After six long months of waiting, the brand-new opening theme for the anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s Steel Ball Run: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has arrived.

The new theme song, “Spin,” performed by Kroi, sees David Production do what it does best: render Araki’s bespoke supermodel characters in crisp 3D models. As with past 3D openings, “Spin” gives anime fans a preview of the adventures to come in the cross-country cowboy race. Key among them are a crap-ton of horses galloping at full trot, dinosaurs, and spinning balls.

Steel Ball Run is the seventh (and arguably the best) part of Araki’s ongoing shonen manga. It follows Johnny Joestar, a paraplegic jockey who joins a cross-country horse race with a humongous cash prize. He’s not in it for the money. He’s in it for Gyro Zeppeli, an enigmatic rider whose mysterious green steel balls temporarily granted Johnny the ability to walk again. The show’s 40-plus-minute first episode, which premiered on Netflix in March, was one of the year’s highest-rated episodes. It also served as one of the year’s most controversial stories.

Much to fans’ chagrin, a second episode didn’t arrive the week after the premiere, leading audiences to air their frustrations with Netflix’s radio silence by bombarding social media with King Von edits of Johnny Joestar (don’t ask) . Much of this frustration snowballed from fans feeling like the streamer had kneecapped Stone Ocean , the show’s previous season, by releasing episodes in batches without promoting them. This release schedule controversially ended JoJo Fridays , the weekly release phenomenon where new episodes in the Golden Wind arc sparked water-cooler talk, fan art, and theories about where the show would go.

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