# What is the best Hirohiko Araki manga?

> Bizarre poses, Stands and decades of reinvention make every reader's favourite era different. Early pulp action sits beside later psychological mysteries.

*By YPB Team · Published October 31, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-hirohiko-araki-manga*

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1. **Stardust Crusaders** — score 1000/1000
   JoJo Part 3 (1989-1992), in which Jotaro Kujo travels to Egypt to fight Dio and the series introduces Stands.
2. **Steel Ball Run** — score 944/1000
   JoJo Part 7 (2004-2011), a horse race across 1890s America set in a new continuity.
3. **Battle Tendency** — score 566/1000
   JoJo Part 2 (1987-1989), in which Joseph Joestar battles the ancient Pillar Men.
4. **Baoh** — score 566/1000
   Araki's 1984-1985 Weekly Shonen Jump series about a teenager turned into a parasite-powered bioweapon.
5. **Gorgeous Irene** — score 500/1000
   Araki's 1987 collection of early one-shots, led by the stories of the assassin Irene.
6. **Cool Shock B.T.** — score 500/1000
   Araki's 1983 Weekly Shonen Jump series about a boy magician who outwits his opponents.
7. **Phantom Blood** — score 423/1000
   JoJo Part 1 (1987), the Victorian-era feud between Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando that starts the saga.
8. **Rohan at the Louvre** — score 423/1000
   Araki's 2009 graphic novel commissioned by the Louvre, sending Rohan Kishibe to the museum.
9. **JoJolion** — score 333/1000
   JoJo Part 8 (2011-2021), a mystery set in an alternate Morioh after the 2011 earthquake.
10. **The JOJOLands** — score 333/1000
   JoJo Part 9 (2023-), following Jodio Joestar's criminal career in Hawaii.
11. **Under Execution, Under Jailbreak** — score 333/1000
   Araki's 1999 collection of short stories, led by the title prison-escape thriller.
12. **Diamond Is Unbreakable** — score 333/1000
   JoJo Part 4 (1992-1995), set in the town of Morioh where Josuke Higashikata hunts the serial killer Yoshikage Kira.
13. **Golden Wind** — score 227/1000
   JoJo Part 5 (1995-1999), following Giorno Giovanna's rise in an Italian gang.
14. **Stone Ocean** — score 227/1000
   JoJo Part 6 (1999-2003), in which Jolyne Cujoh fights to escape a Florida prison.
15. **Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan** — score 0/1000
   Spin-off short stories starring the manga artist Rohan Kishibe from Diamond Is Unbreakable.

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