JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Shining Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak

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Shining Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak is a spin-off from Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , and is set in March 1999, a decade after the events of Stardust Crusaders and a month before the events of Diamond Is Unbreakable . [2] [3] Ten years after Dio's death, Hol Horse is among those who survived Dio and attempt to resume their normal lives. One day, Hol Horse accepts a request from the mother of Pet Shop's original owner to find her son's other pet, a parrot named Petsounds who also possesses a Stand. Following an encounter with Mariah, Hol Horse enlists Boingo to aid him with the latter's Stand Tohth, which advises the two to visit Morioh. [4] There, the two encounter high school freshman Josuke Higashikata, as well as Ryoko Kakyoin, Noriaki Kakyoin's cousin who blames herself for causing her cousin's meeting with Dio and eventual death. [3] [4] Eventually, it is revealed that Petsounds is being used by a police officer named Kazuki Karaiya, the grandson of a surviving member of the vampires that the Pillar Man Kars created in the 1930s, who believes he has the right to rule over others. After the villain's defeat, Hol Horse tells Ryoko about her cousin's fate, and the heroes part amicably.

Characters

Production and release

Shining Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak is written by Kouhei Kadono and drawn by Tasuku Karasuma, and is the second JoJo's Bizarre Adventure spin-off manga after Araki's Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe . [5] The manga started its serialization in Shueisha's monthly seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump on December 18, 2021. [6] The series finished on May 19, 2023. [7] Shueisha published the series in three collected tankōbon volumes from June 17, 2022, to June 19, 2023. [4]

The manga has been licensed for English release by Viz Media. [8] The first volume was released on December 3, 2024. [9]

Volumes

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Shining Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak
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Volume 1 cover, depicting Josuke (left) and Hol Horse
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 クレイジー・Dダイヤモンドの悪霊的失恋
(Jojo no Kimyō na Bōken: Kureijī Daiyamondo no Akuryō-teki Shitsuren)
Imprint Jump Comics
Magazine Ultra Jump
Demographic Seinen
Original runDecember 18, 2021May 19, 2023
Volumes3
No.Original release dateOriginal ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 June 17, 2022 [10] 978-4-08-883157-2 December 3, 2024 [9] 978-1-9747-4990-4
  • Chapter 1–5
2 December 19, 2022 [11] 978-4-08-883354-5 February 4, 2025 [12] 978-1-9747-5187-7
  • Chapter 6–10
3 June 19, 2023 [13] 978-4-08-883543-3 April 1, 2025 [14] 978-1-9747-5243-0
  • Chapter 11–16

Reception

Volume 1 of the series debuted with an estimated 35,000 copies sold, as the seventeenth highest selling comic of the week on the Japanese Oricon sales charts, [15] with an additional 38,000 copies in its second week. [16] The second volume debuted higher, at ninth place with 54,000 copies sold. [17] By December 2022, Shueisha reported that the series had reached 300,000 copies in circulation, including digital sales. [18]

Notes

  1. Japanese: Jojo no Kimyō na Bōken: Kureijī Daiyamondo no Akuryō-teki Shitsuren (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 クレイジー・'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000F-QINU`"'Dダイヤモンドの悪霊的失恋, lit. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak)
  2. Hol Horse (ホル・ホース, Horu Hōsu)
  3. Emperor ('"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000022-QINU`"'皇帝エンペラー, Enperā)
  4. Josuke Higashikata (東方 仗助, Higashikata Jōsuke)
  5. Crazy Diamond (クレイジー・ダイヤモンド, Kureijī Daiyamondo)
  6. In the official English releases, Crazy Diamond is named "Shining Diamond".
  7. Ryoko Kakyoin (花京院 涼子, Kakyōin Ryōko)
  8. Boingo (ボインゴ, Boingo)
  9. Thoth (トト神, Toto-shin)
  10. Petsounds (ペットサウンズ, Pettosaunzu), "Pet Sounds" (ペット・サウンズ, Petto Saunzu) in the light novel adaptation
  11. Kazuki Karaiya (仮頼谷 一樹, Karaiya Kazuki)
  12. Koji Kiyohara (清原 幸治, Kiyohara Kōji)

References

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