JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken), also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, is an anime television series produced by David Production based on the manga of the same name by Hirohiko Araki around the mysterious adventures of the Joestar family, beginning with an encounter involving Jonathan Joestar, his adoptive brother Dio Brando and a mysterious stone mask. The series is broadcast on Tokyo MX before entering syndication on 4 JNN stations, BS11, and Animax. The first season, adapting the first two parts: Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, aired in Japan between October 5, 2012 and April 5, 2013, and will begin airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in the United States on October 15, 2016. A second season covering the third part, Stardust