Episodes

The very first episode of the anime opens Phantom Blood in 1868 and traces the origin of a lifelong rivalry. The honorable young Jonathan Joestar and the scheming Dio Brando are set against each other under one roof, while an ancient stone…

The second episode of the anime and of Phantom Blood follows the moment Jonathan uncovers Dio's plot to poison George. A dangerous errand into the slums of Ogre Street introduces Speedwagon, while Dio's first cruel experiment with the…

Phantom Blood's third episode turns Dio's arrest into catastrophe: cornered, he dons the Stone Mask to become a Vampire, costs George Joestar his life, and forces Jonathan into a burning duel through the blazing mansion.

The fourth Phantom Blood episode brings the Ripple into the story through Will Anthonio Zeppeli, the eccentric master who takes Jonathan as his pupil. As Dio heals his burns on stolen blood and enslaves Jack the Ripper, Jonathan's training…

The fifth Phantom Blood episode springs Dio's graveyard ambush, complete with a Ripple countering freeze technique and two undead knights bearing a tragic past. Jonathan faces the hair wielding Bruford in a desperate underwater duel.

Jonathan frees a cursed knight's soul before a towering brute forces him into a lethal chained duel. As the collar tightens, young Poco finds his nerve, and Zeppeli walks toward a doom his master once foretold.

The seventh Phantom Blood episode turns on a mentor's fated end. Zeppeli walks knowingly into the death a prophecy promised him, and with his final breath he pours everything he has into Jonathan, who then crushes Tarkus and inherits the…

The ninth episode of the anime and the closing chapter of Phantom Blood follows Jonathan and Erina's honeymoon voyage into a final trap. With Dio reduced to a severed head hungry for a new body, Jonathan spends his last strength to protect…

The tenth JoJo episode opens Battle Tendency, leaping forward roughly half a century to introduce Joseph Joestar, Jonathan's brash grandson, on the streets of 1930s New York. It also revives the menace of the Stone Masks as Straizo's envy…

The eleventh episode of the anime and the second of Battle Tendency closes Joseph's duel with the vampire Straizo and opens a new front in Mexico. As a Pillar Man is dug up for revival, a German officer and a lurking assassin enter the…

The twelfth anime episode, and the third of Battle Tendency, awakens the first Pillar Man inside a Mexican military base. Joseph Joestar infiltrates the compound to rescue Speedwagon just as Santana displays his terrifying power, setting…

Joseph faces the awakened Pillar Man Santana armed with only the Ripple and quick wits in the thirteenth JoJo episode, a desperate fight that hinges on cutting the creature in half, Stroheim's fiery sacrifice, and a final blast of…

Joseph meets the sharp-tongued Ripple master Caesar Zeppeli in Rome just as the ancient Pillar Men stir beneath the Colosseum. Awakening in a slaughter of Nazi soldiers, the towering beings set their sights on a legendary stone.

The fifteenth episode of the anime and the sixth of Battle Tendency picks up in the wake of Caesar's beating, as Joseph steps forward to duel Wamuu with a Ripple technique channeled through clackers. His survival is bought only through a…

Battle Tendency introduces the elegant Ripple master Lisa Lisa, who puts Joseph and Caesar through a brutal climbing trial. With poisoned rings ticking inside Joseph's body, mastering the Ripple becomes a matter of survival.

The seventeenth episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime and the eighth of Battle Tendency hands Joseph his deadliest exam yet. Lisa Lisa unveils the Red Stone of Aja and Kars' scheme, then throws her pupils into lethal duels where…

Battle Tendency's ninth chapter finishes off Esidisi in gruesome fashion, sends the heroes chasing the stolen Red Stone across Europe, and reintroduces a face from Joseph's past who is no longer entirely human.

The nineteenth episode of the anime and the tenth of Battle Tendency throws Kars and Joseph into a frantic scramble for the Red Stone of Aja along the edge of a deadly ravine. Its fallout splinters the friendship between Joseph and Caesar…

One of Battle Tendency's most mourned episodes traces Caesar Zeppeli's bitter childhood and his father's sacrifice, then sends him to a lonely, doomed stand against Wamuu that ends with a final Ripple gift to Joseph.

The twenty-first episode of the anime and the twelfth of Battle Tendency follows Joseph and Lisa Lisa into Kars's ruined lair, where a hundred vampires lie in wait. A desperate bluff staked on the Red Stone forces the enemy into a duel…

The twenty-second episode of the anime and the thirteenth of Battle Tendency stages the lethal chariot race between Joseph and Wamuu. Sabotage, Ripple-charged reins, and a rebounding crossbow shot drive both fighters to their limits as…

Joseph closes out his brutal duel with Wamuu and honors the fallen warrior's code, only to face Kars, a foe who mocks the very idea of honor. As the battle turns dirty, a shocking truth about Lisa Lisa surfaces in the chaos.

Joseph gambles everything on a burning scarf to finish Kars, then the hidden history of the Joestar bloodline pours out, revealing why Lisa Lisa's past was buried. As victory nears, Kars turns the enemy's own light into his final ascension.

In the twenty fifth Battle Tendency episode, Kars completes his ascension into the Ultimate Being and shrugs off sunlight and Nazi firepower alike. With the world seemingly lost, Joseph gambles on a volcanic island and a crashing plane to…

The Battle Tendency finale pits Joseph against a Kars who has become a god. A last reflexive act with the Red Stone of Aja hurls the ultimate being into space, and the episode then carries its survivors decades forward to the very start of…

The eighth episode of Phantom Blood delivers Jonathan's climactic showdown with the vampire Dio. Aided by Dire's dying strike and a Ripple-charged blade, JoJo trades brutal blows in the burning mansion to avenge his fallen comrades.

