English Dub Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind: “The Requiem Quietly Plays, Part 1″

Overview (Spoilers Below)

In an unexpected twist after Diavolo declared the premature victory of taking the Stand Arrow from Polnareff and possibly killing him, He soon encounters a new tall-individual in black walking in front of him which turns out to be a Stand of unknown origin. Soon, the entirety of Rome is put to sleep, And the Black Stand takes the Arrow and a few hours pass. As Bruno’s team eventually awakens, they awkwardly discover that they’ve switched bodies with those that were closest in proximity to them, with Giorno swapping with Narancia and Guido with Trish. After the initial shock, they find that they can still control their own Stands, although they are unaware of who inhabits Bruno’s unconscious body.

As another side-effect, The team then meets with Polnareff, whose soul was put in their Travel-Turtle Coco Large. Polnareff presents himself and explains that the Stand Arrow is capable of unlocking a greater power beyond giving people Stands cuts to a flashback of the day he recovered after his near-death experience with Diavolo, he managed to get his hands on an Arrow, but through sheer accident, Polnareff discovered that if his Stand Silver Chariot held the arrow and that it has become reached a new transformation called “Chariot Requiem”, which causes souls to switch bodies.

Polnareff then tells them that as another side-effect, due to his Stand holding the arrow, he’s unable to control his Stand and that their only option to defeat Diavolo once and for all is to get it back. Just as Polnareff also warns them about the Dual-Personality Schtick that Diavolo is capable of, The episode ends when they spot Diavolo charging towards Chariot Requiem. However, an unexpected surprise begins to catch everyone off guard…



Our Take

After how intense the last episode was, I’m left surprised at how the tone shifted so quickly and got pretty comedic so fast. because of how surprised they were to find out that their bodies have been switched thanks to Requiem. It was a really amusing reprieve to see them act so shocked towards what happened, especially with Guido and Trish and it was awesome seeing how much their Stands have powered up probably thanks to their long-deserved nap.

Overall, aside from some Freaky Friday-style bodyswap hijinx which was easily the funniest part, the episode as a whole was mostly an Info-dump as nothing much happened in the episode itself, it’s mostly information about the functionality of Requiem stands, but I have a feeling this will be essential to the plot much later on. I also Look forward to seeing how they will deal with the knowledge Polnareff gave to them, and whether-or-not Polnareff will die if they take the arrow back from Chariot Requiem since he is technically already doing (or will he stay in the turtle’s body instead).