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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure - Part 5: Golden Wind
Opening: “Traitor’s Requiem” by Daisuke Hasegawa
Ending: "Modern Crusaders" by Enigma
Characters
Giorno Giovanni
Voiced by: Phillip Reich
Stand: Golden Wind (JP: Gold Experience)
Abilities: Life Giver and Life Shot
Stats: Destructive Power - C / Speed - A / Range - C / Persistence - D / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - A
Namesake: Giorno (Italian for “day”) / Gold Experience (album by Prince)
Born Haruno Shiobana, Giorno is the son of the vampire DIO (using Jonathan Joestar’s body) and a Japanese woman. Inspired by a nice gangster who helped him as a child, Giorno has made it his mission in life to become part of the mafia and rise through its ranks to become its leader, determined to stop the drug trade that has targeted Italy’s youth. Sometime recently, his hair turned from black to blonde and he manifested a Stand known as Golden Wind, which has the ability to give anything it touches life. Giorno most often uses this ability to transform inanimate objects into living creatures.
Bruno Bucciarati
Voiced by: Ray Chase
Stand: Zipper Man (JP: Sticky Fingers)
Ability: Zippers
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - C / Persistence - D / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - D
Namesakes: “Buccellati” (Sicilian fig cookie) / “Sticky Fingers” (Rolling Stones album)
A member of the Passione mafia, Bruno is one of the more righteous members, sharing Giorno’s desire to uproot the organization from the inside. His Stand, Zipper Man, can create zippers, which can either sever things in two or create pocket dimensions within objects that can hold either himself or other items.
Guido Mista
Voiced by: Sean Chiplock
Stand: Six Bullets (JP: Sex Pistols)
Abilities: Bullet Control and Enhanced Reloading
Stats: Destructive Power - E / Speed - C / Range - B / Persistence - A / Precision - A / Developmental Potential - B
Namesakes: “Insalata mista” (Italian for “mixed salad”) / Sex Pistols (British punk rock band)
Mista is the laid-back member of Team Bucciarati, the most sociable and carefree with a desire for an easy life, a calmness that helps him to focus even in the heat of battle. At the same time, he is the most prone to casual violence for the pettiest of reasons. Mista also has an intense phobia of the number four, refusing to get into situations where the number comes up. Mista’s Stand, Six Bullets, is a Colony Stand type made up of six bullet-like creatures (numbered 1 to 7, skipping 4) that can help guide and control the bullets shot out of Mista’s gun via rebounding shots mid-air, as well as reloading the gun for Misa. Despite being Stands, each of the Six Bullets have distinct personalities separate from their user, can have conversations with Mista, and even eat food.
Narancia Ghirga
Voiced by: Kyle McCarley
Stand: Li’l Bomber (JP: Aerosmith)
Abilities: Machine Guns and Bombs, Carbon Dioxide Radar
Stats: Destructive Power - B / Speed - B / Range - B / Persistence - C / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - C
Namesakes: “Arancia” (Italian for “orange”) / Aerosmith (rock band)
Narancia is the most child-like member of Team Bucciarati, possessing a rather bratty personality. But he is incredibly loyal towards his friends, viewing them like family. His Stand, Li’l Bomber, takes the form of a small toy airplane with all the capabilities of a real fighter plane, including machine guns and bombs as weapons, as well as a radar that Narancia can use to track enemies via the carbon dioxide they exhale.
Trish Una
Voiced by: Lizzie Freeman
Stand: Spicy Lady (JP: Spice Girl)
Ability: Softening
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - C / Persistence - B / Precision - D / Developmental Potential - C
Namesakes: Trish Gott (American model) / “una” (Italian for “one”) / Spice Girls (British pop group)
The estranged daughter of the Passione’s boss, Trish never knew her father and lived the first 15 years of her life with her mother until her passing. After this, she found herself placed under the mob’s protection, switching hands until winding up in the care of Buccarati’s group. Now she is targeted by her own father and his personal assassins, who intends to snuff her out to ensure his identity remains secret. While on their journey, Trish has manifested her own Stand, Spicy Lady, who has the ability to soften any material it touches into a rubber-like consistency.
