JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Original Title	ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 (JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	MarcoCo. Studios
Voice Director	Elaine Clark
Translation & Adaptation	Cindy H. Yamauchi Yuki Yoshioka
ADR Production	Voice One
Recorded	2003-2004
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	13
Year	1993-2002

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) is a OVA series that adapt Stardust Crusaders, both by Studio A.P.P.P..

The original six-episode series in 1993 began with Joseph, Jotaro, Polnareff, and Kakyoin in the Egyptian desert on their quest to find DIO. The series offered very little exposition, assuming the viewer was already familiar with the backstory and first half of Stardust Crusaders. A prequel seven-episode series was released in 2001, offering an explanation for those unfamiliar with the story in the previous series, and started at the beginning of Stardust Crusaders with Joseph coming to Japan to explain Jotaro's strange behavior.

The entire 6-volume (13-episode) anime series has been released in English in canonical order by Super Techno Arts, which was an American branch of Studio A.P.P.P.

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
Crusaders
	Jotaro Kujo	Jūrōta Kosugi	Abie Hadjitarkhani
	Joseph Joestar	Chikao Ōtsuka	Michael Bennett
	Muhammad Avdol	Kiyoshi Kobayashi	J.S. Gilbert
	Noriaki Kakyoin	Hirotaka Suzuoki	Doug Boyd
	Jean Pierre Polnareff	Katsuji Mori	Mark Atherlay
Secondary Characters
	Holly Joestar	Rei Sakuma (eps. 1-7)	Carrie Francis
		Arisa Andō (eps. 8-13)
	Suzie Q	Ryōko Kinomiya	Elaine Clark
Antagonists
Main
	DIO / Dio Brando	Nobuo Tanaka	Andrew Chaikin
	Vanilla Ice	Takeshi Aono
	Hol Horse	Norio Wakamoto	Roger Jackson
	Enyaba the Hag	Rika Fukami	Elaine Clark
Egypt 9 Glory Gods
	N'Doul	Kōji Nakata	J.S. Gilbert
	Daniel J. D'Arby	Kenji Utsumi	Abie Hadjitarkhani
DIO Mercenaries
	J. Geil	Mugihito	Dave Arendash
	Nena	Megumi Toyoguchi	Alexandria Lee Coldman
Other Characters
	Sherry Polnareff	Sayuri Kubo
	Wilson Philips	Junpei Takiguchi	Charles Martinet
	Narrator (Jojo Timeline Specials Eps. 1-4. Bonus features)	?	Michael Bennett

Additional Voices

• Andrew Chaikin - Jailer Policeman With The Revolver (OVA 1) and Jonathan (OVA 2)
• Elaine Clark - Terrified Woman (OVA 1) and School Girl B With Short Hair (OVA 2)
• Marco D'Ambrosio - Prisioner C (OVA 1)
• Terri D'Ambrosio - School Girl C With The Medicine (OVA 2) and Sick Woman (OVA 6)
• Kathy Garver - School Girl A With Pigtails (OVA 2)
• J.S. Gilbert - Chief Jailer (OVA 1), Prisioner A (OVA 1), Pilot B (OVA 3) and Wilson Philips Bodyguard (OVA 12)
• Charles Martinet - Prisoner B (OVA 1), Pilot A (OVA 3), Poor man (OVA 4), Pilot B (OVA 8), Owner Of The Cafe (OVA 10) and Doctor (OVA 11)
• Tom Myers - Pilot A (OVA 8)
• Reid Garver Travis - Kid Seller (OVA 5) and Daniel J. D'Arby Kid Partner (OVA 10)

Notes

• Sayuri Kubo's screaming as Sherry Polnareff is left in the English dub (The same happens with Iggy barks and sounds).
• J.S. Gilbert, Charles Martinet, Elaine Clark and Andrew Chaikin voice nearly all the secondary characters in these OVA's.
• Also, some of the characters in these OVA's, talk themselves like Jotaro Kujo, and Daniel J. D'Arby in OVA 10, or Chief Jailer, and Prisoner A in OVA 1.
• Some of the dubbing actors repeats some of the same roles, like Reid Garver Travis with the two kids in the OVA's 5, and 10.
• Unlike the original Japanese voice acting, the English dub uses only 16 dubbing actors in total (and more than a half, has at least 2 characters at minus, unlike the Japanese voice acting).
• This was Charles Martinet's only anime dubbing role until Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero in 2022.

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Super Techno Arts	2003-2004		The Complete Series	1 NTSC	United States
			6 Volumes

See Also

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
• Baoh: The Visitor

External Links

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at Anime News Network's encyclopedia