Netflix Wants You to Stop Yelling at It About 'Steel Ball Run'

For the past few weeks, the face of Johnny Joestar with Mangekyo Sharingan eyes has felt inescapable on social media, whether you were a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fan or not—after said fans, hyped for the arrival of the anime adaptation’s seventh chapter, Steel Ball Run, found themselves left high and dry when Netflix dropped just a single episode and then refused to say when more was coming (beyond a vague “this year,” eventually). Sharingan Johnny’s days are now either numbered or about to get even more prevalent, because Netflix has finally offered another update in the hopes of getting anime fans to stop yelling at it. Released early this morning on the Netflix Anime social media account in both English and Japanese, the streamer’s statement confirms a slightly more specific fall 2026 release date for the second part—or “stage,” as they’re known for Steel Ball Run, named as such for the various stages of the titular horse race—of the anime. It also explicitly confirmed that the second stage, unlike the singular episode release of the first, will follow a weekly release schedule, and that going forward the show should follow a split-cour release (i.e., multiple batches of episode