Garo: Honoo no Kokuin Episode 2

Garo: Honoo no Kokuin 

The second episode of Garo has so far proven to me that this show is not a fluke. The anime has really shown just how much more animation can do over live action. The designs are incredibly dynamic with this show. Just the monsters alone from the first two episodes really show just how much more you can do with animation. Mind you, I think the Garo live action series have much better action so far. The animation allows for crazy action, true, but the live action series just has much tighter fights, but that has always been one of the highlights of the franchise. 

A better picture of the cracks in the armor

                I think the first thing I have to talk about from this episode is just how Garo himself acted. Leon, the main character, after he had dawned the armor started to freak out, and the armor itself started to roar and act on its own. Now, for viewers of the franchise, this looks very familiar. In the live action series, the armor, after a certain amount of time, tries to consume its user and turns into a giant monster, which 9 times out of 10 kills the person inside. And what happens there looks really similar to what is going on with Leon’s armor. We saw early on in the episode Leon has some sort of black flames that appear on him during times of strife, appearing exactly where the cracks in the armor appeared from the first episode. I am calling this right now, whatever curse or something that Leon has, which presumably has something to do with how his mother died, limits the amount of time the armor can be donned, more so then usual. Of course I could be completely off, but my gut is saying that I am right. 

See how the cracks correspond with the marks? It can't just be a coincidence.

                The other big thing introduced in this episode is the Makai Priest who I assume will be traveling with Leon and his father. This show did a great job of showing just how bad-fucking-ass a Makai Priest is, and Emma is totally badass. She caught a fist with her mouth! And she also completely destroyed the monster of the week. My only complaint is that she doesn’t use paint brushes like most other Priests, but the show takes so far before the main series that brushes might not be the main weapon, and even if that isn’t the case she doesn’t have to use it, it is just a cool way to fight in my opinion. But Emma is really great, and I hope she becomes more of a main character.

She bit his fucking fist! She is so hardcore.

I think my only problem with this show so far is a problem with the subbers. They are translating Makai Priests as Makai Alchemists. I know this is really petty, and doesn’t matter at all, but it is something that whenever I see it, it bugs me. It is just mislabeling a whole segment of the characters in this show. There are four other series out there already subbed that all use the same terminology, and then with the new series they just decide to go in some other random direction. You know a series is good if my only complaint is with how the subbers are choosing to translate a word. I’ll leave it here for now, but next time I am going to be either very critical or squeeing like a bitch, because one of my favorite characters is entering the show. So until next time, have fun watching. 

I think I should end every review with this image now. It is such a good image.