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, as well as any relevant chapters that set up or conclude events that occur in the arc.

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Phantom Blood

A young noble boy named Jonathan Joestar clashes with his new adoptive brother, Dio Brando, as the latter tries to ruin his life.
Jonathan Joestar discovers and attempts to prove that Dio Brando is trying to poison his father George.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Jonathan seeks an antidote for his father in the slums of London as Dio discovers the supernatural effects of the Stone Mask.
Jonathan battles the newly-vampiric Dio, prepared to sacrifice everything to seal away his powers.
Jonathan finishes off Jack the Ripper before confronting Dio and his invincible freezing technique.

Battle Tendency

Fifty years after Jonathan Joestar's death, his grandson Joseph Joestar learns of Speedwagon's death by Straizo's hand.
After transforming into a vampire, Straizo clashes with the cunning Joseph in the streets of New York.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Joseph and Caesar begin their arduous training at Air Supplena Island under Ripple master Lisa Lisa, owner of the coveted Red Stone of Aja.
Joseph, now a proficient Ripple user, battles the devious Esidisi in a hot-blooded game of wits.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Esidisi survives his fight with Joseph as a brain and nervous system, and uses Lisa Lisa's maid to steal the Red Stone of Aja.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Joseph, Caesar, and Lisa Lisa pursue the Red Stone of Aja to Switzerland, where they suddenly encounter Kars and a cyborg Rudol von Stroheim.
Joseph and Kars race toward the cliff of a ravine as the Red Stone of Aja slips toward the edge.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Caesar enters the Pillar Men's lair, where he and Wamuu have their long-awaited rematch.
Kars incapacitates Lisa Lisa and unleashes his army on Joseph, but Stroheim and the Speedwagon Foundation come to the rescue.
An exhausted Joseph battles Kars, who has taken Lisa Lisa hostage. Though Joseph saves his master, Kars manages to transform into the Ultimate Being.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
As Kars celebrates his new invincibility, Joseph desperately struggles to defeat his immortal enemy.

Stardust Crusaders

Joseph Joestar's grandson, Jotaro Kujo, meets his grandfather and the fortuneteller Muhammad Avdol, who reveal Jotaro's Stand power.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Jotaro battles Noriaki Kakyoin, a Japanese student sent to assassinate him.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
The Joestar group is attacked by the fly-like Stand Tower of Gray on their plane to Cairo.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
In Hong Kong, a French Stand user named Jean Pierre Polnareff duels Muhammad Avdol with his Silver Chariot.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
The Joestar group boards a ship to Singapore, but a Stand pursues them beneath the waves.
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's Ebony Devil in his Singapore hotel room.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Jotaro is attacked by Rubber Soul, who uses his Stand to impersonate Kakyoin.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Polnareff, Kakyoin, and Avdol battle the gunslinger Hol Horse and the mirror-inhabiting Stand Hanged Man, whose wielder killed Polnareff's sister.
After Hol Horse's escape, the parasitic Stand Empress grows in Joseph Joestar's arm as he passes through Varanasi.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
A malevolent driver and his malleable car ambush the Joestar group on their way to Pakistan.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
The Joestar Group encounters Enya the Hag, who feigns hospitality in hopes of taking revenge on her son's killer.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Steely Dan takes Joseph hostage with his weak but elusive Lovers, forcing Polnareff and Kakyoin to fight it inside Joseph's brain.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
While crossing the Arabian Desert, the Joestar group is attacked by the Sun.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
As the Joestar group crosses Arabia, Kakyoin realizes that a Stand is attacking them in their dreams.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Polnareff finds a "wish-granting genie" named Judgement. Polnareff's wishes are turned against him, but Avdol reappears to save him.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
The Joestar group is ambushed inside their submarine by High Priestess while crossing the Red Sea.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
In the middle of the Sahara, the Joestar group meets Iggy, a Stand using dog. Shortly afterward, they are ambushed by N'Doul's water Stand Geb.
The Oingo Boingo Brothers try to assassinate the Joestar group using their Stands, the future-predicting Tohth and the face-altering Khnum.
Polnareff defeats a Stand user in Kom Ombo, but soon discovers that his sword possesses its holder.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Joseph and Avdol, magnetized by a power outlet Stand, battle the Stand user Mariah.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
As Joseph and Avdol battle Mariah, Polnareff is reduced to a small child by Alessi's Stand, Sethan.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
On the outskirts of Cairo, the Joestar group gambles against Daniel J. D'Arby, a Stand user whose Osiris can steal souls.
Hol Horse and Boingo attempt to assassinate the Joestar group with Emperor and Tohth.
The Joestar group finally confronts DIO and his invincible time-stopping Stand The World.

