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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 Anime to Air in Spring With Differences From Parts 1/2, ASB Game
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
The December issue of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine is announcing on Tuesday that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, the television anime adaptation of Part 3 of Hirohiko Araki's original manga, will premiere in spring 2014.
In a CD bundled with the magazine, the staff also indicated that the anime will differ in some aspects from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle PlayStation 3 video game. The cast for the anime will be announced at the Jump Festa 2014 event on December 21 and 22. The staff of the anime also revealed in the magazine that since the art style changed from Part 1 to Part 2, they want to do the same thing with the change from Part 2 to Part 3. In addition, a compilation of the anime adaptation of Part 1 and Part 2 will air on Japanese television on New Year's Day.
Director Naokatsu Tsuda and series director Kenichi Suzuki are once again overseeing the anime at david production. Yasuko Kobayashi is in charge of the series scripts, and Masahiko Komino is designing the characters.
david production's earlier 26-episode television anime covered both Part 1: Phantom Blood and Part 2: Battle Tendency from the original manga. That anime finished airing in April.
Namco Bandai Games is releasing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle in North America, Europe, and Australasia next year. The company released the game in Japan on August 29.