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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4 Anime's Promo Introduces Setting

The official website of the television JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable (JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken: Diamond wa Kudakenai) manga began streaming the first promotional video for the anime on Monday. The video introduces the show's setting and story.

Narrator: 1999, Japan. M prefecture, S city, Morioh town. Originally serving as a bedroom suburb for S-city, it has developed at a rapid pace since the late 1980s.
Narrator: The town has a population of 58,713. This town, which at first glance had nothing unusual about it, experienced a bizarre incident. 81 missing persons since the start of 1999. Far more than would be common in any other town like it in Japan.
Narrator: This story is about that town.
Jōsuke: Huh? Did something happen here?
Jōsuke: Crazy Diamond.
Jōsuke: Huh? What does this mean?
Tomoko: Jōsuke! What are you standing around there for? Your friends are waiting for you!
Jōsuke: Yeah, yeah, I'm just about to go.
Okuyasu: Hey, Jōsuke. What were you doing?
Kōichi: Good morning, Jōsuke.
Jōsuke: Hey, Kōichi. 'Morning.
Okuyasu: I asked what you were doing!
Jōsuke: This guy's great.
Logo: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable

The anime will premiere in April 2016.

The anime will star:

Daisuke Ono as Jōtarō Kūjō

Takagi is reprising his role from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven video game. In the game, Romi Park voices Kōichi Hirose.

The staff includes:

Director: Naokatsu Tsuda
Series Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Chief Director: Yuuta Takamura
Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi
Character Design: Terumi Nishii
Stand Design/Action Animation Director: Kenta Mimuro
Sub-Character Design: Shun'ichi Ishimoto
Prop Design: Yukitoshi Hōtani
Art Setting: Junko Nagasawa
Color Key: Yūko Satō
Art Director: Shunichirō Yoshihara
Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Yamada
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Music: Yūgo Kanno
Animation Production: david production

Part 4 of the manga is set 11 years after Part 3 in S City in M Prefecture of Japan, and the story follow the misadventures of Jōsuke Higashikata and his companions.

The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure television anime and from January to June 2015.