Diamond is Unbreakable

As his Stand begins to awaken, Koichi encounters the extortioner Tamami Kobayashi.
Josuke and Koichi investigate Toshikazu Hazamada, whose Surface impersonates and manipulates Josuke in an attempt to assassinate Jotaro.
Josuke and Jotaro hunt for a pair of rat Stand users.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Josuke and Okuyasu argue with Shigekiyo Yangu, a young Stand user whose Harvest can collect small items, over a winning lottery ticket.
After Shigechi's death, Jotaro and Koichi are attacked by Yoshikage Kira's Sheer Heart Attack while investigating the killer's true identity.
As the Joestar group investigates Yoshikage's house, Jotaro and Josuke are ambushed by the ghost of Yoshihiro Kira, Yoshikage Kira's father.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Yoshikage Kira attempts to impersonate Kosaku Kawajiri, being careful not to arouse suspicion in his new wife and child.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Josuke and Okuyasu encounter the self-proclaimed alien Mikitaka Hazekura, whom Josuke attempts to cheat at a dice game against Rohan with.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Rohan and Josuke are attacked by the Stand Highway Star, which chases Josuke across Morioh as he tries to reach its unknown user.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 8
After being accidentally killed by Shinobu Kawajiri, a cat is reborn as the air-manipulating cat-plant Stand Stray Cat.
Josuke and Yuya Fungami work together to defeat Terunosuke Miyamoto, whose Stand Enigma can trap anything and anyone inside a piece of paper.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Hayato Kawajiri suspects his "father" to be an impersonator, and attempts to capture and hide evidence of the latter's murders.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
The sentient and malevolent Cheap Trick attaches itself to Rohan's back and attempts to drive him insane.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6

Vento Aureo

Koichi Hirose finds Giorno Giovanna, the son of DIO, and attempts to fight the boy after he steals his cash and luggage.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Giorno is interrogated by Bruno Bucciarati, a member of the mafia gang Passione with a zipper-creating Stand ability.
After Bucciarati becomes allies with Giorno over their hatred toward the boss, he directs the boy to meet his capo Polpo for an entrance exam.
Giorno "fails" Polpo's test, and is thus forced to do battle against the shadow Stand Black Sabbath with Koichi's assistance.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 6
Giorno and Bucciarati's team are attacked en route to Polpo's treasure on Capri Island, prompting Bucciarati and Leone Abbacchio to use the latter's Moody Blues.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Bucciarati and Abbacchio continue their investigation, discovering that their enemy's Stand can deflate people and objects.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Giorno and Mista arrive at Capri Island, where Mista is locked into battle with Sale and his Kraft Work.
Giorno encounters Melone's sentient remote-control Stand Baby Face, which can decompose itself and others into cubes.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 8
Giorno and Mista battle the ice-cold assassin Ghiaccio as they drive toward Venice in search of a mysterious disc.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 8
After arriving at San Giorgio Maggiore Island, Bucciarati discovers the boss's plot to kill Trish and decides to fight his invincible time-erasing Stand.
Narancia becomes the target and pawn of tongue-manipulating Tiziano and Squalo's shark-like Clash, who force him to lead his team toward water.
On the way to Sardinia, Team Bucciarati's plane is hijacked by the postmortem Stand Notorious B.I.G.
Forced to protect Giorno's ability from the invincible Notorious B.I.G, Trish finally awakens her Stand Spice Girl.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Vinegar Doppio, the boss's personal agent, encounters Risotto Nero, the head of La Squadra Esecuzioni.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
A mysterious ally contacts Bucciarati's team and reveals a way to defeat King Crimson: another Arrow, which awaits them in Rome.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Bucciarati is tricked into leading Doppio into the Colosseum, where Diavolo faces his old enemy, Jean Pierre Polnareff.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
As Chariot Requiem's soul-swapping ability wreaks havoc in Rome, Team Bucciarati attempt to retrieve the Arrow as Diavolo lurks in the background.
Team Bucciarati and Diavolo race to seize the Arrow first as Chariot Requiem's weakness is uncovered.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Giorno uses the Arrow to awaken Gold Experience Requiem, putting a never-ending end to Diavolo and his King Crimson.
Before Giorno and Bucciarati's meeting, Mista discovers and attempts to save Bucciarati from Scolippi's Rolling Stones.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5

