- See also: JoJo Influence on Internet Culture; List of cultural references in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
This article lists possible references made in popular series and by popular artists to art or concepts defining to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Discussion of the legitimacy of these references can be found here.
References range in nature from tribute to plagiarism. Many are comic, while the "JoJo poses" in particular cross into greater cultural significance, with the greatest examples being those reproduced by a handful of popular Japanese performing artists.
Music
Hello! Project The idol groups of Hello! Project, like ANGERME, consists of a few JoJo fans. Their girls strike JoJo poses on their blog and sometimes mix JoJo references into their dance choreography.
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Jojolion The grindcore group [4] is named for the most recent part of the series, and plays instrumental music with song titles from Stardust Crusaders, as well as using samples from the 1993 OVA. |
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Japanese model and artist, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, often references the series through the iconic JoJo Pose. During an interview she has also mentioned having felt like a Stand user and has named her dog JoJo. In her music video for "PONPONPON", she can be seen doing several different poses referencing different anime throughout the video with the last featuring aforementioned pose.
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Shoko Nakagawa The Otaku idol Shoko Nakagawa (a.k.a. Shokotan), a dedicated fan of the manga series, is known to imitate JoJo poses during interviews and live performances on stage. An avid fangirl of Jotaro on social media, she had at one point broken her tailbone on tour while trying to imitate Naranicia's pose.[1] On the Japanese Tv Show "溜池Now", Shoko Interviews Araki
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Starbomb ![]() Luigi posing like Giorno |
Yuka Kashino Yuka Kashino from Japanese electropop group Perfume often talks about her love for JoJo in the media and has struck the pose with other members during photo ops. In addition, the choreography inspired by JoJo’s pose appears in Perfume’s music video “Natural ni koi site” that was released in 2010.
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Anime/Manga
Ai Mai Mi ![]() Summoning a Stand |
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Baka and Test The series is littered with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure references, ranging from poses to art style and even plot aspects. During a specific scene, Akihisa is seen trying Himeji's bentō, only to be dragged into the darkness by a bunch of hands. There is also a scene in episode 7 where an annoying man with Josukue's hair and his girlfriend try to get married at the Kisaragi Park. He features JoJo like frames and even does Jonathan's famous pose, Jotaro's pose when he angels at the sky, and Killer Queens' rock and roll pose.
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Binbō-gami ga! Being a parody show, it has several brief and subtle references. In episode 1, Ichiko monologues her popularity and beauty, while imagining herself posing similar to Kars.[4] In episode 6, there is a scene of Ichiko looking like Josuke after returning Keita his handkerchief.[4] For the same scene, in chapter 9 of the manga, we only find a quote from Josuke's Speech about "wearing new panties on New Year's Day". In the 21th chapter of the manga, Nadeshiko expresses her jealousy and rage with Ichiko and Ranmaru resembling the scene when Josuke and Jotaro are being attacked by Yoshihiro in Kira's house in Part 4. In Chapter 32, the scene of a random girl attacking Bobby resembles the scene of Esidisi attacking Caesar after having taken control of Suzi Q's body, in Part 2. In chapter 40, a Binbōgami Item turns a pumpkin into a horse carriage that resembles one of the chariots used during the chariot race between Joseph and Wamuu, also in Part 2.
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Busō Renkin Earlier in the chapter 8 (episode 4), Kazuki Muto draws a picture of missing school student Kōshaku Chono to show to other classmates, this picture is humorously drawn in the artsyle of Hirohiko Araki, much to everyone's surprise.
Later on chapter 48 (episode 15), the Warrior Chief Captain Bravo quotes Avdol's line of "YES I AM!" upon being recognized by the other characters on the beach. In chapter 49 (episode 16), he also mimics Polnareff's "Bravo, oh bravo!" pose (while riding a surfboard). |
Cardfight!! Vanguard G: GIRS Crisis |
CLAMP The famous manga studio CLAMP have been fans of the JoJo series since before becoming well-known themselves. They have done several JoJo-based dōjinshi, the most notable of which is CLAMP in Wonderland: 1994 Summer and features the heroes of Stardust Crusaders. The JoJo character they created in that doujinshi also appears at the end of their first CLAMP in Wonderland video,[5] alongside their own series' characters. |
Denki-gai no Honya-san In the first episode Director is asking to Umio what happen between he and Hio, Umio says "nothing", and then, Director come closer to Umio and "licks" his ear, saying that he has the "taste of a liar"; making a reference to the Giorno and Bruno's "taste of a liar" scene from Vento Aureo. In Episode 2, Director an Umio makes JoJo poses (Director as Jonathan, Umio as Joseph). In Episode 7, Director makes a JoJo reference.
