JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Part7 STEEL BALL RUN
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Steel Ball Run

Manga9.3198593 votes24 volumes · 96 chaptersFinished

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Synopsis

In the American Old West, the world's greatest race is about to begin. Thousands line up in San Diego to travel over six thousand kilometers for a chance to win the grand prize of fifty million dollars. With the era of the horse reaching its end, contestants are allowed to use any kind of vehicle they wish. Competitors will have to endure grueling conditions, traveling up to a hundred kilometers a day through uncharted wastelands. The Steel Ball Run is truly a one-of-a-kind event. The youthful Johnny Joestar, a crippled former horse racer, has come to San Diego to watch the start of the race. There he encounters Gyro Zeppeli, a racer with two steel balls at his waist instead of a gun. Johnny witnesses Gyro using one of his steel balls to unleash a fantastical power, compelling a man to fire his gun at himself during a duel. In the midst of the action, Johnny happens to touch the steel ball and feels a power surging through his legs, allowing him to stand up for the first time in two years. Vowing to find the secret of the steel balls, Johnny decides to compete in the race, and so begins his bizarre adventure across America on the Steel Ball Run. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Publication notes

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run was originally presented as an unrelated story to the JoJo series and was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine as Steel Ball Run from issues #8~47 2004. Serialization then transferred to Ultra Jump magazine from issue April 2005 and the series was officially declared as Part 7 of the JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken series. The series has been published in English as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes since May 27, 2025.

Published

Jan 19, 2004 to Apr 19, 2011

Authors

Araki, Hirohiko

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Gyro Zeppeli19349 fan favorites
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Born Julius Caesar Zeppeli, but more commonly referred to as "Gyro Zeppeli." Gyro has a cocky and flamboyant personality, appearing to have a high opinion of himself. However, he can be driven by emotions for other people and become realistic and serious when a problem presents itself. Like most Manga archetypes, Gyro is incredibly intelligent when he needs to be. His most distinguishable body features are his long hair, western hat and his metal teeth which have "GO! GO! ZEPPELI" displayed on them, revealed whenever he smiles at someone. His signature laugh/chuckle is "Nyo ho ho ho~." Note that the "Caesar" in his name is pronounced in the traditional Latin way, more akin to the German "Kaiser." This is distinct from Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2, whose name is pronounced in the modern English way.
Johnny Joestar11177 fan favorites
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Johnny Joestar, also known as "Joe Kid" or "JoJo", was a racing prodigy. However, when waiting in line for a play, the girl he was with convinced him to cut to the front of the line and bribe the bouncers to throw out the youth in the front of the line, who had been waiting through the night. The youth shot Johnny, resulting in his being paralyzed from the waist down and sent to a hospital, where he was physically abused. Having lost all the friends and respect he had earned as a jockey, no one visited him during his stay in the hospital. Near the beginning of the series Steel Ball Run, Johnny Joestar encountered Gyro Zeppeli and was brought to his feet upon touching Gyro's steel ball. Believing Gyro to be capable of teaching him to walk, Johnny joined the Steel Ball Race and followed him to be trained. Throughout the race Johnny uses a horse named "Slow Dancer" named after the Boz Scaggs song of the same name. Johnny's horse is an old American Appaloosa, it is initially hard to tame but overtime comes to be the legs for Johnny. (Source: Wikipedia)
Funny Valentine4244 fan favorites
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Funny Valentine is the main antagonist of Steel Ball Run. He is the 23rd President of the United States and the true mastermind behind the Steel Ball Run race. He watches the competition from behind the curtains and hopes to gather the Saint's Corpse to use the Holy Relic to further the United States of America's interests and power, and explains that his way to do that is by "taking the first napkin". Valentine has a lot of importance for patriotism and seems to care about his country. Most of Valentine's bad deeds are not selfishly centered, but instead are done in order to achieve what he thinks is power for America, and to follow his goal of making America the most dominant country. He was a former soldier, discharged after being tortured during a war; he has scars similar to the Stars and Stripes on his back. (Source: Wikipedia) No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Diego Brando2990 fan favorites
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Dio's alternate universe counterpart in Part 7 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run. under the name of Diego Brando (commonly referred to by his nickname Dio by other characters). He is very similar to the "original" Dio in both looks and personality, however, Diego is a famous professional jockey from England participating in the Steel Ball Run race across North America. He was raised among a group of homeless people, after his mother saved him from drowning in a river when he was still a baby. He was later adopted into nobility when his talent as a jockey was discovered. Although he was raised with much love, he is cold-hearted and will do virtually anything to win. After he loses the first stage of the Steel Ball Run to Gyro Zeppeli, he gets mad and considers Gyro his personal enemy from that point onwards. (Source: JJBA Wiki)
Lucy Steel372 fan favorites
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Lucy Steel is the wife of Steven Steel, the organizer of the Steel Ball Run. (Source: JoJo Wiki)