JoJo's Bizarre Adventurepart six, Ocean Stonehad an extremely controversial ending—but a very different ending could have been made. Netflix's Season 6 adaptation provided a satisfying conclusion for countless fans who only watched the new anime. However, those fans won't know about Araki teases the return of protagonist Giorno Giovanna in Golden Wind.
The ending of Stone Ocean features the ever-powerful priest, Pucci, activating a plan left behind by the late DIO to reach “Paradise”. Accelerating time with gravity, Pucci intends to create a universal singularity where the future fate is known in advance.. Despite their best efforts, Jolyne, Jotaro, and the others are unable to stop him. However, the young mafia may be just what they need, and the evidence that JoJo's strongest protagonist is supposed to be in the apocalyptic battle in Florida is even stronger than even JoJo's loyal fans realize.
Stone Ocean Teases the Return of Giorno Giovanna
Golden Wind's Protagonist May Have Returned
The Heaven Plan requires Pucci to fuse with the Green Baby born from DIO's bones. Pucci receives the Joestar birthmark laterattracting DIO's three sons (Donatello Versus, Rykiel, and Ungalo) to his doorstep. The release of volume 13 in September 2002 saw Araki add a strange note to chapter #115 (“Sky High Part 4”): Rykiel's biography, which ended with:
Giorno Giovanna (referring to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5, Golden Wind) is also DIO's son, but why isn't he attracted to the priest? It's a mystery, but… maybe he's somewhere in Florida already…
This teaser has sparked a lot of speculation. Technically, it's possible that this hint is just a diversion—Araki is toying with his audience. At the same time, That's not exactly Araki's style.and it is known that Araki definitely changed the original ending of Stone Ocean.
Araki may have wanted Stone Ocean to end very differently.
His plan was hidden right in front of his eyes.
Fans have not been informed of anything about Araki's original plans. However, Giorno's suggestion helps to reconstruct his intentions.if taken at face value. The Heavy Weather arc (chapters #125-137) took place from July 23 to October 29, and was immediately followed by the conflict at Cape Canaveral, where Pucci manifested C-Moon, followed by Made in Heaven.
Day
Chapter
Event
December 11, 2000
#48
DIO's diary and Heaven are mentioned first.
July 23, 2001
#77
Green Baby is introduced.
January 1, 2002
#96
Jotaro's disc reveals the contents of DIO's diary.
January 29, 2002
#104
C-Moon's gravity/time abilities begin to manifest unconsciously.
May 14, 2002
#115
The battle against Rykiel ends. No biography in the chap.
July 23, 2002
#125
The severe weather part begins.
September 4, 2002
Do not have
Volume 13 release added a biography to #115 mentioning Giorno in Florida.
October 29, 2002
#137
The severe weather arc is over.
November 2, 2002
#138
Jolyne, Emporio, Ermes, and Anasui travel to Cape Canaveral to confront Pucci. C-Moon's gravity increases dramatically.
This also means that Araki may have taken Giorno's return seriously enough to add a teaser to this volume's release. into Heavy Weather. Since he hadn't appeared in Heavy Weather yet when the trailer was added, it's not too hard to assume he wasn't meant to appear in that part, but the battle at Cape Canaveral.
Heaven's plans and Pucci's development were clearly defined long before anything else, meaning the birthmark allure was probably premeditated. The pre-confrontation at Cape Canaveral, Heavy Weather, also revolves around the activation of Weather Report's birthmark. Furthermore, Pucci's relationship with DIO and the underlying factors that lead to the birthmark-related disasters later on were established very early on. The idea of the birthmark's seduction being too convenient for Giorno to tease at the same time cannot be ignored.
Giorno is the only main character in JoJo who can defeat Pucci
It would be almost impossible for anyone else to beat such a formidable position.
This is especially relevant since Araki changed the ending at the last second, according to an afterword Araki wrote in 2009:
It was the ending of Stone Ocean, changed and redrawn at the last minute. Moreover, it also brought a sense of nostalgia. Jolyne Cujoh's memories are different, but her love and affection will remain and become eternal, and she will definitely continue to grow and move forward.
