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 Tetsuya Osugi (Extras)
ADR Production	Voice One (Recording Studio) Elaine Clark (ADR Director) Cindy H. Yamauchi (Producer)
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. In the English version, they also produced 4 Timeline Specials as a bonus features.

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)
	Suzi Q	Ryōko Kinomiya	Elaine Clark
Antagonists
Main
	DIO / Dio Brando	Nobuo Tanaka	Andrew Chaikin
	Vanilla Ice	Takeshi Aono	Uncredited
	Hol Horse	Norio Wakamoto	Roger Jackson
	Enya the Hag	Rika Fukami	Elaine Clark
Egypt 9 Glory Gods
	N'Doul	Kōji Nakata	J.S. Gilbert
	Daniel J. D'Arby	Kenji Utsumi	Curt Mann
DIO Mercenaries
	J. Geil	Mugihito	Dave Arendash
	Nena	Megumi Toyoguchi	Alexandria Lee Coldman
Other Characters
	Sherry Polnareff	Sayuri Kubo
	Wilson Phillips	Junpei Takiguchi	Charles Martinet
	Narrator (JoJo Timeline Specials Eps. 1-5. Bonus features)	N/A	Michael Bennett (Voice acting exclusive)

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
	Pilots	Takehiro Murozono	Tom Myers	3
		Kazuyuki Ishikawa	Charles Martinet
	Pilots	Hideyuki Umezu	Andrew Chaikin	8
		Hidenari Ugaki

Additional Voices

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

Notes

• Sayuri Kubo's screaming as Sherry Polnareff or the Reporter (OVA 13) is left in the English dub (The same happens with Iggy barks and sounds, the India civilians and the surroundings).
• 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 and Charles Martinet with two India civilians.
• Unlike the original Japanese voice acting, the English dub uses less than 20 dubbing actors.
• Some of the dubbing actors used similar voice tones or used similar voice characterization (Like Charles Martinet, Abie Hadjitarkhani, Andrew Chaikin and J.S. Gilbert in some of the characters).
• In the first OVA, the 3 prisoners are voiced by two dubbing actors instead of 3 (Unlike the scene of the OVA 2 where 3 School Girls are voiced by three dubbing actresses).
• The production of the extras were exclusive on the production of the English Dubbing, which it also includes Michael Bennett as the english voice acting narrator on these 5 specials.
• All the flashback characters scene between the battle of Jonathan and Dio (OVA) were voiced entirely by Andrew Chaikin.
• These compilation of OVA's have English dubbing in all of them, but they also have voice acting narration in the specials, which it takes us on one of the cases where the English version have more content than the Japanese original version.
• Charles Martinet voiced most of the main secondary characters (also he has the highest voice roles tied with Andrew Chaikin of all the dubbing actors).
• Some of the dubbing actors characters speaks with themselves or are even closed to speak with the other same voice characters.
• The Pilots of OVA 8 exchange the voice tones:
  • The Pilot A (Blonde Hair Pilot) uses the normal voice tone of Dio, but in some dialogues uses one of the alternative voice tone of Dio.
  • The Pilot B uses one of the alternative voice tone of Dio, but in some dialogues uses the normal voice tone of Dio.
• 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

External Links

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure at the Internet Movie Database.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA) on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.