If you aren't disturbed by Doppio having a conversation into a frog's belly, then yes. Even Diavolo thinks he's cute.
For a supposed assassin, Pesci is oddly soft-hearted and endearing; he looks up to Prosciutto as a Big Brother Mentor, and his drink of choice is milk instead of espresso. Even so, Bucciarati nearly dies outright learning what happens when Prosciutto is killed, and we're shown just how much of himself Pesci's been holding back.
Does Cioccolata legitimately care about Secco or does he just see him as a slave or a pet? While the manga was ambiguous, in the anime, he sounds sincere when he tells Secco he loves him in his voicemail; however, it's not as if earlier he was treating him like an actual person. The same could be said for Secco. While he did say he never really liked Cioccolata, the anime almost makes it look and sound like he's in denial and he's simply trying to convince himself that he never liked or cared for the other man, only being interested in his wealth and power.
Diavolo himself, and by extension, Doppio, can be read very differently depending on how you view their relationship and with others.
Was Diavolo always a bad person who came up with Doppio as a guise, but with with a very flawed perspective on what makes a normal person given how much of a Cloudcuckoolander Doppio is? Was Doppio the original personality and Diavolo himself is an embodiment of all of Doppio's suppressed negative emotions from a traumatic eventthat gradually began to usurp the original until he was a shell of his former self to be used a guise to go out in public. Or were they always there in the same body with Diavolo being the Evil Twin and Doppio being the more unassuming positive personality? Or perhaps neither were, with the original having aspects of both until a traumatic event in his childhood split the psyche into two in order to coupe with the aftermath. The fact that Doppio and Diavolo end up in different bodies during the Chariot Requiem encounter, but Diavolo ends up more or less a secondary spirit inside Trish and can only act by using King Crimson, makes it possible Doppio was the original person, but had a split personality that became its own being in the form of Diavolo after he was pierced by the Stand Arrow. The ambiguous nature of their background makes the actual aspect of their relationship and what each is mysterious, enough to be pointing to all suggestions at once.
Does Diavolo simply speak through King Crimson like other Stand users, allowing him to communicate without revealing his own appearance? Or is King Crimson some type of sapient Stand, similar to Cheap Trick, and the true "Diavolo" personality controlling Doppio? It's simple to argue for the former; notably, Diavolo stops speaking through King Crimson once his identity is revealed. There is some evidence for the latter, however. Notably, when Chariot Requiem switches the souls of everyone and puts them into different bodies, it is revealed that Doppio and Diavolo are separate souls in the same body, and there are several depictions of Diavolo carrying on internal monologue with the appearance of King Crimson, even after Diavolo's reveal.
Some claim that Diavolo is not merely a Satanic Archetype, but a literal demon. This theory grew in popularity thanks to the Adaptation Expansion from the anime: it's mentioned that Doppio's mother suddenly went from normal to heavily pregnant within the span of a day, after spending two years in prison away from any male, and the newborn Doppio's eyes briefly flash a demonic red. Diavolo also demonstrates unusual knowledge of how souls work (for example, instantly being able to tell that since Bucciarati is undead, he can only see soul energy, and manipulates his soul to help disguise Doppio's). His ability to physically transform Doppio's body when he takes over can be chalked up to a demonic power. All this, on top of the large amount of religious symbolism surrounding him and the part as a whole, makes it easy to interpret Diavolo as a demon, or even Satan himself. This interpretation also has the side-effect of making his Fate Worse than Death feel like less of a Karmic Overkill, as such a hellish fate is the most fitting punishment for a being who came from Hell in the first place.
Leaving Bucciarati in the elevator with Trish's severed hand seems like a needlessly Stupid Evil act. However, it is possible that this was Diavolo's way of testing his subordinate's loyalty—if Bucciarati doesn't object to something as heinous as Diavolo murdering his own daughter, then he's proven that he will do anything to stay alive and keep his position within Passione. It may also be a nonverbal threat directed at Bucciarati himself and by extension his team, demonstrating what he will do if they decide to cross him like La Squadra had done; Diavolo may have feared the potential rise of another traitorous team after Polpo's out-of-nowhere "suicide" and Bucciarati's recent promotion to capo.
What is the deeper reason behind Abbacchio's antagonism toward Giorno? Is he envious of how much Bucciarati trusts Giorno despite his status as a newcomer? Does Giorno's willingness to disobey orders rub Abbacchio the wrong way since it reminds him of the reason why his career as a police officer ended? Is he worried about what influence Giorno might have on Bucciarati? Or is it some combination of these?
In the anime, there is a scene where Melone licks his lips while looking at a woman's feet and Formaggio, Prosciutto, and Pesci give him a disgusted look. Is it a case of Even Evil Has Standards or are they just bothered because he did it in public and they don't want unnecessary attention drawn to them?
When Abbacchio pledges his loyalty to Bucciarati as they're about to betray the boss, he says, "The only place I've ever felt at home is when I'm with you." Is this a Platonic Declaration of Love, or a romantic one?
Angst? What Angst?: Polnareff doesn't seem too bothered by his ultimate fate of being sealed inside Coco Jumbo. Being able to walk again after being only wheelchair-bound beforehand might be a big factor in this, as well as feeling lucky to be alive in any sense of the word, unlike Narancia and Abbacchio.
Risotto Nero being the leader of La Squadra, the antagonistic force for the initial half in spite of his buildup and impressive display of powers against the Boss himself gets killed by Narancia's Stand unceremoniously through Diavolo's trickery.
Diavolo himself, after a tense conflict to get the Arrow, he and King Crimson are immediately defeated by Giorno's Requiem power outmatching the former's.
The "Green Day and Oasis" arc is 14 chapters long in the manga, due to showcasing both Giorno and Mista's fight against Cioccolata, and Bucciarati's fight against Secco. The problem is the fact that both battles are quite long and scenes are dragged out for much longer than they should be. Thus, the main goal to get to the Roman Colosseum grinds to a screeching halt in order to take care of the two Stand users. The anime tries to mitigate this somewhat by condensing the arc down to 3 parts. However, most of the anime's arcs are 2 parts long at most, so this is still somewhat in effect.
This is a common criticism regarding both "The Requiem Quietly Plays" and "Diavolo Surfaces", with the latter being 5 chapters long, and the former being a whopping 8 chapters long. The least offensive aspect is that the "Freaky Friday" Flip being Played for Laughs causes the final fight to come to a standstill, but more importantly, the hunt for Chariot Requiem is needlessly dragged out thanks to having to determine both how to stop it and which body Diavolo is hiding in, with the guesswork amounting to needless padding. The anime remedies this somewhat by compressing the 13 arduous chapters into only 3 episodes, but the pacing of it still manages to drag.
When Risotto had a weakened Diavolo pinned down and was ready to manipulate Narancia's Aerosmith via Metallica's blood being on it in order to kill and the very least take the Boss down with him, King Crimson suddenly demonstrates the ability to temporally become intangible, allowing the bullets to miss and hit just Risotto. While Diavolo states he erased 0.5 seconds of time and caused the bullets to hit Risotto only, this still flies in the face of how King Crimson works since even when erasing time, Diavolo still has to move or act within it to make the effect occur, as shown by him nearly killing Bucciarati, Polnareff, and him killing Narancia. By contrast, this moment shows him using his ability to flat out evade an attack by doing nothing, and it gets somewhat contradicted later when he has to use King Crimson to deflect Mista's bullets. It served as a very contrived way for Risotto to lose and have the Big Bad remain alive until Giorno finished him off. It also served as a large reason for why King Crimson was so hard to explain due to this additional ability.
The aftermath of the fight. King Crimson isn't shown to have any inherent healing properties, so it's not clear how Doppio/Diavolo's wounds (including needles through his cheeks and a pair of scissors through his neck) were able to be patched up without any gaping, wounds of visible blood in time for him to go unnoticed by a group of kids playing soccer.
In the anime, "Il Vento D'oro", a bombastic piece focusing on guitars and the occasional chant of "Jo! Jo!" or "Golden wind!"
There's Bucciarati's theme, "Nella Cerniera", which encapsulates his burning, passionate resolve in an absolutely fierce rock track.
"Canzoni Preferite" (colloquially known as the "Torture Dance" song) is a very catchy tune, and the infamous dance only helps to cement it as a banger.
"Modern Crusaders" by Enigma, a catchy, heavy-hitting art rock song that perfectly encapsulates the mood of Golden Wind's second half.
"Fierce Fight", the song that plays when Bucciarati faces off against The Boss's Stand, King Crimson and finds a way to counter its almost invincible ability.
"Un'altra Persona", aka Diavolo's theme, a fantastically eerie and mysterious tune. It even manages to sound like time flowing anomalously.
Awesome Art: This part has some stellar art from Araki, who mixes his detailed character work with some great camera angles and framing. The White Album and Oasis/Green Day fights are standout examples of this. On the anime side of things, the Metallica fight has some incredible animation and character art throughout the entire episode.
Badass Decay: As the manga shows, Jean-Pierre Polnareff would never be the same after a horrific battle that rendered him an utter cripple; costing him an eye, an arm, and both his lower legs. He's left unable to stand up or even walk, let alone fight.
Giorno is this in spades, with fans often either citing him as one of the best JoJos or the absolute worst depending on who you're speaking to. Fans in favor of him often cite his cold, tactical personality, and the fact that he inherits both Jonathan's righteous and idealistic personality as well as DIO's ruthlessness and callousness, while those who are against him find his personality flat and boring in favor of the more upbeat JoJos like Joseph or Josuke. Others don't mind that much due to this part's tendency to have a balanced Ensemble Cast, with much of the focus on Bucciarati's crew interacting with one another and working as a group. But these points aside, Giorno has an obvious lack of front-line fighting compared to most of the other JoJos also ties into the base-breaking, as does the nature of Gold Experience and how overpowered it is—especially by the end.
Diavolo is probably the most divisive Big Bad of the franchise. One camp of the fanbase appreciates the mystery surrounding his character which leads to many Epileptic Trees, his relationship with Doppio, and how genuinely intimidating and mentally damaged he really is. On the other hand, he's disliked by many for being mysterious for the sake of it, to the point where nothing about his character truly stands out. It also doesn't help that he has very little actual screentime and, adding to that, the majority of the fandom still can't quite understand how his Stand or Epitaph ability truly works.
