Steel Ball Run (スティール・ボール・ラン, Sutīru Bōru Ran?) is a seinen manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Set in 1890, it stars Gyro Zeppeli, a disgraced former executioner, and Johnny Joestar, a former hot-shot jockey who was crippled and lost his fame and fortune. They, along with others, race across America for 50 million dollars, reminiscent of the 1981 film The Cannonball Run.
Originally the first 23 chapters (4 volumes) were serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2004 simply under the title Steel Ball Run, even though the characters names are obviously related to the series, it was unclear if the story was part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. But when the series moved to Ultra Jump in 2004, it was officially announced as part 7 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure but in an alternate universe, like the following and current arc, JoJolion.
The chapters were later combined into 24 tankōbon volumes (volumes 81 to 104 of the entire series), following the trend set by the previous part by starting over the volume count.
Famous quotes containing the words steel, ball and/or run:
“O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts.
Possess them not with fear. Take from them now
The sense of reckoning, ere th’ opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)