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DreamSword Watches Unfamiliar Toku: Part 1 - GARO
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02-27-2023, 10:26 AM
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DreamSword
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Mesnick
Congratulations on finishing your viewing! Glad you enjoyed this show so much.
Thanks! Not exactly sure what I'll watch next, but I do look forward to whenever I'm in the mood to return to
GARO
again.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Fish Sandwich
Okay, all caught up on those little extras! (Although now that you've teased me with that screencap of behind-the-scenes retrospective stuff, I might have to go watch that at some point too.)
The clip TV-N subbed mentioned audio commentary over select episodes by the cast and crew, and man, if a company like, say, Discotek ever revived
GARO
and translated those extras? I'd be all over it.
Quote:
I really really really liked this thing. Very broadly speaking, it's sort of like "what if GARO did a Hyper Battle Video?", but the dang thing just elevates itself so much throughout. When it wants to be wacky and fun, it's incredible at it. When it wants to maintain the usual strong atmosphere with the whole theatrical theming (i.e.
literally the entire time
), it never misses a step, and when it wants to deliver some inward-driven, emotionally resonant storytelling about what it means to be an artist, it just totally lands the material. Utter delight from start to finish, this thing.
You put it all far more eloquently than I ever could've. It's just such a unique beast for
GARO
as a whole, and you can tell the cast and crew had alot of fun making it.
Quote:
Getting compared to a video game is usually a cheap insult for something live-action, but when I'm saying it about GARO, it's the greatest compliment I can think to pay to it, because it bursts with that same level of unrestrained imagination you don't usually find on TV or in movies.
Yeah, speaking as a "gamer" myself, comparing stuff to video games has this real stigma attached to it, with not alot of people realizing just why the various genres of games has only grown over time. The stigma from outsiders looking in has also unfortunately affected how said games are written and directed, with many of them trying their hardest to emulate big name movies, but in that alot of them lose alot of what made videogames fun in the first place.
To put it simply, if
GARO
is to be compared to a PlayStation 1 era JRPG, then it encapsulates all of the best aspects of that subgenre. I favorably compared the first anime to
The Legend of Dragoon
for a reason!
Quote:
I'll say it again, but GARO really pulled me in immediately, for pretty similar reasons to what DreamSword described in his final thoughts post. There was this biased part of me that kind of expected a series like this to pick that adult audience and suddenly get all these funny ideas in its head about how it has to be super edgy, or subversive, or winkingly self-aware, or whatever else. Essentially, something that would make me want to call it "pretentious". But GARO ain't that! It sticks to the fundamentals, with very straightforward, traditional storytelling, and instead worries about just doing that to the full extent of its ability.
While said by someone considered rather controversial nowadays, a critic of whom I used to have alot of respect for summed it up best, I think: "Sometimes the best twist is no twist." There's this idea in US superhero media nowadays that in order to succeed you have to deliberately try to skew away from what made superhero stories resonate with people in the first place. Either via being incredibly dark or by acting as if you're "above it all" so to speak. But the thing is, people fell in love with those traditionally straightforward stories for a reason.
On its surface, is
GARO
some revolutionary tale that flipped the genre on its head forever? No, but it knew what it was and what it wanted to be, and did its best to execute things in the best way possible, and I have alot more respect for that than the alternative which can very easily come across as pretentious if not condescending at worst.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Switchblade
Really happy to see that our Garo newbies had a good time. It's long been one of my favorite tokusatsu shows and it's nice to see others discovering it for the first time.
I can easily see why it's a big favorite! There's alot to love, even just on the production side of things. Like, the show started off as a reboot of
Golden Bat
before Amemiya realized he'd strayed so far off course that he just made an original IP instead. With reboots that barely resemble what they're rebooting running rampant nowadays, I have a huge amount of respect for that.
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