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| “ | I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream. | „ |
| ~ Giorno Giovanna |
| “ | The answer, is plain... truth. Your eyes are not deceiving you. What you see is very real. Playing out before you are the results of your actions. However, though you might be able to witness the truth. You can never hope to reach it. Your powers are immaterial. It doesn't matter who you are. No one could ever overcome this barrier. Behold, Gold Experience (Golden Wind, as of the English Dub and Sub) Requiem's true strength! | „ |
| ~ Gold Experience Requiem/Golden Wind Requiem to Diavolo, the beginning better known as "Kore ga... Requiem... da." in Japanese. |
Giorno Giovanna, born in Japan as Haruno Shiobana (汐華 初流乃), is the titular main protagonist of the manga/anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind, and a major character in its light novel spin-offs Golden Heart, Golden Ring and Purple Haze Feedback.
Giorno is Dio Brando's illegitimate son, conceived with Jonathan Joestar's stolen body. He is introduced as Haruno Shiobana, a Japanese teenager living in Italy. He speaks of his intention to join the gang Passione and his dream of becoming a "Gang-Star" (combining "Gangster" and "Superstar", "Mafioso" in English dub). Giorno wields the stand Gold Experience (Golden Wind in the English dub), which eventually evolves into the insanely powerful Gold Experience Requiem (Golden Wind Requiem in the English dub).
In Japanese, Giorno is voiced by Romi Park in GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, Daisuke Namikawa in Giorno's theme in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, Kenshō Ono in the anime, and Natsumi Fujiwara as a child. In the anime's dub, he is voiced by Phillip Reich and as a child, he is voiced by Janice Kawaye.
Biography[]
Past[]
Giorno was born Haruno Shiobana, the son of Dio Brando inside Jonathan Joestar's body with a un-named partner. Giorno's early years were plagued by his mother's neglect, his step-father's abuse, and teasing from his peers. However, one day he discovered a injured man in a grassy field, and when asked if he knew where the man went, Giorno said he was that man, both saving the unknown man and activating Golden Experience for the first time.
The man promised to never forget him and always help him, and thus, his life vastly improved, with people now respecting and liking him. The man Giorno saved was actually a gangster, who watched over him as a guardian angel-like figure. This incident softened Giorno's soul, and thus, he forged his dream of taking over the local mafia and making it just as good as the man who saved him from a dark path.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind[]
In 2001, Koichi Hirose arrived in Naples, Italy at Jotaro Kujo's request to obtain a skin sample from a young man Haruno Shiobana to confirm him as the son of DIO. Koichi ends up being scammed by Haruno, who now goes by the name of Giorno Giovanna whose stand Gold Experience allows him to transform inanimate objects into living organisms.
After an altercation with gang member Leaky-Eye Luca, Giorno wins over his would-be assassin Bruno Bucciarati by revealing his goal to become a mafia boss to better Naples and end the drug trafficking plaguing the city's youth. Bucciarati agrees to introduce Giorno into the Passione organization, with Giorno taking a deadly initiation test from the morbidly obese capo Polpo. Giorno passes the test while convincing Koichi to cease his investigation, though he indirectly kills Polpo for his test causing a bystander's death.
Giorno is placed in Bucciarati's group, which consists of Guido Mista, Leone Abbacchio, Narancia Ghirga and Pannacotta Fugo. The news of Polpo's apparent suicide results in Bucciarati being named the new capo after his group retrieved and donated Polpo's amassed fortune from the island of Capri to Passione.
Bucciarati is then given Polpo's mission from the boss, a mysterious figure who concealed himself from the public eye, to have his teenage daughter Trish Una brought safely to him when fending off Passione's Hitman Squad who seek to discover the boss's identity and take over the organization. After retrieving a key in Pompeii, the group acquire a Stand-sensing turtle named Coco Jumbo while taking a train to Venice while fighting against members of the Hitman Squad.
But once at Venice and bringing Trish to Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Bucciarati realizes that the boss intends to kill his own daughter to maintain his secret identity. An enraged Bucciarati saves Trish and survives the grievous injuries dealt on him by the boss' immensely powerful Stand, King Crimson. With the exception of Fugo, the rest of the group decide to uncover the boss's identity as they and Trish, who discovers her own Stand Spice Girl, fight for their lives against the boss's elite followers.
Following a lead, Bucciarati's group travels to the boss's origins on the island of Sardinia. Unfortunately, the boss is waiting for them, and swiftly kills Abbacchio. All seems lost until Giorno and company are contacted by someone who knows the boss's identity and suggests using a special Arrow to evolve Bucciarati's Stand. Bucciarati and the rest travel to Rome to meet the informant, who is revealed to be Jean Pierre Polnareff.
