Steel Ball Run Doesn’t Have a Theme Song Yet, but JoJo’s Fans Made One Anyway, and Now It Has 24 Million Views on YouTube

Though we’ve previously reported that the anime adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run stumbled out of the gate, most fans are now happy enough, having been satiated by a great first episode and news that the season will eventually release weekly, starting later this year. An itching curiosity has still remained, though: What is the theme song going to be? There’s still no confirmation of what new opening sequence (or "OP") will accompany this new part of the show. With previous seasons kicking off with bangers like Bloody Stream, Stand Proud, Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town, or my personal favourite, Fighting Gold, there’s a high bar set for the next track to match. It’s not rare for an anime to launch without an opening theme in its first episode. It’s also not rare for JoJo’s to leave its audience waiting for key information over long stretches of time (this is a series where fans referred to a main character as “Gappy” for months before they were ever given a confirmed name, and major parts have still not been officially translated into many major languages within a decade of release). But since it is strange for an anime to launch a first episode and then go into imme