JoJolion

JoJolion (ジョジョリオン, Jojorion) is a seinen manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, serving as Part 8 of the ongoing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series. JoJolion has been collected in 11 volumes totaling 42 chapters, with 3 additional chapters not yet volumized.

In the first volume, Araki described the story of JoJolion as being the solving of a "curse" (呪い, noroi). Curses, he goes on, are the sins of the ancestors and this makes people "unclean" (穢れ, kegare), and if this curse continues it will only turn into "resentment" (恨み, urami). Another theme is that from birth we see things as black and white, but this produces a "friction" (摩擦, masatsu) from what humanity really experiences. From these, the "curse" is lifted, this being the goal of the story.

On the inside cover of volume 2, Araki explained that the "...lion" in the title comes from both the Christian concept of blessing and the gospels ("evangelion" in Greek), as well as the Ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion.

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