Gold Experience (
In the year 2001, Koichi Hirose travels to Naples, Italy by Jotaro's request to investigate the young "Haruno Shiobana", revealed to be DIO's son. At the same time, Giorno accidentally antagonizes a gang by putting one of their members in a coma.
Summary
It is the year 2001, the picturesque Italian city of Naples is plagued by crime: pickpockets, corrupt policemen, and drug dealers lurk within the streets. Among them serenely strolls a young boy clad in pink. Soon he finds himself helping take back a tourist's purse from a pickpocket. While he also takes two banknotes for himself by transforming them into butterflies flying to him from said purse, he uses the money to generously buy ice cream for a hungry child.
Meanwhile at the airport, the notorious thug" "Leaky-Eye" Luca bloodily beats up a small-time scammer for not paying his tithe and learns that a certain Giorno Giovanna has been doing the same. Coincidentally, Giorno, the boy in pink, has just arrived here.
Koichi Hirose has just landed at Naples, and prepares to take a taxi to his hotel before looking for a certain "Haruno Shiobana". Exiting the airport, he coincidentally meets Giorno, who proposes to ride him to his destination for a fee. Very suspicious but desperate to avoid the long queue, Koichi reluctantly accepts Giorno's proposition. Indeed, as soon as Koichi puts his luggage inside the car, Giorno tries to take off without the Japanese teen. While Koichi easily stops the car thanks to his Stand, Echoes ACT3, Giorno calmly flees with a smile on his face. Koichi then sees that his luggage has somehow disappeared, with a small frog appearing where it should have been before promptly leaping into a sewer grate. Hearing two guards chatting about Giorno, Koichi decides to ask them for further information.
Waiting, Giorno is then approached by Luca, who demands his tithe. Although the boy protests that he doesn't have any money as he already paid the guards, Luca still orders Giorno to pay up, only seeing a photograph of the late DIO in the latter's wallet. The frog leaps on Giorno, causing a disgusted and furious Luca to bash it with his shovel despite Giorno's warnings. Too late, Giorno's powers reflect the heavy attack onto Luca, and his head is caved in the exact shape of his trademark shovel. It is then revealed that Giorno possesses the Star Birthmark. The frog transforms back into Koichi's luggage, and Giorno nonchalantly walks away from the scene.
A flashback details how Jotaro Kujo requested Koichi to investigate "Haruno", whom Koichi already noted a passing resemblance with Jotaro. In the now, Koichi walks the streets looking for Giorno, upset about his misfortune. By pure chance, he sees him at a café and furiously asks the boy for his passport and luggage. Giorno tries to run away, but Echoes multiplies Giorno's hand's weight. Cornered, Giorno is forced to summon his Gold Experience and creates a tree to lift him up to a roof. Koichi tries to break the tree, only for his attack to be reflected and knock him down. Before leaving, Giorno openly observes that Koichi has a merciful nature.
Jotaro Kujo receives a call from Koichi, who nervously narrates his encounter with Haruno, revealed to be Giorno. Explaining everything he knows, Koichi is then told that Giorno is in fact the son of DIO and that Jotaro wanted someone reliable to stealthily investigate the boy.
Meanwhile, Giorno takes a funicular, trailed by a man in a white suit. The man soon approaches Giorno and although he initially acts friendly, notably explaining how he can observe and even taste one's sweat to uncover lies, Giorno soon discovers that his interlocutor is one of Luca's comrades from his gang, and that he is here to find whoever bashed Luca's head in. Ominously asked whether he's seen Luca at the airport, Giorno lies. The gangster is apparently convinced and leaves, but suddenly Giorno discovers an eyeball in his closed fist. The man in white reappears and immediately licks Giorno's sweat, discovering that he was lied to. Returning inside the funicular, the gangster, presenting himself as Bruno Bucciarati, begins his torture session on Giorno, violently beating him up to uncover the truth. Seeing that a zipper has appeared on his throat, Giorno understands that his opponent has the same powers as he does and summons Gold Experience, preparing to fight for his life.
