Stone Ocean

 is the sixth story arc of the Japanese manga series "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from January 1, 2000 to April 21, 2003 and was collected into 17 "tankōbon" volumes. In its original publication, it was known as It was preceded by "Golden Wind" and followed by "Steel Ball Run". An anime adaptation, "", was announced in April 2021.
Plot.
Set near Port St. Lucie, Florida in 2011, the story follows Jotaro Kujo's estranged daughter, Jolyne Cujoh, who is framed for a murder and ends up in Green Dolphin Street Jail. Jotaro comes to visit her, but is rebuffed due to his absence from Jolyne's life. Jotaro has spent the ten years since Part 5 evading and hunting rogue Stand users, primarily ex-followers of DIO, resulting in his divorce from his wife and estrangement from Jolyne. Jotaro informs his daughter that a disciple of DIO's framed her so that he could kill her in prison, and urges her to escape. This plan goes awry when a Stand named Whitesnake uses its power to remove Jotaro's Stand and memories, in the form of discs. Revealing his love for his daughter, Jotaro sinks into a deathlike state, and Jolyne must find a way to recover the discs from Whitesnake's user, a Catholic priest known as Enrico Pucci, who also serves as the prison's chaplain. Along the way, she picks up allies such as Emporio Alnino, a boy born in the prison; Ermes Costello, a young woman seeking revenge for her sister; Narciso Anasui, who soon falls into unrequited love for Jolyne; and Weather Report, an amnesiac whose memory Disc had been stolen by Pucci- without knowledge of his name, Weather goes by the name of his own Stand, which can control the weather. She also meets Foo Fighters (shortened to F.F.), a hybrid of a Stand and a plankton colony. F.F. had been made sentient via Whitesnake and used her Stand abilities to possess the corpse of a recently-deceased female inmate.
Pucci met and idolized DIO sometime before the events of Part 3. While in DIO's company, DIO spoke of "Heaven" and how to create a "perfect world" when certain conditions were met. Although it has been 23 years since DIO's death, Pucci, keeping DIO to his word, proceeds with his plan to realize this "perfect world", which involves absorbing the remnants of DIO's bones in the form of a green homunculus called the Green Baby, and arriving at a predestined place on the night of the new moon. The process of DIO's plan was outlined in his diary, which Jotaro had previously read and burnt after killing DIO. This was why Pucci stole Jotaro's Stand and memories- Jotaro was the only living person to remember the process needed to achieve DIO's ideal world. Additionally, it is implied that Pucci is the one who mobilized DIO's ex-followers, making him responsible for Jotaro leaving his family to hunt them down.
Jolyne retrieves Jotaro's Stand Disc, but Pucci reveals that he only needs Jotaro's memory Disc to complete his plan. He awakens the Green Baby despite Jolyne and her friends' efforts, and successfully absorbs it. Foo Fighters and Anasui are mortally wounded in the failed effort to stop Pucci, but Foo Fighters uses the last of her strength to save Anasui's life and retrieve Jotaro's memory Disc. Jolyne and her allies escape from prison, and Jolyne sends both of Jotaro's Discs to the Speedwagon Foundation. Weather Report retrieves his memory Disc, causing him to remember his past.
Weather's true identity is Domenico Pucci, making him Enrico Pucci's twin brother. He was abducted from his biological family soon after his birth, and was raised as Wes Bluemarine. However, unaware of his connection to the Pucci family, he dated a woman who was actually his and Pucci's younger sister Perla. When Pucci discovered Weather's true identity from the confession of Weather's adoptive mother, his attempts to prevent incest the two led to Weather being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan and Perla committing suicide. The incident was the start of a dark path for both Weather and Pucci- Weather's rage against humanity caused him to unleash his Stand's true powers, the transformation-inducing Heavy Weather, while Pucci was led to believe that humans couldn't fight fate and would be happier knowing their destiny from the beginning, which was a heavy influence in his decision to participate in DIO's plan to remake the universe.
With his memories returned, Weather unleashes Heavy Weather once more, affecting countless bystanders and even his allies, and faces Pucci in a duel. Although he nearly kills Pucci, Weather Report is defeated and fatally impaled by Whitesnake, ending Heavy Weather's influence. However, in his death, he has left behind his Stand's Disc for his allies to use. Meanwhile, Pucci continues on to Cape Canaveral, just two days before the new moon- between this and his prior absorption of the Green Baby, Whitesnake evolves into the gravity-manipulating C-Moon. Jolyne and company catch up to Pucci, but they are soundly outmatched by C-Moon. As all seems lost, however, Jotaro arrives and defends Jolyne and her friends from Pucci. However, Pucci realizes that he can use C-Moon to replicate the gravitational conditions of the new moon, allowing him to complete his plan two days early.
Pucci's Stand evolves again, this time from C-Moon to the time-accelerating Made in Heaven. Using Made in Heaven, Pucci creates an apocalyptic scenario where time accelerates in the blink of an eye, causing days to pass in minutes. Humans still move at the same pace, but Pucci now moves as fast as the accelerated time, allowing him to fight his enemies with insanely-fast speed and reflexes. After Jolyne finally reciprocates his affections, Anasui sacrifices his life in a failed attempt to allow Jotaro to land a hit on Pucci. Made in Heaven greatly shortens Jotaro’s time stop, and Pucci attacks Jolyne with knives, causing Jotaro to give up his chance to kill Pucci to instead save his daughter. Ermes bleeds out when her arms are severed by Made in Heaven, Jotaro himself dies when Pucci splits his head, and Jolyne sacrifices herself to halt Pucci and save Emporio.
The effects of Made in Heaven are completed when time accelerates to the end of the universe, leading to a new cycle of time and a parallel universe, where all surviving humans have precognition of their lives; all deceased humans have had their souls left behind in the old universe, resulting in them being replaced by similar yet different counterparts in the parallel world. With only Emporio left to fight him, Pucci proceeds to hunt him down relentlessly. As he is about to kill Emporio, however, he inadvertently pushes Weather Report's Stand Disc into Emporio’s head. Pucci attempts to accelerate time once more, but Emporio uses Weather Report to increase the concentration of oxygen nearby to an amount normally fatal for humans. A poisoned and paralyzed Pucci pleads with Emporio to spare him long enough to make his new universe permanent, but Emporio is unmoved, and Weather Report caves in Pucci's skull, killing him.
With Pucci's premature death, the parallel universe collapses, leading to a universe near-identical to the original- however, Pucci has been erased from existence, and the precognitive effects of the second universe are gone. In the current universe, Emporio's friends are alive, but have led different lives due to the lack of Pucci's influence. Jolyne, now named Irene, is engaged to Anasui, now named Anakiss, and the two never went to prison. Ermes and Weather Report also avoid prison, and meet up with the group as hitchhikers. Foo Fighters has been wiped from existence, due to her existence being tied to Pucci's. Jotaro is not seen either, but Irene briefly mentions him, confirming that he is still around. He is heavily implied to have a better relationship with his daughter, likely because Pucci no longer existed to send DIO's remaining followers after him. The group reunites on Green Dolphin Street, and a traumatized Emporio tearfully re-introduces himself to Irene, being the only one to remember the traumatic battle with Pucci. The five drive through the rain in Irene's car as they go off to meet Jotaro, hoping that he will give his blessing for Irene and Anakiss to marry.
Volumes.
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Related media.
Anime.
The anime adaptation of "Stone Ocean" was personally announced by series creator Hirohiko Araki on the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure the Animation Special Event: JOESTAR Inherited Soul" live stream on April 4, 2021, stating that it is “[...] finally being animated and released”.
Reception.
"Kono Manga ga Sugoi!" recommended the series, and called Jolyne a distinctive character within the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" franchise. In a 2015 poll on Charapedia, Japanese readers ranked "Stone Ocean" as having the seventeenth most shocking ending of all time in manga and anime.