Jodio Joestar
Also known as: JoJo, Jodio
Jodio Joestar is the protagonist of The JOJOLands, the ninth Part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and the third Part of the post-Stone-Ocean alternate-universe continuity. A fifteen-year-old half-Hawaiian, half-Japanese teenager living in Honolulu's lower-income outskirts, he begins the arc working as a small-time gem hustler alongside his older sister Dragona Joestar. His Stand November Rain summons localised rainfall whose raindrops behave as high-velocity projectile bullets — one of the franchise's most-recent Stand designs and the first ever depicted with a weather-summoning combat profile. The JOJOLands began publication in 2023; Jodio is the newest JoJo and the alt-universe lineage's first explicitly working-class protagonist.
Story
Honolulu Outskirts
Part 9 · 2007–presentJodio is born to a Japanese mother and an absent Hawaiian father in 2007 — both parents unmarried, his father absent throughout his childhood. He is raised by his mother in Honolulu's lower-income outskirts alongside his older sister Dragona Joestar, with the household's financial precarity shaped by his mother's frequent unstable relationships and the family's lack of any acknowledged paternal-line resource. By his early teens Jodio has begun assisting Dragona's small-time gem-trading operations on the Honolulu street economy.
His Stand November Rain awakens during the arc's opening chapters — the manga's Stand-stigma mechanism in The JOJOLands operates through alternate-universe variants of the post-Steel-Ball-Run Stand Arrow distribution, though the exact pathway has been left intentionally ambiguous across the early publication run. November Rain's combat capability is established quickly across Jodio's first few confrontations with rival hustlers and corrupt low-tier Honolulu enforcement figures, and the Stand's weather-summoning property is one of the franchise's most-distinctive single-character Stand abilities.
The JOJOLands
Part 9 · 2023–presentThe JOJOLands' opening arc establishes Jodio's character voice as the franchise's first explicitly working-class protagonist — a deliberate departure from the prior eight Parts' aristocratic-or-middle-class JoJo template. Jonathan was an English nobleman; Joseph was an American real-estate magnate's grandson; Jotaro was a Japanese marine-biologist family; Josuke 4 was Joseph's son; Giorno was a mafia-bourgeois; Jolyne was a Florida-American suburbanite; Johnny was a former champion jockey's family; Josuke 8 was an amnesiac fused into a fruit-business clan. Jodio is the first JoJo whose pre-arc financial situation is depicted as genuinely precarious, and the manga uses the difference deliberately.
The plot of The JOJOLands as of the 2024 publication has not yet resolved into the major-antagonist confrontation the franchise's prior eight Parts have all featured — Jodio and Dragona's gem-hustling business has expanded into Honolulu's mid-tier criminal economy, but the saga's structural villain has not been definitively identified. The arc has been deliberately decompressed across the publication run, with Araki using the longer Ultra Jump scheduling to develop the post-reset continuity's metaphysics rather than to drive toward an early climactic battle.
Powers & Abilities
November Rain
StandNovember Rain is a Long-Range Stand that summons localised rainfall above any target Jodio designates. The rainfall is mechanically real — the rain drops are visible, audible, and saturate fabric — but the drops also behave as high-velocity projectile bullets capable of piercing through human bodies, concrete, and most conventional obstacles. The Stand's range is moderate (up to several dozen metres in clear-weather conditions) and the rainfall's intensity can be varied from light drizzle to focused downpour for tactical effect.
The mechanic is one of the franchise's most-distinctive single-character Stand designs and the first depicted weather-summoning Stand. Prior weather-related Stands in the franchise — Weather Report's Heavy Weather in Stone Ocean, certain Pucci-experimentation Stands — have produced atmospheric effects as combat side-products. November Rain is the first Stand whose primary ability is the weather event itself. The combination of weather-as-cover (an opponent caught in the rain cannot easily see Jodio) and weather-as-weapon (the same rain pierces through the opponent) produces a unique tactical profile.
- Bullet Rain
- November Rain summons localised rainfall above a target. The rain drops behave as high-velocity projectile bullets, piercing through human bodies, concrete, and most conventional obstacles. The signature combat application of the Stand.
