[DreamSword]

Episode 17: Red Brush

For those of you who don't like GARO, you'll be elated to know I didn't like this episode.

It's not the first episode of the franchise I out and out didn't like(that can be found way back when I first started with The Animation), but I do believe it's the first for the live-action stuff.

If I had to sum it up, pretty much everything about it feels phoned in.

Rekka returns, but the fact that her first fish got crushed is never addressed. Rekka and Kaoru have a spat that amounts to literally nothing. The Horror exists for no reason other than to exposit to Kaoru. And the lack of any sort of real fallout to the entire scenario implies that Koga and Kaoru learned literally nothing from the first season's' Fish Tank episode.

And even if I'm to try and ignore any of the plot or character stuff, this is probably the weakest directing I've seen out of Amemiya. Tons of shakey-cam, the fight choreography is lame ontop of being very obviously telegraphed, and the editing is very minimal(and not in any sort of good way).

Just, man was this entire thing really disappointing. It had an interesting setup, but the payoff was out and out lacking on all accounts.