List of cultural references and inspirations from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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.

The grindcore group [1] 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.

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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J-pop group, RADIO FISH, featuring Atsuhiko Nakata and Shingo Fujimori of comedy duo Oriental Radio, performed hit songs PERFECT HUMAN and ULTRA TIGER at the Halloween Music Festival 2016. The crew dressed up as characters from Parts 4-6 of JoJo with Fujimori as Narancia and Nakata as Yoshikage Kira.

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

In the animated music video for the song "SMASH!," performed by American comedy supergroup Starbomb and animated by Studio Yotta, Luigi at some point does Dio's infamous "Wryyy" pose. Immediately after he is seen surrounded by Wii Fit Trainer, Rosalina and Zelda while mimicking Giorno Giovanna's famous "I have a dream!" pose.^[2] Joel C, the director of the music video, has confirmed the references were intentional in his blog.^[3]

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.

In Episode 4, while Mai is wondering if Mi had courage she suddenly summons a Stand-like figure engraved with the kanjis for "courage" (度胸, dokyō) that looks much like Magician's Red.

When Ikki gropes a naked Simca, Ringo is so furious that a monstrous Star Platinum-shaped shadow appears behind her and Ikki replies "Star Platinum!!?". At one point Ikki even uses one of Jonathan's ability, the "Zoom Punch" from Part I.

Aoharu X Kikanjuu's protagonist, Hotaru Tachibana, can be seen doing a Jojo-esque pose and having her toy-gun depicted in the manner of a Stand behind her in episode 4.

In chapter 176, we see various memories of the students hanging out/trying to kill their teacher Koro-sensei. In one of them we can see that one student painted the drawing in Boingo's Thoth style where we see Jotaro being hit by two bullets, but instead replaced Jotaro with Koro-sensei while there's another student waiting to fire at him with two guns, thus recreating the scene where the bullets pierce the drawing to hit its target.

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.

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.

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).

Episode 16 of Cardfight!! Vanguard G: GIRS Crisis has the characters imitate the poses of characters from JoJo. Kumi Okazaki is doing Josuke's pose, Luna Yumizuki does Jotaro's, Tokoha Anjou does Jonathan's, and Am Chouno does Rohan's.

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.

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.

In Episode 5 of Etotama, smoke covers the room due to the main character being sick with a unique virus. The smoke clears up and reveals the characters doing poses, a couple of which are from JoJo.

Ropponmatsu2 it's an android who appears in various episodes. In episode 16 is found by Excel in a delivery box and shows the Joestar Birthmark.

Lamy, a enemy character from the dark guild Tartaros in Fairy Tail, is seen doing a JoJo pose in Part 5-Part 6 era art style in Episode 238 and in the 20th opening, NEVER-END TALE.

In chapter 22, a character by the name of Rory Mercury goes on a rampage against foreign special forces during the Hakone Incident. The Japanese Minister of Defense, an avid of fan of anime, asks if she had "put on the stone mask and feeds on blood". This was omitted from the anime adaptation.

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]

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".

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.

In both the anime and manga, the main character, Aya Akabane, is often seen doing JoJo-like poses when discussing things relating to beauty.

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.

In episode 5, Hacka Doll v.4 finds a guy on the streets reading a car magazine and tries to gift him a car. She briefly recreates DIO's Road Roller attack before throwing the car at him.^[7]

As a gag-series, it features one of the highest amounts of references to JoJo.

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]

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".

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.

In chapter 10 of Hungry Marie, Taiga (appearing as Marie) repeatedly says "Nope" ("Muri", which is basically "Muda"). Anna tells him to settle down because he's starting to look like a JoJo's character.

In chapter 43, a person cosplaying Johnny can be seen in the background.

In episode 6, Neptune makes fun out of Noire who was convinced that her security system is unbreakable. She does it by paraphrasing Stroheim's famous quote accompanied with on-screen SFX.^[11]

Episode 2 of Second Thread features the iconic "To Be Continued" arrow before the ending theme plays.

