The official website of the anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken) manga revealed that the upcoming anime adaptation of the series’ 4th part, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, will start airing from April 2nd. Additionally, the site has also released a brand new visual and the first commercial .
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable will air its first episode on Saturday, April 2nd at Tokyo MX at 12:30 am JST. The anime will also air on MBS on the 3rd at 1:58am JST and on Tohoku at 2:18am JST.
The first 60s commercial for the anime was also released:
Here is the anime’s first PV:
The main cast of the anime includes:
- Yuuki Ono (Taiga Kagami from Kuroko no Basket) will voice Josuke Higashikata
- His Stand Crazy Diamond
- Yuuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan) as Koichi Hirose
- Wataru Takagi (Genta Kojima in Detective Conan) is voicing Okuyasu Nijimura
- Takahiro Sakurai (Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass) voices Rohan Kishibe
- Daisuke Ono (Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler) back to voice Joutarou Kuujou
The production staff from recent JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime will return to produce part 4:
- Director: Naokatsu Tsuda (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Inu × Boku SS)
- Chief Director: Yuuta Takamura (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Maoyuu Maou Yuusha Episode Director)
- Series Director: Toshiyuki Kato (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and CODE-E Episode Director)
- Series Composer: Yasuko Kobayashi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Attack on Titan)
- Anime Character Designer: Terumi Nishii (Mawaru Penguindrum, Kimi no Iru Machi)
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Fate/Zero)
- Music Composer: Yuugo Kanno (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Psycho-Pass)
- Animation Production: David Production (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Inu × Boku SS)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken) is a supernatural, action adventure manga written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Araki began the manga in 1986 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and as 2004 in their Ultra Jump magazine. The series is currently ongoing where to date a total of 114 volumes have been compiled and published, split up into 8 parts. The series was first adapted into an anime as an OVA in 1993 by A.P.P.P. (Roujin Z, Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety), with another OVA series in 2000. An anime film by the same studio was produced in 2007. A TV anime adaptation of the manga began in 2012 from David Production (Ben-To, Inu × Boku SS) for 26 episodes, and a second season in 2014 as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders that ran for 48 episodes. The series was also adapted into multiple light novel series.
Here is the series synopsis from MAL:
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.
The anime adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, will air from April 2nd at 12:30am JST on Tokyo MX, during the Spring 2016 anime season. Further information about the series will be revealed at a later date.
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/jojo-animation/
And follow them on Twitter: @anime_jojo
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