Modern Crusaders
"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.
A special edition of Enigma's best-of album Love Sensuality Devotion: Greatest Hits & Remixes will be released in Japan on August 7, 2019, by Universal featuring Giorno Giovanna on the album cover.[1]
Ending Animation
The ending sequence vertically pans up a pillar decorated with statues of Stands encountered in the series, which changes as more enemies and allies are met as the series progresses (the original sequence did not feature Notorious B.I.G, Spice Girl, Metallica, Green Day, Oasis or Chariot Requiem but following their introduction they were added to the ending sequence). 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.
The beginning of the sequence pans up the column featuring the enemy Stands encountered thus far, with a sphere representing Rolling Stones at the base of the pillar, with statues of other Stands on the pillar itself: Black Sabbath, Soft Machine, Kraft Work, Little Feet, Man in the Mirror, Mister President, Beach Boy, The Grateful Dead, Baby Face, White Album, Clash, Talking Head, Notorious B.I.G, Metallica, Green Day and Oasis.
The procession of enemy Stands ends, with a part of the pillar crowned by four Arrows and a ladybug brooch, before moving onto the Stands of the heroes doing battle with the boss. Purple Haze, Moody Blues, Aerosmith, Chariot Requiem, Sticky Fingers and King Crimson, with Sticky Fingers and King Crimson depicted as fighting against each other as the Sex Pistols watch. Spice Girl lays underneath Gold Experience, pointing up at it as it poses at the top of the pillar in the center of a bas-relief resembling rays of light.
Lyrics
| 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.
- As with the Statue at the start of Fighting Gold Gold Experience strikes the same pose Giorno does on the cover of Volume 62.
- Echoes Act 3 and Silver Chariot are the only stands appearing in Part 5 that are absent in the ending sequence.
- The musical project Enigma has previously been featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as the namesake of Terunosuke Miyamoto's Stand Enigma.[2]
- The Latin chanting in "Modern Crusaders" is a sample from the "O Fortuna" movement from Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana. The full song also features an organ sample from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor".
References
- ↑ グレイテスト・ヒッツ＆リミックス[CD] - エニグマ - UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN
- ↑ Harvest - Vol.17 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P106-107 The origin of STANDS! Part 4
