Trivia / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle

• Acting for Two: R has Yūki Kaji reprise his roles as both Johnny from the original game and Koichi from the anime.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Despite what the memes would have you believe, Funny Valentine's Stand's name in the English version of the game is "D4C", not "Filthy Acts at a Reasonable Price". While he does say "Time for some filthy acts at a reasonable price!" in one of his intro quotes, that's just a sneaky copyright-dodging in-joke; any time he refers to his actual Stand, the subtitles call it "D4C".
• The Cast Showoff: Joseph's counter taunt has him doing impressions of every single character he uses it on. His voice actor Tomokazu Sugita is known for his fondness for impressions, especially of Norio Wakamoto.
• Content Leak:
  • Prior to being officially revealed in August 2022, Trish and Proscuitto were unofficially revealed in screenshots of All Star Battle R's menus, while Pesci and Ghiaccio were revealed in a leak of the back of the game's boxart.
  • Data miners found sound files that allowed them to predict the inclusion of Weather Report, Rudol von Stroheim, Keicho Nijimura, and Alternate World Diego months in advance.
  • Wonder of U and Toru were accidently leaked through the New Zealand and Australian Nintendo eShop days prior to their official reveal in November 2023.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition:
  • Every first edition copy of the game come with a notepad designed to look like Hayato Kawajiri under the effects of Heaven's Door and a code to download Yoshikage Kira as a playable character. There's also the Gold Experience Box, which comes with a gold placard of Giorno/Gold Experience, a statue of Jotaro/Star Platinum, and a soundtrack CD that resembles the Star Platinum Stand disc created by Whitesnake.
  • The Digital Deluxe version of R includes the game itself, the season pass, and alternate costumes for Jonathan, Joseph, Jotaro, Josuke and Giorno based on the JOESTAR The Inherited Soul event. The US version of collector's bundle gets you all of those, plus the preorder alternate costume for Jolyne, and a Grandista statue of her, while the European version includes alternate costumes for Avdol & Rohan, a collector's box, and Jolyne's prison plate. Finally, the Japanese version will include a digital soundtrack, while also giving you the option to not get the season pass with the bundle.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": The anime and manga had only been officially released in English up to Part 3 when the first game released, yet it still features characters from up to Part 8.
• Milestone Celebration: All Star Battle R will be released in celebration of the anime adaptation's 10th anniversary, and the 35th anniversary of the franchise.
• No Dub for You: The game is only in Japanese, despite being released outside of its home country. And despite the Updated Re-release being released after the first 5 parts had been dubbed, and one was still being dubbed, the game's updated version is still not dubbed.
• Posthumous Credit: In All Star Battle R, Old Joseph and Esidisi are voiced by archive recordings of Unshō Ishizuka and Keiji Fujiwara, respectively, due to the voice actors having passed away.
• Pre-Order Bonus:
  • In the US, pre-ordering the game from Amazon or Club Namco would get you Shigechi or Kira early. If you were in the EU, though, pre-ordering would get you the both of them at once.
  • Preordering the R version will get you Jolyne's Green Dolphin Street Prison jacket as an alternate costume.
• The Other Darrin: A whole new voice cast was introduced for practically every single character that appeared in other voiced-adaptations, which would stick onto their other appearances onwards. Furthermore, even the games' cast ended up being replaced in the anime adaptations, with the Updated Re-release going a step further by having the anime cast redub the characters — this also factors in returning voice actors redoing all of their lines for the characters they still reprise from the original game.
• Promoted Fanboy: Wataru Hatano is a humongous JoJo fan, and went on record to say that Josuke is his personal favorite character. Come All Star Battle, and he was cast as Josuke.
• Refitted for Sequel: Leone Abbacchio was originally meant to be a playable character in Eyes of Heaven, but ended up being Dummied Out because the developers couldn't find a way to make Moody Blues work in a combat setting. Abbacchio would eventually end up becoming a playable character in this game thanks to R's second Season Pass.
• Role Reprise: As mentioned in The Other Darrin, a majority of the cast from the anime re-recorded their characters' lines in the R update.
• You Sound Familiar:
  • Hōchū Ōtsuka voiced Joseph Joestar in Heritage for the Future, and voices Hol Horse in the original All Star Battle.
  • Wataru Takagi voiced Arabia Fats, Cameo, and Kenny G. in Heritage for the Future, and voices Okuyasu Nijimura in All Star Battle.
  • Romi Park voiced Giorno Giovanna in the Vento Aureo PS2 game, and voices Koichi Hirose in the original All Star Battle.
  • Takahiro Sakurai voiced Bruno Bucciarati in the Vento Aureo PS2 game, and voices Rohan Kishibe in All Star Battle R.
  • Rikiya Koyama voiced Will A. Zeppeli in the Phantom Blood movie and PS2 game, and voices Yoshikage Kira and Kosaku Kawajiri in the original All Star Battle.
  • Hisao Egawa voiced Muhammad Avdol in Heritage for the Future, and voices Purple Haze in the original All Star Battle.
  • Katsuyuki Konishi voiced Jonathan Joestar in the Phantom Blood movie, and voices Diavolo in All Star Battle R.
  • Tōru Ōkawa voiced Old Joseph Joestar in Heritage for the Future, and voices both Weather Report in the original All Star Battle and The Narrator in every version.
  • Show Hayami voiced Vanilla Ice in the PS1 and Dreamcast versions of Heritage for the Future and Noriaki Kakyoin in the Stardust Crusaders CD drama, and voices Enrico Pucci in the original All Star Battle.
  • Mitsuaki Madono voiced Noriaki Kakyoin, Gray Fly, Forever, and Telence T. D'Arby in Heritage for the Future, and voices Josuke Higashikata (Part 8) in All Star Battle.
  • In the transition from All Star Battle to All Star Battle R:
    • Show Hayami voiced Enrico Pucci in ASB, and voices Vanilla Ice in ASBR.
    • Yūki Kaji voiced Johnny Joestar in ASB, and voices Koichi Hirose in ASBR.
    • Toshiyuki Morikawa voiced Diavolo in ASB, and voices Yoshikage Kira and Kosaku Kawajiri in ASBR.
    • Yūichi Nakamura voiced Narciso Anasui in ASB, and voices Bruno Bucciarati in ASBR.
    • Daisuke Namikawa voiced Giorno Giovanna in ASB, and voices Narciso Anasui in ASBR.

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