In the fourth episode of Jojo's part 5 anime, we pick up where we left off with Black Sabbath attacking Giorno and Black Sabbath pulling Giorno's soul (it shows Gold Experience being pulled from Giorno's body) and Giorno then gets serious. Giorno attacks Polpo's stand, but it disappears. The fight goes on a little longer before Giorno discovers Black Sabbath's weakness: the sun. He then notices that Black Sabbath can only move within the shadows. Koichi enters the scene, thinking Giorno attacked the old man that Black Sabbath killed. Koichi is attacked by Black Sabbath, but Giorno saves him. Koichi notices the stand arrow, baffled as to why it is in Italy. Giorno convinces Koichi that his actions are right and that he is on the right path. Revealing that Black Sabbath is a long range stand type, they hatch a plan to trap Black Sabbath in a shadow that the object making the shadow can be destroyed, thus defeating Polpo's stand. The plan backfires when Black Sabba...

A quick note about this blog post: this post will be talking about the part 5 Jojo's manga, so if you are either reading part 5 and not quite finished or if you are an anime watcher only, please do not read this if you do not want to be spoiled. This post contains a LARGE amount of spoilers for the part 5 manga. You have been warned. White Album Now onto the actual discussion. This mini-series of blog posts will be random thoughts and discussion points about Golden Wind's manga. To start things off, I was always interested in how Araki chose to really branch out with his stand ideas with this part. Sure, we had unique stands before, such as autonomous stands, a stand that was a tower, stands that shape shift and stands that stop/reverse time. All of these are very interesting stands, but part 5 blew it out of the water when it comes to unique stands. There are two stands that are basically suits for the users (Oasis and White Album), other autonomous stands (Green Day), ...

Keeping on track with the manga (as per usual) part 3 shows us Buccellati joining Giorno in his quest to purify the mob. However, Buccellati warns Giorno that this will be dangerous. If he gets caught, Buccellati will not bail him out. Giorno accepts, and Buccellati leads him to the prison in which one of the Capo of Passione (the name of the mob Buccellati is a part of) and learns that he gives orders from the inside of the prison. He also learns that the boss of Passione is a complete mystery; no one knows his name, face or anything else about him. Giorno meets Polpo, the capo, and is tasked with keeping a lighter lit for twenty-four hours in order to be allowed into the gang. This test is to prove to Polpo that Giorno is trustworthy. Giorno sneaks the lighter out of the prison and makes it back home, putting the lighter in bread and surrounding it in objects in his room so a breeze won't blow it out. Koichi then enters his room and with Giorno hiding, he sees Koichi find his pas...

In the newest episode, episode 2, of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind, we learn of Giorno's past and what lead him towards eventually wanting to become a gangster. Giorno's father, whom his mother married when Giorno was young, was rather abusive, paving the way for Giorno to look up towards a mob member whose life Giorno had saved. The mob member looked after Giorno from afar, serving as a guardian and as an influence to young Giorno. With that flashback, we now know what drives Giorno. Giorno and Buccellati continue their fight inside the train and eventually outside it, with the fight ending by Giorno about to punch Buccellati, but drawing back at the last second, stating Buccellati is a good person. Giorno then tells Buccellati his plan to reform the mob syndicate that Buccellati is affiliated with by infiltrating it. His first step is killing the boss. After telling Buccellati this, Giorno asks him to join him in this endeavor, realizing that both of them know the...

The first Jojo Friday of the new season and come and past, and ample time has been given to watch and digest this masterpiece, so now we discuss! A quick note, I won't be going over most of the plot (maybe just a general summary sometimes) since I assume all who are reading this blog post have seen the first episode. With that being said, David Production went all out on this episode, making all the scenes look phenomenal. You can tell the art design is still Jojo-esque, but still feels like it is evolving. For example, Koichi still looks and feels like the Koichi we know from part 4, and yet feel more matured, perhaps even a tad older thanks to his character development and the changing art style from David Production. I'll post a couple pictures to help emphasize my point, but damn does it look nice. As for the plot, it seemed to cover the first four-ish chapters of Golden Wind, and the pacing felt very smooth and not forced. We meet the new Jojo - Giorn...

Just a quick reminder to everyone that Part 5 episode 1 is out today; today is the official start of Jojo Fridays again! I'll be back again early next week to talk in-depth about the first episode of Vento Aureo, or Golden Wind. In the meantime, enjoy the episode and meeting Giorno and Bucciarati for the first time in anime!

As an up and coming English major and anime watcher, I have been in love with Jojo's for as long as I can remember, and I want to share the experience of part 5 with the rest of the Araki-loving world! New episodes of Jojo's will be coming out on Fridays, so I would like to create blog posts a couple days after so people have ample time to watch the newest episode and digest it. Also, waiting a couple days to create a post will have hype remain in the early and middle parts of the week, even though Jojo Friday seems so far away! I hope you all enjoy this blog. Critiques are welcome and discussion is appreciated!