Chapter Summaries

Jotaro and the Stardust Crusaders stopped ZZ after Star Platinum disabled his red sports car, but ZZ revealed his Stand, Wheel of Destiny, and ambushed the group. After ZZ set Jotaro ablaze and declared victory, Jotaro emerged unharmed from underground, ready to continue the fight.

• Star Platinum hauled ZZ’s red sports car back from the abyss, and Jotaro disabled it with a punch.
• ZZ crawled out and begged Jotaro and the others to spare him, prompting the group to laugh at his appearance.
• ZZ activated Wheel of Destiny, transformed the car, and fired compressed-gasoline bullets at the Stardust Crusaders; Josen shielded Anne from the attack.
• Josen warned the group about Wheel of Destiny’s gasoline attacks, but ZZ ignited a trail of fuel and engulfed Jotaro in flames.
• Avdol spotted that ZZ had set fire to the ground, and Jotaro broke out from underground wearing his Stand’s main body.

Jotaro defeated ZZ and Wheel of Destiny, and the group continued toward Dio while Jotaro focused on the fight ahead. In Pakistan, Josen warned the others that the strange fog surrounding a town might be a Stand attack.

• Jotaro pummeled ZZ and Wheel of Destiny with Star Platinum, leaving ZZ defeated and the car wrecked.
• Anne tearfully said farewell to Jotaro at the airport, while he remained focused on defeating Dio.
• The group drove through Pakistan as fog thickened around the mountain road, and Josen teased Mr. Popo about his driving.
• Josen pointed out that the fog resembled a giant skull, and Avdol and Kakyoin agreed that it was unusually dark and eerie.
• Josen reminded Mr. Popo to treat strange events as possible Stand attacks, prompting the group to consider that the town-wide fog could be one.

The Stardust Crusaders entered a fog-shrouded town and discovered that its apparent residents were dead, then confronted Enya the Hag after Josen exposed her concealed right hand. Enya revealed that she was J. Geil’s mother and attacked the group, especially Polnareff.

• Avdol used Magician’s Red to detect life and the group realized that the town’s apparent residents were dead.
• Joseph returned from speaking with the corpse proprietor, and Avdol explained the discovery to him.
• Enya the Hag emerged from the fog and offered the group lodging at her inn.
• Jotaro questioned how Enya knew Joseph’s name, and Josen noticed her bandaged left hand.
• Josen tore off Enya’s bandages, revealed that she had a right hand, and identified her as Enya Geil.
• Enya admitted she was J. Geil’s mother and vowed to kill the group, particularly Polnareff.

After defeating Enya the Hag, the Stardust Crusaders continued their journey to Karachi, where Josen exposed a kebab shopkeeper as an enemy Stand user. The shopkeeper realized Josen had already used Justice’s mist on him, but the confrontation had only just begun.

• Silver Chariot killed Enya the Hag, dispelling Justice’s mist and revealing the cemetery and the travelers she had killed.
• F-kid obtained a Fantasy Card depicting Justice, while the group blamed DIO for the deaths and decided to leave the victims’ arrangements to the police.
• In Karachi, Joseph spotted a Turkish kebab shop, and Josen offered to pay for the group’s meal.
• Josen challenged the shopkeeper over his price and drew attention to the disguised man, who had planned to implant his Stand in Josen’s head.
• F-kid revealed Justice’s card and explained that Josen had used its hallucinatory mist on the shopkeeper, who realized he had spoken his thoughts aloud.

Jotaro and Josen’s group defeated Steely Dan after The Lovers failed to harm Josen’s unusually durable brain, and Jotaro relentlessly beat Dan. That night in Karachi, Jotaro questioned Josen about his interest in the Stands they had encountered, and Josen admitted he was collecting them like travel stamps.

