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The world of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is getting a big change with the release of Steel Ball Run. Part 7 of Hirohiko Araki’s generation-spanning series jumps into a whole new timeline with an epic horserace across America. The JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run anime was announced back in April 2025, but it has just gotten a 2026 release window and is going to stream on Netflix.

During a live-streamed event, Warner Bros. Japan Anime confirmed that JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run would be coming out in 2026 on Netflix. The exact anime season hasn’t been confirmed yet, but we expect it will be in either the Summer or Fall anime season in 2026.

The event also confirmed the main cast of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run.

• Shogo Sakata as Johnny Joestar
• Yohei Azakami as Gyro Zeppeli
• Kaito Ishikawa as Diego Brando
• Rei Takahashi as Lucy Steel
• Kenta Miyake as Steven Steel

The series will be directed by Yashuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi. 

Following the events of Stone Ocean, the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure timeline has been reset, with Steel Ball Run kicking off a new continuity that is something of an alternate history to the previous arcs. Johnny Joestar is a paraplegic jockey who enters the dangerous Steel Ball Run race across the United States in 1890. However, the usual pitfalls of a cross-country race are compounded when it turns out that the organizer, Steven Steel, has a sinister motive for bringing so many racers together.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run will debut in 2026 on Netflix.

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