JoJo: The Final Ripple (story arc)

JoJo: The Final Ripple (ジョジョ 最後の波紋) is the thirteenth story arc in Battle Tendency.

Summary
Being forced to cling onto a rope to keep Lisa Lisa from falling to her death, Joseph is at a huge disadvantage against Kars who knows Joseph is still exhausted from fighting Wamuu. Joseph then sets his scarf on fire, claiming that he take Kars down before the flame reaches him while using the rope to swing from Kars to catch his breath. But Kars cuts the rope, only to find neither Joseph nor Lisa Lisa falling and that the former used sleight of hand to tie the rope to his own feet. With Kars now the one hanging, Joseph telling the two-thousand year old opponent that he is a decade away from beating him before knocking with a Ripple attack down to the jagged crystals below.

As the Nazis approach Kars, Smokey asks Speedwagon why Erina lied to Joseph about his mother. Speedwagon, telling Smokey not to repeat what he is about to said tells him the story of Lisa Lisa. After being saved by Erina and then raised by Straizo, Elizabeth met and married Erina's son George Joestar II who was a member of the RAF. However, George's superior officer is revealed to be the last of Dio Brando's zombies who concealed himself for years. Lacking the ability to use Ripple energy, George was killed by the zombie and Elizabeth, who gave birth to Joseph, avenged her husband. However, spotted by an officer and labeled a murderer, Elizabeth was forced to go into hiding under the name Lisa Lisa. Speedwagon concludes the story by explaining that both Lisa Lisa and Erina did not want Joseph to be dragged into the same situation as his father and grandfather had before him. Though Smokey explains that it is now a moot point since Joseph learned Ripple, Speedwagon explains that they still have no place in revealing Lisa Lisa's true identity to Joseph.

After inspecting the seemingly lifeless Kars, a gloating Stroheim orders his men to finish the Pillar Man off with a barrage of ultraviolet rays. But Stroheim learned too late that Kars had placed the Super Aja-embedded Stone Mask on his face, unable to belay the order in time. With UV light hittings the Super Aja, it augments the Stone Mask to fully pierce Kars's brain and trigger the Pillar Man's long-dreamed evolution.

Chapters

 * 063 (107). JoJo: The Final Ripple (1)
 * 064 (108). JoJo: The Final Ripple (2)

Volumes

 * 08 (12). The Birth of the Ultimate Being!!

Anime Episodes

 * 15 (24). The Link to JoJo