How Gay Are the Characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Really? – Part 1: Phantom Blood to Diamond is Unbreakable

Outside of the niche yaoi and yuri genres, the LGBT community doesn’t have much in the way of positive representation in anime. For every good character like Utena or Yuri Katsuki, there are dozens of stereotypical creepy flaming gay men or touchy-feely women. Can’t there be an anime where queer characters just exist and can kick as much ass as anyone else without their sexuality defining them?

Enter Hirohiko Araki and his magnum opus, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. His characters wear crop tops, strike fabulous poses, and have deep, meaningful relationships with comrades of the same sex. Very few of them have been confirmed as LGBT (Dio’s bisexuality being the most notable example), but many other characters are implied to be queer through their personalities and behaviors. But are Joseph, Giorno, Johnny, and other questionably heterosexual heroes actually gay? We’ll never know for sure unless Araki tells us, but let’s take a look at all eight parts individually to see which characters seem the most canonically queer and which ones are probably gay only in the headcanons of dedicated fujoshi.

This article was written for Honey’s Anime, so please read it on their site.