что такое steel ball run
Невероятное приключение ДжоДжо — Часть 7: Гонка «Стальной шар» / JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
—Джонни Джостар, SBR: Глава 3
Джонни Джостар является сыном Джорджа Джостара и младшим братом Николаса Джостара. Отец был строг к Джонни. Однажды Джонни хотел подобрать мышь, но отец запретил ему и сказал утопить его в озере. Старший брат сказал Джонни, что он не обязан делать этого и Джонни оставил мышь, назвав её Денни. Во время одной из скачек, лошадь Николаса испугалась пробегающей мыши, и Николас разбился. Позже, Джонни хотел взять сапоги покойного брата, но в комнату ворвался Джордж и запретил ему сделать это.
—Джордж Джостар I, SBR: Глава 42
После смерти брата Джонни стал выдающимся джокеем и обрёл популярность. Однажды, придя с девушкой на пьесу «Wild Horse» Джонни, дабы обойти очередь воспользовался своим авторитетом и попытался стать вперёд перед другим юношей. Но тот не стал терпеть выходки Джостара и выстрелил ему в спину, лишив возможности ходить.
—Доктор, обслуживающий Джонни, SBR: Глава 3
—Джайро Цеппели, SBR: Глава 33
—Джайро Цеппели, SBR: Глава 24
—Рассказчик, SBR: Глава 95
—Диего Брандо, SBR: Глава 75
Где-то в Британии, у бедной пары родился ребёнок. Им не хватало денег даже на себя, так что они окутали ребёнка и закопали его. Немного времени спустя начался дождь, и в реке начался паводок. Пара увидела своего ребёнка, и мать побежала спасать сына, которого назвала Диего. После дождя Диего с матерью были найдены у реки, человеком, владевшим фермой, на которой начала работать мать Диего. На ферме к ним относились холодно, позже, к матери Диего на руки попала инфекция, и она умерла от столбняка.
Повзрослевши, Диего женится на пожилой женщине и забирает её имущество после её смерти
—Диего Брандо, SBR: Глава 30
—Какузу, Наруто: Глава 314
—Фанни Валентайн, SBR: Глава 61
—Фанни Валентайн, SBR: Глава 89
—Хот Пэнтс, SBR: Глава 56
—Хот Пэнтс, SBR: Глава 57
Манга Невероятные Приключения ДжоДжо Часть 7: Steel Ball Run (Цветная версия) | JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 7: Steel Ball Run
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1) Корзинка с цветами / Hanagatami
Красавица Кага, которой восхищается вся школа, начинает получать знаки внимания от назойливой одноклубницы Юкиминэ.
2) Ягодный сад / Berry Garden
Асахи и Такатори – две подруги, которым нравится издали наблюдать за Кагой-сэмпай.
3) Ифейон / Ipheion
Кага и Юкиминэ помогают застенчивой Сидо написать письмо-признание.
4) Как прежде… / Even
Когда-то робкая девочка, Нао в средней школе стала популярной спортсменкой, и это беспокоит её подругу Титосэ.
5) Вслед за… / Step In
Продолжение истории Нао и Титосэ.
6) Мыльные пузыри / Shabon
Утреннее свидание на берегу реки, окрашенное разноцветными переливами.
7) Субботний кофе с преступницей / Doyou no Coffee wa Hannin to
Девушка, любящая детективы, проявляет интерес к таинственной незнакомке.
Конец девятнадцатого века. Как это часто бывало, неосторожно завернув на повороте, повозка с молодой семьей разбилась. Случайно оказавшийся там человек по имени Дарио Брандо, который не отличался хорошими манерами и представлениями о жизни, решил обокрасть похожего на аристократа пострадавшего. Но, к его сожалению, мужчина оказался жив. Поблагодарив Дарио за спасение жизни, сэр Джостар, как истинный джентльмен, пообещал не остаться в долгу.
Спустя двенадцать лет, умирая, Дарио через сына, что его ненавидел, передал Джостару письмо, с просьбой приютить молодого отпрыска. После смерти отца, Дио Брандо отправился в поместье, где он мгновенно испортил отношения с единственным сыном владельца дома, Джонатаном. ДжоДжо усердно старался выглядеть как джентльмен, но это ему плохо удавалось, а с появлением Дио его беззаботная жизнь и вовсе превратилась в кошмар.
Превратности судьбы нам не известны, но так ли просто столкнулись две противоположности? Какие сюрпризы ожидают молодых людей, и какова роль загадочной маски в этой авантюре?
Steel Ball Run
«Listen closely! True failure is forgetting the pioneer spirit! And staying away from challenging hardships! There is no such thing as failure in this race! There are only adventurers! This Steel Ball Run race will be an event the likes of which the world has never experienced before!»
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Metal Ball Run (Steel Ball Run)
Logo of the Steel Ball Run race.
The Metal Ball Run is a horse racing event in Your Bizarre Adventure. It is derived from the race of the name «Steel Ball Run» (changed due to copyright) centrally featured in Part 7 of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The race takes place on a vast course with several areas and checkpoints and is from San Diego (California) to New York City (New York). The race also has many dangers to be wary of, including other players. Upon winning the race, winners are given a cosmetic and the ability to buy a Requiem Arrow through Prestige Master Rin’s quest.
