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At the end of Stone Ocean...
Irene has a jar of plankton given to her by her father that she takes care of as pets. They are the AU version of Foo Fighters, thus ensuring that the whole group is still together even after Made In Heaven.

Araki wrote Stone Ocean as an attempt to get out of Shonen Jump
Parts 7 and 8 are published in a seinen magazine, and are on a monthly schedule, with better art, less monster-of the week fights, and more tightly written stories. I think it's possible Araki wrote all sorts of very not-for-kids content into part 6 just to get out of a Shonen magazine. For example, the arc starts with the main character talking about a guard seeing her masturbating.
  • Jokes about sexuality aren't as shocking to Japanese audiences as they are to American ones. Compare part 6 to something like Platinum End, which runs under Shonen Jump's shonen label, and it seems very unlikely that Araki was trying to run any Springtime for Hitler shenanigans.

Jolyne's last name is spelled Cujoh instead of Kujo due to immigration.
Since she's American and Jotaro is Japanese when the move to America occurred, the name was changed. As many immigrant families know, immigration sometimes alters names either purposely or through mistake. So while Jolyne's last name was supposed to be Kujo, immigration messed up and it became Cujoh.
  • Confirmed.

Jolyne's mom was a Zeppeli.
Jotaro was said to marry an Italian-American woman, and true to Zeppeli family tradition, Jolyne gave her own life to rescue her only remaining friend from danger.

Part 6 was set in 2012 for a reason.
The now inaccurate Mayan calendar reset itself in 2012. Much of the same can be said to what happens at the end of Part 6.
  • Part 6 takes place in 2011, and the Mayan calendar just stops in 2012.
    • The final battle takes place in 2012.

In the anime adaptation, one of the ending songs will be "To the Moon and Back" by Savage Garden.
  • Listen to the song and tell me it doesn't make you think of Jolyne. To go more into detail, some of the lyrics kind of fit Stone Ocean's story.
    • "She's taking her time" - Song is about a girl, "time" could be referring to time in prison
    • "Momma never loved her much and daddy never keeps in touch" - Jolyne's estranged relationship with her parents. (Moreso with Jotaro though.)
    • "Somewhere in a private place" - Burning Down the House.
    • "She packs her bags for outer space" - Part 6's space themes, such as Planet Waves, the Kennedy Space Center, or...C-Moon and Made In Heaven, maybe Jolyne during the final fight with Pucci knows he's unbeatable and just desires Suicide by Cop from him.
    • "Waiting for the right kind of pilot to come" - Could be referring to Weather or Annasui, two men who show some affection for her. Could also refer to the Pucci statement above.
    • "Got a ticket for a world where we all belong" - This would could be either outside the prison...Or the new universe at the end of Part 6.
    • "All her friends, well they've been trialed for treason and crimes that were never defined" - Hermes, Annasui, Weather, F.F., and just the other prisoners in general.
    • "And send a signal she's hanging all her hopes on the stars" - Could refer to two things: 1. Her "I want the see the starlight" line, and/or 2: The signal could refer to the carrier pigeon (ironically named Savage Garden), and "hanging her hopes on the stars" could mean she's basically putting faith in her Joestar bloodline.

Enrico Pucci will be whitewashed in the Stone Ocean anime
Manga with dark skinned or canonically "Black" character tend to end up with a lighter skin tone when presented to an anime audience. Japan stigmatizes darker skin tones. Given he is only half black by his father, and advertised as Italian through his mother (unlike Avdol and Smokey who are 100% "Black"), there's a possibility his blackness will never be expressed. Jolyne was even considered full Japanese in canon despite only being 2/8 Asian with a white mom.
  • Given that his race is expressly connected to a plot point (the KKK attack on Weather Report for seeing a white girl), and the fact that the anime has previously shown no propensity for whitewashing, this seems doubtful.
    • Pucci is NOT half black, his father is also white, Weather Report's adoptive stepfather was black, and the KKK member who saw him dating a white girl didn't know that Weather was adopted.
      • The anime renders this point moot, as Pucci's father is given a Race Lift to have Pucci's dark skin.
  • Jossed. Pucci is still dark-skinned in the anime adaptation.

