Vento Aureo

Vento Aureo (黄金の風) is the fifth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1995 and 1999.

The story follows Giorno Giovanna and his dream to rise within the Neapolitan mafia to defeat Passione's boss.

Gold Experience
Koichi Hirose arrives in Naples at Jotaro Kujo's request in order to investigate Haruno Shiobana, also known as Giorno Giovanna; Dio's son.

Giorno expresses his dream of rising within the mafia in order to become a "Gangstar".

Giorno is 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.

Buccellati's Coming
In response, Giorno is confronted by Bruno Buccellati, Luca's superior; who attacks with his Stand, Sticky Fingers.

Exceeding Buccallati's expectations and defeating him, Giorno establishes a rapport with Buccelleti by exposing a mutual distaste for Passione's practices in dealing heroin.

The Gangster Beyond the Wall
After this, Buccellati offers Giorno a chance to join Passione by completing a test imposed by Polpo, a high-ranking member operating from prison.

Gang Enrollment
Giorno protects Polpo's lit lighter as part of his test. Koichi complicates Giorno's task when he enters Giorno's hotel room in search of his passport.

When the flame is extinguished by a passing street cleaner, Black Sabbath appears, producing an Arrow from its mouth and killing him.

Giorno explains his aspiration to Koichi. Based on this and Giorno's reaction to the cleaner's death, Koichi acknowledges him as the spiritual descendant of the Joestar family.

Having recieved Koichi's advice as to the nature of Polpo's Stand, after recieving his membership badge, Giorno kills Polpo.

5 Plus 1
Buccellati 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 Buccellati's comrades (as part of Buccellati's Gang); Narancia, Mista, Abbacchio and Fugo; who despise him at first.

Find Polpo's Fortune!
Two gangsters discuss Polpo's apparent suicide and the rumor of his hidden fortune; as Buccellati takes his group on a yacht to Capri in order to recover this ¥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; 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, showing the moment he was also 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 tracing 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 Buccellati.

Sex Pistols Arrives
Zucchero is exposed as a Roman gangster 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.

Revealing his Stand Sex Pistols, Mista rides with Giorno ahead of the group directly to the Marina Grande port of the island.

Giorno radios the the station at the port in the hope of exposing Zucchero's partner; who emerges from inside. Mista wanders into his view, shooting his leg as he flees to a truck stationed beyond on a cliffside road; pursuing and again shooting him in the forehead. Surviving, Sale reveals his Stand, Kraft Work; capable of freezing objects in place by touching them.

Sale is defeated when with Sex Pistols, Mista again strikes the bullet lodged in his skull.

The Six Hundred Million Yen
The Location of the Six Hundred Million Yen

Buccellati'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 Buccellati the status of an Operative; along with Polpo's last order from the Boss: Protect his daughter; who is present along with Pericolo disguised as a cleaner.

The Boss' First Assignment
Operative Buccellati; 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 Buccellati'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 Aerosmith, as Formaggio deduces that Buccellati's group is hiding Trish, and Narancia finds himself shrinking.

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

A desperate 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. Having generated too much carbon dioxide with the fire, harming the sensitivity of his radar, Narancia destroys more cars to trap Formaggio; finally defeating him at close range.

The Boss' Second Assignment
Buccellati 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. Buccellati, 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 the assassination squad. 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 a deadly disease (the 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, Buccellati discovers that the key fits into the back of a turtle. This turtle 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 the turtle.

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 Buccellati'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 Pistol Number Six returns to the rest of the gang in time to warn Buccellati just as the two assassins discover the turtle. Buccellati 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. Buccellati 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, Buccellati 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 Buccellati that she can see Stands.

Baby Face
Melone, a member of the assassination squad, arrives at the scene of Pesci and Prosciutto's deaths and retrieves a sample of Buccellati'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 Buccellati. 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 Buccellati, 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 flies into a rage, 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.

Buccellati'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 Buccellati 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 lowers 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. Unable to bypass his armor, Giorno drives into the ocean in hopes of slowing Ghiaccio down. Ghiaccio however remains unfazed by such a move, and Giorno desperately suggests that Mista abandons him and get to the disk. Mista obliges at first, using a board made of frozen grass made by Gold Experience to get a headstart, but decides instead to confront Ghiaccio. A combination attack forces Ghiaccio underwater, revealing a breathing hole near White Album's neck.

Mista then attacks that weak point, but Ghiaccio reveals his White Album Gently Weeps, freezing the air solid aroound him and rebouncing Mista's bullets toward him. Both his opponents temporary incapacited, Ghiaccio finds the disk. Giorno uses his own blood to spray Ghiaccio with it and reveals the holes in White Album Gently Weep's defense, allowing Mista to continue attacking. When the bullets are once again rebound and hit Mista, he then uses that blood to blind Ghiaccio, and pushes him backward with another shoot, impaling Ghiaccio's neck into a broken metal pole.

Follows then a wild shootout, Ghiaccio rebouncing the bullets toward Mista as he desperately tries to push him further into the metal shard. Ghiaccio finally uses his own frozen blood to stabilize himself, and a last bullet hits Mista's head. Mista is then suddenly healed by Giorno who managed to get to him before it was too late. Unable to move, Ghiaccio is repeatedly kicked by Gold Experience into the pole, and Ghiaccio dies, his throat pierced by the metal shard.

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 basiisk's top and use an elevator to get Trish to the Boss. Giorno volunteers himself, but Bruno goes in instead, having nonetheless taken one of Giorno' brooch to act as a detector in hopes they can plant it on the Boss.

In the elevator, Trish expresses her fear at meeting her estranged father, but Bruno reassures her of her father's love, since he deployed much effort in order to protect her. Suddenly, Bruno finds out he's only holding Trish's severed off hand. He realizes with horror that the Boss wanted Trish by his side so he could personally kill her.

Bruno Buccellati'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.

Headed for Sardinia
''No Flightcode! Headed for Sardinia''

Storm Warning
Storm Warning in Sardina Island!

Rome! The Coliseum
''Destination: Rome! The Coliseum''

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

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 V.

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 written in Italian as Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio.
 * Araki said that he used male idol groups and Italian fashion as the visual inspirations for this part. He wanted to design the main cast in a "pretty boy image" to deliberately contrast the taller, muscular protagonists from previous arcs. Araki remarked that the gay undertones found within certain scenes were included as a homage to the eroticism generally found within the fashion industry. He didn't think that events or character relationships had any deeper meanings behind them until fans brought it to his attention.