Trivia / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: While there was never actually a Flight 2862 (Flight 2882 in the anime) that crashed in Florida in 2005 en route from London to Dallas, it did unintentionally line up with the Equatorial Express Airlines An-24 plane crash, which did actually happen in July 2005, albeit on the 16th rather than the 21st, and just like the plane crash in Stone Ocean, there were 2 survivors of the An-24 crash.
• Actor-Inspired Element: According to an interview with CDawgVA, Yong Yea's inspiration for the voice he uses for Whitesnake is Patrick Star, due to having a low-pitched, warbling voice. In a 2022 YouTube video, he also mentions taking inspiration from Hugo Weaving.
• All-Star Cast: While the previous parts were no slouches in this department, there are a lot of big names of the anime industry in here. The dub in particular includes some Texas-based voice actors and even voice actors that have not been in dubs for a while due to being mostly union.
• Author's Saving Throw: According to some interviews, one reason for Stone Ocean having many female characters, most of which are Action Girls, is that Araki was disappointed with how so many of his other female characters ended up being either Neutral Females or Faux Action Girls, and he wanted to try to break away from that. He also wanted to originally make Giorno a girl and was stopped by editors, which motivated him to create Jolyne.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Jolyne does not ask Pucci why he wants to reset the universe in the original manga (she doesn't even know that is his plan). The phrase originates from a manga edit created by fans that went viral due to the myriad possibilities of humorous edits.
• Blooper: In Episode 10, Jolyne contacts the Speedwagon Foundation, whose headquarters are located in Texas. In the following episode, when Pucci is observing the outgoing calls, the location is listed as being in Washington.
• Colbert Bump: As is tradition at this point, the YouTube comments section for Duffy's "Distant Dreamer" immediately became bombarded with JoJo fans when the song was announced to be the used for the anime's ED.
• Content Leak: Several weeks before the anime adaptation was released, the child of a Netflix employee revealed details that were not yet known to the public, such as episode titles, thumbnails, and the end credits song.
• Creator's Favorite: Fairouz Ai has said in multiple prerelease interviews that Jolyne is her favorite JoJo character, with her having grown to idolize her as a kid. In terms of previous parts, Fairouz has also shown admiration towards Avdol from Stardust Crusaders for allowing her to help embrace her Japanese-Egyptian heritage, which was considered taboo at the time.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Almost no adaptation has Emporio voiced by a man. In the games and anime, he is voiced by women; the same goes in some other foreign dubs. In the English dub of the anime adaptation, he is voiced by a nonbinary actor.
• Edited for Syndication: In the manga, anime key art, and early releases of the anime trailer, Emporio dons a Chicago Cubs uniform. However, later releases of the trailer cut away from any of his logos, and in the anime itself, every one of his logos are edited to be blank blue circles. This was later changed again in late December 2021, giving Emporio's uniform a logo that still resembles the Cubs' logo, but with the initials "GD" and a picture of a dolphin to represent Green Dolphin Street Prison.
• God Never Said That: The reason Anasui was changed from female to male. The rumor of it being Executive Meddling due to editors getting cold feet at the possibility of a lesbian romance between female Anasui and Jolyne originates from Image Boards, and has never been confirmed in official sources anywhere. Another popular rumor was that Shonen Jump editors enforced it out of a belief that the high number of females in the cast would turn off adolescent male viewers. Both of these were nixed when Araki stated he was always meant to be a character who "went beyond the standard definition of genders".
• Milestone Celebration: In a way, Part 6 acts as this to the series as a whole; its first chapter was published thirteen years to the day after the publication of chapter one of Phantom Blood.
• The Other Darrin: Just like the previous two parts, there were seperate auditions for the anime and Eyes of Heaven leading to many characters being recasted in the anime.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Jolyne is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. In the anime, she is voiced by rising voice actress Fairouz Ai.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Ermes is voiced by Chizu Yonemoto. In the anime, she is voiced by Mutsumi Tamura.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Anasui is voiced by Yūichi Nakamura. In the anime, he is voiced by Daisuke Namikawa.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Weather Report is voiced by Tōru Ōkawa. In the anime, he is voiced by Yuichiro Umehara.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Emporio is voiced by Junko Kitanishi. In the anime, he is voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Foo Fighters is voiced by Ryōko Shiraishi. In the anime, they are voiced by Mariya Ise.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Gwess is voiced by Takako Honda. In the anime, she is voiced by Momoko Taneichi.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Sports Maxx is voiced by Kosuke Toriumi. In the anime, he is voiced by Tsuyoshi Koyama.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Viviano Westwood is voiced by Takaya Hashi. In the anime, he is voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Dragon's Dream is voiced by Tamotsu Nishiwaki. In the anime, it is voiced by Chō.
