[GoldenXtreme]

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing everyone again when I get around to Gotchard now. Ryoma's actor in particular has such distinctive mannerisms that I hope I can identify him right off the bat.

[GuardianAngel87]

I have finally gotten around to starting my rewatch of the first season/series of Garo not only as part of my own annual Halloween marathon for this year but in celebration of that series/franchise’s 20th anniversary.

[ChadYuNarukami]

Finally caught up with Bataar. Looking promising so far

[GuardianAngel87]

Over the last few days, I have revisited the original 2005 series of Garo in its entirety both on Garo Project’s official YouTube channel and my copy of the show’s second half on Blu-Ray. I even managed to squeeze in my rewatch of Beast of the Demon Night and Kiba: The Dark Knight specials(also via Blu-Ray) as well as finishing them today. I almost forgot how good Garo really is as a series. I might even finally get around to watching the Red Requiem movie as well as Makai Senki (I have also the Blu-Rays of both halves of that series) not long after New Year's at the earliest.

[GoldenXtreme]

Does anyone have a good source for getting the complete English subbed version of Robot Detective? I'm really struggling to find all the episodes even though it should supposedly have complete subs. Feel free to DM me.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by GuardianAngel87

Over the last few days, I have revisited the original 2005 series of Garo in its entirety both on Garo Project?s official YouTube channel and my copy of the show?s second half on Blu-Ray. I even managed to squeeze in my rewatch of Beast of the Demon Night and Kiba: The Dark Knight specials(also via Blu-Ray) as well as finishing them today. I almost forgot how good Garo really is as a series. I might even finally get around to watching the Red Requiem movie as well as Makai Senki (I have also the Blu-Rays of both halves of that series) not long after New Year's at the earliest.

Oh, you'll love the recent episode of Gozyuger. Kouga appears as a guest character who has ties to the red ranger and does a lot of Garo things in it.

[GoldenXtreme]

Periodically, I get the hankering to see a new Toshiki Inoue show, even knowing this is roughly the equivalent of intentionally slamming my hand down on a burning hot griddle. Long story short, I watched Super Light Warrior Changerion, another baffling work in his repertoire. It's hard to know where to start with this show, which is largely a series of disjointed gags and Inoue's typical obsession with romance. but also ends with children assassinating a politician and also maybe everything is a dream? And it's a show that exists in-universe as a show in a bafflingly meta episode about Changerion getting bumped from it's broadcast slot by breaking news about aliens. Honestly when the show is at its most mind meltingly insane it's really hard to not be fascinated by what is going on, but I also think that it took the show too long to hit its stride and a lot of the early episodes in particular weren't as madcap and funny. Inoue was largely doing things that I have seen from him so many times they just don't have impact anymore. His weird issues with women, love dodecahedrons, and fixation on driving gags into the ground are full display early on. The show also has another issue in that it just looks completely awful for a 90s tokusatsu. I did a little research after I finished the show and apparently they had switched from film to videotape recording for Changerion, so I imagine the awkwardness of using an unfamiliar technology resulted in the show looking like such a mess. The other factoid I learned is that the Changerion suit was apparently INCREDIBLY heavy, which explains why the choreography was generally not very good either.

So, how do I feel about it in the end? It's hard to say, it was a bizarre experience that was unlike anything I had seen before, yet also repetitive. I definitely consider it above the dregs of Inoue's works, but I wouldn't call it a show that was good by any stretch of the imagination. All I can say is Toshiki Inoue once again got a rise out of me, for better or for worse. Remember to assassinate pretenders to the throne with guns and grenades kiddos!

[Mesnick]

Interestingly, that Changerion is a collaboration between Toei and Sega. And in that same year, Guyferd, a collaboration between Toho and Capcom, was released. Apparently, that year, Japanese gaming and film giants decided to compete in the tokusatsu TV series arena. Fans were probably delighted.

[GoldenXtreme]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Interestingly, that Changerion is a collaboration between Toei and Sega. And in that same year, Guyferd, a collaboration between Toho and Capcom, was released. Apparently, that year, Japanese gaming and film giants decided to compete in the tokusatsu TV series arena. Fans were probably delighted.

Yeah, I had read about how Sega handled the merch side of things for Changerion, definitely not a company you see come up often in the world of tokusatsu. Guyferd is another show that really interests me due to the Capcom connection. I hear it has really cool fights that are very martial arts oriented!