[DreamSword]

KIBA: The Dark Knight

This... this was a major misfire.

Look, I'm not saying having an entire movie based off of Kiba is outright impossible or anything, but this movie was such a slog.

Like, the overall visual style is nice, but outside of that it's full of exposition that amounts to basically nothing, introduces a new character in Elda who is unimportant and just vanishes, and worst of all, the whole thing is boring.

And given how a couple of scenes are just straight up repeated throughout this, I think even the writers had no idea what they even wanted to do with Kiba and the very small window that this movie takes place in. This whole thing could be cut down to 20 minutes and just be a bonus episode of the original GARO.

I can atleast give it this: It didn't go the route of 'Well actually, he was a super good person the whole time and no one but me, Elda, ever knew it." like what a certain V-Cin for Kamen Rider W did. But yeah man, this whole movie felt like two hours when in reality it's only like 40 minutes with a 10 minute credits sequence that isn't terrible.

Not a great look, this one.