CHARACTER PROFILE
Giorno Giovanna (Unknown Universe)
- Primary work
- JORGE JOESTAR
- Version
- Unknown Universe
Giorno Giovanna (ジョルノ・ジョヴァーナ, Joruno Jovāna), born Haruno Shiobana (汐華 初琉乃, Shiobana Haruno), is a secondary ally featured in the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. He is an incarnation of the original Giorno from an unknown universe, who ends up living in the 37th universe. Based on Giorno claiming to be the original Dio Brando 's true son and Antonio Torres 's remark to Bruno Bucciarati (Universe 37) Incarnation of Bruno Bucciarati in the 37th universe, it is suggested that he is the original universe's Giorno, but it is unclear.
He wields the Stands Gold Experience and Gold Experience Requiem. However, he creates an alternate personality which is Diavolo.
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02Appearance
Giorno Giovanna is a blond man who looks young and has delicate features. George Joestar stated that Giorno is the only man he's seen that is equal in beauty to Tsukumojuku Kato, as if blinding light is pouring out of every cell in his body that makes it hard to look directly at him.↗↗
He looks the same as the original Giorno, having hair of moderate length tied back in a short, braided tail, with his bangs curled into three large rings arranged in a row. He also wears a suit which is either depicted as light or dark. The suit has a heart-shaped opening in the chest area, wing-shaped emblems on the collar, and three ladybug brooches located on both sides of his chest and above his waist. Being the son of Dio with Jonathan Joestar 's body, Giorno has the Star Birthmark beside his left shoulder.↗↗
03Personality
Giorno is typically calm, handing out orders and relaying information while not being bothered by a zombie outbreak and the world being in a state of panic. Despite being a gang boss, Giorno is polite and gentle. George believes that he exudes power, but is not intimidating. He lacks the aggressiveness of a typical gangster, reminding George of a track-and-field athlete or swimmer; someone who focused on one thing and became better than anyone else. Nonetheless, Giorno commands respect from his rough subordinates like Guido Mista and Vinegar Doppio.↗↗↗
He can be caring for others, as he helps to evacuate citizens, heals George's grave injuries, and ultimately ends up sacrificing himself to try motivating George to have courage. On the other hand, he will also punish those who wronged him without hesitation.↗↗↗
Giorno pretends to be a hero while he pushes all his bad deeds onto his Diavolo persona. Rather than admitting that he betrayed their trust, he pushes the blame onto Dio, who he refers to as God, for betraying him instead. He apparently committed all his evil actions like living in the 37th universe and helping Antonio Torres disguise murder scenes so that he could be useful to his father.↗↗↗
04Abilities
Gold Experience
Giorno's Gold Experience can create life by transforming things into living creatures. He does so on four Arrows, by turning them into rhinoceros beetles.↗
Gold Experience Requiem
Gold Experience Requiem is obtained after Giorno pierces Gold Experience with the Arrow. It has the ability to turn the opponent's willpower and actions to zero. Giorno uses this ability on Enrico Pucci.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Giorno is the son of Dio Brando from a universe where he defeated Diavolo with his evolved Stand, Gold Experience Requiem. He cancels his own death with his Stand, surviving in a place in between life and death until he eventually ends up in the 37th universe in 2012.↗↗
Giorno starts working for Dio, receiving orders from him and relaying those orders to Antonio Torres. Antonio kills Nekoneko Nyan Nyan Nyan, Sachiari Hakkyoku, and Tsukumojuku Kato, who are three Japanese detectives. Giorno helps Antonio disguise the murder scenes to resemble Japanese folktales in order to remove suspicion that it was done by a foreigner.↗↗
2012: Traitor Among the Gang
Giorno orders the members of Passione to kidnap the citizens of Morioh so they could find every Stand user. Afterwards, he orders Bruno Bucciarati to summon detectives Jorge Joestar, Daibakusho Curry, and Runbaba 12 to the Budogaoka Academy Garden. He calls Jorge on a pebble phone and tells him that he wants to hire him as a detective, but Jorge refuses to accept unless the man states his name. He obliges, revealing that his name is Haruno Shiobana, but he usually goes by Giorno Giovanna.↗↗
The Passione members discover the dead bodies of Diavolo and Yoshikage Kira in the study of the Arrow Cross House, where they had somehow been lying for at least twelve hours, despite Jorge and Rohan Kishibe having been in and out of that room all day.↗↗
George explains his final deductions to everyone. Enrico Pucci lured Kira and Diavolo to Arrow Cross House after setting the two against each other. As time looped, Pucci sped up time and compressed it until neither of them could move at all, then slit their throats. Giorno unsuccessfully tries to conceal his surprise, making George suspicious. After George asks Bucciarati if his boss is lying, Bucciarati notices the scent of a lie coming from Giorno.↗
Bucciarati begins stitching Giorno's mouth closed with his Stand Stepmom until Giorno yells out that he isn't lying, but he was the one that was lied to. Meanwhile, NYPD Blue and Abbacchio notice that Diavolo's pages from Heaven's Door were not in order; his body only had odd pages, meaning that Diavolo had an alternate personality and someone else had the even pages. Giorno says that he was betrayed by God, causing Bucciarati to punch him in the face.↗
Giorno then explains that there are actually three more Arrows since the house has three arrows outside, causing Reimi to violently eject the remaining ones out of her as well. Giorno laughs about these Arrows being the real four 'Rhinoceros Beetles'. With the Arrow in his hand, he evolves his Stand into Gold Experience Requiem. His evolved Stand immediately sends Pucci to a world where he'll wander for eternity with all his desires and actions being in vain.↗
Traveling through Cube House
As Diavolo, Giorno time travels to a ship in the original universe, one hundred years after Dio sank underwater in his coffin. He wakes his father up from the coffin, who then immediately drinks his blood, kicks him down, and uses the Cube House effect still on his body to time travel together. Dio eventually returns to the ship with Diavolo unconscious. Dio is about to kill George but George believes in his Beyond, reverting Diavolo back into his Giorno persona.↗
Already predicting what Giorno would do, The World grabs Gold Experience Requiem by the throat before it could touch Dio. Giorno declares that he doesn't mind being killed, but he wants to get Dio's soul to become a double of him. Dio verifies that this Giorno has the Joestar birthmark and then thrusts his sword through Giorno's heart without hesitation.↗
Life as DIO
The events of Stardust Crusaders occur after Giorno's coffin is opened by sailors. As 'DIO', he is killed by Jotaro Kujo in Egypt. The real Dio travels here with the Cube House effect on George to retrieve his Stand again after DIO's death.↗↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
For instance, Giorno traps Enrico Pucci in an infinite death loop, believing he deserved it.↗↗↗
He lies to his gangmates about his true identity.↗↗↗
Abilities / Gold Experience Requiem
Whoever is killed by Requiem will also "have their death turned to zero", forcing them into a death loop for all eternity.↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (JORGE JOESTAR)↗
Cause of Death: Stabbed through the heart by Dio Brando | Destroyed by Jotaro Kujo after becoming "DIO"↗
With his Gold Experience Requiem, he cancels his own death and ends up in the 37th universe, where he takes over Passione on Nero Nero Island.↗↗
07Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dio Brando (Father) | via Jonathan 's body | ↗ |
| Diavolo | Alternate Persona | ↗ |
08Sources & attribution
- Giorno Giovanna
Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
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