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From 1992 to 1993, the Stardust Crusaders arc was released as a series of three drama CDs, titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 1: Meet Jotaro Kujo (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険第1巻 空条承太郎見参の巻?) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 2: The Death of Avdol (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険第2巻 アヴドゥル死すの巻?) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Volume 3: The World of Dio (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険第3巻 DIOの世界の巻?).
Two light novels based on Part 3 have been released, each with illustrations by Hirohiko Araki himself. The first was simply titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, released on November 4, 1993 and written by Mayori Sekijima and Hiroshi Yamaguchi. Nisio Isin was one of the authors commissioned to write novels in celebration of the series' 25th anniversary. It was released on December 16, 2011 and titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Over Heaven.
The arc has been adapted into several video games. The first was a titular role-playing video game released in 1993 for the Super Famicom. A titular fighting game for the arcade by Capcom, also simply titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, was released in 1998. It was released internationally as JoJo's Venture, and followed by an upgraded version titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future. The international version this time retained the manga's actual full title of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, dropping the Heritage for the Future subtitle. The upgraded version was then ported to the PlayStation and Dreamcast in 1999, and a high-definition version is to be released for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in August 2012.
A six-volume OVA series, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, was produced by Studio APPP and released from 1993 to 1994, covering the later parts of this arc. Nearly six years later, a seven-volume prequel series titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ADVENTURE?), using most of the same staff, was released from 2000 to 2002, covering the beginning of the arc. Super Techno Arts produced a North American English dub version of both series and released them together as one on six DVD volumes, in order of their fictional chronology.
In 2012 it was announced that the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga would receive a new anime adaptation, this time airing on television, along with a trailer featuring Jotaro and the words "Part 3: Stardust Crusaders". Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation began in October of that year and started as the manga did with the Phantom Blood part of the story, moving on to adapt the Battle Tendency portion as well. The final episode of that arc included a post-credits teaser for Stardust Crusaders including the salvage of Dio's coffin from the ocean and Jotaro in a jail cell. No official announcement has been made yet as to whether or not the series will be picked up for more episodes and continue on to Stardust Crusaders.
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