In the SBR lobby, you can’t use your Stand, this is not a glitch, you just need to wait for the race to start. Although we have not gotten an official reason for this it is likely so people cannot attack others in the lobby, hindering their ability to compete in the race. (Example: Stands with the ability to slow down opponents, etc.)
Summary
The race is held in special servers separated from the main game. there are two classes of the Steel Ball Run: Casual and Competitive. In Casual, players with Evolved Stands, Tusk (Act 4), D4C: Love Train, Killer Queen: Bites the Dust and The World Over Heaven are not allowed to compete (Unless their stand is stored in a Stand Storage) and the race doesn’t count towards the leaderboard. However, in Casual, Stands like C-Moon or Tusk (Act 2) and Tusk (Act 3) are allowed, although they’re evolved Stands.In Competitive, Requiem stands are allowed and the race counts toward the leaderboard. You must be prestige 2+ to access the Steel Ball Run now.
Upon joining a Steel Ball Run server, each player spawns with a horse for the race. After 16 players join a server, the race will commence 1 minute after and each player will receive a revolver. PVP is disabled until the race starts. Horses have a stamina meter which will drain when the horse goes above 34 speed. Horses also have a temperature gauge that will cause the horse to go slower if the horse is too cold or too hot.
Unlike in the regular game where most people frown on underhanded tactics and very cheap moves such as running or stopping time. In the Steel Ball Run, it is suggested to do whatever it takes to win. So always be alert and realize there is nothing fair about this race whatsoever. It is a free for all, but generally considered a good challenge for experienced players.
Rewards
Note: Cash rewards are now given as an item which can be sold to the merchant in the main game.
Layout
Beginning Area/Town
This is the spawn area. Players can only get the umbrella from Jongic (when the race starts, as before the race start no NPC will react to you.), get the requiem arrow quest from Prestige Master Will, or purchase heat or cold resistant horses with horse feed, which can be obtained by winning 3rd, 2nd or 1st in competitive mode. South from the ocean, there is the starting line with the race track blocked by a red barrier that goes off after 60 seconds after 16 players are in the SBR/MBR Server.
The Desert/The Devil’s Palm
The first area of the race. This area is very hot and arid, sandstorms make it hard to see. Devil’s Palm is an extremely hot area near the end of the desert in which players will take poison damage. Devil’s Palm is the most common place where wipers will probably slow you down. The «main» route is to stick to the right the entire time, which will get you to Devil’s Palm rather quickly. There is also an alternate route known as the poopverse. The poopverse is a obstacle and is accessible by constantly going left. Although if you fail the obstacle you may fall in to the void and instantly die. But this lets you skip Devils palm and avoid players. Wipers will usually take this route, as it is spread apart from the main path.
The Plains
The second area of the race. This is a sunny grassy area that is mainly flat The other Sunny grassy area is like the other but raining with fog making the player hard to see the players. This area is relatively easier, with no dangers aside from other players. It is also the shortest part of the race, tied with the New York City Bridge.
The Arctic
The third area of the race. It is a very cold and frigid tundra, with white fog that makes it hard to see. The cold will make your horse go slower. Additionally, your horse’s speed will not slow back down to 34 automatically (should you go above this speed) while in this zone.
The Battle Zone
The second-to-final area of the race. This area is a battleground in which the next stage will not open until there are 7 players or less remaining. There is also a barrier closing in on the area. Normally 5 things will happen when you are here. One is 1v1s, where people will pick either who they want to 1v1 or which people will 1v1. Another is FFA, which is just a free for all. During a FFA you may spot some players staying away from the fight, as either they are too weak or don’t want to risk dying. Another possibility is Simon Says, where the players will pick a Simon, and whoever doesn’t do what Simon Says gets killed. This repeats until there are 7 players left. The next is a team war, in which 2 or 3 teams will be fighting against each other until there are less than 7 players leftAnd the last of these 5 is a Voting. where a group of players will vote for a player to be eliminated. Another method is beatdown roulette. Where one player with a beatdown will beatdown and whoever gets hit dies. This is often considered unfair as the people who beatdown are often granted immunity from dying. Do not hide as other players will kill you as it is considered a cowardly thing to do. One of the last methods, usually used as a last resort, is a Killer Queen uses Bites The Dust, and whoever they’re closest to after the time rewind gets killed.
New York City Bridge
Horse Feed
It can help your Horse be more resistant to the Heat or Cold in some of the featured Steel Ball Run stages.
You can give your Horse «Horse Feed» when entering the Stable near Jongic.
In the stable there are two Horse NPCs
The Orange Horse allows you to trade one Horse Feed to add a Heat Resistance level to your horse.
The Tan Yellow Horse allows you to trade one Horse Feed to add a Cold Resistance level to your horse.
Tips for the Metal Ball Run
Hide your Stand unless being attacked by other players or when you reach the 4th stage. It is a very important thing to remember as stands that are really good often become direct targets. If your stand is kept out for a long period of time people can use its weaknesses to create a plan to knock you out of the race.
