JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 7--Steel Ball Run, Vol. 6

Steel Ball Run 2 in 1 #6

by Hirohiko Araki

Genres: Manga, Comics, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

378 pages, Hardcover

Published March 24, 2026

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

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Characters come and go pretty quickly in this series, but they always leave an impression. This volume showed two of the more unique stands I've seen and a wonderful moment of connection between Gyro and Johnny.

[Ashley (Red-Haired Ash Reads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Series: Steel Ball Run #6 (Ch. 43-48)
Rating: 2.5 stars

This volume focuses mainly on the Silent Way Fight with Johnny and Gyro fighting against Diego’s dinosaurs and an unknown stand user who uses sound. While the reveal for the stand user in this was a surprise, I was honestly a bit bored with this fight because a lot of it is just Johnny and Gyro yelling at each other after Gyro explains what the Golden Rectangle is. It ended in Johnny learning how to better use his abilities, but I could have done without all the yelling at each other while they are trapped in water. This fight does end a second surprise about Hot Pants though and I wonder how that will play out in the future.

The second half of this volume involved finding three pieces and being tricked by the being protecting them. This wasn’t really an action packed battle like previous fights. This ended up being a more comedic race to use up all the riches they gained from this stand user and it was not working well at all. Honestly some of this was amusing but at the same time a bit boring because it wasn’t really progressing the story, especially with how this confrontation ended for Johnny and Gyro.

Overall, this part of the race was a bit more miss for me than I expected. I was surprised by the revelations about Hot Pants and Sandman but for the most part, I just felt like I was pushing through this to get to the next thing.

TW: violence; death; racism;

[Hundley · Rating 5 out of 5]

“On which side of the court will the ball land? That is something no one can know. What comes next is God’s domain.”

[Miriam García · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hasta ahora es mi parte favorita. Sentí mucho la pelea con Sound Man.
La evolución en las habilidades de Johnny está tan bien desarrollada y es muy interesante ver como ha ido aprendiendo tanto de Gyro a la par en que se han desarrollado una amistad muy bonita.
El arco de Snow Mountain (Sugar Mountain) fue lo que más me impresionó. La historia tiene ecos a la fábula de Esopo de El leñador honrado, pero también la maldición que viene con una ganancia me recordó mucho a El Diablo en la Botella de Robert Louis Stevenson y a los evangelios, donde Jesucristo dice que el que quiera seguirlo primero debe despojarse de todo. La historia está muy bien construida, fue magnífica de principio a fin.

[Kristina Mlinarić · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Snow Mountain part was emotional. It's hard to imagine how long the guardians have to wait to finally be released from their servitude but Johnny and Gyro were ultimately worthy of the corpse parts. By sacrificing the parts he won to save Gyro, Johnny will at the end receive everything back. The previous tree guardians are thus free, like in a Hollywood movie where kind souls are finally put to rest from a haunted manor (think Poltergeist). I also liked the depiction of money weighing you down and how hard it actually is to spend an enormous amount in one day. You would need a lot of prep time as most of the big things being bought today take time to process, eg. houses.

[Marcus M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Back at it again with a great take on a timeless classic, a twist that is so ridiculous I didn’t know whether I should laugh or be furious, and an ending that is just as odd as I should have expected. Probably the best volume since the first one. Go, go, Gyro!

[John Magallanes · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Adventures and plot are getting wilder! I’m very excited to read the next volume soon

[Rob Marney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one has actual plot twists!

[Charlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Figuring out the presidents wife is a lesbian by groping HER is an interesting method

[Ebony · Rating 4 out of 5]

That was a lot. In a good way! But 😮‍💨

[Tyler Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Soundman’s stand name should’ve been Rod Stewart