Appearances
Credits
Rin Ogawa
Sayaka Anesaki
Yui Kinoshita
Masaki Takasaka
Yuta Shinohara
Natsue Chibayama
Yukitoshi Houtani
Sotaro Shimizu
Takeshi Itou
Hiroki Itai
Kohei Ashiya
Akira Ono
Kiko Morifuji
Kenji Yokoyama
Shunichi Ishimoto
Takahito Katayama
小川 隣
姉崎 早也花
木下 由衣
高阪 雅基
篠原 佑太
千葉山 夏恵
宝谷 幸稔
清水 奏太郎
伊藤 岳史
板井 寛樹
芦谷 耕平
小野 旭
森藤 希子
横山 謙次
石本 峻一
片山 貴仁
Kentaro Ishikawa
Mayu Fujimoto
Miyuki Kawano
Eita Toyoshima
Kyoko Chika
Nana Yamazaki
Rina Morita
Shin Hyung Woo
Teddy
Animation Planet
石川 健太郎
藤本 真由
河野 美由紀
豊島 英太
近 響子
山崎 菜奈
森田 莉奈
SHIN HYUNG WOO
テディー
アニメーションプラネット
Nana Nomiya
野宮 菜那
David Production
Yuri Kiuchi
Sho Tamae
Shun Takahashi
Haruka Watanabe
Manato Onishi
Neito Hirohara
Nao Kui
Mito Ichikawa
Daichi Imai
Kazuma Shigenobu
Souta Watanabe
Kazuya Aoki
Rie Takahashi
木内 佑里
玉栄 翔
高橋 俊
渡邉 はるか
尾西 真成人
廣原 寧人
久井 菜央
市河 碧都
今井 大地
重信 一真
渡邊 爽太
青木 一哉
高橋 梨恵
Asahi Production
Yuan Li Li
旭プロダクション
李 媛莉
Sayaka Anesaki
姉崎 早也花
奥村 崇之
毛利 奈花
石本 峻一
Music
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Manga/Anime Differences
- Koichi's narration about the year being 2001 and how humans already traveled all the way to Jupiter in the 2001: A Space Odyssey film he saw is omitted. Instead, the episode begins with Giorno.
- Several scenes are added compared to the original manga:
- Expository scenes of the crime wave plaguing Naples such as frequent thefts, corrupt policemen, or drug deals are added.
- Giorno is introduced before his arrival at the airport with him taking a stroll through town, focusing on his interactions with other citizens, notably one of him pickpocketing back a purse for a tourist is added, after it was snatched by a thief who bumped into them. At the same time, Gold Experience's ability is first alluded to earlier, as he secretly steals money from the aforementioned woman's purse by turning the bills into butterflies and having them fly back to him.
- A scene of Giorno buying gelato for himself and a young boy is added.
- Leaky-Eye Luca gets an introductory scene showing him beating up a petty illegal taxi driver while learning about Giorno, showing how he will later confront him.
- Flashbacks to Koichi being stabbed by the Arrow, the Arrow itself and DIO's battle against Jotaro were added.
- Extra scenes of Giorno entering Naples's funicular, followed by Bruno Bucciarati, are added while Koichi phones Jotaro.
- All of Koichi's narration is removed, such as him detailing the mission Jotaro gave him at the start as well as how he felt seeing Giorno's serene expression when Giorno "failed" to steal his luggage.
- Instead, all Koichi does before the taxi scene is look at a picture of Giorno and say he'd like to drop his luggage off at his hotel before getting to work.
- Giorno saying the money he gave the guards was a parking fee has been omitted.
- Koichi asking Giorno why he's not asking people in the taxi line if they want rides has been omitted.
- The guards saying that Giorno's hair turned blond recently, and that Giorno told them its hereditary from his father who died in Egypt has been removed.
- The scene of Koichi suspecting Giorno and Haruno are the same person is shortened, and Koichi is now shown asking the guards for information about Giorno.