• Steely Dan revealed that The Lovers had entered Josen’s brain and threatened to plant a Flesh Bud there.
• The Lovers tried to dig into Josen’s brain but could not get through his Biological Force Field.
• Josen told Jotaro to beat Dan, and Star Platinum pummeled him until he was retired.
• That night, Josen ate kebabs on a Karachi hotel rooftop while F-kid served him wine.
• Jotaro asked whether Josen’s goal was collecting the Stands they encountered, and Josen said he treated them like travel stamps.

The group reached Yabrin Village after defeating The Sun, then learned their plane had to be used to take a feverish baby to a city. Josen offered to treat the baby so the group could continue their journey, while Kakyoin appeared unwell after a troubled night.

• Mr. Popo, Jotaro, and Kakyoin discussed how they had defeated The Sun and its user in the desert.
• Joseph brought the group to Yabrin Village to buy a secondhand plane for their journey across the desert.
• A local plane owner told Joseph he had to take the village’s feverish baby to a city, delaying the group’s departure by a day.
• Josen offered to treat the baby with his medical Stand, and Joseph hurried to tell the owner.
• Jotaro asked Kakyoin about his listless appearance, and Kakyoin said he might have had a nightmare.

Josen exposed the sick baby as a Stand User who had attacked Kakyoin in a dream, though the baby was only suffering from a cold. Kakyoin recovered and proposed a harmless punishment, while Josen offered to make mixed porridge.

• Jotaro noticed Kakyoin's injured hand as Joseph persuaded the local owner to let Josen examine the sick baby.
• Josen pretended the baby's illness was life-threatening and arranged to move him into a mansion for treatment.
• Josen revealed that the baby was a Stand User who had reacted to F-kid's dance and was influencing the locals' thoughts.
• Jotaro realized the baby had attacked Kakyoin, who remembered fighting a clown-masked Grim Reaper Stand in a dream.
• Josen healed Kakyoin, and Kakyoin proposed punishing the baby without hurting him after Mr. Popo reported that the child had soiled himself.
• Josen offered the group mixed porridge for lunch.

The Stardust Crusaders reached Cairo after defeating or surviving DIO’s assassins, and Joseph’s newly arrived Stand-using dog, Iggy, immediately tormented Mr. Popo. The group prepared to face DIO, while Josen’s unusually easy rapport with Iggy left the others stunned.

• Kakyoin soothed a crying baby with a bowl of porridge, then let the exhausted child fall asleep without revealing his secret to Mr. Popo.
• The Stardust Crusaders reached Egypt after defeating Midler and Cameo, while DIO stayed hidden and his remaining subordinates tried to delay them.
• Joseph summoned Iggy, the Stand-using Boston terrier, to join the group as they advanced toward DIO’s hideout in Cairo.
• Iggy bit Mr. Popo’s hair and farted on him before running away, prompting Mr. Popo to chase him through the streets.
• Mr. Popo asked why Iggy let Josen pet his head, and Josen privately reasoned that Iggy knew whom he could bully and whom to avoid.

Josen and the group met in Cairo to discuss how to find DIO and agreed to search the city in two teams. They planned to regroup before attacking, though Mr. Popo questioned why Josen and Iggy counted as one team against everyone else.

• Josen joked with Mr. Popo about his friend's enormous dog before the group traveled to downtown Cairo.
• Joseph showed the group a Spirit Photography image of a mansion and explained it was their only clue to DIO's whereabouts.
• The group recalled N'Doul's loyalty to DIO and discussed the danger of using Hermit Purple to locate him.
• Josen proposed that everyone rest for the day, then search in two groups and regroup before attacking the mansion.
• Mr. Popo asked whether the other five were considered equal to Josen and Iggy, leaving the room silent.

Josen took Iggy away from Cairo and confronted him about pretending to be an ordinary, unintelligent dog. After showing Iggy a vision of his future sacrifice and demonstrating his mastery of sand, Josen left him impressed and eager to cooperate.

• Iggy attacked Mr. Popo with his gas, and the Stardust Crusaders fled the meeting room to get food.
• The next day, Jotaro and the others searched Cairo while Josen took Iggy outside the city.
• Josen revealed that he knew Iggy could communicate and challenged him to stop pretending to be helpless.
• Josen showed Iggy a vision of him dying while saving others, and reminded him that he would not abandon people in danger.
• Josen formed and dispelled a powerful Sand Rasengan, leaving Iggy awed and wagging his tail.

