JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

Years after an ancient evil was salvaged from the depths of the sea, Joutarou Kuujou sits peacefully within a Japanese jail cell. He's committed no crime yet demands he not be released, believing he's been possessed by an evil spirit capable of harming those around him. Concerned for her son, Holy Kuujou asks her father, Joseph Joestar, to convince Joutarou to leave the prison. Joseph informs his grandson that the "evil spirit" is in fact something called a "Stand," the physical manifestation of one's fighting spirit which can adopt a variety of deadly forms. After a fiery brawl with Joseph's friend Muhammad Avdol, Joutarou is forced out of his cell and begins learning how to control the power of his Stand.

However, when a Stand awakens within Holy and threatens to consume her in 50 days, Joutarou, his grandfather, and their allies must seek out and destroy the immortal vampire responsible for her condition. They must travel halfway across the world to Cairo, Egypt and along the way, do battle with ferocious Stand users set on thwarting them. If Joutarou and his allies fail in their mission, humanity is destined for a grim fate.

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Joestar, Joseph Main

Ishizuka, Unshou Japanese

Kuujou, Joutarou Main

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Kakyouin, Noriaki Main

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Polnareff, Jean Pierre Main

Komatsu, Fuminori Japanese

Avdol, Muhammad Main

Miyake, Kenta Japanese

Brando, Dio Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Horse, Hol Supporting

Kiuchi, Hidenobu Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru Japanese

Q, Suzie Supporting

Kojima, Sachiko Japanese

Merlai, Anne Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Oomori, Hiroyuki Producer

Fukuda, Jun Producer

Kajita, Kouji Producer

Mori, Ryousuke Producer

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Oct 25, 2025

dudulino01

Recommended

Persoanlly, back in 2020. I remember seeing a gif of Kakyoin with a cherry and some clips of the 90s OVA and i decided to check it out the series.

And the final result. Good but not the masterpiece people said, sure it may look like a edgy 14-years old fanfic due to its tiresome "formula of character doing actions week" but it fits well with Jotaro´s character. That is basically a anti-hero counterpart of Dio, being a character that is so charismatic at the point of making the audience like and dislike him in a roller-coaster of emotions so unique, that it manages to care ... Araki’s bold style of viewing, obviously giving the question of simple surpassing the complex as a result.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 8, 2024

LebronsHairline

Mixed Feelings

Short Review:
SDC just isn't as interesting as other parts of the series; it can actually be quite a bore sometimes unlike any other part in the franchise. I believe this is for two reasons: First, Jotaro is one of the least interesting and personable Jojos and he also is succeeding one of the best characters in the entire franchise, Joseph. Second, the arcs and villains leading up to the ending are just not that interesting. Maybe only a couple of the villains that the heroes fight along the way to Dio are memorable at all, and only superficially. Third, the rest of the supporting cast ... is not very cool. Yes, this might seem like a very shallow critique, but one of the main things that makes Jojo so unique and exciting is how — uniquely, in Araki's over the top yet sublime style — its characters are so badass. On top of that, the characters are not very fleshed out either, although this has never been a strength of the franchise to begin with.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 19, 2025

k-0da

Not Recommended

Either this show isn't for me, or the battle shounen genre as a whole isn't for me.

I didn't really like the first two parts of Jojo, but oh my god, was this one a drag. The animation is serviceable, though the OP is one of the best of all time without a doubt. Music is okay I guess. Everything else was not great.

Never before has a series exhausted be so much by being so boring. Every episode. Fight. Every episode. Jotaro aura farms. Every episode. Only Polnareff is allowed to experience emotions. The characters are allergic to hanging out with each other besides ... forming strategeies for whatever horrible mercnary just got thrown at them, save for Polnareff and Avdol. That's a lie, there is some camrederie between the group--Jotaro and Joseph as a grandson/grandpa duo, Jotaro and Kakyoin for going to school.... I'm sure there are more... but its not enough to not feel endless bored. Every episode follows the same formula, usually solved by someone thinking of a clever way to resolve it (that person is usually Jotaro), but the way this show solves problems doesn't translate into the cast learning and growing together. They get smarter and stronger, but it feels more individualist, rather than a unified group I'm supposed to be rooting for. I just didn't feel a connection between the group at all, and that made the show move at a snails pace.

I don't like Jotaro. I like him more than Joseph, who was annoying, but I don't like him more than Johnathan, who at least had a personality. He is just cool and aura farms all the time. Nothing else much too him in season one, besides he cares I guess about the women in his family and is sometimes respectful. Poor Polnareff is pulling double time for him in terms of moving the plot forward.

Polnareff appears to be the fan favorite, probably because he's the only one allowed to experience emotions. In any other anime he would've been kind of annoying, but here, he's the glue keeping the show together as the only character I care about on an emotional level.

In an episodic show, the core cast has to be the glue holding it together, and that is just not here. I have no idea how anyone rates this an 8. The fights aren't even that interesting.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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