[Spiteface]

Yeah, this felt far more like episode 23/24 than 17. This is getting the usual 25-episode Garo run, right? Makes me wonder how insane this is going to get once Ladan actually appears, what it's going to look like, what it does...

I bloody knew once Amily started "helping" this was going to end with Japanese Morticia turning on them. To be fair, her and Decade are the most sympathetic villains in a Garo series to date. The others just wanted power (I don't count Eiji because he hadn't truly fallen to darkness, he was just so grief-stricken he thought releasing the "Tears of Messiah" would help). If a bunch of stupid villagers killed your kid, you'd massacre them all too.

Sounds less like I initially thought with them, though. I thought with the way Zinga talked about becoming a Horror early on, that he actively sought to become one. The way his backstory was explained here, sounds more like two people accepting the consequences of what they did in their rage, and reigning themselves to their fate of becoming Horrors.

Ryume fighting was awesome. I actually quite liked that they essentially went a whole episode without any knights using their armour. TOWSITD did that once or twice, but it came off better here.

Talking of priests fighting, this made me want another Tougen no Fue-style film/special. I hope the Bikku movie pulls that vibe off.

I wonder was the thing is that Ryuga is going to be fighting though - tried looking at the few frames of it in the preview, could it be a blackened Lost Soul type of thing?

This episode, as with every other episode this season, made me sad when I reached the end, because then I knew I'd have to wait a week for the next one. That to me is the mark of something is good.