Review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

THIS IS A SPOILER FREE REVIEW!!!!! Ah, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Whenever I look at anime top 10 lists JoJo always gets overlooked. It's popularity has risen now because of part 5 which currently has 8.75 on MAL. Is JoJo part 5 really worth the hype? Let's get some things out of the way. This is not a plot heavy anime. This anime is also not heavy on character development(it's present, but the show doesn't put a focus on it). This is a battle anime. Its main focus are the fights. Very well planned and executed fights. Golden Wind is a monster of the week type of show.It’s a type of show where our main characters fight a different enemy every episode. Fights are very well planned with a lot of strategy and occur on different places such as trains, cars etc.

The story begins with our protagonist Giorno Giovana who gets a lot of hate among fanbase. I personally like him because of his personality. He has a lot of characteristics of a hero such as altruism and idealism, but can also be very merciless and cruel. There is a reason for his personality, but I won’t spoil anything.
His goal is to join the mafia and stop drug trade. With the help of Bruno Buccerrati he joins the mafia and meets other members. They are a bunch of misfits who had their reasons to join the mafia and Buccerrati wanted them in his crew. Although most of the main cast is, to a certain degree, fleshed out but there is too many of them. Everyone has a different personality and their attitude might get annoying sometimes.

Anime is definitely an improvement compared to manga. It wasn’t always easy to know what was happening in the manga, but luckily the anime was great at planning and explaining different situations. This adaptation also gave us new OST themes which sound great(think of the piano memes). The only problem I had with this adaptation is that the pacing becomes much slower around episode 25. They also overdid the exposition. If you are making a dialogue-heavy show you should try to make dialogue more interesting. This is more of a complaint for the manga because the dialogue was taken from the source material, but the purpose of the anime is to fix the flaws of the manga, not to copy them!
VERDICT
A great adaptation to an already great manga. THIS is my favorite JoJo part(yes, I am including even part 7). I like the main cast, the setting and the fights the most out of other JoJo parts. Only flaws are the slow pacing near the end and a large number of main characters.
9/10