The manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2002, before being transferred to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2004. The series can be broken into eight distinct parts, each following a different descendant of the original's protagonist on different quests. The current story arc, JoJolion, started in 2011.
The chapters are collected and published into tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on August 10, 1987. During Part 5, which takes place in Italy, the series' title was written in Italian as Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio. After volume 63, each Parts' tankōbon have started the number count back at one.
The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. However, instead of starting with volume one, they chose to only release Part 3, which is the most well-known. The first volume was released on November 8, 2005, with the first twelve volumes summarized in an eight-page summary written and drawn by Araki himself, and the last on December 7, 2010. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has also seen domestic releases in Italy by Star Comics, in France by J'ai Lu and Tonkam, Taiwan by Da Ran Culture Enterprise and Tong Li Publishing, and in Malaysia by Comics House.
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