JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo S04E32 Review: Ore Wa Mou Shindeiru

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Golden Wind, Season 4, Episode 32: Oasis & Green Day, Part 3

This final part of the Oasis/Green Day arc is taken up almost entirely by the Bucciarati/Secco fight, which is... it's neat, I guess. Cioccolata and Secco have sort of been hanging out for quite a while, though, and while it's not too long, I did feel slightly fatigued at the end of this episode.

The first chunk of this episode is just Secco going on and on with that phone call, which I think is perhaps the sequence in this whole encounter that really felt like it's poor pacing. It can't be helped, since it's adapting the manga, but it's sort of part of the manga's fault, too -- could've fixed this odd bit of pacing a lot better by having Secco respond to the Cioccolata voice mails underground, or have him read it mentally instead of vocalizing it or something. It's honestly kind of ridiculous that apparently, in the midst of the fight with Giorno, Cioccolata managed to record a message to send to Secco to tell him about how he loves him and that there's someone waiting for Team Bucciarati in the Colosseum.

And then after realizing that Cioccolata is dead, that he has failed, Secco ends up throwing the phone and smashing it, ranting about how Cioccolata is a shit-head and a disappointment and he doesn't like him anymore since he's weak and a scum. The whole interaction between Secco and Cioccolata is honestly pretty weird all around, alternating from something of a consensual master/slave relationship, and then being subverted... but not in the way you'd expect it to be. Secco doesn't exactly rebel against Cioccolata so much that he was perfectly willing to be his slave so long as he proved 'worthy', I guess.

In a pretty hilariously creative usage of Sticky Fingers, Bucciarati throws an unzipped steel pole that's about to zip itself shut and scissor off Seccos' head, but Secco ends up using Oasis to slide the entire ground towards Bucciarati. Thankfully, Bucciarati is like, a zombie and all, so being sliced in the neck isn't something that really bothers him. We get a bit of a very smooth animation with Secco charging in ready to beat down Bucciarati, and a whole sequence of just jumping around, avoiding each other's blows and swapping punch barrages... some really great animation transition and sound effect mix, here.

It's at this point that Secco quickly figures out the whole zombie Bucciarati thing, and the fact that he's trying to reach the man on a wheelchair spying on them from the Colosseum's upper levels... but then in a particularly silly bit, Bucciarati uses Sticky Fingers to unzip the ground and move through it, which... it's just weird for me. Maybe I'm overthinking it a bit too much, but Bucciarti's powers is just to 'disconnect' things with zippers. The animation makes it look like he's running as doors keep opening in front of him, and... I dunno, that just feels like a weird usage of Sticky Fingers' powers when all we've seen him do is move through walls at most? Eh.

Oh, while all of this is going on we get to see a bit of Polnareff's point of view as he ruminates about the beetle-adorned Stand Arrow, noting that this is apparently the only way to defeat Diavolo, but he's unable to really fight now that he's all crippled and shit.

We get a bit of a back-and-forth as Secco makes some wacky usages of his own Stand to fight this 'copy cat', because Secco has some sort of underground echolocation, and he eats up dirt and spits it out, allowing it to re-convert into concrete as it leaves Secco's Stand's range. It feels a bit too much like the sequence that Giorno used to lodge the bullet into Cioccolata's head from the previous episode, I think. Bucciarati himself almost starts to melt from the effects of Oasis, while Bucciarati's own counterattack involves attacking a street light and breaking it apart with Sticky Fingers as his own projectiles.

Bucciarati gives this pretty epic speech about how he's already dead, so there are some things that he really can ignore, and he's been tricking Secco to use Oasis to cause a gigantic earthquake-like explosion, so that Bucciarati can drag a car down and trick Secco into punching a tire. The exploding tire unleashes so much pressure that it causes Secco's eardrums to rupture... and the already-dead Bucciarati is mostly unaffected.

The final sequence of this episode is certainly confusing, as a confused, rambling Secco jumps out into the surface and gets his leg crushed by a car because he really can't perceive anything with sound anymore. And we get an unintentionally hilarious bit where Bucciarati gives a monologue, while Secco is unable to hear it and is just incoherently blabbering and accidentally repeating whatever Bucciarati is saying. And as Bucciarati approaches him, Secco holds a random kid hostage.

In perhaps one of the more unintentionally hilarious sequences in the episode, Secco grabs fucking DOPPIO, which... I dunno, that's a bit of a contrived coincidence, but god damn if it isn't funny. Secco rants about how he was "planning to betray the boss", which sort of probably what seals his fate and causes Doppio to not help out. And while Doppio clearly can hold his own, he sort of knows Bucciarati enough to not really interfere, because Bucciarati... ends up unzipping Doppio's chest, allowing Sticky Fingers to punch through Doppio and rip apart Secco's throat. It's a moment that's sort of reminiscent of Josuke's trick early in Part IV, which is neat, and Secco ends up stumbling backwards and gets his fool ass crushed by a garbage truck.

The episode ends with Bucciarati falling on the ground, succumbing to both the wounds from the battle and his own slow zombie-walking-death state, and Doppio raises his hand. Overall, the Cioccolata/Secco fight really ran on for a bit too long, and this Bucciarati/Secco fight in particular really could've stood to be a lot shorter with me not honestly really caring for Secco as a character once he's just an independent adversary, and I'm not the biggest fan of how the fight itself plays out. It's not the worst fight in JoJo, and Bucciarati is pretty badass, but... eh. What's good, though, is that next episode onwards we'll be starting the proper final encounter with Doppio and Diavolo, which is definitely something that the series have really been building up towards.