The BEST Episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012)
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Sep 10, 2019
Network: Tokyo MX
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure follows an intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers. Phantom Blood: Beginning in 1880, Part 1 follows Jonathan Joestar as he matures with and eventually combats his adoptive brother, the cunning, merciless Dio Brando. Battle Tendency: Set in 1938, Part 2 follows Joseph Joestar, grandson of Jonathan, who finds himself embroiled in a war against ancient super-beings named the Pillar Men, creators of the Stone Mask. Stardust Crusaders: Part 3, set in 1989, follows Jotaro Kujo, who has acquired the power of Stand, and his allies as they journey from Tokyo to Cairo to save his mother's life by defeating his family's archenemy, DIO. Diamond is Unbreakable: In Part 4, set in 1999 in the fictional town of Morioh, high-schooler Josuke Higashikata and his friends seek out the Arrow, which has the power to give Stand abilities. Golden Wind: Part 5, set in Italy in 2001, follows the adventure Giorno Giovanna, the son of DIO, in his ambition to rise within the Italian mafia by subverting the dominant gang Passione and its mysterious Boss with the aid of a team of fellow Stand users. Stone Ocean: In Part 6, 2011, Florida, Jolyne Cujoh, daughter of Jotaro Kujo, is framed for murder and thrown in the Green Dolphin Street Jail. She and her allies struggle to discover who is responsible for what and what are they planning to do.
#1 - Dio's World, Part 3
Season 2 - Episode 47
Joseph is able to figure out The World's power because of the message Kakyoin left, but is quickly knocked out by a cruel attack by Dio. Jotaro then attacks The World with Star Platinum, but is no match for Dio's power. Dio stopped time and goes in for the final blow, but he sees that Jotaro's fingers are moving in the stopped time, and strengthens his defense. Jotaro telling Dio that their Stands are the same type lingers in his mind...
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#2 - The Mystery of King Crimson
Season 4 - Episode 21
Bucciarati finds out that the boss's true motive is to eliminate Trish because of her relationship with him, causing him to betray the boss and save Trish. Meanwhile, Giorno feels something bizarre is going on as they waited for Bucciarati's return. The boss's Stand, King Crimson rises.
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#3 - Beneath a Sky on the Verge of Falling
Season 4 - Episode 28
In the aftermath of the battle between Risotto and Doppio, Abbacchio uses Moody Blues to try and uncover the boss's identity. But the boss is adamant about keeping his identity a secret and executes his next gambit against the group.
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#4 - Goodbye, Morioh - The Heart of Gold
Season 3 - Episode 39
Josuke and the others finally corner Kira. Jotaro also arrives but Kira uses Bites the Dust on a paramedic who came to help and tries to blow away time gain. He tells the woman his true identity, causing Bites the Dust to activate. The final battle in Morioh is finally reaching its end!
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#5 - King Of Kings
Season 4 - Episode 37
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#6 - King Crimson vs Metallica
Season 4 - Episode 27
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#7 - His Name Is Diavolo
Season 4 - Episode 33
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#8 - Bites the Dust, Part 2
Season 3 - Episode 36
After blowing up Rohan Kishibe with Killer Queen's third ability, Bites the Dust, Hayato is told by Kira as to what happened and returns to the same morning. He then thinks that the only people who could defeat Kira are people with abilities like Rohan, and tries to tell Rohan about Kira without getting him killed. However, Rohan blows up, even without meeting Hayato. Hayato is distraught, thinking that there's no one else who can defeat Kira when he runs into...
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#9 - The Ascendant One
Season 1 - Episode 26
JoJo's victory, along with his arm, is cut short when Kars manages to survive the volcano by forming a shield of air bubbles to protect him from its deadly lava.
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#10 - Long Travels, Goodbye My Friend
Season 2 - Episode 48
Because of Polnareff's miraculous, life-risking trick, Jotaro is finally able to land a blow onto Dio. The injured Dio tries to escape within the stopped time. Jotaro tries to finish him with a rush attack, but that was the escape route that Dio was looking for. Before Dio lies the shriveled body of Joseph Joestar. Jotaro is enraged by Dio, who has now healed, and wages his final battle with Dio within stopped time!
