JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
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" [01-21] by Coda (Kazusou Oda), and the first ending theme is the 1995 single "Freek'n You" [v1 01-13 _ v2 14-21] by Jodeci. The second opening theme is "Uragirimono no Requiem" [22-39] by Daisuke Hasegawa, and the second ending theme is "Modern Crusaders" 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, 2020 and concluded on October 25, 2020. Plot. Set in 2001, two years after the events of "", Koichi Hirose is sent to Italy and tasked by Jotaro Kujo to search for Giorno Giovanna, an aspiring mafia  gangster who is a son of Dio Brando. But as Dio possessed the body of Jonathan Joestar at time of his conception, Giorno is technically a Joestar and takes more after them than the father he never knew, despite his blond hair. The series follows Giorno as he joins the mafia organization Passione, moving up through its ranks with the intention of becoming its boss to improve life in Italy. Through the series, it reveals that the Boss has placed Bruno Bucciarati's group with his daughter, Trish Una, so that he may kill her to protect his identity. After  Bucciarati suffers grievous injuries from the boss' King Crimson, he, Giorno, and the majority of the gang find ways of defeating the boss. They eventually find an ally named Jean Pierre Polnareff, who helped in killing Giorno's father 13 years ago, eventually giving the gang a trump card, a Requiem Arrow. Giorno uses the Requiem arrow, defeats the boss, and becomes the new boss of Passione, as seen in the finale. Episode list. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude>