Giorno Giovanna (ジョルノ・ジョヴァーナ, Joruno Jovāna), born Haruno Shiobana (汐華 初琉乃, Shiobana Haruno), is a secondary ally featured in the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. He is an incarnation of the original Giorno from an unknown universe, who ends up living in the 37th universe. Based on Giorno claiming to be the original Dio Brando's true son[1] and Antonio Torres's remark to Bruno Bucciarati37,[3] it is suggested that he is the original universe's Giorno, but it is unclear.
He wields the Stands Gold Experience and Gold Experience Requiem. However, he creates an alternate personality which is Diavolo. With his Gold Experience Requiem, he cancels his own death and ends up in the 37th universe, where he takes over Passione in Nero Nero Island.[1]
Appearance
Giorno Giovanna is a blond man who looks young and has delicate features. George Joestar stated that Giorno is the only man he's seen that is equal in beauty to Tsukumojuku Kato, as if blinding light is pouring out of every cell in his body that makes it hard to look directly at him.[1]
He looks the same as the original Giorno, having hair of moderate length tied back in a short, braided tail, with his bangs curled into three large rings arranged in a row. He also wears a suit which is either depicted as light or dark. The suit has a heart-shaped opening in the chest area, wing-shaped emblems on the collar, and three ladybug brooches located on both sides of his chest and above his waist. Being the son of Dio with Jonathan Joestar's body, Giorno has the Star Birthmark beside his left shoulder.[1]
Personality
Giorno is typically calm, handing out orders and relaying information while not being bothered by a zombie outbreak and the world being in a state of panic.[4] Despite being a gang boss, Giorno is polite and gentle. George believes that he exudes power, but is not intimidating. He lacks the aggressiveness of a typical gangster, reminding George of a track-and-field athlete or swimmer; someone who focused on one thing and became better than anyone else. Nonetheless, Giorno commands respect from his rough subordinates like Guido Mista and Vinegar Doppio.[1]
He can be caring for others, as he helps to evacuate citizens,[4] heals George's grave injuries, and ultimately ends up sacrificing himself to try motivating George to have courage.[1] On the other hand, he will also punish those who wronged him without hesitation. For instance, Giorno traps Enrico Pucci in an infinite death loop, believing he deserved it.[1]
Giorno pretends to be a hero while he pushes all his bad deeds onto his Diavolo persona. He lies to his gangmates about his true identity. Rather than admitting that he betrayed their trust, he pushes the blame onto Dio, who he refers to as God, for betraying him instead.[1] He apparently committed all his evil actions like living in the 37th universe and helping Antonio Torres disguise murder scenes so that he could be useful to his father.[3]
Abilities
Stand
Gold Experience
Giorno's Gold Experience can create life by transforming things into living creatures. He does so on four Arrows, by turning them into rhinoceros beetles.
Gold Experience Requiem
Gold Experience Requiem is obtained after Giorno pierces Gold Experience with the Arrow. It has the ability to turn the opponent's willpower and actions to zero. Whoever is killed by Requiem will also "have their death turned to zero", forcing them into a death loop for all eternity. Giorno uses this ability on Enrico Pucci.