27. It is highly recommended to use a healing stand and to heal others at devil’s palm in order to gain trust.
28. If you are going to wipe, it is recommended to wipe at devil’s palm where everyone is low from the poison damage, but you have to get there earlier than everyone else.
29. Tusk’s Nail Glide ability will accelerate you in hot or cold areas, but only slightly.
30. If there are 3-4 people fighting eachother, an event can occur where the fight attracts other wipers and players to join in. This causes a war that wipes out most of the server; to attract a fight, you can mostly frame someone with ranged attacks.
31. ALWAYS stay away from the red wall in the bridge because a lot of players will go to the wall and you will have a huge chance of getting bonked, flung by an AoE attack like TWOH’s Smite, or just getting knocked away from your horse.
32. During the final race, you can use counters or moves that give i-frames like GER’s RTZ to avoid some of the bullets.
33. It is highly recommended to use a speed buff move such as YOS or any of the Awakenings near the end of the final race so that if you get knocked off your horse you can still possibly win.
34. When feeding Horse Feed to your horse don’t feed the Heat Resistance Horse Feed as it makes no discernable difference. However, always feed your horse the Cold Resistant Horse Feed as you will move much faster than everybody else in the arctic for a short amount of time.
35. It is highly recommended to park your horse just outside of the arctic, then getting on it and going back with everybody else exactly 15 seconds before the third stage opens as you will be faster than everybody else. Using the Cold Resistance Horse Feed will make your faster for a longer period of time.
39. It is recommended to take down Silver Chariot: Requiem users if you can, as at the end, a good SC:R user can use Your Own Shadow after getting infront of a good amount of people, making it so anyone who shoots at them virtually takes themselves out of the race, while using their revolver to further punish anyone already slowed down, or knock more people. And if you knock them off their horse, they can use A Helping Hand to potentially still win. However they won’t be as fast as a horse at 50 speed.
40. Don’t use stands such as Tusk Act 1/3 or D4C for the fact that people will kill you if they know that you need to get the win for heart, pelvis, or arm.
41. Also Avoid Hierophant Greens as they can use marionette control in areas like poopverse and New York City bridge to control you and make you fall out of the world
42.When you are in a team be aware that some players are friends or the same gang as they will help each other and target the remaining players in the end.
43.As useful as it seems try to avoid using evolved stands like twoh, mih, ta4 and d4c lt as other players will know that you wont need win and use every excuse to eliminate you in the race.
How To Obtain The Requiem Arrow
Steel Ball Run
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Set in the U.S. in 1890, the story follows Johnny Joestar, a paraplegic ex-jockey, and Gyro Zeppeli, master in the mystic art of the Spin, as the two compete in the trans-American Steel Ball Run race and uncover its benefactor’s sinister motivations.
Steel Ball Run marks the start of a new universe entirely divorced from the events of Parts 1-6. Despite this, the story retains several core features of JoJo, including Stands, as well as numerous references to the original continuity.
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Plot Summary
The Steel Ball Run Race
For keeping English literature, Sandman is forced to flee his Native American tribe. He mysteriously outpaces and escapes his pursuers on horseback thanks to a mysterious power. Sandman meets his sister near a cliff whose wall is covered in mysterious spherical holes and tells her of his intention to participate in the upcoming Steel Ball Run race.
Gyro Zeppeli is introduced as he registers his entry. He challenges a thief in a duel and, by throwing a Steel Ball at his shoulder, makes his opponent shoot himself in the head. Interested, a bystander in a wheelchair touches the still spinning Steel Ball in its holster, causing him to momentarily stand up. The man is introduced as Johnny Joestar, a former genius jockey who became paraplegic after a petty fight.
Though Johnny is amazed at the miracle produced by the Steel Ball, Gyro refuses to explain its secret. Undeterred, Johnny buys a horse and enters the race. As the race begins, Johnny manages to mount his horse by spinning his own body.
The Race Begins
The Steel Ball Run race begins. Steven Steel and a team of reporters board a train to follow the racers through the first of the race’s nine stages. Gyro quickly gains the lead and incapacitates two of the favorites, Urmd Avdul and Diego Brando, thanks to the power of his Steel Balls. He is then quickly challenged by Pocoloco, encouraged by his Hey Ya! and uncanny luck despite a late start. Despite Gyro’s efforts to attack Pocoloco, he only manages to put Sandman in danger; nonetheless, the Native American overtakes both of them to become the frontrunner. After a tense battle, Gyro turns his cape into a sail to catch the rear wind and barely seizes first place.
Interlude: Steven Steel’s Past
How the Steel Ball Run Race Got Started
Steven Steel’s colorful past is explored. It is revealed that the Steel Ball Run race was first imagined by a young girl named Lucy, who suggested the idea to a down-on-his-luck Steven. After awakening from a drunken stupor, Steven was approached by a group of sponsors who expressed interest in the event and offered to finance it, making Steven rich. Grateful to Lucy, Steven subsequently married her.
The West: First Battles
A Bloodthirsty Competition
The first stage ended, but Gyro suddenly receives a penalty due to having endangered Sandman’s life earlier in the race. He is relegated to the 21st place. After exacting a petty revenge by ruining Steven’s party, Gyro accepts to have Johnny follow him and teaches him a first lesson: what matters is the Steel Ball’s Spin itself. Meanwhile, Steven and his wife Lucy are brought to a murder scene, showing that contestants are murdering the competition. The local Sheriff calls the famous cowboy Mountain Tim to help who memorizes the horseshoes prints and also falls in love with Lucy.
The second stage of the Steel Ball Run begins, this time, the racers have to cross 1,200 km of desert. Gyro immediately takes a dangerous shortcut and Johnny has no choice but to follow him. The duo is then attacked by fellow racer Mrs. Robinson who uses explosive cacti to harass them. Nonetheless, Gyro promptly defeats Robinson with the same chollas. After finding Mrs. Robinson’s horse, Tim sees that the horseshoes don’t match.
Later, Johnny and Gyro make camp and Johnny makes some progress in the Spin. They are then attacked by Andre, Benjamin, and L.A. Boomboom, and Gyro realizes that his leg was magnetized by the Stand Tomb of the Boom 1 2 3. After a brief fight, Gyro and Johnny flee but are sprayed with Andre’s blood. Benjamin disguises himself as Johnny Joestar, confronting Mountain Tim who reveals his Stand Oh! Lonesome Me. Benjamin successfully plants some of his blood on Tim and pushes him to think Johnny is the murderer. Mountain Tim catches up to Johnny and Gyro, and the three of them realize that they are affected by the magnetism. Tim presents his power he calls a Stand, which he acquired by stepping into a Devil’s Palm, a moving phenomenon granting people Stands. Benjamin Boomboom uses his Stand to immobilize them and kill them. But Johnny then awakens his own Stand, Tusk, as they were in the Devil’s Palm without realizing it. Johnny kills Benjamin and incapacitates L.A., who reveals that they were hired to kill Gyro and is promptly left in the desert.
Under Johnny’s persuasion, Gyro reveals his past. He is a citizen of the Kingdom of Naples, who has learned the Spin from his father and has worked as an executioner. For his first execution, Gyro had to behead Marco, a little boy condemned by mere association with a treasonous lord. Gyro objected at Marco’s execution and thus was proposed to participate to the Steel Ball Run race, as winning could spur the King to proclaim a general amnesty, otherwise the prize money was enough to pay for Marco’s appeal. Gyro accepted.
Some time later, a terrorist from Naples named Oyecomova arrives at a relay village ready to kill Gyro as revenge against the kingdom. Mountain Tim confronts Oyecomova but is incapacitated by his Stand Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure’s explosive power. The fight becomes a race toward the Zombie Horse, a healing item sent for Gyro. After a long pursuit up a river, a combination attack from Johnny and Gyro manages to take Oyecomova down, and the duo continues the race.
Interlude: Gyro Zeppeli’s Motivation
The exact circumstances leading Gyro to want to appeal to Marco’s execution are unveiled. After a prisoner revolts and Gyro was forced to restrain her, Marco took his pouch and tried to fix it, at the other executioner’s anger but Gyro realized that Marco didn’t deserve his sentence, leading him to him participating in the Steel Ball Run race.
In the present, Gyro and Johnny retrieve the Zombie Horse and heal Gyro’s leg injury with it.
The Real Goal of the Steel Ball Run
A flashback presents Joseph of Arimathea, a man who descended Jesus Christ from the Cross. Joseph of Arimathea drew a map depicting an unknown land and several points of interest.
Johnny and Gyro are attacked by Fritz von Stroheim, who is disposed of. Johnny, appalled at the frequency of the attacks since the money prize cannot justify these, suddenly realizes that his left arm contains a mummified arm. Meanwhile, Steven Steel discusses with Funny Valentine, President of the United States. With Joseph of Arimathea’s Map in his possession, Valentine covets the relic known as the Saint’s Corpse.
About to reach Monument Valley, the duo is attacked again by Pork Pie Hat Kid, one of Valentine’s Subordinates. He captures Gyro and isolates Johnny in the open but Johnny’s Stand, Tusk, appears to help his user escape the hooks once then tells him «Movere Crus», before disappearing. Johnny realizes the Steel Ball Run’s true purpose. Johnny manages to reach Gyro and the Neapolitan foils a last attempt by the enemy to take the Corpse Parts. Having seen his legs being influenced by Tusk, Johnny subsequently diverts his attention on the Saint’s Corpse and convinces Gyro to help him.
During the final dash of the second stage between the top racers, Johnny discovers the location of the next Corpse Part. He distracts Gyro with it, leading to Diego taking the 1st place, Johnny the 2nd place, Sandman the 3rd place, and Gyro the 4th. Gyro’s angry, but the race immediately moves on to the third stage: 517 km through the Rocky Mountains. Meanwhile, Lucy Steel discovers Valentine’s plot and sees the Heart in his possession.
