This article lists possible references made in popular series and by popular artists to art or concepts defining to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Discussion of the legitimacy of these references can be found here. References range in nature from tribute to plagiarism. Many are comic, while the "JoJo poses" in particular cross into greater cultural significance, with the greatest examples being those reproduced by a handful of popular Japanese performing artists.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • List of cultural references and inspirations from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
rdfs:comment
  • This article lists possible references made in popular series and by popular artists to art or concepts defining to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Discussion of the legitimacy of these references can be found here. References range in nature from tribute to plagiarism. Many are comic, while the "JoJo poses" in particular cross into greater cultural significance, with the greatest examples being those reproduced by a handful of popular Japanese performing artists.
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:jojo/proper...iPageUsesTemplate
Name
  • Rosario + Vampire
  • Terraria
  • Space Dandy
  • Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
  • Persona 5
  • Shomin Sample
  • Steins;Gate
  • Sket Dance
  • Danganronpa
  • Seitokai no Ichizon
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
  • Undertale
  • Monster Hunter Generations
  • Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
  • Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
  • Ai Mai Mi
  • Azur Lane
  • Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
  • Devil Beater
  • Dota 2
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
  • Gokujo
  • Hacka Doll the Animation
  • Hungry Marie
  • Hyakko
  • I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying
  • Jinrui wa Suitaishimashita
  • Jojolion
  • Kaiser Knuckle series
  • Live with Yourself!
  • Mad Father
  • Mao Asada & Usain Bolt
  • Maria Holic
  • Mercenary Kings
  • Monster Hunter 3G
  • Murcielago
  • Oku-sama ga seito kaichou
  • Osomatsu-san
  • Psychic Force series
  • RADIO FISH
  • Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan
  • Screencheat
  • Sei So Tsui Dan Sha
  • Senran Kagura series
  • Senyuu
  • Shikabane hime
  • Show By Rock!!
  • Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu
  • Stellaris
  • THE iDOLM@STER
  • Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
  • Tekyuu 5
  • Yandere Kanojo
Content
  • 200(xsd:integer)
  • thumb In episode 5, Hacka Doll v.4 finds a guy on the streets reading a car magazine and tries to gift him a car. She briefly recreates DIO's Road Roller attack before throwing the car at him.
  • In chapter 45, Manabu comments about Stand Users being attracted to each other.
  • http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141218190051/monsterhunter/images/a/a1/MH4U-Palico_Equipment_Render_013.png The game has a costume for playable Felynes that strongly resembles the coat of Jotaro Kujo.(en)
  • Senran Kagura 2 Deep Crimson, Mirai has an outfit called "Camisole" with 4 different colors to it. 2 colors have the words "Star Platinum" surrounding a star in the middle of the camisole while the other 2 colors have "The World" surrounding a globe. File:HNI 0003.jpg File:HNI 0005.jpg File:HNI 0006.jpg File:HNI 0006.jpg
  • thumb *The Hero "Faceless Void" does one of DIO's poses while using his ultimate ability "Chronosphere", which stops time. He also has a green heart for a belt buckle. *One of the loading screens features the character Phantom Assasin doing Jonathan's pose, not only that, but the previews in the Steam Workshop of the whole set features various JoJo poses
  • In the game exists a secret playable character based off of the character Diavolo, specifically his form as The Boss, named "Solido Naso". While slow, he can summon his Stand, Ruler Red, to deal large amounts of damage and knockback.
  • thumb In the ending credits, some of the characters recreate some fairly blatant JoJo poses, including Jonathan, Joseph, and Johnny's.
  • center|thumb Jyushimatsu prepares for his date in episode 9. In one of his outfits he is wearing the Stone Mask. Also in episode 8 While Jyushimatsu holds Iyami, JoJo-style "menacing" SFX for flows background. center|thumb Karamatsu also makes Jonathan's pose in episode 25.
  • The Mad Dummy's "Futile" is similar to DIO's "Muda" where it means "useless", also the Mad Dummy throw the knife which can be tribute of Dio Brando, Mettaton's dancing similar to JoJo's Pose and have heart-shaped bracelet which similar to DIO's.
  • thumb In Episode 75, Kaido who was leading the way to a restaurant says that they are being attacked with a new Stand Power.
  • thumb One episode features the characters portrayed in JoJo style making various JoJo poses, including that of Josuke, Dio and Johnny.
  • thumb In Episode 4, Cyan is seen to be doing a famous JoJo pose.
  • thumb The character Santana is likely a reference to mostly part 3, but also includes some part 2 elements. Appearance-wise, he strongly resembles Muhammad Avdol, with his official artwork mimicking Avdol's 'YES I AM!' pose. His voice actor is also Kiyoyuki Yanada, who voiced Jotaro in the Capcom fighting game. Aside from this, his name is also possibly a reference to the pillar man, Santana.
  • An in does the iconic poses of
  • thumb When you're in sortie, you can press auto at left corner, and then there's a To be Continued meme note, and say "When you're in auto mode, we are not guarantee what will happen next, though..."
  • thumb|Mariko summoning her "Stand" The student Saotome Mariko summons a "Stand" named Lovely Soul as example of Shojo manga, making it a pun due to JoJo being a Shonen manga.
  • Jonathan and Josuke. thumb|left thumb|right
  • thumb In the first episode of the second season, Dandy, QT and Meow hop through different alternate universes until they reach the third Dandy, whom mentions he is looking for eight people with star-shaped birthmarks.
  • thumb|right In chapter 10 of Hungry Marie, Taiga repeatedly says "Nope" . Anna tells him to settle down because he's starting to look like a JoJo's character.
