‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’ Season 6 Episode 8 Release Date, Time, Where to Watch and Preview

The next ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’ episode is set to reach Netflix on November 6, and it is listed as the 198th episode of the animated series overall. Like every installment of ‘Steel Ball Run’ this fall, it lands on a Friday as part of a weekly run.

This guide covers the release date and time, where to watch, and what is known about the preview. The weekly rollout follows a controversial March release in which Netflix dropped only a single episode, which left many fans dismayed. That history gives the current schedule extra weight for viewers who have waited months for the story to continue.

Release Date and Time for the Next Episode

Netflix is releasing one new episode every Friday for eleven weeks, running from September 25 through December 4. Within that schedule, the next installment is dated for November 6.

Netflix has not made the clock time especially easy to pin down. One schedule lists the drop at 1 AM Pacific, 4 AM Eastern, 9 AM in the UK, 10 AM in Central Europe, and 5 PM Japan Standard Time. GamesRadar reported the most recent episode at 1 AM Pacific, 4 AM Eastern and 8 AM in the UK, and noted a new streaming time in some regions that week.

Viewers should treat those figures with some care. One guide noted that Netflix had not published an exact time of day in any source it checked. Another warned that local clock times can shift in some regions because of daylight saving changes, so checking the Netflix listing on release day is the safest approach. A fan encyclopedia lists the weekly Friday slot as 5 PM in Japan.

Where to Watch ‘Steel Ball Run’ on Netflix

‘Steel Ball Run’ is available exclusively on Netflix worldwide, which means it is not streaming on Crunchyroll the way prior seasons did. A Netflix subscription is required in every territory that carries the series.

The platform choice follows the model set by the previous season. ‘Stone Ocean’ also debuted worldwide on Netflix, with its first twelve episodes arriving on December 1, 2021, the next twelve on September 1, 2022, and the final fourteen on December 1 of that year. ‘Steel Ball Run’ takes a different route by moving to a weekly cadence for its current run.

Netflix also organizes the anime in a way that can confuse newcomers. The title page groups the show into two selections, with the first Stage covering the March premiere and the 2nd and 3rd Stage continuing the story. The first Stage was a special episode that ran 47 minutes.

Fan pressure helped shape the current plan. After backlash over the lack of information, Netflix announced on April 6 that the next batch would arrive in fall as weekly episodes. That batch adds eleven episodes to the opening special, which brings the full run to twelve.

Episode Preview and What to Expect

An official preview is hard to find at the moment. A major fan encyclopedia still lists the title and the adapted manga chapters for the next episode as to be announced. Until Netflix or the production committee shares a synopsis, any expectations have to rest on where the story currently stands.

The episode before the seventh closed on a cliffhanger in which Johnny’s left arm was torn apart from the inside as a corpse part fell out. The seventh episode, titled ‘Tusk, Part 1’, streams on October 30 and adapts material from the twenty fifth chapter of the manga. That title points directly at Johnny’s Stand, which is likely to remain a focus as the story moves forward.

The manga offers a clue about why. According to its summary, after Johnny and Gyro encounter the left arm of the Saint’s Corpse, it is absorbed into Johnny’s body and he develops the evolving Stand known as Tusk. Readers of the source material will know how much that development changes the race, though viewers coming in fresh may prefer to let the anime reveal it.

The stakes of the race itself remain clear. The story begins with 3,852 jockeys gathering in San Diego for a horse race to New York City with a grand prize of $50,000,000. After only one episode had aired, the series had already become one of the highest rated anime on platforms like MyAnimeList. With Johnny’s new power now in play, which moment from the race are you most hoping ‘Steel Ball Run’ gets right in the weeks ahead?