The year has become 2024 in Japan, and the official @araki_jojo account on Twitter has posted a New Year greeting card from Hirohiko Araki in celebration.
Araki’s New Year cards have been a tradition since the 90s, which he or his assistants send as postcards in response to fans who send him letters. Since 2013, he started drawing them with the animal that represents the year in the Chinese zodiac. His card for 2023 revealed the protagonist of the ninth part, The JOJOLands, Jodio Joestar.
Araki’s New Year 2024 Card and Message
2024 is the year of the dragon. Araki did not draw any character from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure this time, similar to 2022 which only featured a tiger. However, the Lava Rock from The JOJOLands is included.
Happy New Year
Hirohiko Araki – Source
Reiwa Year 6 (2024)
Thank you for all your support during the past year.
I sincerely wish you all good health and happiness.
I humbly ask for your continued support this year.
All of Araki’s New Year Cards
About Hirohiko Araki and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Hirohiko Araki is a manga artist from Sendai, the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is his most successful series being in serialization for 37 years and highly regarded internationally. The ninth part of the series began in February 2023. The series currently has 967 chapters in total.
Araki switched magazines from Weekly Shonen Jump to Ultra Jump on March 19, 2005. At the time, the seventh part of the series, Steel Ball Run, was on its 24th chapter. Ultra Jump has published JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure monthly since then.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has an anime adaptation that began in 2012 and completed up to the sixth part of the series in December 2022. The series also has an older OVA adaptation, several video games, and many light novel spin-offs.
