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[stardust_rifle]

Okay. So.

According to the JJBA wiki, the official English title of the first JJBA artbook is "JoJo 6251: The World of Hirohiko Araki". This is the title that appears on all of the covers of this artbook that I have been able to find.

However, my copy does not say "The World of Hirohiko Araki". Instead, it says "Hirohiko Araki's World".

Do I have a weird bootleg? Apparently, Viz did use this title in early promotional stuff, so did I manage to get my hands on like an insanely early printing?

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[palominocorn]

As someone who doesn't know JJBA but does know a few things about books, I have two questions.

Where did you get it? There's a whole spectrum of reputability between "Viz directly" to "random guy in a trenchcoat skulking in a back alley".

Does the book/publisher info page look correct: ISBN, copyright date, etc?

[stardust_rifle]

It was a gift from a family member, don't know where they got it. I'll ask.

The copyright information, ISBN, everything all looks correct to me, with the exception of the "First Printing", which lists "April 2023". The English release of this art book (which is the version I own) was mega delayed (originally supposed to come out 2022, but got delayed to May 2023), so that lends more credence to the idea that this could be an early printing...

[palominocorn]

That's interesting. You don't happen to remember when the marketing switched the title around by any chance?

Another thing you could look at is whether the author's notes, credits, etc match the correctly titled version. Bootleg translations vary in quality quite a lot, and sometimes they omit that stuff entirely.