[goseigold]

Ok, I don't have much to say about the first episode though I would like to specify a few things

the barrier Seimei puts up has 2 purposes:

1. To prevent any collateral damage

2. I never saw this brought up during your watch of the first anime, so in case you didn't know: makai knights actually have a time limit for how long they can keep their armor on (99.9 seconds to be exact), and seimei' barrier allows raikou to fight without worrying about said time limit
which is why I always wondered why crimson moon was the only entry in the franchise to utilize this technique

Now for some fun facts:

1. you may have not already noticed but JAM project are usually the ones in charge of Garo OP' most of the time but with this series first OP "Guren no Tsuki ~Kakusareshi Yami Monogatari" they did something special: for the first few episodes of the show each member preformed a solo version of the OP before bringing the full member version in later

2. another thing that was never mentioned during your watch of the first anime was the fact that every horror has a unique name- with the horrors in crimson moon being named after various yokai and oni