, also known as Vento Aureo, is the fifth main story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 11, 1995, to April 5, 1999. In its original publication, it was referred to as . Within Golden Wind, the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure title is rendered in Italian, as Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio.
Taking place in Italy in the year 2001, the story follows Giorno Giovanna, an illegitimate son of the long-deceased Dio Brando, who aspires to overthrow the boss of the corrupt mafia ruling his hometown of Naples with the aid of a team of fellow Stand users.
As it is the fifth part of the series, its 155 chapters pick up where the fourth left off and are numbered 440 to 594, with the volumes numbered 47 to 63. It was preceded by Diamond Is Unbreakable and followed by Stone Ocean. An anime adaptation by David Production, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, aired on TV from October 2018 to July 2019. An English hardcover edition of the manga by Viz Media was published in nine omnibus volumes from August 2021 to August 2023.
Plot In 2001, Koichi Hirose arrives in Naples to investigate a teenager named Haruno Shiobana, who Jotaro Kujo suspects to be the son of Dio Brando. Koichi soon meets and is scammed by Haruno, now going by the name of Giorno Giovanna, whose Stand, Gold Experience, can create lifeforms and heal injuries. A Stand-wielding mafioso by the name of Bruno Bucciarati, seeks to avenge an injury Giorno inflicted on a member of the Passione organisation. Defeated, he finds himself won over by Giorno's dream of becoming Passione's boss in order to better Naples and end the scourge of drug trafficking plaguing the city's youth. He agrees to introduce Giorno to visit an imprisoned capo named Polpo who offers an initiation test involving the indirect use of a Stand Arrow, whose blade either inflicts death or a Stand. After convincing Koichi to cease his investigation, Giorno uses his stand to remotely kill Polpo as revenge for an innocent bystander's death.
Giorno is placed in Bucciarati's group, consisting of fellow Stand users Guido Mista, Leone Abbacchio, Narancia Ghirga and Pannacotta Fugo. Polpo's apparent suicide provides an opening for Bucciarati to achieve the rank of capo by donating Polpo's fortune on the island of Capri to a gang representative. He is then given Polpo's final mission: Passione's boss, a mysterious figure whose identity is unknown to even his subordinates, requests that his daughter Trish Una be brought safely to him in Venice. Along the way, Bucciarati's team eliminates all but one of the members of Passione's team of hitmen, who seek to use Trish as a means to identify and defeat the boss themselves.
On the boss's orders, the group retrieves a key in Pompeii and use it to access a lounge inside of Coco Jumbo, a Stand-wielding turtle. The group uses Coco Jumbo to reach Venice relatively safely, escorting Trish to the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Bucciarati fights the boss and his Stand, King Crimson, which can see into and skip through time by up to ten seconds. The position and identity of the boss are obscured while his Stand acts as a mouthpiece for him. Realising he intends to kill his own daughter to maintain his anonymity, Bucciarati chooses to fight but suffers grievous injuries, barely escaping with Trish. Giorno seemingly revives a dead Buccarati with life energy; it is later revealed he is still dying at a rapid rate.
Fugo chooses to remain loyal to the boss out of fear for his life; the remainder of the group defect. They travel to Sardinia after Trish recalls it as the boss's birthplace, hoping to use Abbacchio's Stand, Moody Blues, to uncover his true identity. A man named Vinegar Doppio – who is revealed to be unwitting split personality of the boss – reaches Sardinia first; the boss kills Abbacchio, but before dying, Abbacchio is able to use Moody Blues to create an imprint of the boss's face, which the group later finds. The group are contacted by a third party, who reveals the boss's name as Diavolo and requests that they meet at the Colosseum in Rome to receive a special Arrow.
Diavolo exploits Bucciarati's fading senses to reach the informant first, revealing him as Jean Pierre Polnareff. Diavolo fatally wounds Polnareff, forcing him to stab his own Stand, Silver Chariot, with the Arrow. Polnareff, having seemingly swapped bodies with the turtle, explains that Silver Chariot has evolved into its requiem form: Chariot Requiem, capable of swapping the souls of those in its effective range. Realising that their own Stands will attack them if they approach the Arrow, the group attacks Diavolo (in Buccarati's corpse), but he feints, killing Narancia and leaving Doppio behind to pass away in Bucciarati's corpse. Regardless, he is soon forced to reveal himself, lethally wounding Trish's soul and weakening Requiem.
At the last moment, Bucciarati sacrifices himself to dispel the soul swap, save Trish, and pass the Arrow to Giorno. Giorno uses the arrow to evolve his Stand into Gold Experience Requiem, which has the ability to revert the actions of his opponents, and, to make them experience death infinitely. With this newfound power, Giorno defeats Diavolo and condemns him to an eternal cycle of death, removed from reality. The surviving Trish, Mista and Giorno return to find Polnareff, his soul having survived within the turtle. Giorno and Polnareff agree to preserve the Arrow. Sometime afterward, Giorno becomes the new boss of Passione, with Mista and Polnareff by his side.
