Blood Sun Vendetta is a web animated series created by Mick Lauer, also known as RicePirate. It is inspired / based on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki, and takes place in the same universe.

It is set in 1999, around the same time as Diamond is Unbreakable. Across the country of Mexico, a handful of strangers have been unwittingly set on a collision course with fate towards each other. Meanwhile, the nights have since become increasingly dangerous, as an epidemic of bodies drained of blood spread across the countryside. This inevitably catches the attention of Jose Hijo del Caballo, son of the criminal Hol Horse.

Little do they know, they are at the epicenter of this fate-shifting force, drawn in as if by gravity itself...

Blood Sun Vendetta contains examples of:

• Dirty Cop: A pair of them are introduced in the second episode shaking down the residents of Pozo Sin Madre for protection money. When Jose threatens to blow their fingers off unless they get out of town, the cops decide to harass him for it, to which Jose responds brutally. One of the cops also decides to take a piss in the well where Jose's mother committed suicide as a child... and gets his dick yanked off by Black Hole Sun.
• Driven to Suicide: This is what happened to Jose's mother. She fell in love with a "phantom gunman" (Hol Horse) and ended up getting pregnant with his child. When she found out her lover was a known criminal, she was so ashamed that she threw herself in a well and drowned, right in front of her six-year-old son.
• Face Framed in Shadow: The Mysterious Figure's face is completely obscured in shadow by his high-collared coat and cowboy hat, with only his sideburns being visible.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Each episode title is named in Spanish.
• Groin Attack: One of the Dirty Cops harassing Jose's town gets his dick yanked off by Black Hole Sun after deciding to take a piss in the well where Jose's mother committed suicide.
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The first episode in Mexico City concurs at night during a rain storm.
• Meaningful Name: Jose's last name, Hijo del Caballo, literally means "Son of the Horse" in Spanish, and he's the bastard son of Hol Horse.
• Musical Theme Naming: Like the series it was inspired from, Stands are named after various songs.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Episode 1 has an old man being betrayed and wounded by The Mysterious Figure after they find a tomb containing the Stone Mask. In Battle Tendency, the elderly Speedwagon was betrayed by Straizo after they find a cave containing a dormant Santana and a bunch of Stone Masks, with Straizo taking one of them to turn himself into an immortal vampire.
  • Episode 2 also references the beginning of Battle Tendency by having Jose brutally curb-stomp and humiliate a pair of Dirty Cops to protect a town elder from harassment, just like what Joseph Joestar did to protect the young thief Smokey.
  • Hol Horse siring an illegitimate biracial child is a reference to Part 4 Josuke's backstory. Hol Horse abandoning his son Jose and his mother also references Jotaro Kujo doing the same thing to his daughter Jolyne Kujo and her mother in Stone Ocean. Like Part 4 Josuke and Jolyne, Jose greatly resented his father for his abandonment, though it in his case his mother drowned herself in a well out of shame for falling in love with a criminal. For bonus points, Jose's mother's Affectionate Nickname for Hol Horse was "HoHo", an obvious reference to the Joestars often being called "JoJo".
• Protection Racket: Pozo Sin Madre is under protection money by Dirty Cops for safety from Cartels and other corrupt cops. Things go badly when a pair of said cops happen upon Jose while he was paying respects to the well his mother committed suicide in as a child; their harrassment of Jose leading to one cop losing a few fingers while his partner gets his dick yanked off by Jose's Stand, Black Hole Sun.
• Rage Against the Reflection: In Episode 2, one of the characters introduced (yet to be named) tosses a bottle at her reflection, cracking the mirror.
• Shoe Slap: Spicy Man in Episode 2 gets smacked by his mother's shoe after bringing up Jose being "spicy" to the cops.
• Time Skip: Episode 2 occurs two years after Episode 1.
• Wham Shot: Twice in Episode 1.
  • The contents of the coffin The Mysterious Figure opens contains a corpse with its face concealed by a Stone Mask.
  • Furthermore, The Mysterious Figure has a Stand, Emperor, which serves as a clue for his true identity, Hol Horse.