Ahead of STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 2nd STAGE‘s fall premiere, the STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime is heading to Anime Expo 2026 for a special panel with composer Yugo Kanno and English cast members Daman Mills (Johnny Joestar) and Kaiji Tang (Gyro Zeppeli). There will be a live performance and a talk session as part of the panel, which takes place on July 3 (12:30 PM to 1:50 PM) at the Crypto.com Arena.
Aside from the panel, STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure will be represented with the STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Booth Experience, which includes themed displays, photo opportunities, and “other special activities.”
Anime Expo 2026 will also have a 15th anniversary industry panel from Warner Bros. Japan Anime with English voice actors Laura Post (Record of Ragnarok‘s Brunhilde) and Damien Haas (STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure‘s Diego Brando). This will be on July 4 in Room 408AB from 11:30 AM to 12:20 PM, and will “showcase upcoming titles and future projects, along with guest appearances and discussions.”
STEEL BALL RUN Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is based on the seventh part of Hirohiko Araki’s long-running Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure manga series. The anime’s synopsis reads:
It’s 1890, in America, the Steel Ball Run — the first horse racing championship across the North American continent — was about to begin. Spanning around 4,000 miles, the race offered 50 million dollars as the winning prize. Johnny Joestar, once being hailed as a genius jockey, is now paralysed and lost in despair. He finds hope in the mysterious phenomena caused by Gyro Zeppeli, an outlaw aiming to win the race, and determines to participate in the Steel Ball Run Race. Each having their own goal in mind, the two form an alliance and set foot upon the gruelling adventure and race.
The anticipated anime drew attention for its release schedule, with the 47-minute first episode premiering on March 19 on Netflix without any indication of when the other episodes would follow. Yasuhiro Kimura (Golden Wind co-director) and Hideya Takahashi (Golden Wind co-director, Urusei Yatsura remake director) are directing at david production with Toshiyuki Kato (Stone Ocean director, Diamond is Unbreakable) as series director.
Source: Press release
