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DreamSword Watches Unfamiliar Toku: Part 1 - GARO
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Fish Sandwich
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Congratulations, DreamSword, you're the person who actually got me to finally watch the first episode of GARO after over a decade of being moderately interested from a distance! I really should've done it back when it was uploaded to YouTube too, but, uh... well... anyway, thanks for giving me that extra push!
Also, I'mma just go ahead and embed that upload here in the hopes at least one person out there is tempted to click that play button and avoid making the mistakes I've made all these years:
I'm glad I finally gave the show a chance, because it's one of those shows I just kinda
knew
I'd like? I'm honestly not too sure why it took me this long, besides one silly reason. GARO did well enough for itself to become a pretty sprawling little franchise over the years, which weirdly turned me off a bit? I feel like -- despite having absolutely no authority to say this -- it's probably best to consider the original series outside of all that? Like, you can't watch a show like this as the starting point for more content, you know? This is a show you randomly catch late at night once, having no clue what it is, and you're so mesmerized by how finely crafted and just plain
cool
that single episode is that you immediately become a fan of the series for life. It's a work of art that way. Much like a painting... or something.
Okay, so obviously I'm just rambling here, but I can't help but try and describe GARO in terms of its
vibe
, because I feel like that's absolutely the thing you'd want to be selling the series to people with. I've seen just barely enough of Keita Amemiya's work to know how he rolls, and GARO was 100% Amemiya. It's slick and awesome and creepy and just generally darn well put together. I thought this was an exceptionally tight premiere that has that sort of "less is more" approach to storytelling I love, where it communicates a ton without having to directly say all that much. (And that's key to why the atmosphere is so palpable, too.) It's instantly engrossing, supremely confident in its execution, leaves off with a great setup for further drama, and is just all around
good
, any way you slice it.
I probably still won't be watching more than this episode and maybe the second one for a while though.
I mean, we'll see, I guess! You did get me to watch the Kikaider anime, which I should probably be thanking you for
regularly
, but I'm still not feeling quite pumped up enough to go grab some fansubs and watch along, unfortunately. But I absolutely wanted to make sure to come in here and show you a little support on this new project. I hope you have a great time with the rest of this show. Knowing what I do about your tastes, I think there's a rather good chance a show of this sort will click with you.
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