Giorno Giovanna

Giorno is a teenage boy of average height, a slim yet muscular build, and is far smaller in stature than previous JoJos. He has golden hair of moderate length tied back in a short, braided tail, with his bangs curled into three distinctive victory rolls arranged in a row over his forehead. His hair was originally black and unkempt, barely going past his neck, but it transformed upon awakening his Stand. His eyes, especially present in earlier depictions, sharpen at the end similar to his father's. He possesses a star-shaped birthmark on his left shoulder.↗↗↗

Giorno wears a two-piece suit with a checkered coattail and several ornate features, including wing-shaped emblems on the collar and a heart-shaped opening in the chest area. The most distinctive feature on his suit is the three ladybug emblems located on either side of his chest and directly below his zipper, matching the appearance of his Stand. Later on, his shoes also have the same ladybug emblem on them. He wears a small stud in each ear.↗

Giorno's childhood was filled with unhappiness and loneliness due to bullying and abuse by his stepfather. As a result, he was initially cold and uncaring towards everyone and believed himself to be scum just for the way people treated him. Those who knew him would easily think he'd grow up to become a twisted individual. This changed when he befriended an injured gangster he saved. As the man protected Giorno from those who did him wrong in return for his aid, he learned he could trust people. Since then, he has become a more confident and solicitous person.↗↗

Being a very serious teenager, Giorno's mind doesn't stray from his mission and the goals he's set for himself. However, Giorno has occasionally thought about more mundane subjects such as the delicious Margherita pizza from Naples, right before being attacked by Notorious B.I.G. Giorno tends to approach many things with a calm demeanor, and demonstrates immense composure even when confronted by dangers he might not understand completely, with Koichi describing him as having a 'shining serenity' in place of where most apprehension should be. However, he can still become anxious when things go south.↗↗↗

For instance, he had Melone bitten by a venomous snake made of his own Stand and rapidly kicked Ghiaccio until his neck, stuck on a splintered lamppost, was completely impaled.↗↗↗↗↗↗

Gold Experience

Gold Experience is one of the most versatile Stands in the series. It has the ability to create and manipulate life, which Giorno most often uses to produce plants and small animals. Both can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from disguise to tracking origins. As a Power-type Close-Range, it is also capable of unleashing a rapid barrage of punches, which Giorno uses almost exclusively with lethal intent.↗

Gold Experience Requiem

Gold Experience Requiem is obtained after Giorno pierces Gold Experience with the Stand-creating Arrow. It has the ability to turn the opponent's willpower and actions to zero and will protect Giorno without him being aware. As part of its evolution, Requiem retains the ability to create life but to a much more lethal degree and can also seemingly levitate alongside its user.↗

Mastery

Giorno proves to be a creative and proficient Stand user, if not passive in his progress. Thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge about biology, fauna, and flora, Giorno can efficiently use Gold Experience's power to give life by thinking about the best life form to create and expecting what they are most likely to do, which gives him a semblance of control over the life forms it produces. For instance, he specifically created a snake against Illuso, who was hiding in his mirror world, using its supposed tendency to seek sources of heat to find the enemy.↗

However, unlike his father, Giorno hasn't sought out his Stand's full potential. For instance, having no need to use Gold Experience in a fight until he confronted Passione 's members, he only discovered Gold Experience's offensive ability to infuse people with life during his scuffle with Bucciarati. Likewise, he had to observe Baby Face's power to be inspired into creating specific body parts and organs.↗

Giorno works well in conjunction with partners, taking their precise abilities into account and using them in his tactics. He is essentially the party's healer and is often partnered with team members like Guido Mista, whose bullets are perfect projectiles that can be turned into life forms, taking his enemies by surprise and increasing Giorno's effective range. In one instance, Giorno transforms the bullets into a tree and manages to trap a helicopter that would otherwise be untouchable for both of them.↗