There will be numerous references in the Stone Ocean anime to reflect modern day occurrences, including 2012 internet culture
It may fly over our heads and only reference Japanese internet trends as opposed to American ones (unless David Production does their research). If they research Western internet culture, they may get lazy and simply reference modern-day meme culture.Possibilities include:

In addition, Michael Jackson's death will be alluded to by Pucci (who previously said he hoped to attend one of his concerts in the manga) and there will be a scene involving a Barack Obama expy (since he was US President during 2012). A potential dub might take this a step further and shoehorn some Vine-, Twitter-, or Instagram-style meme culture since they'd have more knowledge of it (i.e "This bitch empty. YEET!").

  • Jossed. The anime adaptation omitted the reference to to Michael Jackson altogether, and 2012 internet culture is not referenced at all.

Samuel L. Jackson will be a voice in the Part 6 dub
He could voice Pucci's Stand: Whitesnake or a different Stand C-Moon or Made In Heaven.
  • ViZ dubs have the users share actors with stands, and this theory seems to be based on the misconception that Puuci is black, which he clearly isn't as it would have changed the backstory.
  • Jossed. Pucci and all his Stands are voiced by Yong Yea.

Guesses for the voice cast for Stone Ocean

Giorno and Rohan will both appear in the Stone Ocean anime.
Giorno is confirmed to be in Florida during the events of Part 6 due to Pucci summoning all the children of DIO. He does not physically appear in the manga nor does he fight Jolyne and co. but the anime might add a special scene with him traveling through Florida. One possibility that might happen: Giorno will arrive at Florida and try to figure out what's happening. Once Made In Heaven starts to activate he and Gold Experience Requiem will understand. GER will explain that Made In Heaven is too powerful and Giorno should save himself, but he realizes Jolyne and co. are the good guys and in trouble. So he uses GER to create a group of dolphins to save them. In the manga, a group of dolphins are what allowed Jolyne to escape from Pucci for the moment.As for Rohan, while Made In Heaven accelerated time, an American radio says that Rohan Kishibe is the only comic book and manga artist to meet deadlines, publishing over 20 pages worth of work in an hour's time without food or sleep. A scene in the anime might show this.
  • Partially confirmed. They don't appear in the story itself, but they do appear as silhouettes during the special credits of the final episode.

Anasui is transgender or gender-fluid, and used Diver Down to give himself a masculine body between his first and second appearances.
In his first appearance, Anasui appears to be female, however, he is later retconned into a man. Given how Diver Down is shown to be able to rearrange a person's body structure from the inside, it's possible that he used it to reshape his body into a male one. If he's gender-fluid, he could do this every time his gender identity changes; alternatively, his identity is constantly male and he just never thought of doing that before.

The entire plot about achieving heaven was inspired by the song "Heaven Is A Place On Earth".

Giorno was killed while he was in Florida.
He was killed by no one other than THE mouse. Think about it: Mickey escaped, and with the powers of Cartoon Physics it would be very easy to kill a real person with said physics, and a cartoon character would be able to defeat GER or Golden Experience (or even any Stand, really) if "it was funny". Also, this wouldn't be the first time a Joestar was defeated by a rat.

The reason why Pucci's Stand is named Whitesnake...
...isn't because it's colored white. Rather, it's a reference to the song "Here I Go Again", without the need to use a gaudy title. The original album that the titular song is included on is called Saints & Sinners, which could very well be an allusion to Pucci being a priest and his desire to achieve Heaven. Meanwhile, the song itself could be a subtle foreshadow to what the Heaven Plan entails: resetting the universe so that everybody is fully aware of their unchangeable destiny. In essence, they're going down the only road they've ever known, so here they go again.
  • Well... yeah. I don't think Araki would name a stand purely based off of their design.

The anime will accommodate for both Bohemian Rhapsody and the future historical inaccuracies.
The most obvious futureproofing change would be renaming Disney-MGM Studios into Disney's Hollywood Studios, given that it was renamed prior to 2012. As for Bohemian Rhapsody, unless the character designs aren't fully set in stone, like the Seven Dwarves, David Production will go the extra mile to get the licensing rights to have the characters resemble their original designs, potentially even having characters like Spider-Man be shown in full, and potentially even getting Mickey Mouse to be a part of it like Araki had initially planned.
  • Nah. Disney's notoriusly harsh when it comes to copyright. Perhaps Warner Bros. (who helps produce the anime) will let them use their characters. (If there's no Bugs Bunny, this shit ain't Looney Tunes!)
    • So, what? Will Hollywood Studios be replaced with Six Flags Over Georgia, or something? 'Cause there definitely aren't any Six Flags parks in Florida to let Bugs Bunny come to life so easily.
  • Confirmed with historical inaccuracies; jossed with Bohemian Rhapsody.