In spite of how beloved the entirety of La Squadra di Esecuzione is, there's a little bit of discourse on how enjoyable Melone actually is. Is he a charming Playful Hacker with an attractive design and a memorable Character Catchphrase of, "Di molto," or are his actions too predatory and uncomfortable, akin to the likes of Forever and Alessi, to fully enjoy the situations he puts himself in?
To a lesser extent, Leone Abbacchio also counts. Some fans enjoy his asshole tendencies and his chemistry with Bucciarati. Other fans are annoyed by his Jerkass attitude, and the fact that he essentially hates Giorno for existing. It doesn't help that he dies before he gets the chance to like Giorno or undergo any major development.
Polpo eats his own fingers and then they magically grow back, something the story draws attention to for a moment. It's never explained why and doesn't seem to be related to the abilities of his Stand, Black Sabbath, and Giorno never comments on it either.
Narancia, Mista, and Fugo's weird dance, which they abruptly start without a word of explanation while in the middle of torturing an enemy Stand user. The anime heightens this even further by incorporating weird visual shifts and strange music. As an astute YouTube commenter pointed out, not only does it just suddenly happen, with no leadup or explanation, but afterwards they go back to what they were doing without a word, implying that it happens often.
Broken Base: Giorno's color scheme in the anime, particularly his magenta outfit, has drawn some divisive reactions from the fanbase, since prior JoJo material like the colored manga and CyberConnect2 games have favored a dark blue outfit. Some find it unique in how it contrasts previous JoJos' preference for dark colors, while others find it too bright and tacky.
Captain Obvious Reveal: Doppio turning out to be the Boss. It's not helped that immediately before his introduction that the Boss (in silhouette) says that he was going to fight the protagonists himself then pretends that the Boss and Doppio are two different people.
Although the man suffered no legal consequences for what he did, it's still satisfying to watch a young Fugo beat his pedophile college professor bloody with an encyclopedia.
Cioccolata establishes himself as one of the more depraved villains of the franchise that even Diavolo despises. His long and drawn out death culminating in a seven-pageNo-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Giorno is considered by many to be the most satisfying moment in the franchise since Steely Dan's beatdown in Stardust Crusaders or Angelo's fate in Diamond is Unbreakable.
For those who don't feel that Diavolo's ultimate fate of dying in an infinite loop was undeserved, this can qualify for all the heinous actions that he committed throughout the series.
Giorno Giovanna was initially considered the franchise's worst protagonist outside of Japan thanks to a perception of him as overly generic. However, much of this was blamed on the poor quality of early scanslations even from the outset, and once better translations became available, Giorno gained an increasing number of supporters who saw his calculating personality as a good fit for the Darker and Edgier tone of the part. Other fans, though, continued to hold him in low regard, and the later anime adaptation of Golden Wind amplified both camps by introducing the character to new audiences. Nowadays, Giorno remains a major Base-Breaking Character among JoJo fans, with many debating whether or not his early reputation as "the worst Joestar" was warranted.
For a while, Diavolo was considered the series' worst villain due to constantly being shrouded in mystery, which left little screen time to flesh his character out, and due to his Stand, King Crimson, being difficult to comprehend thanks to its unusual power of erasing time, which led to a number of memes mocking the power that eventually got acknowledged by the actual King Crimson. It didn't help that he lacked the traits that made DIO and Kira so popular. This began to change, however, when better translations and the anime were released and allowed fans to better understand King Crimson's abilities, appreciate the mystery surrounding his character, and see how vicious and ruthless of a villain he really is. However, how he compares to other antagonists is still a subject of debate.
Bucciarati's hairstyle is frequently referred to as a bowl cut by fans. It's actually a bob cut.
Gold Experience is often said to kick as its main method of attack, when in actuality, it only ever kicked once to push Ghiaccio's neck through the makeshift pole blade. Every other time, it's only ever punched people.
A common piece of misinformation that spread throughout the fandom for years is that Araki got rid of Fugo because he realized that he made his Stand too broken and had to remove him from the story or there wouldn't be any tension in the final fight. This isn't true, in actuality Fugo was originally going to be revealed as The Mole for Diavolo and would have become a villain for the gang to defeat but Araki decided that such a storyline would be too dark even for this story, and simply decided to just write Fugo out.
The fandom consistently depicts Giorno as being a staunch hater of drugs. While he does show animosity towards the prospect of them being peddled to unwary children, he only mentions this fact a grand total of once, as his main goal is to keep the innocent from coming to harm by Passione. Bucciarati is the one who is actually a hater of drugs, as it ties into his backstory of his father being murdered by a drug dealer, and Giorno only mentions drugs as a ploy to get on Bucciarati's good side before he officially becomes a member of Passione.
While Risotto can control the iron in people's blood and turn it into sharp objects, some people think that's his only power. He can actually control all iron within a certain radius of himself.
Polnareff doesn't become Coco Jumbo after his soul is placed inside of it (though he briefly was Coco Jumbo when everyone's souls were swapped, but rather a permanent resident of Mr. President. Coco Jumbo remains an independent regular turtle.
Despite the food names of the characters, Fugo's design is not based on cheese, even though he has a bunch of holes in his outfit. It seems more likely that he has a strawberry motif; his manga outfit is red and has holes like strawberry seeds, he has strawberries on his shoes and his first name refers to a dessert commonly prepared with strawberries. The anime changing his suit from red to green makes it less obvious.
Risotto is frequently called the capo of La Squadra. While he is their leader, this is different from being a capo, which is a title that has to be given by the boss. Diavolo did not respect Risotto or his team enough to make him a capo.
You'll find a good amount of people that believe King Crimson and Epitaph are two different stands belonging to Diavolo and Doppio respectively, citing that a being with two different souls could probably result in two different stands. While this could potentially be true, it's not the case here. Epitaph is only ever depicted as an extension of King Crimson akin to Killer Queen's Sheer Heart Attack rather than it being an independent stand that belongs to Doppio.
Diavolo is the mysterious "boss" of Passione, defined by paranoia and ambition above all else. Diavolo made his first mark on the world when he buried his mother alive and sewed her mouth shut before callously murdering his foster father and burning down his hometown. After selling multiple powerful Stand Arrows to Enya the Hag — causing the events of Parts 3 and 4 — Diavolo goes on to found Passione, a criminal organization he rules with an iron fist and uses to addict children to hard drugs. Diavolo further uses his capo Polpo to subject any potential recruits to lethal "tests" with a Stand Arrow that leave many dead. When his agents Sorbet and Gelato tried to discover his true identity, Diavolo had them horrifically tortured and killed to make an example to their fellow teammates, an act that turns La Squadra di Esecuzioni against Diavolo out of sheer horror. Upon discovery that his former lover Donatella — whom he abandoned years ago with no visible remorse — birthed a daughter, Trish, Diavolo begins hunting down the teenaged Trish to murder her out of paranoiac bloodlust. Along the way, Diavolo murders a variety of citizens for petty reasons, and mutilates a child to drink his blood for sustenance. Diavolo later unleashes Cioccolata and Secco onto Rome to eliminate Trish's protectors, the Bucciarati gang, once and for all, and Diavolo is flippant to the countless innocents he knows Cioccolata's Stand will kill. In the end, Diavolo personally slays multiple members of Bucciarati's noble gang, and nearly succeeds in his plan to kill Trish and gain the all-powerful Requiem.
Cioccolata, the most sadistic member of Passione, is a Serial Killer whose main joy in life is seeing pain and fear expressed on the face of someone about to die. He volunteered in aged care for the chance to drive vulnerable people to suicide by poisoning them and breaking their spirits by telling them that nobody would come to visit them. Inspired to become a doctor after filming the deaths of the elderly, Cioccolata would then purposefully kill the patients that fell under his knife by operating on them while fully conscious. From this cruelty was born a gruesome power: His Stand, Green Day, inflicts people with mold that causes them to die in agony as their bodies fall apart. While waiting to ambush the heroes, he kills several bystanders in this way. Rather than finishing off his targets while they're at his mercy, he waits while his similarly depraved partner Secco records their anguished expressions for posterity. He then takes a helicopter to pursue his foes and kills everyone else in sight. The anime adds to his list of crimes by having him be the one who butchered Sorbet. As a sadist unconstrained by morality and reason, Cioccolata earns the contempt of everyone he encounters.
Contested Sequel: Golden Wind is among the most hotly contested parts of the series among Western fans. Originally considered one of the weakest parts due to bad translations, to the point that detractors even admitted to committing the Fandom Heresy of giving up on reading this part and skipping it altogether, nowadays Golden Wind has many supporters who feel it doesn't get enough love and is unfairly judged, and some fans who outright state it as their overall favorite part (as it is often seen in in Japan). However, quite a few others still stand by it being one of the weaker parts.
Those who are fans praise Golden Wind for being Darker and Edgier than most of the other parts with more emphasis on the fights than anything, raising the stakes with overpowered Stands to create intense and often long fights, the protagonists being anti-heroes and Araki taking the Anyone Can Die rule to the extreme. As such the fans felt that Golden Wind had a fresh feel to it compared to other parts that allowed it to explore ideas and plots other parts never touched upon such as moral ambiguity while having a generally likable cast of characters.
Those who aren't fans often criticize this part for having needlessly complicated Stands, the Villain of the Week format getting stale (especially due to how long the fights can get), many of the more interesting plot points such as the moral ambiguity of the protagonists and Giorno's relationship to DIO never being explored, not using many of the protagonists or supporting characters to their fullest potential, being mostly disconnected from the greater narrative of the other parts, and an underwhelming villain alongside of a cop-out finale.
Crack Pairing: Some fans jokingly ship Bucciarati/Kakyoin, based on Kakyoin's supposed preference for mothers and Bucciarati's motherly attitude toward his team.
Creepy Cute: Although Purple Haze is one of the most dangerous and terrifying Stands due to its ability to inflict a swift, painful death to everyone around it, its obsession with cleaning itself can make it oddly endearing.
Risotto's Stand Metallica's effects are horrifying and painful to those unfortunate enough to get on Risotto's hit list, but the Stand themselves are considered surprisingly cute by a good portion of the fandom. Helps that they're partially based on the Hattifattener from The Moomins.
The part has gotten this reaction after the new translations. For a long time, Golden Wind has been one of the most criticized and controversial parts in the series due to a number of factors and after improvements done with the translations, many fans have come to realize that criticisms were mostly unfair. With the new anime announcement, the positive hype has overtaken the majority of fandom, even becoming Worldwide Trend Topic on Twitter for an entire day after.