Vinegar Doppio
Voiced by: Griffin Burns
Stand: Epitaph (sub-ability of Emperor Crimson)
Ability: Precognition
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - E / Persistence - E / Precision - Unknown / Developmental Potential - Unknown
Namesakes: Vinegar (aqueous solution of acetic acid, often used in flavoring food) / Doppio (Italian for “double”) / Epitaph
Vinegar Doppio is the consigliere, underboss, of Passione, being the only one in the organization to report directly to the Boss and send out his orders. To most, Doppio appears to be a meek, cowardly teenager, and for the most part this is true. But when it comes to the Boss, Doppio is fiercely loyal and will do anything to serve him. In actuality, however, Doppio is really the Boss’s alter ego, a split-personality which allows him to move undetected while maintaining his anonymity. Doppio is completely unaware of this, but receives orders by talking to the boss through random objects that he believes are telephones. Doppio is able to use a portion of Emperor Crimson’s power, namely the precognition ability of Epitaph to see five seconds into the future, as well as briefly materialize Emperor Crimson’s arms for self defense.
Diavolo
Voiced by: Kellen Goff
Stand: Emperor Crimson (JP: King Crimson)
Ability: Time Erasure and Precognition
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - E / Persistence - E / Precision - Unknown / Developmental Potential - Unknown
Namesakes: Diavolo (Italian for “devil”) / King Crimson (British rock band)
Diavolo is the elusive leader of the Italian mafioso gang known as Passione. His identity is a complete mystery that he intends on upholding at all costs, which has now been threatened upon the discovery of his long lost daughter Trish. His Stand, the terrifying Emperor Crimson, has the seemingly unstoppable ability to perceive ten seconds ahead into the future and erase the events that would have transpired during that time (example: If someone tries to shoot the Boss with a gun, the Boss can erase the moment that the bullet would have pierced his body and remain unharmed). No one other than the Boss is able to remember or perceive those ten seconds, and only the Boss can alter events during it.
Cioccolata
Voiced by: Bill Butts
Stand: Green Tea (JP: Green Day)
Abilities: Mold Infestation and Dismemberment Control
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - C / Range - A / Persistence - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - A
Namesakes: Cioccolata (Italian for “chocolate”) / Green Day (American punk rock band)
Cioccolata is an extremely skilled and manipulative sadist, who started off as a surgeon who was dismissed for a medical accident during one of his surgeries. In truth, it was no accident, Cioccolata took great pleasure in torturing his patients both physically and psychologically, leading them to a gruesome death on the operating table, if they weren't driven to committing suicide first. One of his patients, a boy named Secco, became his servant/pet. After being thrown out of the medical field, Cioccolata and Secco were recruited by Passione, becoming the organization's two most vile assassins under their Unita Speciale (Special Squad). His Stand, Green Tea, can produce a mold that rots and destroy living matter in an instant, activating when anyone within its range of infection (which grows larger with each corpse it infects) lowers in altitude. The only way to escape the infection is for one to increase their altitude before death can take hold. It can also use a variation of this ability to detatch the limbs of its user at will, during which Cioccolata still has free use of the completely dismembered limbs, and reattach them just as easily.
Secco
Voiced by: Erik Kimerer
Stand: Sanctuary (JP: Oasis)
Abilities: Ground Liquefaction and Physical Enhancement
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - B / Persistence - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - C
Namesakes: Secco (Italian for “dry”) / Oasis (English rock band) / "Sanctuary" (song by The J. Geils Band)
Secco was once one of Cioccolata's patients, but something about him caught the mad doctor's attention and the two formed a sort of kinship. On the surface, Secco is loyal like a dog, obeying Cioccolata's every order and making nonverbal gestures like an animal. Underneath, however, he is very intelligent to a dangerous degree. His Stand, Sanctuary, is worn over him like a suit, only exposing his eyes (though can be lowered to just under his mouth). Its ability (in addition to increasing Secco's speed and physical power) allows Secco to turn any surface into the consistency and texture of mud; This can be quite dangerous when used alongside Green Tea, as the mud sinking beneath a target's feet would lower their altitude, causing them to succumb to Green Tea's mold.
