Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: スティール・ボール・ラン ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, Hepburn: Sutīru Bōru Ran: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is the sixth season of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime television series produced by David Production, adapting Steel Ball Run, the seventh part of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series. Like the previous season, Steel Ball Run was released worldwide as an original net animation season on Netflix, with the first episode having premiered on March 19, 2026.

Plot

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

In September 1890, riders from across the globe gather in the United States for the Steel Ball Run, a transcontinental horse race from San Diego to New York City offering a 50 million USD prize. Among them is paraplegic former jockey Johnny Joestar, who joins to study the mysterious "Spin" technique of Neapolitan Gyro Zeppeli after Gyro briefly restores his mobility. Though starting as rivals, Johnny and Gyro become close allies while surviving attacks from ruthless competitors.

Cast

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Character	Japanese	English
Johnny Joestar	Shogo Sakata	Daman Mills
Gyro Zeppeli	Yōhei Azakami	Kaiji Tang
Lucy Steel	Rie Takahashi	Frankie Kevich
Steven Steel	Kenta Miyake	Jamieson Price
Diego Brando	Kaito Ishikawa	Damien Haas
Sand Man	Masaaki Mizunaka	Alejandro Antonio Ruiz
Pocoloco	Kenichirou Matsuda	Cedric Williams
Urmd Avdul	Kenta Miyake	Nazeeh Tarsha

Production and release

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

In April 2025, as part of the JoJoday event held to celebrate the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, an anime adaptation of Steel Ball Run produced by David Production was announced. Key art, as well as character art for Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli, were revealed alongside a promotional video. During Anime Expo on July 4, 2025, the main production staff for the adaptation was revealed. Golden Wind co-directors Yasuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi reprised their roles, alongside returning series director Toshiyuki Kato, while Yasuko Kobayashi is overseeing series composition. Daisuke Tsumagari returns as character designer, and Yugo Kanno is composing the music, with Yoshikazu Iwanami serving again as sound director. As with previous installments, David Production is handling animation production. Additional details, such as the release year and main character castings, were revealed during a livestream event in September of the same year.

Following the premiere of the first episode, Kimura stated that he was not sure when more episodes would be released. On March 28, 2026, a teaser trailer was released, which revealed that the next episode would premiere sometime in 2026.

Episodes

Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

<table><thead><tr><th>No. overall</th><th>No. in season</th><th>Title</th><th>Directed by</th><th>Written by</th><th>Storyboarded by</th><th>Original release date</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>191</td><td>1</td><td>"Steel Ball Run" Transliteration: "Sutīru Bōru Ran" (Japanese: スティール・ボール・ラン)</td><td>Toshiyuki Kato & Yasuhiro Kimura</td><td>Yasuko Kobayashi</td><td>Toshiyuki Kato & Yasuhiro Kimura</td><td>March 19, 2026 (2026-03-19)</td></tr><tr><td>In September 1890, jockeys from all over the world assemble in California to take part in the Steel Ball Run, a cross-country horse race organized by Steven Steel with a $50,000,000 grand prize that starts in San Diego and ends in New York City. While signing up for the race, a mysterious Neapolitan rider named Gyro Zeppeli gets into a duel with a mugger and defeats him with a steel ball imbued with some kind of rotational energy. Johnny Joestar, a former celebrity jockey turned paraplegic after he was shot in the spine, touches one of the balls while it is still spinning and briefly regains his mobility. Determined to learn the secret behind Gyro's Spin technique, Johnny joins the race after taming the older but rowdy Slow Dancer. They begin the first stage of the race, which is a 15,000 meter dash south to a nearby church. Among the 3,852 participants also include British prodigy Diego "Dio" Brando, a Native American running without a horse named Sandman, and Pocoloco, a happy-go-lucky racer seemingly blessed with good luck. Though it is a tight race near the finish line, Gyro uses his Spin technique to give himself a boost and win the first stage.</td></tr></tbody></table>