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JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan , ONE MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

In a Japanese jail sits 17-year-old Jotaro Kujo: punk, fighter, delinquent...and possessed by a force beyond his control! Around the world, evil spirits are awakening: "Stands," monstrous invisible creatures which give their bearers incredible powers. To save his mother's life, Jotaro must tame his dark forces and travel around the world to Cairo, Egypt, where a hundred-year-old vampire thirsts for the blood of his family. But the road is long, and an army of evil Stand Users waits to kill JoJo and his friends...



Tags: Super Power , Foreign , Primarily Male Cast , Travel , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Episodic , Revenge , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Vampire , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Found Family , Desert , Delinquents , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Ships , Assassins , Swordplay , Brainwashing , Cowboys

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan , ONE MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Giorno Giovanna, a young man living in Naples, has the blood of DIO -- the eternal enemy of the Joestar clan -- running in his veins. Giorno becomes a delinquent due to being persecuted since childhood. However, he's led back onto the right path thanks to a gangster who saved him and taught him to believe in others. Bizarrely enough, this gang of people who didn't forget honor, gratitude, and respect made him reform. This is how Giorno came to admire gangsters. In the backstreets of Italy, Giorno causes trouble alongside his gang "Passione," and ends up being targeted...



Tags: Criminal Organization , Super Power , Mafia , Gangs , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Crime , Fugitive , Travel , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Urban , Guns , Gore , Drugs , Body Horror , Time Loop , Detective , Philosophy , Body Swapping , Police , Boys' Love , Cosmic Horror , Trains , Animals , Ghost , LGBTQ+ Themes , Disability , Zombie , Gender Bending

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders - Egypt-hen

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt.

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan , ONE MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Supernatural

After 30 days of travel across the world, plagued with countless battles, Jotaro and his companions have finally arrived in Egypt! Now only the strongest "Stand" users remain to rebuff our heroes' final march on Cairo: The Nine Egyptian Gods, Dio's most zealous servants. Will the Joestar line fall to the monstrous vampire, or can Jotaro defeat Dio and save his mother's life?



Tags: Super Power , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Travel , Shounen , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Revenge , Desert , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Gore , Vampire , Animals , Body Horror , Parody , Mahjong , Video Games , Gambling , Age Regression , Poker , Zombie , Cosplay , Shapeshifting , Death Game , CGI , Cowboys , Disability , Suicide

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (TV)

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (TV).

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

Beginning its tale in 19th century England, young aristocrat Jonathan Joestar finds himself locked in bitter rivalry with Dio Brando, a low-born boy who Jonathan's father took under his wing after the death of Dio's father. Discontent with his station in life, Dio's fathomless lust to reign over all eventually leads him to seek the supernatural powers of an ancient Aztec stone mask in the Joestar's possession—an artifact that will forever change the destiny of Dio and Jonathan for generations to come.

Fifty years later, in 1938 New York City, Jonathan's grandson Joseph Joestar must take up his grandfather's mission and master the abilities necessary to destroy the stone mask and its immensely powerful creators who threaten humanity's very existence, the Pillar Men.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Super Power , Primarily Male Cast , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Time Skip , Shounen , Cultivation , Tragedy , Revenge , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Zombie , Gore , Body Horror , Historical , Travel , Bullying , Cyborg , Philosophy , Crossdressing , Nudity , Chimera , Amputation , Rugby , Meta

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stone Ocean Part 2

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: STONE OCEAN Part 2.

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Supernatural

The legacy of the Joestar family continues with Jolyne as she and her companions take on new Stand users behind the bars of Green Dolphin Street Prison.



Tags: Super Power , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Manipulation , Primarily Female Cast , Alternate Universe , Revenge , Prison , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Cosmic Horror , Twins , Gore , Foreign , Amnesia , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Adult Cast , Incest , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Assassins , CGI , Vampire , Torture , Kemonomimi

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Diamond wa Kudakenai

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable.

Studio: david production , Warner Bros. Japan , ONE MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

It's the year 1999, 11 years after Jotaro Kujo's desperate fight against DIO in Egypt. Jotaro meets with Josuke Higashikata, the illegitimate son of his grandfather Joseph Joestar. He discovers that Josuke also has the same "Stand" power and that a new threat is surfacing in Morioh City.



Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Time Loop , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents , Time Manipulation , Body Horror , Gore , Tragedy , Ghost , Memory Manipulation , Body Swapping , School , Afterlife , Achronological Order , Yandere , Revenge , Aliens , Disability , Travel

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stone Ocean

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: STONE OCEAN.

Studio: Warner Bros. Japan , david production , Shueisha , KLOCKWORX , Medicos Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Supernatural

In Florida, 2011, Jolyne Kuujou sits in a jail cell like her father Joutarou once did; yet this situation is not of her own choice. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, and manipulated into serving a longer sentence, Jolyne is ready to resign to a dire fate as a prisoner of Green Dolphin Street Jail. Though all hope seems lost, a gift from Joutarou ends up awakening her latent abilities, manifesting into her Stand, Stone Free. Now armed with the power to change her fate, Jolyne sets out to find an escape from the stone ocean that holds her.

However, she soon discovers that her incarceration is merely a small part of a grand plot: one that not only takes aim at her family, but has additional far-reaching consequences. What's more, the mastermind is lurking within the very same prison, and is under the protection of a lineup of menacing Stand users. Finding unlikely allies to help her cause, Jolyne sets course to stop their plot, clear her name, and take back her life.



Tags: Super Power , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Foreign , Police , Urban Fantasy , Crime , Prison , Fugitive , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Revenge , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Body Horror , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Shapeshifting , Surreal Comedy , Ghost , Nudity , Masturbation , Agender , Disability , CGI

HUNTER×HUNTER (2011)

Also known as Hunter x Hunter (2011).

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Viz Media , Nippon Television Network , Studio Live
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

A Hunter is one who travels the world doing all sorts of dangerous tasks. From capturing criminals to searching deep within uncharted lands for any lost treasures. Gon is a young boy whose father disappeared long ago, being a Hunter. He believes if he could also follow his father's path, he could one day reunite with him.

After becoming 12, Gon leaves his home and takes on the task of entering the Hunter exam, notorious for its low success rate and high probability of death to become an official Hunter. He befriends the revenge-driven Kurapika, the doctor-to-be Leorio and the rebellious ex-assassin Killua in the exam, with their friendship prevailing throughout the many trials and threats they come upon taking on the dangerous career of a Hunter.

Tags: Shounen , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Travel , Ensemble Cast , Martial Arts , Philosophy , Primarily Male Cast , Revenge , Chimera , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Criminal Organization , Crime , Virtual World , Assassins , Urban Fantasy , Environmental , Gore , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Mafia , Card Battle , Gangs , Shogi , Animals , Video Games , Board Game , Yandere , Amnesia

REDLINE

Also known as Redline.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Anchor Bay Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Romance , Sci-Fi , Sports

Redline is about the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, including JP, a reckless dare-devil driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized car - all the while, organized crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends. Amongst the other elite rival drivers in the tournament, JP falls for the alluring Sonoshee - but will she prove his undoing, or can a high speed romance survive a mass destruction race?



Tags: Cars , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Space , Cyberpunk , Aliens , Cyborg , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Crime , Gambling , Military , Robots , Mafia , Motorcycles , Politics , Anthropomorphism , Battle Royale , Primarily Male Cast , Nudity

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Phantom Blood

Studio: Bandai , APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror

Jonathan Joestar is an aristocratic boy whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a mysterious new boy who arrives, Dio Brando. Dio has a connection to his father, and over time, a rivalry forms as Dio becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ancient, and mystical stone mask that Jonathan's father keeps.



Notes:
This entry is for the 2007 movie, not to be confused by the first arc of the 2012 TV anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, also named Phantom Blood. Nor the movie format 're-edit' of said first season compiled from the 2012 TV episodes.
This film hasn't been released publicly outside of its original limited theatrical run and is considered mostly lost, apart from several trailers and a found 16-minute undubbed clip compilation used for a student sound design assignment.

Tags: Shounen , Vampire , Historical , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign