''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak'' is a

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series written by

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and drawn by Tasuku Karasuma. It is a spin-off from

Hirohiko Araki is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his long-running series ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', which began publication in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in 1987 and has over 120 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling ...

's manga ''

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly ''seinen'' manga ...

'', narratively set between its

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and fourth parts. It is serialized by

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in their monthly magazine ''

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'' since December 18, 2021, and is also published in collected ''

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'' volumes.

Plot

''Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak'' is a spin-off from

's ''

'', and is set in March 1999, a decade after the events of ''

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, ...

'' and a month before the events of '' Diamond Is Unbreakable''. Ten years after Dio's death, Hol Horse is among those who survived Dio and attempt to resume their normal lives. One day, Hol Horse accepts a request from the mother of Pet Shop's original owner to find her son's other pet, a parrot named Petsounds who also possesses a Stand. Following a encounter with Mariah, Hol Horse enlists Boingo to aid him with the latter's Stand Tohth with the two traveling to Morioh. There, the two encounter high school freshman Josuke Higashikata and Ryoko Kakyoin, Noriaki Kakyoin's cousin who blamed herself for causing the events that brought her cousin to Dio. Eventually, it is revealed that Petsounds was being used by the grandson of a surviving member of the vampires that the Pillar Man Kars created in the 1930s who seeks to realize his grandfather's vision.

Production and release

''Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak'' is written by

and drawn by Tasuku Karasuma, and is the second ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' spin-off manga after Araki's ''

Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe ''Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe'', known in Japan as , is a series of manga one-shots created by Hirohiko Araki. It is a spin-off from '' Diamond Is Unbreakable'', the fourth part of Araki's ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series, and features the c ...

''. The manga is serialized by

in their monthly magazine ''

'' since December 18, 2021, in the magazine's January 2022 issue. Shueisha also publishes the series in collected ''

'' volumes since June 17, 2022.

Volumes

Reception

Volume 1 of the series debuted with an estimated 35,000 copies sold, as the seventeenth highest selling comic of the week on the Japanese

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sales charts, with an additional 38,000 copies in its second week. The second volume debuted higher, at ninth place with 54,000 copies sold. By December 2022, Shueisha reported that the series had reached 300,000 copies in circulation, including digital sales.

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* {{Ultra Jump Comics spin-offs Fiction set in 1999 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Seinen manga Shueisha manga