JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean

Add to My List

Add to Favorites

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean

Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険ストーンオーシャン

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 17

Chapters: 158

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 7, 1999 to Apr 8, 2003

Genres: Action, Adventure, Shounen

Authors: Araki, Hirohiko (Story & Art)

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Statistics

Score: 8.16¹ (scored by 70,491 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #437²

² based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #46

Members: 113,677

Favorites: 7,818

8.16

Ranked #437Popularity #46Members 113,677

MangaShounen Jump (Weekly)Araki, Hirohiko (Story & Art)

Add to List

Volumes: /17

Chapters: /158

* Your list is public by default.

Edit
Synopsis

In Florida, 2011, Jolyne Kuujou sits in a jail cell like her father Joutarou once did; yet this situation is not of her own choice. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, and manipulated into serving a longer sentence, Jolyne is ready to resign to a dire fate as a prisoner of Green Dolphin Street Jail. Though all hope seems lost, a gift from Joutarou ends up awakening her latent abilities, manifesting into her Stand, Stone Free. Now armed with the power to change her fate, Jolyne sets out to find an escape from the stone ocean that holds her.

However, she soon discovers that her incarceration is merely a small part of a grand plot: one that not only takes aim at her family, but has additional far-reaching consequences. What's more, the mastermind is lurking within the very same prison, and is under the protection of a lineup of menacing Stand users. Finding unlikely allies to help her cause, Jolyne sets course to stop their plot, clear her name, and take back her life.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Edit
Background

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean was published in Italian by Star Comics from February 2002 to April 2004.

Edit
Related Manga

Prequel:	JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze
Sequel:	JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
Spin-off:	Jolyne, Gucci de Tobu

More characters
Characters

Kuujou, Joutarou

Main

Kuujou, Jolyne

Main

Foo Fighters

Main

Pucci, Enrico

Main

Report, Weather

Main

Anasui, Narciso

Main

Costello, Hermes

Main

Alnino, Emporio

Main

Brando, Dio

Supporting

Versace, Donatello

Supporting

More reviewsReviews

Sep 28, 2009

158 of 158 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Beatnik (All reviews)

275 people found this review helpful

Women in prison. Ok, got your attention.

Featuring one of the most ridiculously tense and violent games of catch-ball ever, Stone Ocean is even better than part 5 of the JoJo saga. If Golden Wind was the zenith of the JoJo franchise, then Stone Ocean is the apex. Ok, they both mean the same thing but you get the idea.

Starring the daughter of the stoic, bland, yet incredibly powerful Jotaro, the story has jumped a few years to 2011, Florida, USA. Jolyne is in a 'pinch' as the Japanese love to say. She's on her way to a sprawling prison complex off of Florida, she's been framed, she's starting to hear voices in her head and a string just appeared out her finger for no apparent reason. Shit just got real.

The JoJo saga has featured a vast array of unique characters and abilities, but at its core it’s about a very simple thing. The violent clash of two bloodlines: Joestar versus Dio and his minions. Stone Ocean is no different, albeit lacking Dio himself it still carries his influence still plaguing the unlucky Joestar bloodline. Its free of the overt humour of Part 4 and after part 5's unbelievably powerful abilities, Araki himself was in a pinch, where does he go next?

So what better way to get out of it by allowing more females into his saga and using a claustrophobic locale brimming with lots of potential. A maximum security prison complex halved between females on one side and males on the other. Jolyne is thrust into a violent world with no allies, forced to learn the rules of prison society, like how to bribe people just to make a phone call.

The abilities are still named after famous artists and bands, but they're so much more offbeat and WTF-based than usual. You have to love it. The imagination on display in the JoJo saga constantly hits you in surprising ways, and you're usually left in awe at Hirohiko Araki's imagination, pitting two veteran stand-users against a newly born baby for example. You will be beaming or pumping your fist into the air at how Araki can sustain so much tension and danger to the characters, pushing them to the very limits and then pulling them out of the fire, and it never feels like a copout, he always makes their efforts to get out of danger believable and earned.

Jolyne is a good character, she's feminine yet brash like all JoJos are, she's intelligent and has a very handy ability that she uses to its full potential, regularly getting out of tight corners and giving violent beatdowns to punks who push her too far.

Stone Ocean is another great addition to the JoJo saga, a brilliant shonen that has enough horror traits to almost veer it into seinen territory. The battles are ingenious and often brutal, packed with body mutilation and as usual for an Araki manga; featuring climaxes that are the result of characters acting intelligently and not because of contrived power-ups, as seems to be the rage in the post-millennium decade.

In terms of rating the last battle of this volume to other volumes, it definitely ranks as one of the best, a vast improvement over Part 5's battle in Italy. There are crazy powers causing utter mayhem on a global scale and insane counterattacks that come from nowhere but are always consistently logical in the context of the manga.

I love the author; he always comes up with crazy solutions to crazy problems. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is as enduring and consistently entertaining as the JoJo blood line.

Helpful

permalink | report

Apr 24, 2015

158 of 158 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Realhumanbean (All reviews)

97 people found this review helpful

In what can be considered the grand finale of Jojo, Stone Ocean has a lot to live up to. But does it deliver?

STORY: 9/10
Stone Ocean starts 10 years after Golden Wind. It follows Jotaro’s daughter, Jolyne, as she’s wrongfully imprisoned in a jail whose warden, the mysterious Father Pucci, my have ties to DIO.

Stone Ocean is one of the more dramatic Parts. It is much more story focused than other Parts, who used their stories as excuses to go on a voyage to encounter fight after fight. Stone Ocean’s plot is one that truly concludes Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure up until this point, and it delivers. In particular, the ending is one that deserves praise and offers a beautiful end to one of the most legendary manga series of all time…until Part 7 that is! Stone Ocean is a fantastic and dramatic ride that packs an emotional punch that hits harder than the physical ones thrown in fights.

ART: 9/10
I may be a tad biased because Stone Ocean is the only Part whose colored scans are fully translated in English. It has some truly beautiful artwork and the colors make it all the more better. Character designs take a minor hit however. Jotaro looks nothing like the bulked up beast he used to be, DIO is just ugggggh, and a character named Anasui is nearly a copy and paste design of Diavolo from Part 5. Others like Jolyne, Foo Fighters, Weather Report, and Father Pucci have excellent designs.

CHARACTERS: 8/10
The supporting cast is fun. Jolyne’s best friend Hermes is funny and badass, Foo Fighters is adorable and hilarious, Weather Report is very mysterious and his Stand power is crazy. However, Jotaro and Anasui are the weakest links. Jotaro is ruined in Part 6, a shell of his former Part 4 prime self and Anasui is literally a “muh waifu” edgelord.

The Jojo of this Part is the only female Jojo to date, Jolyne. She’s a very interesting and dynamic character who goes through serious change throughout the Part and is really fleshed out as her own individual. The main villain, Father Pucci, is my second favorite Jojo antagonist. He’s threatening and all-powerful, but he is not maniacal like his master DIO. Pucci is one of the most human Jojo villains and his backstory really justifies his actions and points of view.

ENJOYMENT: 8/10
Stone Ocean is a compelling and entertaining Part. The characters make it all the more great and you really care for each and every one. Jolyne’s adventure is one of the most mature and well-written character arcs in Jojo and the fights are awesome. It also has some of the most insane and devastating Stands and is easily the most “bizarre” Part.

OVERALL: 8.5/10
Stone Ocean is great. It’s a very mature turn for Jojo and foreshadows Jojo’s shift from shounen to seinen in Part 7 and is a great story period. The ending is one that commands discussion and interpretation and is one of the best I’ve ever read. Filled with compelling drama and blood boiling fights, Stone Ocean hits the reader with surprise after surprise and isn't afraid to take extreme and bold risks.

Helpful

permalink | report

Jan 24, 2020

158 of 158 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

SynthwaveCrusade (All reviews)

32 people found this review helpful

Arguably the most controversial part in all of JoJo, JoJo's sixth instalment of the now iconic franchise is one of the most split parts of JoJo, many loving and hating it at the same time, with all the negatives do I still think this is a good read? if your looking for my answer then it is yes.

Q: Should I read JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean?

A: Part 6 is probably the one part of JoJo I would not recommend to new comers of the series, part 6 is heavily referential to the other parts and is not good for new comers of the series, the parts that should be read by new comers are, Part 5, Part 7 and Part 1. As for fans who have seen all prior parts this is an essential viewing, it's what can be considered the grand finale of the JoJo franchise. One thing a lot of people seem to do is they fast forward this part or completely skip it just to get to the Magnum Opus of the JoJo franchise Steel Ball run, but trust me when I say part 6 is good and there is no need to rush through it, I know the whole idea of steel ball run being one part away is tempting but there is no need to skim through part 6, its a good worthwhile read.

~Review Portion~

[story-6/10]

In the year 2011 the daughter of part 3's protagonist Jotaro Kujo sits in a prison cell for a crime she did not commit, she was convicted of a DUI after a freak accident with her boyfriend after he hit someone fatally, they tried to cover up the incident and Jolyne's boyfriend Romeo blamed the fatal incident onto Jolyne, and then Jolyne Cujoh was sent to Green Dolphin Street Prison

JoJo part 6 has a very meh story, it's well paced and has good action scenes and some interesting ideas, themes from prior parts are re-integrated into part 6 very well, such as Fate. The story of Jolyne trying to regain her fathers memories is ok, it's this parts way of making disposable villains for the Stone ocean gang to defeat, the fights are very fun and enjoyable, the story surrounding Pucci and Dio to me is the most interesting part of the part 6 story, seeing this whole new side to dio , much more elegant and graceful then the one that appears in part's 1 and 3, this also adds more to dio and it unlocks this sense that Dio has an impact no matter where we go. Part 6's story overall is fine and isn't the main focus of the part.

[Art-10/10]
Araki once again shows us how excellent of a draftsmen he is, the art is phenomenal it's again fantastic, the character designs and if there's one thing I want to mention about the art in part 6 is that it has probably the best volume cover art and chapter art in the series, the poses and the art itself is amazing and in colour even more so.

[Character-9/10]
There characters are awesome, Jolyne is badass and fun, she's much more likeable than Jotaro and has a lot more charisma, she's got a mix of Jotaro and Jospeh and It works wonderfully! Weather report is one of the best characters of all time his duality with Pucci is not only interesting but thought provoking and novel, Foo fighters is not only adorable but complex and relatable, Jotaro is fantastic in this part as well, we see this whole new part to him, we see how he's protective of his daughter, we see how he's matured and it's nice seeing him again.

on the other hand we have characters who I don't like that much, Herme's is a bad character, she's boring and like Kakyoin she's missing for half the part but unlike Kakyoin who missed significantly less time then Hermes, Herme's isn't even re introduced until Jolyne escapes from prison and misses a lot of the story, Anasui is just there to be the love interest, and sure he can be funny and he works well with weather report but by himself Anasui is kinda lame, Emporio is a meh character, he's good sometimes and terrible others, He reminds me of Hayato from part 4 but much much better.

[Enjoyment-10/10]
as much criticisms for part 6 as I have I loved reading this from start to finish, reading through this magnificent journey put a little tear to my eye. JoJo part 6 while not flawless is a satisfying climax to the former JoJo universe and is one hell of a ride from start to finish.

[overall-9/10]
While it had it's flaws, JoJo part 6 is still one of the greatest manga ever written and Is not only a satisfying conclusion but a perfect Ending.

Helpful

permalink | report

May 28, 2020

158 of 158 chapters read

Overall Rating: 1

Yazawa-Ism (All reviews)

22 people found this review helpful

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 is a nasty piece of shit and helped confirm in my mind how lazy Hirohiko Araki's writing truly is. Any positive points to make about this part are completely over shadowed by Araki's mediocre and laughably shallow "Stand User of The Week" formula, which has been prevalent in previous JoJo parts but has been no more detrimental to the story than it is here, as an abundance of irrelevant fights take place over a large number of chapters all for the sake of padding out this incredibly shallow story. In parts 3 and 5 this formula at least fits the read more

permalink | report

More news
Recent News

More discussions
Recent Forum Discussion

	Why do you think SO is so hated? removed-user - Oct 12, 2020	11 replies	by owokitsu »» Jan 20, 1:39 PM
	Licensing Question sk8head - Jan 6	6 replies	by sk8head »» Jan 10, 10:34 AM

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean
Edit

What would you like to edit?

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

Edit
Synopsis

Edit
Background

Edit
Related Manga

More characters
Characters

More reviewsReviews

More news
Recent News

More discussions
Recent Forum Discussion

More featured articles
Recent Featured Articles

More recommendations
Recommendations

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean Edit What would you like to edit? SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsType

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

EditSynopsis

EditBackground

EditRelated Manga

More charactersCharacters

More reviewsReviews

More newsRecent News

More discussionsRecent Forum Discussion

More featured articlesRecent Featured Articles

More recommendations Recommendations

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean
Edit

What would you like to edit?

Edit
Synopsis

Edit
Background

Edit
Related Manga

More characters
Characters

More news
Recent News

More discussions
Recent Forum Discussion

More featured articles
Recent Featured Articles

More recommendations
Recommendations