"Where there is light..." | The Horror of 牙狼 - GARO - 

Some might know of my old Garo retrospective video, but this is a brand new video made from the ground up, now with a ton more production information and less story beats.

7:08. "Episodic doesn't mean Filler". I am so glad someone else understands this. Nowadays way too many associate Episodic storytelling with being packed with filler and not worth watching. We need more Episodic shows in modern times and Garo really nails that balance between Episodic and Serialized.

The watchdog's butler is now one of the cast in the Netflix John Wick spinoff, things sure had come a long way for musashi

Ultraman is the light, and Garo is the darkness

Garo became my favorite Toku series the moment I watched its few episodes. I was a college student by that time and "Toku for Adults? Count me in!" I thought.

The French word for werewolf is (loup garou) so it's a neat detail that you mentioned it.

The transformers animated Japanese dub opening theme “Transformers EVO“ is one of my favorites by Jim project. I will never get tired of it. That’s how good it is.

The franchise is the Uchuu Keiji version of the Exorcist, from how they summoned their armor, the Knight and Priest dynamic in the RyugaVerse, and the monster in a human skin gimmick.

I was hooked on Garo since first seeing it and absolutely love watching. An episode that lives rent free in my head is the human trying to kill Koga for the death of his daughter and the monologue he gives about Koga just wanting to kill. Also I think it’s interesting how Garo has more anime adaptations than Kamen Rider at this point.

My absolute favorite tokusatsu series of all time. All the series are fun in their own way. They have this distinct feel that no other toku has, very alluring to me. Maybe its from one of my first snes games I played that Keita worked on called Hagane 🤷🏿‍♂️

Masahiro Inoue's Jinga makes me fall in love with the Garo-verse...

Garo is by far one of if not my favorite Toku Show. Its great to know more about what happened in production.

As animation is a medium for storytelling not a genre, such is the same for tokusatsu. If you have people that really love the story they are telling you can create an amazing thing.

I only knew Garo from the anime's so this video has made me very interested in it. Thanks for another great video Marco!

Even though I never watched the GARO series (until watching this video), I remembered playing the PS2 game that was based on it.

Ray Fujita is also a musician, really great songs.

Garo has always attracted me, despite not being much of a tokusatsu person, I do recall an anime that takes place in medieval europe... not that I can say much how it fare compared to the live action series but I do recall it being a thing. By the way I think there's a mix up with the french term werewolf and well... wolf, in french it's "loup" for wolf so my guess is that it's meant to be garo from "loup-garou" as the "were" of the werewolf, gotta love readying a bit too much into the creativity for naming and mixing/coincidences in other languages.

Pretty sure the US Garo Blu Rays have been out of print for a few years. From memory, there's still stock available of most of what they released (up to and including the 2nd season) but Season 1 Part 1 hasn't been available for years.

It’s funny that you post this at the same time/on the same day as I’m finishing The Makai Flower, then I’ll be on to Zero: Dragon Blood. I’ve been binging the GARO franchise and I’m nearly done, I feel it’s an underrated toku (probably because it’s adult-oriented and not well know unlike the big three of Ultra, Rider and Sentai)

Garo is such an awesome unique Toku show. Awesome video, glad u talking about it 😆

Can't wait for your video on Makai senki and the next season.

My favorite Tokusatsu, i'm love GARO.

This is nice, great time for the new upcoming series

What a nice video to have for Halloween

I am so sad i missed the original drop for this video. GARO is like my guilty pleasure toku to watch. So much so i have been wanting to use alot of prefabs i have seen online and make an avatar outfit for vrchat for myself. Thank you so much for giving this show your review style. I can't wait for the next one.

nostalgia hits hard sometimes.

When I Watch Garo For First Time Ep 1-5 It Blow Mind, I Have Fun Enjoy It.

Nice work on the video! I've recently been delving into Garo myself (Both the original 1st season and Heir to Steel Armor by the time of this comment) and I have to say, it's really a breath of fresh air after years of watching the usual Big 3 Tokusatsu heroes lol 😂 The first time I got to know Garo was from a now-defunct local magazine simply called as "Henshin!". I have to say, I was utterly fascinated by Garo's armor, as well as Zero and Garo's Gouten. They all look just REALLY different from the usual Tokusatsu heroes, especially with how ornate their designs are and I LOVE IT. Not only that, I believe Toku actors like Masahiro Inoue (who played as both Decade and Jinga/Roze) also played a part in pulling me into the Garo rabbit hole, or rather wolf den lol 😂 Now that the Kouga-verse has pretty much been completed (unless there might be possible crossover events), all that's left are the Ryuga-verse and VR-verse for the live action series. That being said, speaking of VR-verse, I wish that there'd be a 2nd season where we could get to see the Garo VR armor being used more (including having a LIVE SUIT), whether Sena would find another reason to fight or have someone else with a bigger resolve wear the armor.