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG, on one of the Tachikoma na Hibi omake of the series, shows that after getting outfitted with a new "Agent" equipment one of the Tachikomas gets an Araki-style appearance and an ability to summon a stand-like Agent that has time-stopping power "Reset The World" (Resetto Za Warudo).[6]
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Gintama One of the arcs has the protagonists entering a haunted inn that services spiritual beings called "stands" (which are actually just ghosts), so that they may attain the happiness necessary for them to reach the afterlife. The "stands" may possess the "stand user" to grant him special abilities, which parody the conventional Stand naming derived from musical themes. The anime equivalent of the arc has Gintoki defining a "stand" while Star Platinum appears as an example, donning Gintoki's trademark attire, and includes a reference to Araki Hirohiko as a "backwards-aging fairy". The main antagonist of the arc, Oiwa, also uses Star Platinum's battle cry "ORAORAORA".
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GJ bu In the episode 2, Kyoro is reading Volume 14 of the JoJo's Bizarre adventure manga. In the episode 7 Kyoro turns into ORE-MAN and does several poses, a couple taken from JoJo.
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Gokujo In both the anime and manga, the main character, Aya Akabane, is often seen doing JoJo-like poses when discussing things relating to beauty.
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Gugure Kokkuri-san In the episode 6, Inugami puts Kohina's head in the mouth of a big spirit for change her face, and Inugami is beaten by Kokkuri-san for his actions and Kohina makes the Risotto Nero pose over the Inugami's body.
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Haiyore! Nyaruko-san As a gag-series, it features one of the highest amounts of references to JoJo.
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Hayate the Combat Butler In one episode Klaus Seishirō parodies the famous scene of Dio turned into a vampire by the Stone Mask, with the same SFX that arises on the screen. Yukiji Katsura also mimics the technique "Sunlight Yellow Overdrive", exclaiming "Violet Overdrive" as her battle cry while attacking him.[10]
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Hellsing In an omake of the manga, one character states that "volume 6" can be read as "ro-kan" while another says that it sounds like "Kishibe Rohan". A picture of Rohan in the Hellsing-omake style is present as well. In an omake for the second volume of Drifters Hirano describes Hirohiko Araki as "an ex-Shinsengumi vice-commander mangaka who can stop time, is a magic boy and a BT, screams "Baru-baru-baru-baru!", has four testicles in the alternate universe and is under execution, under jailbreak".
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Hozuki no Reitetsu At the end of episode 9, during the next episode preview, Hōzuki is heard using the battle cry "Ora Ora" (very distinctly an impersonation of OVA Star Platinum) while he punches Enma, following with a Hokuto no Ken reference. |
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Hyakko ![]() Johnny cosplay in the background |
Hyperdimension Neptunia ![]() Lastation no Security wa Sekai Ichi! |
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Inō-Battle wa Nichijō-kei no Naka de? In Episode 5, Tomoyo recreates an iconic pose of Kakyoin while playing as a "Chuuni" character. In Episode 8, Hajime Kiryū talks about Andō´s group, which he called ´´Virgin Child´´, imagining them in JoJo poses (Andō poses as Jonathan, Tomoyo as Jotaro, Hatoko as Josuke, Chifuyu as Giorno and Sayumi as Killer Queen).
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Kill la Kill ![]() Ryuko's "secret technique": Running away! |
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead In episode 3 of this anime Ayumu Aikawa performs a dance to the hip-hop-like music. The lyrics of this song are a clear reference to Jonathan's most famous attack.[13]
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Macademi Wasshoi! In episode 4, in order to fight Baltia´s black giant, Eitaro Sakuma exclaims that he will fight her, meanwhile he makes a pose similar to Risotto Nero; and orders to his assistant Eineus to ´´launch the thing (a giant robot sized Eineus)!´´, making Joestar´s trademark facehand pose.
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Maria Holic Episode 8 of the series shows JoJo-styled SFX, coupled with a "To be continued" sign.