Gyro and Johnny meet with Diego who’s acted strangely since an earlier fall. As night falls, they take shelter in a village. But soon, Diego transforms into a raptor and attacks Gyro and Johnny. His kinetic vision gives him an edge against Gyro and Johnny’s projectile based attacks and they can only flee, only to discover the whole village has been transformed too. Diego’s backstory is revealed: he once spent his youth working on a farm with his mother, but the bad treatment they received and his mother’s death made Diego ambitious and resentful of humanity. His talent led him to search for glory in the Steel Ball Run. Gyro transforms himself into a dinosaur and Diego snatches the Eyes from them. Johnny is the only human to face Dr. Ferdinand who explains that his Scary Monsters was controlling every dinosaur so far. Unexpectedly, Johnny abandons his Left Arm and partially transforms to toss one of the Eyes at Gyro, who is then cured and acquires the new ability Scan. Dr. Ferdinand is incapacitated and then eaten by cougars. However, Diego escapes with the Left Eye and keeps his dinosaur abilities.
Interlude: Funny Valentine’s Past
A flashback reveals some of Funny Valentine’s past. After surviving a trip into the desert, Valentine became a politician and discovered Joseph of Arimathea’s map. It indicated the whereabouts of the nine Corpse parts: the Torso, the Heart, the Left Arm, the Right Arm, the Spine, both Eyes, both Ears, both Legs and the Head. Becoming President of the United States, he sponsored Steven Steel’s race to secretly seize every Corpse Part.
The Midwest: Struggle for the Saint’s Corpse
During the final dash, of the third stage, Gyro challenges Diego again. Johnny having known Gyro for a certain amount of time, declares that Gyro lacks a proper drive for the race and will lose there. Gyro angrily rebukes Johnny, but despite his best efforts, Diego stays ahead. However, another racer, Hot Pants, has already crossed the line. Defeated, Gyro admits that he does lack the drive to win.
At 650 km from Kansas City, Gyro and Johnny meet Hot Pants in a forest. They briefly fight over an allegedly stolen cow; Hot Pants revealing his «flesh spray» Cream Starter and Gyro managing to scan Hot Pants’ back, sees the word “Turbo” on his spine, thus leading Gyro and Johnny to locate the next Corpse’s part in Kansas City. Johnny defuses the situation and the three eventually have a truce against a gunslinger named Ringo Roadagain who claims that they won’t escape the forest without killing him. The trio confronts Ringo who reveals his Stand Mandom, which rewinds time by six seconds when he winds up his wristwatch. A shootout ensues in which Johnny and Hot Pants are apparently fatally shot, leaving only Gyro alive. Ringo takes Johnny inside and spares the Napolitan but Gyro realizes that Johnny’s wound isn’t fatal.
Ringo Roadagain’s story is revealed: he was once the sick youngest of an impoverished family. One night, his mother and sister were killed by a bandit and he saved himself by shooting the bandit. Ringo then became a gunslinger seeking challenges to «purify» himself. Finally, Funny Valentine employed him to retrieve the Corpse part from Johnny. Chasing away the last doubts within him, Gyro challenges Ringo again and uses Mandom to his advantage by going through a first loop then leads Ringo into a falling splinter of the roof that impales Roadagain. Acknowledging his defeat and Gyro’s growth, Ringo honors him and is finished off. After his duel, Gyro heals Johnny and Hot Pants. Johnny discovers that Ringo has sent a message to Valentine and also that Hot Pants is a woman, choosing to keep it secret. Near Kansas City, the duo crosses path with Pocoloco and Sandman. They exchange information, making Johnny realizes that Diego has found the location of the next Corpse Part.
Lucy Steel Gets Involved
Meanwhile, witnessing Ringo’s pigeon arriving on the roof, Lucy infiltrates a governmental building and steals the message it carries. Almost surprised by Valentine and his henchman Blackmore, Lucy has no choice but to call Mountain Tim for help and they both escape incognito. Lucy then goes to retrieve the Spine at a local landmark known as the Green Tomb. However, Blackmore discovers Tim’s involvement and kills him with his rain-controlling Catch the Rainbow. He then discovers that Lucy was the culprit and rushes toward her location as she uncovers the Spine. As Diego, Johnny and Gyro ride toward the Green Tomb, Lucy is discovered by Blackmore. He takes the Spine from Lucy but is distracted by Jesus-Christ; he is shot by Lucy who escapes with the Corpse Part. Exalted by the miracles around him, Blackmore seals his fatal wounds with raindrops and pursues Lucy. Meanwhile, Gyro and Johnny are unable to get ahead of Diego. In the tempest, they struggle to find the optimal path while Diego’s enhanced senses help him. Nonetheless, Gyro’s growth expresses itself when he manages to catch up to Diego. After a brief fight, Silver Bullet hurts its leg, throwing Diego out of the race.
The duo then meets Lucy and Blackmore almost at the same time and a fight ensues. Catch the Rainbow immobilizes Johnny and Gyro, but the latter manages to throw a Steel Ball on Blackmore by evaporating some raindrops. Blackmore dies from his wounds, and the Spine enters Johnny’s body as the weather calms itself, and the next Corpse part’s location reveals itself to the duo.
