Love Letter to Giorno: Why He's My Favorite Character

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  @nordinreecendo512 · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Vento Aureo was the first JoJo&apos;s part I read the manga for, and it genuinely changed my life. That isn&apos;t just exaggeration, without Vento Aureo, I wouldn&apos;t know what I wanted to do with my life. When I finally read Vento Aureo, I was just starting college, majoring in art. I knew I wanted to do art, but I didn&apos;t know <b>what</b> I wanted to do with my art. Enter Giorno Giovanna. From the moment Giorno said those famous six words, I felt something special. &quot;I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream.&quot; At the time, I had realized my previous dream just wasn&apos;t everything I had hoped for. It wasn&apos;t as fun as I thought it would, and so I accepted that. I was now pursuing art, not because it was my passion, but because my father praised my artwork he saw once and said I should pursue it as a career. I had tried many things before coming to art, and failed in them all. I felt directionless in life, but as soon as I finished Vento Aureo, I felt personally changed by Hirohiko Araki&apos;s magnum opus. I had liked JoJo&apos;s for a while before this, but Vento Aureo and Giorno Giovanna changed that like to a passion. I was enthralled by Giorno, and I was jealous of his passion and dedication to his dream. I couldn&apos;t help but think &quot;This fifteen-year-old kid not only knows what his dream is, but he is adamantly pursuing it in the face of death... <b>I want to be this kid.&quot;</b> From that moment on, I knew my dream: To become a comic creator and inspire at least one reader the same way Giorno Giovanna inspired me. Life has been difficult these past few years, and there have been a few moments where I just wanted to let it end, but there was always one thought that would yank me back to sanity: &quot;I haven&apos;t reached my dream. I have not fulfilled my purpose.&quot; I believe it was Purple Haze Feedback which described Giorno as &quot;A golden wind which blows through the lives of those around him, greatly impacting and improving those lives.&quot; Buccellati said there was something about Giorno that just allowed him to so easily earn the sincere respect of his companions and friends, and while I can often understand why a character might feel some way toward another character, this was the first time that I myself genuinely felt that exact way. Giorno is the golden wind that blew through not only the lives of Buccellati, Abacchio, Fugo, Mista, Narancia, and Trish, but my own life as well. Whenever life is weighing down on me with its hardest moments, or there are times I want to just give up, I always tell myself: &quot;I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream,&quot; and like that, I am revitalized and encouraged to face any obstacle.<br><br>Just the other day, I finally finished watching the anime (rewatching for me) with my best friend, and since he&apos;s rarely in town, in took us about a year and a half, give or take. He absolutely loved it and was speechless when it was over, and after I went home, he sent me a text later that night telling me he finally figured out where Vento Aureo fits into his JoJo&apos;s Parts ranking, and Vento Aureo was his new favorite, beating out Stardust Crusaders. That absolutely made my day. Vento Aureo was also the first JoJo&apos;s Part my father watched with me, and we watched it as it aired. Before that, he wasn&apos;t all that interested in JoJo&apos;s because it just looked overly dramatic and it confused him why one day he&apos;d see me watching it with one JoJo and then another day there would be a new JoJo. After he and I finished Vento Aureo, we went back and started all the way from Phantom Blood, and he realized just what he was missing out on. We started discussing Stands, the significance of their musical references, etc.<br><br>Vento Aureo means so much to me on a personal level, and I would genuinely not be the person I am today without it. I might not even be alive today without it.

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  @pickachuman2802 · 6 years ago

  someone has to break it to him that Giorno isn&apos;t real. He gonna be so disappointed when he tries to mail this letter...

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  @incendio00 · 6 years ago

  The best thing about Gorino is that he killed a person with a banana.

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  @am3noma · 6 years ago

  My man literallly just said “drugs bad” and everybody goes 😩😉😳😔😭☺️😍😏💕😘👌😩😩😁😘

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  @mechajay3358 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Giorno&apos;s the type that goes through the Flat Character Arc: &quot;Where he doesn&apos;t go through change, instead he changes the people around him.&quot; Which is equally great for for storytelling.

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  @yerp1554 · 6 years ago

  Nobody gonna talk about how this guy made a love letter to a 15 year old

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  @jovanaavramovic2485 · 6 years ago (edited)

  what i love about giorno is that he&apos;s a proactive protagonist. he&apos;s not waiting for a bad guy to kill his whole family to start his quest, he&apos;s trying to change the already established world he&apos;s living in. he basically takes the traditional role of the antagonist, but is the protagonist.<br>i also love the fact that he&apos;s really weak by himself. people love to call him op, but the truth is that he only survived because his friends were there for him. i think that he only won one battle without the help of anyone else

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  @riosantino00 · 6 years ago

  as a giorno fanboy i love this. as an italian im cringing

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  @setteplays · 6 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s called the flat character arc. The character already knows the truth and inspire others to achieve their own truth. It&apos;s one of my favorite arcs too. It&apos;s not in the same emotional level, but Goku belongs to the same category. And I&apos;m happy you&apos;re talking about this with such passion, people seem to not like what they don&apos;t (try to) understand. Since we mostly consume this kind of media in our teens, we expect growth in our protagonists to inspire our own. We usually ignore how inspiring a character can be when they&apos;re just confident and adamant enough.<br>Amazing video.

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  @p4ladin167 · 6 years ago

  Some jojo fan drunk AF: &apos;&apos;Yo if DIOhad Jonathan&apos;s body, what would happen if he had sex with someone?&quot;<br><br><br>Araki: &quot;Aight fam, say no more.&quot;

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  @thefurioush2o · 6 years ago

  He forgot that all Jojo&apos;s where extremely intelligent in fighting

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  @MrAlbinoGhost · 6 years ago (edited)

  Making the main protagonist a supporting character within the scope of both the narrative and his powerset is such a unique and amazing move by Araki. I&apos;m really glad that he decided to let the Passione crew take the spotlight most of the time, because having 5 characters allows for so much more room to have fun with fights and express interesting characterization than just one does. The characters all play off one another wonderfully, and Giorno is really the key that facilitates their dynamic. Giorno is effectively characterized through his friends, and that lends so much quality and richness to the characters of part 5 and every character is made more interesting for it.

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