Characters
Giorno Giovanna, named Haruno Shiobana at birth, is the human son of Dio Brando. As Dio was in possession of Jonathan Joestar's body at the time Giorno was conceived, Giorno inherits the conviction and righteousness of the Joestar bloodline. Giorno aspires to overthrow Passione's boss, put an end to the practice of selling drugs to children, and restructure the organization into one that helps the people of Italy. Giorno uses the Stand Gold Experience, which has the ability to imbue inanimate objects with life, allowing him to create both complete organisms and human body parts. After piercing itself with Polnareff's Arrow, Giorno's Stand evolves into Gold Experience Requiem, a Stand that can revert any action, willpower, or state of being back to "zero," effectively nullifying them. Bruno Bucciarati is the leader of a group within Passione, and is later promoted to caporegime within the gang. He uses the Stand Sticky Fingers, which can place a zipper on any object, allowing entrance into it. Bucciarati can also use Sticky Fingers to separate objects into smaller objects which can be zipped back together. Following an encounter with Diavolo, Bucciarati spends the remainder of the story as a 'walking corpse,' rendering him nearly immune to damage but gradually depriving him of his senses and life energy. He also appears in the 2012 spin-off Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci. Leone Abbacchio is a former police officer, and a member of Bucciarati's gang. He is loyal to Bucciarati, being among the first to defect with him. He uses the Stand Moody Blues, which can replay events as a 3D video recording. Abbacchio also appears in Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci. Guido Mista is a member of Bucciarati's gang. He uses a revolver in tandem with his Stand, Sex Pistols, which is composed of six small humanoids who can control the bullets Mista shoots. The humanoids are numbered No.1 through No.7, with no No.4 as a result of Mista's crippling tetraphobia. Each of the pistols which make up Mista's stand have their own individual personalities and internal conflicts, which Mista is often forced to resolve. Narancia Ghirga is a member of Bucciarati's gang. He is rather air-headed and somewhat childish, but remains loyal to Bucciarati. He uses the airplane-like Stand, Aerosmith, which is equipped with machine guns, bombs and a carbon dioxide radar, allowing him to track down any opponent that breathes. Pannacotta Fugo is a member of Bucciarati's gang. Fugo tends to be erratic in mood, often breaking into short bursts of rage. Fugo uses the Stand Purple Haze, which emits a virus that rapidly devours organic matter. Purple Haze is indiscriminate in how its virus affects people, affecting both friends and enemies alike. Fugo is the central character of the novels Golden Heart, Golden Ring and Purple Haze Feedback, which take place after he defects from Bucciarati's group. Trish Una is the daughter of Passione's boss. Following her mother's death, Bucciarati's group is entrusted with the job of protecting her from rival factions within the gang. Eventually, she awakens the Stand Spice Girl, which can increase objects' elasticity to make them nearly indestructible. Coco Jumbo is a turtle that gained a Stand. Bucciarati's group is gifted Coco Jumbo by the boss to aid their mission. The turtle's Stand, Mr. President, manifests as a miniature hotel room inside of its shell that can be entered and exited freely, allowing its possessors to hide inside and transport themselves within the turtle. Jean Pierre Polnareff is a French Stand user who traveled alongside Jotaro Kujo and Joseph Joestar to defeat Dio in 1988. Polnareff later discovered Diavolo's true identity, only to be severely injured and left for dead by Passione's boss. After Bucciarati's team betrays the boss, Polnareff contacts the group and offers them a way to defeat the boss: a unique Stand Arrow that allows its user to control souls themselves. Polnareff wields the extremely fast sword-wielding Stand, Silver Chariot. When Diavolo confronts him, Polnareff is forced to use the Stand Arrow on Silver Chariot and evolve it into Chariot Requiem, which has the ability to swap the souls of living beings and gradually transform them into something else entirely. Passione is the most powerful gang in Italy, controlled by a boss shrouded in secrecy. Passione controls all levels of crime in Italy, from low-level thugs and protective services to extremely powerful hitmen and drug traffickers. The gang's incredible level of power over Italy can be attributed to the unusual number of Stand users found within its members. Diavolo is the boss of Passione, and the father of Trish. He is extremely protective of his identity, intending to kill anyone who threatens his power or his secret, including his own daughter. Diavolo uses the incredibly powerful Stand, King Crimson, which allows him to "erase" a period of time up to ten seconds. While time is "erased," everyone except Diavolo unconsciously carries out their fated actions without regard to his, allowing him to confuse enemies, escape attacks, and land decisive blows. Diavolo is also able to see exactly ten seconds into the future via King Crimson's secondary ability, Epitaph, allowing him to predict and "erase" unfortunate outcomes. Vinegar Doppio is the Boss' younger, more innocent and eccentric underboss. Although he thinks of himself as Diavolo's most trusted subordinate, the two are actually separate souls inhabiting the same body. Diavolo uses Doppio to move around and take action without revealing his identity. Though Doppio does not seem to possess a Stand of his own, he is allowed to wield King Crimson's arms and Epitaph in battle. Polpo is an obese caporegime within Passione who resides in prison for his own protection. After Bucciarati advocates for Giorno, Polpo interviews the youth and tasks him with keeping a lighter lit for twenty-four hours to prove his dedication. Polpo's Stand is Black Sabbath, an auto-tracking Stand that can move within shadows for the sole purpose of piercing those who fail Polpo's test with a Stand Arrow stored in its mouth.