Review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA~!!! LA first seeing that the next Jojo will be the illegitimate son of Dio made LA skeptical and curious in many ways but by the end of it all, LA very much liked Giorno Giovanna mainly thanks to the core cast and is an even more upgraded but detrimental version of Josuke's Stand that lands to alot more creative and BIZARRE Stand fights. If there was a way of saying what Golden Wind is like, well it's like Stardust Crusader's roadtrip to travel around this time mostly revolving around Italy and get to the Big Bad amalgamated with Diamond's are Unbreakable's Big Bad's motives to awhole new level, WITH both having cameos from BOTH with the main protagonist being a Jonathon Joestar feel to it but giving his screentime to his friends instead...

Let's start with Giorno voiced by Kensho Ono, mainly his Stand and well it was slightly played around with, what with him able to create life from inanimate objects yet with humans, it gives their Stands "a boost" but then latter on he's essentially the All-Cure of the main cast, but to this OPness, even latter on his All-Cure is given consequences. Giorno as a main protagonist, well he's a pretty cool guy and being the son of Dio but heck even THAT isn't really touch upon, he's the son of Dio and has a mission of getting drugs off the streets (no seriously). Giorno's main problem as a main protagonist is that he's not really developed besides his ambitions and his camaraderie to his gang, he's essentially Josuke but ALMOST stripped of his main protagonist status and being pretty much regulated to support.

"This taste... is the taste of someone who's LYING! Giorno Giovanna!"

So to Giorno's gang or to be more precise Bucciarati's team and let's start with Bruno Bucciarati voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura who more or less takes the main protagonist seat as even though Giorno and Bruno have the same motives, Bruno takes the lead and goes into WAAAY more fights in the process (heck his Stand does the "ORAORA", or in this case "Ari-ari-ari" MORE than Giorno does), he was LA's favourite character in all honesty, we get to know him ALOT with his backstory, his sense of camaraderie and leadership to his team and even his Stand Sticky Fingers' use was immeasurable.

MEEEEEESTAAAAAAAAAAAA~!!

Next is Guido Mista voiced by Kosuke Toriumi the gunslinger of the team and a serious superstitious person hating the number 4, he along with Bruno and Giorno goes through the majority of the fights in the anime and has a bad habit of getting his bullets to..well come back to him in a bad way. Which on speaking of which Mista's bullets Number 1,2,3,5,6,7 are a small ensemble cast of themselves and well are adorable...even if they are Stand BULLETS!

Narancia is Aquaman

Narancia Ghirga voiced by Daiki Yamashita is the genki hyper of the team and like the team has a tragic backstory, but his Stand Aerosmith gets into alot of fights in the anime, though for LA, not as much as Mista.

Abbacchio joins in the beatdown M0:00DY BLUES

Leone Abbacchio voiced by Junichi Suwabe has to more distrust to Giorno and has admittedly a cool Stand Moody Blues that allows him to replay ANY event if he's there.

Cheesy boi is mouldy

Pannacotta Fugo voiced by Jun'ya Enoki is...the least developed of the cast ONLY having ONE fight in the entire series and though he even gets a tragic backstory, due to his slim to none screentime that makes Giorno seems he was ALWAYS in the gang Fugo literally up and quits his screentime for Giorno. LA would had wanted to know more about him BUT considering his Stand doesn't exactly gel well with the core cast, LA does get but even still.

Well how about the enemy Stands?

Taking cues from Diamonds are Unbreakable and taking it in strides, Golden Wind actually shows more screentime, backstory and development from it's enemy Stands than the core cast, sure the core cast DOES but it's in more equal terms especially the Hitman Team and the Big Boss of the anime. The Hitman Team were actually the most well-liked and interesting, be it through their battles, their Stands and how uniquely they use it and sometimes used together or their own camaraderie to their own members and their development were great to certain members of the Hitman team, especially Pesci, Prosciutto, Ghiaccio and ESPECIALLY Risotto Nero (mostly for his simple but morbidly awesome use of his Stand). Now there are enemy Stands that are just pieces of shit for being pieces of shit (LA is looking at you Cioccolata) but with Hirohiko Araki's brilliant ways of utilizing and expanding upon Stand powers (even more from Diamonds are Unbreakable), even getting to a certain location can mean certain death..even IF your main protagonist is an OP healer.

It JUST works...RING RING RING RING RING. Boss is that you?

Now onto the Big Boss of the anime and really his ENTIRE situation is like Kira Yoshikage on steroids as to how he wants to keep his identity hidden and with his Stand Kin- -on makes things even harder. See even how Bruno's team is able to have ANY connection to the Big Boss is because they have to get the Big Boss' daughter Trish Una voiced by Sayaka Senbongi to him and becomes the direct line of finding out ANYTHING about the Big Boss for both Bruno and Giorno's ambitions. Trish herself is the typical bratty-type character but once the Stands comes into play and how it impacts her let alone her also wanting to find out more about her father, she gels well with the rest of the cast. Back to the Big Boss and really his final battle seems more like you can't fight fate akin to Kira Yoshikage's fate, cept for the Big Boss, seems more like HE had an even more fate worse tha- -ath than Kira! Though LA wasn't kidding that he's essentially Kira Yoshikage on steroids as his final battle is a multi-tier battle with many conditions with a greater scope problem and disaster-level obstacle ALL WHILST trying to defeat him. Heck add in the fact that a HUGE plot MacGuffin comes into play that if you think about it, explains what happened to Kira Yoshikage's Bites the Dust arc now being implemented here and to an extreme degree at that, it's just crazy, bizarre and it's D-

-olden Wind because of how serious it is, it's also pretty brutal especially with the MANY deaths in this Part as even the main cast isn't safe from this and man are the deaths BRUTAL. To say that it's much darker is an understatement though the deaths are kinda common in Jojo's, Golden Wind's count is pretty damn high, be it the main cast, villains and heck even bystanders!

David Productions once again helms the animation and man they are again on top form....with the occasional derps (Hai Slender Giorno!), though the character designs looks ALOT different from Diamonds are Unbreakable but taken in a more refined and realistic look to it, it still has the same flavour and bizarreness and changing color palette expected from Jojo's and heck taken to the extreme especially with how uncensored and gorey the Stand fights gets as well as the detailed and crazy facial reactions!. Really even though the character designs have been changed but look now more refined, what do you expect from Jojo's animation, it's just fucking fabulous!

The voice cast is amazing as well, everyone from Kensho Ono as Giorno, Yuuichi Nakamura as Bruno, Daiki Yamashita as Narancia, Kosuke Toriumi as Mista, Sayaka Senbongi as Trish, Katsuyuki Koinishi as D- -the Big Boss, Subaru Kimura as Pesci, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Prosciutto, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ghiaccio, Shinshuu Fuji as Risotto, really this is an amazing cast, once again expected from Jojo's.

Golden Wind is by the by for LA felt like Hirohiko Araki solidified Stardust Crusaders and Diamonds are Unbreakable strengths while bringing in new weakness' of itself, mainly of Giorno's supporting main protagonist status and the imbalance of certain main cast not getting the development they needed (Cheesy Boi especially), BUT Golden Wind's strengths and Araki really did it again and once again even though LA was skeptical of Giorno as a main protagonist he was greatly helped with Bruno's team AND the villains that becomes obstacles AND Bruno essentially taking up the main character status whilst still keeping Giorno useful and having relevant screentime.

Not to mention the entire D- -he Big Boss' finale fight was awe-inspiringly as to how batshit crazy and well...bizarre the final fight becomes and add in a weird druggy trip into the mix and we have LA's jaw dropping, something that rarely happens, heck the only other "current anime" that does that to LA is SYMPHOGEAR.

Golden Wind may have it's problems by just damn...Araki did it again, LA loved this part. LA loves Diamonds are Unbreakable but Golden Wind managed to one up it, flaws and all and once again shows Araki's writing being refined even further beyond. KUWA KUWA KUWA

ARRIVEDERCI...Can't wait for Stone Ocean!