Modern Crusaders

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"Modern Crusaders" is a 2000 song by the German experimental music project Enigma from their fourth studio album The Screen Behind the Mirror. It is used as the second ending theme for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.

Ending Animation

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The animation consists entirely of the camera moving up a pillar decorated with statues of the Stands encountered in chronological order by Team Bucciarati, starting with Rolling Stones on the ground. The pillar itself features statues of Black SabbathSoft MachineKraft WorkLittle FeetMan in the Mirror, Mister PresidentBeach BoyThe Grateful DeadBaby Face, White AlbumClash and Talking Head, and with four arrows.

There is a time between statues and the camera passes by a stone ladybug. The second half of the pillar is decorated with statues of Purple HazeMoody BluesAerosmithSticky Fingers, and King Crimson, with Sticky Fingers and King Crimson depicted as fighting against each other as the Sex Pistols watch. Gold Experience poses at the top of the pillar in the center of a bas-relief resembling rays of light.

During the entire sequence, the scenery is plunged in a colored ambient lighting that constantly shifts color and flakes of dust constantly fall from above. The frame is also flanked by two sets of patterns made up of tessellated triangles.

Lyrics

Original Lyrics
English Translation
Don't look back, the time has come
All the pain turns into love
We're not submissive, we're not aggressive
But they think we can't defend
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
We have the power to face the future
'Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights
They're accusing, like always without knowing
What is just fiction or what is the truth
They have no mission, they have no passion
But they dare to tell us what's bad and what's good!
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
We have the power to face the future
'Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
since Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
mecum omnes plangite!
first oppresses
and then soothes
playing with mental clarity;
poverty
and power
everyone weep with me!
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE
We have the power to face the future
'Cause we are the fighters, just fighting for our rights
STAND UP, JOIN US, MODERN CRUSADERS ALIVE

Ending sequences

Full Song

Trivia

  • The position of King Crimson in relation to the Stands of Team Bucciarati foreshadows the fate of their masters.
  • Gold Experience strikes the same pose Giorno does on the cover of Volume 62.
  • The musical project Enigma has previously been featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as the namesake of Terunosuke Miyamoto's Stand Enigma.[1]
  • Musically, "Modern Crusaders" features samples from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana which makes use of the medieval poem "O Fortuna", as does the rest of the album The Screen Behind the Mirror. It also features an organ sample from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor".

References

  1. Harvest - Vol.17 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P106-107 The origin of STANDS! Part 4

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