[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Aoi Kurenai

The show starts becoming a little more original soon enough. Five is my favorite of the early episodes due to its historical context (huge drug problem in Japan at the time) and Shotaro Ishinomori himself plays a character in episode 9.

Definitely plan to come back once I've finished Kyoryuger and Faiz. Never thought I'd be in a position where Kyoryuger is the show I'm watching and enjoying the most! But the revised episode list I'm working from does the show a lot of favours, like a greatest hits album.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Definitely plan to come back once I've finished Kyoryuger and Faiz. Never thought I'd be in a position where Kyoryuger is the show I'm watching and enjoying the most! But the revised episode list I'm working from does the show a lot of favours, like a greatest hits album.

I'm glad you are enjoying those shows. Two of my favorite Toku shows there.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

I'm glad you are enjoying those shows. Two of my favorite Toku shows there.

Faiz is not a particularly good show, in my humble opinion, but pretty much every action scene is so ahead of its time I pretty much find the show impossible to hate. First and foremost toku should provide superhero thrills and for pretty much the last four minutes of every Faiz episode, it provides superhero thrills in droves.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I love GARO's out of suit action, I'm so so on the in suit action. There are suited fights which are just so grandiose you can't help but adore them but early in the series they feel really tacked on like Megazord fights and then later in the show the use of CGI over practical effects is so gratuitous it's almost unbearable. As the show goes along though, the out of suit action just gets more and more epic even if the use of plastic props, and wires/green screens only becomes more noticeable as the quality of the rips gets better and better.

GARO's pacing isn't perfect either, admittedly. There is more filler than you'd really want from a series so short, and the climax of the season is a visual treat but pretty much shits on the rest of the season storywise for the sake of pseudo sequel baiting for the much more action packed, but incredibly dumb sequel series.

But when an episode is good in GARO, it's GOOD. I've personally not seen a toku show with better character focus than what you get in GARO, Kouga's arc across the series especially is wonderful. He's easily my favourite toku protagonist, aside from characters like Haruto from Wizard and Alata from Goseiger.

Ah okay well I'll give it another episode, I do want to see his development.

My favorites are probably Souji from Kyoryuger, the Agito Riders, OOO, Kuuga, Faiz, Chalice and Gatack etc... so far.

However I absolutely love characters and seeing them develop is what I love.

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Originally Posted by Locke

Faiz is not a particularly good show, in my humble opinion, but pretty much every action scene is so ahead of its time I pretty much find the show impossible to hate. First and foremost toku should provide superhero thrills and for pretty much the last four minutes of every Faiz episode, it provides superhero thrills in droves.

I can agree that Faiz has its problems but everything it does right just outweighs the bad to me.

[Aoi Kurenai]

Faiz was my first tokusatsu show way back in 2004 and while I'm not into it as I once was, I guess getting older makes it easier to realize faults in stuff, it was addictive when I first saw it. When I was just getting into tokusatsu, I tried to grab batch torrents of Sentai but could only find them for this "weird Kamen Rider thing" at the time, so I grabbed all of Faiz and blew through it in something like three days. It's not high art, but it's got that pop mentality that makes it an easily devourable show due to the admittedly shallow drama in it.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

However I absolutely love characters and seeing them develop is what I love.

If you love watching characters grow, GARO is for you. It's all about the characters, even more than Rider.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Locke

If you love watching characters grow, GARO is for you. It's all about the characters, even more than Rider.

Ah okay well I'll give it another episode tonight.

GARO Episode 2: Much better than the first one, it went by really fast to me which was good. I'm liking the developing relationship of Kouga and Kaoru. This feels more action based to me while Kamen Rider felt more story than action. I'm going to keep going with this for the time being.

GARO Episode 3: If there are more episodes like this, I'll like this series a whole lot. More character quirks about Kouga this episode, and I love he believes it's his duty to protect humans. I love Knights and super heroes so this is awesome. I also love Kouga in his own world personality because that's how I am a lot of times too. Since it's a short series I am going to continue with it while I decide on my next Kamen Rider.

[Locke]

Kouga is a really fascinating character, especially as the series progresses. It would be spoiler territory to really explain why, but there is an interesting twist on the things he holds as truths later in the series, which permeates through the show. That never really changes how you see him, exactly, but it adds a lot of depth to the way his kind of character is usually played.

[SPLIT LIP]

What's the first season of Garo called, exactly? There's a lot of Garo's on Youtube...

[XW1n5t0nX]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

What's the first season of Garo called, exactly? There's a lot of Garo's on Youtube...

The first season is just called Garo.