Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe

Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe
Volume 1 cover, featuring Rohan Kishibe
岸辺露伴は動かない (Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai)
Genre	Horror[1][2]
Manga
Written by	Hirohiko Araki
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump Jump Square Shōnen Jump+ Bessatsu Margaret JoJo Magazine Ultra Jump
Demographic	Shōnen, seinen, shōjo
Original run	July 7, 1997 – present
Volumes	2 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Written by	Ballad Kitaguni Ryo Yoshigami Yusuke Iba Mirei Miyamoto Katsuie Shibata
Illustrated by	Hirohiko Araki
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Ultra Jump
Original run	July 19, 2017 – April 19, 2024
Volumes	4
Original video animation
Directed by	Toshiyuki Kato Assistant director: Yasufumi Soejima
Produced by	Hiroyuki Oomori Jun Fukuda Ryosuke Mori Toshiyasu Hayashi
Written by	Toshiyuki Kato
Music by	Yugo Kanno
Studio	David Production
Licensed by	Netflix (streaming) NA: Viz Media (home video)
Released	2017 – March 25, 2020
Episodes	4 (List of episodes)
Television drama
Directed by	Kazutaka Watanabe
Produced by	Takayasu Suzuki Keisuke Dobashi Daisuke Hiraga
Written by	Yasuko Kobayashi
Music by	Naruyoshi Kikuchi
Studio	NHK Enterprises
Original network	NHK General TV
Original run	December 28, 2020 – present
Episodes	9 (List of episodes)

Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe, known in Japan as Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai (Japanese: 岸辺露伴は動かない, "Rohan Kishibe Does Not Move"), is a series of manga one-shots created by Hirohiko Araki. It is a spin-off from Diamond Is Unbreakable, the fourth part of Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, and features the character Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist who travels around the world to get inspiration from people's lives. The English title of the series is a reference to the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.

The series is published by Shueisha, starting with the one-shot "Episode 16: At a Confessional" in 1997 in their Weekly Shōnen Jump; new episodes have since appeared in their Jump Square, Shōnen Jump+, Bessatsu Margaret, JoJo Magazine, and Ultra Jump magazines. The series was originally meant to be completely original, but it was changed as Araki found it too tempting to use Rohan. A collected volume was released in 2013, and a second volume was released in 2018. The first volume was the 68th best-selling manga volume of 2014 in Japan and was well received by critics. Spin-off short stories by several writers were published in the Appendix Booklet of Ultra Jump magazine from 2017 to 2024. In 2018, they were compiled into two volumes: Rohan Kishibe Does Not Shout and Rohan Kishibe Does Not Frolic. Another volume, Rohan Kishibe Does Not Fall, was released in 2022, and the fourth one, Rohan Kishibe Does Not Laugh, in December 2024. Each volume included an additional original story, with the fourth one having two. Original video animation (OVA) adaptations were released by David Production from 2017 to 2020. A live-action adaptation premiered on NHK General TV in December 2020.