One of the ending songs in the anime adaption will be "Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz.
While the manga was released in 2000, Demon Days (Album) wasn't released until 2005, and the part takes place in 2012, the music of Gorillaz is touted as being contemporary, thus keeping it in the realm of possibility. In regards to the lyrics themselves, they describe how the complacency of society leaves them just as much of prisoners as those in jail are and encourages escapism (I.E. You got a new horizon, it's ephemeral style / A melancholy town where we never smile), which works on a few levels. From the perspective of Jolyne and co., it fits with their punkish, rebellious attitudes and how all of them are actually prisoners in Green Dolphin, whereas from the perspective of Pucci, he sees the idea of "Heaven" as being the ultimate form of escapism from the shackles of fate, though not in a particularly conventional sense.

With Fairouz Ai being cast as Jolyne...
David Production will be seeking out as many professional actors as they can who're fans of JoJo to voice, at the very least, the main cast. Though, if they're unavailable, they can opt for their game actors. Similarly, ViZ Media may try to seek out fans of JoJo to voice the characters for the Stone Ocean dub, most notably of which being Kira Buckland as Jolyne.
  • Confirmed. For the Japanese dub, Mutsumi Tamura, Mariya Ise, and Atsumi Tanezaki (the respective voices of Ermes, F.F., and Emporio) are big fans of JoJo, with Mutsumi and Atsumi in particular seeming to personally relate to Ermes and Emporio. In regards to the English dub, Kira Buckland was indeed cast as Jolyne, but Casey Mongillo and Yong Yea (the voices of Emporio and Pucci) have also admitted to being long-time JoJo fans who have dreamed about being casted for it.

Anasui is staying a man.
David Production won't animate Anasui's 'female' design. They didn't animate Trish's first design in Golden Wind.
  • That seems unlikely. Anasui is a man in a woman's prison, and the only reason he managed to slip on through is because his female design was a thing. He only switched over to his male design once the Jail House Lock arc was nearing, meaning that the story in Green Dolphin was coming to a close.
  • Ultimately, confirmed.

The snap-back to the Ireneverse didn't change anything consequential from the Pucciverse.
In the Ireneverse, everybody still retains the knowledge of their fate attained in the Pucciverse, just likely being in control of their bodies now, as being forced into decision-making by fate would be hard to manage in a universe not identical to the Pucciverse. Despite being in control of their bodies, people are still fully aware of their fate, and the only thing they wouldn't anticipate is the inclusion of new people that have replaced the Pucciverse substitutions, allowing for some sort of unpredicted fate. Case in point, Emporio, with him remembering what he did in the Pucciverse, but not anticipating the new forms of his former friends.

One of the credits songs will be a song by Foo Fighters.
It's important to note that the translators originally weren't willing to use the name Enigma in Diamond is Unbreakable for fear of copyright, but that became null and void once Vento Aureo used "Modern Crusaders" as its credits theme. If a song by Foo Fighters is trademarked for usage in the credits, it'd probably indicate that the character could still be named as such without having to change it.

The reason for Made in Heaven's name change.
It's no secret that Led Zeppelin is notoriously stingy with licensing their music, (see School of Rock or Thor: Ragnarok) but disregarding that, Stairway to Heaven may not make as much narrative sense as Made In Heaven does. In particular with the latter, the phrase, "when stormy weather comes around, it was made in heaven," could be analogous to Pucci and Weather Report being brothers, and Pucci's demise coming through Weather Report's Stand.

Emporio's theme will be a combination remix of "Noble Pope" and "Courage".
Emporio's role in the story serves similar functionality to Kakyoin and Koichi, in that he's an outcast who's eventually accepted by his peers and serves a vital role in striking down the Big Bad. For him to have a theme that borrows leitmotifs from those two's songs would round out the role fulfillment.
  • Jossed. Emporio's theme is a minimalistic tune that represents his isolated, enigmatic nature.

