Okay, got three and four down. I'm seeing a lot of TOWSITD influence in here, both in the cinematography and the plot. I'm actually kind of surprised by how much of Yuna's backstory they're lifting out of season 3, especially given how recent that was. It's hard not to see all the parallels.

It's still a good show, though. It's just hard not to feel like it's a little pedestrian for a Garo project.

Where is Rei's bike when he needs it. :)

Black Blood 3.

Wow that really was quite bad. I mean it wasn't downright terrible, I'm a HUGE urban fantasy guy, my favourite book series ever is the Dresden Files so like learning about the way the community works, and that cool scene with the kid and the barrier were great. But even TOWSITD provided more than a couple of novel scenes when it came to storytelling and world building.

And I'd come to expect from GARO, even in its darkest moments, the best action out of any toku show ever, however that is just not the case here. This is probably the most "toku" GARO has ever felt and it really suffers for it. GARO seemed to take props more from American comics, than it did Japanese media, and it created action sequences that were just something else. But this episode was full of lame, clunky, clumsy fighting and it only gets worse once Zero dons the armour. I mean how is possible that the armour makes the fighting LESS interesting? I dunno, but the show manages it.

Black Blood 4. THAT SHIRTLESS SCENE OF ZERO :lol

This episode was pretty good, I guess the last episode was just a missfire. The general continuity problems and seeming budget restraints aside, Claude didn't make me want to claw off my own face in the same way Cain does, and to a lesser extent Yuna. Gimme a GARO prequel about Taiga and then a Black Blood prequel about Claude! - also give him a proper jacket next time please.

It isn't Garo until you see nipples. :p

I'm kind of amazed at how well Claude could keep up with Ring, even without any armor. Either he was the ultimate badass or Ring has seriously upgraded in power since then. I assume it's the latter because Rei is one of the strongest Knights there is.

The fight with Ring was where most of my issues with the episode arose, where the hell was Claude's armour? In GARO every Maki foot soldier had an armour, it may have been a generic bronze one but it was still there. And why the hell did he turn into a rainbow when he died?

The fight was fun, much more entertaining than when Zero randomly jumped on a bike for no reason last episode, but those issues were really weird.

I'm guessing they didn't have the budget to whip up a CGI armor suit for just one scene.

Skittles.

Rekka's dad didn't show his armor, nor his title.

I get the budget thing but it's up to the show to give an in show reason, but it just didn't. Rei literally summons his armour to take on footsoldiers in this very same series, so it made it all the more glaring that Claude didn't summon his armour even when facing down the big bad of the series.

Just caught up with episodes 3 and 4. I'm enjoying seeing Rei again and the new characters are okay with me (two lots of Riria at the same time? Yes please.), but the story isn't clicking with me as much as I wanted it too. The base plot I'm really enjoying, but then all the added bits have way too many parallels with TOWSITD for my liking.

Ring's random English comments though :lol they feel like something right out of a fighting game.

Expect to see more of that in season 4. :)