[Locke]

Flower 02.

It just sorta felt like a poor man's GARO again, the kind of remake where someone understands the look of a the thing but not really the feel or the message. Maybe it's unnecessary to complain about good visuals, but at times it also feels like the show has budget to burn and is just adding effects for the sake of adding effects. For all of GARO's flash, it was a series that knew how to use it's effects to tell a story, and set a mood, it was high concept, but not at the expense of anything else... this, this isn't that clever.

Raiga was pretty fun in the first episode but the longer he was on screen for in this episode the worst an actor he came across. He's no Kouga, and at least Kouga was intentionally stiff, this guy is like a plank with a bad haircut. He is more enjoyable in the fight sequences, but only because I'm always amazed by how badass someone who looks like that much of a dork can be. He's like Alata on crack.

And I certainly like him better than "Oh God the effects on my eyes make me look so distractingly weird why is my magic armour like a goth prostitutes uniform oh yeah this is GARO and Japan lol women" or "Lispy McWell it's GARO so we need at least one character who is an utter dick so it may as well be me, fuck it." Eurgh.