Episodio 31 (144)
“Green Tea and Sanctuary, Part 2”
Chapters adapted: 559-563
Previously on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure:
Now:
Branching off from Bruno, who opts to tackle the underground swimmer Secco, Giorno and Mista chase Cioccolata as he flies to spread rotten ruin upon Rome.
JOJO'S JUKEBOX
This week’s Jukebox is "Basket Case” by Green Day.
Notes:
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure - Part 5: Golden Wind
Opening: “Traitor’s Requiem” by Daisuke Hasegawa
Ending: "Modern Crusaders" by Enigma
Giorno Giovanni
Voiced by: Phillip Reich
Stand: Golden Wind (JP: Gold Experience)
Abilities: Life Giver and Life Shot
Stats: Destructive Power - C / Speed - A / Range - C / Persistence - D / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - A
Namesake: Giorno (Italian for “day”) / Gold Experience (album by Prince)
Born Haruno Shiobana, Giorno is the son of the vampire DIO (using Jonathan Joestar’s body) and a Japanese woman. Inspired by a nice gangster who helped him as a child, Giorno has made it his mission in life to become part of the mafia and rise through its ranks to become its leader, determined to stop the drug trade that has targeted Italy’s youth. Sometime recently, his hair turned from black to blonde and he manifested a Stand known as Golden Wind, which has the ability to give anything it touches life. Giorno most often uses this ability to transform inanimate objects into living creatures.
Bruno Bucciarati
Voiced by: Ray Chase
Stand: Zipper Man (JP: Sticky Fingers)
Ability: Zippers
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - C / Persistence - D / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - D
Namesakes: “Buccellati” (Sicilian fig cookie) / “Sticky Fingers” (Rolling Stones album)
A member of the Passione mafia, Bruno is one of the more righteous members, sharing Giorno’s desire to uproot the organization from the inside. His Stand, Zipper Man, can create zippers, which can either sever things in two or create pocket dimensions within objects that can hold either himself or other items.
Guido Mista
Voiced by: Sean Chiplock
Stand: Six Bullets (JP: Sex Pistols)
Abilities: Bullet Control and Enhanced Reloading
Stats: Destructive Power - E / Speed - C / Range - B / Persistence - A / Precision - A / Developmental Potential - B
Namesakes: “Insalata mista” (Italian for “mixed salad”) / Sex Pistols (British punk rock band)
Mista is the laid-back member of Team Bucciarati, the most sociable and carefree with a desire for an easy life, a calmness that helps him to focus even in the heat of battle. At the same time, he is the most prone to casual violence for the pettiest of reasons. Mista also has an intense phobia of the number four, refusing to get into situations where the number comes up. Mista’s Stand, Six Bullets, is a Colony Stand type made up of six bullet-like creatures (numbered 1 to 7, skipping 4) that can help guide and control the bullets shot out of Mista’s gun via rebounding shots mid-air, as well as reloading the gun for Misa. Despite being Stands, each of the Six Bullets have distinct personalities separate from their user, can have conversations with Mista, and even eat food.
Narancia Ghirga
Voiced by: Kyle McCarley
Stand: Li’l Bomber (JP: Aerosmith)
Abilities: Machine Guns and Bombs, Carbon Dioxide Radar
Stats: Destructive Power - B / Speed - B / Range - B / Persistence - C / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - C
Namesakes: “Arancia” (Italian for “orange”) / Aerosmith (rock band)
Narancia is the most child-like member of Team Bucciarati, possessing a rather bratty personality. But he is incredibly loyal towards his friends, viewing them like family. His Stand, Li’l Bomber, takes the form of a small toy airplane with all the capabilities of a real fighter plane, including machine guns and bombs as weapons, as well as a radar that Narancia can use to track enemies via the carbon dioxide they exhale.
