Kiba Gaiden was more entraining than the Smile Gaiden at least. The segment spoken in English was nice too (as I prefer dubs if they exist).

So, Garo's over until the final movie. I gotta say the last episode was a little down to Earth compared to the episode before it. I'm overall happy with Makai Senki though. It has some stand out moments, more of characters I like, and even a couple of new characters I really enjoyed. Definitely one of my favorites shows to come out of Japan in ages.

Finished watching both GARO series (but skipped ep 25 of Garo: Makai Senki because it is just a montage of past episodes), as well as movies White Knight, Red Requiem, and Kiba. I still think the first series is superior over the second one, even though Makai Senki clearly became more epic down the stretch by involving all the Makai Knights and Makai priests/priesses in the battle Idea, but both series are very well-done and entertaining, as well as breaking some boundaries on the whole tokusatsu genre. Hopefully there will be a third series (after the movie Garo: Soukoku no Maryu comes out), but the creator of the show seemed to indicate that the current cast will not return because the story of their characters has been told, so we may have seen the last of Garo.

Okay, so I've finally finished everything. All the specials, Makai Senki, everything.

Kiba Gaiden was clearly just Keita Amemiya having fun with visual tricks, but I dug that a lot.

Red Requiem was pretty solid overall, but I'm not sure I'm used to the idea of having the armor being CG. It's clear they were using some sort of motion capture or rotoscoping to make the movements more natural, but it's a little bit distracting in parts.

Makai Senki obviously used this trick a lot in its later run, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. Particularly, the first half. I think episode 11 is my favorite. Easily on a part with episode 9 in the original run.

So, reportedly, there's going to be another movie? I'm honestly really hoping if it happens, they go back to using physical suits whenever they can in the armored fights.

I just started watching the first series, and now I wish I had picked it up earlier. Garo has undoubtedly some of the best fight choreography and swordplay in any TV series. And that armor is nothing short of badass.

I'm currently within the first two episodes of Makai Senki, and I have to say that the whole Garo series is nothing short of amazing. While the low-budget CG of season 1 takes some getting used to, it gets better progressively until the effects have been completely perfected in Makai Senki. It's just too bad that nearly all of Garo's scenes in Red Requiem are CG instead of the actual armor.

And I can't decide who is hotter between Mika Hijii and Mary Matsuyama.

It's Mika Hijii. The answer to "which Garo actress is hotter?" is always Mika Hijii.

It was made the same year as Dekaranger. I wouldn't call that low budget at the time. I'll agree Garo has some laughably horrible CG moments though. Episode 4's surgery scene still cracks me up.

I'm going with Mary Matsuyama, but only because the fighting style and outfit tips the scale in her favor. Otherwise, it's a tough call. Mary Matsuyama is like a smoking hot Lucy Lawless.

...I'm gonna get some comments on that, aren't I?

working on second series...loved that fact though the silent butler is a KR suit actor, holy crap can he fight!

Also Rei being the Dragon Orphenoch from Faiz makes it hard to re-watch that series lol. But man he makes the swords in trench coat sleeves even more badass than they should be...

If I remember correctly, Mark Musashi was also the suit actor for Zero, at least in the first series. Did you see the Smile Gaiden episode? He has a really weird but hilarious bit in that.

There's also a really awesome Street Fighter x Tekken short film up on YouTube of him fighting Daniel Southworth from Power Rangers Time Force. Dan is Ryu, Mark is... um, some dude from Tekken (I know jack about Tekken).

I'm up to episode three and still not seeing the Nightmare Fuel people warned me about. Oh, don't get me wrong, I love Garo. I wish we'd add him to Let's Watch Wednesdays. But I don't see anything really frightening. Creepy yes, alot of damned creepy. But nothing Nightmare Fuelish.

Mermaid Horror. You'll see.