"GioGio's Bizarre Adventure. JoJo P.5: Vento Aureo / Golden wind"
After two full years (Plus, being FULLY available to catch-up to the ENTIRE rest of the series from Toonami in the meantime.) We were finally given the fifth "Arc." of whoever the NEWEST Joestar is for the time and their bizarre adventure with their friends.
This time, the Main Joestar is actually a "Half-Breed" named: Giorno Giovanna. A combination of the original Hero: Jonathan Joestar's body with his rival, DIO's head attached and having given a woman his child, 15 years later, that child's hair recently, but naturally, grows from the Joestar standard: Black, into resembling that of his "Other-Biological" Father DIO's BLONDE hair-coloring. After having stolen the luggage of already recently-established from Part. 4 character: Koichi, when having just gotten to Italy, to even INITIALLY INTERROGATE GIORNO HIMSELF, Giorno is met INSTEAD and interrogated by the Mobster: Bruno Bucciarati, for already secretly taking-down a member of HIS "Squad" (All for hastily attacking Giorno without good reason, mind you.) and is order to “Eliminate” Giorno in order to avenge HIS alley. But once their battle is taken into a public area, and Giorno sees that a bystander-youth has drugs on him and how greatly that his opponent fought, he relates it to when he was a hurt youth only having his own life saved a mobster when THAT mobster was fatally-injured, decides to dedicate his “New Mission in Life” to rising-up the ranks in Bruno’s Gang: Passione, until HE is the new leader and can finally stop the drug-trade to kids!
Along the way, Giorno meets with the rest of Bruno’s squad (Who are all also “Stand-Users”, much in the same aspect as the other two.), all of whom have their own troubled pasts and reasons for joining or being invited-into Bruno’s Squad for the “Passione” Gang. As they all get to know their new Team-Member, his ideologies, and philosophies while meeting new allies, defeating rival enemies within the Gang, and eventually making it to the top of the Organization in order to discovering who the Gang’s secretive BOSS is in order to dethrone him! (BTW, Koichi from the first few episodes DOES meet-up with Giorno again AND discovers him to ACTUALLY be a good person and comes to the revelation that he IS, in fact, as: Noble, Kind-Hearted, and Just as the rest of the Joestar bloodline/Lineage that he HAS met from previous adventures in the series. (So no need to worry about the initial “Luggage-Incident”, BTW.)
The series has a FLAWLESSLY natural transition of its events and conflicts as a whole as it SEAMLESSLY starts from: Initial character-introductions and conflict/foundational eventful-motivations, to “Group-Initiation” and external-character developments, then first-enemy fights with some teammate origins and philosophies/personal-foundational-ism, followed by rival-team feuds and the rest, if not completing the back-stories of the rest of the Main Characters, the mid-point of the series where the Main Villain initially appears in the series and characters start to either officially join in the Main-Team or start to get “Taken-Out”, continued with final “Rival-Team” fights with higher-up characters and discovering characters from the far past, and finally ending with the “Final” Team’s battle with the Main Villain with the secret of More-Powerful items on the line to give its user a complete EDGE in their fights and command in their position of Authority.
The fashion, style, and “Drip” of the artistry within their setting and atmosphere of full of Italian-elegance and attitude, with the scenery being “Gentle and Sophisticated” and the characters are all dressed in self-defining and radically differing kinds of clothing for themselves as rather “Radical” and “Awesome” in opposite , while STILL fitting SOME type of European-Style. And when put into COLOR, the fashion of the Characters TRULY POPS! Although, I WILL admit that the phrase: Gay or European DOES COMPLETELY hold relevance in their fashion, everyone has their personality shown to be as Normal as to not even mention anything out of their normality, but some of the fashion in their outfits are SO extravagant that an outsider WOULD DEFINITELY call them out for being “Overly-Flamboyant” OR EVEN MAKING THE VIEWERS ACCIDENTALLY MISTAKE THEIR GENDER IN ALL! Although the WOMEN ARE JUST as flamboyantly extravagant and showing of their types of fashion. Guess which one is the boy: Spoiler: Spoiler, click to viewNarancia Gargha
THIS portion of the series (“Part 5” out of 6, in THIS storyline.) SPOILERS: Spoiler, click to viewParts 7 and 8, with potentially 9 in the near future all being a “Reboot” of the entire series as a whole for their Universe. See Part 6 ending for Spoilers/Information. Is ACTUALLY set in a very relatable time in History: 2001, Italy, and EVEN THOUGH ONLY THE EUROPEAN AUDIENCE WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO REMINISCE ON THIS SPECIFIC LIFE-STYLE… The TECHNOLOGY is actually VERY relatable around the world at their point in history…! Big-Dial but Wireless Phones, Boxy but Small-Buttoned Televisions and Computers, Small Floppy-Discs AND Thumb-Drives! VERY “Late 90’s-Early 2000’s…! Whether you are fine with that or not. BTW, nothing about this season of the Series specifically HAS to do with its Time-Setting OR its Technology at all, it just the environment of their world at the time. Just please; again remember that this portion of the whole series WAS ORIGINALLY MADE in 1995…!
