Before it was an anime series, the Garo franchise started out as a live-action late night tokusatsu show. It made its debut in 2005, and at this past weekend's Monsterama convention Kraken Releasing announced that they licensed the original series. With distribution from Section23, Garo …Read more »
That’s… a far amount of Garo . Originally a 2005 tokusatsu series about a young man named Kouga Saejima who’s tasked with saving humanity from creatures called Horrors, Garo was notable for being a particularly dark and sometimes frightening series in a genre better known …Read more »
The live-action superhero series Garo has had a major (likely pachinko-fueled) revival in the last few years. Garo's a Makai Knight, a Kamen Rider-like superhero. The show borrows the structure of a kids' hero show, but the contents are a little darker, the hero not …Read more »
Headed directly to video in Japan, Kiba: Dark Knight Gaiden is a spin-off movie featuring Masaki Kyomoto and Mika Hijii reprising their roles from the dark tokusatsu series Golden Knight Garo . Directed by Iria/Zeiram creator Keita Amemiya, and also featuring singer/model Leah Dizon in …Read more »
With said 3D comes a host of wonderfully gimmicky shots, in which all manner of objects fly at the screen to wow the audience. Honestly, it's difficult to be too cynical about the formula when Keita Amemiya ( Zeiram , Mechanical Violator Hakaider ) is …Read more »
The Center for Book Arts has a pretty interesting exhibit lined up this year. Starting on April 14, they will be displaying every issue of famed Japanese manga anthology Garo . The show will run until June 26 at their location in New York City. …Read more »
3-D movies are all the rage right now. You can pretty much sell anyone on something—yes, even a movie featuring Tracy Morgan as a talking guinea pig—so long as it's offered up in some form of 3-D. You know what can sell me on 3-D, …Read more »
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