Review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

TLDR: Like all of JoJo, don't go into it expecting this amazing plot with amazing characters. JoJo is just a bunch of WTF is happening, mixed with over the top violence and BS plot twists that tricks you into thinking its a 10/10 story when in fact it's mostly just @$$pulls but since it's JoJo and it's wonky we accept it because why not. From a horrible MC to antagonist to supporting cast and a bad ending that comes out of literal nowhere, which is saying a lot considering this is JoJo, Part 5 was the biggest disappointment in JoJo to me personally. Not to mentionthe last 2 episodes that were essentially just filler due to it's placement in the story. Easily my least favorite part which sucks cause i was looking forward to this one.

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Part 5 was such a disappointment to me, more so since I waited a year to watch it and throughout that year I constantly heard praise of how amazing it is.

For starters Giorno beats Part 3 Jotaro by a country mile for most boring MC. The guy basically stands on the sideline for the majority of all the fights and then comes through with a 900 IQ strategy, aka plot device a$$pull, and saves the day, which to be fair is every single JoJo since Part 3 but at least Jotaro and Josuke had something going for them. Jotaro while boring was a bada$$ so who cared, and Josuke has an actual character that you're itching to see him get into the ring and fight the villain of the day, where as Giorno has literally nothing going for him aside from his dream which he mentions every chance he gets, we know the meme, and that he's Dio's son which is literally mentioned as a one off comment and never mentioned again.

The main villain was interesting, until he became the main villain (you know what i mean if you've seen Part 5) and he's basically just there because we need a main antagonist to fight against. He's almost reaching Pillermen levels of bad.

The supporting cast in Part 5 is it's biggest strength. Bruno (the true MC of the story as far as i'm concerned was really good! Theres a twist at the end with Bruno that makes no sense what's so ever but Bruno was so good i'll ignore it and I'd go as far as to say that outside of previous JoJo's, Bruno is the best supporting character of all 5 Parts. Mista was also really good and entertaining. Narancia and Abbacchio also are solid, Abbacchio in particular has an amazing backstory.

The ending was probably the biggest a$$pull i've seen in JoJo since Jotaro being able to stop Time but again, Jotaro was a badass so we don't care and given his character, it kinda makes sense but with Giorno, it literally comes out of nowhere. Where Part 4's final battle used Josuke's intelligence and quick thinking (until Ambulance-kun), Part 5's final battle was literally just a game of Tag until Arrow-kun and then the most broken ability in all of JoJo comes into existence with no foreshadowing whatsoever. You know how bad Kaguya was in the 4th war? Yah this is even worse than that.