The opening episode of Stardust Crusaders leaps forward decades to introduce the delinquent Jotaro Kujo, who refuses to leave his jail cell over a spirit he cannot control. Joseph and Avdol arrive to reveal the truth of Stands and the…

A vicious insect Stand butchers passengers aboard the group's plane, and Kakyoin answers it with calculated precision. After a crash landing near Hong Kong, a friendly French tourist reveals himself as the next assassin sent by DIO.

A rescued stowaway girl and a seemingly friendly ship captain conceal an enemy hiding among the crew, and the deception drags Jotaro into a shark-infested sea where a barnacle-crusted Stand tries to drown him far from any help before he…

Stranded in a scorching Arabian desert, the Joestar Group faces a Stand that mimics the star overhead, cooking them alive while its hidden user watches from nearby. Only a strange doubled rock reveals the trick behind the endless daylight.

A grinning infant carries a Stand that hunts its victims only inside their dreams, and Kakyoin awakens to real wounds from a nightmare that no one else will believe, left alone to face a hidden killer his own companions cradle and protect…

Trapped and disbelieved by his own allies, Kakyoin quietly prepares a single countermeasure before he is knocked out cold, then carries his Stand into the shared nightmare itself to turn the tables on the murderous infant and end the dream…

A Stardust Crusaders episode. The Joestar group crosses the Red Sea by submarine, but a shapeshifting Stand, High Priestess, hidden among their belongings and controlled from afar by Midler, sabotages the vessel and drags it to the seabed.

A Stardust Crusaders episode. The Joestar group escapes the sinking submarine through High Priestess' shifting traps, Jotaro shatters the Stand's giant rock mouth to defeat Midler, and the crew finally reaches Egypt as the season's first…

In a Cairo cafe the Joestars meet a soul-collecting gambler who stakes lives on games of pure chance, and one careless bet costs Polnareff his very soul while a rigged coin game claims Joseph as well, leaving Jotaro to sit down and gamble…

Jotaro sits down to poker with a man who steals souls, but he never once looks at his own hand, betting the lives of his family on ice-cold nerve until the terrified gambler cracks under the weight of his own imagination and folds his…

At DIO's front door the Joestars meet the first gambler's younger brother, a butler who claims souls through video games, and Kakyoin stakes his own life on an arcade race, determined to redeem the shame of once being brainwashed and…

The fourteenth episode of Stardust Crusaders, and the fortieth of the anime, strands the Joestar Group in a fog-choked town where the dead do not stay quiet. Adapting the back half of chapter 154 through early chapter 157, it introduces…

Kakyoin's race ends in a hidden trap and a stolen soul, so Jotaro steps in with a baseball game he has never once played, mastering it on the fly and racking up home runs before he realizes his smiling opponent is quietly reading his mind…

The fifteenth episode of Stardust Crusaders, and the forty-first of the anime, mixes grotesque comedy with a tense standoff as Enya's mist Stand seizes control of Polnareff. Adapting chapters 157 through the first half of 160, it hands…

The twenty-first episode of Stardust Crusaders, forty-seventh across the anime, follows the grieving Polnareff to a Red Sea island where a genie's promise preys on his deepest wish. Adapting chapters 174 through 176, it sets a cruel trap…

The twenty-second episode of Stardust Crusaders, and the forty-eighth of the anime, resolves Polnareff's ordeal with a reveal that flips despair into triumph. Adapting chapters 176 through 179, it brings a supposedly dead ally roaring back…

The fifty-third episode of the anime, twenty-seventh of Stardust Crusaders, sends two bumbling assassin brothers after the Joestar Group in Aswan. Adapting the close of chapter 189 through 192, it plays their doomed comic-book prophecies…

Stardust Crusaders' second episode introduces Noriaki Kakyoin and his Stand Hierophant Green through a schoolyard ambush, before Jotaro drags his defeated attacker home to learn the truth about DIO's control.

The third Stardust Crusaders episode frees Kakyoin from DIO's control and reveals the deadly stakes behind the journey. Holy's dormant Stand is killing her, giving the group roughly fifty days to reach Egypt and end DIO before she dies.

The group's newest challenger turns out to be a courteous French swordsman, Jean Pierre Polnareff, whose Silver Chariot can slice through flame itself. His duel with Avdol's Magician's Red tests both fighters before a hidden flesh bud…

The seventh Stardust Crusaders episode strands the Joestar group on an eerily empty freighter that turns out to be a Stand. A deceptively clever orangutan hunts the crew one by one until Jotaro corners it, while DIO reflects on fear and…

The eighth Stardust Crusaders episode moves the crusaders to Singapore, where a hidden killer and his puppet Stand corner Jean Pierre Polnareff in a crowded hotel. Devo the Cursed and Ebony Devil test his wits and Silver Chariot before a…

In Singapore, Jotaro faces Rubber Soul, a shapeshifting impostor whose gelatinous Stand Yellow Temperance clings and consumes. The infamous cherry-licking impersonation and a desperate escape drive this Stardust Crusaders bout.

The tenth episode of Stardust Crusaders and the thirty-sixth of the anime brings the Joestar group to India, where Polnareff catches the reflection of his sister's killer. His reckless hunt for the two-right-handed man drags Avdol into a…