However, his digging pulls him and his adoptive family into the unfinished business between his previous life and an impending inhuman threat.
It was serialized by Shueisha in the seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from May 2011 until August 2021, and has been collected in 27 tankōbon volumes.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami,[a] strange structures known colloquially as the Wall Eyes appear near the coast of the town of Morioh, with the ground beneath them gaining the ability to swap traits of objects buried within it.
Yasuho conducts her investigation while leaving the youth in the care of the Higashikata family, hypothesizing that Josuke is connected to a missing doctor named Yoshikage Kira.
Norisuke remains unaware that his oldest son Jobin has been illegally obtaining and selling Locacaca in coordination with a group of mysterious stone-based beings called Rock Humans, who seek to eliminate Josuke and ascend the ranks of society.
After Kira was fatally injured by the Rock Humans, Josefumi used the new Locacaca to cure him as the two of them fell into the site of the future Wall Eyes.
At Norisuke's behest, Josuke meets with a plant appraiser named Rai Mamezuku, who he leads to the Higashikata orchard to identify the Locacaca branch.
A gravely-wounded Toru eats a ripening fruit from the branch and attempts to initiate an exchange, only to be pinned to the ground by Kaato.
It premiered in Shueisha's Ultra Jump on May 19, 2011,[1] and ended on August 19, 2021,[2] making it the longest running part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series overall.
Another theme is that from birth we see things as black and white, but this produces a "friction" (摩擦, masatsu) from what humanity really experiences.
JoJolion won the Grand Prize for Manga Division at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013.