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Mayoi Neko Overrun! During a game of Jenga, Chise summons a Stand similar to Star Platinum to help her pull a brick out. There is another scene that is in the manga only, where the Stray Cat's Club is at the beach, and they appear to be making a sand sculpture of Iggy's stand, The Fool.
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Meganebu! Towards the end of Episode 2, Yukiya Minabe finishes his pair of glasses and begins executing both Joseph and Jotaro's poses. In the episode 6, all the Meganebu's members perform famous poses on a train, like a challenge or game.
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My Bride is a Mermaid Being a comedy show, Seto no Hanayome features some JoJo references in a parody fashion.[15]
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU In Episode 4 of Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru Hayama Hayato mimics Giorno's famous "I have a dream!" pose in Hachiman's delusion. In episode 7, the character Hikigaya Hachiman is referencing Stand users by comparing them to loners. The complete line is "Just like how Stand users are attracted to each other, it looks like loners are also very adept at finding other loners." |
No Game No Life * In episode 2, Stephanie Dola makes a fuss of her emotions towards Sora, and amid frustration, she shouts "WRYYYYYYYY!!" while striking a pose, directly referencing DIO in Part 3.
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No-rin! In episode 3, Kamatori Kei wears a ridiculous swimsuit causing some characters to react much like Dio's friends when witnessing Dio kiss Erina. In the same episode, a scene change occurs referencing a scene from Steel Ball Run. In Episode 5, when Kaoru (Rose) Hanazono finds Ringo, he cites Noriaki Kakyoin's "Saa, oshioki (Rose says oyatsu) no jikanda yo, baby" quote, in English that will be ´´Now, it´s time for punishment (Rose says snacks instead), baby´´. Also, Kousaku says Jonathan's famous "Furueru zo haato! Moetsukiru hodo hiito!" quote when he almost kisses Kaoru. There's a kiss scene similar to the Dio and Erina kiss between Kousaku and Kaoru where Kaoru says the same quote about Erina (Kousaku)'s first kiss; and Kousaku says the same phrase when Dio was being beaten by Jonathan, imitating Dio's crying scene. Also, Rose cites a couple times the catchphrase of Muhammad Avdol from Part 3 (YES, I AM!), and he loves prime numbers (like Enrico Pucci in Part 6). Kei makes various JoJo poses when he tries to stop Kousaku and Kaoru and when he explains Kaoru's true personality. Kaoru says Melone's Bellissimo and Di Molto! quotes.
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Oniichan dakedo Ai sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne! In one episode Anastasia mentions her bear losing an arm and appropriately named Mr. Joester. In another episode, the cast is seen recreating iconic JoJo poses with sfx covering the screen.
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OreShura One of the main characters, Masuzu Natsukawa, often brings up JoJo throughout the show. Natsukawa's "boyfiend" also happens to be a fan of JoJo, and whenever Masuzu's temperament gets too unpredictable, he even has the habit of using JoJo related topics to change the subject and brighten the mood.
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Osomatsu-san Jyushimatsu prepares for his date in episode 9. In one of his outfits he is wearing the Stone Mask. Also in episode 8 While Jyushimatsu holds Iyami, JoJo-style "menacing" SFX for (ゴゴゴ) flows background. Karamatsu also makes Jonathan's pose in episode 25. |
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Psycho Pass Shusei Kagari's favorite manga is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure because he wishes he had a special power like Stand or Ripple. |
Puni Puni Poemi In episode 1, Nabeshin fights with Alien#1 who summons Star Platinum making various JoJo references. Nabeshin recognices him as a Stand user.[17]
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Rosario + Vampire The series has a number of blatant references to JoJo. One chapter appears to have been inspired by the Tower of Gray arc as the main cast travels to Hong Kong, but is intercepted along the way by an assassin and then survive the plane crash.
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Sakigake!! Otokojuku Heihachi Edajima, the headmaster of Otokojuku, is shown reading the manga.
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei In Episode 4 of Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, the characters find some "ultimate weapon" buried beneath them, which turns out to be an Ultraman stone mask. Throughout the series one of the characters, Usui, is constantly trying to get attention due to being unnoticeable. In one episode where everyone's character is the opposite of what it normally is, he is very noticeable and appears in the JoJo art style while imitating familiar poses.
