The Warrior Returns to the Wind (風にかえる戦士, Kaze ni Kaeru Senshi)[1] is the twenty-third episode of season one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It is also the fourteenth episode of Battle Tendency. It covers Chapter 103 to Chapter 106 of the Battle Tendency manga.
Wamuu and Joseph's battle continues. As both wounded fighters draw on the last of their strength, Joseph finds himself cornered by Wamuu's ultimate technique: the Atmospheric Rift.
Summary
After tying and choking Joseph to the stone wall of the central pyre with his severed arms, Wamuu unleashes his Final Mode: Atmospheric Rift. Using special tubes to suck in the air at high speed to eject it through a thin slit like a blade made of wind, the Pillar Man threatens to decapitate Joseph although the fire somewhat hides Joseph's exact position. However, the force of his inhaled air starts peeling away his own body. Joseph throws a Molotov Cocktail at Wamuu, who cuts it, but then lights Caesar's Headband with the pyre and throws it. Wamuu unwillingly sucks the embers of the headband and the oil from the firebomb and explodes. JoJo has finally won the battle.
Wamuu is reduced to a head but Joseph feeds him a bit of his blood as a sign of respect. A group of Vampires barge in to kill Joseph but Wamuu protects him as a sign of respect too. Having spent the last of his strength, Wamuu asks Joseph to drink the antidote in front of him and then turns into ashes, scattering in the wind as Joseph makes a last salute.
Remembering Wamuu's ironclad code of honor, Kars is affected by the death of a servant of his caliber. However, he still steps forth to battle Lisa Lisa. Incidentally, he executes some Vampires who try to sully Wamuu's name. Kars takes Lisa Lisa and Joseph to a strange construct named the temple of Piz Berlina, and the two decide to fight with their favored weapons: the Light Blades for Kars and the Ripple Conducting Scarf for Lisa Lisa.
Strangely, Kars exudes no killing intent as he disappears in a flash of light. Lisa Lisa does detect Kars and smashes his face, but then the real Kars stabs Lisa Lisa from behind. In contrary to his claims of fighting honorably, Kars has used a body double as nothing counts but the final victory. After claiming the Red Stone of Aja for himself, Kars sends his vampire army after the weakened JoJo. However, Joseph is rescued by Stroheim and his men, along with Speedwagon, Smokey and the Speedwagon Foundation Special Forces, who use ultraviolet lights to fight off the vampires whilst JoJo goes to face Kars. As Kars uses Lisa Lisa to force JoJo into a vulnerable position, Smokey reveals that Lisa Lisa is, in fact, JoJo's mother.
Appearances
Credits
宝谷 幸稔
Zenjirou Ukulele
Mari Futamatsu
Toshihiro Irie
Noriyasu Murata
Kiyotoshi Aoi
Tomoaki Kado
Mayumi Oda
Hideyuki Sugiura
Kanetoshi Kamimoto
Aya Nishimura
Akihide Muraji
Dai Imaoka
Emi Honda
Ryoko Kawamura
Ryo Kamei
Hideaki Matsuoka
Masaki Takasaka
Masashi Nomura
Tatsuya Shirai
ウクレレ 善次郎
二松 真理
入江 俊博
村田 憲泰
青井 清年
かど ともあき
小田 真弓
杉浦 英之
神本 兼利
西村 彩
村司 晃英
今岡 大
本多 恵美
河村 涼子
亀井 嶺
松岡 秀明
高阪 雅基
野村 雅史Z
白井 達也
Shunichi Ishimoto
Kumiko Kawahara
Kimitaka Ito
Yuuko Kamiyama
Michiko Takegami
Ai Mochida
Jin Hirakawa
Takashi Nakamichi
Tomoki Hirano
石本 峻一
河原 久美子
伊藤 公崇
神山 裕子
武上 みち子
持田 愛
平河 仁
仲道 隆
平野友己
Kwan Hyun Ae
Sim Myung Ju
Kwan Hyun Ae
Sim Myung Ju
Shuhei Fukuda
Sae Akama
Takahiro Okawa
Asami Yamaguchi
Makoto Yaguchi
Hiroyuki Moriguchi
Dai Misawa
Shota Sugimoto
福田 周平
赤間 紗枝
大川 貴大
山口 朝美
矢口 真琴
森口 弘之
三沢 大
杉本 将太
Ku Ja Chun
Kim Yun Hui
Park Jin Hee
Park Hee Joung
Byun Jin Sun
Sin Jin Eun
Yang Hyo Jung
Lee Hye Kyoung
Jung A Young
Cha Hyun Ju
Chae Youn Kyung
Ku Ja Chun
Kim Yun Hui
Park Jin Hee
Park Hee Joung
Byun Jin Sun
Sin Jin Eun
Yang Hyo Jung
Lee Hye Kyoung
Jung A Young
Cha Hyun Ju
Chae Youn Kyung
Triple A
Hayashi
Sunshine Corp.
MSJ Musashino Production
Ace Company
CL Corporation
Big Owl
Jinbun
AAA
ハヤシ株式会社
サンシャインコーポレーション
MSJ武蔵野制作所
エースカンパニー
CLコーポレーション
ビッグオウル
じんぶん
石神 潤
糸井 恵
村田 護郎
Naoyuki Seki
Hiroka Fujita
関 直幸
藤田 広香
Wong Wai
王 偉
工藤 かよ
Puavaranukroh Taweeporn
Music
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Manga/Anime Differences
- Lisa Lisa disposing of a few Vampires trying to attack her after Wamuu's defeat is omitted.
- Lisa Lisa's exposition of the snake muffler is put before she kicks the fake Kars's face.
- In the anime, after pointing at Kars, Joseph strikes a pose originally done by Jonathan in Chapter 37.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
風にかえる戦士 | The Warrior Returns to the Wind |
 Chinese |
化為風的戰士 | The Warrior Turned Into the Wind |
 Chinese (Hong Kong) |
回歸風中的戰士 | The Warrior Returns to the Wind |
 English |
The Warrior of Wind | |
 Spanish |
El guerrero del viento | The warrior of the wind |
 Portuguese |
O Guerreiro do Vento | The Warrior of Wind |
 French |
Le guerrier du vent | The warrior of the wind |
 German |
Der Krieger des Winds | The Warrior of the Wind |
 Hebrew |
לוחם הרוח | The Wind Warrior |
 Arabic |
محارب الرياح | The Wind Warrior |
 Italian |
Il Guerriero del Vento | The Warrior of the Wind |
 Czech |
Válečník větru | The Wind warrior |
 Danish |
Vindkrigeren | The wind warrior |
 Polish |
Wojownik wiatru | Wind Warrior |
Commentary
CommentaryI personally managed in detail the shots with Lisa Lisa's tights and the rope while adding a sketch that improved the knot until the result was credible. I gave many kinds of indications; out of pure auto satisfaction (laughs).
The direction is really meticulous in this episode; we had to redo some shots several times to make it viable. Stroheim appears again, everything's assembled, you really get the impression of a final battle.