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Oct 10, 2015 1:32 AM
#1
Ep 1 Although I'd grown attached to the characters from the last season, its good that they are trying something new with this franchise. Seimei is definitely the most interesting character is this series by far. The 2 male MC's are rather boring in comparison, hopefully they get a little more fleshed out later in the season. Looks like this is going to be following the same episodic formula as the last season and we got another main villain. He seems kinda boring right now, but hopefully he also gets fleshed out. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:43 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Oct 10, 2015 9:40 AM
#2
Episode 1 Yeah, I'll try not to judge too harshly since it is only the first episode. The horror designs were as nice as always. Some of the animations were really nice as well. Seimei pretty much won best character by default as the two male MCs did not inspire much enthusiasm from me. Kintoki was downright annoying actually. Raikou was just kind of plain/generic, for now anyway. Like you said though, hopefully everyone gets fleshed out in the future episodes. I've got a feeling I'm going to really dislike Kintoki though. |
Oct 14, 2015 10:32 AM
#3
Episode 1: Design/animation-wise, it looks like they're going for a hybrid between the last season of Garo and Shingeki no Bahamut. Most of the face shots looked distinctly Satou Keiichi-esque. Yeah, I'm not putting my expectations too high for this season if I'm honest. All I'm hoping for is a reasonably entertaining, nice-looking romp with not too many clichés, and I should be pretty happy. :3 |
Oct 16, 2015 6:23 PM
#4
Episode 2 Garo, what have they done to you? That was even worse than the first episode, imo. The flashback sequence there was kind of neat. I like what they are trying to do with the teamwork aspects. Like how they had Kintoki confirm the horror takeover with his device. They seem to have a lot more technology to combat horrors which is a cool aspect. However, they aren't expanding on this enough yet. Umm, Kintoki had far less lines and didn't come across as annoying as he did the first episode. That may be the only parts I really liked about this episode. Seimei was not exactly the character I thought she was going to be. In the first half of the episode anyway. She felt like the typical shounen MC only female. Second half she was back to her badass and interesting self from the first episode. Still love watching her in combat. However, we saw tsundere traits complete with slapstick aggression and jealousy for not "turning on" a random dude. Not to mention the comedy skit moments contrasting her and golden knight's personalities. A couple face-palm moments in those. The Golden Knight dude might be the worst of them all. He was all over the place. He went from determined obedient knight to shounen mc clown to tortured melodramatic soul to authoritative badass. Also, I hope some of the writing in this episode was just my subs. At the beginning of the episode he spits out this gem of a line, out of the blue, after being summoned to the Watchdog Center, "This Eastern Watchdog Center is where Makai Knights and Maikai Alchemists of the capital gather. Do you have some information on a horror?" The fuck? Is this the same writer or...? There were some other lines, but that one really jumped out at me. Hopefully, it was the subs. Also, the "twist" at the end of the episode had zero impact on me. It had little build-up and was revealed very nonchalantly. Maybe it was because I was already upset with the episode, idk. I'm probably being overly critical of this, but the first season was really good. I thought it wouldn't be as good as the first, but this is worse than I imagined so far. Curious as to what everyone else thought of this episode. |
KingYoshiOct 16, 2015 6:30 PM
Oct 17, 2015 8:58 PM
#5
Ep 2 Yeah the characters were very inconsistent this episode. Especially Seiemi, I can't believe she was acting so immaturely. Kintoki was alright this episode though. Also wow... I know it was a flashback he lost control of his armor only in the 2nd episode holy shit our MC has some serious problems. I really don't feel like he is capable of doing much of anything without Seimei supporting him. Also I kind of find it weird that the sword isn't a katana when he transforms? Yeah hopefully this series improves a little over time... cause I'm not really feeling it right now. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:43 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Oct 18, 2015 2:25 PM
#6
Episode 2: @Yoshi: It wasn't just the subs, unfortunately. :| The animation was distinctly worse this episode from the first episode, right? I'm not crazy, right? I was looking at it like, hang on, MAPPA, were you drunk this episode?Why the sudden decrease in literally every area of production including writing etc lol? |
Oct 24, 2015 3:46 AM
#7
Ep 3 Seimei is one cheeky lady lol. Raikou is still fairly useless without Seimei's help. Also looks like the Minamoto family is going to come after Raikou for the Golden Armor. Didn't really get what was going on with the villain this ep, I was kinda spacing out near the end lol. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:44 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Oct 25, 2015 4:03 AM
#8
Oct 31, 2015 3:23 AM
#9