Crosses the Line Twice: Zucchero's Cold-Blooded Torture scene. His severed head hung on a hook? Humiliating. Eyes slowly getting roasted by the sun's rays? Horrifying. Narancia, Mista and Fugo dancing in what is considered one the most memorable moments to grace this part? Hilarious.
Draco in Leather Pants: Part 5 might have the most instances of this trope out of any JoJo part, given that 99% of the important characters are mafia members.
La Squadra may be among the more sympathetic antagonists of the series, but they are still ruthless assassins in the mafia who are more than willing to kill anyone who gets in their way. Yet fans like to focus on their humanizing traits and downplay their more unpleasant ones. Sorbet and Gelato get a great deal of the leather-pants treatment and are nearly always portrayed as a sweet loving couple, for two reasons: we never see them do anything evil on-screen (though that's because of their limited screentime), and their horrible, agonizing deaths make it easy to feel bad for them.
Diavolo gets this to an extent, though not nearly as much as DIO, Kira, Pucci, or Valentine. His more ambiguous relationships are given a more sympathetic edge like with Doppio and occasionally his other minions. Though it's more common to play him up as a comedic character rather than a sympathetic one; his Kick the Dog moments treated as Crossing the Line Twice.
Secco has fans who find him Ugly Cute and he's often seen as a victim of Cioccolata, or at least significantly less evil than him, even though he willingly worked as the mad doctor's assistant and filmed Sorbet getting hacked to pieces as Gelato was tied up and forced to watch.
Even Bucciarati's team gets this treatment from fans who forget that, despite being sympathetic, they're still gangsters willing to torture and kill their enemies if necessary, often in brutal ways.
For Narancia, the fandom has a tendency to exaggerate his childlike traits and portray him as incredibly innocent and adorable, forgetting that he has a Hair-Trigger Temper and moments where he's borderline Ax-Crazy, and that he kills several people over the course of the story.
Abbacchio is frequently portrayed as outright fatherly to the younger team members, as a counterpart to Bruno being the Team Mom. Canonically, he's more of an Aloof Big Brother who mostly keeps to himself unless spoken to.
Ending Fatigue: The final battle for this part is one of the longest final arcs in the entire franchise. Unlike the battles against Kars, DIO, and Kira, this fight has multiple phases and keeps throwing new obstacles at the protagonists. It begins immediately after the protagonists defeat Cioccolata and Secco with Diavolo's introduction and a brief fight between King Crimson and Silver Chariot while the other protagonists attempt to find Bucciarati. Then Chariot Requiem awakens and the protagonists spend multiple chapters trying to figure out the body switch and stop Diavolo from getting the arrow, and then comes the final chapters of Giorno trying to claim the arrow. And once the final battle concludes, the story still has an additional five chapters about the gang's encounter with a Stand user before Bucciarati met Giorno.
Though Pannacotta Fugo receives a fair amount of development and characterization in the first half of the story, he is the least focused-on of Bucciarati's gang, only getting to participate in a single fight across the entire story. Purple Haze only appears once as a result, and he leaves halfway through the story, long before the next member dies, and never to return outside of a flashback, but he was well-liked and developed enough to become the star of his own very well-received light novel.
Another Stand-specific example would be Abbacchio's Stand, Moody Blues. While the Stand itself is the very definition of Awesome, but Impractical, serving next to no fighting capabilities, it's beloved for its incredibly creative uses, from replacing parts of Abbacchio's body when Man in the Mirror transports them to the mirror world, to being used to fly a plane via recreating a pilot when none of Team Bucciarati has the ability to pilot a plane, to flat-out recreating the events of a suicide tape. The anime also furthered Moody Blues' popularity, thanks to both its holographic metal paint job and its oddly satisfying phone receiver noises.
Like already mentioned above, Risotto is possibly the most popular secondary antagonist in the series for being A Father to His Men, Tragic Villain and a worthy opponent for Diavolo to compete of the leadership of Passione. His memorable arc and fight scene with Doppio is considered one of the best and most intense arcs in the part due to high stakes and Doppio not having the Plot Armor on in a similar way Bucciarati or Giorno does. Many fans even hoped that Risotto would have eventually joined Team Bucciarati in a fight against Diavolo. Adding to that, Risotto's popularity is certainly helped that he has one of the most terrifying Stand abilities in the series which is named after an influential thrash metal band.
Prosciutto is another popular one for being a the complete opposite of Pesci, a hardened, ruthless, determined gangster and a supporting mentor and big brother figure to Pesci who kills without hesitation and has very memorable inspiring words on how a stone-cold assassin gets a job done. His mannerisms and appearance are also the most gangster-like of La Squadra which is why many find him so memorable which is helped by his terrifying Stand ability.
Ghiaccio, despite being a minor antagonist, is rather popular thanks to his interesting design and his creative use of his Stand, White Album which make his fight one of the more memorable ones. The anime increased his popularity, thanks to his bizarre Seinfeldian Conversation-style ranting being voiced and hilariously ridiculous.
Diavolo's right-hand man and split-personality Doppio is regarded very warmly for his hilarious yet simultaneously creepy mood swings and his Adorkable nature. For some it's even enough to make them enjoy Diavolo more to an extent thanks to their interesting relationship.
Cioccolata is one of the most popular villains from this part due to his unapologetic cruelty, banter with Secco, dualism with Giorno, horrifyingStand ability, and memorable death scene. The anime exclusive Early-Bird Cameo of him being the one who sliced Sorbet up was a welcome addition to many. Another reason for Cioccolata's popularity is that, unlike most other enemy Stand users in this part, he has a fleshed-out backstory which exists just to showcase how awful of a person he really is.
To a lesser extent, Secco is also relatively popular due to his aforementioned banter with Cioccolata, his Sir Swears-a-Lot attitude, and his fight with Bucciarati during which he shows he's not as stupid as he looks.
Many fans have been theorizing whether Leaky Eye Luca was a Stand user or not, with some even suggesting that his shovel itself is his Stand, similar to Hol Horse having a gun Stand.
Due to a lot of Diavolo's past life being barely touched upon and deliberately left up to interpretation, fans like to bring up many theories surrounding him:
These twovideos bring up the theory that Doppio may in fact be the original personality of the Boss, and that Diavolo is Doppio's Split Personality rather than the other way around.
Another minor theory is that King Crimson is actually a sentient Stand like Anubis or Cheap Trick, and could also possibly be Diavolo's personality manifested into a Stand. This is because how Diavolo always speaks through King Crimson as shown in his fight with Bucciarati and having his soul swapped by Chariot Requiem.
Some fans speculate that Polpo and Risotto Nero are related in some way. This mainly comes from the fact that they're the only people seen in the whole with black sclera (both of them also have red irises in the manga) and they have names related to cephalopods, Polpo is Italian of octopus and Risotto Nero is a rice dish dyed black through cephalopod ink.
A common theory is that the members of La Squadra di Esecuzione are representative of the Seven Deadly Sins. Some comparisons are easier to make than others, but these are the most likely representations.
Envy: Formaggio. His Little Feet Stand is often touted as worthless by the other members of La Squadra, and he only ever feels comfortable beating up people smaller than him.
Pride: Prosciutto. He takes extreme hubris in touting his The Grateful Dead Stand as being end-all be-all, and while he does care for Pesci, he insists that he's overall better than him.
Sloth: Pesci. He has an incredibly versatile Stand, but doesn't ever muster up the courage to use it on a frequent basis. That, and he's often willing to give up on a task very early into it.
Wrath: Ghiaccio. He's a stickler for proper grammar, losing his cool over the word "Venezia" being opted out for "Venice", and when he doesn't understand metaphors, he loses his temper out of confusion.
Greed: Risotto. Being the leader of La Squadra, he's indicative of what the group's main goal is: to kill Diavolo and inherit his fortune through Passione's drug and narcotics division.
Even Better Sequel: Although Contested Sequel is very much present here, as both the story and characters are still at the center of debate whether they match the charm of the previous part, most people certainly agree that in terms of the anime adaptation, Part 5 outshines Part 4 and even Part 3 in many ways. While Part 4 anime was a strong package overall and was generally better paced than Part 3 (especially in later arcs where the flow was significantly altered to make it feel less tedious than in the manga), it was also criticized in spades for its art style change and having notable drops of quality when it comes to animation. Part 5 animation has a higher budget and is easily the best looking season so far, combining art styles of the preceding parts and putting much more attention and detail for pleasing both fans of the manga and newcomers. Examples include better visuals and sound design, additional scenes of fan favorites such as members of La Squadra interacting with one another, having a magnificent score with each of the characters having their own leitmotifs and most notably, utilizing the detailed animation for illustrating King Crimson's powers so that they make some actual sense as the concept of time is generally much more difficult to understand using still images of the original source material.
Evil Is Cool: Given that this part's main antagonists lack the usual incompetence and overt cowardice of the previous two parts, the majority of Passione are a legitimate threat to the heroes due to their abilities and resourcefulness.
Risotto Nero's Assassination Squad have a large fanbase for their cool designs, ruthlessness, powerful Stand abilities and their camaraderie with one another.
Unita Speciale, while not as popular as La Squadra, manage to be just as deadly a threat, if not more so. Squalo and Tiziano are a Battle Couple whose teamwork manage to corner a few of Bucciarati's team while having genuine camaraderie, Carne in spite of dying instantly- makes up for it for a terrifyingly invincible Stand that led to the debut of the first truly competent female protagonist Stand, and lastly the duo of Cioccolata- who in spite of being an utterly repulsive monster, is a gleefully over-the-top psycho with a nightmarishly deadly Stand, but is also resourceful enough to exploit it beyond its initial ability, and Secco, a seemingly animalistic slave that proves to be exceptionally cunning enough to put Bucciarati to a corner.
Diavolo himself in spite of his usualtrack, manages to be prove to be a subdued yet barbarically ruthless, no-nonsense, brutal and terrifying force of dark and conflicting origins to reckon with when he actually manages to succeed- having a nightmarish looking Stand with violent precision and incomprehensible ability that leaves the majority of his enemies baffled as they die.
Fandom-Specific Plot: A popular fanfic plot is Giorno being turned back into a baby or a child by an enemy Stand attack, and his team having to look after him for however long the effect lasts. In the process they usually find out about the abuse he suffered from his mother and stepfather.
What if Diavolo/Doppio actually decided to be a good dad to Trish?
What if Team Bucciarati and La Squadra decided to team up in order to take down the boss?
What if Giorno actually met the other Joestars and/or found out about what his father was really like?
Fanon: Due to the sheer popularity of the minor characters this time around, people take it upon themselves to fill in the blanks with their personalities.
Melone and Ghiaccio having a Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic and being Vitriolic Best Buds due to their short interaction between chapters. The anime showcased a similar relationship in the extended flashback of La Squadra's backstory. Related to this, fans often joke that Melone uses the grammatically-incorrect "di molto!" as a catchphrase mainly to piss off Ghiaccio.
La Squadra having a more family-esque bond than shown in the actual manga. Additionally, Risotto Nero being a Father to His Men or an outright Team Dad with Prosciutto as the Team Mom.
While La Squadra's main gripe with the boss is that he isn't paying them enough for their work, some fanfics take it further and make them so poor they can't even scrape together a decent living.
Prosciutto being a chain smoker is very common, coming from how his Stand emits a gas when it activates. It's also popular to make him an alcoholic, with a preference for whiskey.
The fandom mostly agrees that they are Stand users, but with Stands that aren't combat focused and prefer using more "traditional" methods of assassination. Sorbet is often portrayed as a Psycho Knife Nut and Gelato preferring firearms.
Some fans (jokingly?) believe that Sorbet is the top and Gelato is the bottom in their relationship, because gelato has milk in it while sorbet doesn't.
They tend to be portrayed as sadistic when it comes to their targets, but deeply loving toward each other and affectionate toward their teammates. Some fanfics have them as fatherly figures to Ghiaccio, or even being the ones who mentored Bucciarati when he was younger and just starting mafia life.
Some members of Passione are thought to be related to each other based on physical features, including Risotto & Polpo (both have distinctive black eyes with red sclera), Squalo & Sale (both have orange hair in a similar spiky style), and Scolippi & Melone (both have purple hair and similar facial features, although Melone's hair is blonde in the manga).
Abbacchio having a soft spot for Narancia to counter his hatred of Giorno.
When Abbacchio is drawn in fanart, he almost always wears black nail polish.
There is a popular theory that Hol Horse from Stardust Crusaders is Mista's dad. They have similar gun-related Stands that let them control the direction of their bullets (and they also tend to get hit by their own bullets on multiple occasions). The canonical timeline makes sense for this theory; Mista was born in 1982 and Stardust Crusaders takes place in 1988-1989, during which Hol Horse appears to be in his late 20s or early 30s. He is also a ladies' man who says he has "girlfriends all over the world", as well as a mercenary with no permanent residence who travels all over the world to find work, making it plausible that he could have ended up in Italy at some point.
Extrapolating Prosciutto's care towards Pesci to turn him into a Bucciarati-like Team Mom for La Squadra.
Melone being a Lovable Sex Maniac and sometimes a sadomasochist, based on his pleased reaction to the woman on the train slapping him after he went through her belongings.
In fanfics, Polnareff is often seen being a father figure to Giorno following his string of deadbeat dads, and sometimes telling him the truth about DIO, leading to Giorno disowning his real dad for all of his crimes. The fact that Purple Haze Feedbackmakes Polnareff the second-in-command of Passione to Giorno only strengthens this fan interpretation.
Secco's true appearance is unknown without his suit Stand, but one popular interpretation is that he has messy blue hair the same color as the stitches that go across the front of his face.
There is a vague but generally consistent idea of which members of La Squadra are older or younger than the others. Risotto is canonically 28. Sorbet and Gelato are thought to be older due to their conservative dress sense, as is Prosciutto. Pesci and Ghiaccio are younger; the former is meek and hesitant, while the latter's angry ranting over grammar rules is seen as a sign of immaturity. Illuso, Formaggio and Melone tend to fall somewhere in-between, old enough to be somewhat experienced, but young enough to not take their jobs completely seriously all the time.
Giorno has scars on his back from his stepfather beating him as a child. This is usually brought up in fanfics where a Stand de-ages him and turns him back into a child, making it necessary for his team to take care of him until he turns back to normal.
Risotto being somewhat-to-really awkward outside of assassination jobs has been picking up steam in circles.
Giorno's name is often shortened to "Gio" (sometimes written as "GIO") in reference to his parentage. Chinese fans have given him the nickname "茸茸" (róng róng), an endearing term for something downy or fluffy.
Giorno's outfit◊ on the Volume 62 cover, which consists of him wearing nothing but a ladybug necklace and a floating cloth around his private bits, has been referred to as "Narcissus Giorno", "Atlas Giorno", and "Fabulous Giorno".
Leone Abbacchio is given the affectionate name of "Pisscop" because of his former occupation and his Establishing Character Moment where he attempts to trick Giorno into drinking his urine.
Bruno Bucciarati is also often called "Zipper Man" after the translated name of his Stand, Sticky Fingers, and "Zipper Mom" for his feminine appearance and the way he takes care of the younger gang members. Since Abbacchio is referred to as "Goth Dad", he and Bruno are collectively the "mafia parents".
A variation: Many fans (especially ones in the West) tend to refer to him by First-Name Basis as opposed to how the story almost always refers to him by his last name. This is likely due to Bucciarati's last name being rather unwieldy, whereas the name "Bruno" is common in the West and easier to pronounce.
Narancia's name is often shortened to "Nara" by fans and in fanfics (and in a similar vein, Abbacchio and Fugo are sometimes called "Abba" and "Panna"). The Chinese fandom calls him "小飞机" (xiǎo fēijī), literally "little airplane".
Pannacotta Fugo is sometimes referred to as "Cheese Boy," mainly due to his clothing resembling Swiss cheese.
The "Torture Dance Song" that plays in the anime as the protagonists torture Zucchero is only ever referred to as such, rather than its proper name "Favorite Song / Canzoni Preferite".
"The 7 Page Muda", for Giorno's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Cioccolata for 7 straight pages. Even the anime adaptation of the scene is still called this, instead of the actual amount of time the beatdown takes.
Team Bucciarati is often referred to as the "Bucci Gang", based on the Lil Pump song "Gucci Gang". Another nickname for the gang is the "Modern Crusaders," as a reference to the second ED for Part 5 and the Stardust Crusaders.
The scene where Giorno heals Mista after the fight against Ghiaccio is refered to as "golden succ" since it was deliberately made to look as if Giorno is giving Mista a blowjob (that's an in-story misinterpretation by Narancia as well as the filthy imagination of the fans).
For La Squadra:
Since "La Squadra Esecuzioni" is a mouthful to both pronounce and spell for non-Italian speakers, the assassin team is usually just called "La Squadra."
Sorbet and Gelato are called the "Ice Cream Boyfriends."
“Goth Clown/BDSM Clown” for Risotto due to his black longcoat, jester hat, and habit of going shirtless except for two straps over his chest that look like dominatrix gear.
"Rape Computer" for Melone's Stand, Baby Face, due to its...method...of producing Laser Guided Tykebombs.
Like Bucciarati’s team, the members of the hitman team are sometimes affectionately called by short versions of their names. Formaggio becomes “Forma,” Illuso becomes “Illu” or just “Lu,” Prosciutto becomes “Pro” or “Pros,” Melone becomes “Mel,” Ghiaccio becomes “Ghia,” and Risotto becomes “Ris.”
Giorno's beatdown of Diavolo is sometimes called "The Infinite Muda" due to it beginning Diavolo's infinite death loop.
Part 5 as a whole is sometimes called "Bucciarati's Bizarre Adventure" by those who think that Bucciarati is a better, more fitting, or simply more prominent protagonist than Giorno.
In some fanfics, the Sex Pistols are referred to by Italian numbers — "Uno" (#1), "Due" (#2), "Tre" (#3), "Cinque" (#5), "Sei" (#6), and "Sette" (#7).
Sale's first name is unknown, but some fans call him "Luigi Sale" to go with the full name of his partner, Mario Zucchero.
Diavolo stands out for looking incredibly garish even in the highly glamorized Part 5. He appears to wear what looks like lipstick, a body net, and trailing nets attached to his pants. Oddly enough he averts this before his true appearance is revealed, keeping his hair restrained and donning a wine red suit.
This applies to a good deal of the other villains in Part 5, with special notice given to Risotto Nero. With an even more Stripperiffic version of Sephiroth's outfit, and a hat that looks like a piece of cloth with little balls dangling from it.
Even the heroes aren't immune from this, with Fugo's hole-filled suit standing out.
Fetish Retardant: It's not as severe of a case as Lucy from Steel Ball Run, but Trish's incredibly skimpy outfit and noticeable bosom have become a bit off-putting for fans who are aware that she's only 15.
Foe Yay Shipping: Risotto/Doppio is surprisingly popular despite the two's canon interactions consisting of Risotto trying to inflict a Cruel and Unusual Death on Doppio.
Friendly Fandoms: Similar to the case between Diamond is Unbreakable and Persona 4, this part and Persona 5 are particularly friendly. Not only are they the fifth numbered installment of their respective series, but both involve a group of young Anti-Hero criminals who intend to improve society by punishing other criminals.
Growing the Beard: The introduction of La Squadra is where fans feel the part begins to pick up especially in regards to how likeable the members of La Squadra are and how much effort is put into making the fights climactic.
As Narancia swims after Bucciarati's boat at the last second to join them in betraying the boss, Fugo yells at him, saying he'll get himself killed. This ends up happening when Narancia ends up dying at Diavolo's hands near the end of the series.
Cioccolata's MO is keeping his victims alive for as long as possible while he's in the process of killing them, all while he has Secco record their anguished expressions leading up to their deaths. Three years after their introduction, this would become the exact same plotline behind August Underground, considered to be one of the most disturbing Exploitation Films of all time.
Shortly before Cioccolata's debut episode aired on Toonami, a news story surfaced about a VA hospital nurse named Reta Mayes, who murdered 7 elderly patients by purposely administering lethal doses of insulin to them.
He Really Can Act: Kellen Goff has already proven his chops here voicing Diavolo in the English version of the anime, but the crime lord's final moments is where Goff manages to shine and deliver a performance that's on another level. Not only does Goff perfectly capture Diavolo's horrible descent into insanity, but the ear-piercingly loud screaming also helps making an already terrifying scene even creepier. Who could have guessed that Funtime Freddyfreaking out could be so frightening?
In Stardust Crusaders, Kakyoin's death was aired on June 7th, National Donut Day in the U.S. Likewise, the episode where Polnareff "dies" in a similar manner was aired on the same holiday.
Cioccolata and Secco's Stands being named Green Day and Oasis becomes this when taking into consideration the similar memes between the two bands of appealing to edgy or depressed teenagers. Mind you, their introductory arc was released in 1998, which was far before the likes of American Idiot, which helped cement this idea in the common masses further. Looking at the comments section of this mashup of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Wonderwall", two songs from the respective bands that are infamous for their shared simplistic, moody chord progression, a majority of the comments are JoJo references.
Bucciarati licking Giorno's sweat off his face in his introductory scene, calling it "the taste of a liar". In other words, he's so close to getting the truth, he can almost taste it.
Bucciarati's idea of intimidating Giorno involves tasting his sweat by licking his face.
Invoked with the infamous scene where Narancia walks into Giorno healing Mista, where the latter is moaning and telling Giorno to "be gentle" and "not to take off his clothes."
Hype Backlash: Having become Vindicated by History, this was bound to happen with the recent praise it's been getting giving new viewers higher expectations. Diavolo and the final battle are generally viewed as confusing or lacking, though not without iconic moments, and the Part's lack of consequence in the following one is also disappointing.
The fact that people retain their previous state of conscience after King Crimson's time skips would cause a lot of problems, especially for motorists who are trying to focus on the road or construction workers trying to avoid serious workplace mishaps.
Trish knocking Notorious B.I.G into the Tyrrhenian Sea causes it to become a kraken-esque creature of legend that causes the destruction of quickly-moving ships. Question is, how many ships have attempted to cross the Tyrrhenian since B.I.G started inhabiting it?
Green Day's mold spores end up infecting a vast majority of Rome; not just the protagonists, but it's never explicitly shown how much of a body count Cioccolata was able to amass as a result of it; not even when Chariot Requiem is set loose.
Iron Woobie: Giorno was fathered by a man who never cared for him, neglected by his mother as a baby and a toddler, used as a punching bag by his stepfather and bullied by other children, with his only salvation coming in the form of a gangster whose life he saved. During his journey, he suffers numerous horrific injuries that would kill a normal person a hundred times over and sees three of his new friends savagely murdered by the boss. Still, he keeps soldiering on and never loses an ounce of determination, endeavoring to achieve his dream and make life better for Italy's people.
The name and appearance of the leader of Passione, Diavolo. While the actual story treats it as one of the biggest mysteries, most adaptations no longer bother hiding it, and he's already recognizable to most of the West because of the many memes surrounding his Stand, King Crimson. Thankfully, these are mostly surface-level information and people spoiled on that aspect usually don't know his link with other characters or what his Stand ability is (outside of "just working").
If you hang around forums where Hypothetical Fight Debates are held, there is a good chance you're already aware that Gold Experience evolves into Gold Experience Requiem, which has the power to nullify any attack. Due to the Story-Breaker Power nature of this ability, it's very often brought up in these discussions, with "Can this character beat Gold Experience Requiem?" being a commonly asked question.
The fact that Polnareff shows up late in the story, and his fate of having his soul swapped into Coco Jumbo's body, due to the constant jokes surrounding it.
Abbacchio's personality is that of a cynicalmartyr who never takes no for an answer and never wants to hear other people's ideas, but this sense of tunnel vision is the result of extreme self-loathing and guilt due to his backstory of being a police officer who took a bribe from a seemingly-innocent criminal that resulted in his closest partner's death. Seeing himself as completely hopeless, he's devoted the rest of his life to helping those in need, even people who don't want his help at all, and it isn't until he dies and meets his partner in the afterlife, who says that Abbacchio lived a noble life, that he manages to forgive himself.
Pesci becomes this after Bucciarati kills Prosciutto, his closest ally, and is motivated to continue fighting just to avenge his friend even if he knows he doesn't stand a chance against Bucciarati and his gang.
Love to Hate: Cioccolata is probably the most depraved villain to ever grace the franchise, being a Mad DoctorSerial Killer and all. But his wanton cruelty, nightmarishly horrifying Stand ability and his surprisingly hilarious and over-the-top dynamic with Secco also makes him enjoyable to watch at the same time. His extremely memorable beatdown at the hands of Giorno is one of the most satisfying moments to grace the series proper.
Giorno Giovanna, the main protagonist, is DIO Brando and Jonathan Joestar's son. Born Haruno Shiobana and growing up in an abusive background, Giorno, inspired by a gangster who saved him from the abuse out of gratitude for saving his life, developed the ambition to reform the mafia and free it from drug dealing and oppressive operatives. Attracting the attention of Bruno Bucciarati after the death of Leaky-Eye Luca, Giorno strikes an alliance with him and joins his team. Giorno then proves to be an invaluable asset, either outwitting his enemies when he's in the frontlines, providing support or figuring out the enemy's abilities, providing vital information to the team even if he's beaten himself. Following Bucciarati when he and most of his team betray Passione's Boss Diavolo, Giorno later outsmarts Diavolo himself, figuring out the latter's plan to reach the Stand Arrow before Team Bucciarati does. Upon getting the Arrow first thanks to a team effort, Giorno defeats Diavolo with its power and becomes the Boss of Passione. Inheriting Jonathan's heart of gold and DIO's ruthlessness and charisma, Giorno earned both ally and enemy's respect and fear through his many brilliant feats.
Bruno Bucciarati is a charismatic gangster working for the Italian mafia, with hopes to upend the current vile system and replace it with his own organization, free of addictive drugs and monstrous operatives. Rising to the rank of Capo through his own tenacity and cleverness, Bucciarati uses his insanely loyal gang and allies with Giorno Giovanna to combat La Squadra di Esecuzioni, outwitting all the enemies they face. Betraying "the Boss" Diavolo himself when the man tries to kill his daughter Trish, Bucciarati keeps a step ahead of powerful Diavolo in protecting Trish, survives a lethal blow for days through a combo of his own will and Giorno's power, and personally screws over Diavolo in the gang's climactic battle with him, Bucciarati using his last moments of life to secure Giorno's victory and urge him on in creating a new crime syndicate. One of the greatest partners a "JoJo" ever had, who inspired a familial care in his entire gang through his compassion and levelheadedness, Bucciarati played the largest role possible in helping Giorno secure his dream to be a "gang-star."
Risotto Nero is the leader of La Squadra di Esecuzioni, Passione's rogue assassination team. After his team was sent the mutilated corpses of two of their members as a warning, Risotto and his team decide to betray Passione. Finding out about Trish, the Boss' daughter, Risotto comes up with a plan to kidnap her to find out about the Boss' identity. Risotto tracks down the heroes at every turn, torturing a Passione member to reconstruct a photo of their next location when he temporarily loses track of them. Later when all of his men are killed, Risotto hides out at Sardinia, correctly deducing that Trish will be returning there. Upon confronting Doppio, Risotto brings him to near death with a variety of tactics before the Boss tricks Narancia into shooting the unexpected Risotto. However, even upon death's door, Risotto takes control of Aerosmith attempting to have it shoot both him and the Boss to death, a move that even the Boss praises him for.
Tiziano is a member of Passione's elite subdivision. Tasked alongside Squalo to kill Bucciarati's group, Tiziano attaches his stand, Talking Head, to Narancia's tongue, controlling his speech to mislead the heroes. Using this in conjunction with Squalo's Stand, Clash, Tiziano incapacitates Giorno, ensuring that he can't heal the others, before leading all of them into an explosive trap. When Narancia finally discovers their location, Tiziano sacrifices himself to protect Squalo while simultaneously providing liquid for Squalo's Stand. Calculative to the end, Tiziano proved to be one of Passione's most dangerous members.
Thanks to Gold Experience Requiem being one the most, if not the most broken Stand in the series, Giorno has become this in the eyes of the fans. People like to pit him against other powerful characters from different fanbases such as Superman and Goku. Without Requiem, Giorno still qualifies as a Memetic Badass as long as "Il Vento D'oro" is playing, leading to jokes about how Giorno playing the piano is omnipotent.
Guido Mista is a cool guy in canon but among the fandom, he is the greatest being who ever walked the Earth. His popularity has given him god-like status among the fandom and many fan portrayals often give him a personality akin to that of Deadpool. And then there's the fact that he has a harem comprised of every female character in the series... and Narancia. This reputation increased in the anime adaptation where during the flashback scene has him dodging all the bullets by pure instinct, making jokes of him having Ultra Instinct.
Risotto Nero, thanks to his ruthless efficiency and Metallica's power to turn his opponent's blood iron into weapons, has earned a reputation as one of the deadliest JoJo characters. If you try to put him in a Hypothetical Fight Debate, there's a good chance that whoever's on Risotto's side will just say that the opponent dies the moment they enter his range (which they can't even see due to him being able to turn invisible), and it's rare for anyone to try to justify how someone could defeat him since it's hard to think of a way for him to lose a fight without Plot Armor being involved.
Mista's tendency to be hit by his own bullets is something that hasn't gone unnoticed by fans, to the point where he's a bigger danger to himself than the enemy Stand user is. Especially so when Sex Pistols is shown to be able to block bullets for himnote the gangsters' inability to shoot him during his backstory is implied to be an early manifestation of Sex Pistols' ability, and Number 5 blocks bullets when Prosciutto shoots Mista, yet he rarely ever does this for most of the story. Comparisons to Part 3's own Hol Horse inevitably followed.
Fugo gets laughed at by the fandom for his suit looking like Swiss cheese and is considered cowardly by some for his decision not to join the rest of Bucciarati's squad in taking Diavolo down.
Diavolo gets this too due to his tendency to grab the Villain Ball as well as his stunning display of Bond Villain Stupidity right before the climax. The fact that unlike the other Big Bads, he doesn't get an 11th-Hour Superpower doesn't help his case at all.
Narancia as a child in flashbacks, especially in the anime, is this to a vocal portion of the fanbase. Doesn't help that he's a major woobie. Even 17-year-old Narancia is considered adorable, labeled by fans as the "baby" of Bucciarati's group, despite being, as he consistently points out, older than Giorno.
The Sex Pistols, but namely Number 5 due to how he acts.
Notorious B.I.G. is a terrifying Stand, but the scene where he punches the soft clock over and over looks similar to a baby playing with an inflatable toy, which stops once he gets a much larger and nightmarish appearance.
As of the anime adaptation, Giorno's MUDAs count as this combined with Gold Experience punching effects which sound like a combination between machine gun and cash register.
