[GoldenXtreme]

It's Short Form Sunday! Figured I'd keep up my momentum and watch various smaller tokusatsu things I've wanted to catch up on.

Garo Special: Beast of the Demon Night
This would fit in easily as two extra episodes of the original Garo. The new Makai Knight is pretty forgettable but it's decent enough I guess.

Garo: Red Requiem
I think THIS is actually the most I've enjoyed a Garo thing yet. It's focused, well-paced, and let's us see some interesting new characters as they fight a unique new Horror. The higher budget of being a movie also helps smooth out some of the rough edges of the CGI that plagues the TV stuff. This really made me realize that Garo might be best as a film series, at least for my personal tastes.

Garo: Kiba Gaiden
This, meanwhile, it pretty awful. A bunch of stitched together flashback sequences giving backstory to a couple of characters who really, really didn't need backstory. Barely any action, heck, a lot of it was done in an inked visual style, so it barely felt like a tokusatsu!

Kikaida Reboot
This was pretty fun. It's interesting seeing how Kikaida was re-imagined and the fights were quite cool. The human characters all tended to feel very stilted though.