In episode 6, Fushimi Touka begins to type If I don't rescue Irina from the sinister Deo's clutches seemingly referring to Erina and Dio. Coincidentally, Touka has the same voice actor as Robert E. O. Speedwagon (Yōji Ueda) in the Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency anime adaptation.

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).

Kazuhito Harumi, a high school boy who is obsessed with reading books is killed in the middle of a robbery and resurrected as a dachshund dog. While in his new form, Kazuhito is adopted by a man who owns a pet shop called Iggy (with a symbol of Iggy's face).

Episode 4 shows the character Y doing a JoJo pose, the sound effect can also be seen.^[12] Coincidentally, Y's voice actress also voices Jolyne.This section requires expansion.

In Chapter 1 (manga), upon realizing that she can't defeat the Boxing Team Captain, Takaharu Fukuroda, Ryūko Matoi uses her "trump card", which is: "Running Away!", surprising all present characters. This "trump card" is a reference to Joseph´s secret technique "Running Away!" (nigerundaio!!!) when he utilized it against Straizo and Kars, even the speech for revealing the "technique" and the running pose is recreated.

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]

• Jonathan: "Furueru zo hāto! Moetsukiru hodo hīto! Kisamu zo, ketsueki no bīto!! SUNLIGHT YELLOW OVERDRIVE!" (My heart resonates! Heat enough to burn! My blood's beat is razor-sharp!)
• Ayumu: "Miro yo, ore no hāto! Kizame yo, ore no bīto! Sarani, ore wa bīto! Jōsho, junjō, sore wa yūjō!" (Look at my heart! Engrave my beat! Also, I'm the heat! Invincible and innocent, this is the friendship!)
  

The last words are a reference to Bruford's conversion. Ayumu ends the dance with Dio's pose.

The show has several JoJo references. One in particular appears when Hiyori trips and falls to the ground in a dramatic manner. Her art style changes to that of JoJo and the similar SFX appear around her as well.

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.

Episode 8 of the series shows JoJo-styled SFX, coupled with a "To be continued" sign.

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.

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.

In Chapter 5 (Episode 3 of the anime adaptation), Cerea explains that as a centaur, her species is known for being valiant knights who honor loyalty above all. She mentions that her various ancestors also served under similar values with visions of them appearing in the background. At this point, the protagonist asks if their images behind her are Stands.^[14]

This manga has a small cameo of a Stone Mask in a panel from it's Chapter 12.

Being a comedy show, Seto no Hanayome features some Jojo's references in a parody fashion.^[15]

• The Isono 8th Junior High Bancho group at some point strike multiple JoJo poses.
• In the 20th episode, we can see Kai doing Kakyoin Noriaki's JoJopose.

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."

During a fight in the school tournament, Negi's enemy summons a sort of huge puppet. One of the tournament blog comments says "It's a Stand!", making a pun due to the huge resemblance to ordinary evocation mode of Stands.^{[citation needed]}

* 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 III.

• In episode 3, Sora says Rohan Kishibe's quote "But I refuse! (だが断る dagakotowaru)", and then, he and Shiro pose like Rohan does, refusing Clammy Zell´s proposal, similarly to Rohan rejecting Highway Star's proposal.
• In Episode 8, upon seeing the Eastern Federation´s ambassador, Izuna Hatsuse, Sora and Shiro shouts King Crimson!!, skipping time and warping themselves to Izuna´side, referencing Diavolo´s Stand and his ability, and there, Sora references Cioccolata's petting of Secco after he did a trick with a huge text bubble full of よし.
• In Special Episode 2, Sora imitates the scene where Pucci calms himself by counting prime numbers.

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 Joestar, 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.

In the second episode, Izumi asks Wakana why she was sleeping in his bed and she explained she went to the bathroom the previous night and got lost. The signs on the bathroom are displayed performing Jotaro and Josuke's poses.

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.

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.

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 sfx (ゴゴゴ) flows background.

Karamatsu also makes Jonathan's pose in episode 25.

In episode 7, Araragi asks Kanbaru to resemble a samurai armor, in which she responds by suggesting he put it together while she gives instructions. Araragi gives a senpai's respect speech and does Rohan's pose. Interestingly, Araragi and Rohan have the same seiyū, Hiroshi Kamiya (at least in the videogames, not in the anime).

