50 Fun Facts About JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

Which Stand lets Giorno Giovanna turn lifeless objects into living plants and animals?

Gold Experience gives life to whatever it touches, and Giorno later learns to grow replacement body parts with it to heal wounds. Official English releases rename the Stand after the arc itself.

Bruno Bucciarati's Stand Sticky Fingers opens walls and enemies by creating which fastener on them?

Zippers appear on anything Sticky Fingers touches, so Bucciarati can step through a wall, pull an enemy apart or even unzip his own body.

Guido Mista of Golden Wind has a superstitious dread of which number, which he ties to bad luck?

Four is the number Mista avoids at all costs, a fear called tetraphobia that is far more common in East Asia than in his native Italy.

Which Stand is a furnished room hidden inside the shell of the turtle Coco Jumbo?

Mr. President gives the gang a hideout they can carry in one hand, and its turtle later becomes the lasting home of a fallen ally.

Which Stand of Narancia Ghirga is a toy-sized fighter plane armed with machine guns and bombs?

Aerosmith is tiny, but its guns and bombs do real damage, and Narancia hunts hidden enemies with it using a radar-like display.

Which Stand lets the mafia boss Diavolo erase a few seconds of time and act unseen?

King Crimson wipes out up to ten seconds in which only Diavolo knows what happened, so his enemies find themselves already struck.

Giorno Giovanna, hero of Golden Wind, is the son of which earlier JoJo's Bizarre Adventure villain?

Dio Brando fathered Giorno while wearing the stolen body of Jonathan Joestar, so the boy carries the Joestar birthmark and counts as a JoJo too.

Giorno Giovanna starts Golden Wind as a teenage pickpocket in which Italian city, his hometown?

Naples is the city Giorno wants to clean up: his stated dream is to take over the mob that rules it and stop it selling drugs to children.

Giorno Giovanna's Requiem Stand finally defeats Diavolo in Golden Wind by trapping him in what?

Endless repeated deaths are Diavolo's fate, because the Requiem Stand resets any action to zero, so even his dying never reaches its end.

The curls in Giorno Giovanna's hair were modelled on which world-famous statue?

Michelangelo's David lent Giorno his curls, part of Araki's plan to style the characters and fashion of the whole arc after the city of Rome.

Which Stand of Guido Mista is a crew of six tiny beings that ride and redirect his bullets?

Sex Pistols each have a personality of their own, love to eat, and flatly refuse to work for Mista unless they have been fed.

Which Stand lets Leone Abbacchio replay a person's past actions like a 3D video recording?

Moody Blues turns into whoever it replays, but it cannot defend itself while a rewind is running, which leaves Abbacchio exposed.

Which Stand of Pannacotta Fugo carries a flesh-eating virus in capsules on its knuckles?

Purple Haze can consume a human body in about half a minute, yet sunlight destroys its virus, and Fugo himself has no immunity to it.

Which Stand does Trish Una awaken during Golden Wind, letting her make hard objects soft as rubber?

Spice Girl makes things so elastic they are almost unbreakable; Trish awakens it by accident, and the Stand itself explains its power to her.

Which job did Leone Abbacchio hold before a bribe and his partner's death led him to the gang?

Police officer Abbacchio took a bribe from a thug who later shot his partner dead, and he sank into drink until Bucciarati recruited him.

Which Diamond Is Unbreakable character does Jotaro Kujo send to Italy to check on Giorno Giovanna?

Koichi Hirose flies in to collect a sample of Giorno's DNA and is promptly robbed of his luggage by the very boy he came to find.

To join the gang, Giorno Giovanna must pass Polpo's test of keeping what burning for 24 hours?

A lighter is the whole test, but relighting it in front of anyone summons Polpo's Stand, which stabs every witness with a Stand Arrow.

Which Stand of the capo Polpo lurks in shadows and pierces victims with a Stand Arrow?

Black Sabbath cannot leave the shade, so Giorno beats it by withering the tree it hides under and exposing it to sunlight.

Which young underboss in Golden Wind turns out to be a second personality sharing Diavolo's body?

Vinegar Doppio has no idea he is an alter ego, and serves as the go-between who carries the boss's orders to his own subordinates.

Trish Una remembers which island as the boss's birthplace, sending the gang there to learn his face?

Sardinia is where Abbacchio is killed mid-replay, yet he still presses an imprint of the boss's face into a rock before he dies.

Which Stand lets the hitman Prosciutto rapidly age everyone aboard a train bound for Florence?

The Grateful Dead ages people faster the warmer their bodies are, which is why chilling the body with ice holds its effect off.

The Stand Beach Boy, which reaches a target through any wall, takes the form of which object?

A fishing rod is all Beach Boy looks like, yet its line passes through anything in its way; timid Pesci turns deadly once his partner's resolve rubs off on him.

Which Stand does the hitman Ghiaccio wear as a full-body suit that freezes whatever he touches?

White Album lets Ghiaccio skate over land and water alike, and its second ability, Gently Weeps, freezes even the air around him.

Which Stand lets the hitman Illuso pull victims into a world of his own while shutting their Stands outside?

Man in the Mirror drags victims into a mirror world, and Illuso chooses exactly what crosses over, so a person arrives without their Stand.

The gang fetches a key from the ruins of which ancient Roman city, where Illuso ambushes them?

