Stone Ocean
Stone Ocean (Japanese: ストーンオーシャン, Hepburn: Sutōn Ōshan) is the sixth story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from January 1, 2000 to April 21, 2003 and was collected into 17 tankōbon volumes.[1] In its original publication, it was known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 Jolyne Cujoh: Stone Ocean.[lower-alpha 1] It was preceded by Golden Wind and followed by Steel Ball Run.
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Stone Ocean volume 15 cover. From left to right: Weather Report (background), Narciso, Hermes, Jolyne, and Emporio | |
ストーンオーシャン (Sutōn Ōshan) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Hirohiko Araki |
Published by | Shueisha |
Imprint | Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | January 1, 2000 – April 21, 2003 |
Volumes | 17 |
Plot
Set near Port St. Lucie, Florida in 2011, the story follows Jotaro Kujo's daughter, Jolyne Cujoh, who is framed for a murder and ends up in Green Dolphin Street Jail. Jotaro soon comes to visit her and informs her that a disciple of DIO's framed her so that he could kill her in prison, and urges her to escape. This plan goes awry when a Stand named Whitesnake uses its power to remove Jotaro's Stand and memories, in the form of discs. Jotaro sinks into a deathlike state, and Jolyne must find a way to recover the discs from Whitesnake's user, the mysterious prison chaplain Enrico Pucci. Along the way, she picks up allies such as Emporio Alniño, a boy born in the prison, Ermes Costello, and Narciso Anasui, who soon falls into unrequited love for Jolyne. Most notable of her allies is Weather Report, an amnesiac who can control the weather. She also meets Foo Fighters (shortened to F.F.), a mass of plankton that had been made sentient via Whitesnake and assumed the human appearance of a recently-deceased female inmate, who later dies at the hands of Pucci.
Pucci met and idolized DIO sometime before the events of Part 3 occurred. While in DIO's company, DIO spoke of "Heaven" and how to create a "perfect world" when certain conditions were met. Pucci, keeping DIO to his word, proceeds with his plan to realize this "perfect world", which involves absorbing the remnants of DIO's bones in the form of a green homunculus and arriving at a predestined place on the night of the new moon.
Jolyne, Ermes, and Emporio escape from prison on their hunt for Pucci while Anasui and Weather Report also escape in pursuit of Jolyne. She succeeds in sending both of Jotaro's discs to the Speedwagon Foundation. During a battle, Weather's memory disc is returned to him, after which he remembers his true name, Wes Bluemarine, that Pucci is in fact his long-lost twin brother, and the torment he went through before his memories were taken. With his memories returned, Weather unleashes his Stand's true powers and faces Pucci in combat. Weather Report is killed, and Pucci continues on to Cape Canaveral in time for the new moon.
Jolyne and company catch up to Pucci but all seems lost when they are faced by his evolved Stand, C-Moon. Jotaro arrives just in time and defends Jolyne and her friends from Pucci. However, Pucci realizes he can use C-Moon to replicate the gravitational conditions required for his plan. Unlocking his ultimate stand, Made in Heaven, Pucci speeds up time itself causing the rapid acceleration of the world around Pucci and the Joestar group. Made in Heaven greatly shortens Jotaro’s time stop, and while Jotaro is able to momentarily save Jolyne from Pucci's attack, he is killed along with Ermes and Anasui. Jolyne then sacrifices herself to halt Pucci and save Emporio.
The effects of Made in Heaven are completed when time accelerates to the end of the universe, leading to a new cycle of time and a parallel universe, where all surviving humans have precognitive understanding of fated actions in their lives; all deceased humans became different, but similar versions of themselves. Pucci, who believed that such knowledge of one's fate would bring all people happiness, proceeds to hunt down Emporio to ensure that the future does not change. As he is about to kill Emporio, he inadvertently changes fate when Made in Heaven pushes Weather Report's Stand Disc into Emporio’s head. Although Pucci accelerates time once more, Emporio is able to use Weather Report to increase the amount of oxygen in the room and kill Pucci.
In a universe without the precognitive effects of Pucci's, Emporio meets a young woman who looks identical to Ermes, and a couple in a car who look similar to Jolyne and Anasui, who introduce themselves as Irene and Anakiss. They offer the pair a ride as they head to see Irene's father. The group stops to pick up another hitchhiker, who bears a striking resemblance to Weather Report, as they drive off in the rain.
