JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (GN 1-3)
Previous to the last couple of years, just about any anime and manga fan you could find would tell you the same thing: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure would never be popular in the United States. It's not like people didn't try to make it otherwise. We got some of the manga, a couple of OVAs, even a fighting game on the Sega Dreamcast and PS1. All of them still have followings to this day, but all of them failed to reach the mainstream at the time. Audiences were put off by the long-running continuity, the inherent weirdness of the story and art, and Hirohiko Araki's fondness for naming characters after musicians made licensing any JoJo material a balancing act between avoiding music rights issues and staying faithful to the original. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure might have a beloved franchise in Japan, but until quite recently it was relegated to a few memes, even fewer hardcore fans, and the depths of the scanlation scene. Then something truly ...