I can see what you mean by that , considering Steel Ball Run which I excluded from the list both because it moved out of WSJ and because it doesn ' t share continuity with the previous Jojo was incredibly effective , and a major revitalisation for the Jojo series as a whole . I ' m not quite sure if the same would have happened with Stone Ocean though Stone Ocean was a drastic stylistic and narrative shift whilst still being tied to previous Jojo continuity and the expectations that came with it , a burden Steel Ball Run didn ' t share . An example of this freedom is the opportunity to use a historical setting and a completely new set of characters , including variations on iconic ones . Also , there were problems inherent in Stone Ocean that were simply not shared by SBR , and I don ' t think would have been changed by where it was published . Specifically , extremely vaguenonsensical villainous motivations , nonsensical plot devices and plot points eg . Dio ' s bone , the weird mantra , etc . , and overcomplex Stand abilities that cross the line from inventive to just plain overthetop . In other words , I think Stone Ocean suffered from exactly the same problems many final arcs suffer from the weight of preceding narrative stifling creativity , and editorial issues note that Dragon Ball and Naruto had changed in editor right at the point that they started getting messy after the Cell saga and the Invasion of Pain .