JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is an anime that’s intrinsically linked to popular culture music. The names of its heroes, villains, and powers are song references all the method again to Phantom Blood that’ve solely gotten extra fashionable, referencing Nu Metallic royalty like Limp Bizkit, rappers like Notorious B.I.G., and pop stars like Lady Gaga as the manga marches to its present half, JoJoLands, referencing the likes of Dua Lipa.
A variety of JJBA‘s having music be a core a part of its DNA, right next to fashion, is thanks to mangaka Hirohiko Araki listening to music whereas he’s been drawing the manga for roughly 40 years. And the anime’s quirky localization continues that pattern twofold by attempting its damndest to adapt in a legally distinct way, in addition to by that includes music from Western common artists in each one in all its outros, together with the likes of Sure’ “Roundabout”, The Bangles’ “Stroll Like An Egyptian”, Pat Metheny Group’s “Final Prepare Residence”. Savage Backyard’s “I Need You”, Jodeci’s “Freak’n You”, and Duffy’s “Distant Dreamer”
So, in lieu of there being no more JoJo Fridays, we’re taking it upon ourselves to do the identical fan crafting from the web of outdated that led JJBA followers to edit Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” as Golden Wind‘s intro, by fan-mixing two songs we expect could be good outros to Metal Ball Run.
Outdated City Highway by Lil Nas X
Okay, yeah, clearly we had been gonna decide “Outdated City Highway” by Lil Nas X as one in all our songs. We are able to hear you at your keyboards now… “Why this rap track? That doesn’t match JoJos!” Reader, if we will have “Freak’n You” as the outro to Golden Wind, something is doable. Plus, Lil Nas X is already a strolling JoJo’s reference with that viral picture of him with Tyler The Creator wanting like a Stand Person together with his Stand. The artist himself even tweeted about his trend sense, asking people to stop saying he looks like a JoJo character, which solely made the comparability more durable.
However extra importantly, the track has the type of rebellious spirit that Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli carry, being in the race as an upstart and a man who’s been round the block a number of instances in the identical method Lil Nas X regarded breaking onto the scene with a rap-country combine with the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus. Plus, it’s acquired a horse-riding motif all through, and it’s a catchy earworm of a ditty to boot, making it a chief candidate for Metal Ball Run‘s outro. David Manufacturing and Warner Bros. Japan, in case you’re studying this, this might be the neat alternative as the first outro to Metal Ball Run, to coincide with the manga’s enjoyable upstart power.
A Horse With No Title by America
America’s “A Horse With No Title” may need a modern-day declare to fame amongst players who grew up ignoring their homework, turning on the in-game radio, and aimlessly cruised in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (or is that simply me?). However the 1971 folk-rock track feels completely suited to Metal Ball Run. The horse motif of all of it is simply as obvious right here because it is in “Outdated City Highway,” however its vibe feels particularly good as the type of moody second outro pattern that JJBA has carried out with its second ending themes. The track’s themes of escape, alienation, introspection, and liberation encapsulate the hardship and melancholy Gyro and Johnny experience in the final stages of their bizarre adventure.
Personally, it’s the track that comes to thoughts after I consider Gyro proposing a toast to Johnny regardless of them having misplaced every part. I want this.
Music and JoJo’s Run Deep
As talked about above, music and JJBA run deep. On a literal stage, this is proven by artists Tommy, Coda, and Jin performing for the first three opening components of JJBA, respectively, and coming collectively as a trio for its fourth outro in a musical trend paying homage to the Joestars’ familial line being related by a thread. Solely right here, it’s catchy songs that’d have a complete stadium bumping. This sense of connection is true in the anime’s first intro in Phantom Blood and its newest intro in Stone Ocean. In the Phantom Blood intro, we see the Joestars, beginning with Half 6 protagonist Jolyne Cujoh, Half 5’s Giorno Giovanna, Half 4’s Josuke Higashitaka, Half 3’s Jotaro Kujo, and Half 2’s Joseph Joestar, placing their fashionable poses in a manga sequence at the begin of the opening for his or her predecessor, Jonathan Joestar, bursting from the confines of Araki’s manga pages into David Manufacturing’s vibrantly colourful anime in wonderful 3DCG.
The intro additionally acted like David Manufacturing pulling a Babe Ruth, signaling a house run, promising it might ultimately adapt all of JJBA from Half 6 onward. After a collection of thrilling opening themes (with sound results and funky variant adjustments to match the solid’s reality-bending talents), that promise was realized in the last opening theme of Stone Ocean, the place Jolyne steps into that position to carry the torch and fulfill a promise made ten years earlier.
After all, the hype for Metal Ball Run was at such a fever pitch long before Netflix announced it would be exclusively streaming the anime. In reality, the fandom took issues into their very own palms, with guitarist YouTuber Nico Bellisario and anime singer Shihori loving Metal Ball Run a lot that they created “Holy Metal”, a tribute track that’s been handled as the anime’s unofficial theme for years. We already know that the track’s major theme is going to be “Dance With Steel Ball Run”, written by Yugo Kanno, the insert track throughout Stage 1’s last stretch, which has already cracked the Top 10 on Billboard’s Japan Songs charts in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States—however we will’t assist however dream of JJBA‘s musical legacy, together with our curated fan-mixes as its outro songs each time the present returns in 2026.
It’s the least we deserve after witnessing anime followers performing like fools, malding over the show’s release. Make it occur, Netflix.
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