The STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime has received a key visual, which shows off Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli. The art was done by character designer and chief animation director Daisuke Tsumagari.
It was also announced that more details will be unveiled at Jump Festa 2026.
A teaser trailer was released in September. The anime will premiere on Netflix in 2026.
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STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is based on the seventh part of Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure manga. The anime’s synopsis reads:
It’s 1890, in America, the Steel Ball Run — the first horse racing championship across the North American continent — was about to begin. Spanning around 4,000 miles, the race offered 50 million dollars as the winning prize. Johnny Joestar, once being hailed as a genius jockey, is now paralysed and lost in despair. He finds hope in the mysterious phenomena caused by Gyro Zeppeli, an outlaw aiming to win the race, and determines to participate in the Steel Ball Run Race. Each having their own goal in mind, the two form an alliance and set foot upon the gruelling adventure and race.
The Steel Ball Run manga ran from 2004 to 2011. It was initially serialized in Shonen Jump before moving to the monthly, seinen magazine Ultra Jump (subsequent Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure installments have also been Ultra Jump titles). Viz Media is publishing it in English.
The Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure series depicts the varied adventures of the Joestar family. It began in 1986, and its ninth part The JOJOLands debuted in February 2023. The manga initially inspired an OVA series and a movie that were produced by the now-inactive Another Push Pin Planning, with a new line of david production-produced anime, including an OVA adaptation of the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan spin-off, beginning in 2012. The Steel Ball Run anime was preceded by 2022’sJojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.
Staff
• Director: Yasuhiro Kimura (Golden Wind co-director)
• Director: Hideya Takahashi (Golden Wind co-director, Urusei Yatsura remake director)
• Series director: Toshiyuki Kato (Stone Ocean director, Diamond is Unbreakable)
• Series composer: Yasuko Kobayashi (Stone Ocean, Attack on Titan Season 3 Season 3 Part 2)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Daisuke Tsumagari (Oblivion Battery co-sub character designer)
• Music composer: Yugo Kanno (Stone Ocean)
• Animation production: david production
Cast
• Shogo Sakata as Johnny
• Yohei Azakami as Gyro
• Kaito Ishikawa as Diego Brando
• Rie Takahashi as Lucy Steel
• Kenta Miyake as Steven Steel
Source: Press release
