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Red Requiem ![]() Man, that might be the best Kamen Rider Ryuki movie that I've seen! Joking aside, I actually did really dig this movie, and it was a great way to return to the world of GARO after having been gone for a year. I don't really know what I can say other than that I felt pretty much everything was pulled off great. The action scenes were as great as always, Rekka's' arc was pulled off really well ontop of the nice way it connected to Koga, the atmosphere was on point the whole time, and best of all, the music all throughout the film was top notch. To my surprise, the film also worked pretty well as a standalone, I felt. Sure, certain specific details of the world aren't explained, but I felt that those things weren't really necessary in order to not only get a handle on how things worked, but also not at needed to any emotional investment in these characters. If I had to nitpick anything, I guess I'd just express confusion as to why exactly it's called Red Requiem? But whatever, the important part is that I felt this whole film was just a really fun time all around. No real complaints here.
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I suppose because the finale involves past fallen Knights coming to aid everyone in a red dimension? That's the best I've got and even I only just now sort of came up with it.
But yeah, after Beast of the Demon Night, it took about four years for us to receive the next installment in Garo, Red Requiem. And man what a way to return via a feature length film. It's a pretty solid one-off adventure overall that gives us a new Horror to slay, some killer action sequences, and some fun new characters that we'll likely get to see return in the future. It's a cool return for GARO both back in the day and now for you since you had a similar gap in watch time. Not much to left to say, just that I look forward to keeping up with the thread once more. |
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But yeah, after Beast of the Demon Night, it took about four years for us to receive the next installment in Garo, Red Requiem. And man what a way to return via a feature length film.
It's a pretty solid one-off adventure overall that gives us a new Horror to slay, some killer action sequences, and some fun new characters that we'll likely get to see return in the future. It's a cool return for GARO both back in the day and now for you since you had a similar gap in watch time. Not much to left to say, just that I look forward to keeping up with the thread once more. Still so weird that I can unironically say that.
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KIBA: The Dark Knight ![]() This... this was a major misfire. Look, I'm not saying having an entire movie based off of Kiba is outright impossible or anything, but this movie was such a slog. Like, the overall visual style is nice, but outside of that it's full of exposition that amounts to basically nothing, introduces a new character in Elda who is unimportant and just vanishes, and worst of all, the whole thing is boring. And given how a couple of scenes are just straight up repeated throughout this, I think even the writers had no idea what they even wanted to do with Kiba and very small window that this movie takes place in. This whole thing could be cut down to 20 minutes and just be a bonus episode of the original GARO. I can atleast give it this: It didn't go the route of 'Well actually, he was a super good person the whole time and no one but my, Elda, ever knew it." like what a certain V-Cin for Kamen Rider W did. But yeah man, this whole movie felt like two hours when in reality it's only like 40 with a 10 minute credits sequence that isn't terrible. Not a great look, this one.
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Yeah Kiba's special is definitely one of the weakest GARO entries for me. While it's put above others purely because I enjoyed Kiba as a character? It's kind of just there for the most part.
There's some neat parts about it, but nothing too incredible. It's partially why I suggested against watching it around the Season 1 finale when it was brought up. While my reasons were mostly "there is like a thing brought up that come into play later", that was the nice way of putting it. Mostly because it would have just put the momentum of 2005's endgame to a screeching halt and probably would hurt more than help. A more isolated viewing like this? Not the best but probably not the worst it could've been either, in my opinion. |
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#196 |
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With such a gap between releases, I could definitely see diehard GARO fans shouting to the heavens in excitement upon announcement of the film. GARO itself really had all the signs of just being a one off, ya know? But pachinko brought us what is looking to be a great franchise.
I kinda wish I remembered the movie itself better.I know it?s where Reika comes from and that it?s an entry in the long string of ?I?m a Makai Knight and/or Priestess with daddy issues? stories, but I don?t know if I?ve actually watched it again since it came out. I did enjoy it, but I definitely thought it needed more Kaoru. Kiba had Kaoru, at least, but it always felt a) more like set-up for a future story and b) kinda confusing and pointless. I?m still not sure who that random woman was supposed to be. |
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There's some neat parts about it, but nothing too incredible. It's partially why I suggested against watching it around the Season 1 finale when it was brought up. While my reasons were mostly "there is like a thing brought up that come into play later", that was the nice way of putting it. Mostly because it would have just put the momentum of 2005's endgame to a screeching halt and probably would hurt more than help. A more isolated viewing like this? Not the best but probably not the worst it could've been either, in my opinion.
Neither do I! She just vanishes once the last few minutes of the movie hits. I feel like she existed solely to pad for time.
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![]() Episode 1: Spark ![]() If not for the very real world gap, this would feel like the first show didn't end. By that I mean this episode kinda plays out like your typical GARO episode(though slightly more graphic than normal), up until the very end. And in that regard, I liked it well enough. I was a little surprised at how long it actually took for Koga to be brought in, and even more surprised at how bad his hair looked in certain shots. Like, for something that's ultimately sort of inconsequential, it was kinda weird to me how long we focused on the Horror of this one, though I imagine with some of the things he says as he's getting hunted by Koga, his dialogue is meant to be a sort of set up for the rest of the season. The best part of it all was easily seeing that Koga, Kaoru, and Gonza were all back, and in show it felt like they never felt, which I imagine is the sort of feeling that was welcomed by those who waited for four long years for these characters to return and continue doing what they do best. A sort of "welcome home" sort of feel, if you will. That all being said, the episode ends with a very interesting hook in that now, it appears as though Koga is the one who's now racing against the clock to stay alive as opposed to Kaoru in the first season. And all thanks to a brand put on him not by a Horror, but a human(perhaps a Makai Alchemist?). It's the sort of intrigue that I'm totally down for, and with the shot of the trio in the photo at the end, it'll be interesting to see how this influences the group dynamic. Going back to the "welcome home" aspect I brought before ending this post off, I was so happy to see that the OP was more in line with the first OP of the first season, both in terms of song and visuals. Though on the flip side, I have no idea what's up with the new ED. The visuals match the ones done with the first ED in the first season, but the song does not go with those visuals like, at all. The song itself isn't bad though. And that's about all I got. I don't think it was as strong a start as the first episode of the first season, but I suppose they figure that anyone watching this season would've already been familiar with the original show, and thus didn't feel the need to do nearly as much character and world setup. Which is understandable. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the rest of the season.
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Fun fact, it was like the early 2010's in which I saw the final fight of the episode via gif. Because around E3 time, it was when Xbox kind of flopped with their always online stuff and Sony took advantage of that to sweep them. Someone then proceeded to make a gif of the fight but with Xbox and Sony markings labeled over the Horror and Garo respectively.
I would be like "oh cool fight" not knowing that this would be my first actual exposure to GARO that I would receive before finally watching many years later. Not much to say on this one, other than Edith from Ghost sure fell on hard times, lol though in this case this aired before Ghost so I'm not sure that works? Also fun fact about the ED, do not skip the ED at all this season. Makai Senki is unique in the fact that instead of your usual ending graphics, you'll have Kaoru doing something different every episode while the credits roll. Only one other season does this, but I thought it was a neat way to shake up the EDs. |
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Also fun fact about the ED, do not skip the ED at all this season. Makai Senki is unique in the fact that instead of your usual ending graphics, you'll have Kaoru doing something different every episode while the credits roll. Only one other season does this, but I thought it was a neat way to shake up the EDs.
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