JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 7--Steel Ball Run, Vol. 4

Steel Ball Run 2 in 1 #4

by Hirohiko Araki

The hunt for the Holy Corpse is on! Gyro and Johnny have managed to get ahold of the second body part, the eyeballs, but can they keep Dio from getting his claws on them? And with a new enemy closing in on them, there’s no telling who will be the last to get the corpse!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

392 pages, Hardcover

Published November 25, 2025

About the author

Hirohiko Araki ( 荒木飛呂彦) is a Japanese manga artist. He left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.

He enjoys the baseball manga Kyojin No Hoshii (Star of the Giants); the video games Mario Kart and Bomberman; and likes Prince and other African-American singers, as well as jazz, rock, and rap.

He is a recipient the Tezuka Award for manga.

Reviews

[Charlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ultra fat man and flying guy fail to catch a 14 year old girl hiding right next to them

[Miriam García · Rating 5 out of 5]

ESte volumen es tan memorable. Las aventuras de Gyro y Johnny se complican. En su camino se encuentra con Ringo y es aquí donde vemos la ciega determinación de Johnny. Gyro en cambio, tiene que cuestionarse cu crianza llena de privilegios con un padre brutal para quien el deber está por encima de todo y los sentimientos son una debilidad que debe ser eliminada a toda costa. ¿Por qué Gyro se unió a la carrera? Qué sentido tiene una vida sin emociones y sobre todo sin un sentido de justicia.
Araki ha construido una historia de acción, una aventura "bizarra" con un sistema de poderes y un estilo visual único que nos ha enamorado a sus fans. En Steel Ball Run nos entrega un relato intenso que también habla de superación personal y el camino para convertise en un hombre.
De lo mejor que he leído, Jojos nunca decepciona.

[Brent Barbaree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love JJBA, and have been loving Steel Ball Run so far! I really liked Gyro and Johnny’s stand off by the lake, and Ringo’s character, particularly how he wants to grow as a man, and encourages that same growth in others! I also think it’s so neat Araki told us that Ringo’s Stand’s ability isn’t tied to Ringo’s watch, and that that watch is simply a psychological trigger, implying that Ringo probably would’ve ended part 7 if that trigger didn’t exist!

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

It just gets better and better. Araki mentions using these characters as a way to explore his own uncertainties in life, and it's done in the most JoJo way possible. This is absolutely chaotic, but also very moving. What do we inherit and what do we choose for ourselves? This theme comes up over and over and I'm deeply invested.

[S201 · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Kyle Coates · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so unbelievably good… I now know why people say SBR is the best Jojo part

[Michael Amaral · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is getting so good. The stands have such interesting powers. Can’t wait to see how this race ends.

[Avidreader365 · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5

[Kolter Sands · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ringo Roadagain fight is amazing and awesome.

[Kristina Mlinarić · Rating 5 out of 5]

The duel with Ringo plays out like a spaghetti Western showdown, and you can't have a Steel Ball race without at least one in it. 

[Brigid · Rating 4 out of 5]

It seems that I can always count on Johnny Joestar to scream at the top of his lungs! I feel like HALF of Steel Ball Run’s plot is just Johnny yelling at Gyro, the coolest guy in the world, who takes every crazy new development in stride. “Did Gyro do anything especially hot this volume?” I asked my husband. “Sure,” Mike said, absently. Then I read on ahead and suddenly Mister Hotness Zeppeli has three eyeballs sticking out of his face. Gee, thanks for the heads up, Mike.

This extra eye belongs to the corpse that everyone’s after, and Johnny realizing who has the corpse’s other eye is another one of his louder exclamations: “DIO?! I can’t believe it! He has the other one! Dio has the left eye!!”

I was unsure of how to classify Dio and his dinosaur transformation powers in Volume 3, but Volume 4 provides more of an explanation through the Stand user Doctor Ferdinand. While Dio is initially transformed into a dinosaur by Doctor Ferdinand, this seems to be a Stand power that Dio now has, going forward. It struck me as incredibly odd to see this version of Dio in this universe take orders, and it felt wrong when Doctor Ferdinand tells Dio to kill. Not Master Dio!

Gyro’s steel ball ability is now “souped up” thanks to the corpse’s eyeball, but Gyro is undeterred from his original goal of winning the race: “As amazing as this holy corpse may be…its power can’t tell me how to get rich. It can’t teach me how to please a woman. And it sure as hell can’t change a death penalty to not guilty.”

There’s a Stand user named Hot Pants who could do with a different name, only because Stand user Ringo Roadagain also appears in this volume, and DEFINITELY should have been named Hot Pants!

Volume 4 was a lot of fun, and a four-out-of-five-stars read. I am eager to read Volume 5 next year when it is released.

[Hundley · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Welcome… to the true man’s world.”

This is by far the best book in the series so far. Ringo Roadagain is one of the best antagonists in the series, and provides the greatest direct threat to the protagonists so far.