English Dub Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind:”Green Tea and Sanctuary, Part 2″

Overview (Spoilers Below)

While making light of Secco’s poor verbal skills, the fight against Cioccolata and Secco continues as Bruno is suddenly overwhelmed by the punches of Secco, who rebounds his fists from the ground to increase his speed and power. While this is going on, Giorno and Guido climb the building holding Cioccolata’s helicopter, but when Guido puts his Six-Bullets Stand powers into action, they notice that he’s disappeared and somehow Guido ends up being injured.

As Giorno and Bullet No. 5 enter the helicopter, but Cioccolata has found a disturbingly creative way to use his Green Tea Stand mold that gives him an advantage when he attacks Giorno and tries to force him downwards and trigger the mold. Giorno manages to launch one of Guido’s bullets into Cioccolata’s head and he apparently falls dead, but Giorno suspects that he is faking.

Cioccolata sits up declaring premature victory while he’s ready to kill Guido. However, a small chain of events that involved a bullet that Giorno shot with No.5’s help earlier ended up being the downfall for Cioccolata in combination with Giorno using his Golden Wind to violently pummel the sadistic fucker into a garbage truck. But as it turns out, between the time Giorno & Guido pursued the trapped Helicopter, he left a voicemail to Secco’s phone with encouraging words to go up against Bruno. But the episode ends on an interesting cliffhanger when Unbeknownst to everyone, a wheelchair-bound dude watches from afar with Binoculars.




Our Take

That battle was hella satisfying! This was another famous scene that was adapted from the Manga where certain pages were devoted to the protagonist beating the shit out of a despicable character. Much in the same way Jotaro’s beatdown towards Dan lasted 3 pages in the manga, Cioccolata’s beatdown was 7 pages long and while the beatdown only lasted 30 seconds in the anime, It still managed to be a gloriously badass scene.

Also despite how despicable the two are, You could sense a genuine bond and a shred of humanity between Cioccolata and Secco as demonstrated with that final voicemail he sent to Secco with him outright confessing his love for his pet who fell head over heels in return even when he felt certain that his number would be up. Secco is just as mentally twisted and he proves it each time he’s onscreen. We don’t have to wonder how he became Cioccolata’s ally and why he was spared by his “master” as his patient. He is dangerous, submissive, and wicked. And that final shot showing a wheelchair-bound dude watching from afar brought a smile to my face if it’s who I think it is, I can’t wait to see the big reveal in later episodes down the line.