Stone Ocean

Jolyne Cujoh, daughter of Jotaro Kujo, is falsely imprisoned for murder at Florida's Green Dolphin Street Prison.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
As Jolyne adjusts to life in prison, her cellmate Gwess gains a Stand ability of her own.
Shrunken and under attack from Gwess's Goo Goo Dolls, Jolyne fully awakens her Stand, Stone Free.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
As Jolyne's father, Jotaro Kujo, visits his daughter in prison, sniper Johngalli A. and the mysterious Stand Whitesnake begin their attack.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 11
Ermes Costello awakens her Stand Kiss and meets the enigmatic boy Emporio Alnino during a confrontation with the suicidal Thunder McQueen.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
As Jolyne and Ermes search for Jotaro's Stand DISC in the swamp, an enemy Stand infiltrates their group.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Jolyne and Ermes confront Foo Fighters, a sentient plankton colony in Whitesnake's service.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Prisoner Miraschon dares Jolyne and F.F. to throw a ball between them one hundred times, with Ermes's life on the line.
As Whitesnake attacks Jolyne to retrieve Star Platinum's DISC, both parties are threatened by Weather Report's last-ditch attack.
Ermes Costello takes her revenge on her sister's murderer Sports Maxx, whose Limp Bizkit can resurrect any organism, himself included.
F.F., accompanied by lovesick murderer Narciso Anasui, confronts martial arts master Kenzou and his feng-shui Stand Dragon's Dream.
While recovering from the battle with Kenzou, F.F., Anasui, and Jolyne witness the birth of the Green Baby.
Jolyne and Anasui, accompanied by the seemingly-servile Yo-Yo Ma, escape through the swamp with the Green Baby as F.F. searches for Yo-Yo Ma's user.
Anasui incapacitates Yo-Yo Ma as F.F. confronts both Yo-Yo Ma's and Whitesnake's users, D an G and Enrico Pucci.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Jolyne and Anasui face the Green Baby's Stand, Green, Green Grass of Home, as F.F. attempts to escape Pucci.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
F.F. reunites with Jolyne and Anasui, but Pucci and Whitesnake ambush the group and confront Jolyne.
Jolyne and Emporio, seeking escape, are crippled by Miuccia Miuller's Jail House Lock.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 7
Having escaped prison, Anasui and Weather Report are caught inside the effects of Bohemian Rhapsody as fictional characters come to life around the world.
Jolyne, Ermes and Emporio are confronted by Rikiel and his illness-inducing Sky High.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 7
Donatello Versus's Stand, Under World, traps Jolyne and Ermes inside an impending plane crash as Pucci watches.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 7
Weather Report regains his memories, unleashes his true ability upon Orlando, and confronts his brother Pucci in a battle to the death.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 13
Thirty-two hours before the New Moon, Pucci awakens the gravity-inverting C-Moon at Cape Canaveral as Jolyne's group approaches.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
Jolyne and Anasui engage in a desperate battle with C-Moon at Cape Canaveral as a revived Jotaro draws nearer.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 8
Pucci unlocks the time-accelerating Stand Made in Heaven, overwhelming the Joestar group in a battle for the fate of humanity.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 10

Steel Ball Run

Set in 1890, preparations for the Steel Ball Run race are made.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
The Steel Ball Run begins, and the racers compete through the First Stage: 15,000 Meters.
Just as the second stage of the Steel Ball Run begins, Johnny and Gyro are stalked by a murderous competitor.
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.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Gyro's reason for joining the Steel Ball Run is revealed. Meanwhile, at the next checkpoint, Oyecomova awaits him.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Johnny and Gyro confront Oyecomova, the terrorist from Gyro's country.
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: 5
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.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
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.
Gyro introduces the Golden Rectangle to Johnny and unlocks Tusk ACT 2 during their confrontation against fellow competitor Sandman.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 5
Lucy Steel's infiltration of Valentine's residence in Chicago prompts the battle between Hot Pants and agent Mike O..
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
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: 5
Johnny battles Axl RO's Civil War and his own demons near Gettysburg as he is confronted by the ghosts from his past.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Wekapipo protects Steven Steel against Magent Magent while Lucy is unmasked by Funny Valentine
Manga
Number of Chapters: 3
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: 3
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.
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: 6
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: 5
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.
Hato Higashikata tearfully works together with Josuke to defeat Tamaki Damo and save their family.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Joshu acquires of a large sum of money, which somehow keeps on growing despite his outrageous purchases.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2
Josuke struggles to escape from a Stand power which causes people to suddenly become extremely violent and pursue him across Morioh.
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 T.G 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.
Josuke discovers a powerful inherent ability and uses it to fight Wonder of U and Tooru. As the stakes are raised between the Higashikata Family, Yasuho, and Tooru, Kaato Higashikata returns to the estate with a plan to break the curse.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 4
Flashback to 1941, Lucy Steel and Joseph Joestar investigate the area of the "Radio Gaga Incident". During their investigation, they are attacked by a mysterious Guard Rail.
Manga
Number of Chapters: 2

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