are two OVA

Original video animation

, abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation...

 series, that were adapted from Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

Stardust Crusaders

, initially referred to as , is the third story arc in the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It spans chapters 114-265 of the series, which were collected in volumes 12 to 28 of the Jump Comics tankōbon edition...

 of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

is a manga written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Every main character's name in each part can be read as JoJo. The manga, published by Shueisha, first ran in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2002, before being transferred to the seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2004. The current story...

manga, by Studio APPP

Studio APPP

is a Japanese animation studio founded on June 22, 1984 and based in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. A subsidiary company called Super Techno Arts distributed many of their properties in North America. The current president of APPP, Kazufumi Nomura, got his start working at Mushi Production...

 (Another Push Pin Planning) in Japan.

The first six-episode series in 1993 began with Joseph, Jōtarō, Polnareff and Kakyōin in the Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian desert on their quest to find Dio (volume 20 in the manga). The series offered very little exposition, assuming the viewer already knew the backstory.

A prequel

Prequel

A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...

 seven-episode series was released in 2001, offering an explanation for those unfamiliar with the story in the previous series. It started with Joseph coming to Japan to explain Jōtarō's strange behavior (volume 12 in the manga).

The entire 6-volume (13-episode) anime series was released in the United States, dubbed in English, and in its fictional chronological (series 2 before series 1) by Super Techno Arts.

A theatrical film was released on February 17, 2007 in Japanese theaters only. Again, Studio APPP and several of the crew members from the OVAs returned to produce the film. The movie covers the events in Part 1: Phantom Blood

Phantom Blood

, initially referred to as , is the first story arc of the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It spans the first 44 chapters of the series, which were collected in Vol. 1-5 of the Jump Comics tankōbon editions.-Plot:...

of the manga.

Episode list

(The following section is a stub based on the recaps from Super Techno Arts' advertising copy. Used with permission.)

Episodes listed in order of its fictional chronology (series 2 before series 1), as used in the English release.

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