My friends and I watch it as a group. As such, we only watch it on either Thursdays or Saturdays since that is when we are all together. However, this Thursday we are going to see Godzilla, so we won't be watching it until Saturday. Same goes for Gaim.

Finally found time for the latest episode and, of course, I loved it. Garo really seems to be playing up the horror aspect this season. It works for me, even thought I love the show the most when its bringing in more of the overall mythology of its world.

I liked the flashback to Raiga's youth - it wasn't as mind-blowing as Kouga's flashbacks, but Raiga seems that have a pretty trauma-free childhood for a change. I can't say that it added a ton of depth to the wind chime maker, but it was a nice little touch of pathos and it helped justify the way they played the fight (which was very nicely done - it's cool to see the show go for something other than crazy over-the-top wire work or CGI sometimes).

I'm not sure what I was supposed to get out of the stuff with Mayuri at the end, but the cinematography was quite nice. I still miss her giant hat from episode 1, though. :(

Maybe we're supposed to find Mayuri hot, because literally all she does is stand there in different outfits and that is about the limit of what she adds to the show.

I think we're supposed to be more invested in her trying to find her humanity, but we haven't really gotten enough about her or what she is to really sell that.

Yeah it isn't really until you think about it that like...wowza this show is paced poorly. Sure the original GARO was episodic too, but it had Kouga's character arc running through the middle of it and he had a great supporting cast of memorable characters.

This is just 19 minutes of bad acting and about ten seconds of fighting. End.

Episode 7
That's a nice way to say 'mom and dad are not available', and 'how I get my armor'.

Next week horror will be played by former lightweight boxing world champion, Guts Ishimatsu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guts_Ishimatsu

So we can probably hope for some excellent boxing style fight between him and Raiga.

Considering this picture, looks like we are in for a treat.
http://www.star-ch.jp/channel/upimages/22275/ph.jpg

As far as lengthy, noticeable CGI fights go, I think this week's was my favourite we've ever gotten in the Garo franchise.

Was that supposed to be Taiga watching over Raiga? I assumed that was the case from the brown eyes, but I don't know his voice well enough to recognise it.

Taiga is the representative of the collection.

This season hasn't clicked with me yet, but I'm still enjoying it.