JoJo Fridays return with STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure streaming weekly on Netflix starting on September 25, 2026.
The STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime has revealed new information about its upcoming set of episodes, including a new trailer, new character art, Japanese cast members, and a release date.
STEEL BALL RUN is a split-cour anime, meaning it is a series that is divided into separate broadcast blocks with a break between them. A cour usually refers to one TV season, or roughly 10 to 13 weekly episodes. When an anime is planned as split-cour, one block of episodes airs first, followed by a pause before the next block airs later.
Release Date
The 2nd and 3rd STAGE will begin streaming on Netflix on September 25, 2026, with new episodes releasing weekly. The anime’s “1st STAGE” premiered worldwide on Netflix on March 19, 2026. This cour of episodes covers the second and third stages of the race, with 11 episodes in total.
This announcement was officially revealed today by Warner Bros. Japan on July 3, 2026 at the Anime Expo 2026 panel in Los Angeles. The panel featured composer Yugo Kanno performing live and appearing alongside Daman Mills and Kaiji Tang, the English voice actors of Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli.
The new reveals included a new trailer for the 2nd and 3rd STAGE, showing more footage from the next leg of the Steel Ball Run race. The company revealed art of Mountain Tim, Funny Valentine, and Hot Pants, as the story moves further into the race across North America. Mountain Tim is a cowboy and veteran racer who becomes involved in the mystery surrounding murders in the Steel Ball Run race. Valentine is the president of the United States and one of the central figures of Steel Ball Run, playing a major role in the story behind the race. Hot Pants didn’t appear in the trailer, but she is one of the rivals in the race.
Trailer
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English
Characters
Mountain Tim
CV: Tomoaki Maeno (Squalo in Golden Wind, Decim in Death Parade, Veldora in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Crocodine in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (2020), Kinro in Dr. Stone)
A cowboy from Wyoming. One of the favorites to win the Steel Ball Run, he enters the race as a top contender. After a series of mysterious murders occur during the race, he is appointed as a deputy sheriff to investigate the cases.
Riding Horse: Ghost Rider in the Sky (Localization: Shadow Rider).
Hot Pants
CV: Yoko Hikasa (Rias Gremory in High School DxD, Mio Akiyama in K-ON!, Kyoko Kirigiri in Danganronpa, Yoh in Shaman King (2021), Qiang Lei/Kyou Kai in Kingdom)
A formidable competitor who vies for the lead from the very beginning of the Steel Ball Run race. A mysterious figure whose age, real name, and background remain unknown, yet refined manners and graceful bearing suggest an aristocratic upbringing.
Riding Horse: Gets Up (Localization: Giddyup).
Funny Valentine
CV: Tomokazu Sugita (Joseph Joestar in Battle Tendency, Gintoki Sakata in Gintama, Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Escanor in The Seven Deadly Sins, Charlotte Katakuri in One Piece, Gyomei Himejima in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Taro Sakamoto in Sakamoto Days, Hiromi Higuruma in Jujutsu Kaisen)
The president of the United States, a figure who enjoys overwhelming public support. He supports the Steel Ball Run Race, a transcontinental race across North America —yet behind his involvement, hidden intentions seem to lurk.
Cast
About STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is the sixth season of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It adapts the seventh part of Hirohiko Araki‘s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga.
Set in the U.S. in 1890, Steel Ball Run follows the first-ever cross-continental horse race across North America. One of the protagonists, Johnny Joestar, is a former genius jockey who became paraplegic. He forms an alliance with Gyro Zeppeli, a mysterious outlaw, and the two embark on a grueling race across the continent together.