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Few anime and manga have been so integrated into LGBTQ+ culture as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The physical and emotional intimacy characters have with other characters of the same sex often far exceeds any other anime or manga, and with how much detail is usually put into making everyone look as attractive as possible, the series has been a major part of anime’s LGBTQ+ fandom for almost its entire 37-year history.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Creator Confirms DIO’s Gender Identity As LGBTQ+ ✕ Remove Ads JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki recently published a new writing guide titled Hirohiko Araki’s New Manga Techniques, which included information sheets on all the major villains as a means of breaking down how to properly write a villain. DIO, naturally, had a character sheet, and for the section on his sex, Araki drew what appears to be the symbol for androgyne people i.e.
✕ Remove Ads DIO’s gender identity won’t be surprising for anyone familiar with his character in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, of course. Not only has DIO always dressed and behaved in a very camp manner, even wearing green lipstick in Stardust Crusaders, but his relationships with characters like Jonathan, Pucci, and Vanilla Ice have always been written with some degree of homoeroticism, and Pucci, especially, was heavily implied to be romantic from at least Pucci’s point of view.
The biggest showing of LGBTQ+ culture in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure comes from The JOJOLands’ supporting protagonist Dragona Joestar. Not only is Dragona written as transgender, nonbinary, or gender fluid from the very start of The JOJOLands, but The JOJOLands goes to great lengths to show how much Dragona has struggled because of their gender identity, something rarely seen outside of stories explicitly marketed as LGBTQ+ stories.
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