapes a confrontation with Blackmore, Johnny and Gyro race against Diego in the storm.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Gyro introduces the Golden Rectangle to Johnny and unlocks Tusk ACT 2 during their confrontation against fellow competitor Sandman.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Johnny and Gyro take a test from Sugar Mountain while being pursued by the Eleven Men.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Lucy Steel's infiltration of Valentine's residence in Chicago prompts the battle between Hot Pants and agent Mike O..
Johnny and Gyro are attacked by the duo of Wekapipo and Magent Magent in a frozen straits where they cannot use the Golden Rectangle.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Johnny battles Axl RO's Civil War and his own demons near Gettysburg as he is confronted by the ghosts from his past.
Wekapipo protects Steven Steel against Magent Magent while Lucy is unmasked by Funny Valentine
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Johnny is shot by an unknown infiltrator. At the same time, Gyro Zeppeli faces one of Valentine's henchmen, D-I-S-C-O, and his Stand Chocolate Disco.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Funny Valentine finally reveals his Stand Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, who can make alternate universes coexist. A fierce battle ensues to get the corpse parts.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 15
During the events of Diego and Wekapipo's battle against Funny Valentine, Lucy attempts to escape the Independence Hall.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
In Gyro's duel against Funny Valentine, Johnny awakens Tusk ACT 4. At the same time, Funny Valentine's past is revealed.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Johnny gets into a confrontation with Funny Valentine, who attempts to bargain with him.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
A surprise attack from the parallel world Diego Brando, who wields the time-stopping Stand THE WORLD, prompts a tense race with Johnny in reaching the final goal.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
In the aftermath of the Steel Ball Run race, the alternate Diego Brando decides to take the Saint's Corpse for himself.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2

JoJolion

The man in the sailor hat and Yasuho Hirose investigate the former's identity, leading them to Yoshikage Kira's apartment where they are ambushed by Ojiro Sasame above them.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Josuke struggle against Daiya Higashikata, who is smitten with him and gradually takes away the few memories he has.
As Josuke and Joshu Higashikata walk to the school, they enter the Shakedown Road where they are repeatedly get extorted for their money.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Yasuho finds herself in the streets of Morioh, as Tsurugi Higashikata's Paper Moon King renders her unable to distinguish people's faces.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
A fight between Josuke, Norisuke, and Yotsuyu Yagiyama lead to a discovery of a mysterious fruit.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
The eldest brother of the Higashikata family, Jobin Higashikata, comes home and invites Josuke to a beetle fight match, which quickly transforms into a Stand battle beneath the cover of a harmless game.
Yasuho and Tsurugi's disastrous attempt to trail Aisho Dainenjiyama transforms into a struggle to escape his Doobie Wah!.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Josuke meets Karera Sakunami, an eccentric woman who seems to have been acquainted with his former identity.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
An awkward introduction between the Higashikata Family and Hato's new boyfriend, Tamaki Damo, turns bloody as Damo reveals himself to be a malevolent Stand User linked to the Locacaca.
Before Josuke was found under some earth, Josefumi Kujo and Yoshikage Kira began their plans to steal the Locacaca fruit.
Joshu acquires of a large sum of money, which somehow keeps on growing despite his outrageous purchases.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Josuke strugglse to escape from a Stand power which causes people to suddenly become extremely violent and pursue him across Morioh.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Josuke and Yasuho finally meet Rai Mamezuku, the plant appraiser who works for Norisuke, who happens to have the same goals as Josuke.
The attack on the Higashikata house by Poor Tom and his Stand Ozon Baby manipulates the atmospheric pression around the house, causing a fight to get the Locacaca plant.
In the midst of the subsequent investigation by the protagonists in Morioh's University Hospital, Yasuho and Mitsuba Higashikata are caught in a confrontation against Wu Tomoki.
A string of events during the chase after the last member of the Locacaca Organization, the head doctor Satoru Akefu, cause mishaps with the protagonists. At the same time, Mitsuba's deeper involvement in the plot surrounding the Locacaca and her family and the return of Ojiro get caught up in the race for the harvest of the new Locacaca fruit.

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