Personal Skills

Intelligence: Giorno is a very competent tactician. An observer by nature, Giorno likes to assert his opponents' abilities and plans before acting. He then uses his observations to probe for any weakness on their part and predict what they will do, often returning their moves against them. Using his Stand with remarkable imagination, Giorno gives himself a wide range of possibilities; the exploitation of Gold Experience's power and the characteristic of animals he transforms objects into allows Giorno to, among others, reposition himself quickly or track his opponents. Moreover, he is good at using his environment to his advantage.↗

Knowledge: Giorno is very knowledgeable in biology. His encyclopedic knowledge of fauna and flora allows him to transform objects into the life forms most suitable to his goal and deduce his enemies' powers.↗

Chapter 440: Gold Experience, Part 1↗

Chapter 441: Gold Experience, Part 2↗

Chapter 442: Gold Experience, Part 3↗

Chapter 443: Bucciarati is Coming, Part 1↗

Chapter 444: Bucciarati is Coming, Part 2↗

Araki initially played around with the idea of making the protagonist of Part 5 a woman. However, after discussing with his editor at the time, Hiroshi Sekiya, who thought that a female lead would be a tough sell for the Weekly Shonen Jump 's readers, he eventually decided on making the protagonist a young man. Sekiya also noted that Giorno's Japanese name, "Haruno Shiobana" (汐華 初流乃, Shiobana Haruno), is feminine and that Gold Experience 's power to create life is reminiscent of a woman's own ability to give birth.↗↗

Araki explains that Giorno's androgynous nature was the result of wanting to mix "Italian gang fashion" and " bishonen " when designing the characters in Part 5. His attire was also slightly influenced by "gay fashion." Although Giorno is mostly voiced by male voice actors in media, in the game GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, he is voiced by the female voice actress, Romi Park. The sound designer for Capcom, Hiroshi Ohno, explained that this was because the team wanted to give Giorno a more androgynous image for the game.↗↗↗↗↗

Family

Dio Brando/DIO: While Giorno has never been shown interacting with his birth father, he has been shown to value his birth father to some degree, as his wallet was revealed to contain a photograph of DIO. Giorno does inherit some of DIO's ruthless and brutal nature, as well as his ambition and charisma. However, he does not use it for evil ends. Giorno even uses the " WRYYY!" scream at one point and also uses his "Useless!" Stand cry.↗

Mother (maiden surname Shiobana): Giorno's mother had rarely cared for him when he was a child, viewing him as a hindrance to her party life and often left him in the dark whenever she went out, where he was too scared even to cry.↗

Allies

Bruno Bucciarati: Giorno and Bucciarati met as enemies, but Giorno was able to deduce from the flaws in Bucciarati's tactics against him that Bucciarati was a good person, and decided to work with him in the conclusion of their fight. From then on, the two have formed a relationship of mutual trust, even with Giorno unconditionally accepting that Bucciarati will not help him if he is found out as an enemy of Passione. At the same time, Bucciarati assists him in rising in the ranks. Giorno is able to save Bucciarati from complete and utter defeat at the hands of the Boss using one of his ladybug brooches, causing him to mentally note how Giorno always fills him with courage.↗

Golden Heart Golden Ring

Coniglio: Giorno and the rest of Team Bucciarati help Coniglio after they find her unconscious. Awoken by Giorno, she regains control of her Stand, aiding the team in their battle against Sogliola Lopez. Before they leave to confront him directly, Giorno leaves some parting words that soothed Coniglio's troubled soul, his speech helped her gather the resolve to fight her own battles with her Stand. She leaves Italy, grateful to have met Giorno and his friends.↗

Purple Haze Feedback

Sheila E.: After Giorno became the boss of Passione, he tells Sheila about the murder of Illuso. She eventually becomes a loyal bodyguard, Giorno entrusts Sheila with a mission against the Sezione Droghe. He decided that the purpose of her involvement of the mission would be to value her own life and no longer recklessly sacrifice herself.↗