After years of waiting, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure finally came back earlier this month with the debut episode of its seventh season. Both the episode and the season as a whole are titled Steel Ball Run, and that name makes sense after you see the episode in question. However…when a season launches, don’t we typically get…more of it? We should have the second episode by now, shouldn’t we?
At one point it was strongly suggested the season would be debuting weekly episodes, but now it’s unclear. Fans are now concerned Netflix could be planning to release the show in batches again, something they were heavily criticized for during the release of Season Six, Stone Ocean. The streamer is not commenting either way.
It’s not just the show’s viewers who are concerned by the silence. Anthony Prezman, the manga’s French translator, openly begged Netflix on social media to “consider whether your release strategy serves the story you’re investing in. Steel Ball Run is a story built on tension…arc by arc, week by week. Batch releases neutralize its narrative work.”
All we do know is that the show WILL release another episode at some point, no matter what form it takes. A teaser was released shortly after Episode 1’s debut. Presented in Japanese, it’s about the “2nd Stage”..the next leg of the race that takes Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppelli through the treacherous and deadly “Devil’s Palm,” a 750-mile stretch of desert where the sun can fry any traveler to dust. Worse yet, there’s been a murder of one of the contestants, and everybody the pair are competing with is a suspect.
We have no idea when we’ll find out how Johnny survives this latest challenge….Netflix will only say “2nd Stage” is coming later in 2026, whether that means the rest of the season, a batch dump, or another 45-minute special.
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