Netflix introduced that it’ll stream the anime adaptation of JoJo’s Weird Journey Half 7: Metal Ball Run worldwide.
The upcoming sequence is adapting the seventh a part of Hirohiko Araki’s long-running manga and follows a cross-continental horse race set in Nineteenth-century America.
Director Yasuhiro Kimura, who beforehand labored on the franchise, expressed his pleasure about helming the mission. “Metal Ball Run is a narrative that depicts characters working by way of a grand race, staking their very own beliefs. My coronary heart is pounding with pleasure to be entrusted with directing this anime adaptation,” he stated, including that the workers is “pouring their ardour into day by day manufacturing” and appears ahead to sharing that with viewers.
Extra particulars on the anime might be revealed on Sep 23, 2025, throughout a world livestream occasion hosted on Warner Bros. Japan’s official YouTube channel.
Hirohiko Araki first launched JoJo’s Weird Journey in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Bounce in 1986. The franchise has since offered over 120 million copies worldwide and is understood for its flamboyant artwork and iconic poses. The saga spans a number of generations of the Joestar bloodline, starting with Jonathan Joestar and his fateful encounter with Dio Brando.
The sequence has impressed quite a few diversifications, together with anime, video video games, musicals, and a live-action movie.
Metal Ball Run, initially serialized from 2004 to 2011, shifts the sequence to Nineteenth-century America. The story follows Johnny Joestar, a former genius jockey who’s left paraplegic. He joins forces with Gyro Zeppeli, a mysterious outlaw, and the 2 enter the US’ first cross-continental horse race.
Araki is at present serializing the ninth a part of the manga, The JOJOLands, in Extremely Bounce.
Earlier anime diversifications of the sequence, produced by David Manufacturing, have been streamed internationally on Netflix, most just lately with Stone Ocean.
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