With this episode we meet two of the boss's most fearsome stand users: Cioccolata and Secco with the stands Green Day and Oasis respectively. With what we see in this episode, Cioccolata is a psychologicaly messed up individual with a bloody and serial killer-esque past. Secco is rather loyal to Cioccolata, sometimes even acting like a dog. This dynamic between these two draw some similarities between Pesci and Prosciutto. However, it seems that Cioccolata is much more sadistic than Prosciutto and Secco seems to have lower intelligence as opposed to Pesci. However, that does not make them any less dangerous. These two are the two that the boss hand picked to defeat Buccellati's team. We have already seen just how terrifying Cioccolata's stand power can be. He could easily kill the entirety of the protagonists unless they can think on their feet and figure out exactly what to do to defeat this particular stand. A secret individual also brought up to Buccellati's crew...

No one is safe in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Abbacchio was killed by the boss of Passione. We knew from the boss's previous statements that Abbacchio was one of his main targets due to the fact that once Abbacchio uses Moody Blues's replay ability where the boss took a photo, they could discover his real face. The audience knew that he was a target and yet it was still a surprise to everyone who witnessed this moment for the first time. We haven't had a main character die in Golden Wind and the closest thing we had to a main character dying in Diamond is Unbreakable was when Yoshikage Kira blew up Shigechi. Before that we had the deaths of Kakyoin, Iggy and Avdol in Stardust Crusaders, which was a heavy blow to everyone watching JoJo's at the time. So the JoJo fan base has been blessed with no major character deaths for all of part 4 and a majority of part 5. Abbacchio was a character who was hard to hate in my opinion. Sure, he didn't like the main charact...

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 thin...

We kick off this new episode with a woman giving birth in an all female prison, which baffles the guards. They ask the pregnant woman who the father is and she responds that he has been dead for two years. Going forward a few years, we learn that the boy was adopted by a priest. The priest starts digging into his own room with a pick axe so he could make room for a garage to house a car for the boy he adopted and he finds a woman under the floorboards. Her mouth is sewn shut and it turns out that she is the mother to the boy the priest adopted. The boy catches the priest in the act and kills him, followed by burning that town they live in to the ground. Returning to the present, that same boy, who is now an adolescent, tries to save a kid from getting hit by a truck and instead, he falls in a puddle and his briefcase is destroyed. A fortune teller talks to the teenager who we learn later is named Doppio. The fortune teller states that Doppio is from Sardinia, he has a dark secret and t...

Trish understands that if she moves towards Giorno's brooch on the ground, Notorious B.I.G will attack her. She contemplates running to the closet and hiding, but Trish notices the fact that the chairs on the plane all have a button to automatically recline them. She click it and Notorious B.I.G attacks the chair. Trish realizes that she must move slower than the speed at which the reclining chair is moving, else the enemy stand will strike. She slowly makes her way towards the brooch while reclining more chairs along the way. Suddenly, Notorious B.I.G attacks her boot. There is dripping liquid falling from her boot from a broken bottle, which is what attracted Notorious B.I.G's attention. Trish's boot slips right off of her foot, almost like her boot split in two to allow her foot out. Trish hears a voice, which turns out to be her new stand Spice Girl (subbed to Spicy Lady). Spice Girl tells Trish that she was the one that slipped her boot off; she also instructs Trish to...

Following a brand new opening for part 5, Traitor's Requiem or Uragirimono no Requiem, we see our protagonists navigating a boat through the canals of Venice and Buccellati is explaining that they shouldn't leave Venice until they defeat the elite guard members that are in Venice, since news of their betrayal to Passione is new, there shouldn't be many of them in Venice; this gives Buccellati and his crew an advantage. They stop to get food and beat the shit out of a guy who Narancia thought was an enemy. Buccellati tells the group that the boss's stand, King Crimson, is invincible, but if they can somehow find his identity, they might have a chance against him. Trish has been the key all along. Trish reveals to the group that she remembers her mother stating that her father used to live in Sardinia. Narancia notices something strange with his soup; his spoon disappeared. He then sees a shark swimming within his soup. The shark then appears in his spoon with soup still...

Giorno starts to notice strange things happen as the team waits on the boat for Buccellati. Time starts to skip for them and Giorno notices this. He finds out later that this is due to King Crimson's ability. Giorno decides to head to the church where Buccellati was supposed to meet the boss. Buccellati has been punched right through his stomach by King Crimson, but Buccellati counterattacks by turning the hole into a closed zipper and trapping King Crimson's fist in there. Buccellati lands a successful blow, but King Crimson walks through time, dodging a barrage of blows from Sticky Fingers. King Crimson chops right into Buccellati's shoulder, causing massive damage. The boss goes to finish off Trish, but the ladybug pendent that Buccellati got from Giorno and planted on the boss sucks him into it. The ladybug was actually Coco Jumbo and this bought Buccellati precious time. He opens a zipper in the floor and tosses the turtle into the pipes. Buccellati attempts to drag hi...

The protagonists head towards their final mission: deliver Trish to the mafia boss of Passione. Cruising there on a small boat, Buccellati reads to the rest of the team the information on the disc they retrieved. It stated one bodyguard should escort Trish to the top of a church and none of the other members of the team steps foot on the island. If someone deviates from these orders, the boss will take it as an act of aggression. The mysterious boss is being very careful about this. They arrive at the island and Buccellati decides that he will escort Trish to the top of the church. Giorno wanted to, but Abbacchio got suspicious. Buccellati asked Giorno for one of the ladybugs off of his shirt for "good luck" but in actuality Giorno turned the ladybug into a tracking device so Buccellati can put it on the boss. Buccellati and Trish head inside the church. Trish has some doubts due to the fact that she is being dropped off with a father she doesn't know anything about. Bucc...

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), ...