JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been running for decades and has perhaps never been more popular than it is right now, with fans across the West loving the Stands and Joestars with each subsequent season. While Netflix recently brought the first twelve episodes of Stone Ocean to its streaming service, Joestars fans are celebrating a very different anniversary as 2022 marks the fifteenth anniversary of a film in the universe created by Hirohiko Araki that was lost in the seas of time and has never received a physical or digital release to date.

Phantom Blood was the first story in the history of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, focusing on Jonathan Joestar relying on the power of the Ripple rather than having his own stand to lean on. Although David Production began the last animated adaptation with this story, Phantom Blood has actually been animated twice before, with a 1993 miniseries being the first time JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure received an animated series and a subsequent film released in 2007. With this year marking the fifteenth anniversary of the lost film, which only had a limited theatrical release and was never released on home video, fans are wondering if this first Joestar story will ever be released.

Twitter user The Johnler shared a desire to see this movie lost in the Joestars universe, sharing original promotional material for the movie Phantom Blood which only had a brief theatrical release before going live. being seemingly lost forever and set years before David Productions adapted the story created by Hirohiko Araki:

Happy 15th Anniversary to the Lost Phantom Blood Movie

Maybe one day we’ll see in all its glory#jojosbizarreadventure #phantomblood #jonathanjoestar #DioBrando pic.twitter.com/qIkddzlkfl

— TheJohnler (@TheJohnler) February 17, 2022

The lost film in question, which was created to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Hirohiko Araki’s career, was created by the same animation studio responsible for the 1993 OVA series, with Studio APPP once returning from more to tell the story of Jonathan Joestar. With JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure continuing to be one of the biggest anime franchises around, maybe one day we’ll see this lost movie come out for Joestars fans everywhere.

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