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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

is the fourth season of the television anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, produced by David Production and Warner Bros. Japan. The season, which adapts Part 5 of the the manga, Vento Aureo, was officially announced by Hirohiko Araki on June 21, 2018 at the end of a live news conference for his Ripples of Adventure art exhibition. The season aired across a span of 39 episodes from October 5, 2018 to July 28, 2019.

Production

According to the producer Nobutaka Kasama, the fourth season was greenlit in January 2017.^[1]Takahiro Kishida, who had previously worked as an animation director for the D'Arby the Gambler episode in the 1993 OVA series, was brought back as the character designer for this season. On July 25, 2017, the directors for the season went on a trip to Italy to begin location scouting, which lasted roughly eight to nine days.^[2]

A Japanese premiere of the first episode was held at the Tokyo Istituto Italiano di Cultura on July 5, 2018,^[3] with appearances by the anime's main cast. At the same time, a French premiere was held at Japan Expo,^[4] with an American premiere following at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on the following day.^[5][6]

As part of the LUMINE x JOJO collaboration, a second screening for the first two episodes was held at the Lumine Zero Shopping center in Japan on September 25, 2018.^[7]

On October 4, 2019, it was confirmed by VIZ Media that an English dub of the season had been scheduled to air on Toonami.^[8] The English dub was broadcast from October 27, 2019 to October 25, 2020.

Cast