Season 1
🎬 26 Episodes 📅 2012 ⏱ 24 min
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure traces the legendary battles of the Joestar lineage as they confront supernatural adversaries across generations, each member discovering extraordinary abilities to counter the darkness threatening their world. The series weaves together visceral animation and intense action sequences with deeply personal struggles, as family members grapple with destiny, sacrifice, and the burden of inheriting a legacy marked by conflict. From the cunning manipulations of rivals to the awakening of latent powers, each arc expands the mythology while exploring what it truly means to stand against evil. A testament to resilience and determination, the story reminds us that some battles transcend time and blood.
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📊 Season Stats
26
Episodes
2012
Year
24
min / ep
10.4
Watch Hours
1/6
Season No.
⭐ 7.9
Best Episode
Ep. 26 · The Ascendant One
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🎬 Episodes 26 episodes
1
⭐ 6.8
Dio the Invader
England, 1868. A thief tries to raid an overturned carriage, but discovers that two of the occupants, a man and his young son are still alive. The man, George Joestar, proclaims he will forever be indebted to his savior, who reveals himself to be Dario Brando.
🎬 Kouta Okuno ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
2
⭐ 7.2
A Letter from the Past
Seven years later in 1888, JoJo and Dio are supposedly getting along, though JoJo is still fearful of Dio. Meanwhile, Dio plots to liberate the Joestar family of their fortune.
🎬 Toshiyuki Kato ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
3
⭐ 7.6
Youth with Dio
JoJo prepares to turn Dio in to the police.
🎬 Futoshi Higashide ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
4
⭐ 7.0
Overdrive
Three days after the incident, JoJo awakens to find Erina nursing him back to health in the hospital. As they rekindle their friendship, they encounter a strange man named Will A. Zeppeli.
🎬 Masashi Abe ✍️ Shogo Yasukawa
5
⭐ 7.1
The Dark Knights
A talented young pickpocket named Poco unwittingly lures JoJo and company into an encounter with Dio, Tarukus, and Blueford.
🎬 Hitomi Ezoe ✍️ Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
6
⭐ 7.0
Tomorrow's Courage
The encounter between JoJo and the Knights continues.
🎬 Shingo Uchida ✍️ Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
7
⭐ 6.8
Sorrowful Successor
The encounter against Tarukus comes to an end. Poco's family is in grave danger. JoJo meets Dire, Straizo, and Tonpetty.
🎬 Toshiyuki Kato ✍️ Shogo Yasukawa
8
⭐ 7.0
Bloody Battle! JoJo & Dio
The party are received by Doobie. Dire faces off against Dio. Straizo takes on Pajyu, Jones, Pluton, and Barnum.
🎬 Jiro Fujimoto ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
9
⭐ 7.3
The Final Ripple!
As Dio falls following his battle with JoJo, he decapitates himself before the ripple reaches his head, which is recovered by his zombie servant Wang Chung.
🎬 Kenichi Suzuki ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
10
⭐ 7.3
New York's JoJo
In 1938, 49 years after Jonathan Joestar's death, Speedwagon and Straizo travel to Mexico, where they discover an underground room filled with similar looking masks and a petrified body believed to be the being who created them.
🎬 Takahiro Majima ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
11
⭐ 7.3
The Game Master
As expected, Straizo recovers from Joseph's attack and uses the laser eye attack Dio used to seemingly pierce through JoJo's head and neck. However, this turns out to be a clever trick by Joseph.
🎬 Mitsuhiro Yoneda ✍️ Shin'ichi Inotsume
12
⭐ 7.2
The Pillar Man
Joseph is confronted by one of Stroheim's men, Donovan, but manages to subdue him, learning that Speedwagon is still alive.
🎬 Yukio Nishimoto ✍️ Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
13
⭐ 7.2
JoJo vs. the Ultimate Lifeform
As Joseph begins to fight against Santana, Joseph finds his Ripple to not be effective against Santana, but it still helps protect him from the Pillar Man's attacks. Joseph appears to be unconscious after receiving a powerful hit.
🎬 Kenichi Suzuki ✍️ Shogo Yasukawa
14
⭐ 7.2
Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times
Speedwagon brings statued remains of Santana to the headquarters of his foundation in Washington, D.C., where it is shown Santana is still alive, but his scientists are able to keep him dormant through the use of ultraviolet light.
🎬 Toshiyuki Kato ✍️ Shogo Yasukawa
15
⭐ 7.1
A Hero's Proof
Caesar engages Wamuu in battle for killing Mark, using his Bubble Launcher technique to surround the Pillar Man in Ripple enfused bubbles.
🎬 Masaya Sasaki ✍️ Shogo Yasukawa
16
⭐ 6.8
Lisa Lisa, Hamon Coach
Wanting to teach JoJo to control his Ripple powers, Caesar takes him to Venice to meet his teacher, Lisa Lisa.
🎬 Kotaro Togoshi ✍️ Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
17
⭐ 7.3
The Deeper Plan
Lisa Lisa explains to JoJo and Caesar how the creator of the Stone Mask, Kars, is seeking a perfectly cut Red Stone of Aja known as the Super Aja to power the Stone Mask and become the ultimate life form.
🎬 Yuuta Takamura ✍️ Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
18
⭐ 6.8
Von Stroheim's Revenge
As JoJo awaits to warn Lisa Lisa about the Pillar Men, Esidisi's brain takes over the body of Suzi Q and sends the Super Aja off on a boat bound for Venice before confronting Lisa Lisa.
🎬 Mitsuhiro Yoneda ✍️ Shin'ichi Inotsume
19
⭐ 7.2
A Race Toward the Brink
Stroheim starts using his new mechanical body, which was designed to surpass Santana, to fight against Kars. However, it proves futile against Kars' Light Mode.
🎬 Masashi Abe ✍️ Shin'ichi Inotsume
20
⭐ 7.8
Young Caesar
Lisa Lisa tells JoJo of Caesar's childhood, in which he took to crime at a young age after being abandoned by his debt-ridden father, Mario.
🎬 Toshiyuki Kato ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
21
⭐ 7.0
A Hundred Against Two
Whilst following Wamuu's trail of blood, JoJo and Lisa Lisa encounter another vampire named Wired Beck.
🎬 Hitomi Ezoe ✍️ Shogo Yasukawa
22
⭐ 7.3
A True Warrior
Before JoJo's and Wamuu's race begins, it is revealed that during each lap, there will be a different weapon for whoever can grab it from a pillar first.
🎬 Naomi Nakayama ✍️ Shin'ichi Inotsume
23
⭐ 7.3
The Warrior of Wind
Launching his Final Mode attack, Gathering Gale, which starts peeling away his own body, Wamuu begins firing a stream of wind capable of cutting stone towards JoJo.
🎬 Jiro Fujimoto ✍️ Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
24
⭐ 7.3
The Ties That Bind JoJo
Being forced to cling onto a rope to stop Lisa Lisa from falling to her death, JoJo is at a huge disadvantage against Kars.
🎬 Satoshi Osedo ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
25
⭐ 7.5
The Birth of a Superbeing
Kars demonstrates his new powers, turning his hand into a flesh-eating squirrel that deals damage to Stroheim. The sun rises, leaving a shocking discovery.
🎬 Kenichi Suzuki ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi
26
⭐ 7.9
The Ascendant One
JoJo's victory, along with his arm, is cut short when Kars manages to survive the volcano by forming a shield of air bubbles to protect him from its deadly lava.
🎬 Toshiyuki Kato ✍️ Yasuko Kobayashi