JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 7: Steel Ball Run
English VIZ hardcovers of Part 7: Steel Ball Run. Books 1–9 are released; 10 and 11 are announced preorders. Part numbering restarts at 1; this inventory does not establish the final English count.
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 1
Steel Ball Run hardcover 1 presents a race in its opening material, then begins the narrative with Sand Man fleeing men from his own community. They treat the books found in his tent as evidence of betrayal; he answers their mounted pursuit with extraordinary running and climbing. The opening therefore places a dispute about knowledge before the race's promised competition. This analysis ends with a woman finding him among the rocks, before his explanation, her identity or the race itself has been witnessed.
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The pursuers frame Sand Man's books as allegiance to the people taking their ancestral lands. Their fear of dispossession is stated alongside their demand that he be punished, yet Sand Man has no opportunity in these pages to explain what he sought from those books. His running intensifies their resentment: one man recognizes a technique associated with competitive running and treats that difference as another sign of distance from the community. Their interpretation changes skill into evidence against him. Sand Man also uses the terrain in ways they do not anticipate, passing beneath a horse and continuing up the rocks. The chase makes him resourceful without proving that he is invulnerable or that he holds any particular view of the people whose books he reads. A woman's abrupt arrival ends his brief concealment. The scene leaves his reasoning open while showing how quickly an accusation can organize collective violence.
- ISBN
- 9781974752546
- Release date
- 27 May 2025
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 2
- ISBN
- 9781974755172
- Release date
- 22 July 2025
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 3
- ISBN
- 9781974758371
- Release date
- 23 September 2025
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 4
- ISBN
- 9781974758890
- Release date
- 25 November 2025
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 5
- ISBN
- 9781974761869
- Release date
- 27 January 2026
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 6
- ISBN
- 9781974762255
- Release date
- 24 March 2026
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 7
- ISBN
- 9781974763320
- Release date
- 26 May 2026
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 8
- ISBN
- 9781974764945
- Release date
- 28 July 2026
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 9
- ISBN
- 9781974765294
- Release date
- 22 September 2026
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 10
- ISBN
- 9781974765515
- Release date
- 24 November 2026
- List price
- $25.00
Part 7: Steel Ball Run — hardcover 11
- ISBN
- 9781974766260
- Release date
- 26 January 2027
- List price
- $25.00
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