Toku Prime
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Episode 18: When the bad guy has to point out that your hero has changed form because you put no effort into it as it's only going to last two minutes. :redface2:
Herman the Tosser
New Member
I know this much about Goldstorm - it's the one toku show currently airing that I have consistently enjoyed every week. The other 3 aren't doing it for me in the same way. It's kinda breaking my heart seeing it pretty much flying under the radar like it is.
A HUGE part of the credit for how good the show is must go to Masahiro Inoue, who has played an absolute blinder as Zinga. He's really hamming it up, but in a way that totally works. I'm enjoying it all to the point of being sad when an episode ends, because I know that it means waiting a week for the next one. That's how I know this is doing it right.
More practical suit stuff wouldn't have gone amiss, but I'm glad that the "Shou" design exists as a real suit. I'm curious if the "new" blackened version from a couple of weeks ago also exists as a real suit or if that was CGI or recoloured in post. Looked tremendous though.
A HUGE part of the credit for how good the show is must go to Masahiro Inoue, who has played an absolute blinder as Zinga. He's really hamming it up, but in a way that totally works. I'm enjoying it all to the point of being sad when an episode ends, because I know that it means waiting a week for the next one. That's how I know this is doing it right.
More practical suit stuff wouldn't have gone amiss, but I'm glad that the "Shou" design exists as a real suit. I'm curious if the "new" blackened version from a couple of weeks ago also exists as a real suit or if that was CGI or recoloured in post. Looked tremendous though.
Herman the Tosser
New Member
After seeing Ladan turn into a mecha-castle with Rocket legs in the most recent episode it's time Amemiya put live-action Garo on hold for a year, and just did another mecha show like Tekkouki Mikazuki.
Also, Masahiro Inoue can play every toku villain in everything from now until the end of time.
Also, Masahiro Inoue can play every toku villain in everything from now until the end of time.
Toku Prime
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Well I'm not sure what that thing at the end with Ryuga and Rian catching that life force was. Is that the Makai version of the stork or something?
Neither was I entirely sure why Rian had a flashback of characters from the third season?
All in all I thought it turned out pretty well in the end. A slow start as always, Gald was an annoying cock for the first half, and I'm still not entirely sure what Yukihime brought to the series aside from mild fanservice, but I think Zinga is probably the most entertaining villain that the franchise has had, and Ladan was probably the first big evil to seem as powerful as Messiah which helped raise the stakes. The flying battle was all a bit 'Matrix Resolutions' but the giant Garo was really cool.
Well, two weeks until the next Garo anime begins. I'm not sure if there are any specials or anything in between or if that's it. But between this series and the first anime, I'm feeling more positive about Garo than I have for a while. :thumbs:
Neither was I entirely sure why Rian had a flashback of characters from the third season?
All in all I thought it turned out pretty well in the end. A slow start as always, Gald was an annoying cock for the first half, and I'm still not entirely sure what Yukihime brought to the series aside from mild fanservice, but I think Zinga is probably the most entertaining villain that the franchise has had, and Ladan was probably the first big evil to seem as powerful as Messiah which helped raise the stakes. The flying battle was all a bit 'Matrix Resolutions' but the giant Garo was really cool.
Well, two weeks until the next Garo anime begins. I'm not sure if there are any specials or anything in between or if that's it. But between this series and the first anime, I'm feeling more positive about Garo than I have for a while. :thumbs:
Herman the Tosser
New Member
As for the flashbacks of Burai, Enhou and Hakana, I just thought it was just her thinking she was going to die and having a "Life flash before the eyes" moment.
This has honestly been the best season of Garo since Makai Senki for me. It had the ongoing story thing that Shines did, but with the Amemiya touch that was definitely missing from that season, and I just like that Ryuga isn't a "perfect" Makai Knight. That was a problem I had with flower in retrospect - Raiga was a bit too perfect and a bit too flawless.
There were things that were simply not picked up on in the end. Daigo's first meeting with Ryuga and Rian, he says something about how Rian is going to disgrace Ryuga in some way - I honestly thought that was hinting that maybe Rian was going to end up as a Horror, or even with the things that Zinga was saying early on seemed to indicate one of them was going to have that moment of darkness that turns them. Instead we got a swish new update of the "lost shine" armor as a power-up of sorts. I saw some BTS pics somewhere and that was seemingly another physical suit, which is cool if it was. And then UltraGaro for the finale.
I still stand by what I said and I want a new Amemiya mecha show. Imagine the robot designs AND the monsters!
This has honestly been the best season of Garo since Makai Senki for me. It had the ongoing story thing that Shines did, but with the Amemiya touch that was definitely missing from that season, and I just like that Ryuga isn't a "perfect" Makai Knight. That was a problem I had with flower in retrospect - Raiga was a bit too perfect and a bit too flawless.
There were things that were simply not picked up on in the end. Daigo's first meeting with Ryuga and Rian, he says something about how Rian is going to disgrace Ryuga in some way - I honestly thought that was hinting that maybe Rian was going to end up as a Horror, or even with the things that Zinga was saying early on seemed to indicate one of them was going to have that moment of darkness that turns them. Instead we got a swish new update of the "lost shine" armor as a power-up of sorts. I saw some BTS pics somewhere and that was seemingly another physical suit, which is cool if it was. And then UltraGaro for the finale.
I still stand by what I said and I want a new Amemiya mecha show. Imagine the robot designs AND the monsters!
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scikaiju
Guest
Finished Garo Goldstorm last night. It was a pretty decent series, and the most story driven of any Garo I've seen. I did like the back story of the villians and the new characters they brought in were kind of interesting for the most part. although i do wonder if this is the end of Ryuga's story.
Toku Prime
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Well I thought about that but it makes for kind of a rubbish "flashing before her eyes" if she isn't actually re-living anything (especially when you'd think Ryuga would be a major part of it). It did occur to me since my last post that perhaps she's meant to be having a vision of departed friends (all three characters are dead) waiting to welcome her in the afterlife? Even so, seemed rather odd and vague.