Trish Una
Voiced by: Lizzie Freeman
Stand: Spicy Lady (JP: Spice Girl)
Ability: Softening
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - C / Persistence - B / Precision - D / Developmental Potential - C
Namesakes: Trish Gott (American model) / “una” (Italian for “one”) / Spice Girls (British pop group)
The estranged daughter of the Passione’s boss, Trish never knew her father and lived the first 15 years of her life with her mother until her passing. After this, she found herself placed under the mob’s protection, switching hands until winding up in the care of Buccarati’s group. Now she is targeted by her own father and his personal assassins, who intends to snuff her out to ensure his identity remains secret. While on their journey, Trish has manifested her own Stand, Spicy Lady, who has the ability to soften any material it touches into a rubber-like consistency.
Vinegar Doppio
Voiced by: Griffin Burns
Stand: Epitaph (sub-ability of Emperor Crimson)
Ability: Precognition
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - E / Persistence - E / Precision - Unknown / Developmental Potential - Unknown
Namesakes: Vinegar (aqueous solution of acetic acid, often used in flavoring food) / Doppio (Italian for “double”) / Epitaph
Vinegar Doppio is the consigliere, underboss, of Passione, being the only one in the organization to report directly to the Boss and send out his orders. To most, Doppio appears to be a meek, cowardly teenager, and for the most part this is true. But when it comes to the Boss, Doppio is fiercely loyal and will do anything to serve him. In actuality, however, Doppio is really the Boss’s alter ego, a split-personality which allows him to move undetected while maintaining his anonymity. Doppio is completely unaware of this, but receives orders by talking to the boss through random objects that he believes are telephones. Doppio is able to use a portion of Emperor Crimson’s power, namely the precognition ability of Epitaph to see five seconds into the future, as well as briefly materialize Emperor Crimson’s arms for self defense.
Diavolo
Voiced by: Kellen Goff
Stand: Emperor Crimson (JP: King Crimson)
Ability: Time Erasure and Precognition
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - E / Persistence - E / Precision - Unknown / Developmental Potential - Unknown
Namesakes: Diavolo (Italian for “devil”) / King Crimson (British rock band)
Diavolo is the elusive leader of the Italian mafioso gang known as Passione. His identity is a complete mystery that he intends on upholding at all costs, which has now been threatened upon the discovery of his long lost daughter Trish. His Stand, the terrifying Emperor Crimson, has the seemingly unstoppable ability to perceive ten seconds ahead into the future and erase the events that would have transpired during that time (example: If someone tries to shoot the Boss with a gun, the Boss can erase the moment that the bullet would have pierced his body and remain unharmed). No one other than the Boss is able to remember or perceive those ten seconds, and only the Boss can alter events during it.
Cioccolata
Voiced by: Bill Butts
Stand: Green Tea (JP: Green Day)
Abilities: Mold Infestation and Dismemberment Control
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - C / Range - A / Persistence - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - A
Namesakes: Cioccolata (Italian for “chocolate”) / Green Day (American punk rock band)
Cioccolata is an extremely skilled and manipulative sadist, who started off as a surgeon who was dismissed for a medical accident during one of his surgeries. In truth, it was no accident, Cioccolata took great pleasure in torturing his patients both physically and psychologically, leading them to a gruesome death on the operating table, if they weren't driven to committing suicide first. One of his patients, a boy named Secco, became his servant/pet. After being thrown out of the medical field, Cioccolata and Secco were recruited by Passione, becoming the organization's two most vile assassins under their Unita Speciale (Special Squad). His Stand, Green Tea, can produce a mold that rots and destroy living matter in an instant, activating when anyone within its range of infection (which grows larger with each corpse it infects) lowers in altitude. The only way to escape the infection is for one to increase their altitude before death can take hold. It can also use a variation of this ability to detatch the limbs of its user at will, during which Cioccolata still has free use of the completely dismembered limbs, and reattach them just as easily.
