Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

Part 3 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (subtitled Stardust Crusaders,) is preceded by Part 2: Battle Tendency and proceeded by Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable. Jotaro Kujo is the JoJo of this part and DIO serves as the main antagonist. The Agents of DIO and Egypt 9 Glory Gods are the villainous faction for this part.

This part introduces Stands, and begins to discard Hamon from the story. This is the final part with Hamon involved at all.

Originally titled JJBA Part 3: Jotaro Kujo - Heritage to the Future, the manga was released in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1989.

In March of 1993 a video game RPG adaptation of Part 3 was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

In April of 1993 a light-novel was released, written by Mayori Sekijima & Hiroshi Yamaguchi titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Genesis of the Universe, as sort of a side-story within the canon of Part 3.

In November of 1993 an OVA adaptation of Part 3 was released. The first 13 episodes focused on Jotaro and the gang in the desert on their way to fight with DIO. In 2000, seven more episodes were released as a prequel showing the start of their journey up to the battle in Egypt.

In 1998, a video game based on Part 3 titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage of the Future was released in arcades and on the Playstation and Dreamcast.

Stardust Crusaders was adapted into a TV anime as the second season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation in 2014.The part is split into two seasons, the Road to Egypt Arc and the Battle in Egypt Arc.

Stardust Crusaders was the first JoJo part to be released in the United States from 2005-2010, but had poor sales. It was officially rereleased in hardcover in 2016.

Official Description
Part 3, set in 1989, follows Jotaro Kujo, who has acquired the power of Stand, and his allies as they journey from Tokyo to Cairo to save his mother's life by defeating his family's archenemy, DIO.

Summary
The third part, set in 1989, follows Joseph's grandson Jotaro Kujo as he journeys across the globe in 50 days in order to save his mother from a curse. This part introduces the concept of Stands, supernatural abilities that manifest as the form of the user's fighting spirit. Because DIO has been revived, he has unlocked his own Stand, giving everyone in the Joestar family an ability as well due to their psychic connection to Jonathan's body, which DIO now inhabits. The part concludes with the defeat of DIO at the hands of Jotaro and his Stand, Star Platinum, however at the cost of losing several allies on the long journey.

Characters

 * Jotaro Kujo - Mathew Mercer
 * Joseph Joestar - Richard Epcar
 * Muhammad Avdol - Chris Tergliafera
 * Noriaki Kakyoin - Kyle Hebert
 * Jean Pierre Polnareff - Doug Erholtz
 * Iggy - Derek Stephen Prince
 * DIO - Patrick Seitz

Stands

 * Hermit Purple
 * Star Platinum; Star Platinum: The World
 * Magician's Red
 * Hierophant Green
 * The Fool
 * Silver Chariot
 * The World
 * The Passion (non-canon name)
 * Tower of Gray
 * Dark Blue Moon
 * Strength
 * Yellow Temperence
 * Ebony Devil
 * Hanged Man
 * Emperor
 * Empress
 * Wheel of Fortune
 * Justice
 * Lovers
 * Sun
 * Death 13
 * Judgement
 * High Priestess
 * Geb
 * Satanic Coupler (The Genesis of the Universe)
 * Dark Mirage (The Genesis of the Universe)
 * Khnum
 * Thoth
 * Anubis
 * Bastet
 * Sethan
 * Osirus
 * Ptah (The Genesis of the Universe)
 * Horus
 * Atum
 * Tenore Sax
 * Cream

Unnamed Stands

 * Holy's Stand

Songs

 * Stand Proud
 * Sono Chino Kioku
 * OH MY GOD!!
 * Naked Silver
 * Star Platinum

Trivia

 * This is the first JoJo part to have Stands. At first they are introduced as a sort of evolution from Hamon, but it distances it from that quite a bit as the part goes on.
 * This part was possibly inspired by the novel "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne.