Main Staff for ‘JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run’ Anime Announced

The JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) special panel at Anime Expo 2025 revealed the main staff for the seventh part, Steel Ball Run, on Friday. The panel also unveiled an illustration by Daisuke Tsumagari (pictured above).

Staff

Director: Yasuhiro Kimura (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze), Hideya Takahashi (Keijo!!!!!!!!)

Series Director: Toshiyuki Kato (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean)

Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi (Dororo)

Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Daisuke Tsumagari (Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai chief animation director)

Music: Yugo Kanno (Pluto)

Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami (Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai)

Studio: David Production

Hirohiko Araki originally launched Steel Ball Run in Weekly Shounen Jump in January 2004 as an unrelated story to the series. Following its transfer to Ultra Jump in April 2005, it became an official part, set in an alternate timeline. Shueisha published the manga in 24 volumes between May 2004 and June 2011, later compiling it into 16 volumes from February 2017 to January 2018.

Araki launched the action adventure manga series with the first part, Phantom Blood, in Weekly Shounen Jump in 1986. The second through six part—Sentou Chouryuu (Battle Tendency), Stardust Crusaders, Diamond wa Kudakenai (Diamond Is Unbreakable), Ougon no Kaze (Golden Wind), and Stone Ocean—ran in the same magazine between 1987 and 2003.

The eighth part, JoJolion, ended in August 2021 in Ultra Jump after a ten-year run. Shueisha published the 27th and final volume in September that year.

The JoJoLands, the ninth part of the manga series, debuted in Ultra Jump in February 2023. Shueisha released the fifth and latest volume in December 2024.

David Production adapted the first six parts into anime series with the most recent, Stone Ocean, streaming in three installments on Netflix in December 2021, September 2022, and December 2022. VIZ Media released the anime on two Blu-ray volumes in January and September 2024.

VIZ Media published the first volume of Steel Ball Run on May 27, with the second volume planned for a July 22 release.

Source: Denfaminico Gamer

News tip submitted by TiagoVesh