It is a spin-off from Diamond Is Unbreakable, the fourth part of Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, and features the character Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist who travels around the world to get inspiration from people's lives.

The series follows the character Rohan Kishibe, a famous manga artist who wants to give his works more realism, and therefore travels around the world to draw inspiration from people's lives.

He does this by using his Stand ability[3] – a manifestation of his inner strength, named "Heaven's Door", which he uses to read and write in a person, allowing him to learn everything about them and alter their memories and behaviors.

[5][6] He was asked to contribute a one-shot for the magazine by the editorial staff, with two requirements; it had to be shorter than 45 pages, and could not be a spin-off or side story.

[5][6][8][9] "The Harvest Moon", the episode from the web magazine Shōnen Jump+, was part of the publication's launch line-up and was made available to read for free.

[10] Looking back on them, Araki found each story to have a distinct "flavor" and influence depending on where it was published and noted this was not a conscious decision on his part.

[11] The characters Tonio Trussardi and Yukako Yamagishi from Diamond Is Unbreakable appear in "Poaching Seashore" and "Deoxyribonucleic Acid", respectively.

[18] The exhibit celebrated the 90th anniversary of Gucci and featured a life-size figure of Rohan Kishibe, as well as numerous illustrations by Araki that included actual pieces of the brand's own 2011–2012 fall/winter collection and his own original fashion designs.

[25][26] In February 2022, Viz Media announced they licensed the series for English publication under the title Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe,[27] with the first volume released on September 27, 2022.

The following chapters have not been released in collected tankōbon volumes: Spin-off short stories by the writers Ballad Kitaguni, Ryo Yoshigami, Yusuke Iba, Mirei Miyamoto and Katsuie Shibata, illustrated by Araki, were published in the Appendix Booklet of Ultra Jump magazine from 2017 to 2024.

[62] On January 6, 2025, it was announced that a live-action movie, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional, based on the manga chapter of the same name, will premiere on May 23, 2025.

[f][69] The second volume's standard and limited editions debuted to 132,283 and 20,128 copies sold, respectively, ranking as fourth and thirty-sixth in the weekly Japanese comic charts.

[4][29] Maria Antonietta Idotta of MangaForever said that the series managed to express full range of drama, depth, and complexity typical of Araki's long-form works despite its one-shot format, and called the artwork "sublime".

Giving it a four out of five stars rating, Silverman called the collection a really interesting set of short supernatural mysteries that feel like post-Code American horror comics of the 1970s.

Farris compared Rohan's "relatively minimal involvement" in the stories to that of The Crypt-Keeper, and felt it made the collection come off like a horror anthology.

[2] Karen Maeda of Sequential Tart, who noted she had almost no knowledge of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, found herself "completely sucked in" by the second story, wondering what Rohan and his magical power was going to do next.