Characters
- Jolyne Cujoh[lower-alpha 2] is an inmate at Green Dolphin Street Jail, and is the daughter of the Stardust Crusaders main protagonist Jotaro Kujo. Her Stand is Stone Free,[lower-alpha 3] which allows her to unravel her body into elastic thread.
- Hermes Costello[lower-alpha 4] is an inmate who got her sentence on purpose, intending to get revenge on her sister's killer, Sports Maxx. She uses the Stand Kiss,[lower-alpha 5] which allows her to place stickers on objects that duplicate the objects perfectly until the sticker is removed, at which point the duplicate and the original will violently fuse together, leaving the object damaged.
- Foo Fighters,[lower-alpha 6] shortened to F.F., is a sapient being consisting of plankton, and is its own Stand.
- Emporio Alniño[lower-alpha 7] is a boy born to an unknown inmate in Green Dolphin Street Jail. His Stand, Burning Down the House,[lower-alpha 8] manifests in the form of a ghost room that he secretly lives in, together with Weather Report and Narciso Anasui.
- Weather Report[lower-alpha 9] is an amnesic inmate who aides Jolyne at Emporio's request. His Stand, also named Weather Report, allows him to manipulate the weather and the atmosphere.
- Narciso Anasui[lower-alpha 10] is an inmate who is in love with Jolyne, and wishes to marry her despite her clearly not being interested in him. His stand, Diver Down,[lower-alpha 11] allows him to phase himself or his Stand into objects, or into others' bodies to absorb damage dealt to them.
- Jotaro Kujo[lower-alpha 12] returns from Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable as Jolyne’s father. Now a middle-aged man, he arrives at Green Dolphin Street Jail to help Jolyne clear her name and stop Enrico Pucci. His stand is Star Platinum,[lower-alpha 13] a powerful close ranged Stand with immense strength, precision, speed, and the ability to stop time.
- Father Enrico Pucci[lower-alpha 14] is a Roman Catholic priest and Jolyne’s warden of the Green Dolphin Street Jail, and is one of the last loyalists to DIO. Pucci uses the Stand Whitesnake,[lower-alpha 15] which allows him to torture his prisoners to their breaking point by extracting their memories and Stands in the form of compact discs; he can then insert these disks into their bystanders for information about their crimes against the public so that he may mercilessly crucify his prisoners without trial. Whitesnake eventually evolves into C-Moon,[lower-alpha 16] giving Pucci the ability to reverse the gravity of the area around him, as well as the gravity of anything the Stand touches. After evolving once more, C-Moon changes into Made in Heaven,[lower-alpha 17] gaining the power to gradually speed up time until reaching a new parallel universe. In reality, Pucci seeks to avenge DIO and continue his plans by wiping out Jolyne and her family line of Joestars, and therefore rewriting reality into DIO's image.
Volumes
No. | Title | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | ||
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1 (64) | Prisoner FE40536: Jolyne Cujoh Shūjin Bangō FE40536 Kūjō Jorīn (囚人番号FE40536空条徐倫) | May 1, 2000[2] | 978-4-08-872866-7 | ||
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2 (65) | Visitor to Green Dolphin Street Prison Gurīn Dorufin Sutorīto Keimusho no Menkainin (グリーン・ドルフィン・ストリート刑務所の面会人) | August 4, 2000[3] | 978-4-08-872899-5 | ||
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3 (66) | Prisoner of Love Purizunā Obu Ravu (プリズナー・オブ・ラヴ) | October 4, 2000[4] | 978-4-08-873027-1 | ||
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4 (67) | Go! Foo Fighters Iku zo! Fū Faitāzu (行くぞ!フー・ファイターズ) | December 4, 2000[5] | 978-4-08-873051-6 | ||
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5 (68) | Operation Savage Garden (Head for the Courtyard!) Saveji Gāden Sakusen (Nakaniwa e Mukae!) (サヴェジ・ガーデン作戦 (中庭へ向かえ!)) | February 2, 2001[6] | 978-4-08-873077-6 | ||
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6 (69) | Flash Flood Warning Shūchū Gōu Keihō Hatsurei (集中豪雨警報発令) | April 4, 2001[7] | 978-4-08-873103-2 | ||
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7 (70) | Ultra Security Solitary Urutora Sekyuriti Chōbatsubō (ウルトラセキュリティ懲罰房) | June 4, 2001[8] | 978-4-08-873126-1 | ||
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8 (71) | Enter the Dragon's Dream! Moe yo Doragonzu Dorīmu (燃えよ | September 4, 2001[9] | 978-4-08-873160-5 | ||
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9 (72) | Green Birth Midoriiro no Tanjō (緑色の誕生) | November 2, 2001[10] | 978-4-08-873183-4 | ||
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10 (73) | Awaken AWAKEN-Mezame (AWAKEN-目覚め) | February 4, 2002[11] | 978-4-08-873225-1 | ||
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11 (74) | Head Out! Paradise Time Mukae! Tengoku no Toki (向かえ! 天国の時) | April 4, 2002[12] | 978-4-08-873250-3 | ||
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12 (75) | For Escape... Datsugoku e... (脱獄へ…) | July 4, 2002[13] | 978-4-08-873284-8 | ||
