{"id":6627,"date":"2019-03-17T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2019-03-17T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T00:33:03","slug":"jojos-bizarre-adventure-golden-wind-episode-22-the-g-in-guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/jojos-bizarre-adventure-golden-wind-episode-22-the-g-in-guts\/","title":{"rendered":"JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind – Episode 22 – “The ‘G’ In Guts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiter, there\u2019s a Steven Spielberg masterpiece in my soup.<\/p>\n

Following their escape from the church, our heroes (minus Fugo now) sail through the rivers of Venice, as Bucciarati is worried about the boss sending any of his own assassins after them. The group decides to take a quick break for lunch as Sex Pistols begins to complain of starvation. As they eat and converse with each other, Narancia accidentally causes a nearby patron to spill wine on his pricey suit. The man gets massively heated over this, but Narancia suspects that he might be an enemy of the party, so he proceeds to violently assault him, with Mista and Abbachio joining the beatdown shortly afterward. However, they soon realize the man is just an ordinary person, causing them to back off as they get back to planning their next move: finding out the boss\u2019s identity. The group knows that Trish is the key to all this, and while Narancia expresses his worries about her emotional state, she overhears the conversation and interrupts with a surprise revelation: her mother had originally met the boss on the island of Sardegna 15 years ago, giving them a clear direction to head in.<\/p>\n

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While the group discusses how to proceed, Narancia gets back to eating his soup before noticing that his spoon has mysteriously disappeared. Failing to locate it, he just takes another spoon from the nearby table and tries to get back to eating, until he fishes out the mangled head of his spoon from the broth. Suddenly, a shark-like creature emerges from the soup, catching Narancia off-guard as he attempts to warn the others, simultaneously smashing his soup into the ground to interrupt the attack. As he tries to point out its location, the shark disappears from the soup puddle on the floor only to emerge from the spoon in his hand and bite his tongue off, teleporting into a nearby wine bottle. The group panics as they\u2019re unsure of how to fix Narancia\u2019s bleeding tongue, but Giorno has a crazy idea: he stabs Narancia in the throat with a pen in order to open up an air pipe for him\u2026 and it works! Now Giorno has time to conjure a replacement tongue for his weakened ally as the enemy Stand warps away into the company of its owner: Squalo, an elite servant of the boss, and his partner Tiziano. As it turns out, Squalo\u2019s Stand is named Clash, and it has the ability to warp between bodies of water rather quickly.<\/p>\n

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Back with our heroes, Giorno successfully manages to heal Narancia\u2019s tongue, allowing him to speak normally\u2026 or so it seems. When he tries to warn his fellow teammates about the Stand in question, he starts spouting suspiciously false and inaccurate information. His attempts to warn about the nature of the Stand result in various contradictory statements, and while everyone seems aware that something is up, they don\u2019t suspect any further Stand activity outside of Clash. Bucciarati does conclude that members of the boss\u2019s elite guard must be nearby, confirmed when Narancia sees Clash coming out of the nearby river. He tries to point this out to the team, but his arm forcibly switches direction and points inside the restaurant bathroom. As the rest of the gang heads inside, Tiziano reveals that his own Stand, Talking Head, has taken control of Narancia\u2019s tongue and is forcing him to give the exact opposite response of whatever he truly intends to say.<\/p>\n

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Top: Squalo. Bottom: Tiziano<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Inside the bathroom, the gang looks around for where they think the enemy Stand could be. Narancia, realizing Clash\u2019s power, attempts to clean up any water he sees to prevent its own movement, but Talking Head stops him from cleaning up the sink. When the gang attempts to look in the toilet, he distracts them by letting loose a \u201cgolden\u201d stream of his own. Everyone is agitated and heads back outside, but Giorno stays behind to see what is happening with Narancia. Suddenly, his tongue grabs hold of his switchblade and slices his finger open, attempting to create a bloody pathway for Clash to emerge. In order to avoid trapping Giorno, Narancia uses Aerosmith to shoot up a pipe, creating enough heat to cauterize his wound. Giorno slowly begins to piece together that a Stand is messing with Narancia\u2019s ability to tell the truth, but unfortunately for them, the pipe leaks a puddle out onto the floor, allowing Clash to get through and bite a massive chunk out of Giorno\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n

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The hunt for the boss now begins, and with it comes a couple of new additions to the anime adaptation, not the least of which are brand new opening and ending sequences to reflect where the story\u2019s taken us so far. The new opening theme, “Uragirimono no Requiem” (performed by Daisuke Hasegawa), may not have the viscerally intense fist-pumping vibe of \u201cFighting Gold\u201d, but the song is appropriately epic in its own right, feeling like a lost recording straight out of the \u201870s prog rock canon with its lush organs\/strings and wailing vocals. In fact, the song sounds like a mash-up of \u201c21st<\/sup> Century Schizoid Man<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Court of the Crimson King<\/a>\u201d, the opening and closing tracks from King Crimson\u2019s debut album In the Court of the Crimson King<\/em>, adding a nice touch to the montages of conflicts passed, as well as depictions of both Risotto Nero and a scared-looking purple lad who I\u2019m sure will not be important later. On the flipside, the ending sequence switches from the sexy R&B of Jodeci to the experimental new-age ambiance of Enigma with the song \u201cModern Crusaders.\u201d It\u2019s certainly a more fitting choice for the proceedings, especially considering the song\u2019s unnerving swelling synth-laden atmosphere, shredding guitar solos, and heavy sampling of composer Carl Orff\u2019s arrangement of \u201cO Fortuna.\u201d It works well with the imagery climbing up through all the Stands encountered so far, both heroic and evil, although it may not be as memorably out-of-left-field as \u201cFreek\u2019n You.\u201d<\/p>\n