JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken), also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第3部 スターダストクルセイダーズ, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Dai San Bu Sutādasuto Kuruseidāzu), is an OVA adaptation of Stardust Crusaders produced by Studio A.P.P.P.
The original six-episode series, published from November 1993 to November 1994, begins at the ""The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul" arc, with the Joestar Group in the Egyptian desert on their quest to find DIO. The series offers very little exposition, assuming the viewer is already familiar with the backstory and first half of Stardust Crusaders. A prequel seven-episode series was released from May 2000 to January 2002, beginning from the start of the Part and abridging its first half to form a complete adventure.
Super Techno Arts published an English dub of the 2000 series from 2003 to early 2004 before putting the publication on indefinite hiatus, eventually releasing a dub for the 1993 series throughout the latter half of 2005.
Cast
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Jurota Kosugi
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Abie Hadjitarkhani
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Jacques Albaret
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Ivo De Palma
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Chikao Ohtsuka
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Michael Bennett
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François Siener
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Enrico Bertorelli
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Kiyoshi Kobayashi
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J.S. Gilbert
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Pascal Germain
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Marco Balbi
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Hirotaka Suzuoki
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Doug Boyd
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Pierre-François Pistorio
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Diego Sabre
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Katsuji Mori
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Mark Atherlay
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Jérôme Pauwels
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Riccardo Lombardo
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Uncredited
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Aldo Stella
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Nobuo Tanaka
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Andrew Chaikin
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J. François Vlerick
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Marco Balzarotti
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Takeshi Aono
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Frantz Confiac
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Lorenzo Scattorin
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Kenji Utsumi
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Curt Menn
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Cyrille Artaux
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Oliviero Corbetta
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Rika Fukami
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Elaine Clark
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Anne Dolan
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Elisabetta Cesone
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Mugihito
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Dave Arendash
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François Creton
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Giovanni Battezzato
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Norio Wakamoto
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Roger Jackson
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Sylvain Lemarié
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Claudio Moneta
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Koji Nakata
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Uncredited
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Emmanuel Gradi
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Gianluca Iacono
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Rei Sakuma (Episode 1-7)
Arisa Andō (Episode 8-13)
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Carrie Francis
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Magali Barney
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Mariana Thovez
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Ryoko Kinomiya
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Uncredited
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Brigitte Guedj
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Annamaria Mantovani
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Jurota Kosugi
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Uncredited
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Megumi Toyoguchi
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Alexandria Lee Coldman
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Donatella Fanfani
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Junpei Takiguchi
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Charles Martinet
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Riccardo Peroni
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Sayuri Kubo
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Sayuri Kubo
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Saburo Kamei
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Takehiro Murozono
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Sayaka Aoki
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Shiho Kawaragi
Kokoro Shindō
Sayaka Aoki
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Takehiro Murozono
Kazuyuki Ishikawa
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Tomohisa Asō
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Asako Fujii
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Nanako Fukushima
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Manga-to-OVA Differences
- Many of the Stand battles throughout the original story are removed in the OVAs.
- In the manga, after Jotaro is freed from jail, he, Joseph, Avdol, and Holy discuss DIO's whereabouts at a cafe. In the OVA, they discuss DIO's location at Holy's house.
- In the manga, Jotaro fights Kakyoin in the school infirmary. In the OVA, they fight in a nearby forest. In addition, the victim possessed by Hierophant Green has been changed from the school doctor to a female student.
- The group meets Polnareff inside Strength, rather than in Hong Kong like in the original story. In addition, Polnareff is not controlled by one of DIO's flesh buds.
- In the original story, Jotaro defeats Forever by pummeling him with Star Platinum. In the OVA, Forever is instead sliced in half by Silver Chariot.
- The Joestar group's visit to Singapore is completely removed.
- Nena is not revealed to be a Stand user, and does not stay with the group after Hol Horse's escape.
- In the OVAs, Enya can use Justice to transform herself into an attractive young woman.
- Hol Horse does not reappear after being hurt by Enya.
- Jotaro discovers Enya's identity with a method similar to the one he used on the Imposter Captain Tennille in the manga.
- Avdol reunites with the group during the fight with Enya, rather than during the fight with Cameo like in the manga.
- The flesh bud that kills Enya activates on its own, rather than being triggered by Steely Dan.
- Iggy keeps a consistent appearance throughout the OVA.
- The first scene of Phantom Blood, in which an Aztec tribe sacrifices a young woman to fuel the Aztec Chief's Stone Mask, is shown as a prologue in the 1993 series.
- Daniel J. D'Arby provides his full name. In the original story, this is provided by his brother.
- After D'Arby is defeated, he gives the location of DIO's mansion, but goes completely insane before he can reveal the secret of DIO's Stand; in the manga, he goes insane before he can reveal either piece of information.
- Kakyoin does not rejoin the group before they enter DIO's mansion. Instead, he arrives in time to save Joseph from DIO.
- Nukesaku is omitted from the story, causing the scene where DIO's coffin is opened to be significantly different: The protagonists find it on their own, only to find Avdol inside when he opens it with Magician's Red. DIO appears before everyone on the other side of the room and congratulates them for their efforts, before warning that someone is coming for them. Avdol then pushes Polnareff and Iggy away, at which point he is instantly killed by Cream.
- Much of the battle with Vanilla Ice is cut in the OVA. Iggy dies by having his lower body erased by Cream, rather than dying of blood loss from the beating that follows.
- Vanilla Ice's death is changed from the original story: rather than exposing him to the sun, Polnareff kills Ice by simply stabbing him rapidly and slicing his head in two.
- The fight between Jotaro and DIO is changed drastically. In the manga, DIO figures out Jotaro can move in stopped time when he sees his fingers twitching. In the OVA, he finds out when Jotaro survives being punched by The World in stopped time. The latter part of the battle also includes extra scenes of pure physical action as the two battle across the city of Cairo, with a number of civilian casualties on DIO's part.
- DIO drops an oil tanker on Jotaro instead of a road roller, which explodes from the damage inflicted by their attacks.
- Joseph's revival occurs off-screen.
- In the OVA, DIO's ashes are dropped and scattered from a Speedwagon Foundation plane over the sea, rather than being exposed to sunlight at ground level like in the original story.
- Joseph puts on a Gipsy Kings tape instead of "Get Back" by The Beatles.
Controversy
In May 2008, both Studio A.P.P.P. and Shueisha halted OVA/manga shipments of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after a complaint had been launched against them from an Egyptian cleric, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that had the villain, DIO, reading a book depicting pages from the Qur'an.[1] This recall affected the English-language release of the manga as well, causing VIZ Media and Shueisha to cease publication for a year. Even though the manga did not feature that specific scene, Shueisha had Araki redraw scenes that depicted characters fighting on top of, and destroying, mosques.[1] VIZ resumed publication a year later, with the eleventh volume being published on April 7, 2009, though distribution of the OVA had been permanently canceled.[2]
The controversy was such that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed the issue in an official report about this incident.
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Trivia
- During the production of the 2000 OVA, A.P.P.P. considered using traditional cel animation like the 1993 OVA before ultimately settling for digital color in the final version. Early footage of the first episode before the switch to digital color can be seen in the promotional VHS tape The Making of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which was distributed by Super Techno Arts at English-language events.
- N'Doul's French voice actor, Emmanuel Gradi, would later voice Kars in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation.