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Oct 8, 2021
This one is close to 10 and lies in between great and masterpiece. Araki always may come with similar storytelling, but he is good at executing the plot with new ideas and diversity of culture and characters. Like all JoJo installments, this one follows similar roots of Protagonist vs Antagonist pulling the plot line. The thing that makes different is there is lot of twist into it and expectations of the reader may not succeed with the repeatedly up fronting adventure. In other words I would refer it as "Big rescue for the Jojo storyline". After the Stone Ocean event, time cease to create a void and recreate a different storyline with similar characters from the timeline of Jolyne Kujo. In the same recreated universe, this Steel ball run even happens with the past touch to it. I don't know why, but Araki always plans to appear the main villain for the last moment, which seems fools idea for many example, but it fits here well in the story as antagonist President Valentine has his reason for it and the flow keeps us in guessing the 'who could be the main villain ?' as it turns out even after death of president the story progresses.

The art style of the manga is pretty normal and character are close to attain humanic charm. Mangaka did great job for picking a great location for the story as we overcome through many lands and climate through out the story and the art work does gives justice to it. Characters are good by plot and gives good preception . As it takes in 1800s, characters dress code and event close to the time are well puted. For a normal reader, it is more of reading an strategic adventure novel than some action drama.

From the reverted world of Stone Ocean event that disturbed the Father Pucci's alternative world, we get the seventh installment of JoJo manga. It predates to 2nd half of 18th century, where Cowboyism was a prior thing. In the mid of nowhere, a businessman named Steven Steel announces a big prize money for his horse race competition goes by name "STEEL BALL RUN". A very large and diverse amount of people join the race. With them Gyro Zeppeli, Diego Brando, Pocoloco, Roadagain Ringo, Avdol are to name a few for favourites. With handicapped legs a young man Johnny Joestar joins the race as viewer but accidentally joins the competition in order to follow mysterious Gyro Zeppeli. Johnny was amazed by Gyro's Steel ball trick, which he plans to use as trump card in the race. To get over with non matured past and overcome the handicapness, he joins Gyro on his race journey. The spinning ability of Gyro makes him more of mysterious person as it is considered to be very abnormal in that time and it is revealed that he is from some rich family from Italy. With the journey begins, many competitor fails or gave up and some gain mass support from the viewers. The destination for the condition is to complete the map of U.S.A through certain stop points. Unbelievably many new favourites arrive, Johnny becomes one of them. Most surprising one is Sandman, who is from a tribal community of American land with lots of hope to bring back land with the money from competition. As the competition proceed, truth behind the SBR seems to revealed among some of the members. Gyro and Johnny became more concern about the journey as they face new enemies in different lands. More they fight, more the secret of SBR gets revealed to them. With more achievement in mid of race, they get to know President Funny Valentine is all behind this and his main motive is to get corpse of certain important person that gives insanely amazing power to the holder of corpse. They even get to know the concept of stand and it's skills. The check points of the map for race is major locations with high chances of finding the corpse part. At first duo of Gyro and Johnny doesn't seem to care much about it, after knowing the abilities of the corpse and how much impact it could hold, they decide to hunt the corose themselves down. Confronting new enemies and odd situations, they overcomes to the checkpoint before the final checkpoint. This is where Dio and Funny team up against Gyro and Johnny. In the unfortunate event with the stand ability of opening alternative copied universe, he succeeds in killing Gyro and Diego dies by train crush in the spot. Johnny with his advanced Stand ability, hold backs the president and ends his chapter but the story doesn't end here as the race hasn't ended yet. With the help of Steel's wife Lucy, Johnny desires the corpse but new Diego Brando appears from alternate world of president's power. It becomes more difficult to for Johnny to handle the situation as the new Dio has stand ability of stoping time. In the end Do steal back the corpse and go for the competition. Johnny tries his best to prevent Do from stealing and winning but, competition ends with Dio becoming SBR winner. In the mean time as per Valentine's order Dio goes to secret underground base of Trinity church to store to corpse body parts. That is where she meets Lucy steel again, where Lucy throw the alternate Dio, "Real world" Dio's remaining corpse. As per the President's stands ability, expect him, no one can tracepass to other paper dimension of him, if in other dimension same object of person meets they get stick as one and blow up. Using that theory, Lucy successfully make Dio fall into his trap, and succeed in killing him. After Dio's no appearance in winner announcement, Pocoloco(who comes second in the competition) is announced as the winner of competition.
In the Epilogue, Johnny is shown taking the corpse of Gyro in the box with him. He is on the journey to complete Gyro's rest work he left behind. And there the new adventure awaits.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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