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The DOUGAI RYUGA era

GARO: Yami wo Terasu Mono (2013)

The current Golden Knight is DOUGAI RYUGA. Equipped with an armour that has lost it's Golden Light, and ZARUBA refusing to acknowledge him, RYUGA comes to VOL CITY, which is infested with HORRORS, only to learn the orders came from his old mentor, the Priest BURAI, who he resents. Nonetheless he finds himself fighting the HORRORS alongside BURAI's pupil, RIAN, and Makai Knights JAKUZURE TAKERU, the Flame Blade Knight ZEN, and KUSUGAMI AGURI, the Sky Bow Knight GUY, while contending with RYUGA being hunted by the SG-1 security forces lead by ENHOU, and the discovery that Madou HORRORs, exist, born even from people who should not have become HORRORS, and for some reason when struck by GARO these Madou HORRORS let off a golden glow that briefly restores the light to the armour.

OP: Theme of Yami wo Terasu Mono, Isshoku ~Trigger of Crisis~ by JAM Project

ED: So Long by Burai actor Otomo Kohei, PLATONIC by JAM Project feat Okui Masami, Brave Heart by Otomo Kohei

Other Music: Bright Hope by Shin

CR GARO Konjiki ni Nare (2014)

Reflecting on RYUGA's disparate journey so far, this includes two sets of battles, one focused on Shikoku GARO and one on Konjiki GARO.

Features the JAM Project original Name is GARO ~Komyo no Shisha~

GARO GOLDSTORM Sho (2015)

A movie followup followed by a full series. 2 years after the events of VOL CITY, RYUGA and RIAN come to LINE CITY, and help legendary Makai Priestess RYUME and criminal elements D RINGO and YUKIHIME deal with the Rogue Madou Tool AGOU.

Subsequently, the pair, their new allies and others, come together to prevent the resurrection of Castle RADAN at the behest of the HORRORS JINGA and AMILY

OP: Opening THEME OF ~GOLDSTORM Sho~, GOLD STORM, EMERGE ~Shikkoku no Tsubasa~ by JAM Project.

ED: GOLD STORM Sho ~The Ending Theme~, PRAYERS by Makai Kagekidan, Guren Bakuran by Makai Kagekidan

Other: Aishu no Rinbu by Makai Kagekidan.

Makai Kagekidan is a unit formed of REKKA, RYUME, YUKIHIME and ANNA, and produced team GAJARI (Amemiya Keita, Kageyama Hironobu, Okui Masami)

CR GARO GOLDSTORM Sho (2017)

As with the previous machine, content is split between Shikoku GARO and GARO Sho. This machine started the ongoing tradition of machines featuring the sacred beasts.

Features Okui Masami's Honoo ~Yami no Hishou~ HIKAGE

GARO -KAMINOKIBA MEZAME- (2017)

A stage prelude to the film JINGA's revival in Makai sees a Makai Knight seek to destroy him as revenge for his actions.

GARO -KAMINOKIBA- (2018)

RYUGA and RIAN reunite with TAKERU and AGURI, coming together to stop a HORROR conspiracy to awaken the legendary KAMINOKIBA, a scheme that receives RYUGA's greatest enemy.

OP: KAMINOKIBA ~The Fang of Apocalypse~ by JAM Project

ED: Izayoi no Ukari Uta -ENDING SIDE- by Rinza actress Sasaki Sayaka, in her first Live-action contribution. An insert version was performed by Okui Masami.

P GARO GOLD IMPACT (2023)

This machine appears to have been delayed considerably, presumably owing to the legal issues with Tsunenori Aoki, who seems to have any footage using the actor cut from the finished product. Any later and footage of Ikeda Junya would have had to be cut too.

Features new songs from JAM Project, -KAI-, and from Endo Masaki, SHINING HOPE GARO

GARO: HAGANE wo Tsugu Mono (2024)

For DOUGAI RYUGA's tenth anniversary, he is called to CREACITY by Makai Priestess MUTSUGI to assist herself, her pupil KOYORI, and local Makai Knight, SHIRAHANE SOUMA, who wears a HAGANE, in investigating activity surrounding the GATE of DESTRUCTION that sleeps beneath the city. RYUGA also takes a vested interested in helping SOUMA find his way, owing a debt to SOUMA's missing father, SHIRAHANE GODOU, the Light Slash Knight ZANGO.

