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DreamSword Watches Unfamiliar Toku: Part 1 - GARO
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DreamSword
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Episode 1: Picture Book
I must confess that I've actually already seen this episode.
This was back when the first two episodes were uploaded subbed onto YouTube, and I had originally planned to keep up with further uploads to watch the show.
Buuutt that alleged project never went anywhere, and so now I'm here watching the TV-Nihon subs as I couldn't find a solid enough upload of the GomenRider ones. And the translation, while a bit literal, doesn't seem bad?
Technicals aside, I actually rather dug this episode back then and I still dig it now. Even having already seen the three anime entries before this, there's already alot to set this apart as a unique beast outside of it being the very first entry in the franchise overall.
The action choreography is excellent, the air of mystery is intense, and the way the show just sort of throws you into this world very much reminds me how
Kamen Rider Blade
premiered; Which is one of my favorite first episodes ever, mind you. Heck, even in terms of plot, the idea of someone getting splashed in the blood of a Horror was never brought up in the anime.
But I think the thing that stood out to me most was just the general atmosphere of the episode overall. It's rather intense and instantly drew me into this world and made me want to know more(again, like
Blade
!) Add onto that some rather interesting character work and some delightfully stylish action and I'm totally hooked. Koga buying a painting in order to give the girl a chance to run away did alot to endear me to him right away.
And while the CGI is certainly dated nearly 20 years later, I think that it still overall works. Like with
Kamen Rider Wizard
, it helps that alot of it is done very stylistically which helps it blend into the universe that the show is creating. Stuff like the black markings on skin and the green flame emitting from the trademark Mado Lighter really do help in giving you the idea of this being an Urban Fantasy show. Or maybe it's just that the anime already warmed me to these ideas and thus I'm alot more lenient on them, I dunno.
Oh, right, the plot. Well, being just the intro episode, there's really not much to it. We're introduced to the basics of this universe: That there are demonic creatures called Horrors that can possess and eat humans. In response, there are those called Makai Knights who live to defend humanity from the Horrors. And in this episode the Horror of the Week goes after an aspiring painter who seems to have some sort of connection to the world of the Makai, given that her dad often talked of a Golden Knight and she not only has dreams about Garo, but visions that warn her of nearby Horrors as well.
It's all setup, which is to be expected of an intro episode, and I dug it all the way through. Koga just straight up stealing the painting at the end made for a pretty funny way to cap it all off too.
Episode 2 is the only other one I've seen of the show so far, but we'll get into that tomorrow.
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