Garo Yami wo Terasu Mono 01 "Ryuga" Discussion
 

The raw for episode 1 of the new Garo is up on Nyaa now, so let's get this discussion started. Since Garo doesn't have it's own section (It should, it really, REALLY should), I guess the other section will have to do.

Anyways, we have a raw that will have to do until subs are out, a new happy go lucky Garo, and a ring telling us to keep the lights on while watching. Discuss away!

My very thought is "I should turn my lights off." What? I'm not gonna let a ring tell me what to do! The lights go off. Otherwise, shadows lurk and fear reigns. I don't want that interrupting my show. :p


Seriously though, you can tell right off the bat that they are trying to go for something different as the show no longer has the infamous opening narration. This kind of made me sad, but I'll get over it.

Speaking of different, there seems to be a Western theme going on here. The music is something more akined to Trigun than Garo's use to. The commercial bumper is a Garo branding iron (which is awesome!). Plus, the Makai Priest in the outro (the female lead we haven't seen yet) is meshing with a gun and bullets. Oh, and there's a Japanese cowboy driving a station wagon. That made me laugh. :lol So yeah, I like this theme.

I'm guessing Ryuga is a "cowboy" Makai Knight. Doing things his own way, wondering from town to town with a mission (and like a hobo). Crying at the sound of statues...what the hell was that? Seriously though, Ryuga looks to be like a very different kind of character than Kouga. He's showing way more emotion and that's okay.

Plotwise, I can get the gist of it from the translated trailer and what's on screen. Besically, they set up a plot where Ryuga doesn't want to work with the other Makais to save the city and there's a plot dealing with the miltary. This should be a lot more clear once subs are up. Oh, and Zaruba can't talk.

The action is the great stuff Garo is known for. Good wire work, good CG work, good everything. The use of the armor was over the top in that way only Garo does.

I'm glad someone did this, because if they didn't I was going to :D

I hate to be blunt but Garo and it's fanbase haven't been around nearly long enough, nor do they have enough material, to warrant a stand alone section. Even Ultraman has been around for nearly 50 years and it doesn't have enough ongoing media or fans at this site to warrant a section yet :(

so who subbed the the first ep then due to im still waiting for nihon to sub sub it.

Nobody yet. Over-time are working on it, and TV Nihon will probably have it up in a week or so I guess.

Over-Time will be doing it, their sub should be up sometime in the next 48 hours. TVN's version will be up in about a week and in lower quality HD.

And I get Den-O's arguments against a Garo forum, but at the same time it's the only one of the four currently airing series not to have its own discussion board and this year we've got a lot of new Garo - new 24 episode series plus two new movies. The fanbase may be smaller, but I think giving it a spotlight would help bring in more fans.

We really understand this. Trust me, at an administrative level we get that desire to have a Garo sub forum. But there just isn't the traffic to support it right now. We have dedicated fans here for it but there simply just aren't enough of them to support it or justify having it's own section right now. Same goes for Ultraman and Godzilla. They just don't carry the same large fanbase here that Riders, Sentai, and Power Rangers do.

We know that it's a currently running series as well. But with it not being an annual year long thing it's hard to garner as wide a fan base. The 3 big ones have a new show or season every year, consecutively. There's always something new to cover and discuss. Unfortunately the time between Garo projects means a lot of dead time in a sub forum that's dedicated to it :(

Oh, I see what's going on here.

I wasn't saying there should be like a permanent Garo forum alongside the Sentai and Rider ones, I was thinking more like the Megaforce/Wizard/Kyoryuger/Akibaranger current series forums - something for the show while it's running that would get folded back into the Other Toku forum once it's over (or maybe after both movies are subbed). I don't think we need like a permanent Garo subforum, no.

Even then that's just not feasible. Yes we could make a section for current Garo and roll it off when it's done. But all that section would boil down to is the episode discussions. Just look at this "Other Toku" section as the example. This is the spot where Garo stuff should and has been posted previously. Over the entire time this site has existed, over a year now, only 3 threads pertaining to Garo have been posted in this section.

It's just evident that if we put the time and work into giving Garo even a currently airing subsection that it wouldn't be used fully. There just hasn't been enough evidence to support that it would carry itself. We're always open to more and improved open discussion for toku. Sections for Garo, Ultras, and Godzilla are a goal down the road. We want this site to be the #1 place for all things tokusatsu related. But there has to be a necessity for these sections to exist first. Right now there just isn't enough discussion, interaction, and demand to get those off the ground.