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02-07-2021, 01:48 PM
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Omnikaiser
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Necroing the thread but I suddenly remembered GARO: Versus Road
Stopped watching it after Ep2 to keep it when it's fully aired and I only remembered it this week.
It was cool. It was definitely cooler than I expected. But as usual with GARO, I find Amemiya works to be better when they are 25 episodes long and not 12. When it's 12 it's always too short to do things correctly.
On the one hand I understand it would have been impossible to stretch the battle royale plot on 25 episodes, and it felt even quite slow already in some episodes.
But on the other hand all that plot around the Makai Order in that new version of the GARO-verse or even the Azami identity. One episode (ep9) intro is like : "oh yeah there was that GARO knight and his wife. The woman was pregnant but GARO went boom and the baby was tainted by evil and that's Azami. the end." 45 seconds explanation.
Like she was the mastermind behind everything somehow, she is the daughter of a former GARO holder and is tainted by the ultimate evil of that particular GARO-verse (I guess ?) but I feel we didn't talk about her enough.
The lack of Armor fights didn't bother me at all. Even if I like them I always prefered GARO out of suit fights. It's actually what makes me hesitate between Kamen Rider or GARO as my fav Toku series if someone ask me which one I prefer. The fact they focused on that during this show is a good point, and quite cool they give a different weapon to every participant, even some non important ones.
On the characters topic I'm surprised. I expected to not care about them that much, considering the short series and the "big" cast for it. But I admit I actually cared.
Surprisingly the two I have the least love for is Kuon and Hoshiai. Hoshiai just felt like "random friend who sacrifices himself" (and also his possession by a horror was a bit too random at that point). And Kuon was also a very bland protag from start to finish (but quite cool by the end).
But I liked the others.
Amou (White hair black clothes) and kanata (Black hair white clothes) were both opposed and exactly the same in the end.
The Youtuber (Nagusuke) was cool to follow during his search for whys and whats with his attitude.
The 2 (but quite different) psychopath of the show. One violent "I wanna have fun" type and the other genderless "what do you know about me/How can you judge me?" type. Though the second made me uneasy most of the time.
But that was still a nice character because Amemiya is good at tackling these kind of human problem (it was funny for that character to be "who are you to judge me ?" based but not because of his genderless being but for his murderer past. Which Im sure the actor had to suffer from his genderless being more IRL than in the show)
I was late to notice Shuka (the humanoid AI) is actually Momotsuki Nashiko (the current Yodonna in Kiramager). It made me pay attention to this character way more. That's also a good example of a character who would have been more developed in a 25ep series. the few bits near the end were really interesting.
Now I really hope this show will have a sequel.
I still prefer the good old chivalry based feeling GARO from the Saejima-verse, but this new show was quite good considering I expected nothing.
The problem now is that while some doors are open (What will kuon do ? What will Azami do with the Dark Metal ?), everything else is basically destroyed/closed (every other people died and even the makai order seem like it has been destroyed by Hagiri and Azami too)
ah yes to finish it feels pointless to mention it but JAM Project themes are always a huge turn on for me. Especially when they do it at the end of each ep like that (they did it in Jinga Spin-off, and now here). I'll call that the "Amazons wowowowowo effect"
Wrote more than I expected for a 8 months late opinion and such a short (and a bit empty ?) show but I feel like there is always something to say with GARO/Amemiya works. Hope we can still get some GARO soon despite the Covid world. Preferably live action (not a fan of the GARO animes).
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