Ep 4 Nice take on the Kaguya story. I gotta say Takahata did a much better job than this though lol. I wonder if any of the other stories were based on famous folktales. Nice twist too that it ended up being the parents who were the horrors. Greed and lust are terrible things. Not really much going on in the character development front, I guess Kintoki is at least a lot less annoying and more useful now since he can detect horrors. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:44 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Nov 1, 2015 4:36 AM
#10
Episode 4: Found it really sad that the parents become the Horrors. Poor things. I don't know if the other stories were based on folktales or not, but I didn't recognise them if that's anything. I'm not an expert by any means though of course xD Kintoki could always detect Horrors tbf, so I still think he's a bit annoying xD I don't mind him really though, so it's fine, and hopefully he'll grow on me more! |
Nov 4, 2015 7:33 PM
#11
Episode 3 Just finished the episode and can barely remember what happened. The horrors at the end resembled the long nose depiction of Tengu. The horror designs are still cool at least. Episode 4 I liked this episode better than the last. The ending to the episode was kind of lame though. Kaguya still didn't find her redemption with little other explanation besides, "just because." The fight at the end was over too fast as well. I liked the hedgehog-like horror created once the two parents combined. It didn't get much screen time before being defeated though. Such a shame. |
Nov 7, 2015 4:10 AM
#12
Nov 8, 2015 12:24 PM
#13
Ep 5 Wasn't particularly fond of this episode, didn't feel like much happened, honestly I barely remember what happened. Yeah Hakamadare wasn't bad, Kosode was interesting as well. I swear almost every interesting side character turn into a horror in this show lol. Also noticed the OP was a female version this time instead of a male singer. Seimei being cheeky as always lol. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:44 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Nov 15, 2015 1:42 AM
#14
Ep 6 I guess it's gonna be all female singer OP from now on. Seimei... this lady really knows no bounds. I get that shes helping out the kid out financially but that's no moral excuse to have him steal for her. The dragon horror felt super anti-climatic. Like what was the point of telling that whole story about like 6 Makai Knights having to seal it or w.e if the MC is going to just kill the horror in one slash? Well of course he had Semei's help, so it's not like he did it alone. I'm starting to feel like shes's just really OP. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:44 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Nov 15, 2015 2:32 AM
#15
Episode 6: Basically, the major problem with this season of Garo as opposed to the first season is that we have no fucking reason to have any real stake in the main three characters. And, then, like battosai pointed out, in episode 5 comment, all the interesting side characters turn into Horrors xD;; SO, LIKE, WHY SHOULD WE CARE, SHOW CREATORS? I don't even have hopes for Hakamadare any more since it seems they basically palette-changed not only his entire character design but personality too. |
Nov 21, 2015 6:24 AM
#16
Nov 23, 2015 10:33 PM
#17
Ep 7 Cliche backstory is cliche. Yeah this season is really going off the rails, it's kinda sad considering how great the first one was. Anyone else find it just a little messed up that she turned her mom into a vehicle (Madou Tool or w.e it's called)? =/ Also Raikou is never going to become independent if Seimei keeps his ring sealed. I don't see the point in not allowing Raikou to transform freely. It just kind of feels like a dick move on Seimei's part, especially after that guy went to the trouble of un-sealing it. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:44 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Nov 28, 2015 12:46 PM
#18
Ep 8 Looks like we're going to go through the backstories of all the characters now. Raikou's was a lot more decent than Seimei's IMO. Still pretty cliche and I haven't gotten over the fact that she made her mom into a Madou Tool... Nice to finally know what was really going on between him and his little brother though. I guess Kintoki's next. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:44 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Dec 1, 2015 12:12 PM
#19
Dec 5, 2015 11:51 PM
#20
Ep 9 Aww no Kintoki backstory... well I guess hes kind of young to have one. I feel like they were forcing the "motherly" role on Seimei this episode. I mean I get that Raikou owes her a lot of she does take care of him to a degree, but I just can't see her in that role. That old guy... was pretty creepy and she pretty much said that he sexually abused her and yeah that whole thing made the encounter with him super awkward... Well atleast he gave her name and training and stuff and Raikou being corrupted again lol. |
LoneWolfDec 19, 2015 12:45 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Dec 11, 2015 2:52 AM
#21
Episode 9: LOLOLOLOL @ THE BUDGET-SAVING THIS EPISODE Tbf, Kintoki's not too young to have a backstory I think - he's not aged in a couple of decades or something, right...? Did they actually kill the Horror that took the armour's light? Or is that something that might come back? Well, either way, it was a mildly interesting diversion. :3 |