Johnny and Gyro reach the finish line in Kansas City. Earlier, Johnny, Gyro, and Lucy have seen the locations of the Ears, the Right Arm, and the Legs. The duo has also Lucy to steal the President’s Heart, Gyro lending his Right Eye to enable this. In the present, Diego meets with Valentine’s henchman. After Diego reveals that he knows about the traitor within Valentine’s entourage, Valentine reluctantly cooperates with the British jockey.
The Golden Rectangle
Near the Mississippi, Gyro and Johnny are attacked by a combination of Diego’s dinosaurs and a strange power which produces effects like cutting or burning whoever touched an affected object. The duo has to flee to the river. Johnny reminisces his sad youth, notably how he blames himself for his brother Nicholas’ death and how poorly his father treated him. Considering that the universe is making him pay for his assumed unwitting murder, Johnny loses hope as his Stand proves ineffectual.
An angry Gyro reminds him that Johnny isn’t close to master the Spin and introduces the Golden Rectangle, a ubiquitous proportion which is used to form a perfect and infinite rotation. However, Gyro refuses to say more. Sandman reveals himself as the enemy and inexorably corners the duo, even slicing Gyro’s legs. On the brink of despair, Johnny realizes that the Golden Rectangle is present in the environment and upgrades Tusk to ACT2. An even shootout ensues, but Johnny surprises Sandman with a bullet made from Gyro’s belt and kills the Indian. Suddenly, Hot Pants appears and knocks him out. She steals all the Corpse Parts save a fraction of the Spine.
Interlude: The Concept of Stands
The bonus chapter is an explanation of Stands and their rules. Some of the properties of Stands, such as their possible appearances and the rules they are subjected to are explained.
Lastly, Araki explains that items and techniques such as the Stone Mask, the Ripple, or the Spin were tools who emulate the power of the Stands.
Lake Michigan: To Accept Loss
At the beginning of the 6th stage, Gyro notices that 11 horses are nearing them with unnatural synchronization. They also meet Sugar Mountain, a young girl residing inside a giant tree who submits the duo to a trial of honesty. Gyro manages to obtain the Ears and the Right Arm plus various precious goods. However, Sugar Mountain warns the horse racers that they have to spend or exchange fairly everything they have before the sun sets lest they are absorbed into the tree. Gyro and Johnny decide to head to the city but find it difficult to spend their fortune. The Eleven Men attack them in a casino and almost kill them, but Gyro pays the local thugs to become their bodyguards, killing all but one man. However, Gyro is still turning into a tree and Johnny reluctantly trades his Corpse Parts with the last assassin. Sugar Mountain nonetheless salutes their resolve.
Near Lake Michigan, Diego meets with Mike O., head of Valentine’s security staff. Diego reveals that the traitor is most likely a woman, causing the questioning of every woman associated with the Steel Ball Run race. Lucy sees that the search is closing in on her and takes the initiative by approaching the First Lady Scarlet Valentine. With soporifics given by Hot Pants, Lucy manages to approach Valentine while he’s asleep but the heist goes wrong when Scarlet discovers Lucy. Hot Pants come to the rescue but a short fight ensues against Mike O. who is killed. However, Lucy is forced to disguise as Scarlet while Hot Pants departs with the Ears and Heart, leaving the Right Arm which was too big for her escape.
Johnny and Gyro have reached a frozen straits which they must pass, but unbeknownst to them their are observed by two enemies. Wekapipo’s past is explored: once a member of the royal guard of Naples, Wekapipo broke his sister’s marriage on the premise that she was beaten blind. Furious, the husband forced him into exile; having heard of his sister’s death, Wekapipo enters Valentine’s service.
Johnny and Gyro try to cross the frozen strait, a wolf following them for unknown reasons. In the middle of the strait, they are attacked by Wekapipo and Magent Magent whose Wrecking Ball and 20th Century Boy can make their victim not perceive anything to their left and make Magent invincible while kneeling respectively. Gyro takes out Magent Magent but Wekapipo isolates the duo from the Golden Rectangle by destroying all possible inspirations including Gyro’s hand and manages to uncover the Legs from the wolf. At a climactic exchange, Gyro uses snowflakes to recreate the Golden Spin and beats Wekapipo. However, he also reveals that Wekapipo’s sister is being taken care of by the Zeppeli Family and enlists him to search for Lucy.
A supplementary chapter first describes Johnny and Gyro’s daily routine in the Steel Ball Run. It transitions into the last dash of the 6th stage, in which Johnny and Gyro are racing against Pocoloco. Hey Ya! guides him out of the way of a rift, but Gyro and Johnny cooperate to cross it directly with a makeshift steel rope made from a ball, effectively beating Pocoloco’s luck. Gyro finishes at the 1st place and Johnny at the 2nd place.
Meanwhile, Magent Magent crawls back to civilization.
The Northeast: The Hunt Concludes
Valentine Takes All
A flashback details the discovery of «Lucy Steel» ‘s body from the Fox River. A distraught Steven Steel is convinced that the woman before her isn’t Lucy.