- The photo of DIO that Giorno keeps in his wallet is now the same image taken by Joseph Joestar during Stardust Crusaders, with the "Dio Brando" writing omitted.
- Koichi using Echoes ACT1 to find Giorno is omitted. He calls out to the security guards nearby instead.
- The scene where Koichi and Jotaro meet regarding Haruno Shiobana is moved to an outside cafe in Morioh and is shown after Luca is killed. This is originally shown at the beginning of the chapter without a clear location.
- Five girls crowded around Giorno to hang out with him at the cafe in the manga, but only three in the anime.
- After confronting Giorno at the cafe, Koichi recalling that stand users are drawn to each other has been removed.
- Echoes ACT3's "S-H-I-T" and "BIIITCH" dialogue were removed after Giorno disappeared.
- Jotaro's office was expanded upon, with many books, an aquarium, marine biology supplies, and displays of aquatic animals. He also has other pictures of Giorno when he was younger as Haruno Shiobana, as well as photos of DIO, Giorno's mother, and Giorno's stepfather.
- Originally, Jotaro mentions that he learned about Giorno's existence from the Speedwagon Foundation.
- The funicular Giorno encounters Bucciarati in is updated slightly for the time period.
- Giorno thinking to himself that if Bucciarati finds out he killed Luca, he will have to kill Bucciarati has been omitted.
- Giorno's backstory as a child and dream of becoming a "gang-star" is omitted from its previous place in the narration.
- Gold Experience appears alongside Giorno at the end of the episode, creating a minor continuity error with the next episode.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
Gold Experience | |
 English |
Golden Wind | |
 Spanish |
Golden Wind | |
 Portuguese |
Golden Wind | |
 French |
Golden Wind | |
 German |
Golden Wind | |
 Hebrew |
גולדן וינד | Golden Wind |
 Arabic |
جولدن ويند | Golden Wind |
 Italian |
Golden Wind | |
 Russian |
Золотой опыт (Голд Экспириенс) | Gold Experience |
 Polish |
Złoty wicher | Golden Wind |
Commentary
Changing things up from the manga, Giorno's first appearance is an anime-original scene that introduces both his kindness and his severity. Chief Director Tsuda also states that he wanted to present a peek into what Giorno and they gang be up against through the lens of the Naples townscape.
2. Koichi at the Airport
Tsuda, who was also a director in Diamond is Unbreakable, fondly recalls, "Koichi's wayward luck is nostalgic, and Echoes is cool no matter how many times I see it." The airport design is taken from present day (instead of 2001 when the story takes place) so that fans who visit Naples are able to see the same scenery as the characters.
3. Enter Gold Experience
Giorno manifests Gold Experience on screen for the first time when he is escaping from Koichi's attack. Gold Experience only appears for a moment, but Tsuda wanted its first appearance to shine more than any other Stand in the franchise thus far.
4. Giorno and Bucciarati's Fateful Encounter
The aim of Giorno and Bucciarati's unrelenting conversation was to create an atmosphere that was both casual and out of the ordinary. The production staff was able to experience the bizarreness of the cable car firsthand during location scouting.Gallery
Gold Experience Eyecatch
Trivia
- In the 2020 Anime Expo interview, Nobutaka Kasama (producer for the anime) explains the presence of the extra scene where Giorno eats a gelato. The production team wanted to make Giorno likable and added this scene to showcase how he fights against evil and had a caring side. They used a gelato because it was something iconic for Italy and pistachio precisely because the production team thought that pistachio was unique to Italy.
- Kasama and a director of the anime first tried pistachio gelato after a day of walking and ended up liking the ice cream enough to keep it somewhere in the anime.
- Kenshō Ono also mentions that he was surprised by this scene of Giorno eating gelato and theorizes that it also showcased Giorno's relative youth.
- Shunichi Ishimoto drew this scene by himself[2] while Reki Taki was responsible for drawing the background.[3]