Dec 13, 2015 2:30 AM
#22
Dec 19, 2015 10:01 AM
#23
Dec 20, 2015 9:26 PM
#24
Ep 10-11 Yeah not really much to say for episode 10, kind of the typical episodic setup for the show. Ep 11 was a game changer though, finally a new Makai Knight. Love the armor design too, definitely more of an "eastern" feel compared to the golden armor which looks kinda too western for a Japanese setting. Hakamadare seems like he's a much more interesting character than Raikou and his power isn't completely controlled by Seimei. Hopefully he brings some new life to the series... its' gonna be 2 cour so hopefully it turns around in the 2nd half, but so far I've been fairly unimpressed with this show. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Dec 26, 2015 2:10 AM
#25
Dec 29, 2015 12:39 PM
#26
Ep 12 Lol this actually wasn't bad, I don't tend to enjoy these kinds of fun with the VA and production type eps, but this wasn't bad. Yeah hopefully the introduction of the Silver Knight will be a turning point in this series. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Jan 9, 2016 9:01 AM
#27
Episode 13: Weeeelll maybe next episode we'll get some more interesting things with Hakamadare. There was some set-up with him, so. In the meantime, we get some slightly annoying 'Why did you save me instead of these randomers' stuff, which was kind of annoying on Raikou's part but then compounded by Seimei failing to explain that no Makai Kishi = LOTS AND LOTS MORE PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN'T SAVE ffs. Probably she didn't use that excuse because that's what it would be, an excuse, when really she did want to save Raikou (fair enough), but still. Irked me a bit xD;; |
Jan 15, 2016 4:09 PM
#28
Ep 13 New golden armor is pretty amazing looking. Definitely has a more eastern samurai feel like the silver armor. The dramatic stuff with Seimei at the start was alright I guess... not really my cup of tea though. I was really glad to see Raikou finally be able to unseal his armor on his own and see it's true form and stuff. Does anyone else think the villains in this series are just comically evil? Like no redeeming qualities at all lol. Yeah looking forward to more Silver Knight and Raikou being a little more independent. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Jan 16, 2016 10:58 AM
#29
Episode 14: @battosai: Yeah, I'm fully with you on the villains. Pointless. At least we did get the plot point of Raikou being able to unlock his armour properly on his own now, though it was a bit earlier than I expected and now I wonder what that means for the rest of the series. We'll see! |
Jan 22, 2016 6:01 PM
#30
Ep 14 Looks like the site I'm using is labeling the eps weird or something. Anyway not a bad episode, we got some good scenes with Yorinobu and the new girl, can't remember her name atm. Seimei seems to be absent from the series so far... kinda feel like they're setting her up to be a future villain, especially from that shot from the new OP, which is pretty nice, new ED looks cool too. Aside from that, same old episodic formula as usual, wish we could get a little more development for Hakamadare though. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Jan 24, 2016 9:25 AM
#31
Episode 15: I like the new OP and ED. Looks very swish. Apart from that, yawn. -__-;; I mean, I know we're in the weird area of two-cours shows where things tend not to be happening much (episodes 15-17 I would say) but come on guys. To be fair, I'm not in general a big fan of episodic stuff, but I feel like even if someone was into episodic stuff this would still be a bit 'ok, what else is new?', y'know? |
Jan 30, 2016 10:50 AM
#32
Ep 15/16 Kinda funny episode. The aristocrat guy finally conquers his lust only to be seduced by the one that was supposed to help him lol. The wife being the horror was the nice twist and it's fun to see Kintoki and Raikou hunting down horrors on their own, although I'm kind of starting to miss Seimei and her snarky humor. Lastly hoping for more development for Hakamadare, he as a lot of potential IMO. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Feb 4, 2016 2:22 AM
#33
Episode 16: Yeah, we're permanently hoping for more Hakamadare it seems xD Anyway, it was indeed nice to see Raikou and Kintoki going about on their own this time round. To be honest, I didn't even miss Seimei. They managed to make her so boring that I'm not bothered if she's there or not now, tbh. </bit harsh maybe but that's how I feel lol> |
Feb 5, 2016 11:05 PM
#34
Ep 17 This episode felt a little dull, but I still feel like it was one of the better episodes due to featuring Yasusuke. It was nice to see some development for him and to see the connection with his cop brother and stuff. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Feb 6, 2016 8:25 AM
#35
Episode 17: I agree with battosai. It says a lot about this show that even one of the better episodes of the show featuring basically the best character is still dull... xD;;;;; What I think would be really helpful is if Hakamadare's personality hadn't done a complete disconnect from his pre-Hakamadare self. Like, once he decided to become a thief I don't recall ever seeing the gentle idealism or general manner that Yasusuke had. No progression. It's like that all got swapped out overnight for stereotypical!cool!persona. Ah well. Still best character in the show. Also I was REALLY distracted by the lip-synching in this episode. There were loads of points where it was noticeably off. MAPPA, what're you doing? D: It's as though they're deliberately trying not to make this sell well so they don't have to do a third season out of some weird personal grudge or something. </unlikely conspiracies! Unlikely conspiracies everywhere!> |
