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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a family saga told in parts. Each part has its own hero with a name that shortens to "JoJo", its own setting and its own era, from Victorian England in the 1880s to Florida in 2011 and an alternate America around 1890. Early parts are built on Hamon, a breathing technique that channels energy, and from Part 3 onward on Stands, personal spirit-like powers that each work by their own rules. This page covers 18 characters grouped by part: the seven JoJos who lead Parts 1 to 7, plus the allies, mentors and first rival who shape each of their stories. Every description stops at the point where the character is introduced, so you can read about later parts without having their endings spoiled.
Jonathan Joestar is the hero of Phantom Blood, the son of a wealthy English family in the 1880s. He wants to grow into a true gentleman who keeps his word and protects people weaker than him. His quiet life falls apart when his father adopts a boy named Dio. To stand up to him, Jonathan trains in Hamon under the eccentric Will A. Zeppeli. Japanese voice: Kazuyuki Okitsu.
Joseph Joestar is the hero of Battle Tendency, Jonathan's grandson, living in 1938. Where Jonathan was polite, Joseph is loud, cheeky and rebellious, yet he has the same strong sense of right and wrong. He fights with Hamon, often through a pair of clackers, and wins by reading his opponents and predicting what they will say next. He returns as an older man in Part 3. Japanese voices: Tomokazu Sugita (young) and Unshō Ishizuka (older).
Jotaro Kujo is the hero of Stardust Crusaders, Joseph's grandson and a Japanese high school delinquent in 1987. He looks tough and says little, but he is kind underneath and stays calm in a crisis, using that calm to plan. His Stand, Star Platinum, is a fighter with huge strength, speed, precision and sharp eyesight. He leads a group on a long trip from Japan to Egypt. Japanese voice: Daisuke Ono.
Josuke Higashikata is the hero of Diamond is Unbreakable, a first-year high school student in the town of Morioh in 1999 and the son of Joseph Joestar. He is easygoing until someone insults his pompadour, which he wears in honour of a stranger who once helped his mother and him. His Stand, Crazy Diamond, restores broken objects and heals other people, though it cannot heal Josuke himself. Japanese voice: Yūki Ono.
Giorno Giovanna is the hero of Golden Wind, a teenager in Italy in 2001. As a child he saved the life of a wounded gangster, and since then he has dreamed of becoming a "Gang-Star": rising inside the Passione gang so he can change it from within and end the drug trade it runs. His Stand, Gold Experience, gives life to objects. Japanese voice: Kensho Ono.
Jolyne Cujoh is the hero of Stone Ocean and the daughter of Jotaro Kujo. In Florida in 2011 she is framed for a crime and sent to Green Dolphin Street Prison. At first she is angry with her father, who was absent for most of her childhood. Inside the prison she must fight to survive and find out who set her up. Her Stand, Stone Free, turns her body into string. Japanese voice: Fairouz Ai.
Johnny Joestar is the hero of Steel Ball Run, set in an alternate America around 1890. He was a star jockey until an incident left him unable to walk. When he sees Gyro Zeppeli's strange Spin technique briefly let him stand, he enters a horse race across the continent to follow Gyro and learn its secret, riding a horse named Slow Dancer. Japanese voice: Shogo Sakata.
Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli is the grandson of Will A. Zeppeli, Jonathan's old teacher. He is cool, stylish and popular with women, and he masters Hamon, which he sends through soap bubbles blown from special gloves. When he first meets Joseph the two clash constantly, but they end up forced into a partnership against a group of powerful ancient beings called the Pillar Men. Japanese voice: Takuya Satō.
Muhammad Avdol is an Egyptian fortune teller from Cairo and an old friend of Joseph Joestar. He is serious, wise and the one who first helped Joseph understand what Stands are. His own Stand, Magician's Red, controls fire, which he often shapes into ankh symbols. In the opening episodes of Stardust Crusaders he faces Jotaro to test him, then travels with the group as its most experienced Stand user. Japanese voice: Kenta Miyake.
Noriaki Kakyoin is a high school student who first appears as Jotaro's enemy, sent after him while under someone else's control. Once Jotaro frees him, he pledges to join the trip to Egypt. Polite and composed, he works as a foil to rough-mannered Jotaro. His Stand, Hierophant Green, can stretch into thin tendrils, slip inside things and fire a long-range attack called Emerald Splash. Japanese voice: Daisuke Hirakawa.
Jean Pierre Polnareff is a French traveller who first attacks the group in Hong Kong and loses a duel to Avdol. After that he joins them, partly because he is searching for the man who killed his sister. He is honourable and brave, but also goofy and quick to get into trouble. His Stand, Silver Chariot, is an armoured knight with a rapier that gets faster when it sheds its armour. Japanese voice: Fuminori Komatsu.
Koichi Hirose is a short, ordinary first-year student who becomes Josuke's friend in their first days at school in Morioh. Shy at the start, he grows into one of the bravest people in town. His Stand, Echoes, has three forms called Acts, and he can only use one at a time. He also builds a mentor-and-student bond with Jotaro, who has come to Morioh. Japanese voice: Yūki Kaji.
Okuyasu Nijimura is a Morioh teenager who starts out on the opposite side from Josuke, together with his older brother Keicho, on whom he relies for every hard decision. He is not the sharpest person around, but he is loyal and good-hearted, and he soon becomes one of Josuke and Koichi's closest friends. His Stand, The Hand, erases the space it swipes through. Japanese voice: Wataru Takagi.
Bruno Bucciarati is a mid-ranking member of the Passione gang who runs his own small team. He grew up in a fishing village and hates the drug trade, which makes him an unlikely mobster with a strong moral code. After testing Giorno, he becomes his closest ally and the leader of the group the story follows. His Stand, Sticky Fingers, places working zippers on any surface. Japanese voice: Yuichi Nakamura.
Gyro Zeppeli is a mysterious rider from the Kingdom of Naples who enters the Steel Ball Run race with his horse Valkyrie and a personal mission of his own. He is a master of the Spin, a family technique sent through steel balls that can heal or attack. Laid-back and joking on the surface, he becomes Johnny's teacher and rival on the trail. Japanese voice: Yōhei Azakami.
Lisa Lisa is a Hamon master who lives in Venice and trains both Caesar and Joseph during Battle Tendency. Calm, strict and mysterious, she looks around 25 even though she is much older, an effect of years of Hamon breathing. She fights by channelling Hamon through a long scarf. Her training on an island near Venice is one of the most remembered stretches of Part 2. Japanese voice: Atsuko Tanaka.
Rohan Kishibe is a famous manga artist who lives in Morioh and draws the series Pink Dark Boy for Weekly Shonen Jump. He is arrogant and blunt, obsessed with realism in his work, but he means well. His Stand, Heaven's Door, opens people up like books so he can read their memories and write instructions into them. He later got his own spin-off stories. Japanese voice: Takahiro Sakurai.
Dio Brando is the antagonist of Phantom Blood. He arrives at the Joestar mansion as an adopted son with one plan: to take the family and its fortune for himself. Charming in public and cruel in private, he makes Jonathan's childhood miserable and draws followers through charisma and manipulation. An ancient stone mask gives him powers no human should have. Japanese voice: Takehito Koyasu.
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