Pompeii hides the key to Coco Jumbo, the turtle whose shell holds a room the gang then uses as a mobile safe house.

Which Stand of the hitman Melone uses a target's DNA to breed a homunculus that hunts them down?

Baby Face's offspring takes its temperament from the woman chosen as its mother, so Melone can only talk it through the job, and it may ignore him.

Risotto Nero's Stand Metallica attacks by taking control of which metal near him?

Iron in an enemy's own bloodstream becomes Metallica's weapon; Risotto, who leads the hitmen, joined the mob after avenging a cousin killed by a drunk driver.

Formaggio, the first hitman to attack the gang, uses his Stand to do what to people?

Shrink them, and himself too: with Little Feet, Formaggio hides in Narancia's pocket while his victim slowly dwindles from a wound the Stand gave him.

The Hitman Team of Golden Wind hunts Trish Una in order to learn what about the gang's boss?

His identity is the prize: two of the squad were executed for prying into it, and the survivors believe Trish can lead them to him.

The Stand Clash, which leaps between any nearby bodies of liquid, is shaped like which animal?

A shark suits a Stand that can warp into any liquid nearby, even a bowl of soup, which is where Clash first ambushes Narancia.

Tiziano's Stand Talking Head latches onto a victim's tongue and forces them to do what?

Tell lies is all Narancia can do once Talking Head takes hold, so he cannot warn his friends about the enemy stalking them through the water.

Which Stand of Carne only awakens after its user dies, then chases the fastest-moving thing nearby?

Notorious B.I.G runs on its dead user's grudge and cannot be destroyed; Araki said he invented Carne's Stand simply so Trish would have something to fight.

Which Stand of the sadistic doctor Cioccolata spreads a mold that rots anyone who moves downward?

Green Day's mold strikes only when a body drops to a lower altitude, so in Rome the gang has to keep climbing just to stay alive.

Secco's Stand Oasis, met in the streets of Rome, lets him do what to the solid ground around him?

Liquefy it, then swim: Oasis turns solid matter into something like mud, and Secco drops his pet act once his master Cioccolata is dead.

Which Stand of the sculptor Scolippi follows people who are fated to die, taking on their likeness?

Rolling Stones acts on its own, beyond Scolippi's control, and offers anyone who touches it a quick, painless death in place of the one ahead.

Which hero of an earlier JoJo part is the secret informant who calls the gang to Rome?

Jean Pierre Polnareff had tracked the boss down years earlier and was left for dead for it; by the end he lives on inside the gang's turtle.

The Requiem Stand that runs wild in Rome late in Golden Wind does what to everyone in range?

Swaps their souls into other bodies nearby, which lets Diavolo lurk unnoticed inside Mista's body alongside the spirit of Trish.

At which Roman landmark does the informant in Golden Wind arrange to hand over the special Arrow?

The Colosseum meeting goes wrong because Diavolo arrives first, taking advantage of Bucciarati's failing senses to slip past the gang.

After his first clash with the boss, Bruno Bucciarati spends the rest of Golden Wind as what?

A walking corpse, kept moving by the life energy Giorno poured into him, Bucciarati barely feels wounds but steadily loses his senses.

Trish Una, whom Bruno Bucciarati's team is ordered to escort, is what relation to the gang's boss?

His daughter is no treasure to him: he has never met her, and wants her delivered only so he can erase a living link to his past.

Golden Wind ran from 1995 to 1999 in which Shueisha manga magazine?

Weekly Shōnen Jump carried all 155 chapters, later collected as volumes 47 to 63 of the long-running JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.

The first Golden Wind episode was screened three months early at which American convention?

Anime Expo screened episode one on July 5, 2018, two weeks after Araki himself announced the adaptation at an exhibition of his art.

Which streaming service simulcast the Golden Wind anime while it aired in Japan from October 2018?

Crunchyroll carried the simulcast, while the English dub reached television a year later on Adult Swim's Toonami block.

The first ending theme of the Golden Wind anime is the 1995 single Freek'n You by which group?

Jodeci's song plays over the end credits through episode 19, and a track by Enigma takes over from episode 22.

Which Japanese voice actor plays Giorno Giovanna in the Golden Wind anime?

Kensho Ono inherited a role that Romi Park had voiced in the 2002 PlayStation 2 game and Daisuke Namikawa in later JoJo games.

Which company made GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, the 2002 PlayStation 2 game based on Golden Wind?

Capcom built a cel-shading technique called Artistoon to copy the manga's look, but its planned Western release slipped repeatedly and never arrived.

What was Giorno Giovanna's name at birth, before he took the one he uses in Golden Wind?

Haruno Shiobana was also born with black hair, which turned blond like his father's once his Stand fully awakened.

Narancia Ghirga's toy-plane Stand finds hidden enemies with a radar that detects what?

Carbon dioxide gives away anything that breathes, but the radar cannot tell a foe from a bystander or even an open flame.

Epitaph, the second face on the forehead of Diavolo's Stand, gives him which power?

Seeing the future, exactly ten seconds of it, lets Diavolo spot a bad outcome and then skip the stretch of time in which it would happen.

Which part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, starring Jolyne Cujoh, directly follows Golden Wind?

Stone Ocean picks up ten years later and moves the action from the Italian underworld to Florida.