Aomaru Jump (February 2004)

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Published February 26, 2004
Incomplete translation
Aomaru Jump Cover

A long interview with Hirohiko Araki discussing Steel Ball Run from the special edition of Aomaru Jump released on February 26, 2004.[1]

Interview

- Your new serialization "SBR (Steel Ball Run)" is highly anticipated, but this isn't JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7, is it?

Araki: Although I would think that people who read JoJo Part 6 would understand, the world reset and entered the next new world, and that's where the setting is now. But the theme of JoJo isn't about writing parallel worlds. It's just the starting point of the tale, and unrelated to the story.

- So that's why you removed JoJo from the title?

Araki: That's correct. However, people who were fans from the beginning are free to consider SBR as JoJo Part 7, and so SBR is a new work existing on the extension of JoJo.

- Is the story of SBR something you had thought up a while ago?

Araki: That's right. I already have a general outline of each story theme planned up to part 9.

- Huh? Are we allowed to leave this in?

Araki: Even though I say Part 9, it doesn't mean it'll be a continuation of SBR. This isn't a saga like Star Wars. The theme and narrative structure will be completely different.

[Translated by MetallicKaiser (JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia)]

Note: Missing full transcript.

――:待望の新連載『SBR(スティール・ボール・ラン)』ですが、これは『ジョジョの奇妙な冒険』第7部ではないんですよね?

荒木:『ジョジョ』第6部を読んでいた人ならわかると思うけど、世界が一周しちゃって次の新しい世界に入って、そこが舞台になってるんです。でも『ジョジョ』のパラレルワールドを描くのがテーマじゃないんですよ。物語の大前提っていうだけで、それはストーリーとは関係がないんです。

――:だから、タイトルから『ジョジョ』を外したんですね?

荒木:そうです。ただし、昔からのファンの人が『SBR』を『ジョジョ』第7部と思ってもらってもいいし、つまり『SBR』は『ジョジョ』の延長線上にある新作っていうことなんです。[2]

――:『SBR』の物語は、かなり以前から考えていたものなんですか?

荒木:そうですね。だいたい『ジョジョ』第9部くらいまではテーマを決めているんですよ。

――:えっ。それは載せちゃって大丈夫なんですか?

荒木:第9部って言っても「続く」と言うことじゃないんで。『スターウォーズ』みたいなサーガではないんですよ。テーマも物語の形態もまるで違うし。[3]

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