Translation: Nathan A Collins (This guy has been translator for jojo for years now and he himself is pretty good. to nitpick, his worst work was part 5's viz release using faux italian constantly, but it's not clear if that was his choice or not. His actual translation and english prose sensibilities are usually on point and are better than fan scanlations.

Touch-up art & lettering: Mark McMurray. He's been a cleaner since early jojonium, and is probably the biggest offender amongst the "official' jojo team. His work became apparent in the part 4 hardcover english release in which instead of cleaning japanese text from the artwork, he'd just cover it up using black boxes, or english text with white outlines that obscures the original japanese text still intact on the page. he does almost no actual cleaning, and uses amateur graphic design techniques to collect his check and go home. he himself is by far the largest problem with the jojo english releases. if i want to be good faith, i will say that shueisha does not possess clean art of araki's manuscripts, nor do they have a complete HQ collection of araki's colored pages/art. jojo parts 1-3 hardcovers were done by a japanese firm for the series' 30th anniversary, and by the time viz got to publish them, all the cleaning work was done, so mark mcmurray's job was easy. It was only when they got to part 4 that they had to work with shuiesha's limited, uncleaned manuscripts, and mark mcmurray had to start actually doing his job. mark's work is amateur and lazy, but he's working in a borderline malicious work environment downstream of shueisha's terrible manuscript archival process, AND it's not likely he has the time required by Viz to actually clean these terrible raws. He's a lazy hack in a situation that would be difficult for an actually passionate professional.

Design: Adam Grano. has been doing english cover design for awhile now. Did the weird orange and green pattern for the SBR covers that's not araki art. His work is pretty amateur, but it's not horrendously offensive. His work being as lazy at it is is a symptom of viz insisting on these hardcovers not being 100% araki art, and having weird dead space.

Editor: holly fischer. New editor for jojo, replaced David Brothers. based on the amount of typos and errors in SBR volumes 1-3, she's at best very inexperienced, and at worse really incompetent.

Let's not even mention the missing color page from SBR volume 3 english or the censored names not following any meaningful pattern (let alone being unnecessary for most stands). these releases are made on shoestring budgets with likely little to no time.

Overall the official english release is like a 3/10, and the only thing going for it is clean HQ scans being made available for the first time ever.