Speaking of Giorno, he looks fantastic in this art style, and said style is gorgeous even by JoJo standards. This is a great first episode: Giorno’s introduction tells you a lot about him through his actions, as well as his instance to multiple characters that doing anything “useless” such as repeating himself really annoys him. This power disables local mob tough “Leaky Eyed” Luca, and the episode ends with Luca having been killed and dismembered by his unnamed boss, and his body parts used in grim fashion to interrogate Giorno by another stand user named Bruno Bucciarati. Said Stand is Gold Experience, which has the power to turn inanimate objects into animals (and a tree in one instance) which if attacked transfer all the damage to whoever attacked them. He’s a pain in the arse stealing and selling Koichi’s luggage and passport, but the only way he causes harm is in self-defence via his Stand power, and he’s more interested in just getting on with his low-level criminal activity than anything else. Turns out that’s very much the case, but he’s far from following in his father’s footsteps. Koichi Hirose is sent by Jotaro Kujo to investigate Giorno on the basis that he’s DIO’s son and therefore potentially a threat. Our new JoJo, or more accurately GioGio, is Giorno Giovanna born Haruno Shiobana and making a living as the most fabulous fifteen year old mobster in Italy. Makes sense given his heritage, as son of DIO via Jonathan Joestar’s body respectively the epitome of good and evil in this series. Kicking things off is a new mini prologue of sorts, in which our currently unnamed new JoJo shows off his character: a kindhearted man who doesn’t care if a young woman gets ice cream on his outfit (an outfit I’m warming to, but I prefer him in dark blue) and retrieves her purse from a pickpocket, but will also help himself to a bit of cash in the process. The David Production adaptation finally dropped and I’m eager to see it in action. Since then it’s grown on me, particularly the villain and their stand (helped by the fact that I fancy them), the Italian setting and some of the more interesting and inventive stand powers demonstrated throughout the run. I had a soft spot for some of the characters, and it definitely had cool ideas, but after being completely blown away by Diamond is Unbreakable, it was a definite step down. It seemed oddly similar, or at least reminiscent, in structure and content to Stardust Crusaders only inferior in every regard. When I first read Vento Aureo, I wasn’t a big fan.
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