  • Richard Wong is a Psychiccer with the power to control time. He naturally compliments this ability by swarming the enemy with summoned daggers and uses teleportation as a highly evasive maneuver and as a means to swarm the opponent with more attacks.
  • thumb The World is one of the responses to the question "What is the name of the phenomenon where the second hand looks like it stops moving?", asked by one of the teachers in school.
  • *In Terraria, there is a weapon called "Vampire Knives" which are likely to be a reference to Dio Brando; Specifically, to Shadow Dio's knife throw from the arcade fighter of the same name, whose knives fan out in a manner similar to this weapon. *There is a set named the Stardust armor that allows the player to summon a Stardust guardian when all the pieces are worn. The guardian will follow by floating directly behind them, and the player can order the guardian to move and attack enemies. Starmor.png Vamp knives.jpg
  • thumb|The Higashik-Ata star A star in the strategy game by Paradox is named "Higashik-Ata", likely in reference to Josuke.
  • In one of the episodes a character named Samejima is portrayed in Araki style doing Joseph's pose accompanied by the SFX. Samejima and Joseph are also voiced by the same VA, Sugita Tomokazu. Another character, Februar, is shown in Araki style as well. senyuu jojo1.jpg senyuu jojo2.jpg
  • thumb One of the messages the player receives after killing an opponent in the game is Sunlight Yellow Overdrive while the defeated player's screen says WRYYYYY.
  • The series has a number of blatant references to JoJo. One chapter appears to have been inspired by the Tower of Gray arc as the main cast travels to Hong Kong, but is intercepted along the way by an assassin and then survive the plane crash. 2010-06-15-rosavam-2010-07.jpg RVIIc02p11.jpg
  • thumb|center|Suzuha's reference to The World The protagonist, Okabe Rintarou, while talking with Suzuha Amane, references The World in an allusion that he sensed the time had stopped. thumb|center|Future Gadget No. 3 In the visual novel, the group built a device called "Is it, ORAORAORA?!" which is a very basic lie detector; so basic that in reality it can only read people's sweat levels. They also like using Rohan's "I refuse" quote, which eventually outed someone as an otaku.
  • An animated cutscene in the game introduces the Persona 4 cast posing as different JoJo characters: Narukami as Jonathan, Yosuke as Dio, Chie as Jotaro, Yukiko as Josuke, Naoto as Giorno and Kanji as Joseph. persona_q2.jpg persona_q1.jpg
  • thumb In the game there is a magnum-class pistol listed as "Horse", designed similarly to The Emperor, and complete with the description: "Perfect Pistol for a mercenary on a bizarre adventure."
  • thumb|Babs stand In the Ep.29 of online webtoon Live with Yourself! by Shen, Tomo discovers Babs can pull objects into his timeline by observing them which results to said objects into aging rapidly, such as growing a tree from a seed. And when Todd came back, Tomo strikes this pose with Babs as a Stand.
  • thumb Episode 2 of Second Thread features the iconic "To Be Continued" arrow before the ending theme plays.
  • thumb|right The game had an event in which you could unlock a hammer based off Crazy Diamond that can heal your allies, and a mask based off Harvest that can be equipped to your Shakalaka and constantly gain money.
  • There is also a petshop featured in School District 7 and is named Horus Pet house, a direct reference to the part 3 antagonist of the same name and his stand. In the manga, the pet shop's logo features two animals, both of which seem to depict Pet Shop and Iggy, though this reference is lost in the anime. *In chapter 74, a precognitive esper named Shaei is introduced with the ability to use a camera to produce a photo of a future event. He describes an app that people use to find lost objects, using an example of an esper girl destroying a camera with a karate chop, referencing Joseph Joestar's usage of Hermit Purple's abilities.
  • During his initial introduction, the protagonist, Makoto Naegi, points out that he does not have a Stand. Additionally, the Japanese delinquent, Mondo Oowada is an homage to Josuke Higashikata, sharing Josuke's hairstyle and is easily offended when people make fun of it. He is also the leader of a motorcycle gang named the Crazy Diamonds. The first execution of the game, The 1000 Blows, has Leon Kuwata being hit 1000 times with baseballs, similar to how Jolyne Cujoh defeats Miraschon. The villain of the game, Junko Enoshima, has multiple personalities, with one of them constantly acting as Dio and saying "Muda, Muda, Muda" during her Machinegun Talk Battle, also she is making the JoJo Pose . One of the items the player can gift is called the Meteorite Arrowhead, a blatant reference to the Arrow. The sequel, Super DanganRonpa 2, has the character Teruteru Hanamura mentioning that people can tell if others are lying by the taste of their sweat. The game also features Monokuma attacking Monomi with a Heaven's Door parody. Crazydiamondsoowada.png Jojo junko danganronpa.png jojomonokuma.jpg danganarrow.jpg
  • Sugisaki Ken, the main character, claims that all boys have a Stand called Illusion which enables them to fantasize about girls even when blindfolded. After that he makes one of Joseph's poses. *Minatsu says that Stands should not be counted as weapons in the colosseum while striking a JoJo pose with Killer Queen in the background. SugisakiKen.jpg KenPose.gif Minatsu.jpg
  • thumb One of the boss characters, Azteca, wears a face mask that is very similar to the Stone Mask. Also of note, his character select portrait shows that he has 'DIO' tattooed on his arm and his pre-fight animation consists of him bursting out of a stone pillar.
  • Episode 8 of the series shows JoJo-styled SFX, coupled with a "To be continued" sign. MariaHolicJoJo 1.jpg MariaHolicJoJo 2.jpg
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software