The ‘Metal Ball Run’ Anime Rides to Netflix in March

We lastly have a launch date for Steel Ball Run, the subsequent Jojo journey: March 19.

The date was revealed at a Leap Festa panel for the anime, which additionally had a brand new trailer highlighting the primary solid. Set in Nineties America, our hero is Johnny Joestar (Shogo Sakata), a paraplegic ex-jockey who good points the flexibility to stroll once more after touching a powered-up metal ball. The proprietor of mentioned ball, Gyro Zeppelli (Yohei Azakami), is collaborating within the titular cross-country horse race run by promoter Steven Metal (Kenta Miyake) and his spouse Lucy (Rie Takahashi), so Johnny additionally joins.

Different notable racers embrace British horse racer Diego Brando (Kaito Ishikawa), Indigenous runner Sand Man (Masaaki Mizunaka), and Pocoloco (Kenichiro Matsuda). Like in earlier Jojo’s sequence, the primary characters have their very own particular talents referred to as Stands: Gyro can channel vitality into metal balls, for instance, and every Stand offers their consumer a leg up throughout the race and within the moments the place they face off towards one another different. When $50 million and fame is on the road, you want each advantaged you will get in a race like this.

The “first stage” of Jojo’s Weird Journey: Metal Ball Run arriving in March is a 47-minute lengthy premiere, and it’s unclear whether or not new episodes will observe within the weeks after in a weekly method, or months down the road. We’ll have extra on the discharge schedule as information emerges.

Need extra io9 information? Take a look at when to anticipate the most recent Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on film and TV, and the whole lot you’ll want to learn about the way forward for Doctor Who.