[Locke]

TOWSITD 9.

This was a weird episode, morally. It was basically one long message that claimed 'if you try to do the right thing, you will be brutally punished.'. Even the journalist, who initially angered me for betraying Ryuga, was really only trying to help and he died because of it.

Since a lot has been changed over the course of the seasons, I dunno whether to be impressed or not that Mr Big Bad was able to throw aside Ryuga's sword so easily. Is Soul Metal still impossible to lift to the untrained?

Either way, the action was really fun in this episode, it's just a shame the special effects were atrocious. This is probably the worst GARO has ever looked. It isn't so much the quality of the CGI itself, but more the quality of the animation. It was really noticeable when everyone transformed, everyone seemed out of proportion and stiff and jerky with hits that have no impact. It also seemed a waste because moments like this in the first and second seasons of GARO were incredible but this was just kinda awful.

It probably didn't help that this fight had no context at all. Why does GARO do this? Where the villain randomly comes forwards in the early episodes, has a huge fight with our protagonist, before running away and not confronting them directly until the end again? What was the point of this?