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Sei So Tsui Dan Sha At one point in this H manga, the mother does Avdol's "YES I AM" pose, when Polnareff realizes he is actually alive. |
Seitokai no Ichizon Sugisaki Ken, the main character, claims that all boys have a Stand called Illusion which enables them to fantasize about girls even when blindfolded. After that he makes one of Joseph's poses.
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Senyuu In one of the episodes a character named Samejima is portrayed in Araki style doing Joseph's pose accompanied by the SFX. Samejima and Joseph are also voiced by the same VA, Sugita Tomokazu. Another character, Februar, is shown in Araki style as well.
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Shokugeki no Soma In Chapter 71, during Megumi & Kurokiba food battle, they invoke their imaginary Stand's and enter a blazing fist battle. The character design of Megumi is similar to Spice Girl, while Kurokiba's Stand has a skin pattern similar to King Crimson.
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Tantei Opera Milky Holmes One episode features characters striking some famous JoJo poses, such as Jonathan's, Joseph's, Jotaro's and Anasui's.
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THE iDOLM@STER In 6th episode Kotori imagines what would happen if the girls of 765 Pro were to open a tamatebako from Urashima Tarō myth. Her fantasies are shown as JoJo-stylized manga pages.
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Toaru Kagaku no Railgun ![]() In the series, there is a restaurant located within Academy City, called Joseph's Coffee and Restaurant, notable for being often frequented by Misaka Mikoto and her friends. The name of the restaurant references the actual restaurant in Japan, Jonathan's Coffee and Restaurant, though in this case, they replaced "Jonathan" with "Joseph".
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Toaru Majutsu no Index In the first volume of the first chapter of the Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel, the narration references JoJo's Bizarre Adventure when it compared the atmosphere in Touma's room after he destroyed Index's clothing as when a Stand user has used its attack on someone.
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To Love Ru Darkness In the 44.5th chapter of the series, the main protagonist, Rito Yuuki, is seen holding a bag of various bizarre items. The logo on the bag reads: Stardust Store - JOJO HAND, featuring pictures of the Lucky Land Communications logo. In Chapter 53, the character Yami is seen in the library reading a book whose cover features Oingo and Boingo in Tohth's artstyle. Part of Oingo's name can be seen on the spine and a picture of Iggy is shown on the back cover.
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Triage X ![]() Joestar's Caffee & Restaurant. |
UQ Holder ![]() UQ Holder reference to JoJo |
Watashi ga Motete Dousunda In episode 3, main protagonist Kae punches at the camera repeatedly while scream "muri" several times, just like DIO's "muda", and ends by doing Dio's "WRYYY" pose. In the second eyecatch of the episode 8, the Serinuma family are doing several JoJo poses: the protagonist Kae is doing Joseph's pose, her mother Mitsuko is doing Jonathan's pose and her older brother Takuro is doing Josuke's pose
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Yandere Kanojo In chapter 45, Manabu comments about Stand Users being attracted to each other. |
Yo-kai Watch In episode 13, Keita becomes possessed by the dancing seaweed Yo-Kai Wakame-kun, Konbu-san, and Mekabu-chan during a physical education class on dancing. Throughout the day he is seen doing dance poses, Josuke's being one of them. In episode 87, a yokai named Otonabull appears and possesses people, causing them to act like adults. At some point he meets Manjimutt and tries to become his apprentice. After he accepts, they decide to go on a bizarre adventure. |
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Video Games
Bayonetta ![]() The Little Devils |
Castlevania series A stone mask can be found in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night's library, which is where Jonathan and Dio studied the properties of the Stone Mask. It appears again in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, with an appearance much more akin to the one's found in JoJo.
In Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, if the Sacred Fist sub-weapon is used without a Spell Book activated, the protagonist shouts "Ora ora ora!" and unleashes a flurry of extremely fast, blur-like punches (in reference to Star Platinum). In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, a soul called "Guardian Cagnazzo" can be obtained that makes a a Cagnazzo demon appear behind the protagonist and punch wildly whilst shouting "Ora ora ora!" also in another reference to Star Platinum. In Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, one of the boss characters, Zephyr, utilizes time stopping abilities in conjunction with knives (much like DIO). Zephyr even shouts "Toki wo tomare" (Time has stopped). His fight on top of the clock tower is another reference to Part 3 of the manga. |
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Danganronpa During his initial introduction, the protagonist, Makoto Naegi, points out that he does not have a Stand. Additionally, the Japanese delinquent, Mondo Oowada is an homage to Josuke Higashikata, sharing Josuke's hairstyle and is easily offended when people make fun of it. He is also the leader of a motorcycle gang named the Crazy Diamonds. The first execution of the game, The 1000 Blows, has Leon Kuwata being hit 1000 times with baseballs, similar to how Jolyne Cujoh defeats Miraschon. The villain of the game, Junko Enoshima, has multiple personalities, with one of them constantly acting as Dio and saying "Muda, Muda, Muda" during her Machinegun Talk Battle, also she is making the JoJo Pose (those things appeared also in the anime). One of the items the player can gift is called the Meteorite Arrowhead, a blatant reference to the Arrow. The sequel, Super DanganRonpa 2, has the character Teruteru Hanamura mentioning that people can tell if others are lying by the taste of their sweat. The game also features Monokuma attacking Monomi with a Heaven's Door parody.
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Dark Souls ![]() Armor of Thorns According to the interview found in Design Works artbook, the design of the Thorns Set originated from the concept of the 77 Rings Challenge. In the challenge, combatants must defeat each other and wear the metal rings from each foe, increasing the weight they bear as they continue. The team's idea was to use this design and try adding spikes to the rings. Just before the Iron Golem boss, you can summon a white phantom named Black Iron Tarkus, which is likely a reference to Tarkus, as they share many similarities. They are both large powerful warriors who carry unwieldy weapons and thick armor, who both fall off a cliff in a similar fashion. In Dark Souls II, you can encounter a boss called Executioner's Charot. During the original network test prior to the games release, this boss instead had the name Silver Chariot, referencing the Stand of the same name from Part 3. |
Devil Beater In the game exists a secret playable character based off of the character Diavolo, specifically his form as The Boss, named "Solido Naso". While slow, he can summon his Stand, Ruler Red, to deal large amounts of damage and knockback. |
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Hyperdimension Neptunia In Re;birth1, when the heroes discuss Noire's status as a loner, Neptune says her Stand power tells her Noire has no friends. MAGES.'s victory screen has her pose like Caesar's iconic pose. Rom and Ram have special attacks that open with them posing similar to Caesar. In Megadimension Neptunia VII, Neptune quotes Polnareff's speech from when he was exposed to DIO's The World. In Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls, Neptune references the smoke trick Jotaro used to expose the Impostor Captain Tenille.
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Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter ![]() Omega Red's ending in the crossover game Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter shows him having defeated/killed Ryu, with Ken deeply distressed and exalted questioning him shouting "how many lives have you ended?", to which only responds grinning "do you count the number of breaths you've taken?".[21] This could be a reference to when Will A. Zeppeli made a very similar question toward vampire Dio Brando ("how many lives have you sucken away to heal those wounds?"), only to be answered cynically with "how many breads have you eaten in your life?".[22] |
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series During Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique Jutsu, characters are forced to perform Jonathan's famous pose with a matching SFX in the background.[23] |
NekoPara After Chocola and Vanilla had lost consciousness by playing with catnip, their Master took them to the bed. After Vanilla woke up she wonders why it's so late and suspects a Stand user attack. After Chocola, Vanilla and Coconut burn their tongues on hot coffee, they suck on ice cubes and make Kakyoin's "Rero rero rero rero~" sound.
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Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge ![]() The character Donovan Baine from the Darkstalkers series has the ability to summon different spirits during his several attacks. The franchise's Vampire Series Official Complete Works artbook includes a conceptual sketch, made by Kanameshi and Kimo Kimo for the game Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, wich showed Donovan summoning Moody Blues instead (p.110), referencing the Stand-like qualities of some of his summons. In the same page of said artbook there is also another (but instead earlier) sketch of Donovan where he appears posing very similar to DIO in Part 3. |
Ninja Gaiden ![]() Ninja Gaiden |
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth An animated cutscene in the game introduces the Persona 4 cast posing as different JoJo characters: Narukami as Jonathan, Yosuke as Dio, Chie as Jotaro, Yukiko as Josuke, Naoto as Giorno and Kanji as Joseph.
