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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) is Hirohiko Araki's manga serialized since 1987 in nine parts, from Phantom Blood to The JOJOLands, built around Stand abilities and adapted into anime through Steel Ball Run.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) (OVA)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA) is A.P.P.P.'s 13-episode adaptation of Part 3, Stardust Crusaders: six episodes 1993–1994 (Egypt arc) and a seven-episode prequel 2000–2002, distinct from the 2014 48-episode TV anime.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) (TV series)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, known in Japanese as JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken, is a David Production anime adapting Hirohiko Araki's manga season by season since October 2012.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) (video game)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) video games: Capcom's arcade fighter Heritage for the Future and CyberConnect2's All-Star Battle (2013), Eyes of Heaven (2015), and All-Star Battle R (2022), Stand-based fighting games published by Bandai Namco.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure season 1
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure season 1 (2012, David Production) adapts manga Parts 1 and 2, Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, in 26 episodes aired October 2012 to April 2013.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 オールスターバトル)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 オールスターバトル) is a CyberConnect2 fighting game for PS3 (2013; West April 29, 2014), 40 fighters, 500,000+ sold; remastered as All-Star Battle R in 2022 with 50 characters.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ダイヤモンドは砕けない 第一章)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ダイヤモンドは砕けない 第一章) is Takashi Miike's 2017 live-action film adapting Part 4 of Araki's manga, starring Kento Yamazaki as Josuke, filmed in Sitges, Spain, and unrewarded with sequels after a weak Japanese box office.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 アイズオブヘブン) is a CyberConnect2 2v2 arena fighting game for PS3/PS4, 2015-16, with an Araki-supervised original story, 50+ characters, Metascore 61.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 黄金の風, Vento Aureo) is the fourth TV anime season adapting Part 5 of Hirohiko Araki's manga: Giorno Giovanna, DIO's son, joins the Italian gang Passione; 39 episodes by David Production aired 2018-2019.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
Stardust Crusaders (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 スターダストクルセイダース) is the 48-episode David Production TV anime (2014–2015) adapting part 3 of Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Jotaro Kujo's 1987 journey to Egypt to defeat DIO, with Stands replacing Hamon.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ストーンオーシャン) is the fifth JoJo anime season by David Production, adapting manga Part 6: Jolyne Cujoh, the first female JoJo, imprisoned in Florida's Green Dolphin Street Prison; 38 episodes on Netflix, ending in a universe reset.
Jojoba
Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis), a dioecious desert shrub native to Arizona, California, and Mexico, whose seeds yield about 50% liquid wax ester oil used in cosmetics, lubricants, and biodiesel research.
Jojoba oil
Jojoba oil, from Simmondsia chinensis seeds, is a liquid wax ester (97% monounsaturated C16-C26 esters) used in cosmetics, dermatology, and pharmaceuticals; about 40% of world production is Israeli.
JoJolion (ジョジョリオン)
JoJolion (ジョジョリオン) is part 8 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, serialized in Ultra Jump 2011–2021 in 27 volumes; an amnesiac Josuke searches Morioh after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, winning the 2013 Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize.
JOJOZOO PARK
JOJOZOO PARK (九九峰動物樂園) is a bird-themed zoo in Caotun, Nantou County, Taiwan, opened in 2022 after NT$2 billion development; Asia's largest bird park with walk-in aviaries, 120 species, and a wildlife rescue station.
Joju George (ജോജു ജോർജ്ജ്)
Joju George (ജോജു ജോർജ്ജ്), born Joseph George, 1977, is a Malayalam cinema actor, producer and director. Junior artist from 1995, breakthrough lead in Joseph (2018), National Film Award Special Mention, three Kerala State awards, banner Appu Pathu Pappu.
Jókai (Mercurian crater)
Jókai is a roughly 93-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at about 72° N, 138° W, in the Borealis (H-1) quadrangle. Approved by the IAU in 1979, it is named for the Hungarian novelist Mór Jókai (1825–1904).
Joke
Joke: a short two-part verbal humor form, setup plus punchline, the prototypical canned joke in humor research. Distinguished from conversational wit; explained by superiority, relief, incongruity, and benign violation theories; now also generated and judged by AI models.
Joke de Korte
Joke de Korte (Johanna Catharina de Korte-Vuijk, born 1935) is a Dutch swimmer, 4th in the 1952 Olympic 100 m backstroke, double 1954 European silver medalist, and 4×100 m medley relay world record holder.
Jokela school shooting
Jokela school shooting (Jokelan koulusurmat): 7 November 2007 attack at Jokela High School, Tuusula, Finland, by 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, who killed six students, a nurse, and the principal before killing himself; prompted a 13-recommendation inquiry and gun-law reform.
Joker
The Joker is a DC Comics villain created in 1940 who sees himself as an agent of chaos, shifting unpredictably between prankster and mass murderer across comics, films, and games.
Joker (2012 film)
Joker is a 2012 Hindi science fiction comedy film directed by Shirish Kunder and starring Akshay Kumar as a scientist who stages a fake alien invasion to aid his neglected village.
Joker (2016 film)
Joker is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language political satire directed by Raju Murugan, starring Guru Somasundaram as a villager who declares himself President of India and protests social injustice.
Joker (2019 film)
Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller directed by Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a failed comedian becoming the Joker in 1980s Gotham City.
Joker (character)
The Joker (Curingón; Guasón) is DC Comics' supervillain arch-enemy of Batman, created by Finger, Kane, and Robinson, debuting in Batman #1 (April 25, 1940), with the Red Hood chemical-vat origin, the multiple-choice past of The Killing Joke, and screen portrayals by Romero, Nicholson, Ledger, Leto, and Phoenix.
Joker (Jack Napier)
Jack Napier is the civilian name the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman gave the Joker, played by Jack Nicholson as a gangster under Carl Grissom who falls into chemicals; the name spread to animation and comics as an alias.
Joker (Persona)
Joker (ジョーカー) is the silent protagonist of Persona 5, leader of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts; officially named Ren Amamiya (Akira Kurusu in the manga), his Persona is Arsène, and he is a Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC fighter.
Joker (playing card)
Joker (playing card): extra card in modern decks, two per deck, originating in American Euchre as the Best Bower, highest trump; now a wild card in Rummy, removed in Poker and Bridge, not derived from the Tarot Fool.
Joker (The Dark Knight)
Joker (The Dark Knight) is Heath Ledger's 2008 portrayal of Batman's archenemy for Christopher Nolan, written with no origin story as an agent of pure anarchy. It won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009, the first Oscar for a comic-book role.
Joker in other media
Joker in other media covers screen and game adaptations of DC's Joker, Batman's arch-nemesis debuting in Batman #1 (1940), from Cesar Romero's 1966 TV villain through Nicholson, Ledger, Leto, and Phoenix to Arkham games and the first DC Studios anime.