Seasonal · Steel Ball Run
Steel Ball Run Stages 2-3 Begin
Steel Ball Run returns on Netflix on 25 September 2026, with 11 weekly episodes covering the race's second and third stages for David Production.
Six months after a single 47-minute special left JoJo fans cold, Steel Ball Run is back — weekly, on Netflix, and finally racing at full speed.
Netflix dropped the first stage as one long special on 19 March 2026, then went quiet. At Anime Expo 2026 it answered with the opposite plan: 11 weekly episodes from Friday, 25 September 2026, running to 4 December.
Key Points
- Stages 2 and 3 began on Netflix on Friday, 25 September 2026, weekly.
- The run is 11 episodes, after the 47-minute first-stage special of 19 March 2026.
- David Production adapts Part 7 of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga.
The race resumes
Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli ride on, voiced again by Shogo Sakata and Yohei Azakami, as the race pushes into the Devil’s Palm desert. The opening theme is “Spin” by Kroi.
Primary source: the JoJo official portal and Netflix, confirmed at Anime Expo 2026.
Why it matters
This is Netflix correcting its own release strategy in public: the March drop proved even JoJo cannot survive a format that fights its story. If the weekly run holds the first stage’s standard to December, it becomes the template for the rest of Part 7.
Read more: Season Spotlight and Season Analysis.