Word of God: Araki Did Not Care About Giorno and DIO
Interviews provided in the official movie guide for the Phantom Blood film.
Since you established Giorno as DIO's son, I was expecting the story to expand on that…
I never had any intention of doing that, actually. Even during "Diamond is Unbreakable", people were speculating if Kars would show up, but this is not the type of manga series that would go in that direction, and I'm not the type of person who would write that. If that happened to me, it'd be over. I am of the opinion that if readers ever think to themselves, "I expected that to happen!" then I've failed. There are many manga out there that would go in that direction, but if I did that, it's over.
















