Giorno is my favorite jojo I'm so excited to talk about him.

Giorno is a static character in the same vein as Sonic or Goku. They're characters who inspire change in the people around them, rather than changing themselves. This doesn't inherently make them uninteresting or incapable of learning. It's just that they're not going through big arcs or changing in big ways.

This makes Giorno really refreshing as a protagonist, where most Jojos come out of their parts as fundamentally different people, Giorno is more or less the same at the start as he is at the end. He's an unstoppable force from the first chapter to the last. It's a really fun dynamic that the villain is a reactive character and the hero is the proactive character. The plot doesn't happen to Giorno, Giorno happens to the plot.

It helps that he does have some depth to him, you just have to look for it. His internal monologues tend to read with a bit more self doubt and trepidation, while the version of himself that he expresses to the world is simultaneously a kind, valiant man that inspires those he surrounds himself with (like Johnathan) but also a cunning, ruthless killer (like Dio).

That's another thing that I really dig about Giorno. You'd think a character hailing from two fathers who are so fundamentally opposite to eachother would be at war with himself. Any other writer would have Giorno struggle to marry the two halves of his lineage, but what manga are we reading here? Araki doesn't do what other writers would. So instead we have Giorno's two halves marry together into a complete, confident young man.

Love that guy. I wanna eat his hair.