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Episode 11: Zanga

God I love Toku.

This episode took something as silly as a Horror using a rubber ball as a weapon and made a legit great episode out of it.

The story this time around is all about Hakamadare, and as such this follows alot of the same beats that episode 5 did. And considering I absolutely loved episode 5, well, it's probably easy to guess how I felt about this one.

Seriously, I just love this guy as a character. Not only has every bit of his backstory we've been given so far great, but all of the episodes focusing on him have had wonderful character drama attached. He's also voiced by am actor who's got great vocal range.

I looked him up: He's Ricco Fajardo, and he apparently also voiced Leon in The Animation. And if that's true then like holy crap, because Leon and Hakamadare sound nothing at all alike! He hasn't voiced anything else of note that I can find(to me, anyway), but if these two roles are anything go by? He does a great job.

Also, good foreshadowing to this one done in the previous episode too. I neglected to mention it in the previous post, but there was a small scene of Seimei actively wondering if there even were any other Makai Knights, with the Watchdog Center assuring her that there are. Though I see that rather than Zorro for our Silver Knight, we get Zanga here. In other Garo media, are there often multiple knights with the same color?

Regardless, this episode had basically everything I liked about episode 5. Good character drama and a wonderful atmosphere. And it makes me rather excited to see where Hakamadare's' story will end up going forward. At the rate things are going, he might end up becoming my favorite character in the show.

But yeah, all around this was a great time.