English Dub Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind: “Golden Wind Requiem”

Overview(Spoilers Below)

Further continuing the epic battle where Giorno has completely stopped Diavolo’s Stand powers in his tracks. Giorno’s newly upgraded Golden Wind Requiem proceeds to soundly defeat Diavolo and Emperor Crimson, sending them into a nearby river. Diavolo seemingly survives and climbs up to a sewer only to be stabbed by a crazed hobo who is under the influence of the very drugs that Diavolo had a role in peddling which is quite possibly the most Ironic & Karmic shit imaginable. Diavolo then continuously experiences various gruesome deaths and his spirit is eventually broken.

Trish urges Giorno to look for him, but Giorno claims that it won’t be necessary, and explains to Trish & Guido that the power of Golden Wind Requiem has doomed Diavolo to die over and over for all eternity. Guido then tells what’s left of their crew to go back to the Colosseum and heal Bruno, unaware of his death. Seeing the spirits of his fallen comrades in the sky, Giorno sees the Arrow on the ground. In a flashback to before Bruno and the others meet Giorno before the events of the first episode, Bruno’s crew during lunch learns that Leaky-eyed Luca has just died and must investigate it.

At the same time, a florist approaches Bruno and claims that his daughter has been murdered by her boyfriend, explaining that the only clue to her death was her corpse holding a large boulder in her arms and despite the police calling her death a “suicide”, the florist pleads with Bruno who accepts to also investigate the matter to confirm the florists’ suspicions but asks Guido to resolve the case. As Fugo drives Bruno and Guido to the boyfriend’s apartment, Guido suspects that he is stalked by an unusually round-shaped rock. His suspicions worry Bruno and when Guido goes to the boyfriend’s address, Bruno decides to go after him. But the episode ends when Guido uses the elevator and makes a shocking discovery…

Our Take

This was quite a great episode, and to top it all off, the Opening was changed once again into something unexpectedly awesome while making a small wink to longtime fans in regards to Giono’s lineage. David Production clearly shows that they’ve really put time into this, didn’t they? I still think the way Diavolo dies is the worst fate of a JoJo villain, worse if not equal to the death of another classic Jojo villain named “Kars” from the Jojo part 2 storyline “Battle Tendency”.

Also, I can’t be the only one to make this keen observation but it almost feels out of place after the epic battle that we have some flashback story before the events of the first episode. It leaves me to wonder whether or not it will connect in any way to the main story, or if any loose ends will be tied by the final episode which should be by next week.