It's only half a season until Jojo's Bizarre Adventure anime returns with spring 2016's latest adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's manga in Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable. An early look at next week's issue of Shonen Jump has offered a preview of the latest series visual, character designs and plans to release omnibus editions of the manga.

Episode director Toshiyiki Kato will be series director and episode director Yuuta Takamura will be chief director. Yasuko Kobayashi returns on the scripts. Penguindrum's Terumi is on character designs, with action animation director Kenta Mimuro doing stand design.

Running in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 1995, collected in volumes 29-46 of the manga, the story revolves around Stand-related horrors and mysteries abound in Morioh, a town in S-City, M-Prefecture.

Director: Naokatsu Tsuda

Series Director: Toshiyuki Kato

Chief Director: Yuuta Takamura

Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi

Character Design: Terumi Nishii

Stand Design & Action Animation Director: Kenta Mimuro

Sub-Character Design: Shun'ichi Ishimoto

Prop Design: Yukitoshi Hōtani

Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki, Junko Nagasawa

Color Design: Yuko Sato

Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara

Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada

Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose

Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Music: Yuugo Kanno

Animation Production: David Production



Cast:

Jōsuke Higashikata: Yuuki Ono (Wataru Hatano in the All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven games)

Kōichi Hirose: Yuuki Kaji (Romi Park in the games)

Okuyasu Nijimura: Wataru Takaki (returning from the games)

Rohan Kishibe: Takahiro Sakurai (Hiroshi Kamiya in the games)

Jōtarō Kūjō: Daisuke Ono

via Yaraon



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.