  • In the Cyberconnect games, Miumiu is voiced by Akeno Watanabe. In the anime, she is voiced by Yuko Kaida.
  • In a series of a commercials, Pucci was voiced by Joji Nakata. In All-Star Battle, Sho Hayami voiced Pucci instead. However, Nakata reprised his role as Pucci in Eyes of Heaven due to Hayami reprising his role as Vanilla Ice in the Stardust Crusaders anime and the game itself. In the anime, he is voiced by Tomokazu Seki.
• One-Take Wonder: Yong Yea confirmed in a YouTube video that he was able to record the scene of Pucci's defeat in one take, and even showed a behind-the-scenes video of him voicing the scene, including him needing to drink water due to feeling lightheaded.
• Playing Against Type: Howard Wang admitted to Anasui being the role he was the most nervous for, as he's usually typecast as either Smug Snakes or The Stoic, with Soft-Spoken Sadists and Yanderes being new territory to him.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • The JoJo series as a whole inspired Fairouz Ai, Jolyne's voice actress in the anime adaptation, to pursue voice acting. She also had a dream to voice Foo Fighters ever since reading the manga... only to end up with the role of Jolyne Cujoh herself, who she was only reluctant to audition for because she was afraid she wouldn't do the character justice.
  • Mutsumi Tamura, Mariya Ise, and Atsumi Tanezaki have all admitted to being long-time fans of JoJo, and the three were cast as Ermes, Foo Fighters, and Emporio respectively. In particular, Mutsumi Tamura and Atsumi Tanezaki have gone on record to say in prerelease interviews that they personally see themselves in Ermes and Emporio, with the former being passionate and a stickler for justice, and the latter being a massive Shrinking Violet.
  • Jolyne's English VA, Kira Buckland, is a huge fan of the series as well, who hoped to voice Jolyne one day, and her dream came true.
  • Kira's roommate, Casey Mongillo, is just as much of a fan of JoJo as her and had previously auditioned for the voice of Narancia, but ended up getting rejected, only to later net the role as Emporio in the Part 6 dub.
  • Howard Wang is also a long-time fan of JoJo, and ended up selected as the English VA for Anasui. He admits to Anasui being the most nervous he's ever been for voice acting, as it's a heavy case of Playing Against Type, and he even commissioned a fan artist to draw him a print of Anasui and Diver Down in honor of the second episode batch's release.
  • Yong Yea, the English voice of Pucci, is yet another fan of the series, who also hoped to obtain a role in it when he first began voice acting.
  • Much like Yong Yea, JoJo was one of Ben Balmaceda's dream franchises to play a role in, and he eventually netted that role as the voice of Rikiel.
  • Popular JoJo fan artist GrandGuerrilla was hired as the chief animation director for episode 34.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: In the English dub, Foo Fighters, who has a case of Ambiguous Gender Identity but is referred to with they/them pronouns, is voiced by Brittany Lauda, who is pansexual and genderfluid.
• Reality Subtext: Mugihito was selected in the anime to voice Kenzō, who states that he is age 78. By the time the episode featuring Kenzō first aired, Mugihito himself happened to turn 78 years old less than a month prior.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Anasui and Gwess, two characters who are psychotically obsessed with Jolyne, are voiced in English by Howard Wang and Amber Lee Connors respectively, who are husband and wife.
  • The anime dub features the final member of the Fahn family through Melissa Fahn voicing the Green Baby, with Tom Fahn, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, and Jonathan Fahn previously voicing J. Geil, Nena, and Senator Wilson Phillips respectively.
• Real Song Theme Tune: In true JoJo tradition, the anime uses "Distant Dreamer" by Welsh singer Duffy as its first ending theme.
• Recast as a Regular: In Golden Wind, Tiana Camacho was cast as Narancia's mother, Mela Ghirga, who only appeared in one episode and had just a single line. Here, she's cast as Ermes Costello, who is the deuteragonist of the story.
