Name Variants
Due to a lack of localization, a common problem for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure fans is determining the correct romanization of character names. Multiple scanlation groups, fansubbers, and even professional anime and gaming companies often translate these names based on assumption. Because of the series' common theme of referencing musical artists, a false etymology has formed amongst fans regarding some of the character names.
Even Araki himself is not known for his consistency, and spelling changes becomes apparent even in the manga. (See Joseph Joestar Below). Many fans believe most of the names are spelt exactly like the artists and bands they reference (With some exceptions such as Zeppeli) due to the belief that Araki does not like copyright changes to his character names, but for the purposes of this wiki, the names in the articles are the official Japanese Romanization found in the official artbooks.
The list below contains various alternatives of names commonly found in translations and other sources.
Part 1
William Anthonio Zeppeli
- William Antonio Zeppeli
Tonpetty
- Tonpeti: The Ignition-One Scanlations use this spelling.
- Tompeti: Common spelling by Fansubbers of the Anime
- Tompetty: Spelt this way in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (PS2 Game)
Straizo
- Straights: Found in the Ignition-One Scanlations and Commie subs.
- Straits: Commonly used by other translation groups. Ex. Nutbladder . Spelt exactly like the band reference.
- Straizzo: The romanization used in Jorge Joestar.
Tarukus
- Tarkus: Used for all, if not most translations. Spelt exactly like the band reference.
Part 2
Joseph Joestar
- Josef Joestar: Originally used by Ignition-One scanlations. Interesting enough, Joseph's gravestone at the end of Part II: Battle Tendency uses this spelling. An inconsistency on Araki's part, however the spelling was corrected after release of the Artbooks and the VIZ media translation.
Suzie Quatro
- Suzie Q
Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli
- Caesar Antonio Zeppeli
Rudol von Stroheim
- Rudolf won Stroheim: Used in most fansubs and scanlations.
Wamuu
- Wham: Used for most, if not all English fansubs and scanlations. Spelt exactly like the Band reference.
- Wamoo: The official spelling in the Italian translation. (Star Comics)
Esidisi
- ACDC: Used for most, if not all English fansubs and scanlations. Spelt exactly like the Band reference.
- AC/DC
- Eisidisi: The official spelling in the Italian translation. (Star Comics)
Kars
- Cars: Used for most, if not all English fansubs and scanlations. Spelt exactly like the Band reference.
- Karz: The official spelling in the Italian translation. (Star Comics)
- Kaaz: Originally used by Ignition-One scanlations.
Part 3
Jotaro Kujo
- Jotaro Cujoh: Araki has used both Kujo and Cujoh multiple times throughout the manga. Cujoh is also used in some loading screens of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future
Muhammad Avdol
- Mohammed Abdul Commonly used by Ignition-One Scanlations and fans.
- Muhammed Abdul
- Muhammed Avdol
- Mohammad Avdol
Roses
- Rogers: Found in the original scanlations for Part 3.
Thoth
- Tohth (Investigation of origin of Display picture is needed to determine which is correct)
