Kroi Performs Opening Song for STEEL BALL RUN JoJo Anime
With the opening and ending songs now public two days before the second stage streams, the remaining promotional beats before Friday are spent, and Netflix's weekly rollout begins with no further cast or song reveals announced.
Key Facts
- Kroi performs the opening theme song "Spin" for the STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime.
- Yuki Chiba performs the ending theme song "Shinu ka Ikiru ka" (To Die or Live) for the STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime.
- The second and third stages of STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure start on Friday, September 25, 2026, and total 11 episodes.
- New episodes of STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure stream every week on Fridays on Netflix.
- The first stage of STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure debuted on Netflix on March 19 as one 47-minute episode.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Warner Bros. Japan announced Wednesday that rock band Kroi is performing the opening theme song "Spin" for the STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime, and the company began streaming the anime's creditless opening sequence. The ending theme is "Shinu ka Ikiru ka" (To Die or Live) by Yuki Chiba, whose creditless sequence is also streaming. The anime's second and third stages start Friday, with new episodes streaming every week on Netflix. The two stages total 11 episodes, and Netflix said the series has a split-cours run. Three characters were previously introduced: Mountain Tim, voiced by Tomoaki Maeno; Funny Valentine, voiced by Tomokazu Sugita; and Hot Pants, voiced by Yoko Hikasa. The first stage debuted on Netflix on March 19 with one 47-minute episode. Yasuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi direct at david production, with Toshiyuki Kato as series director and Yasuko Kobayashi overseeing scripts.
The clean opening credits Kroi's track against a jacket illustration drawn for the release. Kroi previously performed opening songs for SAKAMOTO DAYS and Liar Game.
- Shogo Sakata as Johnny Joestar
- Yohei Azakami as Gyro Zeppeli
- Kaito Ishikawa as Diego Brando
- Rie Takahashi as Lucy Steel
- Kenta Miyake as Steven Steel
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Sand Man
- Kenichiro Matsuda as Pocoloco
Daisuke Tsumagari, who was an animation director on Golden Wind, is designing the characters. Yugo Kanno returns to compose, having scored Stardust Crusaders, Diamond is Unbreakable, Golden Wind, and Stone Ocean. Yoshikazu Iwanami is back as sound director. Sub-character designers are Yui Kinoshita, Grand Guerilla, Minoru Murao, and Chii.
Hirohiko Araki's manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2004, moved to Ultra Jump in 2005, and ended in 2011 at 24 volumes, which are volumes 81 to 104 of the overall JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. Viz Media licensed it in English and released the first volume in print and digitally in May 2025. The story follows Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli in a transcontinental horse race across late 19th-century America.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.