Once again, the boss arrives first, and fatally wounds Polnareff. However, Polnareff stabs his Stand, Silver Chariot, with the arrow in his final moments as a gambit, evolving it into Chariot Requiem with the ability to swap the souls of all living beings and a mission to guard the Arrow. But Chariot Requiem goes berserk, causing a city-wide soul swap with Polnareff's soul now in Coco Jumbo's body.
Polnareff explains to the group about the Arrow and his Stand, revealing Passione's boss is named Diavolo. The group and Diavolo chase after the user-less Stand, both sides focused on obtaining the Arrow. While Diavolo succeeds in weakening the Stand and killing Narancia, Bucciarati sacrifices himself to dispel the soul swap and pass the Arrow to Giorno. Giorno succeeds in upgrading his Stand to Gold Experience Requiem, and uses his new power to send Diavolo into a never-ending death. The final scene shows gang members kneeling before Giorno, suggesting that Giorno succeeded in becoming the new Passione boss.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Purple Haze Feedback[]
After Diavolo's defeat, Giorno took over Passione, revealed himself as the boss, and worked together with the Speedwagon Foundation. Giorno then hires Fugo, Sheila E, and Cannolo Murolo to take down the narcotics team.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean[]
When Enrico Pucci attracted Ungalo, Rikiel, and Donatello Versus to his location, Giorno was strangely not drawn to him. However, Rikiel's official biography mentions that Giorno may somewhere in Florida. Regardless, Giorno makes no appearance in the flesh.
Appearance[]
Giorno is of a average height and build, with golden hair that curled in the front and braided in the back. Giorno also has green eyes. Giorno wears a suit (blue in the manga, pink in the anime), with wings on the shirt's collar, a large section of his chest revealed, and three ladybug pins on the body (Red in the manga, blue in the anime.) Giorno wears blue laceless shoes, with the same ladybugs on them.
When Giorno was younger, he had black, fairly standard hair.
Personality[]
Giorno's childhood was filled with unhappiness and loneliness due to bullies and the abuse by his stepfather. During his early childhood, he was initially cold and uncaring towards anyone and believed himself to be scum just for the way people treated him. Those that knew him easily thought he'd grow up to become a twisted individual. This changed when he befriended an injured gangster he saved. As the man protected Giorno from those that did him wrong in return for his aid, he learned that he could trust people. Since then, he has become a more confident and solicitous person. As a teenager Giorno is confident and heavily mischievous as upon encountering Koichi Hirose he devised a way to scam him to make some quick way by feinging giving a cheap taxi ride. While confronted Giorno felt little shame or guilt while escaping Koichi, however he complemented Koichi as being a good person at heart. Like his father, Giorno is greatly annoyed by "useless" things and actions as when he's confronted by Luca he bluntly tells him he cannot pay the protection fee and grows quickly annoyed by his threats, when his reflective ability activities and kills Luca inadvertently Giorno shows little concern or care for his fate.
When pushed to it Giorno is capable of violence if an enemy poses a threat to his goal or life, as he was initially ready to kill Bruno Bucciarati when the man confronted him on behalf of Passione for Luca's death. Although he is mature enough to recognize a person true character as he realizes Bucciarati isn't a cruel person at heart and has dissatisfactions with the state of his organization. Its in this moment Giorno relays his life goal of overthrowing Passione and changing its system to prevent the selling of narcotics and drugs of minors and by disposing off the organization's Boss, demonstrating a righteous conviction. This righteous is further shown in his and Koichi's fight with Polpo's stand Black Sabbath, where upon the stand's callous killing of an innocent old janitor working at Giorno's boarding school, Giorno expressed great sorrow at his fate and seeked to avenge the man, a trait Koichi directly associated with the Joestar bloodline. In doing so however Giorno uses stand ability to trick Polpo into assassinating himself demontrating how far Giorno is willing to go in order to retaliate to those he deems evil. Following this he wasted no time in joining Bucciaratis the gang and steadily working his way up the ranks.
A defining characteristic of Giorno, and shared among his peers through him, is his resolve (覚悟 kakugo); something that can be described as his ability to make important decisions without hesitation and seeing them through to the very end, even in the face of pain, sorrow, and tragedy. Throughout the story, Giorno's resolve is such that in the heat of battle, he is frequently willing to allow himself to be injured if it leads to an advantageous situation. Later, Giorno also tried to personally approach the Boss of Passione, and planned to plant a tracking device on him. An ambitious individual, he readily takes any occasion to achieve his final goal of becoming a "Gang-Star"
While Giorno is largely serious and untalkative he manages to form bonds and friendships with the members of Team Bucciarati and is shown to value the small things in life as seen when he expressed desire to eat Margherita Pizza when he returned home to Naples.
Much like his father DIO, Giorno can be exceedingly brutal in his means to combat enemies that get in his way whether it be Squadra Esecuzioni members or Stand users still loyal to Diavolo. This is highlighted in his with fight Ghiaccio where he impaled his neck through a street lamp spike and when he beat Cioccolata to death in a long and brutal stand rush.
Powers and Abilities[]
Gold Experience[]
| “ | Muda, muda, muda, muda, muda, muda, muda, MUDA! | „ |
| ~ Gold Experience's stand cry |
| “ | WRYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAH! | „ |
| ~ Gold Experience's second stand cry |
Gold Experience
| “ | Life... arise... Be born, a new existence. | „ |
| ~ Giorno Giovanna |
Gold Experience is one of the most versatile stands. It has the ability to control life, which Giorno most often uses to produce plants and small animals out of inanimate objects. Both can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from disguise to tracking origins. Its ability to produce organic constructs also allows Giorno to heal people or regrow limbs, though he needs to touch the surface he wants to transform with his hands to do so. Gold Experience is also shown to be able to clone living beings, including their stands as well, such as what he did to Coco Jumbo.
Among its other abilities, Gold Experience is able to control the life force of beings. If someone were to damage something created by the stand, its damage would reflect to the person, causing great knockback. The stand can also inject what is a called a "life shot" on people, which causes their consciousness to be separated from their body for a few seconds. In this state, the victim's senses are greatly heightened and the pain they feel while their body is being attacked is enhanced tenfold.
Gold Experience Requiem[]
Gold Experience Requiem
| “ | This is... Requiem. | „ |
| ~ Gold Experience Requiem activating its ablity in Diavolo |
Gold Experience Requiem is obtained after Giorno pierces Gold Experience with the stand-creating Arrow. It has the ability to turn the opponent's willpower and actions to zero, both reverting them and ensuring they never occur. Furthermore, whoever is killed by Requiem will also have his death "turn to zero", forcing him into a death loop for all eternity. Gold Experience Requiem also has all of its base form's abilities in an amplified state.
Trivia[]
- Giorno's first name means "Day" in Italian and his last name is a feminine form of the Italian name "Giovanni".
- Giorno's stand Gold Experience comes from a Prince album called "The Gold Experience" while Gold Experience Requiem comes from a Mozart composition called "Requiem".
- Giorno is the only JoJo confirmed not to have been born a JoJo, as his original name was Haruno Shiobana. He's also the first JoJo to have never been called by the nickname at any point, although Fugo referred to him as "GioGio" in the non-canon novel Purple Haze Feedback.
- Giorno is unique among the Joestars as he uses both his father's "Muda" and "Wryyy!" battle crys.
- Giorno's beatdown of Cioccolatta is the longest of any beatdown, being seven pages in the manga and a minute long in the anime.
- A common aspect of Giorno's wardrobe involves wearing ladybug-themed jewelry, and his Stand also sports ladybug insignias. As ladybugs symbolically represent good luck throughout Europe, and it is considered bad luck to kill one, this can represent Gold Experience's powers of returning damage back to the attacker of its creations.
- In an interview, Araki stated that he based Giorno's appearance on Michelangelo's "David". The cover of volume 62 was based off a Renaissance painting as well.
- In a list of Araki's favorite characters done in 2000, Giorno was ranked in 5th place.
- Giorno Giovanna fought Joker from Persona 5 in the battleboarding YouTube series known as Death Battle, and lost.
- An extended storyboard revealed that Ren Amamiya only killed Giorno's Shadow in the Metaverse, but the Giorno in the real world did not suffer a mental shutdown thanks to Gold Experience's protection, but his heart was still changed, which led him to miss a flight to Florida.
- There is an ongoing joke about how Dio was such a bad father that he ruined Giorno (his own son)'s chance at defeating Joker, and another about how Giorno, being the fourth JoJo's Bizzare Adventure character in Death Battle, was doomed to lose from the beginning, as a reference to 4 being the number of death in Japan.
- Technically speaking, he has killed the most out of all JoJo's. This is only, however, if counting Diavolo's infinite death loop, which makes Giorno's kill count infinite as well.
- In fact, it can be said that Giorno has one of the highest kill count in all of fiction, or at least tied to other characters, though it is worth to mention that there are different sizes of infinity in mathematics, and it is unknown if Giorno Giovanna's kill count is just countable or uncountable infinite.
External Links[]
- Giorno Giovanna on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Giorno Giovanna on the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Wiki
- Giorno Giovanna on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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