145 km West of Philadelphia, Gyro and Johnny are lured by Hot Pants to a local garbage dump inside a building. Gyro and Johnny are attacked simultaneously by various objects they have left behind throughout their lives, who fuse with them and covering them both with a membrane. Hot Pants is then completely covered in the membrane and disappears. A flashback exposes Hot Pants’ past: she is a nun who covets the Corpse to absolve herself after she abandoned her brother to a bear.
Johnny is warned to purify himself with water to dissolve the membrane and manages to escape. Suddenly, Johnny witnesses Jesus telling «not to shoot if he doubts, then a new path will open to him». When Johnny goes back into the garbage dump, Axl RO, an agent of Valentine, uses his Civil War to materialize objects of guilt including the specters of people. Johnny is attacked by his father and brother and the situation gets worse when he shoots Ax RO as the attack transfers’ Axl RO’s own objects of guilt to him. Nonetheless, he suddenly understands Jesus’ hint and shoots himself. Gaining the ability to travel into the wormhole created by the spinning nails, Johnny gains the upper hand and grabs the Corpse from afar. He thus forces Axl RO to stab him and is then absolved of his sins. Suddenly, Axl RO is shot in the chest and Funny Valentine reveals himself. The President seizes the nearly all the Corpse Parts and departs before Johnny can attack.
Assembling the Saint’s Corpse
Gyro and Johnny enter Philadelphia. Seeing that Diego Brando is at the 1st place, they decide to confront him and steal the Left Eye from him. At the same time elsewhere, Steven Steel ruminates in his coach. Comparing recent photos, he discovers that somehow Scarlet Valentine is Lucy in disguise. However, Magent Magent appears and shoots Steven because he’s no longer useful to Valentine. Soon after, Wekapipo intervenes to protect Steven. The fight ends as Wekapipo imprisons Magent at the bottom of a river by using the Spin.
A flashback details the past of Lucy Pendleton: she was once the eldest daughter of a farmer indebted with the mafia. However, Steven bluffed the mafia who wanted Lucy as a prostitute by telling them he took her virginity and married Lucy to trick them. Grateful, Lucy became loyal to Steven.
In the Independence Hall, Valentines makes a lengthy motive rant to his «wife», who has let the Right Eye slip on the ground and has tried to distract the President. Aroused, Valentine tries to rape his wife’s impersonator but when Lucy reveals herself, Valentine is stunned and is stabbed in the throat. Agonizing, Valentine suddenly disappears when a chair falls over him and reappears unharmed. Lucy tries to hide from Valentine in the next room and accidentally finds the Corpse which fuses with her. When Valentine breaks into the room, he realizes Lucy is the host for the Head.
Interlude: A Joke from Gyro
Gyro tells Johnny a joke, reciting the days of the week while acting progressively crazier, at Sunday, he regains his calm. Johnny notes the jokes and comments that it’s really good.
Free-for-All in Philadelphia
Near the Independence Hall, Johnny and Gyro spot Diego and Wekapipo. While Gyro tries to sneak on Diego, Johnny is shot by an unknown party and barely escapes in the sewers with Tusk ACT3. Gyro notices Johnny’s absence and tries to go help him. Another henchman named D-I-S-C-O confronts Gyro, who is at a disavantage as D-I-S-C-O’s Chocolate Disco allows him to teleport any object within a grid on the ground. Using different layers of air as a lens, Gyro manages to dispose of him. Still, Gyro has no idea of what happened, and the witnesses alternately point Diego, Wekapipo or Valentine as the culprit. A flashback details the life of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion, resurrected under the care of Joseph of Arimathea, he drew the map for Joseph then traveled East until he died in America, his relics scattered across the continent.
A series of flashback finally reveal that Valentine’s Stand, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap or D4C, can make parallel universes coexist in the same plane, explaining everyone’s confusion during the last minutes. Valentine attacks Diego and Wekapipo and traps Diego in an alternate dimension through a flag. He steals the Left Eye and disappears but Diego then sacrifices Wekapipo to escape to the base world. Confident that the Corpse Parts are only found in his world, Diego continues his pursuit.
In the Independence Hall, a heavily pregnant Lucy is contacted by a mysterious voice compelling her to get away. Due to a series of coincidences, her guards are all incapacitated or killed, allowing Lucy to escape with a wounded Steven. Meanwhile, Gyro asks Johnny to abandon the chase for the Corpse Parts, considering that they’ve lost. However, Johnny stands up briefly, showing the evolution of his legs, and reaffirms his will to get hold of the Corpse. Gyro accepts to help him and reveals the last level of the Spin, which can be used only by the most skilled horse riders, harnessing a power which can beat Valentine. Unable to locate the Corpse Parts, they resolve to chase Lucy’s trail instead. For her part, Lucy has been guided to the river by the voice but realizes that Valentine had lured her to his ship.
The West Coast: The Power of the Saint’s Corpse
Valentine is Blessed
Lucy is forced to embark with her husband. She and Valentine are to go to the last «X» mark on Joseph of Arimathea’s map. However, Diego and Hot Pants meet and agree to cooperate and follow a trail left by Lucy, themselves followed by Johnny and Gyro. Diego and Hot Pants eventually catch up to Valentine who’s boarded a train with Lucy. A vicious fight ensues as Diego and Hot Pants try multiple times to kill Valentine, culminating in Diego’s death, cut in half by the train’s wheels. Meanwhile, Gyro and Johnny notice that strange space distortions keep happening around them. In the train, Lucy Steel is turning into the Corpse itself. The space distortions also cause Hot Pants’s death when debris converges into her heart. Having been observing the events, Valentine uncovers the true nature of this power: there is a gap into space which only he can enter and manipulate.
Finally, Gyro and Johnny catch up to the locomotive but Valentine has made it impossible to stop the train. Moreover, Valentine is invincible as «harm» itself is being redirected to random places in the world. Gyro throws a Steel Ball, to seemingly no effect. The duo can only stop Valentine’s wagon and retreat temporarily. It is then that Gyro exposes some hair attached to the Ball he’s thrown. If they harness the rotational energy of their horses when they run according to the Golden Scale, Gyro and Johnny will reach Valentine. Both charge the wagon. The President defeats Johnny first and forces Gyro to waste a Steel Ball to save his partner. Fortunately, Steven Steel transports Lucy out of the wagon and entrusts her to Gyro, forcing Valentine to pursue them toward the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, Johnny sees Valentine’s ear stuck on the Steel Ball, and realizes that Valentine didn’t notice his wound. Near the water, a wind gust does make Valentine realizes that he’s missing his ear, and as Gyro rushes toward him, the President finally grasps the danger the Spin.
The Phenomenal Power of the Spin
Valentine disappears on the ocean floor while Gyro harnesses the Golden Spin with Valkyrie. Despite several decoys, Gyro strikes the real Valentine with the Steel Ball imbued with the Golden Spin. Gyro’s new stand Ball Breaker passes through the wall with the Spin energy and induces senescence in Valentine’s cells, while Gyro is shot in the stomach. Unexpectedly, Valentines survives. Out of options, Gyro passes on to Johnny a mysterious speech, his lesson n°5: «The shortest route was a detour. It was a detour that was our shortest path.»
It is explained Valentine was saved by a pure coincidence which made Gyro’s rotation imperfect. Gyro expires and Valentine empties his revolver on his corpse then attacks Johnny. Johnny wastes all but one nail and is unhorsed but at the last moment understands Gyro’s hint. Using the Steel Ball on Slow Dancer’s leg, Johnny makes himself get kicked into the air in a Golden Scale leg movement and is imbued with the Golden Spin. Tusk ACT4 appears.
Tusk ACT4 forces its way into the dimensional gap then pummels D4C with enough force to form a crater on the ground at the bottom of which Valentine escapes. The President soon discovers that the Golden Spin is following him no matter which dimension he flees to and despairs.
A flashback details a young Funny’s meeting with his future father-in-law Captain Valentine and his lesson about patriotism. Given resolve by this memory, Valentine recomposes himself. The President reappears in the base world but admits his loss and proposes Johnny to bring back Gyro Zeppeli. The Holy Corpse begins to extract itself from Lucy. Meanwhile, Valentine continues his parley, countering each of Johnny’s arguments. At the end, the jockey is nearly convinced.
Johnny nonetheless throws the gun Valentine emptied earlier back at him, daring him to pick it up as a test. Valentine’s plans are foiled. A final shootout ensues between the jockey and the President, which Johnny wins. Johnny witnesses a final apparition of Gyro’s ghost and says his farewell. He then puts a final nail bullet in Valentine’s head, killing him. Valentine’s body is dragged underground by the Spin, and all traces of him disappears.
New York City: A Last Enemy
After healing everyone, Johnny realizes that the Corpse has been stolen by a last unknown enemy, identified as at least a Steel Ball Run contestant. Johnny pursues his final foe. Johnny catches up to the mysterious culprit, and confronts Diego Brando, alive and well, now wielding a time-stopping Stand called THE WORLD. Valentine has convinced an alternate version to fulfill his goal in his place.
Both racers realize what the other is capable of and aim to devise a plan which will counter the other’s power. As he begins the final stage Johnny meets with his father George, and they silently reconcile. The advantage switches between Diego and Johnny until Johnny joins the rest of the racers on the Brooklyn Bridge for one final attack. Both perform their plans but although The World’s leg is hit by the rotation, the Stand cuts it and throws it at Johnny who’s now imbued with the Golden Spin. Incapacitated, Johnny is powerless as Diego wins the Steel Ball Run and head to the safe in which the Holy Corpse will be put.
Conclusion
In the shelter Diego meets with Lucy, who kills Diego by fusing his head with the original’s head.
At the same time, Steven rescues Johnny by taking him on his horse, so that Johnny can shoot himself.
After a brief narration of the after effects of the race, Johnny embarks on a boat to give Gyro’s corpse back to his family, in which he meets his future wife Rina Higashikata. We last see Johnny giving one last prayer, and smiles as he goes to Europe to bury his friend.