Dec 30, 2012
Vento Aureo. I believe this is one of the parts the fans praise the most, and I do understand why, there are very good moments and epic fights, but it's not the best thing Araki has ever done.
[A little observations: This is my first review, and I'm not really good at writing this kind of texts. Also, English is not my first language, so if you see some stupid mistakes, I'm sorry.]
Story- 7
The story is about the 15-years old Giorno Giovanna, a teenager who seeks to become a gang-star. The interesting here is that Giorno is the son of Dio, but since he was in
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Jonathan's body, Giorno can be considered an official Joestar. Well, the story is like most of Jojo parts, there is a basis and they put a lot of epic fights over these basis. In here, we have Giorno entering a mafia gang named Passione. Giorno meet a guy named Bruno, who doesn't agree with the boss actions, and they both start to try to approach the boss to uncover his identity.
This is one of the Jojo parts (Along with 2,3 and 4 ) where the plot is not that important, it's a character-driven story. All you wanna see is cool stand users, epic fights who take your breath away and how Giorno and his friends will be able to defeat their enemies.
The story can me divided in two big parts: the fights against La Squadra di Esecuzione, a group of stand users that betrayed the boss, and the fights against the underlings of the boss. The first one is really good, all the fights are interesting and you get to see all the characters acting together. The second one is not some of the best, for some reasons I'll mention later...
Art- 8
Araki's art is not at it's best here. I mean, it's still good, but if you compare the art from parts 5 and 3, you will see what I'm talking about. He still draw scenarios really well, and his characters as also well designed, but his realistic art from part 3, and his pitch-perfect art from later part 7 were his peak as a manga artist.
Character- 7
The main characters receive quite a good development, Giorno and Bruno, at least. Also, the boss daughter, Trish, is one of the characters who get the most well-development of all series.
However, the villains are bad developed, and the main villain of this part is one of the worse from the series. The whole final arc was not as good as it was supposed to be all thanks to the failure that he was.
Araki waste some really good characters with really good stands, and at the end, you see that there were no memorable villains apart from the main one.
Enjoyment- 9
The reading is so thrilling and exciting that you will read two or three volumes like it was nothing. Araki can do that. Also, Araki put all his creativity in here, so all the stands have some really cool powers, like Bruno's stand, who can create zippers, or Giorno's stand, who can create life, all of them are very interesting.
But where it really shines is on the exciting moments Araki can do without fights. There's a key moment between the two big arcs, where Buccellati reveals something to his group and makes a little speech over there. I think this is one of the greatest moments I've ever seen in anything.
Overall- 8
Overall, Vento Aureo was a good reading. It was exciting, had some really good fights and some very good moments. Even with the bad villain and the little flaws on the story, it's superior to a lot of stuff out there.
The truth is, if it's Jojo, it can't really be bad.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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