OP: GARO Hagane wo Tsugu Mono With JAM Project

ED: Sora wa kegarenaki Shura no Namida, Ran, both by JAM Project

The Era of MIKAGE JINGA

Kami no Kiba -JINGA- (2018)

An unknown era following KAMINOKIBA, MIKAGE JINGA, the Shining Shadow Knight ROZE, is struggling with the weight of hia duty, having had to cut down his Horror-turned father, he works with Madou Ring ARUBA, his Priestess partner FUSA, and tries to train his brother TOUMA, when a Horror Bite awakens a mysterious power, the seeming ability to cut down Horrors but save the possessed human. As he endeavours to use this power to save every human, Watchdog KELS begins investigating his abilities, and JINGA starts making inexplicable actions he doesn't seem to recall, and witnesses a mysterious doppelganger.

OP: Dokoku no Kanata by JAM Project.

Kami no Kiba -JINGA- Tensei (2019)

A second stage production set during the events of the series. As the servants of the HORROR TOMINO investigate what has happened to JINGA, trainee Makai Priestess Tomoha has an experience where she is saved by JINGA, and later comes into contact with MIKAGE JINGA, and struggles to understand the difference between the two.

Guide to GARO: Reintroduction

Approximately 4 years ago, I initiated a series of posts introducing every aspect of the GARO Franchise (all under the GARO tag here) and have endeavoured to keep these up over the years over some 30-40 posts. However, the first major media development since then has recently finished, and while I have already covered it, I felt updating the Introductory post was prudent, and will cover the basics and breakdown the franchise.

The Basics

"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, mankind was given hope."

In the world of GARO exists HORRORS, demonic entities from the Makai Realm, which consume humans, and can possess those who do all to darkness. When possessing a human a Horror can only be identified by the reaction of it's eyes to a Madou Flame. The only thing stopping the Horrors are the Makai Order.

The greatest opposition comes in the for of the Makai Knights, warriors who fight with weapons and magical, wolf-shaped armour made of mystical Soul Metal, the armour summoned by creating circles of light with their weapons which the armour emerges from. The most revered, and commonly considered the strongest Knight is the Golden Knight GARO. While the Knights focused on in a series are normally titles Knights with a unique armour, many Knights are without title and possess a generic armour. An Armour and Title will typically be passed down from father to son, or master to student. Due either to a law or some other factor, women may not be Makai Knights

The other main opponents to the Horrors are the Makai Priests, who rely on spells either using their Madou Brushes or other magical items. Due to lacking armour, in combat Makai Priests may sometimes have to rely on magical familiars, or specialised Madou Tools created by subjugating Horrors.

Some titled Makai Knights are partnered with special Madougu, sentient jewelry acting as avatars for benign Horrors to communicate with a Makai Knight they are contracted to, offering insights on the Horrors they fight or helping detect their activities, GARO's eternal partner is the Madou Ring, Zaruba, the only character to have definitively appeared in live action and animation. The prevalence of Madougu partners varies wildly by era, being almost universal among titled Titles Knights at some points, and virtually unheard of in others.

Certain Makai Knights can, after sealing 100 Horrors, be given a challenge the completion of which allows them the use of a Madou Horse associates with their armour.

Dependent on the era, Makai Order members act in their own volition, under the guidance in senior Makai Priests, or under the auspices of Watchdogs who oversee activity within a territory.

A common but not universal feature of the franchise are Dark Makai Knights, who have fallen to darkness in some way. This has been done in so many different ways I won't go into it. Dark Makai Priests have also appeared, but are less common. Another common feature is acquiring a special transformation for the final battle that is typically seen as a one-off.

Rather than list every entry in release order, I will be breaking my introductions into eras, some of which can be further divided. In essence though, there are 2 distinct eras, plus a few extra, and the anime.

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