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I guess Araki could make the SBR Universe the JoJo equivalent of the Rebuild of Evangelion (Parts 7 and 8 takes characters and elements from previous series, so it's pretty likely that Part 9 will be a completely original (i.e. not taking characters and elements from previous series) series. For the Rebuild series, the first two retell whatever was in the TV series whilst the third movie onwards goes in a completely new direction).

Although this is probably off-topic but part of the reason why JoJo hopped on over from shonen to seinen beginning with Part 7 was because although the JoJo series was popular on Shonen Jump throughout Parts 1-6 (and still is), it was being overshadowed by the likes of One Piece, Naruto and Bleach by the late 1990s and early 2000s (it's probaly expected due to it being a Shonen Jump title, which that magazine is an extremely high-stakes high-reward area. If JoJo launched on a different publisher, like Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday, then it might have remained on that magazine today (lest Araki do the same thing by transferring JoJo over either to Weekly Young Sunday (and then Big Comic Spirits by the time Shogakukan discontinues Weekly Young Sunday) or Monthly Sunday Gene-X).