When it comes to Bruno’s group fighting against La Squadra, I always felt that Narancia
Vs. Formaggio was an overlooked one because of
the future fights that came.
Narancia’s character gets a huge defining moment and we get Formaggio in general, who
I really do like and love how the anime portrayed him aside from the design changes.
I’ll miss you forever original Formaggio.
But since people won’t put on for this arc, I’ll be the one to do so.
Now this starts with Narancia and Fugo with Fugo’s directions and all that, but I want
to start with Formaggio’s character and his first interaction with Narancia.
From what we get Formaggio isn’t one to immediately pull the trigger on a situation.
From when Narancia finds him and to where he’s addressing who he is, he’s maintaining
a completely cool demeanor, but the fact that he’s already in Narancia’s car without
him noticing shows the conditioning he’s putting on to Narancia.
Since Narancia’s job is to go to the store and come back undetected, he’s extremely
on edge since someone was able to get into his car without him knowing.
Formaggio is an instant threat with him already being here, but he counterattacks the thought
of him being a threat by talking Narancia down slowly.
While talking to Narancia, Formaggio can see right through him and how shaky he is from
Formaggio entering the car without him knowing.
The idea that he could’ve been tailed this whole time is what’s getting to him and
he doesn’t want to let the team down.
Specifically, Fugo because Fugo was already weary on letting Narancia go.
Now what had highlighted this scene is when Formaggio was addressing Polpo.
He makes a joke on Polpo and how they cremated it, specifically focusing on how he said that
hey would’ve had to chop Polpo up to make it work.
What made this massively interesting to me is that this is Formaggio finding an area
of ease on what happened to Sorbet.
One of his closest members was completely hacked to pieces so try to make the situation
lighter, he thinks of it being someone else and how it looks like when it’s not them.
Formaggio has always been one to be like that because he finds fun in tormenting his enemies
more than anything, but when it comes to his own members or him, he draws the line there.
Once he gets Narancia to lower his guard a bit because he’s cracking jokes to him,
he immediately strikes him to make this interrogation a lot more serious.
And what happens after the interrogator strikes the person being investigated?
Stand battle.
Now on Narancia’s attack on Formaggio, I had shown that I’ve already had interest
in this scene in specific, but now I have time to talk about it.
Narancia’s anger is an attribute about him that I love so much about him.
Aerosmith alone is this constantly attacking stand with so much firepower to dish out,
but Narancia alone wants to just get this anger out so he starts attacking the car itself
by kicking it.
This is just raw emotion set aside from the determination he has for the group’s orders.
Formaggio’s original position as interrogator was destroyed by Narancia’s onslaught.
Now I could talk about the fight itself here but the biggest thing to take away are the
two forces fighting against each other.
The first one being Narancia’s determination, and what combats that is Formaggio’s drive
filled with the intent of revenge.
The fight began with Formaggio on the defensive, but with him being on the defensive he was
figured out sooner or later which led to him taking more initiative.
He realized that Narancia’s determination was much more oppressive in comparison to
Formaggio’s energy.
Then he takes control of the fight because he noticed he needed to match Narancia, but
while torturing Narancia and having flashbacks to the torture that Sorbet and Gelato had
faced, Narancia takes back control of the fight convincingly.
The thing is, Formaggio couldn’t match the wild fire that is Narancia’s ambition, nor
could he understand where Narancia stands in terms of intelligence.
While Formaggio flip flopped between offensive and defensive thinking, Narancia has been
on a constant drive that goes only forward because of how dead-set he is on fulfilling
the mission.
This pure ambition that can’t be contained by any stand user.
I could go even further out to say that the huge fires and mess of what happened in the
fight is somewhat like Narancia’s energy with how insane and powerful it is.
All of this for his group.
He cannot disappoint these people that have done so much for him so that he never has
to be like how he was originally.
Not only are the lives of the group at stake, but the future of the group too.
All of this rides on Narancia’s shoulders and he can’t let Bruno and Fugo down.
Though Narancia doesn’t truly carry this as any type of burden, it’s what drives
him, and it’s this drive that’s the reason why he’s beating Formaggio.
Now we’re here at the end of the fight which is basically the majority of episode 11 in
my opinion because of how well Narancia had played it.
Throughout this fight, Formaggio’s reluctance on fighting Narancia directly or confronting
him had ended up being the exact reason why he never had a chance of winning at all.
Beating around the bush with his intentions and trying to play mind games didn’t do
much for him in the grand scheme of things because Narancia isn’t someone where these
types of things can work on him.
His thinking is too wild and unorthodox to be conditioned, so seeing Formaggio approach
this like Narancia is any normal person ended up being his demise.
What’s interesting about the shift in Formaggio’s decision making is that now he’s looking
a lot more like early Narancia here with how angry he was.
He also thought he had now cornered Narancia the same way that he had been cornered, but
instead Narancia lights up the entire block and continues to have a heavy lead on Formaggio.
He might be more intelligent than Narancia, but he doesn’t have the same drive nor the
wall-breaker mentality that Narancia has.
Now when Formaggio wants to finally meet Narancia on an even playing field, he’s not only
already beaten up but also at a disadvantage because he’s never been one to fight in
stand offs like this.
Meanwhile Narancia has been just been on the better position for the majority of the fight.
Now it’s a contest of speed and who’s going to be the fastest draw.
Both characters have stands with a B in speed, but this stand off isn’t one of speed.
This stand off is a product of the entire battle, so now it’s about who was truly
leading all of this, and we knew whose been on top the whole time.
So, as Formaggio falls and tells Narancia about the future danger to come towards the
group trying to put some fear into him, Narancia can only think of one thing.
That even with winning in this fight, he still lost the mission.
The gangster life is truly a difficult one.
Thank you all for watching!
Normally this is supposed to be an area where I just end of the video, but I’ve always
wanted to talk about this, but it was never long enough to actually make into a video
so since it’s Narancia related I’m going to be putting it here.
For those that are anime-only, I hope you enjoyed the video, but it would be in your
best interest to click off now because I’m going to be getting into spoiler territory.
Now, this is on the specific area of Fighting Gold where we see Narancia shifting through
sides, but when I had seen the pattern of the eyes, I made a few connections that I
believe made sense.
We have Narancia with both eyes, then his left is gone, then both, then right is gone,
then left is gone, and then none.
When he first has both eyes I believe that this is his after he had left his dad and
had joined his friends.
He believed that this was going to be his new outlook on life and that’s how things
are.
Then, the police situation had happened, his left eye had become infected and his so-called
friend had spread rumors on him.
That’s where we have the left eye being gone.
Then he has both eyes which was after meeting Fugo and Bruno and the help he had received
from the two, fixing his eye and having this new view on life where he looks up to people
like Bruno and believe that Bruno is what you should strive to be.
Next his right is gone, this is going back to Part 6 of “The Mystery of King Crimson”
to where it’s Narancia choosing sides.
It goes from his right being gone, to his left being gone.
Off this and how he was positioned dead-set in the middle between the group and Fugo,
the eye symbolism here is based on his decision making.
First looking to Fugo and then the group, then its finalized with his decision to the
group and what had came out of it.
And we all know what happens there.
I also that it was hitting to that whole scene because you do see more shadow being added
to Narancia when he’s flipping through.
At leas that’s my take
on it.