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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure season 1

The first season of the 2012 anime television series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) by David Production, also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, adapted the first two arcs of Hirohiko Araki's manga of the same name: Phantom Blood (ファントムブラッド, Fantomu Buraddo) and Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流, Sentō Chōryū). The Phantom Blood arc, which aired on Tokyo MX between October 6 and December 1, 2012, revolves around the mysterious adventures of the Joestar family, beginning with an encounter involving Jonathan Joestar, his adoptive brother Dio Brando, and a Stone Mask that transforms people into vampires. The Battle Tendency arc, which aired on Tokyo MX between December 8, 2012, and April 6, 2013, focuses on Jonathan's grandson, Joseph Joestar, and his fight against the Pillar Men, ancient humanoids which created the Stone Mask.

The series was released on a series of nine DVDs and Blu-rays between January 30 and September 27, 2013, with the Blu-ray releases having the option of English subtitles.[1] Crunchyroll began streaming the series in April 2014. The English DVD was released by Warner Home Video on September 22, 2015, with both English and Japanese audio with closed captioning for the English dub only.[2] Viz Media released an English Blu-ray set on July 25, 2017, that includes English and Japanese audio with new subtitles for the Japanese.[3] A second season, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, based on the series' third arc, began airing from April 5, 2014.

Plot

The first season was split into two parts: part 1 comprised episodes 1–9 covering the Phantom Blood manga arc, and part 2 comprised episodes 10–26 covering the Battle Tendency arc.

The first part, Phantom Blood, is set in the early-to-late 1880s in England.[a] George Joestar takes in the orphan Dio Brando to pay off a debt to Dio's late father Dario.[4] Dio's attempts to become the sole heir to the Joestar fortune are thwarted and he resorts to using an ancient Stone Mask which transforms him into a vampire with his sights now set on world domination.[6][7] With Will A. Zeppeli, a master of a supernatural ability called Hamon, and former street thug Robert E.O. Speedwagon at his side, George's son Jonathan trains in Hamon[7] and stops Dio who is left aboard an exploding ship after he mortally wounds Jonathan. However, Jonathan's wife Erina is pregnant with a child and escapes, continuing the Joestar name.[5]

The second part, Battle Tendency, takes place in 1939. Jonathan's grandson Joseph teams up with Will's grandson Caesar Zeppeli to battle ancient humanoids called the Pillar Men,[8] but are overwhelmed by the Pillar Man Wamuu. Joseph and Caesar have a month to defeat the Pillar Men Esidisi and Wamuu to obtain the antidotes for the poisoned rings in Joseph's windpipe and aorta,[9] while also preventing them from gaining a powerful stone called the Red Stone of Aja.[10] The two are trained in controlling Hamon by the Hamon coach Lisa Lisa.[11] Joseph defeats Esidisi and Wamuu,[12] but Kars obtains the Red Stone of Aja, becoming more powerful.[13] Aided by the German soldier Rudol von Stroheim, Joseph uses the Red Stone of Aja against Kars to defeat him.[14][15] In the epilogue set in the 1980s, a "treasure chest" engraved with the name "Dio" is salvaged from the sea, while an older Joseph is set to meet his daughter in Japan.[15]

Voice cast

Music

The first season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure uses three pieces of theme music, two opening themes and one ending theme. The first opening theme is the song "JoJo (Sono Chi no Sadame)" (ジョジョ～その血の運命～, "JoJo ~That Blood's Destiny~") performed by Hiroaki "Tommy" Tominaga, vocalist of Japanese "brass rock" band Bluff, as the opening theme for the Part 1 episodes. The score for Part 1 was composed by Hayato Matsuo, and was released in two parts as Destiny, a bonus disc in the first Blu-ray box set released on January 30, 2013, and Future, a separate CD release on February 22, 2013. Future debuted at number 95 on the Billboard Japan Top Albums charts[16] and peaked at 115 on the Oricon Weekly Album Charts.[17] The opening theme song for the Part 2 episodes is "Bloody Stream" by Coda.[18] Its score is composed by Taku Iwasaki, and was released in two parts as Musik (German for "Music"), a standalone CD release on March 29, 2013, and as Leicht Verwendbar (German for "Light User"[b]), a bonus disc for Blu-ray box set volume 4 on April 26, 2013. Musik debuted at number 63 on the Japan Top Albums charts[19] and at 89 on the Weekly Album Charts.[20] The ending theme for the whole season is British progressive rock band Yes' 1972 single "Roundabout".

Episode list

Notes

  1. ^ Dario Brando dies in 1880[4] while Jonathan Joestar defeats Dio Brando on February 7, 1889.[5]
  2. ^ The album title uses the wrong translation of "light", with "leicht" meaning "light" as in weight rather than "Licht" meaning "light" as in a source of illumination. Similarly, "verwendbar" translates as "usable", with the phrase "leicht verwendbar" actually meaning "easy to use."
  3. ^ Order of episodes in both the series and season
  4. ^ Order of episodes within the part
  5. ^ Tokyo MX lists the series as premiering at 24:30 on Friday, which is effectively Saturday at 12:30 a.m. JST.
  6. ^ All episodes of Season 1 were initially released in English on DVD on September 22, 2015, but to correspond with the Japanese column, the air dates here will refer to their first English television airings on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block.
  7. ^ In the English dub and subtitles, Tarkus is named "Tarukus".
  8. ^ In the English dub and subtitles, Bruford is named "Blueford".
  9. ^ In the English dub, Donovan is named "Donoban". In the English subtitles, he is named "Donobang".
  10. ^ In the English dub, Santana is named "San Viento". In the English subtitles, he is named "Santviento".
  11. ^ In the English dub and subtitles, Loggins is named "Loggs".
  12. ^ Messina is known by that name in the English Netflix subtitles, and as "Meshina" in the English Crunchyroll subtitles and the English dub.
  13. ^ In the English subtitles, Suzi Q is named "Suzie Q".
  14. ^ a b Episode 26, "The Ascendant One", places the fights with Esidisi, Wamuu, and Kars in 1939.[15]
  15. ^ The term "Final Mode" is named "ultimate mastery" in the English dub and the English Crunchyroll subtitles, and a "final attack" in the English Netflix subtitles.
  16. ^ Gathering Gale is named "Atmospheric Rift" in the English dub and subtitles.

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