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Psychic Force series Richard Wong is a Psychiccer with the power to control time. He naturally compliments this ability by swarming the enemy with summoned daggers (usually after immobilizing them with a large sword) and uses teleportation as a highly evasive maneuver and as a means to swarm the opponent with more attacks. |
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Rosenkreuzstillette ![]() Sichte demonstrates knife-throwing technique after a time stop. Sichte Meister is a homage to DIO . Like DIO, Sichte uses knives to attack and has the ability to manipulate time. She also shouts "Toki wo tomare!!" while freezing time and placing knives that zeros-in on the player in Rosenkreuzstilette.
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School Idol Project In the Love Live rhythm action game, a recruitable character Fumie Nishimura can be seen holding a book (on the level 1 version of her card). The character on the cover of her book seems to closely resemble the younger Joseph with Caesar's triangle-patterned bandana tied around his head. The coloured spheres in the background appear to symbolize the bubbles that Caesar is capable of generating with his ability.
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Senran Kagura series Senran Kagura 2 Deep Crimson, Mirai has an outfit called "Camisole" with 4 different colors to it. 2 colors have the words "Star Platinum" surrounding a star in the middle of the camisole while the other 2 colors have "The World" surrounding a globe.
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey The Cursed Sarai is a weapon described as "The Sword of Anubis that drives people mad.
An enemy-only ability is called Bites The Dust that inflicts the Bomb status on a target. Said target will explode and die instantly next time it is attacked. |
Skullgirls ![]() Two playable characters from Skullgirls, Valentine and Peacock , are an homage to Dio Brando/DIO. Valentine can stop time and throw knives similar to DIO,[25] and Peacock can drop a steamroller on her opponents[26] though it is very rare.
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Steins;Gate The protagonist, Okabe Rintarou, while talking with Suzuha Amane, references The World in an allusion that he sensed the time had stopped. In the visual novel, the group built a device called "Is it, ORAORAORA?!" which is a very basic lie detector; so basic that in reality it can only read people's sweat levels. They also like using Rohan's "I refuse" quote, which eventually outed someone as an otaku. |
Street Fighter series Lead designer of Street Fighter 2, Akira Nishitani, stated in a interview with Polygon that the concept of Dhalsim's ability to stretch his limbs comes from the Ripple "Zoom Punch" technique.[28] This is reconfirmed in the comment section of Dhalism's bio in the Street Fighter X Tekken Artworks artbook.
In an interview with producer Noritaka Funamizu, he reveals that Guile's overall appearance was modeled after Jean Pierre Polnareff.[29] Guile's page in Street Fighter X Tekken Artworks goes into detail, explaining that early designs included Polnareff's vertical, yet modest hairstyle, but at the time the sprites were being made for Street Fighter II, the pixel artist jokingly stretched Guile's hair out to the sides. The team found it amusing and decided to give him "the always distinctive Stroheim look" instead. Noritaka also explains that Guile's name was derived from Polnareff's archenemy, J.Geil, though this was apparently the result of a mix up from the development staff at the time.[30] Rose was inspired by Lisa Lisa,[31] her outfit is almost identical to Lisa Lisa's and both share a similar fighting style that consists of channeling energy into their scarfs (Soul Power in the case of Rose and Ripple in the case of Lisa Lisa).Additionally, both characters like to take baths and Rose's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 is Venice, which is the same city where Joseph meets Lisa Lisa in the story. Juri Han from Super Street Fighter IV has hair and clothes similar to Jolyne's. In addition, Juri has a spider motif and cleaves a butterfly in her official artwork; Jolyne has a butterfly motif and her Stand turns her body into threads and webs + she has spiderweb-patterned clothes. Juri even has the same "ora ora ora" battle cry as Jolyne. |
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Team Fortress 2 The in-game items the Starboard Crusader and the Tsar Platinum are direct references to the hat and jacket worn by Jotaro Kujo. The names of the items are also references to the Stardust Crusaders story arc and Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum respectively. |
Tekken Series In his interview with EDGE magazine, Katsuhiro Harada, director of the Tekken Series, admits that Paul Phoenix's hairstyle and first name are based on Jean Pierre Polnareff's. Masamichi Abe, now at Nintendo but back then a member of the Tekken planning team, was a fan.[32]
Kazuya Mishima's combat gloves, strongly resemble Star Platinum's. In Tekken 3, Jin Kazama has the same combat gloves as both of them, but longer. |
Terraria *In Terraria, there is a weapon called "Vampire Knives" which are likely to be a reference to Dio Brando; Specifically, to Shadow Dio's knife throw from the arcade fighter of the same name, whose knives fan out in a manner similar to this weapon.
