JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run Anime ‘2nd Stage’ Premieres September 25

Netflix has announced the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 7 – Steel Ball Run anime will continue streaming with its “2nd Stage” (second cour) on September 25. 

The anime premiered on March 19 with a 47-minute-long first episode dubbed the “1st STAGE.” The single episode’s release caused a huge amount of backlash and outcry among hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Afterward, Netflix clarified that the Steel Ball Run anime will run as a split-cour series.

The English dub cast of Steel Ball Run includes:

• Daman Mills as Johnny Joestar
• Kaiji Tang as Gyro Zeppeli
• Damien Haas as Diego Brando
• Frankie Kevich as Lucy Steel
• Jamieson Price as Steven Steel
• Alejandro Antonio Ruiz as Sand Man
• Cedric Williams as Pocoloco

The Japanese cast of the anime includes:

• Shōgo Sakata as Johnny Joestar
• Yōhei Azakami as Gyro Zeppeli
• Kaito Ishikawa as Diego Brando
• Rie Takahashi as Lucy Steel
• Kenta Miyake as Steven Steel
• Masaaki Mizunaka as Sand Man
• Kenichiro Matsuda as Pocoloco

The staff of the anime includes:

• Directors: Yasuhiro Kimura & Hideya Takahashi
• Series Director: Toshiyuki Kato
• Series Structure: Yasuko Kobayashi
• Character Designer: Daisuke Tsumagari
• Music Composer: Yugo Kanno
• Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
• Animation: david production Inc.

Warner Bros. Japan describes the anime as follows:

It’s 1890, in America, the Steel Ball Run — the first horse racing championship across the North American continent — was about to begin. Spanning around 4,000 miles, the race offered 50 million dollars as the winning prize.

Johnny Joestar, once being hailed as a genius jockey, is now paralyzed and lost in despair. He finds hope in the mysterious phenomena caused by Gyro Zeppeli, an outlaw aiming to win the race, and determines to participate in the Steel Ball Run Race.

Each having their own goal in mind, the two form an alliance and set foot upon the grueling adventure and race.

Hirohiko Araki is currently penning and writing part nine of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, titled The JOJOLands.