Moody Blues' telephone sound effects to the point that many fans want a "Moody Blues ASMR".
Even fans of the original Japanese version of the anime admit that the voice Kellen Goff uses for Diavolo is amazing. Listen for yourself.
During the Man in the Mirror arc, Giorno and Abbacchio end up arguing over saving Fugo. It would have been a dramatic scene if not for the fact that Abbacchio starts poking Giorno's "cleavage", which would make a lot of fans giggle. The anime doesn't help at all by giving a close up of him poking Giorno.
In the anime, Epitaph is drawn with less details than King Crimson, so people started to poke fun at the "quality". Some find it as Narm Charm, alongside King Crimson's weird faces.
In the anime, Risotto gets shot by Aerosmith which would have been a dramatic scene... if not for the awkward pose that made him look like he's t-posing.
Once Gold Experience Requiem is born, the undoing of Diavolo's time skip is portrayed by having afterimages of his past selves stand in a line. It's really difficult to take this seriously, especially once he turns around and reacts to the sight with a "Wha-" and all of his copies mimic the exact same motion, complete with an echo of his voice line. This scene ended up getting turned into a meme very quickly.
Golden Wind already pushed the boundaries just a smidge with the names of the characters being Italian foods and adjectives, but for the most part, they make sense. ...That is, until you get to Doppio. His last name being the Italian word for double makes sense considering he's Diavolo's Split Personality, but it's hard to take that point seriously when realizing that his first name is Vinegar.
All seriousness is taken out of Diavolo’s scenes after his full reveal, due to his outfit making him look like a male stripper, resulting in quite possibly the biggest Fashion-Victim Villain in the entire franchise.
The jarring transition between an episode's dramatic cliffhanger and a particularly eyebrow-raising line in the first end credits song ("Freek'N You") is considered so random and unexpected that it loops back around to being awesome, and has become a meme in its own right.
When Abbacchio summons Moody Blues for the first time in the English version of the anime, he adds "Let's jam!" just before it appears. It's cheesy, but it's also bomb, and Mick Lauer did a great job delivering the line.
Sorbet's Cruel and Unusual Death, in which his body is dissected into 36 parts and preserved in formalin frames to be sent to his teammates. The anime takes it up a notch by showing a silhouetted Cioccolata slicing Sorbet up, and we get to see a close-up of Sorbet's preserved body parts.
In the anime adaptation, when King Crimson punches a hole through Bucciarati's abdomen, you can hear his ribs starting to crack.
During Doppio vs. Risotto, due to Metallica sucking out Doppio's iron, his blood slowly starts turning into a puke-yellow color.
Giorno only makes a frog in one episode, but fans like to portray him as obsessed with frogs or even having a frog plushie.
Some fans have never quite forgiven Abbacchio's Jerkass attitude towards Giorno throughout the part, despite Giorno taking it in stride and never treating Abbacchio with any less respect than the rest of the gang. It doesn't help that he never gets the chance to get over this attitude and openly get along with Giorno due to his death at Diavolo's hands.
In spite of later translations doing a better job in explaining how King Crimson's powers work, King Crimson will be forever known as the Stand with the most convoluted ability due to the memes surrounding it.
Narancia gunning down Risotto Nero with Aerosmith before he was able to kill The Boss was this for some. As he unwittingly saved the very enemy they were supposed to kill, this made him indirectly responsible for Abbacchio's and his own death later on. Never mind that in the context of the situation, Risotto is going after Bucciarati's gang anyway for killing his team, Metallica's power made Doppio invisible to Aerosmith's radar due to the lack of CO2 exhaled (otherwise Narancia would have gunned The Boss down without even realising it) and Risotto himself had the misfortune of placing his severed foot in the same trajectory as Bucciarati's gang when Doppio threw the knives effectively giving away their position in the first place which caused his downfall.
Nightmare Retardant: Both King Crimson and Epitaph's faces were deliberately meant to be Nightmare Faces. Unfortunately the anime constantly gives them over-the-top and Off-Model expressions that make them look like they just stubbed their toe as opposed to frightening.
No Problem with Licensed Games: The PlayStation 2 game was well-received when it first came out, even from English gaming journalists who imported it. The game was praised for its visuals, and for being faithful to the manga, especially with no anime adaptation at the time to reference from. The only major criticism it got was that the gameplay itself was repetitive. When JoJo started gaining popularity in the West a decade later, views on the game remained mostly positive, and the game is considered a Cult Classic, if a bit flawed. The game was even given a Fan Translation in time for the 2018 anime.
No Yay: The real traction of some of Diavolo's quotes have this going with him and Doppio, calling his other personality "My Doppio... Oh, Doppio... My cute little Doppio!" It sounds either endearing or creepy considering how insane he is. It doesn't help that some of Araki's art◊ has them together rather... intimately.
One-Scene Wonder: Carne is one of the antagonists with the least characterization of the series (rivaling Arabia Fats from Stardust Crusaders), and only appears in a brief scene in which he's easily killed by Mista. It tells you something when even Leaky-Eye Luca (a non-Stand user) had more screentime and more lines than him. However, his bizarre appearance coupled with the comically short amount of time it took to defeat him, unlike his Stand, Notorious B.I.G, have made him the source of memes and parodies over the internet. Even Araki himself seemed to like him, as he said in the book compilation JOJOVELLER that he enjoyed drawing Carne more than B.I.G itself.
One True Threesome: Some fan works after the part ship Giorno/Mista/Fugo together, as the last surviving members of Bucciarati's team.
It's Zucchero's sheer effectiveness with using his Stand to stay hidden while attacking that makes him paranoia-inducing. It takes Moody Blues to actually find out why the rest of the team is disappearing one by one.
Squalo's Stand in the Tiziano/Squalo arc: "There's a shark in the soup!"
In the past, the only English scans available for Golden Wind were of very low quality, featuring a rough translation which, on top of featuring quite a few grammar errors, often failed to capture the gang's personality. For this reason, Giorno was one of the most widely hated JoJos, being considered a bland protagonist who is overshadowed by his teammates. Once better scans were available, some fans started to rethink their opinion of Giorno, and the anime adaptation left his haters in the minority.
Similarly, Diavolo upgraded from The Scrappy to Base-Breaking Character thanks to the new translation making King Crimson's abilities easier to comprehend.
Tiana Camacho who became famous as Ermes Costello previously voiced Narancia's mother Mela.
Jonah Scott who gained fame as Legoshi in Beastars previously voiced Formaggio.
Ryan Colt Levy would gain fame as Denji in Chainsaw Man voiced Squalo.
Matthew David Rudd who voiced Leak-eye Luca would gain fame as Panda in Jujutsu Kaisen.
Ron the Death Eater: In certain fanfics, Abbacchio's dislike of Giorno sometimes escalates into physical violence or even sexual abuse.
Rooting for the Empire: There are a lot of fans who would have liked to see the members of La Squadra take down The Boss or become an ally force to the protagonists. This isn't due to fans disliking the protagonists, but rather because the antagonists are very well-written, with distinct and memorable personalities and designs. The best example of this is during Bucciarati's fight with Pesci, where he nearly succeeds in completely wiping out the gang. Combine this with his endearing personality, strong friendship with his teammate Prosciutto, and the incredible amount of Character Development he undergoes in these few short chapters or episodes, and some fans end up finding themselves rooting for the assassin and even joking that Pesci is the "real" protagonist of Part 5.
Very minor considering how evil he is, but some fans wished that Diavolo had gotten an 11th-Hour Superpower from the Requiem Arrow much like his predecessors, DIO, Kars, and Kira had done instead of not only not getting it, but being the test rat for Gold Experience Requiem's power. Him being a Memetic Loser for most of the Part did warrant this considering what he went through.
While he's not actually as ugly as most examples that go through this trope, and it's more because of his expression and posture that make him look a bit like a Gonk, Ghiaccio still fits this where a good number of fanart, especially form Pixiv, portray him as a straight-up MeganeBishounen and soften his features by making him scowl less.
His teammate and bigger Gonk, Pesci is often the subject of a variation of this. Instead being made to look sexy or beautiful, he's often drawn to be cuter. This is done mainly by giving him a define chin and neckline, but made round and childish.
Narancia already looks young for his age. Fanart tends to run with that and make him look even younger and cuter, and/or more feminine.
People who like Bucciarati/Trish tend to also be fans of Giorno/Mista or vice versa.
Bucciarati/Abbacchio, Giorno/Mista and Fugo/Narancia shippers all tend to go together because it neatly pairs everyone in the gang with no leftovers, except for Trish. A less common alternative is to simultaneously ship Giorno/Fugo and Narancia/Mista.
The usual simultaneous La Squadra ships are Sorbet/Gelato, Risotto/Prosciutto, Formaggio/Illuso and Melone/Ghiaccio.
Ships That Pass in the Night: Downplayed. Risotto and Prosciutto are part of the same assassin team, but have very little interaction together; it is common for fans to ship them while portraying Prosciutto as Risotto's Number Two.
Shocking Moments: Even more apparent in this Part than others. Almost every Stand in this part takes about two pages to explain how it works, and are ridiculously overpowered. In the case of Epitaph we're not even given explanation of how it works other than.. it just does. Gets even crazier in the final battle where Polnareff awakening Chariot Requiem causes the protagonists to switch bodies and the world around them to crumble, and Giorno awakens a Requiem Stand, and by that point... good luck understanding the story.
The "Torture Dance": Mista, Narancia, and Fugo dancing while Zucchero is forced to watch. Prior to the anime's airing, it was one of the most anticipated scenes, to the point where even those who hadn't read Part 5 were looking forward to it, and the anime delivered, turning the handful of panels from the manga into a music video that then turned into a very widespread meme.
Giorno lying to Cioccolata about sparing his life and then subjecting him to a seven page longNo-Holds-Barred Beatdown. It's widely considered the best ending to a fight in all of JoJo, perfectly showing off Giorno's ruthlessness.
Song Association: Comes from the music references within the Stand names rather than actual music though.
Aerosmith has made a lot of songs, but the one that gets associated with Narancia the most is "Dude Looks Like A Lady", owing to his androgyny.
There exist edits of Doppio's death set to "Epitaph", with some saying this is the song that should have played during that scene.
Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" is strongly associated with Golden Wind. Before the anime aired, it was one of the most popular suggestions for an ending credits song, so much so that even though it wasn't used after all, many fans still think of it as the part 5 song, giving it the name "Gang-star's Paradise".
