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Netflix India Lists Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Season 5, Aggretsuko Season 4 Anime

Netflix is listing the fifth season of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime for release in India on December 1 and fourth season of the Aggretsuko anime for release in India on December 16.

The fifth season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure adapts Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean manga. The first 12 episodes will be available all at once on the service on December 1.

Netflix and Warner Bros. Japan recently revealed several new promotional videos for the anime. The anime will also air on television in Japan starting in January on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS11.

david production is returning to produce the series. Kenichi Suzuki is returning from Parts 1-3 as the chief director, and Toshiyuki Kato (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable series director, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan director) is the director. Yasuko Kobayashi is returning from the previous anime to handle the series composition, and Masanori Shino (Black Lagoon, Gungrave, No Guns Life) is the character designer. Shun'ichi Ishimoto (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind chief animation director) is the Stand designer. Yoshikazu Iwanami is returning as the sound director, and Yūgo Kanno is returning from Parts 3-5 as composer.

The manga is the sixth part of Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, and it continues the story from the previous entries. The Stone Ocean arc of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga ran from 1999 to 2003, and has 17 volumes, consisting of volumes 64 through 80 of the overall manga.

Netflix began streaming the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind anime season in India on April 1.

Rareko is returning to direct the fourth season of Aggretsuko at Fanworks, and the anime's cast is also returning.

Retsuko is a 25-year old red panda who works in her dream company's accounting department. But it turns out that she is forced to keep doing more and more impossible tasks by her superiors and co-workers. She doesn't talk back to them, but she still has to let off steam, so she ends up going to karaoke by herself and singing death metal.

The character's first anime (which predated the Netflix anime) premiered in April 2016 within the Ō-sama no Brunch TBS Saturday morning program, and aired new one-minute episodes weekly until March 2018.

The first 10-episode Netflix season premiered worldwide in April 2018. Rareko, the director of the previous Agressive Retsuko anime and Yawaraka Sensha, again directed the first Netflix season at Fanworks, and also penned the scripts.

The Netflix anime had a Christmas episode that premiered in December 2018, and then the second season debuted in June 2019. The third season debuted on Netflix in August 2020. Netflix India began streaming the third season for the anime alongside its worldwide debut.

Source: Netflix