I didn't know about the blue ray release, now I can finally have any merch from my favorite toku shows

I’m so glad I dipped into the Garo series, I only saw a brief scene of it from an old anime store ( which sadly went out of business) that was playing one of the episodes when I was like 9 or 10

The Ps2 game is the one that got me into watching the series. Looking back on it now, it really does depict the show very well and I'm so glad i got to play such an obscure but really fun hack and slash!

Imo jam project's best work is the stuff they've done for the Getter Robo franchise. Heats, Storm, Dragon, and Bloodlines are ALL bangers.

I wouldn’t mind a High & Low video, it has been my favorite movie since the first time I saw it.

Ahhh, the mostly independent toku franchise owned and made by a single man maintaining his own vision.... and pachinko.

I’d love to watch Garo legally. What? The first half of the first season is impossible to find without shelling out your life savings? It’s only for the Kouga-verse? How about the animé? Huh? The license expired? There’s only the last one behind Crunchyroll premium? Hmmm, anyways 🏴‍☠️

Advance into the blackest night, Makai Knights

Ultraman Noa is such a cool design

I stumbled on Garo by pure accident back then. I wish I had the first series on bluray but its been impossible to find. I wish the episodes the Garo channel had english subs. I want ALL my friends to know about this amazing show

One of my favorite sets of shows. All around amazing. ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC. Loved the movies, especially with hammy Jinga played by Mr. Deecccccccaaaaaddddo. Though the Jinga series was a bit meh, the ending however was HOLYCRAP....

Watched this show when I was a kid, literally 🔥🔥

The pianist who was the fiancee of the finger-collecting Horror was also in a bunch of other KR series, like Ryuki. I recognize him most as Bando from Gaim and Mishima from Kabuto, though

I saw the first two episodes of chapter of the black wolf and I can see the appeal. I'll probably get to this a whole one day but for now I'm finishing the animes.

Hey marcosatsu I Love garo❤

regarding the FFXIV you can get cosmetic versions of the all the armors from the golden saucer, that's what I was doing during the last time i had subscription to it

Garo’s civilian form looks like he was cribbing on Kaiba.

Marko, how do you write so well? How long does it take? and do you work with other creators to make this possible? I'm genuinely curious, I love your Toku videos.

*The golden bat spirit lives on.*

Garo is my favorite tokusatsu franchise of all times with Ultraman follwoing close behind.

Can't wait for the Makai Senki!

If I recall the in story reason why women can't be Makai Knights, is that one of the armors were made to fit a woman and they lost the process to make more. Still kind of dumb, but at least it's an explanation that doesn't make the ladies look unworthy of the job.

guy in the thumbnail looks like light yagami

Alternate title goldon dogge defends he attacks but most importantly he got everyone's back

damnit Marcos I want to sleep

I am a fan of the mini-series that introduced Crow

I just realized, the amazing world of gumball did a garo reference

the reason why woman cant be maki knight in Garo lore is that when maki armor were originally created for men and the way creating new maki armor was lost to time so maki armor need to be passed down from a maki knight to his son or be chosen by the blade to become a maki knight if you watch zero black blood there is a character in the show who try to use her father sword but every time she try to whiled it cause here extreme pain also watch Garo: The Animation this show also give you a reason why woman cant be maki knight.

GARO to this day still remains my favorite toku series of all time. I will be one of the first to admit not all of it is perfect (because good lord it isn't XD) but the show really is committed to being "art". Also, in regards to the FF14 GARO armors, you can buy non dyeable versions at the Gold Saucer. But PVP gives you currency whether you win or lose so... Get it while you can while it's still around... Getting the horses? Yeah, THAT is the real problem XD

Was this made because of the announcement of a new GARO series?

I kinda get a lion vibe more from Garo's armor then a wolf. Zero/Rei's armor looks more wolf themed to me. Just my opinion still enjoyed the video

Where can I find this GARO?

You can't get the first half of the first TV series in Blu-ray in the US. It went out of production iirc.

Rei is also a musician.

we do need more toku (yes, the ultraman, kamen rider and super sentai is great but you know what i mean). Garo the animation and Jinga is still my favourite among Garo franchise. not yet watch versus road, dam.

While I don’t know how long they’ll still be there the garo and ffxiv collab is back currently and by my guess will still be there till at least next summer when the next expansion comes out

Hey,I have a question,what ever happened to your Korean dubs of super sentai video? Was it copyright?