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#11 - D'Arby the Gambler, Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 35
D'Arby prepares his and Jotaro's game of poker by splitting up Polnareff and Joseph's souls into six poker chips each he will use to bet with, giving Jotaro a set of six to represent his own soul. Jotaro shows off how precise Star Platinum's eyesight is by predicting the deal of the cards, and catches D'Arby as his about to cheat by second dealing, leading Jotaro to pick a boy near the café to deal for them. Jotaro loses three chips in his first hand against D'Arby, and in the second hand D'Arby is dealt four kings, but Jotaro appears to have not once looked at his cards. D'Arby begins to worry, as he knows the boy and everyone else in the café are in his employ, and the boy is sure he has dealt Jotaro a bum hand, but Jotaro raises all of his soul and Avdol's soul on his bet, while using Star Platinum to get himself a cigarette and a drink. D'Arby believes he is bluffing, seeing his bet and raising it, betting the rest of Jotaro's soul and all of Joseph and Polnareff's souls. Jotaro sees his bet with Kakyoin's soul and then raises with the soul of his mother Holly. D'Arby, unsure if Jotaro has managed to use Star Platinum to change out all of his cards to a better hand, mentally folds as he goes catatonic. All of the souls he won in bets are released, allowing Joseph and Polnareff to recover as Avdol looks at Jotaro's cards, realizing that he had been dealt a bad hand. Jotaro admits he never once looked at his cards to keep his cool, but laments that they will not be able to interrogate D'Arby for information on Dio.
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#12 - The Grateful Dead, Part 2
Season 4 - Episode 16
Number Six from Sex Pistols manages to warn Bucciarati about the enemies and fights back, but The Grateful Dead's powers are taking a toll on him. Bucciarati steels his resolve and throws himself out with Prosciutto out of the train that's going 150kph. Barely hanging onto life, Prosciutto uses The Grateful Dead again. Pesci decides to take Prosciutto's resolve to heart and attacks Bucciarati.
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#13 - Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2
Season 3 - Episode 24
Koichi manages to survive because Echoes Act 3 made Sheer Heart Attack heavy, but then the murderer, Yoshikage Kira shows up! Feeling intense anger against the murderer, Koichi fights Kira with Act 3, but doesn't stand a chance. Kira is infuriated by the fact that Koichi made a fool of him in public, and lets loose on him, but...
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#14 - The Final Mission from the Boss
Season 4 - Episode 20
Mista and Giorno were able to defeat Ghiaccio. They then confirm the mission on the disc and head to the location they're supposed to take Trish. Bucciarati goes up the tower with Trish, but while they're in the elevator, Trish suddenly disappears. Bucciarati then realizes what the boss's true motives are.
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#15 - Young Caesar
Season 1 - Episode 20
Lisa Lisa tells JoJo of Caesar's childhood, in which he took to crime at a young age after being abandoned by his debt-ridden father, Mario.
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#16 - Shining D (Diamond) is Unbreakable, Part 2
Season 3 - Episode 38
Josuke and Hayato try to force Killer Queen and Stray Cat into close-quarters combat by going into a nearby house. However, air bullets start to show up in the house. Josuke tries to dodge them by throwing around ash from an ashtray so he can see where they are going, but for some reasons, the air bullets keep chasing after Josuke. There's no way that Kira should be able to see them from the outside, so Josuke and Hayato start panicking...
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#17 - Green Day and Oasis, Part 2
Season 4 - Episode 31
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#18 - Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 2
Season 3 - Episode 22
Yoshikage Kira was the killer hiding in Morioh and is also a Stand user. Shigechi finds out this secret, so Kira tries to dispose of him, but Shigechi fights back with Harvest. However, because of Kira's Stand, Killer Queen, he suffers a mortal wound and loses. Shigechi manages to get away from Kira and tries to find Josuke so he can tell him about Kira and be fixed by Crazy Diamond.
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#19 - Diavolo Surfaces
Season 4 - Episode 36
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#20 - A Little Story From the Past ~My Name Is Doppio~
Season 4 - Episode 26
8.51 
#21 - Dio's World, Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 46
The battle is taking place in the city of Cairo at night. Joseph and Kakyoin are running from Dio as they fight, and Jotaro and Polnareff chase after Dio as they fight. Amidst all of that, Kakyoin says he has a way to figure out what Dio's Stand actually is. Dio, who was chasing after Kakyoin when he falls into Hierophant Green's trap, and then...
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#22 - The Requiem Quietly Plays, Part 1
Season 4 - Episode 34
8.45 
#23 - Spice Girl
Season 4 - Episode 25
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#24 - The Miasma of the Void, Cool Ice, Part 2
Season 2 - Episode 43
After a long, hard journey, they are faced with a sudden goodbye of a friend. Because it's so sudden, Polnareff can't control his emotions. He starts brandishing his sword toward the unseen enemy with very little success.
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#25 - The Warrior of Wind
Season 1 - Episode 23
Launching his Final Mode attack, Gathering Gale, which starts peeling away his own body, Wamuu begins firing a stream of wind capable of cutting stone towards JoJo.
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