Each of the Characters in the season ALSO has a relatable character that you can believe and/or relate to whether in Yourself OR Someone Else you know, and they all work FANTASTICALLY as whatever PART of the team that they are acting as. Whether it be dancing in part of an intimidating interrogation scene, character siblings being very trusting and earnestly loving to each other, or showing the dedication responsibility and sacrifices of being their Team’s leader. Although, when Characters start LEAVING the story, it either shows as a meaningful LOSS to their team, OR just looking like one character was attempted simply to REPLACE a different one…. Although it IS taken into consideration IF one of the characters who ALREADY left the adventure is STILL honorably shown to be alive in some way or another.
Their “Stands” (The Super-Power of this series.) also are immensely creative within this season of the series, even though their main-attack IS STILL PUNCHING, that is only the MAJORITY of this season’s Stands’ Main-Combat, as half of this season’s stands CAN’T EVEN PUNCH, so their function ALSO has other properties, such as: Ammunition, hooks, manipulation, etc., And if they CAN punch, their MAIN POWER is something else COMPLETELY different, ranging from: Creating Zippers wherever, Using physical evidence to have the Stand physically replicate into the subject and completely reenact their actions, Make things stick together even in static air, Be a computer and put something of someone’s DNA into it to ACTUALLY GRADUALLY GROW A COMPLETELY NEW BEING WHICH HAS ITS COMPLETELY OWN POWER, Be a complete mold of physical mass that instantly attacks LITERALLY ANYTHING that has a fast-moving pace to it whatever the fast-moving object may be. And the Musical-References for their names as always range from Obscure to Well-Known. - With such Classics as: Black Golden Experience, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Sex Pistols, Beach Boy, Spice Girls, Metallica, Greenday, etc.. - And the LESSER-KNOWN references being: Craftsale, Little Feat., Baby Face, Clash, Talking Head.
The openings and endings for the Anime are ALSO perfect as the first opening: Fighting Gold, shows-off all of the members of Bruno’s Squad in great imagery with colors and shading that shows their characters and relationships perfectly, RIGHT BEFORE SWITCHING THE TONE HALFWAY THROUGH AND FIERSOMELY SHOWING ALL OF THE CHARACTERS’ STANDS FIGHT IN COLORFULLY-FLASHING COLORS…! Meanwhile, opening 2: Traitor’s Requiem, simply instead goes entirely for explaining the PLOT of the adventure through its VISUALS as a LOT of the Journey is shown as complete FORESHADOWING for the EVENT TO COME...! Meanwhile, the endings for the show are MUCH MORE on the end of “Relaxing” as the first ending: Freak’n You, just simply has slow but shining collage of all of the Characters and their Stands in their natural Poses, along with the second rendition of the ending simply replacing the colorful lighting with a naturally growing tree, most-likely symbolizing the group STILL being on their journey BUT DEFINITELY having made some progress by now, to their goal. Meanwhile, the SECOND ending: Modern Crusaders, though still slow, INSTEAD ramps up the intensity with indication that the Group is getting closer and closer to their final battle...! With a pillar to indicate ALL of the stands that the team has already defeated, with their Characters’ important in the Gang indicating how big the size of the Stand measures. Along with the Main Characters being at the top, BUT EVEN THEN having the Stands indicates the Characters’ arrival and departure show where their Stands are place on the pillar.
"Fighting Gold" by "CODA": youtube(youtube.com/watch?v=8x1yLzswIC0) "Traitor's Requiem" by Daisuke Hasegawa: youtube(youtube.com/watch?v=DUbmALaC-qk)
The only VERY big unfortunates is how this JoJo: Giorno, isn’t even physically shown to BE a JoJo in any personally physical way except for how he has the “Joestar Birthmark” on his neck and how he is ALSO somewhat the Child of the series Main Villain: DIO, still in the VERY complicated way he was born, BUT that HONESTLY SHOULDN’T turn you off as he is SHOWN COMPLETELY to be as RIGHTEOUS as his … “Half-Ancestor” Jonathon Joestar. Another thing to mention, even though THIS is honestly just a side-note, nothing about this season really has anything to do with fighting ANY Characters related to the MAIN Villain, all except for the DEVICE that is used to give people a "Stand-Power", it's HONESTLY just an ENTIRELY "Stand-Alone" advenutre about traveling around Europe and the Main Characters fighting gradually bigger and bigger opponents until they finally their Organization's leader. BUT, THAT HONESTLY SHOULDN'T STOP YOU from trying this season of the series out, as it IS HONESTLY A GREAT STORY IN ITS OWN!
The story is interesting, the Characters are great, the Setting is nice, and even the Ideas are intriguing and relatable. Even related through his heroism by his peers. Everyone has a dream to work towards, and Giorno Giovanna has the ambition to take it through whatever means to make his way to the top...!
Giorno Giovanna: If I'm going to take over this city, I'll have to join the organization that rules it and work my way up, because… I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream. To one day become a TRUE GANG-STAR!