Squick: Araki's penchant for Body Horror is at its highest yet in this part with Stands displaying some really horrifying and disgusting abilities.
Cioccolata is one of the worst with his mass infection of people with mold causing them to graphically fall to pieces should they change altitudes. It gets worse when he cuts himself apart, animating his limbs all the while his spine hangs loose.
Bucciarati goes through some skin crawling punishment throughout the story which his newfound lack of pain allows him to treat casually. It starts with him accidentally running a nail through his hand without noticing and goes even further with him at one point having a broken wrist with the bone sticking out and him still using the hand freely.
But the worst would have to be Risotto's Metallica, whose power can manipulate the iron in one's blood. We get to see the pleasant sight of razors, scalpels and scissors bursting out from Doppio's body, including his throat. Ouch...
In a non-Stand-related example, when Abbacchio first meets Giorno, he pees into a teapot, pours Giorno a cup and makes him drink it. Granted, Giorno turns out to have used Gold Experience to make a jellyfish absorb the urine, but it's still rather disgusting to see him drink it.
Fugo's college professor molesting and flirting with him and asking him out on a dinner date when he was just 13. Graphic violence and Body Horror are bad and all, but nothing compares to the very real terror of someone in a high position of authority sexually taking advantage of a child.
Stoic Woobie: Risotto Nero fell into a life of crime due to tragic circumstances, yet he and his team never got any respect from the Boss, and just keeps losing his teammates one by one. He then dies an ultimately futile and unfortunate death just as he was about to kill the Boss. Despite all that, he keeps his emotions under a stone cold façade to the very end.
Stuck in Their Shadow: Giorno definitely gets top billing as Golden Wind's signature JoJo, but in the context of the story itself, many have pointed out how Part 5 is more or less Bucciarati's story, with him instigating a lot of his team's most important actions and taking initiative as The Leader in serious moments, such as fleeing Venice after betraying the Boss and being the one to enter the rendezvous in the Roman Colosseum.
Superlative Dubbing: The English version of the anime has been highly praised for its all-star cast, expressive dialogue, colorful inserts of fluent Italian, and for doing many of the characters and most iconic scenes justice, even outperforming the Japanese version for some. Kellen Goff's violently intimidating portrayal of Diavolo is considered to be the MVP. Ray Chase as Bruno Bucciarati was also highly praised, with some fans even saying he made "Zipper Man" sound cool.
Suspiciously Similar Song: The song that plays during the dance scene in episode 7 has been compared to the song "Pussy Control" by Prince. Considering that Araki likes Prince and "Pussy Control" is featured in the album The Gold Experience, it's unlikely that this wasn't intentional.
That One Level: The Cioccolata and Secco segment in the PS2 game has the dubious honor of being one of the most annoying parts of the game, especially the first part with Mista navigating through the seaside village to escape Secco. The layout of the map is labyrinthine, Green Day's mold is constantly draining your health if you're doing anything except running, Secco's attacks are sporadic, almost too fast to react to, and stun you for a long time, and he can even just randomly grab you and drag you to another part of the level.
Comparatively, Cioccolata's solo fight against Giorno isn't too bad, but Secco is way worse to deal with. His unpredictable and fast attacks return, and added to them is an overwhelming propensity to stunlock you and avoid getting stunlocked. Going for secret factors for completion's sake is also annoying because one of them requires you to stand still and put yourself at risk from an unguarded attack, another is heavily reliant on Secco's positioning and a bit of luck, and to top it off, it's one of the very few fights where the secret factors cannot be done out of order.
Some people were disappointed that the nameless old man during the Black Sabbath fight no longer was wearing the red clothes that earned him the nickname of Mario. Some call him Luigi, though.
Fugo's anime backstory flashback wasn't well-received by part of the readers of the spin-off novel by Kouhei Kadono, claiming that presenting his assault on his teacher as a justifiable attack against a sexual assault attempt says virtually nothing about his character, compared to Purple Haze Feedback painting it as an act of Disproportionate Retribution towards his dead grandmother being mentioned.
Melone being apathetic to the deaths of Prosciutto and Pesci in the anime wasn’t well-received, the English version even more so as he outright insults them. This was in contrast to his actual reaction in the manga, where he was noticeably trembling when he saw their bodies. Fans of the manga felt that this undermines the camaraderie that the members of La Squadra shared, as well as their motivation to avenge their comrades’ deaths.
There has been a small bit of outcry for the English version of the anime changing Giorno's usage of "Gang-Star" into "primo mafioso". This change removes the reference of Giorno being a descendant of the Joestar bloodline.
While Leone Abbacchio was a very useful asset to the team and many found his backstory to be tragic, others were disappointed that he was never able to undergo any meaningful Character Development, with his personality and relationships stagnating the whole way through until Diavolo killed him, with Abbacchio leaving a Dying Clue. Of note, whereas Mista and Narancia were skeptical of Giorno, but grew to admire him, Abbacchio never got over his Irrational Hatred of Giorno, and his sudden death kept him from ever getting to that point.
When Pannacotta Fugo was first introduced, he was established as a mentor figure towards Narancia and the serious guy in the group. This opened up a lot of potential for an interesting dynamic between him and Narancia and having a major role among the protagonists. Also, the abilities of his Stand, Purple Haze, are ridiculously powerful. Unfortunately, Fugo only gets ONE major fight in the whole story and is Put on a Bus after Bucciarati betrays Diavolo.
This part's secondary antagonist Risotto Nero. Initially established as a major threat in the first half of the story, many felt he was going to get a major battle with the protagonists at some point. Unfortunately, he's immediately forgotten after Diavolo tries to kill Trish, and when he does finally appear his fight is with Doppio instead of the protagonists. In fact, he doesn't even get to fight the protagonists since Narancia unknowingly kills him using Aerosmith while attempting to kill Doppio. Some fans also lament that he never formed an Enemy Mine with the protagonists and take down Diavolo. It's especially embarrassing when you consider that Hol Horse had a more active role as secondary antagonist.
Vinegar Doppio, the Split Personality of Diavolo. Established as a major secondary antagonist in the second half of the story. The narrative was setting up a confrontation between him and the protagonists in the finale. Unfortunately, he is hit with the body swap and is unceremoniously killed in Bruno's body by Mista in Trish's body, with Diavolo leaving him to die soon after in order to pursue the heroes himself. Some fans lament this decision as his presence helped to add something unique to Diavolo's identity and would've added some tension and potential drama in how to deal with this odd and violent yet endearing in his own way sort of threat being attached to the main villain- with the moral quandaries it could provide.
Many fans would have liked to see Araki's original plan of Fugo being The Mole come into action since it would have taken the story into a radically different direction and given character development to most of the main protagonists. Though some have defended Araki's decision on this as Fugo's Stand is so overpowered the fight between him and the others would have been a Curb-Stomp Battle.
Giorno being the son of DIO is almost never explored throughout the entire part. This plot point doesn't go beyond Giorno being ruthless and deceiving towards his enemies. A lot of fans would have liked to see this ruthlessness be used to make Giorno a morally gray protagonist and have a contrast between the other protagonists. The fact that he is technically half-vampire is also never addressed and he doesn't seem to show any vampire-like characteristics. Also, the fact that Giorno being DIO's son is never brought up again is especially egregious considering that Polnareff, one of only three people who fought DIO and lived, appears in the story and could have easily provided a springboard for that plot element to return. The anime gave it a little nod during the modified opening for Episode 48 where Giorno strikes a certain iconic pose but it still has no bearing on the story.
Koichi's initial escapade of coming to Italy in the early chapters. What could have been an interesting plot that brought more of the past mythology into the story just ends up being a framing device used to introduce it to the main storyline.
Some think it would have been better if Josuke was the one Jotaro sent to Italy, as it would have made the battle with Black Sabbath and the subsequent departure a good Passing of the Torch moment.
Exactly what happened to Giorno, Mista and Trish after the defeat of Diavolo is never explored. After a flashback arc, all we get is a cut to Giorno as the kingpin of Passione with no explanation and not even a word on what happened to Trish. Unfortunately, unlike the ending of the Part 4 anime which added a much-appreciated epilogue where we got to see what happened to the characters, the Part 5 anime did not add anything to the ending.
The premise of Giorno infiltrating Passione and help Bruno dismantle the organisation from the inside is dropped once Bucciarati's team (minus Fugo) collectively turns against Diavolo after the latter attempting to kill Trish.
King Crimson's potential to gain Requiem, after a brief hint, being squandered after Bruno's plan allows Giorno to gain it instead, leading to Diavolo's swift defeat and the controversial Rolling Stones follow-up. This interesting possibility could've led to a interesting change in the climax, with Diavolo following the JoJo main villain tradition of gaining a power-up and even if Giorno gained Requiem, leading to a hypothetical situation in how Requiem Stand fight would play out, leading to a more engaging ending than what we got instead.
Too Cool to Live: Due to Passione having several powerful Stand users, a few of them managed to be so threatening that that they had to die in order for the plot to progress.
Risotto Nero, despite him only being the secondary antagonist, has a cool design, a genuinely horrifying Stand power and nearly ends up killing the Big Bad right there and then. So of course he had to die before the final arc in Rome, through a series of contrived misfortunes no less.
Bruno Bucciarati, the part's Big GoodDeuteragonist who overshadows Giorno's presence at times in the narrative on top of having a powerful and versatile Stand. While he died in his fight with Diavolo, he still managed to technically stay alive through a mix of resolve and Giorno's Gold Experience's healing, and dies for real via Heroic Sacrifice before Giorno awakens Gold Experience Requiem to defeat Diavolo.
Narancia Ghirga and Leone Abbacchio. The former had a powerful Stand with an ability to potentially locate the Boss's location was beginning to become more convenient. The latter had an ability that was a major threat to the Boss's identity and was one of the senior members that was slowly growing to like Giorno as a character. Both are unceremoniously killed off by Diavolo the moment their guards were down, making it harder for the main group to locate Diavolo.
Some fans have this opinion towards Pesci. Although not good-looking like his comrades, fans found his Cowardly Lion personality, and dynamics with Prosciutto endearing.
Mista's Sex Pistols are absolutely adorable even though they don't look remotely cute in the conventional sense. They act like small children, demanding food, playing around and being enthusiastic about their job. Especially Number 5, who tends to be a crybaby because he's bullied by Number 3.
