The fifth arc of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure franchise is one of the most questioned in the entire community, and is undoubtedly one of the most talked about in the fandom. The announcement of its anime adaptation brought hype to the community, but was it worth it?

Animation:
JoJo designs are always eccentric, from the disproportionate designs on Phantom Blood manga to the very stylized ones in JoJolion, but I'll talk about this part. Takahiro Kishida (credited in works like Baccano, JoJo's old OVAs, and many more worthy of popularity) has wanted to capture this essence, and he achieved it. The animation in general has been able to give us good cuts of fluid animation and occasional sakuga moments here and there. Considering that DavidPro is a small studio, I can say that all the staff involved has put effort and heart into what they were doing, resulting in a very colorful show, fluid in motion and dedicated in detail. The scenarios capture certain Italian style and the CG is fine.

Music:
Oh, the music. Yugo Kanno has never disappointed us in this section, always characterized for granting us memorable songs on the soundtrack, listening to them and remaining impregnated in our memory for a long time, either by its composition... or by memes. "Il Vento d'oro" is the "theme of the protagonist" this time with piano melodies, violin and choirs that certainly give the Italian air needed, there are also other very memorable themes such as "legame", "squadra", " lotta feroce”… Anyway, I am repeating myself a lot and I think the point is already clear.
The voice actors’ work is very good, and I loved the work of Junichi Suwabe giving his voice to Abacchio (seriously, his performance in the "heaven" scene was so good that he brought me a tear). The others did a very good job too.

Characters:
This is the weakest point of Vento Aureo.
I can say that Bruno and Giorno have similar goals: they both want the drug to stop circulating so freely in their country, and that's fine, It is a noble message. The problem lies in Giorno, because of his poor chemistry with the members of the Bucci Gang: the boys are never shown developing their relationship, there are no moments of laughter as in Part 3 or 4, interactions that enriched the bond between all as partners and gave them characterization and charisma; and yes, they may be thinking about the "torture dance" or "Abacchio, Narancia and Mista kicking a random guy" scenes, but, Giorno was not a participant in these; not even Jotaro, who was a emotionless brick next to guys like Polnareff or Joseph, was so unfriendly with his group. What made the adventures of the previous 2 parts so memorable were these interactions, but the series was already very busy taking itself too seriously; with weak motivations from the other members of the gang.
(Sorry for the comparisons, but I think they are necessary at this point) Polnareff joins the group because he is looking for his sister's murderer, a revenge; Okuyasu (for example) accompanies Josuke to find the Stand that killed his older brother. Mista, Fugo, Narancia and Abbacchio have no compelling reasons to be in this adventure in which their lives are endangered, moreover, nobody knows why Giorno suddenly joined, or why they are traveling all over Italy when just a few hours ago everything was boring, and all their backgrounds can be summed up to "my youth was sad, but Bruno welcomed me into his band". And yes, this shows the loyalty that exists between the team, but we are talking about Giorno, a fourth-class thief who just showed himself, within a few minutes, fit in this gang of thugs... Wow, how easy it was.
In the section of villains we have La Squadra, people who turn out to be something more interesting than the main cast, and I applaud director Naokatsu Tsuda for showing better chemistry between them. Unlike the Bucci Gang, everyone shares the same motive: discovering the boss's identity by any means; The hint? His daughter Trish; Why? For cruelly killing his two companions, Sorbetto and Gelato, strong motives that enhance the leadership and charisma of Risotto Nero, leader of La Squadra, command his companions to risk their lives for a collective revenge sounds like something quite complex, and valid at the same time. And when all of these die (I still cry for you, Risotto) we only have one-dimensional sadists left, who although they are still “great, terrifying and bizarre,” they don't have what La Squadra had.
And the main villain... is a disaster. He doesn’t appear enough to generate an impression of charisma on me (as DIO and Kira did), and everything he did was yell about "fate, destiny and some throne because I can control time, and that's deep right?", as if I take seriously some pink-haired boy out of an anime convention... and this would not be a problem if he actually does conduct like an actual mafia boss, with personality and weight motivations, not just to be "on top of the world as someone invincible".
Someone invincible = the strongest
“The strongest” motivation = Typical protagonist of typical shonen
Typical shonen protagonist = Goku, Asta, Deku
Thus,
Diavolo = Those guys
And this sounds a lot of alarms.
My point here is that JoJo has characteristic... characters that stand out for their design, but there was the effort from Araki when his characters broke the mold, at least a bit.

History:
A group of boys who did not know what he was doing until the middle of the series, were traveling throughout Italy trying to discover the identity of his boss... while talking about fate or things like that just to justify their plot armor. Seriously, Narancia's throat was cut but he had the strength to shout "something- VOLARE VIAAAA" in his fight against Tiziano and... the other guy, nobody cares; Mista is shot THREE TIMES in his head, but he doesn’t die because his Stand... was it still working?, in other words, he cannot die because without him everything would have been more boring, and by the time he receives several shots during his fight against Ghiaccio, I don't care anymore because feeling some tension for that point is stupid; those who are saved from this treat are Fugo, Trish and Abbacchio, because honestly... who cares about them? Bruno's case is strange, did he become a zombie thanks to Gold Experience? Oh, and Giorno, a smarter of the densest type that exists, because for bizarre problems, bizarre solutions, all the likelihood problems I mentioned earlier would not be a big deal but this part takes itself too seriously, and that breaks with the plausibility of these issues.
The fights are cool, they have Stands with very curious and destructive powers, in other words, an almost mediocre section of Shonen, with the difference that this is JoJo, so it's great, or so we say the fans to justify our love-hate for this part.

Enjoyment:
I liked. It's exciting. It's great. It's JoJo. I still enjoy it as a small child.

In conclusion, Golden Wind is a great and fun stuff to watch, like all other JoJo parts, but I can’t help but notice its writing problems when this part is presented as big a dilemma conspiracy and takes itself too seriously when most of the elements make no sense. It has some memorable enemies like La Squadra, but everytihng falls down because the null chemistry in the gang, and Giorno being like "ok whatever" most of the time didn't help, more plot armor than Part 3/Part4, and with a villain yelling about "his destiny" everytime he got some screentime, the overall writing felt bland.