Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind Episode 27 Discussion

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Araki has been a fan of gore in order to emphasize just how villainous a bad guy is or how bloody and painful an injury is. He uses this method of thinking perfectly in this episode. Nero, the stand user with Metallica, has a terrifying ability that can easily win fights, hence the reason he is the leader of the Hitman Squad, also called La Squadra. He is a skilled assassin and he reminds us of this at every part of this fight. In fact, he even figures out the boss's identity even before our main protagonist. This fight also was not just a fight to give the bad guy a power up or anything like that. Nero gave the boss a run for his money and the boss almost lost to Nero's dangerous stand ability. Luck was on the boss's side however and Nero dies to Narancia's Aerosmith. The end to this fight felt extremely clever and well thought out from Araki. Maybe he made Narancia's stand work like that just to defeat Nero like this? Or perhaps Araki is just really good at thinking on his feet. Either way, the end to this dramatic and close fight was one for the books and is personally one of my favorite fights in all of JoJo's.


With Nero and La Squadra gone, the only villains that Buccellati and his crew have to face are the boss and his cronies. The battle between our main characters and the big bad villain will be bloody. The protagonists of previous JoJo parts have defeated their respective villains, but none are as potentially dangerous and the boss of Passione. Dio had time stop, Kira has bombs and time reversal but King Crimson not only has future seeing stand powers but he can also erase chunks of time and move within the erased time. No one else can interact with the boss or King Crimson in this erased time. Not only does that make the boss dangerous but he is also a very careful and intelligent man. There is a reason his identity is still a secret and he is the boss if a large Italian mafia. Couple that with Epitaph, the ability to see into the future, and you have yourself a dangerous JoJo antagonist.




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