One of the credits songs will have Gwen Stefani in it.
A song either from No Doubt or her solo career or a song that featured her.

One of the credits songs will be a combination of the song "It's My Life" from the bands Talk Talk and No Doubt
Symbolizing the transition of an 80s character (Jotaro) into a 2000s character (Jolyne)

ED Song Guesses
ED song guesses are becoming rampant, so for the sake of organization, past guesses will be chronicled here, and any future guesses should ideally go here.

Copyrighted material during the anime's Bohemian Rhapsody arc will be shown off in full, and be directly designed off of the source material.
In the manga, public domain material had redesigns to be distinctive from any prior interpretation, whereas copyrighted material, such as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man, were either scaled down and shoved in the background or were obscured in some way. Disregarding what licenses David Production will be able to use with being owned by Warner Bros., what they do decide to use will be shown off in full, and if it's a copyrighted character, they'll remain faithful to their source material, while public domain characters will still keep their distinctive style, like the Seven Dwarfs.
  • Partially jossed. While characters such as Astro Boy, Mazinger Z, and Tetsujin 28-go are still directly designed like their original counterparts, most of the copyrighted material, such as Batman or Kenshiro, aren't shown in full.

Irene and Annakiss are Stand users and are Heroes of Another Story.
Why else would Emporio be at the exact same road and location that they are driving in? Stand users attract each other, after all.
  • Seeing as Stands are tied to one's soul, it would make sense that a reincarnation would keep it.

The reason why Pucci lost is because he cheated fate.
According to DIO's Heaven plan, Made In Heaven could only be created if C-Moon is brought to Cape Canaveral on the night of a New Moon. In his mind, it's fated to happen to have the Heaven plan go perfectly. However, Pucci didn't follow this instruction, instead opting to recreate the event's gravitational effects, and once he reached the new universe, Emporio would up killing him. In essence, Pucci fought fate, and just like Scolippi predicted towards anyone who fights fate, he paid the price with his life. Had Pucci done exactly what DIO said and waited for the New Moon, it's likely he could've killed Emporio along with the other heroes and let the Heaven plan complete itself successfully.

ED Song Guesses, Round 2
The ED music for the first third of the anime is Duffy's Distant Dreamer, but considering the minimalistic credits, there's a chance that the credits could end up being different for the next two thirds of the anime. Guesses will be chronicled here.

Dub Name Change guesses for other stands
It's debatable on whether or not the original names will be preserved for the dub, but it'd at least be fun to guess the name.
  • Limp Bizkit
    • Flaccid Pancake (like in Eyes of Heaven)
    • Dry Biscuit
      • Both jossed; its new name is Limp Viscuit.
  • Planet Waves
    • Galaxy Waves
      • Jossed; its new name is Starlight Waves.
  • Dragon's Dream
    • Dragon's Wish
      • Jossed; its new name is Drake's Dream.
  • Yo-Yo Ma
    • Yo Mama
    • Yoma
      • Both jossed; its new name is Ya-Ya Ma.
  • Green, Green Grass of Home
    • Green Grass
    • Grass of Home
      • Both jossed; its new name is Green, Green, Green Home.
  • Jail House Lock
    • House Lock
    • Locked House
    • Lockdown
      • All jossed; it's still called Jail House Lock.
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
    • Freedom Rhapsody
    • Song of Freedom (based on how Pinocchio describes it)
    • Freeman's Fantasy (literal translation of the kanji)
      • All jossed; its new name is Bohemian Ecstatic.
  • Sky High
    • Fly High
    • Skyline
      • Both jossed; its new name is Sky Guy.
  • Under World
    • Under Earth
    • Under Land
    • Under Ground (or just Underground)
      • All jossed; its new name is Netherworld.
  • C-Moon
  • Made In Heaven

Ungalo grew up in poverty
He's just a poor boy from a poor family...
  • Lyrical joking aside that would also explain his drug addiction.