Mixed with Creepy Cute, Secco can give off this impression as well, what with his exaggerated facial expression, slurred language and downright animalistic behavior, which can end up looking oddly endearing instead.
Once Notorious B.I.G/Chase solidifies into a tangible form beyond a fleshy blob, it becomes weirdly cute with its diminutive size with oversized mitten like forelimbs. Its larger blob like form averts this completely.
Unexpected Character: As Golden Wind becomes very stand-alone from the other Parts when Jotaro and Koichi left the scene, seeing Polnareff from Stardust Crusaders returning much later on is unforeseen at least.
The giant zipper on the front of Sticky Fingers' crotch.
The design on the forehead of Mista's hat is supposed to be an arrow, but that's not what it looks like...
Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Gold Experience Requiem has realistic looking eyes on a cross stalk peaking outside of empty black slits like King Crimson's, giving the evolved Stand an unnatural, otherworldly feel that is made more frightening when it shows angered expressions as it does a pummel rush.
Unintentionally Sympathetic: Illuso. While he's seen as one of the more ruthless and unpleasant members of La Squadra, a lot of fans thought that his gruesome and horrifying death at the hands of Purple Haze was undeserved since he's nowhere as nasty as other villains like Cioccolata or Diavolo. That said, readers of Purple Haze Feedback may think otherwise due to his characterization of being a serial killer who was responsible for the murder of Sheila E.'s sister.
The Un-Twist: It really should come as no surprise that Diavolo had Bucciarati bring Trish to him just to kill her. Right from the beginning its established that the Boss doesn't want anyone to know his identity and even killed two of Nero's men for knowing too much about him. When Trish is introduced we immediately know that she is the Boss' daughter so naturally you can assume that his ulterior motive is to kill Trish since as his daughter she would know the most about him. Even if you don't catch on to this, the fact that the Boss is clearly established as this part's main antagonist should be a dead giveaway that he was manipulating Bucciarati's gang.
Values Dissonance: It's not by much, but Western fans are often confused as to why so many characters in Golden Wind — criminals, gangsters and mafia members, at that — view drug dealing and trafficking as such a heinous evil; by comparison, a lot of other (Western) fiction about the mafia and organized crime might mention drugs as a way to pay the bills and leave it at that. This can be explained by Japan's much firmer stance on drugs; as our own page on the Yakuza explains, even the organized crime in Japan views drug dealers as the lowest of the low.
Values Resonance: Despite the explicit Drugs Are Bad message of the part, it stands out among many other works from the 90's with similar messages for its lack of demonization of drug users. The entire blame of the country's problem with addiction is put on the Boss for enabling it, while the actual drug users are never represented in a stereotypically negative way, which resonates well with the recent popularization of the movement to decriminalize drug use.
Vanilla Protagonist: Part 5 notably scaled back the importance of the main Jojo and put forth much more of an Ensemble Cast. Giorno is still important and his motivations play a major role in the story, but he's also very much a Supporting Protagonist with a lot of fights having the main focus on his teammates. Bucciarati's status as the Deuteragonist is the most notable, however as his character arc and role in the story as the team's leader often pushes him into the spotlight.
Many readers were caught off guard when they learn that Narancia is actually a boy, especially since he has a feminine sounding name, wears spaghetti straps and a skirt over slacks, and also has a feminine voice in the video games. This is diminished in the anime, which gives him more defined muscles and a deeper, clearly male voice.
Bucciarati is sometimes mistakenly thought to be female because he wears a bob cut and an outfit with prominent cleavage, including a lace bralette, and is called a mom by a lot of fans. However, like Narancia, the anime gives him a pretty deep voice.
Some viewers seem to believe that Giorno's last name is "Giovanni" rather than "Giovanna," probably because they're more familiar with another Giovanni.
Because Fugo is addressed exclusively by his last name, a lot of people think his name is "Fugo Pannacotta" instead of the other way around.
Mista's name is pronounced "MEE-sta", but English-speaking fans frequently pronounce it as "MISS-ta".
Narancia's name is pronounced "Na-ran-cha", not "Na-ran-see-ah" or "Na-ran-sha".
Leone Abbacchio's first name is pronounced "leh-OH-ne", not "LEE-on" or "lee-OWN".
"Passione" is pronounced "pahss-ee-OH-neh" with a "si", not "pashy-OWN" or "pashy-OWN-eh" with a "shi".
Diavolo's name is pronounced "dee-UH-vo-lo", not "dee-uh-VO-lo".
Vindicated by History: Since better translations have surfaced in the colored manga and the (gorgeously animated) anime, Golden Wind's reputation has significantly improved, as the original scans were somewhat infamous for their poor quality. The biggest examples of this are accusations that Giorno is a dull, boring protagonist who barely emotes, which the anime beautifully counters by depicting his often terrifying Tranquil Fury with gusto, and that King Crimson's powers are too confusing, which the anime depicts through Visual Effects of Awesome to fairly clearly explain, some snags aside. That said, the Part has also seen some Hype Backlash.
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: While the franchise has had many instances of this trope before, Golden Wind takes it to a whole new level. The story of this part would feel right at home in a gangster film like The Godfather or Goodfellas especially when it comes to the brutal violence, graphic blood and gore, and unapologetic deaths. In spite of the increased maturity of this part, this still got serialized in Shonen Jump (and so was Stone Ocean, which was hardly any gentler).
Trish, who grew up without ever knowing her father's identity. As it turns out her father is Diavolo, the boss of Passione, and even though she was led to believe he wanted to protect her, he really wants her dead. There's also the fact that she had to see so many people die, including three of her new friends, because of her relation to Diavolo.
Narancia's mother died of eye infection when he was very young and was then left growing up with his neglectful father. Trying to live his new life as a hoodlum with his "friends", Narancia's life was then turned upside down when said friends betrayed him and made him a scapegoat to one of their robberies. Beaten up by police officers, Narancia lived for a year in correctional facility, where his untreated eye wound worsened. After being released, his friends had turned their backs even more to him, claiming that he got his infection from his late mother. He then lives for a year in the street before being picked up by Bucciarati. It only gets worse for Narancia when he has to leave Fugo behind following the betrayal, and after all he's gone through, he's killed by Diavolo, when all he wanted was to return home.
Fugo in the anime adaptation and Kouhei Kadono's Purple Haze Feedback spin-off. While his backstory (or the lack of it) didn't reveal that much in the manga, his Adaptation Expansion reveals that he beat his university professor due to him either molesting him (anime) or mocking him for having his grandmother's death affect his grades (PHF). This resulted in him being arrested and charged for an assault, which ended up in him being abandoned by his parents. His Stand, Purple Haze, is what Fugo seems himself as: an uncontrollable monster that rots everything in its presence, be it friend or foe. Adding to that, Fugo has several self-esteem issues and cannot act on an emotional level, which ends up in him being the only one not to join Bucciarati in his quest to overthrow the Boss. Purple Haze Feedback goes further and reveals that he is now suffering from Survivor Guilt due to not joining Bucciarati and blames himself for Narancia's death.
Doppio. Even considering the fact that he's the underboss of Passione and rather brutally kills Abbacchio, he's the split personality of Diavolo and doesn't realize it, he's a decent and helpful person when he's not being involved in Passione's business, and he dies in an extremely painful and sad way.
Woolseyism: The English version of the anime made some changes:
There are several instances of Gratuitous Italian, moreso than the Japanese original. Fans found these uses great, adding depth to the Italian setting.
When activating Moody Blues for the first time, Abbacchio says "Let's jam" after saying his Stand's name. Since his Stand contains a genre of music in its name, even if changed to Moody Jazz, it fits his character and was seen as a good addition by the script writers.
Each of Sex Pistol's bullets were given a different voice direction, helping them be more distinct. For example, one of them has a more cowboy voice, another has a deeper but still high pitched voice, while another has a more whiny and very high pitched voice.
During Bucciarati and Secco's fight, Secco mentions how the word "Colosseum" sounds similar to "Koroseyo" (Japanese for "kill them") before trying to kill Bucciarati. Because this wouldn't work when directly translated into English, Secco instead points out how the former instead sounds similar to "Mausoleum", which is what he says he'll put Bucciarati in. Helps that both of them are buildings associated with death, the Colosseum being where people die in battle and the Mausoleum being where the dead are buried.
King Crimson being renamed Emperor Crimson for the English localization makes sense for the setting in Italy, since the leader of Rome, Italy was usually called an emperor and the Boss is the shadowy ruler of Italy as a whole, it makes sense within the context of the country it's based. It also makes it clear how high Diavolo's superiority complex goes in regards to himself.
In the Italian localization, Doppio's first name is changed from Vinegar to Aceto, which itself is the Italian word for vinegar. Given that the word vinegar is derived from French language rather than Italian, this name change makes much more sense and doesn't come across as tryhard or ill-informed when paired up against other Italian names in Part 5.
Even in the highly glamorous Part 5, Fugo's outfit is incredibly tacky. It has holes all over it, even on the pants, Fugo isn't wearing any undershirts, just a necktie, and if Word of God is to believed, he even wears a thong so the underwear wouldn't be shown through the holes.
With the coming of the anime, there has been a small but recurring debate about Giorno's costume. Not the costume itself but the color, which is now magenta, in contrast to most adaptations which had the costume being blue. Some don't like the color, others would prefer to keep the "traditional" blue, and others think magenta doesn't fit the contexts of Giorno's personality. Another side doesn't mind the change. A third faction likes that the anime is fully embracing the Camp aspect of the series and argues that a magenta Giorno has its legitimacy in the numerous artworks of Giorno in pinks and purples. Some of the first faction was already aware of this, but didn't expect the anime to actually go with it.
One can only feel that Araki was somewhat self-conscious with his characters designs this time around. Bucciarati states early on that most members of Passione like to remain passive and to not draw focus to themselves. This is immediately contrasted with the rest of Bucci's group, who wear some of the most out-there costumes in the franchise. Special note to Fugo's... latex suit with holes in it? And Mista's hood/hat hybrid with a symbol on the front that looks oddly like a dick. He even keeps spare bullets in there!
Mista's original outfit had him wearing a pair of sandals with his exposed toes looking incredibly cramped in them, which is a common source of fandom mockery for how garish they looked. Araki himself seems to have become aware of this at an early point since not long afterwards Mista is drawn with boots (or at least an opaque pair of white socks under the sandals).
Alternative Title(s):Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Vento Aureo
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