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Man, this show is starting to feel like there's a big birthday party and all the guest of honor's friends and family are there, but they themselves are inexplicably absent.

This week: the adventures of a girl in tiny shorts and an interesting-looking block of wood.

I am not a Biku fan. Of all the various characters from each Garo series, she is easily the least interesting and memorable. I know she's supposedly still getting a solo feature film, but after this week's episode I am really not pumped for that project. Stoicism can be a good trait in a hero, but Biku could be replaced by a cardboard cutout and I don't think the episode would have changed much.

The guest star was kind of annoying, but my big issues here is the massive number of unanswered questions I walked away with. I know Biku is unpopular, being the Internal Affairs Makai Priest and all, but the show really needs to explain what was up with these Makai Assassins going after her. Who are they? Are they part of the main Makai Knight/Priest body or do they operate outside of it? Why did they want to kill Biku? What the hell was the source of that ominous voice? Explain, damn it, tv show!

So yeah, outside of some nice fight choreography in a couple places and a few cool location shots, this did almost nothing for me.

Anyway, next week I assume we'll get an exciting adventure starring the girl with the dead family from TOWSITD, one of the temple guards from Beast of the White Knight, or maybe Kaoru's friend that was in two episodes of the original series. Any minor character that's not an actual Makai Knight.