Garo Red Requiem Blu-Ray

[Inui Takumi]

That is just it, for a movie, this should have been a high budget tv episode, instead, it felt like a pilot to the series. Look at the CGI when Garo is fighting the bull-like Horror towards the beginning of the movie. The CGI on his costume looks like something out of an X-Box game. The TV series may not have had the greatest CGI ever at times, but it was far better than anything during that fight scene. Garo just looked so out of place with the background that you could tell that green screened him in there. It also does not help that the battle was boring.

As for the last fight Inui, it was the best because it was the only fight that felt like Garo. This is a show that gave us the most amazing battles such as Zero vs Garo down the side of a building, Kiba vs Garo on a disc throughout the sky, and the horizontal battle in the forest form the white knight special. The one thing Garo has always had was choreography and epic battle sequences with a grand score to go with it. This movie had none of those except for the final one, which still only had the epic battle sequences. It was still missing the other two. In fact, as far as the score is concerned, only the score during the credits even felt energetic.

Back on the subject of the Makai Priests, what was their purpose anyway? The old dude did nothing but whine about his wife and daughter and then sacrifice himself. The young dude just stood in the background half the time and did absolutely nothing except to say that the Horror location has been found.

I also did not like how they changed Kouga's father's actor to the chief from Ryuki.

I don't think as much of it was CGI as you think, though there are some shots that look suspicious. Either way, that doesnt matter too much. there was a high chance the CG in this was gonna suck anyway, considering the CG in the series sucked too. We should be used to that by now, as a lot of Toku CGI is questionable in general.

As far as fights go, I can see your point about having unique and dynamic battle grounds for great choreographed battles and the lack of it here. But I still didn't think the choreography was too bad, just lacked a bit of energy at times. And like Hell Kaiser said, I prefer the out-of-suit battles in Garo as opposed to the in-suit-battles most of the time anyway.

And I dont think that guy was Kouga's father. He was Rekka's father who trained Kouga to be a Makai Knight after his father died. That's why he said he heard the music that Rekka was playing while he was injured. Her father showed him that song when he was younger.

 

[Juspion]

Like most people, I like the out of suit fight better. Most of the in suit are too short and pretty much make the knights a God Mode, with the exception of the battle between Garo and Zero (both the building fight and the fight after Jabi appear) and anything involving the Madou Horses.

 

[Switchblade]

Just finished watching the sub and I have to say i liked it. While it was overall below par for the series, I still found it quite enjoyable. The story was solid, the designs were great (I loved that Horror at the beginning - it was ridiculous but still visually stunning), and the fights were, well, okay. The action choreography definitely was not up to the show's heights - one of my friends who I hooked on Garo blames the 3D and I suspect she may be right. It wasn't bad or anything, but it really felt slow - especially the Rekka/Shion fight. The CG did feel like a step up from the series, though, and I thought the last fight was pretty well done, as far as Garo vs. gigantic naked women with CGI blade effects goes, at least.

More than anything, the movie did a good job of whetting my appetite for more Garo. I'm even more pumped for the Kiba movie and new series now, if such a thing was possible.

 

[Juspion]

The 3D is quite enjoyable if you watch it in 3DTV, the scene with the flying shards was great. The CGI wasn't that bad IMO, I don't get why people said it sucked. Both the TV series and movie had better CGI than most tokusatsu except Ultraman.

 

[Dr Kain]

Like most people, I like the out of suit fight better. Most of the in suit are too short and pretty much make the knights a God Mode, with the exception of the battle between Garo and Zero (both the building fight and the fight after Jabi appear) and anything involving the Madou Horses.

Well that is what I love about it. It makes me think of the Devil Trigger mode in Devil May Cry.

 

[Forever Knight]

I'll eventually pick this one up. How was the picture quality?.

 

[Juspion]

Well that is what I love about it. It makes me think of the Devil Trigger mode in Devil May Cry.

Are you talking about the more longer and dynamic fight like the building fight or the short fights? Because the short fight are nowhere near as awesome as the Devil Trigger mode.

BTW, this is the 1st week DVD and BD sales results:
DVD: #26 in DVD ranking with 3,388 copies sold
3D Blu-ray+2D Blu-ray combo: #12 in BD ranking with 2,247 copies sold
Complete Box: #6 in BD ranking with 4,734 copies sold

 

[Dr Kain]

That title is really misleading. When I saw it say Complete Box last month, I thought it meant the entire series was being released on BD. Then it turns out it is just a box that is the 2 BD discs and the DVD discs. Talk about lame. Sure, the art book and story board books would have been cool, but they were not worth the additional $100 it would have cost.

 

[Juspion]

It also has a special feature disc not available on the other ones (The regular DVD edition is a single disc and doesn't include the special feature disc) and a B2 size poster for the first pressing. The box art alone make it worth the price. It's called GARO RED REQUIEM Complete Box, so I don't think it's misleading in any way considering they added the Red Requiem subtitle when first announcing it on the official website and in amazon listing. It's a different story if they just called it "GARO Complete Box" without adding the red requiem subtitle.

 

[coco]

I just finished watching the movie and it's horrible.
The only good thing about it was the final fight and even that wasn't great.

Is the movie made by the same people who worked on the show? cause it doesn't look like it is.
It looks like someone was trying to imitate the show but failed miserably.

I don't know where to start with this mess
here are some points:
-Bad writing
How many times did they have to say to each other "don't do anything rash" ?
Zaruba suggesting that Kouga should have a good time with some hoes while Karma is in the next room.
Kouga angry that Rekka is fighting innocents when she was actually defending herself :rolleyes2:

-Bad acting
Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka Rekka
she was so bad even for toku standards.

-Bad action scenes
They seemed to lack energy, it felt like it was a rehearsal and not the final cut.

-Bad CGI
Yes I know that this is a toku film, but the CGI was worse than the show.

-The big bad of the story looking like a Drag queen/5 year old pageant girl and then turning into Sirene from Devilman :laugh:

-The extremely cheap opening credits with the ugly women.

Hopefully the 2nd season will make up for this sorry excuse of a movie.