Part 5: Golden Wind



Part 5 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, subtitled Vento Aureo (alternatively Golden Wind,) is preceded by Diamond is Unbreakable and followed by Stone Ocean. Giorno Giovanna is the JoJo for this part, and Diavolo is the main antagonist. La Squadra Esecuzioni and Unita Speciale are this part's villainous factions.

This part introduces one son of DIO as the main protagonist, and also delves deeper into the lore and true purpose of the Stand Arrows featured in the previous part.

Originally published under the title Giorno Giovana: Golden Heritage in Weekly Shonen Jump, the manga was serialized from 1995 to 1999.

An action-adventure video game adaptation of Part 5 for the PS2 was released in 2002 titled GioGio's Bizarre Adventure. It was originally set to release in the US in October 2002 but was cancelled and never released outside of Japan.

Vento Aureo was adapted into a TV anime as the fourth season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation in 2018. It was renamed Golden Wind.

The Part 5 manga officially released in English from 2021 to 2023. It also titled Golden Wind, after the anime release.

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''In raw, soul-stirringly picturesque Napoli, vigilance is a prized virtue—especially for local teen Giorno Giovanna. The Southern Italian crime syndicate is all-powerful, and Giorno is not about to let his city and its impressionable youth sink even further into the shadowy world of mafia drugs and crime. Luckily for Giorno, the like-minded mafioso Bruno Bucciarati is willing to help him in his struggle to become Primo Mafioso and overtake the Passione famiglia. But first, he has to survive initiation.''

Summary
The fifth part, set in 2001 in Italy, follows DIO's son Giorno as he dismantles the Italian mob from the inside. Giorno is blessed with the good fortune and chivalry of a Joestar, technically being a descendant of Jonathan due to DIO inhabiting his body, as well as blessed with a Stand ability. Giorno joins Bruno Bucciarati, Guido Mista, Leone Abbachio, and the other members of Passione, attempting to take down the mob's illusive boss: Diavolo. The plot goes much deeper, as the lore behind the Stand Arrows is revealed, and the secrets that the Arrow's possess are finally brought out. The part ends with Giorno using the arrow to transform his Stand into Gold Experience Requiem, and defeating Diavolo once and for all, taking his place as the leader of Passione.

Characters

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 * Giorno Giovanna - Philip Reich
 * Bruno Bucciarati - Ray Chase
 * Leone Abbacchio - Mick Lauer
 * Guido Mista - Sean Chiplock
 * Narancia Ghirga - Kyle McCarley
 * Trish Una - Lizzie Freeman
 * Pannacotta Fugo - Ethan Murray
 * Diavolo - Kellon Goff
 * Doppio - Griffin Burns
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 * Giorno Giovanna - Kensho Ono
 * Bruno Bucciarati - Yuichi Nakamura
 * Leone Abbacchio - Junichi Suwabe
 * Guido Mista - Kosuke Toriumi
 * Narancia Ghirga - Daiki Yamashita
 * Trish Una - Sayaka Senbongi
 * Pannacotta Fugo - Junya Enoki
 * Diavolo - Katsuyuki Konishi
 * Doppio - Soma Saito

GioGio's Bizarre Adventure II: Golden Heart, Golden Ring
A light-novel written by Miya Shotaro in 2001 set in the middle of Vento Aureo. It features a new character, Coniglio, and centers around her illness curing Stand, The Cure. Two new Stands are introduced, which include Public Image Limited and Joy Division. The novel attempts to explain what would have happened if Fugo returned in the middle of the part, therefore contradicts the events of the following novel, Purple Haze Feedback. Like many of the other novels it features original artwork by Araki throughout. It is non-canon and features an original story that takes place right after The Mystery of King Crimson arc from the manga.

Purple Haze Feedback
Another light-novel, this one is a sequel to Part 5 written by Kohei Kadono in 2011. It is also known as Shameless Purple Haze in Japan. It tells the story of Pannacotta Fugo after he leaves Bucciarati's gang and how he is inducted back into the group again. Its antagonistic force is the previously unseen drug trading group of Passione. There are several new Stand battles in this light novel and reveal hidden lore unknown from previous parts. Its main antagonist, Massimo Volpe, is revealed to be the brother of Tonio Trussardi. His Stand, Manic Depression, is the reverse of Pearl Jam, as it gives diseases as opposed to healing ailments. At the end of the novel, Fugo's Stand evolves into Purple Haze Distortion in order to combat the main antagonist. It is also the only piece of media where Giorno is officially referred to as "GioGio."