The birthplaces of DIO's three children
  • Rikiel — California, more specifically, Phoenix. DIO went to California in order to further his esoteric knowledge through meet-ups with various shamans. While drinking mescaline and looking for enlightenment he accidentally stumbled upon the very first iteration of what later would be known as Burning Man, where he met — and impregnated — Rikiel's mother. Would explain his sense of fashion, as well as his Stand, which resembles UFOs in both shape and appearance.
  • Ungalo — Oregon, but not Portland, more like Aberdeen or a similar dead-end town. Explains why he looks like a drug-addicted hobo, but also could be one of the reasons for him growing up in poverty. DIO met his mother while going back to Europe (through Russia on the evening of the fall of the Soviet Union, mind you) since Oregon resembles his home in Scotland.
  • Donatello — Texas, like Stanley in Holes, who Donatello is based on.
    • Doubtful, since he has a Stand that only works in Orlando, and his family regularly visited Disneyland.

If Giorno and Heaven!Pucci met, their stands would have perpetually nullified each other.
Requiem can reduce anything to zero but can't be controlled when facing threats Giorno himself cannot perceive. Made in Heaven is always accelerating time and Pucci has no good reason to stop. So Requiem is forced to constantly negate the acceleration to protect Giorno and the two Stands are stuck this way until Pucci recalls his or one of them dies. Now the two strongest characters in the series are powerless and need to kill the other with conventional weapons; even if Pucci recalled his Stand for a sneak attack there's every possibility Giorno could recall his faster.

The final opening of the season will feature all of the people who sang a theme song for JoJo.
Stone Ocean is the Grand Finale of the original continuity of JoJo. It would be a fitting send off if all of the people who sang every theme song in the show this far reunite to do one final number as a tribute for the first 6 parts. And even if the final opening doesn't have them all at first, they could do a different version of the song that could play in the final episode, similar to what they did with "Great Days".
  • Jossed. "Heaven's falling down" is sung by sana from the band Sajou no Hana.

The final third of the anime adaptation will give F.F. more relevance than in the manga.
Despite being a main character, in the final third of the manga, F.F. ends up becoming a Forgotten Fallen Friend after their death, with them not even getting a spot in the group shot at the end. However, with the marketing giving F.F. very upfront relevance, including having Mariya Ise be in multiple interviews for Stone Ocean alongside Fairouz Ai and Mutsumi Tamura, there will be added acknowledgements of F.F. during the final stretch to make them actually remembered by their friends. There seems to also be a setup for this, as the anime adds a scene of Ermes being told by Emporio that F.F. is dead, pouring a glass of water out for them, and promising to avenge them.
  • Partially confirmed. F.F. doesn't have too much bearing on the final third of the anime, but they're given more acknowledgement, from being featured in the new OP, to Emporio mentioning them when he's taking Pucci down, to being added into the final shot along with the other main characters.

The final opening will be sung by Koyasu x Seki (or alternatively, the entirety of the Weiß Group).
Takehito Koyasu and Tomokazu Seki, in addition to being part of the Weiß Group, have composed music with each other in the past, most notably for Initial D, as part of the band Koyasu x Seki. With the two reunited as DIO and Pucci, it's not too much of a stretch to say that they could potentially revive the band to compose the final opening, with it being an emphasis on how much of a Near-Villain Victory the final third is. Though, if they want to go all-out, they could potentially have a full-blown Weiß Group reunion and include Shin-ichiro Miki and Hiro Yuki in the opening song as a quartet.
  • Jossed. "Heaven's falling down" is sung by sana from the band Sajou no Hana.

The final OP will have three different variations.
Based on patterns, it's easy to determine that there'll be at least one OP variation for the final act, but based on the fact that there were multiple variations for Golden Wind's final OP, and that the climax of Stone Ocean has three separate parts, there'll be three distinct variations. The first will depict the effects of Heavy Weather, by replacing all of the characters in the intro with snails, aside from Weather and Pucci, and also having rainbows be more prevalent. The second will depict the effects of C-Moon, with everything in the intro being either lopsided or standing on different objects than the initial version. The final will depict the effects of Made In Heaven, having the entire series be played at once while gradually speeding up, until it ends up resetting to the end of Phantom Blood's OP.
  • Jossed. There only exists one variation, only for Made In Heaven, and it only plays during the final episode. That said, it does revert back to Phantom Blood's OP, only with Jolyne and Pucci instead of Jonathan and Dio.

