The JoJo’s Baby Name Book! JoJoveller’s English Name List

JoJoveller is more than just a big art collection. It’s almost like the JoJo Field guide to the new and unknown. That’s why there were the stand names for stand’s we’d never gotten before. With names of stands come names of people too, though, as there’s often debate over how to properly bring certain names into English, especially because of the referential nature of the series. Do we use romanized kana spellings, giving us things like Esidisi, or do we go full on with our references, with things like ACDC? I remember getting into that fight while the anime was going.

Well, worry only a little bit anymore because JoJoveller also comes with a guide for the English translations of people’s names. It’s been translated with care by Shizuka Joestar Tumblr, though with some caveats. This list is at times contradictory with source material and sometimes other parts of JoJoveller, Bruno’s name is given as “Bucciarati” but spelled “Buccellati” later on. So, while it is interesting, take them with the understanding of the potential errors.

I’m not going to quote the whole list because it’s tremendous. I’m just going to cherry pick the ones I think are interesting. You can see the full list here. Be wary of spoilers if you haven’t read all the Parts. You should probably only read the lists for the Parts you’ve finished.

Joseph Joestar
Esidisi
Kars
Wamuu
Straizo
Muhammad Avdol
N’Doul
Telence T. Darby

I think which ones I was going to pick were pretty obvious. Past Part 3, save the weirdness with Bruno’s name, most of them are what you’ve come to already know from the translation conventions. I picked the Pillar Men and Straizo because of the arguments that came out with the anime, and I picked Joseph because I remember it used to be that Joseph was spelled “Josef” in Part 2. There was a “changed for cultural meshing” argument for why the F became a PH, and that was the same justification for why Jolyne went from a “Kujo” to a “Cujoh.” At least for some time.

Avdol and Telence are the weirder ones because Engrish. Avdol and Telence are not names, of course. If you look those up, you’ll always get rerouted back to JoJo’s, but Abdul and Terence are names, so that’s kinda awkward. On the other hand, I always thought it was supposed to be N’Doul and was confused when I started hearing N’Dour, so I guess it balances. A bit?

Anyway, give it a look. It’s an interesting read.

Preorders for JOJOveller Now Open!

We’ve run out the clock. It’s time for JOJOveller. (Sound Warning)

A massive compilation cap to everything about the 25th Anniversary of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Artwork, documentaries, interviews, the works. It’s all here.

The Artbook

The JOJOveller Artbook focuses mainly on Parts 6 through 8. It contains some stunning artwork in the same vein as the artwork in JOJOmenon. Also, it blows up because Kira got into the production line.

The Stand Book

You know how there were little readouts on the Stands in between chapters that gave a brief overview of a Stand’s ability, powers, and whatnot? This is going to be that, but so much more comprehensive. Power ratings, ability comprehension, various artworks, and all for every single Stand that has appeared since Part 3.

The History Book

The History “Book” is actually a book and video interview with Araki. Go back in time and look at everything JoJo including Araki himself stepping back and looking at his whole 25 year magnum opus where he will apparently be revealing classified JoJo information that we’ve never heard before. Maybe he’ll explain how Gold Experience Requiem works.

The Documentaries

There are two documentaries in this collection. The first one is the JOJOmenon video that was part of an Ultra Jump release a little bit ago. They put up a new, more robust preview video.

The second one is a little sitdown with Araki at his desk walking us through his creative process in “The Making of JoJo.”

The amount of artistic media that he goes through to make his artwork. I never would have guessed he uses airbrushes.

Special

This isn’t as much part of the book itself as the PV I embedded up at the top. The big deal for this page, though, is the bonus images. All these pictures that I’ve been using are on the page, but what they are is the physical JOJOveller book being affected by different stand powers. You can probably guess what most of them are. The site will release all these pictures on a schedule as wallpapers for desktops. Currently, the only available ones are Echoes Act 3 and Cream. They’re all available in two sizes. The next one, the exploding one, will be available on the 26th.

So how do you get it? Reservations for copies are now available through a number of different sites and also a printout order form you presumably mail in to somewhere. I would go through the Amazon page. It’s going for the heavy price of ¥20,000 ($209) and here’s the big part: JOJOmenon will officially ship on September 19th, but preorders are only being accepted until Tuesday May 7th, Japanese Standard Time. If you’re looking to own, you need to move fast.

Edit: There will also be information released alongside Chapter 19 of JoJolion in the most recent Ultra Jump.

(All images Copyright Luckyland Communicaitons, Hirohiko Araki, and Shueisha)