Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5824377-20121205013136/@comment-29724584-20160824043641

MarioStrikerz wrote: Not sure if this has been posted but the post Made in Heaven universe is unrelated to SBR. This was hinted at when Araki said that DiU and JJL are parallel worlds (not linked in space in time).

Also, if we recall what happens to those still alive when the universe resets, they stay alive where as those who are dead are replaced.

Unless Giorno were to die between the end of Part 5 and the end of Part 6, he would still be alive post-SO, but he (as well as other living Joestars) do not exist in the SBR universe. Of course the universes aren't related, because they're the same universe. It can't relate to itself because it's been reset. It didn't create another one to exist alongside and unnoticed between the original and the one created when he's killed. Pucci didn't get to use his full potential to craft a new world because of his fight ongoing.

Araki has said that Jojolion is NOT related to part 4 at all apart from the setting, and that he chose Morioh again because (Like Killer Queen being his favourite stand to draw) it's his favourite setting.

Author notes in pretty much every chapter relevant say that SBR is a "flashback part" to establish the new, reborn and replaced characters since it's a part of the same continuity paired with Jojolion.

Gio is alive in the new universe and he may be coming back in the next part, or even Jojolion because the part is about lifting curses.