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The Battle Cats ![]() Deliquent Cat in Action |
The King of Fighters series ![]() Benimaru's appearance was loosely based on Polnareff,[33] right down to his outfit in The King of Fighters '94 and The King of Fighters '95. Even after Benimaru's name was decided, the game developers continued to refer to him as Polnareff.[34] Additionally, his taunt in The King of Fighters XI mirrors Polnareff's stature from the manga.
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Touhou Project In the sixth game of the Touhou Project "The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil", the final boss Remilia Scarlet quotes Dio's famous bread phrase in Marisa's Scenario.
In the eleventh game Subterranean Animism, Yuugi, an oni, fights Marisa "without spilling a drop of sake" (stated by Patchouli). Two of Kaguya Houraisan's Spellcards have references to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the first one being Divine Treasure "Salamander Shield", which has in its comments a blatant reference to Esidisi. And the other one being New Impossible Request "Red Stone of Aja" referencing the valious stone in Part 2, the Red Stone of Aja. Sakuya Izayoi is a maid who is the servant of the vampires Remilia and Flandre Scarlet. It's generally assumed that she's a tribute to DIO, as she employs the same style of combat (stopping time and using throwing knives) and even has attacks named after DIO's Stand power: Illusion World "The World" and Sakuya's World. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has been referenced several times in the official games. In Double Dealing Character, one of Sakuya's Spell Cards erases the time (respectively the present and future) of the surrounding bullets and thus erases the bullets. This might be a reference to Diavolo's Stand and implies that Sakuya might not be only a reference to Dio. In the seventh game Perfect Cherry Blossom, once Marisa defeats Ran (a shikigami), she asks her if she is a Long-distance Type, because her master is far away and she is quite strong. This is a clearly reference to the Stand Types in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In Symposium of Post-mysticism, an official Touhou Fanbook, Toyosatomimi no Miko says that Koishi Komeiji "stopped thinking", using the phrasing of the famous line After a while, he stopped thinking (そのうち、考えるのをやめた。 Sono Uchi Kangaeru no wo Yameta) referencing Kars. |
World Heroes series Dio and Neo Dio are based on Dio Brando and Araki's earlier work Baoh: The Visitor. Neo Dio's visual design is based on the protagonist of the manga, Baoh, while the dialogue in his first appearance (in World Heroes Perfect) is a reference to Dio Brando (in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, his dialogue is more like Santana's). Dio's dialogue from World Heroes is also a reference to Dio Brando's lines. He also takes inspiration from Kars as he can form blades from his arms in certain moves, as well as how said moves are named "Sonic Saber" and "Grand Saber" reminiscent of Kars' "Bright Saber" title. |
World of Warcraft One of the achievements in the Antorus, The Burning Throne raid in World of Warcraft is called Stardust Crusaders, refrencing the third part of JoJo |
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Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog ![]() An Off-Panel from issue #270 |
Gaia Online In the popular pixel avatar site Gaia Online, there is an obtainable item known as Roto's Hat. This item's first pose allows the avatar of the site to wear a hat identical to that of Gyro's, named Roto's hat. During a Halloween event on the same site, one of the NPCs is dressed in Gyro's outfit.
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Heroes In the NBC drama Heroes, a fictional Japanese salary-man named Hiro is a fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In his blog, he states that he wants to "be like JoJo and Vaan and go on adventures" and that Part 3 is his favorite, especially the fights against the D'Arby brothers. One of his powers includes time manipulation, a gift shared with both Jotaro and DIO. In his blog he also mentions Joseph, Suzi Q and Boingo, whom he compares with Isaac. Isaac was an artist and comic book author whose works predicted the future just like Boingo's Thoth. Hiro later manages to stop time for more than 5 seconds and says that "JoJo was wrong" and posts on his blog under the pseudonym Jotaro Kujo. In the episode Lizards Hiro uses DIO & The World's battle cry "Muda Muda" during the Battle of Twelve Swords. He uses it again to taunt Daphne while using his time manipulation ability to escape after taking her medal. |
Live with Yourself! ![]() Babs stand |
Mao Asada & Usain Bolt ![]() Real-life figures striking poses vastly similar to those featured in the series |
X-Man ![]() Hulk with The World armor |