History
Background
Giorno is the son of Dio Brando from a universe where he defeated Diavolo with his evolved Stand, Gold Experience Requiem. He cancels his own death with his Stand, surviving in a place in between life and death until he eventually ends up in the 37th universe in 2012.[1]
Giorno starts working for Dio, receiving orders from him and relaying those orders to Antonio Torres. Antonio kills Nekoneko Nyan Nyan Nyan, Sachiari Hakkyoku, and Tsukumojuku Kato, who are three Japanese detectives. Giorno helps Antonio disguise the murder scenes to resemble Japanese folktales in order to remove suspicion that it was done by a foreigner. When Diavolo is mysteriously killed in Arrow Cross House, Giorno manages to swap his soul into the hollowed out skin of Antonio and disguises himself to look the same. He orders the others in Passione to help him track down Diavolo, as a way for him to lure his killer.[3]
2012: Traitor Among the Gang
Giorno orders the members of Passione to kidnap the citizens of Morioh so they could find every Stand user. Afterwards, he orders Bruno Bucciarati to summon detectives Jorge Joestar, Daibakusho Curry, and Runbaba 12 to the Budogaoka Academy Garden. He calls Jorge on a pebble phone and tells him that he wants to hire him as a detective, but Jorge refuses to accept unless the man states his name. He obliges, revealing that his name is Haruno Shiobana, but he usually goes by Giorno Giovanna. Giorno asks Jorge to look for Diavolo. For their mission, Bucciarati will be the leader, Giorno is in charge of communications, and the other three members will each individually accompany the three detectives.[2]
After Jorge ends up in space, he calls Giorno to relay the situation. Giorno informs him that there is an expected bombing on Nero Nero Island and Morioh after an American scout plane had crashed on Morioh, resulting with the residents clashing with the Navy. Meanwhile, reports have been going around that terrorists had invaded the islands to easily spread a weaponized virus that causes people to become berserk around the world.[4]
The Passione members discover the dead bodies of Diavolo and Yoshikage Kira in the study of the Arrow Cross House, where they had somehow been lying for at least twelve hours, despite Jorge and Rohan Kishibe having been in and out of that room all day.[5]
Soon, Giorno finds the original universe George Joestar's body lying in Morioh, after he is teleported there by Tsukumojuku Kato. Giorno brings him back to Arrow Cross House, healing all of his severe wounds and fractures. He has Vinegar Doppio watch over George until he wakes up. Once Jorge wakes up, Doppio calls him and reports that George is still feeling a lot of pain. Giorno arrives, apologizing for the manners of his men after Doppio and Mista make a bad first impression on George. Giorno introduces himself and explains what Stands are, revealing that Rohan also made it so George could see Stands. Giorno and Rohan explain how they learned George's history by reading everything about him, and decided that he is the best man to solve the mystery of Diavolo and Kira's deaths. Although George desires to go back home, Giorno has no intention of letting anyone leave Arrow Cross House until the mystery is solved.
George explains his final deductions to everyone. Enrico Pucci lured Kira and Diavolo to Arrow Cross House after setting the two against each other. As time looped, Pucci sped up time and compressed it until neither of them could move at all, then slit their throats. Giorno unsuccessfully tries to conceal his surprise, making George suspicious. After George asks Bucciarati if his boss is lying, Bucciarati notices the scent of a lie coming from Giorno. Giorno tells him that he's imagining it, infuriating Bucciarati. Giorno denies all of the accusations but Bucciarati doesn't believe him.
Bucciarati begins stitching Giorno's mouth closed with his Stand Stepmom until Giorno yells out that he isn't lying, but he was the one that was lied to. Meanwhile, NYPD Blue and Abbacchio notice that Diavolo's pages from Heaven's Door were not in order; his body only had odd pages, meaning that Diavolo had an alternate personality and someone else had the even pages. Giorno says that he was betrayed by God, causing Bucciarati to punch him in the face. Giorno begins crying, but the tears and blood dry in an instant.
Rohan discloses that he used Heaven's Door on everybody except Giorno who could already speak Japanese and Italian, and Doppio, since he arrived late. Pucci arrives, stating that Giorno shouldn't blame God for abandoning him. Giorno smiles, revealing that manipulating Pucci was all part of his father's plan and now the priest no longer has any use to him. Flustered, Pucci tells Giorno to shut up and rapidly speeds up time, threatening to slaughter all of Giorno's men. Giorno points to a rhinoceros beetle flying in the air, turning it back into a Stand Arrow with his Gold Experience. He had turned Reimi's Arrow into a living being to prevent the flow of time from damaging it.
Giorno then explains that there are actually three more Arrows since the house has three arrows outside, causing Reimi to violently eject the remaining ones out of her as well. Giorno laughs about these Arrows being the real four 'Rhinoceros Beetles'. With the Arrow in his hand, he evolves his Stand into Gold Experience Requiem. His evolved Stand immediately sends Pucci to a world where he'll wander for eternity with all his desires and actions being in vain.
With Giorno off guard, Rohan uses Heaven's Door on him. They verify that his body has the even numbered pages, but all of the pages also said the word "death".[1] Giorno quickly heals Diavolo's corpse, which is his original body, and moves his soul back over to it.[3] Since Antonio was now discovered, Giorno cancels the effect of Gold Experience and Antonio reverts back into being empty skin. Now having the appearance of Diavolo, Giorno reveals his betrayal, claiming to be the boss of Antonio. Everyone attempts to attack him but they are all defeated, unable to prevent Giorno from grabbing George and then jumping into Cube House.[1]
Traveling through Cube House
As Diavolo, Giorno time travels to a ship in the original universe, one hundred years after Dio sank underwater in his coffin. He wakes his father up from the coffin, who then immediately drinks his blood, kicks him down, and uses the Cube House effect still on his body to time travel together. Dio eventually returns to the ship with Diavolo unconscious. Dio is about to kill George but George believes in his Beyond, reverting Diavolo back into his Giorno persona.