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13 (76) | Sky High Soars High! Sora Takaku Sukai Hai (空高くスカイ・ハイ!) | September 4, 2002[14] | 978-4-08-873315-9 | ||
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14 (77) | Paradise Time: Three Days to the New Moon Tengoku no Toki Shingetsu made Ato Mikka (天国の時 新月まであと3日) | December 4, 2002[15] | 978-4-08-873346-3 | ||
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15 (78) | Heavy Weather Hebī Wezā (ヘビー・ウェザー) | February 4, 2003[16] | 978-4-08-873383-8 | ||
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16 (79) | In Cape Canaveral Kēpu Kanaberaru nite (ケープ・カナベラルにて) | April 4, 2003[17] | 978-4-08-873410-1 | ||
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17 (80) | Made in Heaven Meido In Hebun (メイド・イン・ヘブン) | July 4, 2003[18] | 978-4-08-873483-5 | ||
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2008 release
No. | Title | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | |
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40 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 1 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 1 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 1) | April 18, 2008[19] | 978-4-08-618736-7 | |
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41 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 2 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 2 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 2) | May 16, 2008[20] | 978-4-08-618737-4 | |
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42 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 3 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 3 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 3) | June 18, 2008[21] | 978-4-08-618738-1 | |
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43 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 4 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 4 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 4) | July 18, 2008[22] | 978-4-08-618739-8 | |
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44 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 5 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 5 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 5) | August 8, 2008[23] | 978-4-08-618740-4 | |
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45 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 6 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 6 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 6) | September 18, 2008[24] | 978-4-08-618741-1 | |
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46 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 7 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 7 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 7) | October 17, 2008[25] | 978-4-08-618742-8 | |
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47 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 8 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 8 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 8) | November 18, 2008[26] | 978-4-08-618743-5 | |
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48 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 9 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 9 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 9) | December 12, 2008[27] | 978-4-08-618744-2 | |
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49 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 10 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 10 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 10) | January 16, 2009[28] | 978-4-08-618745-9 | |
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50 | Part 6: Stone Ocean 11 Part 6 Sutōn Ōshan 11 (Part6 ストーンオーシャン 11) | February 18, 2009[29] | 978-4-08-618746-6 | |
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Reception
Kono Manga ga Sugoi! recommended the series, and called Jolyne a distinctive character within the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise.[30] In a 2015 poll on Charapedia, Japanese readers ranked Stone Ocean as having the seventeenth most shocking ending of all time in manga and anime.[31]
Notes
- Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第6部 空条徐倫 ―『
石作りの海 』, Hepburn: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Dai Roku Bu Kūjō Jorīn: Sutōn Ōshan - Jolyne Cujoh (空条 徐倫, Kūjō Jorīn)
- Stone Free (ストーン・フリー, Sutōn Furī)
- Ermes Costello (エルメェス・コステロ, Erumēsu Kosutero)
- Kiss (キッス, Kissu)
- Foo Fighters (フー・ファイターズ, Fū Faitāzu)
- Emporio Alniño (エンポリオ・アルニーニョ, Enporio Arunīnyo)
- Burning Down the House (バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス, Bāningu Daun Za Hausu)
- Weather Report (ウェザー・リポート, Wezā Ripōto)
- Narciso Anasui (ナルシソ・アナスイ, Narushiso Anasui)
- Diver Down (ダイバー・ダウン, Daibā Daun)
- Jotaro Kujo (空条 承太郎, Kūjō Jōtarō)
- Star Platinum (
星の白金 , Sutā Purachina) - Enrico Pucci (エンリコ・プッチ, Enriko Putchi)
- Whitesnake (ホワイトスネイク, Howaitosuneiku)
- C-Moon (シー・ムーン(C-MOON), Shī Mūn)
- Made in Heaven (メイド・イン・ヘブン, Meido in Hebun)
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