A second volume was released in Japan on July 19, 2018. A collected Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan volume was later released in Japan, on November 19, 2013, containing the first four episodes, along with another one-shot titled "Rohan Kishibe Goes to Gucci". Ī collected volume of one-shots by Araki, titled Under Execution Under Jailbreak, was released in 1999 in Japan, containing "At a Confessional" along with three other stories. "Mochizuki Family Moon Viewing", the episode from the web magazine Shōnen Jump+, was part of the publication's launch line-up and was made available to read for free.
For later episodes, the series switched back and forth between different Shueisha publications, with new episodes appearing in Weekly Shōnen Jump, Jump Square, Shōnen Jump+, Bessatsu Margaret, and JoJo Magazine. Although he had originally been asked to write a wholly original story, unrelated to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, he found it too tempting to use his Diamond Is Unbreakable character Rohan Kishibe to resist.
It began with "Episode 16: At a Confessional", which was published by Shueisha on Jin Weekly Shōnen Jump #30/1997. Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is created by Hirohiko Araki in an episodic format.
A live-action adaptation aired on NHK General TV in December 2020. Original video animation (OVA) adaptations were released by David Production from 2017 to 2020. In 2018, they were compiled into two volumes: Kishibe Rohan Does Not Shout and Kishibe Rohan Does Not Frolic with two new stories. Spin-off short stories by several writers were published in the Appendix Booklet of Ultra Jump magazine in 20. The first volume was the 68th best-selling manga volume of 2014 in Japan and was well received by critics. A collected volume was released in 2013, and a second volume was released in 2018. The series was originally meant to be completely original, but it was changed as Araki found it too tempting to use Rohan. 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+ and Bessatsu Margaret magazines. 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. Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, 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.