In episode 860 (XY saga episode 57), Meowth does Jonathan's Volume 4 pose and Jotaro's Volume 1 pose while mimics Dio's battle cry as says "Muda-nya Muda-nya Muda-nya".^[16]

*In episode 86 on-screen SFX similar to "ゴゴゴゴ" is used, but katakana "ド" (do) is used instead of "ゴ".

• In Episode 125, Celebrity along with another idol group named Super Celebrity 3 do Josuke's Volume 36 pose, Jotaro's Volume 14 pose, and Joseph's Volume 8 pose

Shusei Kagari's favourite manga is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure because he wishes he had a special power like Stand or Ripple.

In episode 1, Nabeshin figths with Alien#1 who summons Star Platinum making various Jojo references. Nabeshin recognices him as a Stand user.^[17]

Poemi Watanabe also makes reference to the famous Jonathan's spech.^[18]

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.

In Episode 75, Kaido who was leading the way to a restaurant (and having poor sense of direction) says (while using the Jojo pose) that they (he, Saiki and Nendou) are being attacked with a new Stand Power.

Heihachi Edajima, the headmaster of Otokojuku, is shown reading the manga.

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.

At one point in this H manga, the mother does Avdol's "YES I AM" pose, when Polnareff realizes he is actually alive.

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.

• Minatsu says that Stands should not be counted as weapons in the colosseum while striking a JoJo pose with Killer Queen in the background.

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.

In the ending credits, some of the characters recreate some fairly blatant JoJo poses, including Jonathan, Joseph, and Johnny's.

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.

Aika Tenkuubashi, a high class girl in a private school discovers manga for the first time and comes to the assumption that all kids in normal schools have super powers. In the anime, she imagines showing off her avatar to everyone in a obvious JoJo-esque fashion. During the same scene in the manga, she "stops time" whilst doing a pose and shouting Platina Star.

In Episode 4, Cyan is seen to be doing a famous JoJo pose.

The student Saotome Mariko summons a "Stand" named Lovely Soul as example of Shojo manga, making it a pun due to JoJo being a Shonen manga.

In the first episode of the second season, Dandy, QT and Meow hop through different alternate universes until they reach the third Dandy, whom mentions he is looking for eight people with star-shaped birthmarks.

One episode features the characters portrayed in JoJo style making various JoJo poses, including Josuke's, Dio's and Johnny's.

One episode features characters striking some famous JoJo poses, such as Jonathan's, Joseph's, Jotaro's and Anasui's.

• In the second season Hercule becomes a model for art lessons. Teacher orders her to make an inspiring JoJo pose which he calls 'exploding'.
• In the TD opening Sheryl makes Joseph's face when he cries after Caesar's death.
• In one episode of TD Nero emanates JoJo SFX-like aura.
• From time to time spontaneous JoJo SFX appear and girls make manly faces.

In the episode 11, Marimo's mom wants to show Tomalin how to make mochi in a traditional way, so she begins to hit the dough with her fists. Her face changes to Araki's style and she shouts a battle cry akin to Crazy Diamond's.

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.

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".
There is also a petshop featured in School District 7 and is named Horus Pet house, a direct reference to the part 3 antagonist of the same name and his stand. In the manga, the pet shop's logo features two animals, both of which seem to depict Pet Shop and Iggy, though this reference is lost in the anime.

• In chapter 74, a precognitive esper named Shaei is introduced with the ability to use a camera to produce a photo of a future event. He describes an app that people use to find lost objects, using an example of an esper girl destroying a camera with a karate chop, referencing Joseph Joestar's usage of Hermit Purple's abilities.

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.

• In New Testament Volume 5, a mysterious character by the name of Fräulein Kreutune is introduced. The illustrator, Kiyotaka Haimura, comments on how she reminds him of the Pillar Men in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

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.

In the series, there is a character named Yuu Momokino who attends Mochizuki High School along with the main protagonist. She works as a waitress at the Joestar's Caffee & Restaurant, a reference to Jonathan's namesake.

