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manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

series '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' is written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1987 to 2004, before being transferred to the monthly '' seinen'' magazine '' Ultra Jump'' in 2005. The series can be broken into eight distinct parts, each, following a different descendant of the protagonist of the first part on different quests. The eighth story arc, ''

JoJolion is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, and is the eighth part of the larger ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series. Set in Japan in 2011, it follows Josuke Higashikata, a young man afflicted by retrograde amnesia, i ...

'', started in 2011 and ended in 2021. The chapters are collected and published into '' tankōbon'' volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on August 10, 1987. During Part 5, which takes place in Italy, the series' title was written in Italian as ''Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio''. After volume 63, the beginning of each Part has reset the volume number count back at one. The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. However, instead of starting with Part one, they chose to only release Part 3 ''

Stardust Crusaders is the third story arc of the manga series ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. The arc was serialized for a little over 3 years. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from April 3, 1989, ...

'', which is the most well-known. The first volume was released on November 8, 2005, with the first twelve volumes summarized in an eight-page summary written and drawn by Araki himself, and the last on December 7, 2010. Viz Media began publishing the ''JoJonium'' edition of the first part ''

Phantom Blood is a 1987 manga series created by Hirohiko Araki, and the first part of the larger ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series. The manga was originally serialized by Shueisha in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' under the title and was collected in five ...

'' digitally in September 2014, with a three-volume hardcover print edition that includes color pages following throughout 2015. They began publishing a similar edition of '' Battle Tendency'' digitally in March 2015 and in print in November 2015. They began re-releasing ''Stardust Crusaders'' in November 2016, this time in the same hardcover edition as the previous two parts. ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' has also seen domestic releases in Italy by Star Comics, in France by J'ai Lu and

Tonkam Tonkam is a prominent French publisher of manga and was one of the first publishers of manga in French, issuing its first titles in 1994. It was founded by Sylvie Chang and Dominique Véret with the financial assistance of a Parisian bookseller, ...

, Taiwan by Da Ran Culture Enterprise and Tong Li Publishing, and in Malaysia by Comics House.

Volume list

Part 1: ''Phantom Blood''

Part 2: ''Battle Tendency''

Part 3: ''Stardust Crusaders''

Part 4: ''Diamond Is Unbreakable''

Part 5: ''Golden Wind''

Part 6: ''Stone Ocean''

Part 7: ''Steel Ball Run''

Part 8: ''JoJolion''

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