JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
is the fourth season of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime television series by David Production, adapting Golden Wind, the fifth part of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. Set in Italy during 2001, two years after the events of Diamond is Unbreakable, the series follows the adventures of Giorno Giovanna, the son of Dio Brando (from Phantom Blood and Stardust Crusaders) albeit conceived with Jonathan Joestar's body, who joins the criminal organization Passione in the hopes of becoming a gangster (or "Gang-Star") and taking control of the organization in the name of reform.
The anime adaptation of Golden Wind was personally announced by series creator Hirohiko Araki at the "Ripples of Adventure" art exhibition on June 21, 2018. Golden Wind is chief directed by returning director Naokatsu Tsuda, who is accompanied by series directors Yasuhiro Kimura and Hideya Takahashi and the senior writer Yasuko Kobayashi. The character designer for Golden Wind is Takahiro Kishida, and the animation director is Shun'ichi Ishimoto. Yugo Kanno returns as composer from previous seasons. The series is 39 episodes long.
The first episode debuted at Anime Expo on July 5, 2018. The series formally aired from October 6, 2018 to July 28, 2019, on Tokyo MX and other channels and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. Like previous seasons, some names are altered in the official English releases to avoid potential trademark infringement. The first opening theme is the 2018 single "Fighting Gold" [02–21] by Coda (Kazusou Oda), and the first ending theme is the 1995 single "Freek'n You" [v1 02–13 _ v2 14–19] by Jodeci. The second opening theme is "Uragirimono no Requiem" [22–39] by Daisuke Hasegawa, and the second ending theme is "Modern Crusaders" [22–37, 39] by Enigma.
On October 4, 2019, Viz Media announced that the anime's English dub would begin broadcasting on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block on October 27, 2019. Toonami's broadcast would go on hiatus after the 28th episode on May 31, 2020 as a result of production delays for the English dub caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The anime resumed its run on Toonami on August 2 and concluded on October 25, 2020.
Plot
Golden Wind is set in 2001, two years after the events of Diamond is Unbreakable. Koichi Hirose is sent to Italy by Jotaro Kujo in search of Giorno Giovanna, a 15-year-old pickpocket and the illegitimate son of Dio Brando. Giorno's father was possessing the body of Jonathan Joestar at the time of his conception, granting him the morality of the Joestar bloodline. He also wields the Stand Gold Experience, granting him a variety of life-themed abilities including healing and organic transformation.
Upon Koichi's arrival, Giorno steals his luggage and incurs the wrath of a local mafia member who inadvertently kills himself through Gold Experience's abilities. The mafia, Passione, dispatches Bruno Bucciarati to track down Giorno but the two become allies after the latter announces his plan to take over Passione and end the sale of drugs to children. Bucciarati brings Giorno to his capo, an obese man named Polpo, who gives him an initiation task to join Passione. Giorno succeeds, in the process convincing Koichi that his goals are righteous, but also discreetly tricks Polpo into shooting himself in revenge for killing an innocent bystander.
Giorno then joins Bucciarati's team, composed of Leone Abbachio, Narancia Ghirga, Guido Mista and Pannacotta Fugo. With Polpo's death, they use his hidden fortunes to help Bucciarati succeed him as capo. Passione's anonymous boss assigns them a task - escort his daughter, Trish Una, to him safely - and provide them with a turtle named Coco Jumbo, whose Stand allows them to travel secretly. Team Bucciarati is targeted by La Squadra Esecuzioni, a rogue group of assassins within Passione seeking revenge on the boss.
Giorno and the others successfully escort Trish to the rendezvous whilst fending off La Squadra. However, Bucciarati realises the boss intends to kill Trish to protect his own identity. He rescues Trish, becoming mortally wounded in the process, and the two escape before he succumbs to his injuries. Giorno seemingly manages to revive him using Gold Experience.
Bucciarati declares their new goal to take down the boss, and Fugo subsequently leaves, believing the mission to be suicidal. They travel to Sardinia, in the hopes of using Abbachio's Stand to see the boss's face. At Sardinia, they inadvertently interrupt Risotto Nero (the last surviving member of La Squadra) from assassinating the boss's alternate personality, Vinegar Doppio. Doppio kills Abbachio, but he is able to record the boss's face before dying. The information however is seemingly useless.
Bucciarati's group is then contacted by a third party, who reveals the boss's name to be Diavolo and requests that the group visit the Colosseum in Rome to receive a special Arrow. The group arrives in Rome, but Doppio exploits Bucciarati's fading senses to reach the informant first, revealing him to be Jean Pierre Polnareff. Doppio fatally wounds Polnareff, forcing him to stab his Stand Silver Chariot with the Arrow. Doing so evolves the Stand into Chariot Requiem, which goes berserk and uses its ability to swap the souls of living beings across the city.
Polnareff, now within Coco Jumbo's body, explains the Arrow and his Stand to the group, who realize that their own Stands will attack them if they approach the Arrow. They realise that Doppio is within Bucciarati's body and cripple it, but the boss's true personality, Diavolo, has tagged on to Mista's body. As Doppio dies, Diavolo uses his Stand King Crimson to kill Narancia. He goes for the Arrow, but Bucciarati sacrifices himself to destroy Silver Chariot and return everyone to their original bodies.
In a final battle, Giorno is stabbed with the Arrow and evolves his Stand into Gold Experience Requiem, easily overpowering King Crimson and condemning Diavolo to an infinite death loop. As the surviving members of Team Bucciarati regroup, with Polnareff in tow, Giorno sees Bucciarati's soul ascending to the heavens. He admits he died in the first battle with Diavolo, but possessed his own body through Gold Experience's healing. Sometime later, Giorno has taken over Passione, with Trish, Mista and Polnareff at his side.
Cast
Episode list
Recap specials
Home media release
Japanese
English
Notes
References
External links
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Season 4)
2018 Japanese television seasons
2019 Japanese television seasons
Dissociative identity disorder in television
Works about gangsters
Television shows set in Italy
Crunchyroll Anime Awards winners
Television series set in 2001
Organized crime in anime and manga
Works about organized crime in Italy