JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Part 2

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険ストーンオーシャン (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 6: Stone Ocean Part 2)

8.8(4)

OtakuDen

8.0(228,200)

MAL Score

Ranked #704

Popularity #758

Action
Adventure
Super Power

Episodes: 12
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Sep 1, 2022
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

After a bold rescue attempt lands her in solitary confinement, Jolyne Kuujou continues fighting from within Green Dolphin Street Prison while digging into the shadowy machinations of the Stand Whitesnake—whose true master remains hidden from her.

The culprit is Enrico Pucci, the prison’s priest and chaplain, a man tied to a notorious enemy that once haunted the Joestar line. Determined to carry out the “master plan” of a deceased friend, Pucci turns the prison and its inmates into tools for his agenda. With allies like Ermes Costello and Foo Fighters at her side, Jolyne faces a gauntlet of hostile Stand users as the consequences of Pucci’s scheme begin to extend beyond the prison walls, forcing her to stake everything on the Joestar legacy to stop him.

Otaku Consensus

Stone Ocean Part 2 is a strong, unmistakably JoJo middle act: David Production and series composer Yasuko Kobayashi keep Hirohiko Araki’s rule-bending Stand combat readable while the solitary-confinement stretch and prison-gauntlet structure give Jolyne’s cast room to sharpen. The verdict is positive but not spotless, with fans and critics repeatedly praising the characters and bizarre tactical fights while faulting rushed pacing, uneven animation and CGI, and the lack of a new opening theme for this batch.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Stone Ocean Part 2 if you want superpower action that plays like hostile logic puzzles rather than power-level escalation. Its fights scratch the same itch as Hunter x Hunter’s Nen battles, but with JoJo’s harsher body-horror comedy, adult criminals, and rules that can turn a prop, a room, or a wound into the entire battlefield. This is especially rewarding for viewers who wanted a shounen led by a woman without softening the violence or eccentricity around her: Jolyne, Ermes, and Foo Fighters make the prison setting feel like an ensemble pressure cooker. It is not the smoothest-looking JoJo cour, and the batch-release pacing can feel compressed, but the 12 episodes deliver dense Stand concepts, nasty reversals, and one of the franchise’s most quietly terrifying antagonists.

Key Characters

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Jolyne Kuujou
Jolyne stands out as a shounen lead whose appeal comes from improvisation, nerve, and emotional grit rather than inherited prestige alone.
E
Enrico Pucci
Pucci is memorable because he weaponizes patience, faith, and institutional authority, making him feel dangerous even before a Stand fight begins.
E
Ermes Costello
Ermes gives the ensemble a blunt, streetwise energy that balances JoJo theatricality with grounded loyalty and anger.
F
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters became a fan-favorite kind of JoJo oddity: strange in concept, unexpectedly expressive in personality, and vital to the part’s found-family texture.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
David Production remains the studio behind Part 2, keeping Stone Ocean visually tied to the post-2012 JoJo anime line through high-contrast character posing, stylized color shifts, and impact-heavy Stand staging.
2
This installment is a 12-episode ONA batch that aired on September 1, 2022, which shaped reception: viewers praised the density of the battles but often described the pacing as more rushed than a weekly JoJo cour.
3
The creative spine is unusually consistent for a long-running franchise adaptation, with Hirohiko Araki credited as original creator, Kenichi Suzuki as chief director, Toshiyuki Katou as director, and Yasuko Kobayashi handling series composition.
4
The cour leans harder into Stone Ocean’s adult-prison identity than most shounen action anime: AniList tags it at 93% Female Protagonist, 88% Primarily Female Cast, 76% Prison, 68% Gore, and 44% Body Horror.
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Its visual reception is split in a very specific way: the adaptation’s character work and Stand concepts are widely praised, while CGI is prominent enough to be tagged on AniList and animation consistency is one of the recurring fan complaints.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: A recurring complaint in reviews was not about the story but the packaging: several viewers singled out the decision not to introduce a new opening theme for Part 2 as a missed opportunity.
Fun fact 2: MAL and AniList reception are closely aligned for this batch: it holds an 8.03/10 on MAL from 228,200 votes and an 82/100 on AniList, suggesting strong approval across two major anime databases.
Fun fact 3: Masanori Shino handled character design, with Kei Tsuchiya on sub-character design and Yukitoshi Houtani and Daisuke Niitsuma on prop design, a credit split that fits a season where objects and environments often become part of Stand combat logic.
Fun fact 4: The art side was led by Keito Watanabe as art director with Junko Nagasawa on art design, helping define the prison interiors and urban-fantasy texture that AniList users tagged as Urban, Foreign, and Prison.
Fun fact 5: Despite being cataloged simply under Action and Adventure on MAL, the audience tagging paints a more specialized identity: Super Power at 93%, Primarily Adult Cast at 60%, Torture at 20%, and even Vampire at 27% because of the wider JoJo lineage.