Jojo's Bizarre Adventure for Dummies
From Create Your Own Story
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a long-running Japanese manga and anime written by possible immortal and Mona Lisa stand-in, Hirohiko Araki, from January of 1987 to the current day.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure isn't actually one long story. It's one series divided into eight Parts: Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency, Stardust Crusaders, Diamond is Unbreakable, Vento Aureo (Italian for "Golden Wind"), Stone Ocean, Steel Ball Run, and Jojolion, which is still running by the time of this writing. We're only going to deal with the universe before it got restarted in my Choose Your Own Adventure so we won't be covering Steel Ball Run or Jojolion as both of these parts cover the universe after Stone Ocean as that Part ended with the universe being restarted.
Phantom Blood is about the young and kind son of a British aristocrat, Jonathan Joestar, and his rivalry with his recently adopted brother and gutter scum, Dio Brando, as Dio attempts to drive Jonathan insane so he can take over the Joestar heritage. After being pushed too far by Dio's emotional and physical abuse, Jonathan attacks Dio and trounces him but the fight throws some of Dio's blood onto a stone mask.
Battle Tendency is about a arrogant but brilliant shithead named Joseph Joestar, the grandson of Jonathan Joestar, as he strives to learn how to use the mystical art of Hamon in order to defeat the Pillar Men, timeless beings that are above vampires as vampires are above humans, whose goals are to steal the Red Stone of Ajah, a beautiful gem that is prophesied to be the destruction of the Pillar Men, and become The Perfect Being.
Stardust Crusaders is about Jotaro Kujo, a Japanese delinquent, as he travels with to Egypt with Joseph Joestar, Noriaki Kakyoin, a Stand-user and Japanese high school student who was a former servant of Dio, Mohammed Avdol, a Egyptian fortuneteller and Stand-user who is a close friend with Joseph Joestar, and Jean Polnareff, a passionate Frenchman and Stand-user who wants revenge for the rape and murder of his sister, to kill Dio Brando, who had survived his battles with Jonathan Joestar by taking over his body, so he could save his mother's life.
Diamond is Unbreakable is about Josuke Hagashikata, the bastard son of Joseph Joestar and a kind Japanese high school student with a silly pompadour, as he tries to keep the peace in his town, Morioh, from the depredations of serial killer and Stand-user Yoshikage Kira.
Vento Aureo is about Italian mobster Giorno Giovanni, the bastard son of Dio Brando, as he seeks to take over the Mob and deliver a woman, Trisha Una, safely to Sicily. Unbeknownst to Giorno and his friends, she is actually targeted by the enigmatic Daivolo, the leader of the Mob and Una's father.
Stone Ocean is about perverted delinquent Joylene Kujo, the only daughter of Jotaro Kujo, as she tries to escape from prison in order to save her father's soul from Enrico Pucci, a Stand-using priest and acolyte of Dio Brando, and to stop him from gaining the power to remake the universe.
