Vento Aureo

"We are all the slaves of Fate, this cannot be changed. I don't know who they are, but the path they will take will be arduous, and some may even die! However [...], maybe this arduous path they will take will have significance. Maybe, for some of them, their suffering...will be the beginning of hope."

- Scolippi, Chapter 594

Vento Aureo (黄金の風) is the fifth story arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1995 and 1999. Originally titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Giorno Giovanna: Golden Heritage (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第5部 ジョルノ・ジョバァーナ【黄金なる遺産】), the arc spans a total of 155 chapters and takes place between Diamond Is Unbreakable and Stone Ocean.

Set in 2001 Italy, the story follows Giorno Giovanna and his dream to rise within the Neapolitan mafia and defeat Passione's boss in order to become a "Gang-Star".

Gold Experience
In the year 2001, Koichi Hirose arrives in Naples at Jotaro Kujo's request in order to investigate Haruno Shiobana, also known as Giorno Giovanna, revealed as Dio Brando/DIO's son. Giorno steals Koichi's bag thanks to his Stand, Gold Experience, which allows him to transform objects into living creatures.

Giorno is then attacked by Leaky-Eye Luca, a member of Naples' dominant gang Passione, who dies upon having his aggression reflected at him by Giorno's Stand power.

Bucciarati's Coming
In response, Giorno is confronted by Bruno Bucciarati, also a Passione member, who attacks with his Stand, Sticky Fingers, that has the ability to create zippers in anything.

A flashback details Giorno's growth from a timid, bullied child into a more confident and charismatic teenager.

Exceeding Bucciarati's expectations and defeating him, Giorno establishes a rapport with Bucciarati by exposing a mutual distaste for Passione's practices in dealing drugs, particularly to minors. Bucciarati then accepts to help Giorno infiltrate Passione.

The Gangster Beyond the Wall
After their fight, Bucciarati offers Giorno a chance to join Passione. Giorno meets the Passione lieutenant Polpo, who is currently in a prison cell. Polpo then interviews him and gives him a lighter with the instruction of keeping it lit for 24 hours then meeting him again.

Gang Enrollment
Giorno protects Polpo's lit lighter as part of his test, but Koichi complicates Giorno's task when he enters Giorno's room in search of his passport. When the flame is extinguished by a passing janitor, Polpe's Stand Black Sabbath appears, taking an Arrow from its mouth and stabbing the janitor with it, killing him. Black Sabbath, which is very powerful in the shadows but weak otherwise, almost stabs Giorno, but Koichi intervenes.

Giorno explains his aspiration to Koichi who acknowledges him as the spiritual descendant of the Joestar family.

Having received Koichi's advice as to the nature of Polpo's Stand, Giorno manages to lure Black Sabbath into the open and destroys it. The following day, after receiving his membership badge, Giorno kills Polpo to avenge the janitor.

5 Plus 1
Bucciarati explains to Giorno the structure of Passione, and that if they wish to come close to the Boss, they require a higher rank.

Giorno meets Bucciarati's comrades (as part of Bucciarati's Gang); Narancia Ghirga, Guido Mista, Leone Abbacchio and Pannacotta Fugo. When Abbacchio tries to humiliate Giorno by making him drink urine, Giorno appears to swallow his cup in one gulp, impressing the gang.

Find Polpo's Fortune!
Two gangsters discuss Polpo's apparent suicide and the rumor of his hidden fortune as Bucciarati takes his group on a yacht to Capri in order to recover this approx. ¥600,000,000, with which he aims to buy a position as an Operative.

Mystery of Soft Machine
Narancia, Mista, and Fugo disappear after an attack by a hidden assailant. Giorno volunteers to be attacked and is stabbed by an arm emerging from the lower deck, and then deflated like a balloon. Abbacchio activates his Stand Moody Blues, replaying Narancia's history and revealing that he was deflated.

Moody Blues' Retaliation
Moody Blues shows Narancia as having been hidden in a pipe while deflated. After Abbacchio allows himself to be attacked while tracking him, it is revealed that their boat was layered early by another deflated boat and Mario Zucchero of the Stand Soft Machine is defeated by Bucciarati.

