JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA)
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | |
 Cover art for the first Japanese DVD volume | |
| ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 (JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) | |
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| Original video animation | |
| Original series | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Kitakubo (chief director) |
| Produced by | Kazufumi Nomura Tetsuo Daitoku |
| Written by | Satoshi Kon Hiroyuki Kitakubo |
| Music by | Marco D'Ambrosio |
| Studio | A.P.P.P. |
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| Released | November 19, 1993 – November 18, 1994 |
| Runtime | 35 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Original video animation | |
| Prequel series | |
| Directed by | Hideki Futamura (chief director) |
| Produced by | Kazufumi Nomura Tetsuo Daitoku |
| Written by | Ken'ichi Takashima Takao Kawaguchi |
| Music by | Marco D'Ambrosio |
| Studio | A.P.P.P. |
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| Released | May 25, 2000 – October 25, 2002 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 7 |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, Hepburn: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is an original video animation adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's manga series of the same name, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Produced by A.P.P.P. (Another Push Pin Planning), it was adapted from the series' third part, Stardust Crusaders.
The first six episodes were originally released by Pony Canyon on VHS and Laserdisc from 1993 to 1994, adapting the latter half of the story arc. This set of episodes begins with Jotaro Kujo and his companions in the middle of their quest to find Dio Brando, offering very little exposition to the back-story that led to the present events of the OVA.
The second season, consisting of seven episodes, were released by Klock Worx on DVD and VHS from 2000 to 2002, featuring most of the same cast, but produced with different directors and writers. These additional episodes, titled "Adventure 1" through "7", served as a prequel to the earlier-produced episodes, adapting the beginning of the story arc that featured the circumstances that led to Jotaro's quest. The earlier episodes were subsequently re-released as part of this series, but renumbered as "Adventure 8" through "13" to take into account their later chronological placement. A DVD box set featuring all 13 episodes was released on May 25, 2007, which included a soundtrack CD and a set of 31 tarot cards illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.
The series was released in North America by Super Techno Arts. It was released on six DVD volumes 2003 to 2005, dubbed in English, with all 13 episodes also featured in chronological order.[1]
In 2008, distribution for the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OVA series was indefinitely suspended following the controversy over the presence of the Qur'an in Episode 6.[2][3] The same story arc would later be adapted for the later JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV series in its second season, which aired from 2014 to 2015.
Episode list
Episodes listed by their English dub titles and in order of their fictional chronology (Series 2 before Series 1, as used in the post-2000 releases of the episodes).
Controversy
In May 2008, both studio A.P.P.P. and Shueisha halted OVA/manga shipments of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after a complaint had been launched against them from Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that has the villain, Dio Brando, reading a book depicting pages from the Qur'an.[2][3] This recall affected the English-language release of the manga as well, causing Viz Media and Shueisha to cease publication for a year. Even though the manga did not feature that specific scene, Shueisha had Araki redraw scenes that depicted characters fighting on top of, and destroying, mosques.[2] Viz resumed publication a year later, with the eleventh volume being published on April 7, 2009.
References
- ^ "Sakura Con - Super Techno Arts Panel" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2011-09-03.
- ^ a b c "Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 2012-04-22. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
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External links
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia