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:
“Through joy and blindness he shall know,
Not caring much to know, that still
Nor lead nor steel shall reach him,”
—Julian Grenfell (1888–1915)
“Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
—Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)
“they filled his belly
with large stones and sewed him up.
He was as heavy as a cemetery
and when he woke up and tried to run off
he fell over dead. Killed by his own weight.
Many a deception ends on such a note.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)