"Sono Chi no Sadame" will play while Jolyne gets Emporio to safety as a Call-Back to Joseph vs. Kars.
In the context of Joseph vs. Kars, "Sono Chi no Sadame" was used in a situation where it was impossible for Joseph to win, but he still managed to get Kars to ultimately lose. In the case of Made In Heaven, it's impossible for Jolyne to win, but her getting Emporio to safety causes Pucci to lose. The scenario has many parallels, and having it play there would also emphasize Stone Ocean being the Grand Finale, showing off the last stand of the Joestar Bloodline.
  • Jossed. No special theme plays when Jolyne gets Emporio to safety.

The anime will give Ungalo an expanded backstory.
In the manga, he is the only one of DIO's sons whose past is not revealed. The anime will show him being raised in poverty by an abusive mother, much like Giorno. But while Giorno had the gangster whose life he saved watching over him, Ungalo never had anyone to rescue him or give him hope, turning him into a misanthropic drug addict.
  • Jossed. Ungalo still has no shown backstory.

DIO and all his other sons look at least decent, and Jonathan was a beefcake while Ungalo's Gonk. While DIO could've just had a fling with a really ugly woman, his attitude towards women suggests he wasn't looking for personality in his one-night stands. As a miserable drug addict Ungalo could've started out good looking but a hard life of drugs and being bitter to the world turned him into what he looks like today... much like how his grandfather Dario looks a lot older than a man in his fifties due to alcoholism and a rough lifestyle.
  • Alternatively, Ungalo's mother was also an addict, and her drug use while pregnant caused him to suffer from a birth defect that made him look ugly.

The Heaven Plan requiring 36 souls of sinners is a deconstruction of Mystical 108.
Based on multiple myths and religions, 108 is a number associated with spirituality and fortune, and is often adapted into works as a number indicating a rise to power. However, 36 happens to be a factor of 108, being 108 divided by 3. With DIO saying that those who have sinned harbor more powerful souls, it's possible that he informed Pucci to harvest the souls of sinners to birth the Green Baby so that he could make the Heaven Plan literally go three times as fast, thus not having to resort to the standard 108 souls.

Diavolo was Ret-Gone, too, thanks to GER.
Given his fate at the end of Golden Wind it's possible that, like Pucci, he didn't make it into the new universe, either. This would also cancel out the events of the manga post-Battle Tendency, unless someone else found the Stand Arrows, which is possible since Diavolo was part of a team.
  • Unlikely. The reason why Pucci was Ret-Gone was because he was the creator of the new universe, so his death causing a snapback was what erased him from existence. Diavolo, on the other hand, isn't even dead. The Infinite Death Loop effectively placed Diavolo into a pocket dimension outside of the normal universe where he's fated to die over and over, which effectively places it outside of Made In Heaven's range.

Foo Fighters gained a human soul and was reborn as a human in the new universe.
Either by virtue of spending time in Atroe's body, or developing a new identity as a result of their experiences in the prison. Like the Little Mermaid, she strove with all her heart to gain an eternal soul.

In the new universe, she is Atroe's twin sister, and their adoptive parents are Squalo and Tiziano. She is not in the ending scene because Irene already knows her — she is one of Jotaro's students, studying marine biology.

What the sons of DIO are doing in the new universe
  • Ungalo is a bestselling Mad Artist and/or illustrator of children's books. He still does drugs, but as inspiration for his paintings rather than to dull the pain of a miserable life. His art style was inspired by Boingo's.
  • Rikiel is an astronaut who moves to the country and becomes a dairy farmer after retiring from a long and illustrious career full of scientific advancements.
  • Donatello is a police detective who was mentored by Abbacchio. He has an uncanny knack for solving cases that went cold a long time ago.

Gwess is Cioccolata's daughter.
  • They both wear lots of green, are Ax-Crazy, have Stands, keep Human Pets and have the same habit of saying, "Good, good, good, good, good!"
  • The timeline fits; Gwess was born around 1989, which would have made her 12 during Part 5.
  • We don't know her last name; it could be Cioccolata for all we know.
  • Finally, this is a bit of a stretch, but her favorite food is cheese penne...could it be because she's Italian?

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