GARO: The Inheritor of Steel - Project Announced
 

A brand new Garo project has been announced: GARO: The Inheritor of Steel

Set to broadcast on TOKYO MX and BS Nippon TV starting January 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ri-1j8DAwc

https://garo-project.jp/garo_hagane/

Nice. Happy to see Garo back in a way that isn't a continuation of Versus Road. A bit concerned that there's no mention of Miki Nanri, but simultaneously relieved that Mashario Inoue has been busy with that web series he was doing.

Cool. Glad GARO is coming back. I remember that I wrote that the franchise was over, but I don’t consider myself wrong, because the pause was solid. It’s like saying in the 90s about the end of Kamen Rider: true then, but it turns out to be a mistake in the global perspective.


Jisariz, by the way, has a second season planned, so Inoue will have something to do.

Yeah i expect no one but Kuriyama Wataru to return. Maybe Nanri Miki as a cameo but not more (She reacted on X about the show announcement as if it was a surprise but it kinda felt like she knew already)

Jinga/Amiri definitely a no no IMO. Inoue is busy and Matsunoi Miyavi gave birth to twins last year and posts regularly on X how busy she is with the kids.

I was hoping for a new original Garo series, DMC style. The new Garo would take up handguns besides just a sword.

But it's nice to see Ryuga again. What new Makai Knights this time? Will there be any female ones too? Time for some of the Makai Priestesses to break the rules.

I'm excited about this. It's a little surprising that it's Ryuta and not Raiga but we get new Garo which is always a good thing in my book.

Garo is back! And they're bringing back Ryuga!

Hopefully this one is good since Versus Road was ass imo.

Looks sick! Love the designs.

Unfortunately, I've barely seen anything from Garo (save for a couple of the original's episodes and Versus Road), so I won't be seeing this right away.

I really need to watch some Garo...

I don't know what to think after seeing the trailer.

Mostly Im happy. I thought after the Jinga spin-off, the Gekko no Tabibito movie, Versus Road and then COVID happening, all hope would be lost to get a new live-action series.

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Jinga was kind of a flop because of the lack of money (probably because the 3 mentioned projects were all released in the span of 2 years) but featured a fan favorite character. I would need to rewatch it but I vaguely remember the fight scenes not being as "clean" as other GARO series (I mean like lot of shaky cam and stuff)

The movie was cool, mostly because it was pure OG GARO fanservice, no b*llshit, we give you what you want, on steroids.

and Versus Road was... Versus Road... Lot of people dislike it. I was the same at first. Then wondered why and realized I had no reason to dislike it.
- A refreshing setting for the franchise, closer to us.
- well written characters
- Good fight scenes. Refreshing battle scenes because the series focused on out-of-suit fights (and not the armor or CGI-big-monster b*llshit) and a different fighting style for each main characters. with a big nod to that precise point in the last fight scene of the series, but I won't say more.

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But yeah because of these + Covid I thought Amemiya Keita would not do a new live action series and would just concentrate on promoting the past shows on the youtube channel etc...

Im glad I was wrong and a new show is coming.


Now that being said...
I don't know how to explain, there's something off with the trailer. But I have difficulties explaining why.
It's like you're served your favorite dish, everything looks okay, the smell too. But something is different. Or at least the pleasure is not 100% here.

Maybe that's because Ryuga is here and no one else seem to return.
No Jinga/Amiri. that's okay. I love them but they overused them.
No Ryume (well like Matsunoi Miyavi she got a kid in the recent years so okay)
No Aguri and Takeru, I know why. Real life stuff.
But no Rian ? hmmm.

or maybe it's because the premise of the show is too similar to Goldstorm Sho. Ryuga goes to a new city, meets new characters among which is a "not friendly guy at first" guy who will be the "everything-revolves-around-me" guy by the end. Gald was kinda like this in Goldstorm and Shirahane Soma here give me that vibe.
I'm afraid to go through the experience I had when I watched Makai no Hana (which is at the bottom of my GARO shows list). Like the setting was similar to OG GARO, obv because of Raiga being the son of the OG characters, but in the end everything was different.
To continue with the previous analogy, the dish looked and smelled the same but once the spoon is in your mouth that's obviously not what you wanted. At all.

Hope Im wrong and the show will be fun. I'm a simple guy. and in the end a GARO show only has to have 2 ingredients to please me. A cool JAM Project Intro song with an epic instrumental version for the fights scenes and good out-of-suit fight scenes. If they focused on that, that's already a win.

on the subject of the jinga spin off, i think it was clear that Jinga existed after the Ryuga arc. Since a newly adult Jinga cant exist at the same time as Ryuga

which they could be setting up the spin off jinga to lead into the next Garo season with a new char. Which its possible they planed to do

I think this is the last season with Ryuga before its passed onto another Garo who will have Jinga as a part of his story.

Now at the end of the jinga spin off we did see Jinga's coat glow gold. So hopefully we get some DAMN INFO ABOUT THAT