We lastly have a launch date for Steel Ball Run, the subsequent Jojo journey: March 19.
The date was revealed at a Leap Festa panel for the anime, which additionally had a brand new trailer highlighting the foremost solid. Set in Eighteen Nineties America, our hero is Johnny Joestar (Shogo Sakata), a paraplegic ex-jockey who features the capability to stroll once more after touching a powered-up metal ball. The proprietor of stated ball, Gyro Zeppelli (Yohei Azakami), is collaborating in the titular cross-country horse race run by promoter Steven Metal (Kenta Miyake) and his spouse Lucy (Rie Takahashi), so Johnny additionally joins.
Different notable racers embody British horse racer Diego Brando (Kaito Ishikawa), Indigenous runner Sand Man (Masaaki Mizunaka), and Pocoloco (Kenichiro Matsuda). Like in earlier Jojo’s collection, the foremost characters have their very own particular skills referred to as Stands: Gyro can channel vitality into metal balls, for instance, and every Stand provides their person a leg up throughout the race and in the moments the place they face off in opposition to one another different. When $50 million and fame is on the line, you want each advantaged you may get in a race like this.
The “first stage” of Jojo’s Weird Journey: Metal Ball Run arriving in March is a 47-minute lengthy premiere, and it’s unclear whether or not new episodes will comply with in the weeks after in a weekly method, or months down the line. We’ll have extra on the launch schedule as information emerges.
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