- Cover Drizzle
- November Rain produces low-intensity rainfall that functions as visual concealment for Jodio — letting him reposition or retreat without being tracked. The drops in this mode are non-lethal but the cover obscures Jodio's position effectively.
- Localised Storm
- November Rain can intensify the summoned rainfall to a localised storm, with corresponding increases in bullet velocity and bullet density. The mode is used selectively across the early chapters of The JOJOLands and represents the Stand's most-powerful single application.
Relationships
Cultural Impact
The First Working-Class JoJo
Jodio is the franchise's first explicitly working-class protagonist — a deliberate departure from the prior eight Parts' aristocratic-or-middle-class JoJo template. The decision has been read by long-form JoJo critics as Araki's most-explicit articulation of his post-reset reset thesis: the alternate-universe Joestars are not the inheritors of the original-eight-Part lineage's social position, and Jodio's lower-income Honolulu setting is the structural argument that the new universe operates on a different class economy than the previous saga.
The mechanic also produces a different combat-narrative register. Where prior JoJos' antagonists were aristocratic vampires (Dio, Kars), pre-WWII fascist regimes (Stroheim, Battle Tendency Italy), Egyptian-mansion vampires (DIO), suburban serial killers (Kira), Italian mafia bosses (Diavolo), American presidents (Funny Valentine), Catholic priests (Pucci), and metaphysical-rock antagonists (Wonder of U), Jodio's opponents in The JOJOLands' early arc are corrupt Honolulu enforcement officers, rival gem hustlers, and tourism-industry money-launderers. The scale shift is one of the most-discussed changes in the post-reset continuity.
Jo + Dio
The name Jodio is the franchise's most-explicit articulation of the Joestar-Brando opposition Araki has been working through since Phantom Blood. The name can be read as Jo + Dio — explicitly containing both halves of the saga's foundational opposition in a single name. Araki has confirmed in The JOJOLands launch interviews that the reading is intentional, and that Jodio's character is designed to argue that the alternate-universe Joestars carry both legacies even when they have no biological connection to the original lineage.
The mechanic is the structural argument the post-reset continuity has been building since Steel Ball Run. Diego Brando in Part 7, the Yoshikage Kira fusion that produces Josuke 8 in Part 8, and Jodio in Part 9 all explicitly invoke the Brando half of the opposition through their names, their visual designs, or their backstory mechanics. The alt-universe continuity is the franchise's most-extended articulation that the Joestar-Brando conflict survives the universe-reset and resurfaces in new configurations rather than disappearing with the original-eight-Part lineage.
The Hawaiian Setting
The JOJOLands is the franchise's only Part set primarily in Hawaii. The Honolulu street economy that defines Jodio's pre-arc business is one of the franchise's most-detailed location-specific worldbuilding sequences — Araki has discussed in launch interviews the research that informed the manga's depictions of Oahu's neighbourhoods, the tourism-industry pressure on lower-income residents, and the gem-trading sub-economy that Jodio and Dragona's business operates within.
The setting also produces some of the franchise's most-distinctive visual atmospheres. Prior Parts have used dense urban (Cairo, Naples, New York) or rural-historical (English countryside, Italian Alps, American West) settings. Hawaii's combination of urban Honolulu density, coastal-tropical landscape, and indigenous-Hawaiian cultural detail produces a visual register that JoJolion's Morioh and Steel Ball Run's American West never approached. Among long-form critics this has been read as Araki's most-deliberate location choice for a saga restart since Phantom Blood's English-gothic opening.
Appearances
- Manga debut
- The JOJOLands Chapter 1 (2023)
- Manga final
- Ongoing (as of 2024)
- Anime debut
- No anime adaptation announced as of 2025
- Anime episodes
- Pending
Trivia
- Jodio is the newest JoJo — The JOJOLands began publication in 2023 and remains ongoing as of late 2024. He is the only Tier-1 JoJodle roster entry whose arc has not yet concluded, and his page accordingly carries less biographical detail than the prior eight protagonists.
- The name Jodio is the franchise's most-explicit single-name articulation of the Joestar-Brando opposition. The Jo + Dio reading was confirmed by Araki in The JOJOLands launch interviews as deliberate, and the mechanic continues the post-reset continuity's argument that the original-eight-Part conflict resurfaces in new configurations across alternate universes.
- November Rain is named after the 1991 Guns N' Roses ballad — making The JOJOLands the second post-Stone-Ocean continuity Part to use rock-music Stand-naming references. JoJolion broke briefly from the rock-music convention with funk and R&B references (Soft & Wet, Wonder of U); The JOJOLands returns to the rock pattern with November Rain.
- Jodio's combat style across the early JOJOLands chapters is distinctly less Joestar-coded than the prior JoJos. Where Jonathan, Joseph, Jotaro, Josuke 4, Giorno, Jolyne, Johnny, and Josuke 8 all carried some variant of the punch-rush vocal motif (ORA / MUDA / DORA / ARI), Jodio's combat scenes have used the rain-bullet Stand mechanic almost exclusively without the punch-rush register. The departure has been read as part of the post-reset continuity's deliberate break from the prior Stand-cry tradition.
- The Hawaiian setting is the franchise's only Part not primarily located in either Japan or Europe-or-America. Phantom Blood (England), Battle Tendency (Italy + USA), Stardust Crusaders (Japan-to-Egypt road trip), Diamond Is Unbreakable (Japan, Morioh), Vento Aureo (Italy), Stone Ocean (Florida), Steel Ball Run (USA cross-country), JoJolion (Japan, Morioh) — every prior Part was in one of three regions. The JOJOLands' Hawaiian setting is the franchise's first sustained location departure.
- Dragona Joestar — Jodio's older sister — is the franchise's first prominent non-male/non-female-binary character. The character is referred to with non-binary pronouns in some translation contexts and with traditional female pronouns in others; the manga has been deliberately ambiguous on the question, and Araki has discussed the choice as intentional worldbuilding for The JOJOLands' Hawaiian setting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Jodio Joestar?
Jodio Joestar is the protagonist of The JOJOLands, the ninth and most-recent Part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A fifteen-year-old half-Hawaiian, half-Japanese teenager living in Honolulu's lower-income outskirts, he is the franchise's first explicitly working-class JoJo. His Stand November Rain summons localised rainfall whose raindrops behave as high-velocity projectile bullets.
What is Jodio's Stand?
Jodio's Stand is November Rain — a Long-Range Stand that summons localised rainfall above any target. The raindrops are mechanically real (visible, audible, saturate fabric) but also behave as high-velocity projectile bullets capable of piercing through human bodies and concrete. November Rain is the franchise's first Stand whose primary ability is a weather event itself rather than weather-as-side-effect.
What part of JoJo is Jodio in?
Jodio is the protagonist of The JOJOLands, the ninth Part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The Part began publication in Ultra Jump in 2023 and remains ongoing as of late 2024. The JOJOLands is the third Part of the post-Stone-Ocean alternate-universe continuity, following Steel Ball Run (Part 7) and JoJolion (Part 8).
Is Jodio Joestar related to Jonathan Joestar?
Not biologically. Jodio is an alternate-universe Joestar with no genealogical link to the original Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, or any of the Parts 1-6 Joestars. The naming overlap is deliberate — the post-Stone-Ocean alternate-universe continuity restarts after the 2011 universe-reset and uses the Joestar surname for its protagonists without inheriting the original lineage's bloodline.
Why is he called Jodio?
The name Jodio is the franchise's most-explicit single-name articulation of the Joestar-Brando opposition — the name can be read as Jo + Dio, explicitly containing both halves of the saga's foundational conflict. Araki has confirmed in The JOJOLands launch interviews that the reading is intentional, and that the name signals Jodio carries both legacies in his identity even though he has no biological connection to the original lineage.
Does The JOJOLands have an anime?
No anime adaptation of The JOJOLands has been announced as of 2025. The Part 9 manga began publication in 2023 and remains ongoing — the typical anime-adaptation pattern in the franchise is to wait until a Part concludes before producing an animated series. The eventual JoJolion adaptation (announced 2024) is expected to precede any JOJOLands animation.
