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Part V is a bit of a mess to me honestly. I like it a lot, but I feel like Giorno's character really just brought the vibe of the whole thing down a notch. What I mean to say is that, like you said, he's got not much in terms of personality. I feel like as both DIO's kid and a Joestar by blood that already sets him up to be a powerful and interesting character. Unfortunately, I just got the power part at the end of the series and everything leading up to that was pretty flat other than his inherent Joestar brain--smart and coming up with out of the box solutions to the wierdest problems. All the other Jojo's had a range of emotion or expression but so much time was taken on the rest of the crew in part V that, again, "not much" went into the protagonist to make him any better. Plus there's never a real explanation as to how this hellspawn child exists; as much as I should be used to these things from Araki it still irks me personally.

I could keep ranting but let's look at the positives now. I LOVE the rest of the team and I tend to lean towards secondary characters anyway, so their devlopement at the expense of Gio's boringness was not an entirely horrible trade off. The stands themselves were fun--especially Mista's Sex Pistols which each had enough personality to make up for what we don't have with Giorno--and the range of what thay could do had me on the edge of my seat wondering "What will that one do?" or "How the heck are they going to beat that?" So again, good. There's the traveling and culture aspect from Part III that I always loved, and there was an air of mystery like in from Part IV, another aspect that kept me excited to read more. Polnareff cameo, and a turtle with a stand were things I just loved because "Jojo".

Not much to say about Diavolo as a villian though. King Crimson was one helluva stand and I'm still not sure I know what that's all about. In the end I'd say the most intersting part about him was his whole Yu-Gi-Oh! thing with Doppio--Riiiiing, riing ring. All around it all came back to, "Who is the boss, and how are they going to beat him?"

Overall, I think it could have been better. All things considered it is the second shortest part with twice the content of Phantom Blood, but half the development of the protagonist. Not bad, but I think my expectations for Giorno were too high given the circumstances of his existence so I set myself up for the dissappointment. So much more could've gone into that character but didn't because the part wound up being too short to get around to it. Again not bad, but could've been better.