Josen began training Iggy by unlocking his potential and demonstrating devastating sand techniques, then revealed that the destruction had been an illusion. Iggy barked at Josen in outrage and ended up suffering a painful punishment while the surrounding animals escaped unharmed.

• Josen decided to train Iggy to improve his control over sand, explaining that Iggy had lost to Avdol because he lacked discipline.
• Josen used the Potential Unlocking Technique to increase Iggy's strength, speed, toughness, and mental power more than tenfold.
• Josen demonstrated Quicksand Waterfall Flow and Sand Waterfall Funeral, apparently destroying everything across a vast area with sand.
• Iggy confronted Josen for killing innocents, but Josen froze him with his Biological Force Field and restored the terrain, revealing the destruction had been an illusion.
• Iggy realized he had barked at the wrong person, and Josen punished him as the surrounding desert animals fled unharmed.

Josen and Iggy continued searching for DIO while Josen pushed Iggy through brutal sand-control training to prepare him for Pet Shop. On the third day, they found Dio Brando’s headquarters, and Iggy sensed its oppressive evil presence.

• Mr. Popo, Josen, Joseph, Avdol, Kakyoin, and Jotaro discussed their lack of leads and agreed to stay together while searching for DIO.
• Josen used Telepathic Transmission, Potential Unlocking Technique, and Normal Healing to intensively train Iggy in sand control.
• Josen took an exhausted but newly energized Iggy toward the territory of Pet Shop, encouraging him to fight the bird and settle their grudge.
• Iggy sensed a chilling presence at an ordinary Egyptian mansion, and Josen revealed that it was Dio Brando’s headquarters.

Iggy confronted Pet Shop outside Dio's clubhouse, where the bird attacked a boy and his two pit bulls before Iggy could challenge him. Iggy stopped the ice spears with his new Sandstorm technique, revealing himself as a Stand User and bringing the fight to the brink.

• Josen left Iggy near Dio's clubhouse while he waited at a nearby café.
• Iggy blinded two pit bulls with sand and faced Pet Shop on the castle gate.
• Pet Shop prepared to attack Iggy, but a boy arrived and reunited with the two dogs.
• Pet Shop redirected his ice spears toward the boy and the pit bulls.
• Iggy shielded them with Sandstorm, shattered the ice, and revealed his Stand ability to Pet Shop.

Iggy fought Pet Shop, using his improved sand control to evade the falcon’s icy barrage and launch a counterattack. He ended the chapter with Pet Shop pinned beneath a massive sand hand.

• Iggy ordered the two pit bulls to carry the young boy away from the battle.
• Pet Shop unleashed a barrage of homing ice crystals, but Iggy dodged them as frost spread across the ground.
• Iggy used his sand to fly above the ice and hurled Sand Shuriken at Pet Shop.
• Pet Shop dodged the shuriken, but Iggy struck him with a giant Hand of Sand and slammed him into the ground.

Iggy defeated Pet Shop after the falcon revived himself with Horus and launched a final attack. Iggy left Pet Shop crushed beneath a sand burial and stood victorious near Dio’s house.

• Iggy battered Pet Shop with sand, leaving the falcon gravely injured.
• Pet Shop used Horus to seal his wounds with ice and rose to attack Iggy.
• Pet Shop dropped a huge ice spike on Iggy, but Iggy escaped with Sand Body Flicker.
• Iggy struck Pet Shop from behind, shattering his crystalline wings.
• Iggy trapped Pet Shop and Horus in a sand waterfall and crushed them with Sand Burial.

Josen told the Stardust Crusaders that Iggy had found DIO's castle and defeated Pet Shop. Joseph used Spirit Photography to show the battle, leaving the group impressed by Iggy's strength and wary of the castle's defenses.

• Josen reported that Iggy had defeated Pet Shop and found DIO's castle, startling the Stardust Crusaders.
• Iggy farted in Mr. Popo's face and showed off how much faster he had become.
• Josen asked Joseph to use Spirit Photography on Iggy so the others could see the battle.
• Joseph's Hermit Purple displayed Iggy's fight with Pet Shop on the television, and Avdol recognized DIO's mansion.
• Josen produced Pet Shop's Horus Fantasy Card as proof, and the Crusaders accepted that the footage was real.
• Jotaro wondered whether Josen had changed Iggy, while Josen thought about the dog's two days of hellish training.

Josen proposed using the Sun card infused with Hamon to attack DIO’s mansion at night, and the Stardust Crusaders set out to confront him. They reached the dark castle, where its butler, Telence T. D’Arby, appeared to welcome them.

• After Iggy killed DIO’s bird, the group discussed whether DIO would flee and when they should attack.
• Josen explained that the Sun card could reproduce sunlight and be reinforced with Hamon, making a nighttime assault possible.
• Mr. Popo declared the final crusade, and the Stardust Crusaders marched toward DIO’s mansion after nightfall.
• The group arrived at the unlit castle and suspected DIO had noticed their approach.
• Telence T. D’Arby floated out of the mansion, introduced himself as its butler, and welcomed Joseph Joestar.

Younger D'Arby introduced himself as Daniel J. D'Arby's brother and challenged the group with his Stand, Atum. Atum read Jotaro's next attack but could not perceive Josen's soul, and Josen struck it down before revealing that his true form was a hundred million times bigger.

• Younger D'Arby denied wanting revenge for Daniel J. D'Arby's defeat and invited the group inside to fight.
• Younger D'Arby sent out Atum and correctly predicted that Jotaro's Star Platinum would attack with a left punch.
• Atum failed to read Josen's soul, leaving Younger D'Arby unable to predict his attack.
• Josen hit Atum, sending Younger D'Arby crashing into a wall and leaving him badly injured.
• Younger D'Arby looked up and saw Josen's immense form, which explained that he was a hundred million times bigger.

Josen defeated Younger D'Arby, and the group continued exploring DIO's mansion. DIO revived Vanilla Ice as a vampire and sent him to confront Joestar and the others, leaving Vanilla Ice to enter his own Stand, Void Miasma.

• Josen punched Younger D'Arby after he reacted in terror to Josen's soul, and the group continued deeper into the mansion.
• Vanilla Ice reported to DIO that D'Arby had lost and the Joestar group had entered the mansion.
• DIO explained that he needed more blood to fully take control of Jonathan Joestar's body and asked Vanilla Ice to offer his blood.
• Vanilla Ice used Void Miasma to decapitate himself, but DIO revived him as a vampire with his own blood.
• DIO ordered Vanilla Ice to deal with Joestar and the others, and Vanilla Ice had Void Miasma swallow him.

Void Miasma devoured its user and itself, then escaped DIO’s room as an invisible sphere that tore through the door and floor. At DIO’s castle, Josen used F-kid’s Mantra to expose a Pillar Man hiding in the maze, and Jotaro knocked him out, dispelling the illusion and revealing that the Crusaders had barely moved from the entrance.

• Void Miasma devoured its user and itself, transformed into an invisible spatial sphere, and rolled out of DIO’s bedchamber, leaving a hole in the door and floor.
• DIO watched the damage and complained that Ice could have opened the door before leaving.
• Joseph, Mr. Popo, Josen, Jotaro, Kakyoin, and Avdol realized the castle’s misty corridors repeated and that they were trapped in an enemy Stand’s illusory space.
• Josen summoned F-kid and used Mantra to scan the maze, revealing a Pillar Man concealed inside a pillar.
• Jotaro ordered Star Platinum to punch through the pillar, knocking out the hidden enemy and causing the illusion to disappear.
• Avdol confirmed the walls were no longer solid, and Joseph discovered the Crusaders had been wandering near the mansion entrance while Younger D'Arby remained on the floor.