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, referred to as the 1st Stage, having premiered on March 19, 2026. The next cours, referred to as the 2nd and 3rd Stages, began releasing on a weekly schedule on September 25 of the same year.
Plot 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.
Voice cast
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 Funny Valentine Tomokazu Sugita Mountain Tim Tomoaki Maeno Joshua David King Hot Pants Yoko Hikasa Mrs. Robinson Masaya Fukunishi Alejandro Antonio Ruiz Andre Boomboom Yoshiki Nakajima Jamison Boaz Benjamin Boomboom Jiro Saito Christopher Swindle L.A. Boomboom Fumiyoshi Shioya Matt Shipman Urmd Avdul Kenta Miyake Nazeeh Tarsha
Production and release 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. In July 2025 during Anime Expo, 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 on March 19, 2026, which covered the 1st stage of the race, Kimura stated that he was not sure when more episodes would be released. Several days later on March 28, a new teaser trailer was released, which revealed that Steel Ball Run would return sometime later in the year. On April 6, Netflix announced that the next cours would be released weekly in late 2026. In July of the same year at Anime Expo 2026, it was announced that the cours, which consist of 11 episodes, would be released weekly starting on September 25. It covers the 2nd and 3rd stages of the race.
The opening theme song is "Spin", performed by , while the ending theme song is , performed by Yuki Chiba. This marks the first original ending theme for a full cours in the series that is not a pre-existing licensed Western song. The song itself was heavily panned online, with many considering it lackluster compared to past ending themes.
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