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Interview: GARO Producer Toru Kubo and Director Yuichiro Hayashi




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xBTAx



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:42 am Reply with quote
As a correction, Garo has not been running consistently since 2005. After 2006, it took till 2009 for the first movie (Red Requiem) to come out and then the second season didn't air till 2011. There wasn't anything in 2012 after that season ended either. It's only in this past year with the anime filling in when the live action's off-air that it's running consistently.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:52 am Reply with quote
Tanks for the clarification; the dates I looked up made it seem like it had a series or a movie nearly every year since then, with some small gaps. I changed the wording to be more accurate.
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maoyen



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:26 am Reply with quote
I definitely recommend checking out the Tokusatsu series. It's amazing. I know a lot of people generally associate this genre with the toy store Ranger/Rider-type shows, but Garo is COMPLETELY different. I really hope Funimation makes an effort to get those shows over here, given that they already have the anime.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:36 am Reply with quote
I loved the Garo anime more than I was expecting to, and I'm excited about a new season (even with the new setting and characters). I'm hoping they keep the character writing as quality as they did with the first Smile

I also hope Funi brings Garo to blu ray. Would happily buy it.
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SaviorInTheDark



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:10 pm Reply with quote
Hi. I would like to make a correction too. The company that produces the live action series is not Toho Shinsei, but Tohoku Shinsha.
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AholePony



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:28 pm Reply with quote
Interesting he said Tokusatsu fans are different than anime fans. Maybe that explains why the Garo anime BD sales have been almost nonexistent though I thought it was a quite good series.
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Forrest-kun



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 6:08 pm Reply with quote
I really liked GARO, too bad the 2nd season will be a brand new story..Leon and the crew really grew on me..I'll support the new story of course though. Looking forward too it! Laughing
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Mewzard



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:08 am Reply with quote
forrest-kun wrote:
I really liked GARO, too bad the 2nd season will be a brand new story..Leon and the crew really grew on me..I'll support the new story of course though. Looking forward too it! Laughing


It's kinda like the live action Garo in that regard. In the five live action TV series (not counting the Zero Mini), we switched between three protagonists and times (starting with modern times *First two series*, then the distant future *Third and Fifth series*, then the not so distant future *Fourth series*).

I guess the anime will focus on different points in the distant past.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:40 am Reply with quote
AholePony wrote:
Interesting he said Tokusatsu fans are different than anime fans.


I think there's some truth to that. It's hard to put into words what it was, but GARO the anime had a feel about it that reminded me more of GARO live action and even Kamen Rider than it did of most other anime. This might have helped distinguish it a bit and make it feel fresher to those anime fans who did bother to give it a try.

Maybe it was in how the Makai Knights were depicted. They don't dwell on wishy-washy "Should we really kill horrors just for being horrors? / Are humans the *real* horrors?" nonsense. You start doubting the mission, you're gonna end up a fallen knight and a horror yourself someday.

These guys are here for one purpose and one purpose only (okay; two purposes in German's case): to stand between humans and a never-ending invasion of horrors (seriously, never-ending, since this series looks roughly Reconquista-era, and we know that this is still going on in both our present and future). Their attitudes about life and death and good and evil are pretty matter-of-fact, as might be expected of people trained from childhood to serve in a knightly order. But in other anime, so many times the protagonists are wishy-washy, unsure kids, so maybe someone like an Alfonse or German (or Raiga or Ryuga) stands out as different. Maybe there are two audiences demanding different types of protagonists.

Also, Alfonse and Leon's relationship was marked by cameraderie and friendship; not rivalry. The fact that spoiler[they met, made friends, found out about each other, and then *didn't* fight for some contrived reason] was itself almost revolutionary.
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