man, I just hope that wait between theatrical release and DVD isn't the absurd 10+ months Red Requiem was

VERY excited for this. I love the new colourscheme for the Garo armour.

I'm going to get a lot of flack for this but I don't really like Garo. I've never liked Kouga and the series has also been far too dark. By 'dark' I mean I can't see anything, it's physically to dark for my monitors.

Maybe it's because I stopped caring about Garo after the first series was subbed by TV-Nihon. Maybe their subbing was just bad. The show has just never resonated with me.

The older TVN subs didn't have great video quality and Garo had a lot of night shots. The two didn't mix well. I'd say try Makai Senki with O-T/MCS's HD versions. The colors are a lot sharper, even when they do the (relatively rarer) night scenes. Rei also gets a lot more solo episodes if Kouga's not your thing.

Oh, and it anyone is interested, TV-Nihon has a subbed version of the trailer.

Garo aired before the switched to HD didn't it?

Yeah, but TVN did rerelease the show with DVD rips a year or so ago.

2005, same year as Magiranger and Hibiki.

And it looked perfectly fine. Speaking of the original, what was the other sub group that did the original series? All I remember is it wasn't OT.

GomenRider. Aside from a better quality version of the first series they apparently fixed a lot of errors in the TV-N version, which I can't verify as I don't have either to compare anymore. Their blog probably covers it much like they did with Agito.

Ooh... non-TVN option... and the torrent still works.

I'm going to give this a download and see what it's like. Excuse to watch Garo a third time? Maaaaaaybe. :lol

Okay, having downloaded them and checked them out I can definitely tell you that the video quality on the GomenRider subs is better than TVN's. Not by a lot compared to their newer dvd rips, but it is noticeable. The image is a bit sharper and the colors are a bit brighter. Hard to tell if the translation is significantly different, but within the first few minutes of episode 1 it's almost identical (which makes sense, given that GomenRider is a scrubber). I think I'll be swapping out my old subs for these. Kisama-tachi and all that.