• Role Reprise:
  • For Jotaro, his role is reprised by Daisuke Ono in Japanese and Matthew Mercer in English, who have both consistently voiced him in every part of the anime adaptation since Stardust Crusaders.
  • Takehito Koyasu and Patrick Seitz similarly reprise their roles as DIO, with Koyasu not doing voicework for the anime adaptation for a couple years, and Seitz not voicing DIO at all since Stardust Crusaders.
• Star-Making Role: The anime served to be Momoko Taneichi's biggest break yet as the role of Gwess, as prior to then, she had spent 7 years playing almost nothing but background roles and foreign dub roles, with her most well-known roles in the latter case being Princess Bean in the Japanese dub of Disenchantment and Sharon Tate in the Japanese dub of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
• Swan Song: Kenzō was William Frederick Knight's final role before his passing in November 2022.
• Technology Marches On: Despite taking place in 2011 to 2012, the computers and cellphones used look like they were made in the late 90s to early 2000s. During the Heavy Weather arc, Donatello assumes that Emporio could have only obtained information with a laptop rather than a smartphone.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Viz Media was planning on skipping straight to Stone Ocean after their first release of Stardust Crusaders concluded seeing as how it's a more direct sequel than Diamond is Unbreakable and Golden Wind. However, the poor sales of Stardust Crusaders put a lid on those plans.
  • Araki had thought of naming Viviano Westwood's Stand "Earth, Wind, and Fire" (and that was the name in the magazine chapters), but since that name was already used for Mikitaka's ambiguous ability he changed it to "Planet Waves" in the volumes.
  • Araki originally wanted to have Mickey Mouse make an appearance during the fight with Ungalo, but his editors quickly shot that down as Disney wouldn't like him appearing in a series known for being less than family friendly.
  • The final form of Pucci's Stand was initially named "Stairway to Heaven", before being changed to "Made In Heaven".
• You Look Familiar:
  • In the English dub, Jolyne Cujoh is voiced by Kira Buckland, who previously played Reimi Sugimoto in Diamond is Unbreakable.
  • In Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, Naoko Osato was voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki in Japanese, and Suzie Yeung in English. The former is now the voice of Emporio Alniño, while the latter is now the dub voice of Miraschon.
  • Daisuke Namikawa is the voice of Narciso Anasui in the anime, with him having voiced last part's protagonist, Giorno Giovanna, in both of the CyberConnect games.
  • Gakuto Kajiwara previously played the role of Narancia's "friend" who got him arrested in Golden Wind, and is now the voice of Romeo Jisso.
  • Toru Nara was previously the voice of Nukesaku at the end of Stardust Crusaders, and in Stone Ocean, he now plays an actual Stand user in the form of Thunder McQueen.
  • Kane Jungbluth-Murry previously voiced Rohan and Yoma Hashimoto's fitness trainer in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan. He is now the voice of Sports Maxx in Stone Ocean.
  • In the 1993 Stardust Crusaders OVA, Mugihito had provided the voice of J. Geil. Here, he's the voice of Kenzō.
  • In the English dub, William Frederick Knight voiced the janitor from Golden Wind who was killed by Black Sabbath. Here, he'd voice Kenzō, which was, tragically, his final role in the voice acting industry before his passing.
  • Chō had previously voiced Senator Wilson Phillips in Stardust Crusaders, and now voices Dragon's Dream in Stone Ocean.
  • Kappei Yamaguchi was brought back on board to voice Yo-Yo Ma, with him previously voicing both Forever in Stardust Crusaders and Shigekiyo "Shigechi" Yangu in Diamond is Unbreakable.
  • Ikue Otani, previously cast as Mannish Boy and Death Thirteen in Stardust Crusaders, is cast as yet another Stand-wielding baby in Stone Ocean in the form of the Green Baby.
  • In a bit of a recursive example, Akeno Watanabe voiced Miuccia Miuller, who debuted in this part, in All-Star Battle. While she isn't the voice of Miumiu anymore in the anime adaptation, she was brought back to voice Gloria Costello instead.
  • On the topic of Miumiu, her new actress, Yuko Kaida, was also the voice of Malèna in Stardust Crusaders.
  • The newscaster reporting on the fight between Kenshiro and Raoh is voiced by Shigeru Chiba, in an Actor Allusion to him being the Narrator of Fist of the North Star, with him previously voicing Yoshihiro Kira in Diamond is Unbreakable.

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