In chapter 105, while time is frozen, Tōta Konoe mimics The World during the flashback where Dio first tests it's ability. The scene even includes Tōta with his arms inside gears, recreating the interlocking wheels of time image. Two panels later Tōta says "and this is more than just five seconds!" refering to how long time has been frozen.

In episode 3, main protagonist Kae punches at the camera repeatedly while scream "muri" several times, just like Dio's "muda", and ends 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

In chapter 45, Manabu comments about Stand Users being attracted to each other.

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.

Volume 7 of the manga features the Stone Mask as one of the exhibits in the Legendary Treasure Museum. In episode 3, Salamander Kiritake was introducing himself with Jojo SFX effects in the background.

In the extra chapter of volume 25 of Konjiki no Gash Bell!!, a parody of the Tonio chapters was done in 3 pages by Mamodo (Demon) Raiku. In those pages, he reenacts the scene between Tonio and Okuyasu by feeding himself a Mozzarella and Tomato Salad while dressed in their attire.

Of the many Infernal Demons that can be summoned by Bayonetta during a Climax Attack, the Little Devils are an obscure reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, more specifically Guido Mista's Sex Pistols. Director Hideki Kamiya has mentioned during a commentary that, much like Sex Pistols, each of the five devils have their own personality, and have a number written on their foreheads, with the #4 (or the #2 in the case of the little devils) missing as it may be considered very unlucky by Zero, the King of the Little Devils.^[19]

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.

The character Santana is likely a reference to mostly part 3, but also includes some part 2 elements. Appearance-wise, he strongly resembles Muhammad Avdol, with his official artwork mimicking Avdol's 'YES I AM!' pose. His voice actor is also Kiyoyuki Yanada, who voiced Jotaro in the Capcom fighting game. Aside from this, his name is also possibly a reference to the pillar man, Santana.

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 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.

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.

One of the enemies' mask design for The Nobodies is based on the Stone Mask.^[20]

An otaku in Akihabara does the iconic poses of
Jonathan and Josuke.

• The Hero "Faceless Void" does one of DIO's poses while using his ultimate ability "Chronosphere", which stops time. He also has a green heart for a belt buckle.
• One of the loading screens features the character Phantom Assasin doing Jonathan's pose, not only that, but the previews in the Steam Workshop of the whole set (Bloodroot Guard) features various JoJo poses (Giorno, Jotaro, Ceasar and DIO)

The female Thief's character design and name (Moriah, if selected her default name) was possibly based on Mariah.

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.

One of the boss characters, Azteca, wears a face mask that is very similar to the Stone Mask. Also of note, his character select portrait shows that he has 'DIO' tattooed on his arm and his pre-fight animation consists of him bursting out of a stone pillar.

The character Blond Youth resembles Young Dio in many ways (clothes, haircolor) and the author even cites in his profile: "Called Dio by some" implying a tribute to Dio in some way.

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]

In the game there is a magnum-class pistol listed as "Horse", designed similarly to The Emperor, and complete with the description: "Perfect Pistol for a mercenary on a bizarre adventure."

The game had an event in which you could unlock a hammer based off Crazy Diamond that can heal your allies, and a mask based off Harvest that can be equipped to your Shakalaka and constantly gain money.

[2] The game has a costume for playable Felynes that strongly resembles the coat of Jotaro Kujo.

During Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique Jutsu, characters are forced to perform Jonathan's famous pose with a matching SFX in the background.^[23]

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.

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 like DIO in the Part 3.

In the background of Round 6 in the arcade version of the game, small Stone Masks can be seen as wall decorations, as well as murals of all four Pillar Men.

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.

The World is one of the responses to the question "What is the name of the phenomenon where the second hand looks like it stops moving?", asked by one of the teachers in school.

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.

Hideki Kamiya admitted that he got "Joseph Frost's" first name from Joseph Joestar.^[24]

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.

• In the sequel Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~, she crushes the character with a giant block similar to how Dio uses the steamroller.
• Sichte also shares resemblance of Kakyoin Noriaki's signature Emerald Splash attack, referenced by her emerald-shooting. Her stage Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~ is a clock tower, refers to where Kakyoin dies.

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.

