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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Anime Reveals 3 More Cast Members
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official Twitter account for the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime franchise announced two more cast members on Saturday for the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind anime.
Atsushi Miyauchi as Cioccolata
KENN as Secco
Fuminori Komatsu additionally revealed on Twitter on Saturday that he will voice a "mysterious man" in the show. Spoilers, highlight to read: [Komatsu previously voiced the character Jean-Pierre Polnareff in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders anime.]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind premiered on October 5, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan. Viz Media has licensed the anime.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is the manga's fifth part that continues the story from the previous entries in Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. The story begins when Jotaro asks Koichi to travel to Naples to investigate a person known as Haruno Shiobana, whose real name is later revealed as Giorno Giovanna. The story then follows Giorno in his goal to rise to the top of the Passione mafia group and turn it into a band of honorable thieves.
Yasuhiro Kimura (Three Leaves, Three Colors) and Hideya Takahashi (Keijo!!!!!!!!, Anonymous Noise) are directing the anime at david production, with Naokatsu Tsuda as chief director. Yasuko Kobayashi is returning from the previous anime to handle the series composition, with most of the staff also returning from previous JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. Takahiro Kishida (Serial Experiments Lain, Baccano!, Haikyu!!) is drawing the character designs. Shun'ichi Ishimoto is the animation director. Yoshikazu Iwanami is the sound director, and Yūgo Kanno is composing the music.
Daisuke Hasegawa is performing the current opening theme song "Uragirimono no Requiem" (Requiem for a Traitor), and the current ending theme song is "Modern Crusaders" by Enigma.
Sources: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime's Twitter account (link 2), Fuminori Komatsu's Twitter account via Game Yoridori SubCul Midori Park