Secco
Voiced by: Erik Kimerer
Stand: Sanctuary (JP: Oasis)
Abilities: Ground Liquefaction and Physical Enhancement
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - B / Persistence - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - C
Namesakes: Secco (Italian for “dry”) / Oasis (English rock band) / "Sanctuary" (song by The J. Geils Band)
Secco was once one of Cioccolata's patients, but something about him caught the mad doctor's attention and the two formed a sort of kinship. On the surface, Secco is loyal like a dog, obeying Cioccolata's every order and making nonverbal gestures like an animal. Underneath, however, he is very intelligent to a dangerous degree. His Stand, Sanctuary, is worn over him like a suit, only exposing his eyes (though can be lowered to just under his mouth). Its ability (in addition to increasing Secco's speed and physical power) allows Secco to turn any surface into the consistency and texture of mud; This can be quite dangerous when used alongside Green Tea, as the mud sinking beneath a target's feet would lower their altitude, causing them to succumb to Green Tea's mold.
Episodio 31 (144)
“Green Tea and Sanctuary, Part 2”
Chapters adapted: 559-563
Previously on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure:
Bucciarati sent the mold-affected Narancia back into the turtle to be healed by Giorno, as he and Mista began making their way up into the village to escape Cioccolata's deadly mold. As they climbed upwards out of Green Tea's range, Secco ambushed them with his Stand Sanctuary, which allows him to swim through and soften solid ground. Secco's attack threatened to pull the group down and trigger Green Tea, so Bucciarati jumped off a ledge and ambushed Secco, who was surprised that Bucciarati was not affected by the mold as it should attack all living things.
Bucciarati's team managed to escape in a car and drive towards Rome, but on the way Giorno noticed that Bucciarati has a hole in his wrist, his skin is cold and that he has no pulse. Bucciarati revealed that although Giorno brought him back to life after Emperor Crimson's attack in Venice, he had already died and he is only still moving due to Golden Wind's ability, and that he has accepted his fate. Arriving in Rome, the group was ambushed by Cioccolata and Secco again, this time from a helicopter which spread Green Tea's mold over the city. Secco dropped down into the ground to attack them once more. Giorno and Mista shot a building with Golden Wind-infused bullets, which sprouted roots to grab and keep the helicopter in place. Giorno and Mista climbed the roots to pursue Cioccolata while Bucciarati prepared to deal with Secco.
Bucciarati's team managed to escape in a car and drive towards Rome, but on the way Giorno noticed that Bucciarati has a hole in his wrist, his skin is cold and that he has no pulse. Bucciarati revealed that although Giorno brought him back to life after Emperor Crimson's attack in Venice, he had already died and he is only still moving due to Golden Wind's ability, and that he has accepted his fate. Arriving in Rome, the group was ambushed by Cioccolata and Secco again, this time from a helicopter which spread Green Tea's mold over the city. Secco dropped down into the ground to attack them once more. Giorno and Mista shot a building with Golden Wind-infused bullets, which sprouted roots to grab and keep the helicopter in place. Giorno and Mista climbed the roots to pursue Cioccolata while Bucciarati prepared to deal with Secco.
Now:
Branching off from Bruno, who opts to tackle the underground swimmer Secco, Giorno and Mista chase Cioccolata as he flies to spread rotten ruin upon Rome.
JOJO'S JUKEBOX
This week’s Jukebox is "Basket Case” by Green Day.
Notes:
- No spoilers, especially for this episode!
- The chapters which this episode covers can be found in volumes 60 and 61 of the Japanese manga release.
- The first four Parts of both the manga and the anime are now available from Viz Media.
- Stay safe.