One of the messages the player recieves after killing an opppnent in the game is Sunlight Yellow Overdrive while the defeated player's screen says WRYYYYY.

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.

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.

Two playable characters from Skullgirls, Valentine and Peacock , are an homage to 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.

• Another character, Big Band , which was later added as DLC, shouts in similar fashion to Star Platinum during one of his Blockbuster attacks though, Big Band shouts "Tuba Tuba Tuba" instead.^[27]
• Another DLC character, Eliza, has a color palette inspired by Dio Brando's part 3 attire. In the patch notes for the release, the developers referenced one of Dio's more familiar quotes.

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.

A star in the strategy game by Paradox is named "Higashik-Ata", likely in reference to Josuke.

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.

In the first Suikoden game the emperor Barbarossa Rugner gives a sword named Pluck (mistranslated as "Prakk" in the English version) to one of his generals, Teo McDohl.

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.

*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.

• There is a set named the Stardust armor that allows the player to summon a Stardust guardian when all the pieces are worn. The guardian will follow by floating directly behind them, and the player can order the guardian to move and attack enemies.

Within the popular tower-defense mobile game, there is a Super Rare Cat unit referred to as "Delinquent Cat". Unlocked by playing the Rare Gacha/Jackpot, Delinquient Cat's appearance resembles that of a banchō and it's main form of attack involves pointing in a jojo-esque manner and summoning a creature similar to Star Platinum to bombard the enemy with flying fists.

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.

• Also from King of Fighters, the main villain of the first two games, wears an outfit which is clearly a toned-down version of Dio's final Stardust Crusaders get-up, with a black tank top, loose pants, and even belt loops which come down past his hips. Rugal does omit the headband, kneepads, and other elements of Dio's outfit which bore the heart insignia, however, as well as having more ordinary shoes.
• Leona Heidern's "Earring Bomb 2: Heart Attack sees her attaching a bomb to her opponent. Afterwards, she may either wait until it explodes on its own or detonate it with a secondary command, saying 負けて終わり ("Makete owari." ~ "You lose, it's over."), referencing Bites The Dust (transcribed in Japanese as , 負けて死ね, "Makete shine." = "You lose, now die.").
• Leona Heidern's Grateful Dead is a (Super) Desperation Move during which she drains the opponent of his/her life force while surrounded by wisps of steam or smoke.
• Mian's Rangurenbu is a (Super) Desperation Move which she performs a series of attacks ending with a fire breath from her Bian Lian mask. While performing such a series of attacks, she utters "Ariariariariariariari", but due to her being Chinese, she doesn't say "Arrivederci" at the end.

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 II, 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.

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.

The 270th issue of the Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, features a Off Panel comic strip in the back of the issue portraying Sonic and Knuckles as Kenshiro and Jotaro respectively. The theme of the strip refers to the manliest of anime and concludes with Knuckles and Sonic engaging while shouting "OraOraOra" and "MudaMudaMuda".

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.

• This item's second pose allows the avatar of the site to wear a hat identical to Johnny's, cleverly named Joey's hat.
• The item called K.O. Star; one of the poses (titled Spin) allows you to wear gloves similar to the Roto Hat's second pose. The other poses have the titles: Ballistic, Spirals, Steel Wind, Time Stop, and Za Warudo, each with designs relating to their respective name.
• The item RIO Star has several iconic accessory references, including Dio's face, stop sign, roadroller, Jockey headgear, and a vague impersonation of The World (titled Summoning Rapid Infinity). It also includes Josuke's lapel emblems, Giorno's hair, and Jotaro's face and an impersonation of Star Platinum (titled Summoning Stardom).
• WIN Star is another item with several accessories referencing the series. Of which, the most obvious being Jolyne's hairstyle, Giorno's ladybugs, and a dog resembling Iggy.

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 III 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 Brando. In his blog he also mentions Joseph, Suzie 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.

As noted by JoJo's Posing School, figure skater Mao Asada and real-life runner Usain Bolt may have influenced or have been influenced by poses featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.^[35]

In X-Man Annual 1998, the Hulk gains an armor that is likely based off of the design for DIO's Stand, The World.