Testimone di Gangster
Short story about the past of Tizziano and Squalo. Released in December 2022 in the Winter issue of JOJO magazine written by Keiji Ando. It is a courthouse drama set roughly about two years in the past before the start of Golden Wind, before Tizziano and Squalo met each other. Squalo has been sent by the boss to the second public trial of 32 criminals suspected of being members of Passione to kill the person who is defending them, a man named Tizziano, who also happens to be in the same gang as him.

Trivia

 * While the part was being published in Weekly Shonen Jump, the usual English JoJo's Bizarre Adventure title was altered to say Le Bizarre Avventure di GioGio.
 * Episode titles, the names of the soundtrack, and other songs are written in Italian.
 * The anime also makes use of Italian in all forms of text throughout the part.
 * Part 5 is highly inspired by The Godfather movies.
 * Golden Wind ends with Giorno becoming the leader of Passione getting his hand kissed by his capos, this directly mirrors the end of The Godfather, when Michael Corleone becomes the head of the mob, and his hand is kissed in a similar fashion.


 * In the next issue notice before its serialization, Josuke is shown pointing at someone unknown asking "Who are you?!", likely pointing to Giorno. This is ironic because the two characters never actually meet in the story.
 * In this same notice, Part 5 is referred to as the Italy Arc.


 * While writing Vento Aureo, Araki had listened to RapW as a means to develop the hoodlum (ワル) atmosphere of the part and its gangsterW protagonists. He gives Snoop Dogg's album "Doggystyle" as an example, mentioning it as particularly "scary".

Continuity

 * The origins of the Stand Arrow are revealed in this part. It is revealed that 50,000 years ago, a meteorite fell onto the earth that contained a virus, that when inflicted on a living being, grants it the power of a Stand. The meteorite was taken and carved into several arrows, which were eventually discovered by a young Diavolo who is the very person that sold them to Enya the Hag, who eventually used them to stab DIO and create their army of Stand Users. Diavolo kept one of those arrows for himself which he used on himself and later gave to Polpo to use to recruit members of the gang.
 * The true power of the Stand Arrow is also revealed in this part, where if an Arrow pierces a Stand, it will evolve into a Requiem Stand. The first Requiem Stand shown off is of Silver Chariot, a Stand that first appeared during Part 3.
 * It is commonly mistaken that the Stand Arrow in this part (stylized with a beetle emblem) is unique from the ones introduced in the previous part. This is incorrect, as there is no in-universe or outside source that claims that this is true.
 * Giorno Giovanna, the main protagonist of this part, is the son of DIO. Because he was born from the blood and body of Jonathan Joestar, he too has the Joestar Birthmark and has qualities of a Joestar himself.
 * In Giorno's wallet he keeps a photo of his father. It's unknown how he came to receive this photo.
 * Jotaro and Koichi return briefly in this part after last appearing in Part 4. Jotaro sends Koichi to Italy in order to find more information about Giorno. Koichi mentions that he speaks such fluent Italian now because Rohan, another character from Part 4, taught him how to speak it using his Stand Heaven's Door.
 * Later in the part, Jean Pierre Polnareff returns after last having appeared in Part 3. It is revealed that since Part 3, he and Jotaro have been searching the globe for the Stand Arrows. Jotaro went to Japan while Polnareff tried searching in Italy. There, he discovered Passione and Diavolo, and came to face off against him where he was almost mortally wounded in combat. In his battle with Diavolo and King Crimson, his legs and arms were severed and he lost his right eye.
 * Pannacotta Fugo leaves the group halfway through the part. It was originally intended for him to betray the gang, but Araki was depressed at the time and thought it was too dark writing friends fight against each other, so Fugo became detached from the story.
 * Although they do not appear in this part physically, Joseph and Josuke are mentioned by Koichi, who says that Giorno embodies the properties of the Joestar family, which he has seen before in Joseph, Jotaro, and Josuke.

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"'I'll be taking a hiatus for a while. My next work is already being planned out. I hope we can meet again.'"