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Episode 9 was absolutely the moment I've been waiting for. Finally, an entire episode dedicated to... some guy? I assume he's from the Biku movie, which I have obviously not seen. I hope he's not in that movie a lot, because he's aggressively annoying. I was tired of his boy scout attitude and obnoxious fourth wall breaking by about five minutes in. I was definitely planning to write this off as even worse than the Haruna episode, but then we hit the 15 minute mark and an arm in a white jacket grabbed the Horror. Nine damn episodes, but finally we have a non-cameo appearance by one of the Garos. I still feel like I don't know Raiga that well, given that he's had less screentime than Kouga and Ryuga, but man was it nice to see him again (and with Zaruba, no less). The last ~7 minutes or so of this episode were just great - actual, proper Garo. It's a pity that the rest of it was spent following some random weenie around as he creeped on strangers.