Launching September 27 in step with the de Young’s “Art of Manga”, the new lithograph and lenticular series debuts at a San Francisco gallery and continues to Kyoto’s Higashi Honganji on November 14.

From San Francisco to Kyoto, JoJo leaps from page to fine art.

Lithography
Beginning in June 2025, Hirohiko Araki created nine lithograph print works. Lithography is a 200+ year old printmaking method that began as “stone printing,” transferring images drawn on stone to paper; unlike technically demanding etching, it spread as an industrial technique before artists such as Edgar Degas collaborated with master printers to elevate it into fine art.

Where modern printing photographs or scans an original to make plates, lithography lets the artist draw directly onto the plate now typically metal, as used here. Because Araki’s lines are drawn with lithographic pencils and chalk straight on the plate, their textures transfer to paper as if drawn there.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure began in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1986 and now runs Part 9, The JOJOLands, in Ultra Jump. The Stand “a power that stands by its user” appears in Part 3 and can take forms from humanoid to fluid or mechanical. For his first lithographs, Araki chose:
Jotaro Kujo / Star Platinum
DIO / The World
Josuke Higashikata / Crazy Diamond
Giorno Giovanna / Gold Experience
Jolyne Cujoh / Stone Free
Funny Valentine / D4C (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap)
Rohan Kishibe / Heaven’s Door
Yasuho Hirose / Paisley Park
Dragona Joestar / Smooth Operators

Manga pages are usually printed in stark black-and-white, losing the tonal nuance of pencil or ink. Here, lithographic pencils and chalk preserve the very lines the artist drew lines that cannot be erased conveying tension, the strength of long, relaxed strokes, crisp accuracy, and the rhythm of rough shadowing.

Printing is by Satoru Itazu (Itazu Litho TOKYO). Nine works, each in an edition of 100.

A New Way to Look

Lenticular
Lenticular prints bond images to a ribbed lens sheet to animate or create stereoscopic depth; this series uses the depth method. Because lenticular relies on binocular parallax, a camera cannot fully capture the effect; it reaches full impact only when viewed with both eyes.. Known as a parallax-barrier technique, lenticular has 100+ years of history, with US patents recorded in 1915, a Paris 3D studio active by the 1940s, and mass-produced color prints surging in the 1960s before the method entered fine art at large scales.

Iconic scenes of the protagonists from Parts 1–9 are rendered at roughly one meter wide:
Part 1 Jonathan Joestar
Part 2 Joseph Joestar
Part 3 Jotaro Kujo / Star Platinum
Part 4 Josuke Higashikata / Crazy Diamond
Part 5 Giorno Giovanna / Gold Experience
Part 6 Jolyne Cujoh / Stone Free & Ermes Costello / Kiss
Part 7 Johnny Joestar / Tusk ACT4
Part 8 Josuke Higashikata / Soft & Wet
Part 9 Jodio Joestar / November Rain

Approach, step back, move side to side what should be a single instant unfolds over extended time. The language of manga merges with lenticular technique to offer a fresh viewing experience.

San Francisco Presentation
Hirohiko Araki: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure - Lithograph & Lenticular Works
September 27- October 25, 2025 (closed Sun & Mon)
Minnesota Street Project - 1275 Minnesota St. & 1150 25th St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
https://minnesotastreetproject.com/

Kyoto Presentation
Hirohiko Araki: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure - Lithograph & Lenticular Works
Higashi Honganji, Hakushoin (Kyoto)
November 14-16, 2025
Admission: Adults ¥1,800 (approx. $12.16 USD) / Junior & Senior High ¥1,200 (approx. $8.11 USD) |1 USD ≈ 148.05 JPY (checked on September 8, 2025)
Advance reservation only. Ticket sales planned to open Tue, September 9, 2025, 13:00 (JST).
https://mangaart.jp/ja/exhibitions/jojo-kyoto-2025/

Following San Francisco, the show travels to Kyoto for ACK 2025 at Higashi Honganji (Hakushoin). Lottery sales for works will begin sequentially on the Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage website.

About the Artist

Hirohiko Araki (b. June 7, 1960; Miyagi Prefecture). Runner-up in the 20th Tezuka Award with Buso Poker (1980), he debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump and launched JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure in 1986. Domestic circulation exceeds 120 million copies. As of 2025, he serializes The JOJOLands in Ultra Jump.
In 2009 he joined an exhibition at the Louvre and published Rohan au Louvre; in 2013 he collaborated with GUCCI stores worldwide; in 2018 he held the “Hirohiko Araki Original Art Exhibition: Ripples of Adventure” at The National Art Center, Tokyo, the first solo show by an active manga artist at a national museum.

Source : PR TIMES