Already predicting what Giorno would do, The World grabs Gold Experience Requiem by the throat before it could touch Dio. Giorno declares that he doesn't mind being killed, but he wants to get Dio's soul to become a double of him. Dio verifies that this Giorno has the Joestar birthmark and then thrusts his sword through Giorno's heart without hesitation. Dio then sticks his hand into his chest and tears out half of his soul, shoving it into Giorno's corpse to transform his body into a duplicate of himself. He then picks up the duplicate Dio, throws him into the coffin, and closes the lid. George notices a dying message left behind by Giorno in hiragana, stating "Courage" (ゆうき, Yūki). Giorno had sacrificed himself for George and wanted George to have courage to save everyone with his Beyond.
Life as DIO
The events of Stardust Crusaders occur after Giorno's coffin is opened by sailors. As 'DIO', he is killed by Jotaro Kujo in Egypt. The real Dio travels here with the Cube House effect on George to retrieve his Stand again after DIO's death.[1]
Chapters
Novel Appearances- JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 8: Nero Nero Island
- JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 10: H.G. Wells (Mentioned only)
- JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 12: Rhinoceros Beetle (Voice only)
- JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 14: Desolation Row (Mentioned only)
- JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond (Death)
- JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 16: Beyond II (Mentioned only)
Quotes
Quotes- “George Joestar, I apologize for my men's manners.”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- “You don't get it. You aren't here to finish me off. I'll be finishing you. You're the one God has forsaken. This was always the plan, poor priest. If only you had never realized how you've been used, you might have been happy to the bitter end. But I am the son of a God who is both kind and cruel, and I must act accordingly.”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- “You are a half-formed man, driven by fruitless desire. A narrow-minded man, unable to accept anything but your own ideals. A self-absorbed low-life who has the gall to try to bask in God's love. So vain you'll do anything for a modest scrap of praise, and for a fleeting moment's emotion you'll act as if you've risen to Heaven and activate your bizarre power. He had a use for that power. But that use has been and gone. If you were but a little more rational, he might have allowed you to remain by his side, useful or not. But in the end, you are a man of no experience, incapable of deeper thought, incapable of seeing the big picture, a fool dancing at the whims of your betters. Since he saw no value in keeping you around, he has tossed you aside like yesterday's trash. Are you prepared?”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- “Heaven's not waiting for you, Enrico Pucci! But you're such a coward you'd just speed up time in Hell to get through it! You'll get the fate you deserve – I'll trap you in the same loop you trapped Diavolo and Yoshikage Kira in when you killed them!”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- “If you feel sympathy for him, don't bother. This is the fate he deserved, and at the same time, a blessing. Since this is a punishment direct from God. It is quite simple to interpret endless punishment as endless love.”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- “I'm telling the truth! I've been betrayed by God!”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- “I canceled my own death, survived in a place between life and death until I arrived here. I followed you here, to this far off universe, and waited. So I could be useful to you, father. So I could become you.”—Giorno Giovanna, JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
Gallery
Giorno with Passione members in JORGE JOESTAR
Close up
Giorno talking to George Joestar
Scent of a liar
Giorno betrayed by God
Giorno turns the Arrow into a rhinoceros beetle
Giorno with Gold Experience Requiem
With George and Rohan
Turned into a book by Heaven's Door
Antonio Torres disguised as Giorno
Stopped by Dio
Giorno's Joestar birthmark
Giorno killed
Giorno as the fake DIO
2020 Artwork
Trivia
- Compared to the original Giorno, his surname is spelled slightly differently in Japanese as ジョヴァーナ (Jovāna) instead of ジョバァーナ (Jobāna). His real name is also spelled with a slight difference, using 初琉乃 instead of 初流乃 for Haruno.
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 8: Nero Nero Island
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 16: Beyond II
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 12: Rhinoceros Beetle
- ↑ JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 14: Desolation Row