[Banba Soukichi]

man, I just hope that wait between theatrical release and DVD isn't the absurd 10+ months Red Requiem was

[ZeoRangerV]

VERY excited for this. I love the new colourscheme for the Garo armour.

[Banba Soukichi]

[baltmatrix]

I'm going to get a lot of flack for this but I don't really like Garo. I've never liked Kouga and the series has also been far too dark. By 'dark' I mean I can't see anything, it's physically to dark for my monitors.

Maybe it's because I stopped caring about Garo after the first series was subbed by TV-Nihon. Maybe their subbing was just bad. The show has just never resonated with me.

[Switchblade]

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I'm going to get a lot of flack for this but I don't really like Garo. I've never liked Kouga and the series has also been far too dark. By 'dark' I mean I can't see anything, it's physically to dark for my monitors.

Maybe it's because I stopped caring about Garo after the first series was subbed by TV-Nihon. Maybe their subbing was just bad. The show has just never resonated with me.

The older TVN subs didn't have great video quality and Garo had a lot of night shots. The two didn't mix well. I'd say try Makai Senki with O-T/MCS's HD versions. The colors are a lot sharper, even when they do the (relatively rarer) night scenes. Rei also gets a lot more solo episodes if Kouga's not your thing.

Oh, and it anyone is interested, TV-Nihon has a subbed version of the trailer.

[baltmatrix]

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The older TVN subs didn't have great video quality and Garo had a lot of night shots. The two didn't mix well. I'd say try Makai Senki with O-T/MCS's HD versions. The colors are a lot sharper, even when they do the (relatively rarer) night scenes. Rei also gets a lot more solo episodes if Kouga's not your thing.

Oh, and it anyone is interested, TV-Nihon has a subbed version of the trailer.

Garo aired before the switched to HD didn't it?

[Switchblade]

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Garo aired before the switched to HD didn't it?

Yeah, but TVN did rerelease the show with DVD rips a year or so ago.

[Blade Raider]

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Garo aired before the switched to HD didn't it?

2005, same year as Magiranger and Hibiki.

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Yeah, but TVN did rerelease the show with DVD rips a year or so ago.

And it looked perfectly fine. Speaking of the original, what was the other sub group that did the original series? All I remember is it wasn't OT.

[Baltan II]

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Speaking of the original, what was the other sub group that did the original series? All I remember is it wasn't OT.

GomenRider. Aside from a better quality version of the first series they apparently fixed a lot of errors in the TV-N version, which I can't verify as I don't have either to compare anymore. Their blog probably covers it much like they did with Agito.

[Switchblade]

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GomenRider. Aside from a better quality version of the first series they apparently fixed a lot of errors in the TV-N version, which I can't verify as I don't have either to compare anymore. Their blog probably covers it much like they did with Agito.

Ooh... non-TVN option... and the torrent still works.

I'm going to give this a download and see what it's like. Excuse to watch Garo a third time? Maaaaaaybe.

Okay, having downloaded them and checked them out I can definitely tell you that the video quality on the GomenRider subs is better than TVN's. Not by a lot compared to their newer dvd rips, but it is noticeable. The image is a bit sharper and the colors are a bit brighter. Hard to tell if the translation is significantly different, but within the first few minutes of episode 1 it's almost identical (which makes sense, given that GomenRider is a scrubber). I think I'll be swapping out my old subs for these. Kisama-tachi and all that.