


The first soundtrack album Departure was released on July 30, 2014, and a second soundtrack album Journey was included with the second volume of the Blu-ray releases, released on August 27, 2014.
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The original score for the series is composed by Yugo Kanno. This song was used again in episodes 36 and 37, this time performed by Hidenobu Kiuchi with Motoko Kumai, as the characters Hol Horse and Boingo a digital single was released for this version of the song as well. However, episode 27 featured the unique ending theme song and animation sequence for "Aku-yaku Kyōsōkyoku" ( アク役♢協奏曲, "Evil Concerto"), performed by Makoto Yasumura and Motoko Kumai as their characters Oingo and Boingo a digital single was released shortly after broadcast. The "Battle in Egypt" half of the season has new theme music, with the opening theme changed to "JoJo Sono Chi no Kioku ~end of THE WORLD~" ( ジョジョ その血の記憶~end of THE WORLD~, translated as "JoJo, That Blood's Memories ~End of the World~"), performed by the band "JO☆STARS ~TOMMY,Coda,JIN~" consisting of Hiroaki "Tommy" Tominaga, Coda, and Jin Hashimoto, each of whom had performed one of the series' previous openings, while the ending theme was changed to American jazz fusion band Pat Metheny Group's "Last Train Home" from their 1987 album Still Life (Talking). The opening theme for the first half of the season is " Stand Proud", performed by Jin Hashimoto, while the ending theme is American female pop rock band The Bangles' 1986 single " Walk Like an Egyptian". Takehito Koyasu reprises his role as Dio from the previous season and Daisuke Ono reprises his role as Jotaro Kujo from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle video game, but all other characters were given new voice actors. David Production revealed that as with the different art styles they used for the first season, which covered the Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency arcs, they would be attempting a new art style with the Stardust Crusaders season. See List of Stardust Crusaders Characters and more detailed List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure characters.Īlthough teased at in the post-credit scenes of the first season's finale, the second season of the JoJo anime was officially announced in October 2013 in the November 2013 issue of Ultra Jump and the fifth tankōbon volume of JoJolion. Aided by Kakyoin, who reveals the nature of Dio's time-stopping Stand The World in his last moments, Jotaro kills Dio in Egypt, allowing Holly to recover. The group is later joined by Jean Pierre Polnareff, a former assassin of Dio who discovers that Dio is employing the murderer of Polnareff's sister, along with the Stand user dog named Iggy. Because they are being targeted by a number of Stand user assassins, the group cannot travel to Egypt by commercial plane.
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Jotaro, Joseph, and fellow Stand users Muhammad Avdol and Noriyaki Kakyoin travel from Japan to Egypt to find and kill Dio, which will free Holly from her Stand. In 1988, Holly cannot control her Stand and is estimated to have fifty days left to live. As Dio develops a manifestation of life energy known as a Stand, Jonathan's descendants Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, and Holly Kujo also gain Stands. In 1983, Dio, the vampire enemy of Jonathan Joestar which has possessed Jonathan's body, emerges from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