Feb 13, 2016 1:25 PM
#36
Episode 18: That clicking sound in the soundtrack really confused me. Paused the episode a couple of times to make sure it wasn't just my mouse malfunctioning. I do like how we're getting more relevance out of the Guren no Tsuki subtitle now. This is actually shaping up to a decent final arc hopefully. |
Feb 20, 2016 1:55 AM
#37
Ep 18 So yeah I think we all saw this coming. I really don't like it when OP's spoil the plot. I mean the last episode did make it pretty obvious that Seimei would turn evil. Seems like she's under some sort of hypnosis or something? Yeah this is a decent twist and in theory this should have worked really well, but I don't think they managed to sell me on the characters in the first half. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Feb 21, 2016 5:52 AM
#38
Feb 26, 2016 12:07 PM
#39
Mar 11, 2016 9:03 PM
#40
I'm just gonna use the same episode numbers as Sand, cause I'm confusing myself, even though the site I'm using has them listed differently lol Ep 20 Yeah not really surprised the Yasuske wanted to kill Seimei after she killed his brother and at least it did result in the pretty badass fight between Raikou and Yasuske. Honestly I don't see them killing off Seimei, they're definitely going to find a way to "purify" her or w.e. It's weird that I really wanted Raikou to be independent and do his own thing, but at the very least Seimei brought some fun quirkiness to the show, which is pretty much gone now and it's all spr srs time all the time. This wouldn't have been a problem if they actually bothered to make Raikou a likable character and gave him more characterization... ughh yeah I think it's worse to have a show that has so much potential to be good, but its just these little mistakes and flaws that prevent it from doing so instead of a show that is just obvious bad and has nothing redeeming. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Mar 14, 2016 8:32 AM
#41
Mar 18, 2016 2:14 PM
#42
Mar 19, 2016 12:23 PM
#43
number confusion is confusing =/ Ep 22 So yeah Seimei got rid of Rudra, but her grandfaster is dead now... I don't really know what else to say... I wish I cared more lol. |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Apr 1, 2016 11:30 PM
#44
Ep 23 Really nice animation for this final boss battle. The combination form with the wings was pretty badass too. Douman though... what a poor 1 dimensional villain. I'll go into it more for the finale, but yeah this show has all kinds of flaws. Hopefully we get a nice epilogue for the finale. EDIT: Okay wow... apparently this is it... no epilogue or anything... its just this. Umm okay that was wow. I mean the action was nice at least. Like I said the way they handled the villain was absolutely awful. No real motivation, no redeeming qualities and his droning about about "darkness" was both annoying and pretentious. Raikou was too much of a "boyscout" The silver knight guy wasn't given enough time to be fleshed out. Kintoki was okay I guess, but never really felt like he was anything more than Raikou's sidekick. Seimei was the only interesting character that could really stand on her own without any help and the way they handled her especially in the second half was super disappointing. In theory having Raikou go independent of her should have worked really well, but these characters were never fully realized to the point where they could have pulled off such an ambitious plot twist. So yeah I agree with Sandi on a 4/10 There was enough interesting concepts and good production value put into this for it to not completely suck. It was just a matter of execution and consistency that really held this show back. |
LoneWolfApr 3, 2016 12:15 AM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Apr 2, 2016 3:18 AM
#45
Episode 24 because I forgot to comment on episode 23 lol: Yay budget. I would say 'if only the whole show looked like this', but that wouldn't have made a bit of difference to the show's general quality tbh. I don't think anyone can dispute that this show's writing was weak. The plot structure was weak. The characters were weak. The animation was inconsistent as fuck At least I guess the pacing was consistently dull lol. We did get a nice build to the finale and the whole guren no tsuki thing, but was it worth it? No. Like battosai said for episode 22, "I wish I cared more lol." Yep, that pretty much sums up the whole show for me. I wish I cared, but I really didn't. 4/10 from me, and that's because I mostly reserve 3/10 and below for absolute trainwrecks or offensive/disgusting/enraging shows. This was just mega-bland. (Also could they not have at least given us an ending montage lol) |
Apr 3, 2016 12:15 AM
#46
oh wow I though there was another episode but apparently this is it. Edited my original post. On the bright side we have the movie for the first season to look forward to. The PV looks great :D |
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
Apr 3, 2016 4:41 AM
#47
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