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Episode 10: Secret

Leo and Kaoru go on a date.

I could just end the post right there, but this episode actually surprised me in how exactly it ended up playing out.

Like, it'd be so easy to just write this off as a budget episode, given that, were you to write it out, very little actually happens in this one. Koga is off hunting a Horror, and Kaoru walks around town with Leo to see a CGI creature.

And yet, the more I think about it... has there ever been a toku that's done an episode like this? Wherein two of our characters just kinda hang out and get to know eachother, all while surrounded by a whimsical atmosphere and setting that helps not only with character development, but world building?

None immediately come to mind for me. And in terms of GARO alone this episode really stands out as something unique. Not to mention, this is the first focus episode that Kaoru has had in Makai Senki, and even if it's shared time with Leo, it's still good to see her shine in many of the ways that got me to like her in the first season.

So yeah, this was overall just a nice, relaxing, breather episode that I surprisingly dug. Here's to hoping Kaoru's' quest to bless her brush has some sort of payoff down the road.