JOJO A-GO!GO! – Hirohiko Araki JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Art Book Box Set

JOJO A-GO!GO! is Hirohiko Araki's three-book art collection for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published by Shueisha on 25 February 2000 to mark the end of Part 5, Golden Wind. An illustration book, a Stand encyclopedia and a book about Araki himself share one case, credited to Araki and his studio, Lucky Land Communications.

Disc.1 Illustrations is the big one, 37 cm tall. It opens with a dance party, characters and Stands dancing together; the book's art director has said Araki drew 16 pages of these dancing illustrations new for this book. Then comes his colour cover art from Part 1, Phantom Blood, through Part 5, with pieces made for games, tributes and merchandise. At the back are a timeline saying where each piece first appeared and when it was drawn, and a single illustration of Jolyne Cujoh from Part 6, Stone Ocean.

Disc.2 Stands covers the Stands up to the end of Part 5: their stats, what each ability does and how it plays out in the story, and a note on the user. There are rankings too, from most appearances to most kills, Araki's own favourites by function and by design, and a closing section called "Standlogy".

Disc.3 Araki Hirohiko turns to the artist: his inspirations and influences, an essay he wrote on Italy, lists of his favourite characters and illustrations, and a chronicle of his work from 1960 to 1999.

The case is part of the fun: turn the wheel built into it and the faces in the cover art change. Together, the three books are a snapshot of JoJo at the close of Part 5: the art, the Stands and the artist, as they stood in 2000.

Good to know

• Language: Japanese. The artwork speaks for itself, but the Stand entries, the timeline and Araki's essay are in Japanese.
• This is the Japanese three-book box set from Shueisha (ISBN 978-4-08-782591-6), not the English VIZ edition of 2024. The VIZ book is a single 144-page hardcover of the Illustrations book alone, without the case, the Stands book or the Araki book.
• What is inside: three books in a case, Disc.1 Illustrations, Disc.2 Stands and Disc.3 Araki Hirohiko, 378 pages in all. Disc.1 is 37 cm tall; Disc.2 and Disc.3 are 19 × 26 cm. Boxed, the set measures 38.7 × 30.5 × 4.5 cm and weighs about 2.9 kg.
• First published in 2000 and reprinted since, including a 2023 printing. This listing is for the set, not for a specific printing.
• More from Araki in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure collection.