[GoldenXtreme]

Not a tokusatsu, but I watched Garo: The Carved Seal of Flames.

Bad, very bad! This just adds more fuel to my semi-joking theory that Yasuko Kobayashi never recovered from the strain of writing Kamen Rider Ryuki!

I think some of the show's shortcomings are to be expected. The budget was obviously low and stylistically I didn't expect that an anime would be able to match the appeal of live-action wacky wire stunts. But... the show doesn't really redeem itself in any other way. I think I'd genuinely struggle to think of a show with more predictable plot beats than this one, the characters are flimsy, the writing is poor both episode by episode and from an overarching perspective, they barely put any effort into the fake medieval Spain setting. What a disaster! I don't have anything nice to say this time, sorry!