06/08/2026
Every JoJo inherits a name. Part 8 begins with a man who cannot remember his.
Created for JoJo’s 30th anniversary, Hirohiko Araki’s Ripples of Adventure opened at The National Art Center, Tokyo from 24 August to 1 October 2018. It marked the first solo exhibition by an active manga artist at a national art museum in Japan and welcomed more than 140,000 visitors before travelling to Osaka.
The Osaka edition ran at the Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan from 25 November 2018 to 14 January 2019, with venue-specific displays and changes to selected works.
At the time, JoJolion was still JoJo’s unfinished present. Part 8 returns to an alternate Morioh, where Hirose Yasuho discovers an amnesiac young man near the mysterious Wall Eyes. Given the name Higashikata Josuke, he begins searching for the life he lost, only to find that every answer leads deeper into questions of identity, inheritance, family and what remains when the past can no longer explain you.
Released exclusively for the Osaka exhibition, this navy-and-white striped shirt draws from Josuke’s sailor-inspired design. Two pink appliqué circles carry Araki’s artwork: one featuring Josuke with Soft & Wet behind him, and another placing Josuke beside Yasuho and Soft & Wet. A small embroidered JoJolion title sits near the collar, while a yellow line-art graphic continues onto the sleeve.
Ripples of Adventure gathered thirty years of JoJo beneath one roof, turning every completed journey into history.
But JoJolion arrived as something history could not yet contain. Its mysteries were still unfolding, its ending had not been written, and the man at its centre was still searching for the life hidden behind his borrowed name.
Every other Part entered the exhibition as a memory.
Part 8 entered still trying to remember itself.
2018 Hirohiko Araki JoJo Exhibition: Ripples of Adventure Osaka Venue Exclusive JoJolion T-Shirt