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Okay, so I've been a bad Garo fan.

The TVN sub for Blue Cry of the Demon Dragon has been out for awhile now, but I've been putting it off. In part it's because I was being a fansub snob, in part it's because I was waiting for a day when I had nothing else to do for 90 minutes.

I was really dumb to wait.

This movie was great. The story was good, the characters interesting, and the visuals... oh dear god, the visuals. This movie was gorgeous. Every single inch of the Promised Land was beautifully and imaginatively crafted and gloriously realized by the CG artists, costume designers, and set designers (the latter of whom clearly got the easy job due to the heavy reliance on green screen). It was a really fun movie and a great send-off to Kouga and Kaoru. I am glad, though, that we're not quite done with this generation of Garo yet.