“I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream that I know is just!”
Giorno Giovanna, born Haruno Shiobana, is the main protagonist of Golden Wind. He is the fifth protagonist of the series and is often referred to as "GioGio."
Giorno is the illegitimate son of DIO, and due to his father possessing the body of one Jonathan Joestar, he inherits the soul of the Joestar spirit. In 2001, Giorno joins the Italian gang of Passione in order to destroy it from the inside and stop them from selling illegal drugs to women and children. Giorno bands together with Bruno Bucciarati, Guido Mista, Leone Abbacchio, Trish Una, Pannacotta Fugo, and Narancia Ghirga as they take down Passione's numerous Stand-Using members, as well as their illusive boss, Diavolo. They eventually take down the gang, and Giorno is inducted as the boss of Passione.
Giorno's emblem
Giorno wields the Stand Gold Experience, which has immense power, and the ability to bestow life onto objects. When his Stand is pierced with the Stand Arrow it evolves into Gold Experience Requiem, with the overpowered ability to reset actions to the point of zero.
Physical Appearance[]
Giorno is a slim but muscular and fit teen. He has longish blond hair with three little donuts facing the front of it. He wears a pink school uniform with the middle buttons undone showing his chest, with blue ladybug emblems throughout.
Design Variants[]
In the flashbacks in Bucciarati is Coming Giorno is a young 5-year-old boy with brown hair cut in a bowl cut.
In the same episode it shows Giorno through his life going from a stumpy young kid to a teenager with blond hair.
In Meet the Gangsters Behind the Wall Koichi is shown Giorno's picture from not too long ago before his hair turned blonde. In the image it is brown and flat on his head.
Also in the same episode, Giorno gets afflicted with Sticky Finger's zippers.
In The Mystery of Soft Machine, Part 1, Giorno becomes deflated by Soft Machine's ability and gets wrinkled.
In The Grateful Dead, Part 2 Giorno is physically aged up under the effects of a Stand. He now is wrinkled and has gray hair.
In Baby Face, Giorno is afflicted by Baby Face's Stand ability and cube chunks are removed from his face, taking out of his eye and throat.
In the episode Head to Venice during the White Album story arc, Giorno succumbs to Ghiaccio's Stand and half of his body is turned to ice.
In Notorious B.I.G., Giorno's arm is afflicted by the Stand Notorious B.I.G. and a homunculous growth appears on his arm.
In Diavolo Surfaces, Giorno's soul is swapped with Narancia's, and he operates inside of Narancia's body.
In Sleeping Slaves, after the final battle with Diavolo, Giorno's hair is released from his braid and it flows down his back.
Also in Sleeping Slaves Giorno is now the head boss of Passione and wears a new black and green version of his school uniform.
Video Game Appearances[]
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 Giorno in GioGio's Bizarre Adventure  Giorno in Jump Ultimate Stars  Giorno in All-Star Battle  Giorno in Eyes of Heaven  Giorno in Stardust Shooters  Giorno in Diamond Records  Giorno in Pitter-Patter-Pop  Giorno in Jump Force  Giorno in Last Survivor  Giorno in Puzzles & Dragons  Giorno in Monster Strike  Giorno in Tower of Saviors |
Biography[]
TBA
We'll see
Personality[]
Giorno's personality incorporates that of both Jonathan and Dio, as he is righteous and honest, but also conniving and brutal.
Age[]
Giorno is 15 years old in Golden Wind.
Stand[]
Gold Experience[]
Gold Experience is a close-range Stand with a range of 2 meters. Giorno was born with his Stand, likely as a result of his father, DIO Brando, being a Stand User himself. Giorno had been unconsciously using his Stand since he was a child, but developed it further when more Stand Users began appearing in Naples.
- Life Giver: Gold Experience can generate a seemingly endless amount of life energy and endow that life energy into anything its fists touch. This ability translates into a variety of different effects.
- Life Shot: Gold Experience can also infuse life energy into an already living target. In this case, the influx of life energy causes their thought processes to greatly accelerate. When Bruno Bucciarati was hit by one of Gold Experience's punches, his consciousness accelerated to such a point that he perceived everything else to move slowly. However, his body could not keep up with the sudden surge of mental speed and could hardly move, and Bucciarati had an out-of-body experience.
- Flesh and Organ Creation: Inspired by Baby Face's ability to transform body parts into inert cubes, Giorno discovered that he could do the reverse and create singular body parts and organs out of inorganic matter and assimilate them into the body of an injured individual. Thus he is able to heal gruesome wounds through various means, though Giorno noted that this ability isn’t actually healing, just replacing what has been damaged.
- Reanimation: There is no such thing as a Stand that can bring the dead back to life; however, Gold Experience can infuse life energy into a corpse to temporarily reanimate it. The reanimated corpse will have all the memories and personality traits from when the person was alive. If the reanimated person was a Stand User, then they would retain the ability to use their Stand, as shown with Bruno Bucciarati.
- Life Sensor: Thanks to Gold Experience's mastery over life, Giorno can sense life itself. Giorno himself claims that life energy to him exists in "clusters". When he touches someone or something, he can sense other lifeforms from within, allowing him to check if someone is alive or even determinehow many souls there may be inside a given vessel.
Gold Experience Requiem[]
After stabbing his Stand with the Stand Arrow, Gold Experience sheds it's skin and evolves into Gold Experience Requiem. This evolved form is a close-range Requiem Stand that boasts an incredible increase in both speed and power compared to its previous form and its ability can't be compared to normal stand stats.
- Return to Zero: Gold Experience Requiem's ultimate ability is to revert all actions and willpower back to the state of "zero", completely nullifying them and preventing them from becoming "real". For simplicity’s sake, it’s comparable to performing Ctrl-Z (undo), completely denying any causality. This can be seen as a direct opposite to King Crimson. As instead of undoing the act and leaving the effect like King Crimson does, Gold Experience Requiem removes the effect from the cause.
- Death Perception Loop: If the opponent is killed by Gold Experience Requiem, then they will continuously experience death, as they will die but repeatedly return to point "zero"; the point immediately before the process of death (i.e Diavolo's infinite death loops). It is an enhanced form of the power Gold Experience has putting more life force into an already living being, causing them to experience life in third-person.
- Life Creation & Empowerment: Despite its transformation, Gold Experience Requiem appears to have not only retained its life-giving abilities after evolving, but said abilities are noted to be vastly more potent compared to the original Gold Experience. This is demonstrated briefly when Requiem fires a pebble at a speed King Crimson could not detect in order to pierce Diavolo's hand, causing a pillar to crash due to the immense power given to it. It then creates four scorpions out of the pebbles to stab him using its life-giving ability.
Appearances[]
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JORGE JOESTAR[]
- Chapter 8: Nero Nero Island
- Chapter 10: H.G. Wells (mentioned)
- Chapter 12: Rhinoceros Beetle (voice)
- Chapter 14: Desolation Row (mentioned)
- Chapter 15: Beyond
- Chapter 16: Beyond II (mentioned)
Part 5: Golden Wind[]
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Golden Heart, Golden Ring[]
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
Purple Haze Feedback[]
- Chapter 1: Skull Song (mentioned)
- Chapter 2: Let's Build a Tower (mentioned)
- Chapter 3: Tempting Lips (flashback)
- Chapter 4: You Who Don't Cry (mentioned)
- Chapter 5: I'm Struggling to Sleep
- Chapter 6: Fantasy Island (mentioned)
- Chapter 7: New Moon (mentioned)
- Chapter 8: The Soldier in Love
- Chapter 9: Bonus Track. The Mourning (flashback)
Part 6: Stone Ocean[]
- Chapter 115: Sky High, Part 4 (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- Giorno's Stand cry "Muda Muda Muda Muda" he inherits from his father DIO.
- Giorno is the only JoJo to be referred to as "JoJo" in any canon media. He is however referred to as "GioGio" in several video games, and in the non-canon light novel Purple Haze Feedback.
- "GioGio" in Italian, is pronounced the same as we pronounce "JoJo."
- The word giorno in italian means "day," and Giovanna is a girls first name in Italy.
- It's possible that his name is Giovanna as a result of Araki originally intending for the protagonist of Part 5 to be female.
Cover Gallery[]
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Phantom Blood ∙ Battle Tendency ∙ Stardust Crusaders ∙ Diamond is Unbreakable ∙ Golden Wind ∙ Stone Ocean ∙ Steel Ball Run ∙ JoJolion ∙ The JOJOLands |
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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan ∙ Deadman's Questions ∙ Crazy Heartbreakers |
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Jonathan Joestar ∙ Joseph Joestar ∙ Jotaro Kujo ∙ Josuke Higashikata ∙ Giorno Giovanna ∙ Jolyne Cujoh ∙ Johnny Joestar ∙ Josuke Higashikata (Part 8) ∙ Jodio Joestar | |
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The Passion ∙ Hermit Purple ∙ Star Platinum ∙ Crazy Diamond ∙ Gold Experience ∙ Stone Free ∙ Tusk ∙ Soft & Wet ∙ November Rain |
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Dio Brando ∙ Kars ∙ Yoshikage Kira ∙ Diavolo ∙ Enrico Pucci ∙ Funny Valentine ∙ Toru ∙ Acca Howler |
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The World ∙ Killer Queen ∙ King Crimson ∙ Whitesnake (C-Moon, Made in Heaven) ∙ Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap ∙ Wonder of U ∙ Acca Howler's Stand |
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