STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Reveals Opening Theme by Kroi as New Episodes Begin

The road keeps moving in STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and now it does so with a new pulse beneath its boots: rock band Kroi performs the opening theme "Spin", a reveal that arrives just as the anime prepares to enter its next stretch on Netflix. If you have been waiting for the series to gather speed again, this week feels less like a signal and more like the distant thunder before a race begins.

New opening theme sets the tone

Warner Bros. Japan unveiled the clean opening sequence for the anime, placing "Spin" at the front of its latest push. The announcement also came with jacket art featuring a newly drawn anime illustration, giving the theme song a visual identity that fits the series’ sharp, restless energy. It is a small detail on paper, perhaps, but in a franchise like JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, openings often become part of the ritual, the kind of first step you remember long after the episode ends.

Second and third stages arrive together

The anime’s second stage and third stage both begin streaming on Friday. From there, new episodes will roll out weekly on Fridays via Netflix. In total, these two stages will include 11 episodes, adding a substantial new stretch to the adaptation.

Netflix has also described the series as a split-cour production, which usually means one block airs for around three months, then pauses before returning for another run of similar length. In practical terms, it is a rhythm many anime viewers know well now: advance, breathe, advance again. I have always found that format a little bittersweet, like watching a train disappear into fog while knowing it will come back down the same line.

Where the anime began

The first stage premiered on March 19 with a single 47-minute episode, and Netflix is streaming the series exclusively worldwide. That extended opening gave the adaptation a broader first step than usual, enough room to let its atmosphere settle without rushing the dust off the trail.

Before this latest update, the anime had already introduced key characters including Mountain Tim, voiced by Tomoaki Maeno, Funny Valentine, voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, and Hot Pants, voiced by Yōko Hikasa. Each addition widened the map a little more, reminding you that Steel Ball Run is not simply a race story, but a collision of motives, bodies, and beliefs spread across a continent.

The team behind the adaptation

The anime brings together several returning names from across the franchise. Yasuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi, both known for co-directing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, are directing the series at david production. Toshiyuki Kato, who directed JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and contributed to earlier entries in multiple roles, serves as series director.

Series composition is once again handled by Yasuko Kobayashi, while Daisuke Tsumagari is in charge of character design. The music returns to the hands of Yūgo Kanno, with Yoshikazu Iwanami back as sound director. Sub-character design is credited to Yui Kinoshita, Grand Guerilla, Minoru Murao, and Chii. It is, in many ways, a familiar creative backbone, and that continuity matters in a series where tone can swing from elegance to chaos in a heartbeat.

The manga’s long trail across the frontier

Hirohiko Araki launched JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2004, before the manga moved to Ultra Jump in 2005. Its serialization ended in 2011, and the story was compiled in 24 volumes, corresponding to volumes 81 through 104 of the larger JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga numbering.

Viz Media licensed the manga in English and released the first volume in digital and print formats in May 2025. The premise remains one of the franchise’s most striking: riders from around the world gather in the American Wild West for an immense race, while Johnny Joestar, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, encounters Gyro Zeppeli and glimpses a power that changes the course of his life. From there, the story opens like a desert horizon, wide and unsettling.

How it fits into the wider JoJo legacy

This adaptation continues the path david production has been building for years. The studio has already animated the story from Part 1 through Part 6, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, whose 38 episodes were released by Netflix in three parts between December 2021 and December 2022. With STEEL BALL RUN, the franchise crosses into one of its most discussed arcs, a work many readers hold close for its scale and reinvention.

Araki is also still expanding the series. The JOJOLands, the ninth part of the manga, began in Ultra Jump in February 2023. Around it, the franchise continues to branch into games, stage productions, and live-action works tied to Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan. Few long-running properties move quite like this one; it does not march in a straight line so much as turn, pose, and keep going.

For viewers, the immediate point is simple: Friday marks the return of the race, with 11 new episodes now on the horizon and Kroi’s "Spin" leading the charge. Sometimes an opening theme is just a song. Sometimes it is the sound of the gate finally lifting.