Garo is a Tokusatsu drama not suitable for younger audiences not only because of its serious conversations and complex plot but also because it depicts a lot of horror scenes, violence, gory content and nudity. I've watched adult-oriented dramas such as Kamen Rider Black Sun, Kamen Rider Amazon and Garo. They have one thing in common, they are made into adults-only drama on purpose by incorporating a lot of mature elements such as bloody content, violence and depiction of sexuality. Meanwhile, a lot of other Tokusatsu series are titled Targeted To Children which includes some Ultraman series that have modified conversations, simplified plots, as well as repetitive identical transformations and final finishers. These contents usually appear boring to an adult viewer. An excellent drama should be appealing to audiences of all age groups. The ideal Tokusatsu series should convey positive themes and audiences from all age groups enjoy watching. In this kind of series, adult audiences enjoy the plot, characters and art of the special effects, while minor audiences are more interested in the hero’s shiny forms, intense fighting and brilliant finishers.

Just finished the first season of GARO recently. As a long time tokusatsu fan who grew with it (starting with Dyna), GARO had been on my watchlist for quite some time. Read a simple premise of it beforehand and was already aware of it being more adult-oriented. Got mixed feeling about it; on one hand, the Makai Senshi concept is amazing, the costumes are way too good, the fight scenes are wonderful (especially the non-suit fight scenes!), and its opening theme by HIRONOBU FREAKING KAGEYAMA is absolutely one of the GOAT tokusatsu musics. On the other hand, as a drama, it's kinda bland most of the time. Back during the 1990 ~ 2000s, a standard episode of tokusatsu would usually not only include the weekly monster, but some short drama revolving the life of certain guest character(s) who would get involved with the monster, and GARO is weak when it comes to this. That being said, the story has this tendency to be really engaging whenever Kouga and Rei clash with each other especially during the battle on top of the skyscraper which goes in my personal list of favorite toku episodes. All in all, the first season of GARO isn't something I'd recommend if someone would ask for a more mature tokusatsu (that goes to Ultraman Nexus and Kamen Rider First-Next) but I did enjoy it.

can't wait for the new garo series, finally they are gonna to put an end to jinga

牙 : word meaning tooth/fang, not Hungry. but if combination of "Two different Word", can represent other meaning

What I have seen in the Garo series is Masked Rider Garo ep 1-25, season 2 Makai Battle Chronicle Makaisenki, ep 1-24, season 3 The One Who Shines in the Darkness ep 1-25, season 4 The Maki Flower Ep 1-25, Garo the movie, Garo the movie 2 Red Requiem and Garo Gaiden Togen No Fue the movie 3, and a special This is a box set I own 9 DVDs of the live-action series. Should Garo stay in the Japanese environment and stay out of the European or is the Maki Universe big enough for both of them East and West?

Is it just me or a certain white man mansion appears in so many tokusatsu show like in garo or decade's mansion of death

Oh and you didn’t mention the Garo anime

5:53 I thought Garo was a lion

The original release was in 480p. They started remaking the special effects for the hd release a few years ago. Certain special effects were too complicated or complex to spend the money to redo them. Which is why certain scenes the cgi doesn’t match the quality of the rest.

19:57 Kyamoto... did I say his name right? Whatever. Hes also appears in Kamen Rider Agito.

I know Soukoku no Maryuu was from the Makai Senki period, but I thought Tougen no Fue was the very last production before the Makai Senki time skip.

Was the dad's name actually taiga saejima? If so, damn that's crazy

Peak

My favorite Toku series 🎉

This was good.... Though I still wish you would finish up the Kamen Rider Heisei era first..... Oh well, still good though.....

I'm surprised that masahiro inoue was not only decade but also jinga and just to let you know that jinga kinda looks like vergil

27:52 ost?

I want to see you talk about Cutie Honey?

there are also 3 garo animes

I'm not even mad at this cgi , this looks really impressive 😮

Garo is my favorite Toku and have allot of intresting themes but the new ones are not for my liking. Also, waiting for you to say a word about Zero Dragon Blood.

14:12, Okay Taiga, the whole thing was YOUR fault since Kouga WASN'T trained for being a knight yet.

Can anyone help me find the whole garo series or at least the first show

i didnt watched anything after makai hana... versus road one or two episodes.....what?

wouldn't call GARO so small. Currently GARO might be equal to ULTRAMAN he has pretty expanded universe with new seasons released every year and anime spin offs

…you would…

And to think that this is all a modernization of Golden Bay, pretty weird eh?

Thank Garo for giving Japanese porn stars dramatic roles! ❤

Jesus christ ive never watched a video and have 4 ad interrupts in 15 minutes thats worse than cable dude.

Makes sense women can't be knights.

Garo should have an American adaptation