What does “last minute” mean here? Obviously. Everything up to the confrontation at Cape Canaveral was meticulously planned.so it must have something to do with the final fight. Araki said that the change came because he felt he had reached the climax of the series. He needed to start over, so he made Pucci stronger. The same interview reads:
As for Stand abilities (speaking from my own perspective), I felt like I had drawn everything I needed to in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean, and I felt satisfied thinking that I might have reached the pinnacle of the idea. Time itself was getting faster and faster, surpassing human senses, approaching infinity, or at least as close to infinity as possible. I told myself at that time that there was no way any Stand ability could surpass it. […] My idea really came to fruition. […]
What can I do? And then I realized.
We will go back to the roots. […] We will make the Stand ability of the main villain, Father Pucci, even stronger. That way, time, the main characters, and the bloodline itself can create a complete cycle of the universe and return to their origins. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure will abandon modern civilization and return to nature.
That's the ending of Stone Ocean, changed and redrawn at the last minute.
But, if the nostalgic new universe is part of a last-minute change, then that implies that Pucci was supposed to be defeated before the time acceleration progressed to the singularity. That also implies that Jolyne wouldn't have died while Made in Heaven was active. In other words, Made in Heaven originally meant to be denied and cancelled.. There are only two characters in the JoJo universe with the ability to regenerate that can do that: Josuke and Giorno.
However, Josuke's Crazy Diamond restoration is limited—it requires a significant amount of power to achieve the ending with the original universe intact. Jotaro is too obsolete for Star Platinum to be of any use, and Jolyne's Stone Free lacks any innate time/dimensional splitting abilities. Giorno's Gold Experience Requiem is the only weapon capable of defeating Pucci and disabling Made in Heaven during the Cape Canaveral arc, without assuming that the increase in power causes major disruption to others. There are two major arguments against this theory:
Giorno retrieved the Requiem arrow and stored it in the turtle (Mr. President) in the ending of Golden Wind. However, there is no official evidence to prove that he actually lost his Requiem powers, and Diamond is Unbreakable proves that Stands pierced with arrows still maintain their enhanced abilities. Made in Heaven does not directly contradict Giorno's will. Some have argued that Made in Heaven is not as directly threatening as Diavolo's King Crimson. However, up close, Made in Heaven is extremely dangerous. Furthermore, the mechanics of Gold Experience Requiem are never fully explained. If Giorno needed to know Pucci's identity to negate his will, then that actually supports the theory he was supposed to appear in: he's “somewhere in Florida”, attracted to the birthmark, and searching for the identity of the Stand user who caused such a calamity.
Giorno's appearance would also fit perfectly into JoJo's bloodline theme (which Araki also mentioned above). A climactic battle where Pucci and Giorno, Both of them received the Joestar birthmark through DIO.The confrontation would be the perfect symbol for JoJo. It would happen right after the deaths of Weather Report and the other sons of DIO, also Joestars-by-DIO, no less.
Giorno, who has chosen to think and act as a Joestar in his own way, will get the birthmark back for himself. In the process, Pucci, the ultimate Joestar “imposter,” is not simply defeated, but is permanently denied his will. Stone Ocean will bring a natural conclusion to the way Golden Wind has subtly complicated the Joestar lineage. Giorno will finally settle the matter once and for all for the Joestar bloodline, after his introduction shows that the arena of Joestar-Brando rivalry has shifted from the physical (e.g., against Jonathon and Jotaro) to the physical and spiritual.
So why didn't Giorno appear? Araki wanted to end the “Joestar vs. DIO” match, but he didn't want to give up on “Joestar”. He didn't change his mind because Giorno would take up Jolyne's attention, as some fans have suggested—Jotaro and Josuke's pairing at the end of Part 4 shows that Araki wasn't worried about that. He didn't change his mind because Giorno was too strong, and that wouldn't satisfy. Araki had no choice but to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and start over, thereby preserving the business rights.
