JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
Original Title	ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 スターダストクルセイダース (JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Sutādasuto Kuruseidāsu)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Voice Director	Tony Oliver
Translation & Adaptation	Jalen K. Cassell Josh Grelle Matthew Hunter
Recorded	2014 (eps. 1-3) 2017
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	48
Year	2014-2015
Chronology
Predecessor	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Successor	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 スターダストクルセイダース) is the second season of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV Anime, produced by David Production.

Season 2 adapts the entirety of the manga's third arc, Stardust Crusaders, and spans 48 episodes with the latter half titled Stardust Crusaders: Battle in Egypt (スターダストクルセイダース エジプト編 Sutādasuto Kuruseidāsu Ejiputo-hen).

On July 2, 2017, it was confirmed that the English dub would air on Adult Swim's Toonami block. The English dub of the season ran on Toonami from July 29, 2017 to August 11, 2018, followed immediately by an English dub of the anime adaptation of Diamond is Unbreakable.

Synopsis The year is 1987 and 17-year-old Jotaro Kujo finds himself suddenly plagued by a ghost-like entity. Jotaro's grandfather Joseph Joestar, a veteran of a fight to save humanity fifty years prior, arrives with his own supernatural aura and explains that this power, known as a "Stand," physically manifests its user's spirit and can be controlled by its user at will. The sudden emergence of these Stands is revealed to be caused by the revival of the megalomaniacal vampire DIO (the Joestar's longtime enemy) whose awakening from his century-long slumber has triggered Stands to awaken down the Joestar family line, including in Jotaro’s mother whose uncontrollable Stand will ultimately kill her in a few weeks’ time. Jotaro, Joseph, and their allies have fifty days to locate DIO (using their Stands to thwart DIO's network of devoted Stand-user minions along the way) and eliminate DIO himself in order to save Jotaro’s mother and prevent DIO’s ambitions of world domination.

Cast

Image	Character		Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Name in dubbing	Original name
Main Characters
Crusaders
	Jotaro Kujo		Daisuke Ono	Matthew Mercer
			Natsumi Takamori (child)	Wendee Lee (ep. 1)
				Dorothy Elias-Fahn (ep. 33)
	Joseph Joestar		Unshō Ishizuka	Richard Epcar
	Mohammed Abdul	Muhammad Avdol	Kenta Miyake	Chris Tergliafera
	Noriaki Kakyoin		Daisuke Hirakawa	Kyle Hebert
	Jean Pierre Polnareff		Fuminori Komatsu	Doug Erholtz
			Ayumi Fujimura (child)	Erica Mendez
	Iggy		Misato Fukuen	Derek Stephen Prince
Secondary Characters
	Anne		Rie Kugimiya	Ryan Bartley
	Holly Kujo		Reiko Takagi	Julie Ann Taylor
	Suzi Q		Sachiko Kojima	Philece Sampler
	Rosas	Roses	Motomu Kiyokawa	Kevin Brief
Main Antagonists
	DIO		Takehito Koyasu	Patrick Seitz
	Hol Horse		Hidenobu Kiuchi	Imari Williams
	Enyaba Geil	Enya the Hag	Reiko Suzuki	Barbara Goodson
Recurring Characters
Egypt 9 Glory Gods
	N'Doul		Kentarō Itō	Greg Chun
	Mondatta	Boingo	Motoko Kumai	Jessica Gee
	Zenyatta	Oingo	Makoto Yasumura	Joe Zieja
	Chaka		Anri Katsu	Khoi Dao
	Anubis		Yasunori Matsumoto	Brad Venable
	Khan		Hidenari Ugaki	Joshua Tomar
	Mariah		Ayahi Takagaki	Lauren Landa
	Alessi		Masaya Onosaka	Jon Allen
	D'Arby Elder	Daniel J. D'Arby	Banjō Ginga	Cam Clarke
	D'Arby Younger	Terence T. D'Arby	Junichi Suwabe	Xander Mobus
	Cool Ice	Vanilla Ice	Shō Hayami	Jalen K. Cassell
DIO Mercenaries & Followers
	Centerfold	J. Geil	Takuya Kirimoto	Tom Fahn
	Nena		Satsuki Yukino	Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Other Characters
	Narrator		Tōru Ōkawa	David Vincent

Episodic Characters

Imagen	Character		Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
	Name in dubbing	Original name
	Gray Fly		Katsumi Chō	Jay Preston	4
	Captain Dragon	Impostor Captain Tennille	Tesshō Genda	Michael McConnohie	6
	Soul Sacrifice	Devo	Shōto Kashii	Edward Bosco	8
	Rubber Soul		Shinji Kawada	Ray Chase	9
	Zii Zii	ZZ	Masami Iwasaki	David Vincent	13
	Dan of Steel	Steely Dan	Daisuke Kishio	Grant George	16-17
	Manishu Booi	Mannish Boy	Ikue Ōtani	Tara Sands	19-20
	Sherry Polnareff		Yuka Komatsu	Erika Harlacher	21-22
	Cameo		Kinryū Arimoto	Stephen Mendel
	Rose	Midler	Aya Hisakawa	Karen Strassman	23-24
	Loser	Nukesaku	Tōru Nara	Arnie Pantoja	44-45
	Wilson Philips		Chō	Jonathan Fahn	45

Additional Voices

Orion Acaba Edward Bosco Kira Buckland Ray Chase Rebecca Davis D.C. Douglas Dorothy Elias-Fahn Doug Erholtz Jonathan Fahn Deborah Gatton Grant George Kyle Hebert Carrie Keranen Wendee Lee Ben Lepley Dave Mallow Brian Anderson

Stephen Mendel Austin Lee Matthews D.W. McCann Marianne Miller Tony Oliver Crystal Padilla Abelina Sabrina Rios Bill Rogers Tara Sands Patrick Seitz Spike Spencer Doug Stone Armen Taylor Kirk Thornton J.D. Zelman

Notes

• In the original test dub version of the first 3 episodes, Dave Mallow does the narration instead of David Vincent.
  • Same thing happened with Star Platinum where Patrick Seitz voiced the Stand.
• Various characters' names are changed from being band names to being less direct references to the bands so as to avoid any copyright issues.
• For unknown reasons from this part onwards Tony Oliver replaced Kevin McMullan as the voice director.

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2017-2018	Cartoon Network (Adult Swim/Toonami)	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Viz Media	2018-2019		The Complete Series	1 NTSC	United States
			2 Volumes
			The Complete Series	A DVB-T
			2 Volumes

External Links

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia