Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is a canon spin-off series to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure that takes place in Morioh, the setting of Diamond is Unbreakable. Rohan Kishibe is the protagonist, and this series lacks an overall main antagonist and villainous faction.

It is an anthology series featuring Rohan Kishibe as the protagonist/ narrator throughout every chapter. The stories deal with other supernatural abilities besides Stands, including the likes of ghosts, avatars of Greek Gods, and Yokai.

Chapters release infrequently and have released over the course of six different magazines. Four chapters have released in Weekly Shonen Jump, two in Jump Square, and one each in Spur, Shonen Jump+, Bessatsu Margaret, and JOJO magazine.

Starting in 2016 a couple of the one-shot chapters for TSKR began being adapted into an OVA by David Productions. The first episode released was Millionaire Village, in 2017, and in 2018 Mutsu-Kabe Hill was animated. Two years later in 2020, The Run and At a Confessional were released. As of now only four out of the ten TSKR chapters have been adapted.

In 2020 three Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe stories were adapted into a live-action-drama series. One year later three more episodes released in December.

This series will be officially released in English in Fall 2022.

Netflix Description
A popular manga creator becomes enmeshed while conducting research: Stand User Kishibe Rohan visits Italy, goes bankrupt, and more.

Summary
Rohan Kishibe, famous manga artist featured in Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable, details his findings of supernatural phenomenon. He is joined by Kyoka Izumi as he discovers a village of millionaires that has very strict rules on who can live there, details the story of a vengeful spirit in the forest of Mutsu-Kabe Hill, reminisces on his rivalry with the Avatar of the Greek God Hermes, and describes to Koichi Hirose the time he visited Italy and heard the story of a vengeful ghost.

Chapters not yet in Tankoban format

 * Episode 10: Hot Summer Martha

Cast

 * Rohan Kishibe - Landon McDonald
 * Kyoka Izumi - Brittany Cox
 * Ikkyu - Jessica DiCicco
 * Naoka Osato - Suzie Yeung
 * Yoma Hashimoto - Aleks Le
 * The Confessor - Crispin Freeman
 * Tonio Trussardi - Christopher Bevins

Rohan at the Louvre
Another addition to the Rohan saga, this is a non-canon story that acts as promotion for Araki's artwork being shown at the Louvre in Paris. It tells the story of Rohan visiting this art museum and discovering some dark secrets about some of the contents in this facility. It is confirmed to be non-canon because it conflicts with the information already provided to us in the official JoJo lore.

An official hardcover English translation was released in April 2012 for a limited time.

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Short Story Collection
A light-novel of a group of short stories written in the style of the Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe series by Ballad Kitaguni. They are first released in monthly Ultra Jump in smaller volumes with 2-3 chapters in them, and later on in 2018 the three original volumes were compiled into two bigger ones with an additional chapter only for the book release added. The stories released within the first two volumes were Kushagara, Blackstar, Blood-Stained Bookmark, Censored Equation, Okami-Sama, Box of Happiness, Yuyaganidai, Symmetry Room, and Gleanings of Paradise.

In September 2021 it was announced that the fourth volume of stories would be published in monthly Ultra Jump in the following month with two brand new Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: Short Story Collection chapters. The two new chapters released in 2021 were Golden Melody and Original Author Kishibe Rohan.

Trivia

 * The spin-off series Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (in Japanese "Rohan Kishibe Does Not Move") is titled that because the stories are meant to be about Rohan as an onlooker to the events portrayed, so he "does not move," because he is merely telling the story.