Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Part 5: Golden Wind vol. 5

This is the only series where I could say that the previous volume ended with one of its primary characters having parts of his body flash-frozen to the inside of a car and call it “business as usual.”  That’s not to say that such a thing, or the resulting battle of wits involving Mista and Giorno taking on a Stand User with the powers of heat subtraction isn’t satisfying.  No, it’s got the requisite amount of struggle and displays of strategy on both sides that have characterized all the fights in this series and made them all entertaining to behold even when the main story was groping for direction.

That hasn’t been the case with “Golden Wind,” however.  Contrary to “Diamond is Unbreakable” this Part of the “Jojo” saga has been characterized by its steady ramping up of the tension as Bruno, Giorno and the rest of the gang work to protect their boss’s daughter Trish.  The end goal has always been to deliver her safely to said boss, which they finally manage to do here.  As this isn’t the final volume of this Part, you’d be correct in assuming that Something Goes Wrong when Bruno makes the delivery.

That Something is best left for the reader to experience for themselves.  I will say that it sets up a hell of a “Final Boss” for this arc, which is going to require some real clever thinking on the part of our protagonists to overcome.  We also get a new ongoing mystery with Bruno that only Giorno is aware of and a terrible, more immediate threat that Narancia will have to overcome in order to save his friends.  So yeah, this is another “business as usual” volume for “Golden Wind,” in the sense that it continues to get better with each new one.