Sex Pistols Arrives
Mario Zucchero is exposed as a Roman Passione member and subsequently tortured, before Moody Blues shows him radioing the group's destination, suggesting that his partner has by now overtaken the group to Capri. Guido Mista reveals his Stand Sex Pistols, able to redirect and ricochet the bullets from his handgun, and agrees to ride with Giorno ahead of the group directly to the port of the island.

Giorno and Mista manages to lure out the enemy, but he escapes and only Mista is able to follow him. Fellow Passione member Sale reveals his Stand, Kraft Work; capable of freezing/sticking objects in place by touching them. Despite Kraft Work's power, Mista manages to lodge two bullets in Sale's head, defeating him.

The Six Hundred Million Yen
The Location of the Six Hundred Million Yen Bucciarati's gang gathers in a public restroom on Capri. Summoned earlier, an Operative named Pericolo collects the ¥600,000,000 (stored with Sticky Fingers behind a urinal), before in turn bestowing Bucciarati the status of an Operative; along with Polpo's last order from the Boss: Protect his daughter, whom is present along with Pericolo disguised as a cleaner.

The Boss' First Assignment
Operative Bucciarati; The Boss' First Assignment Trish Una is introduced by Pericolo.

Pericolo explains that two months prior, Trish's mother Donatella died two days after commissioning an independent search for Solido Naso; the Boss' false identity. Members of Passione learned of these events, and the Boss ordered Pericolo to find and hide Trish; revealing that he is her father. Soon, traitors within the gang began an attempt to kidnap her, aiming to overthrow the Boss.

Pericolo gives the length of Bucciarati's assignment as one week, explaining that the Boss is trying to identify his pursuers, and that like Polpo, the traitors are Stand users.

Elsewhere, another member learns via instant messaging of Polpo's death; concluding that his assignment must have passed onto another Operative and Stand user.

Narancia's Aerosmith
Narancia brings groceries and items of Trish's request back to the group's hideout. In the car prepared for him by Fugo, Formaggio appears, striking Narancia with his Stand Little Feet. Narancia retaliates with his own Stand Aerosmith, a miniature fighter plane, as Formaggio deduces that Bucciarati's group is hiding Trish, and Narancia finds himself shrinking.

Narancia's unfortunate history and the circumstances of his joining Passione are detailed.

A fight ensues between a shrunken Formaggio and a shrinking Narancia. Narancia is overcome; and the history of Formaggio's traitorous group of assassins is given, including the account of the deaths of Sorbet and Gelato. Formaggio suggests that Trish's Stand represents a clue as to the Boss' identity. Trapped, Narancia destroys his car, hurting Formaggio and removing Little Feet's effect on him. When Formaggio tries to escape, Narancia cuts off every way of escaping with causing a fire in the whole street, finally defeating him at close range.

The Boss' Second Assignment
Bucciarati and the gang receive a message from the Boss via e-mail requesting they find a "key" that will grant them safe passage to their destination. Bucciarati, Narancia, and Mista stay behind to protect Trish while Giorno, Abbacchio, and Fugo head to the ruins of Pompeii to retrieve the key. There, Fugo spots a strange figure in a mirror that Giorno and Abbacchio can't see.

Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze
The figure in the mirror is revealed to be Illuso, a member of La Squadra di Esecuzione. His Stand, Man in the Mirror, entraps Fugo in a mirror world, leaving Fugo's Stand Purple Haze behind in the real one. Abbacchio decides to put the mission before his fellow gang member and moves ahead to the "dog mosaic" where the key is hidden. Giorno stays behind. This allows Illuso to trap Abbacchio in the mirror world as well, and a struggle for the key ensues.

Abbachio's fall into crime is also narrated, one case leading to his demotion from the police.

Abbacchio severs his own hand so that Moody Blues can deliver the key to Giorno. Illusio traps Giorno in the mirror world, only to find he has brought the deadly virus Purple Haze spreads in with him. Illuso dies, and Giorno takes the disease's antidote from a snake created by Gold Experience.

The Express Train Towards Florence
Before boarding a train to Florence per the Boss' instructions, Bucciarati discovers that the key fits into the back of a turtle. This turtle, named Coco Jumbo, is a stand user that allows the entire gang to shrink down and enter a small, furnished room inside of its body. The gang boards the train hiding inside Coco Jumbo.

Meanwhile, partner assassins Pesci and Prosciutto also board the train in search of Trish. Pesci uses his Stand Beach Boy to search for the gang, but fails to discover where they are hidden.

The Grateful Dead
Unable to locate Bucciarati's gang or Trish, Prosciutto uses his Stand The Grateful Dead to make everyone on board the train grow older and older. The gang discover that keeping one's body temperature cooler can help to reverse the aging process (this "loophole" was meant to keep Trish from aging too fast).

Equipped with a few ice cubes, Mista exits the turtle in search of the assassins. He encounters Pesci and easily incapacitates him, stealing his ice cubes. However, before Mista can get any information out of Pesci, Prosciutto attacks and nearly kills Mista. Sex Pistols n. 6 returns to the rest of the gang in time to warn Bucciarati just as the two assassins discover the turtle. Bucciarati jumps out of the train taking Prosciutto with him, and uses Pesci's Beach Boy against him in order to save himself and throw Prosciutto from the train.

Prosciutto manages to barely survive, but his heavy injuries and certain death enrage Pesci. Bucciarati is forced to unzip himself into a dangerous amount of separate pieces in order to avoid Pesci's constant, quick attacks. In a final showdown between the two, Bucciarati unzips his own fist to deliver the final blow before Pesci can kill everyone inside the turtle.

The gang is no longer able to travel via the train. Trish reveals to Bucciarati that she can see Stands.

Baby Face
Melone, a member of La Squadra di Esecuzione, arrives at the scene of Pesci and Prosciutto's deaths and retrieves a sample of Bucciarati's DNA. Using this and his Stand Baby Face, Melone "impregnates" a hot-headed young woman on board the train in order to "birth" a remote Stand that will pursue Bucciarati. This remote Stand (also called Baby Face) quickly grows to full size, killing its mother and catching up to the gang using Melone's motorcycle.

The gang is in the process of stealing a car when Baby Face catches up to them. Capturing both Trish and Bucciarati, Baby Face steals a piece of Giorno's throat, rendering him unable to call to the rest of the gang for help.

Gold Experience and Baby Face are opposites: Gold Experience creates life while Baby Face takes it away. After a tense give-and-take between the two, Baby Face tires of following Melone's advice and tries to attack his enemy head on, allowing Giorno to easily defeat it.

Towards Venice
A piece of Baby Face (turned into a snake via Gold Experience) returns to Melone and poisons him.

Bucciarati's gang successfully steal a car, and receive a message from the Boss via Abbacchio's Moody Blues. In this Stand-created afterimage, Pericolo reveals the location of a "disk" the gang must find in Venice before killing himself.

A new member of the assassination squad follows in hot pursuit.

Get the Disc!
Mista's past is revealed, his talent for gunfight having been noticed by Bucciarati, who made him join the gang.

Giorno and Mista drive the stolen car together to get the disk at the train station. The temperature gradually drops and a new enemy reveals himself from the roof of the car. That enemy tracked the group down from Pericolo's laptop.

White Album
The new enemy is Ghiaccio, who wears the armor like White Album and proceeds to slowly corner Giorno and Mista in their car. A combination attack forces Ghiaccio underwater, revealing a breathing hole near White Album's neck.

Mista and Giorno work together to get past White Album's defenses and Ghiaccio is finally killed, impaled into a metal pole through the hole in his Stand.

Giorno subsequently retrieves the disk and heals Mista as the rest of the team joins them.

The Boss' Last Orders
Bruno consults the disk, which contains the Boss' last order for the team's mission. They are to go to the San Giorgio Maggiore island, then one of the members will alone accompany Trish to the church's top and use an elevator to get Trish to the Boss. Bruno volunteers to accompany Trish.

In the elevator, Trish expresses her fear at meeting her estranged father, but Bruno reassures her of her father's love. Suddenly, Bruno finds out he's holding Trish's severed off hand and realizes with horror that the Boss wanted Trish by his side so he could personally kill her.

Bruno Bucciarati's Youth
Bruno's past is revealed. His father having been critically injured by drug traders and Bruno subsequently killing them in revenge at the age of 10, the young Bruno was forced to join Passione for protection, and he gradually felt more conflicted as Passione itself began to dwell into the same drug trade he despised. Injuring Trish pushes Bruno to revolt against the Boss, and he pursues him down the elevator shaft.

The Mystery of King Crimson
Bruno tracks the Boss to the basement, and a fight ensues. The Boss reveals his Stand King Crimson and his power of time erasure. Overwhelmed by King Crimson's power, Bruno is fatally injured while the Boss isn't even wounded but manages to escape with Trish and joins Giorno. Unwilling to reveal himself, the Boss leaves, swearing to kill the traitors. Giorno heals Bruno, apparently without effect, but then Bruno wakes up.

Bruno subsequently announces to his team that he officially betrayed the Boss.

The 'G' in Guts
Initially frightened, Bruno's teammates join his cause, leaving only Fugo to stay behind.

At the same time, Giorno discovers that Bruno's body is still effectively dead.

Clash and Talking Head
Still in Venice, Giorno's companions discuss about how to defeat the Boss. Trish wakes up and reveals that her mother met the Boss in Sardinia, in which they could learn of him.

Narancia is then attacked by the duo Tiziano and Squalo, Tiziano's Talking Head rendering Narancia unable to tell the truth and luring the group near water bodies so that Squalo's Clash can attack them. Giorno discovers the charade, but is incapacitated by the enemies. Giorno nonetheless advises Narancia to track the Stand Users instead, and he manages to discover where Tiziano and Squalo are hiding killing them both in a straight fight.

The gang then leaves Venice in search of an airplane.

Headed for Sardinia
''No Flightcode! Headed for Sardinia'' The gang confront Carne while stealing an airplane. However, he is promptly killed by Mista when he reveals his Stand Notorious B.I.G.

Notorious B.I.G.
While in flight, Notorious B.I.G. attacks the gang, and reveals itself as fast, strong and above all invincible since the User died already. Mista and Narancia are heavily injured, Giorno amputates both his hands to get rid of the enemy Stand, now unable to heal. Unbeknownst to the gang, Notorious B.I.G. is still on the plane.

Alone in the cabin, Trish confronts Notorious B.I.G. and also realizes that a brooch is transforming into Giorno's hand, the situation pushes Trish into awakening her stand Spice Girl.

Spice Girl
With Spice Girl's counsel, Trish manages to reach the cockpit with Giorno's new hand. To get rid of the invincible Notorious B.I.G., Trish destroys the plane, sending it into the sea, and the gang safely lands on Sardinia.

Meanwhile in Venice, the Boss discovers that one photo links him to Sardinia, especially a location named La Costa Smeralda, he subsequently decides to go to Sardinia in order to stop Abbacchio's Moody Blues from replicating his face.

Storm Warning
Storm Warning in Sardina Island! Vinegar Doppio is confronted by a fortuneteller in an alley, who divines Doppio's past. Provoked by the fortuneteller's insistance, Doppio assaults him while transforming into an unknown individual. Said unknown man tortures his victim into divining Risotto Nero's whereabouts and kills him. From the shadows emerges Doppio.

My Name Is Doppio
Doppio stops near La Costa Smeralda, revealing that he communicates with his Boss by mimicking a telephone call with mundane objects. The Boss warns him that Risotto Nero is observing Doppio at the moment, Nero confronts Doppio and interrogates him about why he came here. As both notice Aerosmith, Nero deduces that Doppio is a Stand user, and multiple razor blades appear in Doppio's mouth.

King Crimson vs. Metallica
A fight begins between Doppio, counseled by his Boss, and Risotto Nero. Using the substand Epitaph and part of King Crimson, Doppio discovers that Risotto manipulates iron but the tide of the fight is seemingly certain as Doppio cannot breathe normally without the vital amount of iron in his body. Risotto is critically injured by Aerosmith, lured into the battle by Doppio.

Doppio transforms into the Boss, confronting a dying Risotto. He is then given chase by Bruno and Narancia, and in his weakened state, must flee. The two of them follow the Boss' tracks up to an unrelated child.

Meanwhile Abbacchio is rewinding time near a stone pillar in order to recreate the Boss' face. Being alone, the Boss manages to approach Abbacchio and punch him through his stomach.

Like the Falling Sky
Abbacchio finds himself in the afterlife, where he meets his old partner in the police. Meanwhile, the gang is apalled at Abbacchio's sudden death. His sacrifice is, however, not in vain as Giorno discovers a negative of the Boss' face and fingerprints, Moody Blues having rewinded time far enough.

Pronto! On the Line
The gang investigates the Boss without success, but their investigation is noticed by a third party, who contacts them and proposes to meet in Rome to be given an Arrow, the artifact hiding a power that can potentially defeat King Crimson's time erasure. The gang also learns of the Boss' name: Diavolo.

A flashback reveals the origins of the Arrows and the Stands. Diavolo, observing the gang from afar, is suspicious of their unwavering determination. He discovers the replica of his face, and follows the gang to Rome, having called Cioccolata and Secco to help eliminate the gang.

Arrived to the coast of Italy, the gang discovers they are attacked by a strange mold.

Rome! The Coliseum
''Destination: Rome! The Coliseum'' In the plane toward Rome, Diavolo reveals Cioccolata's gruesome past to Doppio.

When Narancia retreats from the mold, its growth is further accelerated, leading to the gang deducing that the mold attacks people when they go down. Cioccolata and Secco are revealed filming the gang from a distance.

"Green Day" and "Oasis"
With much difficulty, the gang manages to steal a car, Bruno exploiting his immunity to the mold and knocking Secco whose Oasis allows him to swim in the ground and protects him, out.

In the road to Rome, the gang realizes that Cioccolata's Green Day has spread its mold into Rome and they are forced to get out of the car. Seeing that Cioccolata is operating from an helicopter and Secco diving into the streets to fight them head on, Giorno and Mista immobilize the helicopter at the top of a tower, and go confront the mad doctor while Bruno takes care of Secco.

At the top of the tower, Cioccolata almost kills Mista. Giorno then manages to kill Cioccolata after a long clash. However Cioccolata heard that the gang is headed toward the Coliseum to get an unstoppable power, and has informed Secco upon his death.

In the streets, Bruno is physically bested by Secco. The fight transforms into a race toward the Coliseum, the third party being eventually revealed to be Jean Pierre Polnareff. When Bruno deafens Secco, crippling his fighting ability, Secco is forced to take an unwitting Doppio hostage. Bruno promptly defeats and kills Secco.

Not knowing who Doppio is, Bruno tells him that he's headed to the Coliseum, piquing Doppio's interest.

They Called Him Diavolo, Part 1
Leading an injured Bruno toward the Coliseum, Doppio is told that Bruno is in fact undead and can only feel people's souls. Diavolo then disguises his soul as Trish's to gain his trust, and the two sneak past the rest of the gang.

A Brief Flashback
Parts of Diavolo's mysterious past are revealed, and as Bruno and Doppio confront Polnareff from afar, so is Polnareff's past investigation of the Arrows in Italy, leading to a fight where Diavolo cripples Polnareff.

Polnareff then suddenly realizes that Doppio disappeared.

They Called Him Diavolo, Part 2
Vinegar Doppio reappears near the bottom of a staircase leading to Polnareff, he then transforms into Diavolo, who attacks Polnareff. After a brief exchange, Diavolo erases time but sees that Polnareff pierced his Silver Chariot with the Arrow. Silver Chariot then undergoes a transformation.

Before the 'Arrow'
As Polnareff expires, Silver Chariot evolves and Diavolo realizes the potential of the Arrow, and takes it for himself. Before he's able to do anything else, he sees a mysterious shadowy figure walking away, then Diavolo and the gang fall asleep.

The Requiem Plays Quietly
When they wake up, the gang slowly realizes that their souls were switched between bodies. Narancia having switched with Giorno, and Mista with Trish. Polnareff switched his soul with Coco Jumbo and thus lives as a turtle. He reveals them the potential of the Arrow, a Stand pierced by it can upgrade itself into Requiem, gaining metaphysical powers above even Diavolo's time manipulation.

As they approach Chariot Requiem, they see Diavolo's body racing toward it, but it is Bucciarati who switched with Diavolo. Together, the gang tries to hurt Silver Chariot Requiem and take the Arrow, but the task is made near impossible since their own Stands attack them when they get close to the Arrow.

Bruno's body also wakes up and the person residing inside his body is shot down by Mista. Almost immediately, time is erased once again and Narancia is killed, Giorno then retakes his original body. Polnareff theorizes that Diavolo suffered from dissociative personality, effectively causing two souls to inhabit one body, meaning Diavolo's whereabouts are now unknown. As the group exits the Coliseum, it is revealed that it was Doppio who was inside Bucciarati's body.

In the streets King Crimson discreetly sabotages, Mista's pistol having been destroyed, and the pursuit is made all the more urgent as everyone suffers a forced evolution.

Diavolo Rising
The group realizes that Diavolo is possessing one of them, but before they can confirm any suspicion, King Crimson incapacitates Giorno and takes control of Mista's body which was where he was hosted. Diavolo then quickly runs toward Chariot Requiem. He confirms Chariot Requiem's weakness and incapacitates it..

The gang hopelessly delays Diavolo from taking the Arrow, their efforts rendered null by King Crimson, Trish's soul intervenes, she manages to send the Arrow head toward the gang. Furious, King Crimson punches through Spice Girl, and leaps toward the Arrow head, seemingly piercing his Stand in the process.

However, Bucciarati has managed to completely destroy Silver Chariot Requiem and every soul is forced back into their original body, Bucciarati's ascending into heaven instead after a brief farewell with Giorno.

Giorno then takes the Arrow head into his hands.

King of Kings
Diavolo decides to confront Giorno, having envisioned the Arrow rejecting him, and attacks Gold Experience as Giorno pieces his stand with the Arrow, to no effects at first view. King Crimson smashes Gold Experience's face, revealing something inside.

Gold Experience Requiem
Gold Experience Requiem is revealed, but Diavolo sees a vision of King Crimson punching through Giorno. Confident because of Epitaph's revelation, Diavolo erases time but Gold Experience Requiem nullifies it. Diavolo is powerless as Giorno dashes toward him and Gold Experience Requiem pummels the gang Boss into the river.

Diavolo is now trapped in an endless death loop, unable to do anything about it.

Sleeping Slaves (Epilogue)
Set before the events of Bucciarati's Coming, the epilogue focuses on Bucciarati and the others helping the owner of a flower store uncover the truth behind his daughter's death.

Mista and Bruno go investigate the suspected murderer, and Mista notices a round stone following Bruno. Confronting Scolippi, the sculptor reveal that his Rolling Stone will reveal its targets' death to them, and that the only way to stop it is to destroy it. Mista succeeds, but the remaining dust shapes itself into Bruno, Abbacchio and Narancia, revealing that they were fated to die during their journey.

Back to the present, Trish and Mista happily go to the Coliseum, having forged a new friendship. Behind them Giorno hides the Arrow head in Coco Jumbo's body.

The part closes with Giorno, seemingly the new gang Boss as several men bow before him and embrace his hand.

Chapters
Vento Aureo consists of 155 chapters, compiled into Volumes 47 to 63 of the Jump Comics collected editions. The left column consists of the titles from the volumes while the right column consists of the titles from the Weekly Shonen Jump release of Part 5.

Adaptations
Vento Aureo has a Japan-only action-adventure video game adaptation for the PlayStation 2, GioGio's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.

Trivia

 * This arc was initially referred to as, lit. "Part 5 Giorno Giovana: Golden Heritage".
 * Since the arc takes place in Italy, the series title is sometimes written in Italian as Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio.