Garo is getting an American release!

[sentaison]

From Anime News Network http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... es/.107469

Section 23's Kraken Releasing announced at the Monsterama convention in Atlanta this past weekend that it has licensed the original live-action tokusatsu series GARO and plans to release it in 2017. The company also plans to release other installments in the GARO franchise.

This is fantastic news, I've been wanting to see a legit release for Garo ever since I watched the first series. (Has it really been 10 years since then?) You can argue about the quality and style of the following series, but the original still stands out as an original creation with great action, story and characters. Man I cannot wait for next year!

[lhb412]

Cool. After four Godzilla releases I've been hoping for Kraken to become a real Tokusatsu label for home video.

[klen7]

Cool. I'm not familiar with Garo, but a US release will motivate me to give it a shot

[Inui Takumi]

This is awesome. When I first got into tokusatsu in 2006, this was one of the shows that everyone suggested after Kamen Rider and Sentai. I've been following the franchise ever since and can't wait to own this on (hopefully) Bluray. Gonna put this on the list of things I never thought possible.

[Dr Kain]

[klen7]

Is there controversy surrounding episode 4? (e.g. Ultraseven episode 12)

[Dr Kain]

[Gigantis_99]

Pretty stoked for this. Seems like a great time to become a Keita Amemiya fan.

[lhb412]

Welp, first collection is coming in October:

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2017 ... n23-films/

[Dr Kain]

[Jinzo Ningen]

Sounds cool. I was just contemplating sampling some fansubs for this series of inter-linked shows. Looks like Kraken's blus will make that thought moot.

[Dr Kain]

We watched the first five episodes of Garo from the BD and the quality is exceptional. The audio really packs a bunch as my subwoover was constantly booming and the dialog is quite clear despite being only in stereo. The video quality is just as impressive and clean. Gone is the really blurry look, and yet, it still retains its atmosphere. My only complaints are with how generic the disc menu is (it's just the episode titles in front of some gears) and the English subtitles can not be turned off. Translations are spectacular and I haven't noticed any grammatical or spelling errors. In fact, it is pretty nice watching this series subbed again as I haven't watched it subbed since 2006 as I had always rewatched it through my Region 2 DVDs

As always, these episodes are a blast to watch with my favorite being the fifth episode (one that deals with a girl and two guys in a warehouse) because the Horror is so creepy. Although, my favorite design of the five Horrors so far is the chain lady one. So amazing looking. Too bad the second volume doesn't come out until Dec as it would have been nice to watch the whole series this month.

[sentaison]

Did you get an early copy for review? Amazon is showing it being released next week. Good to know the video quality is good. Honestly this is probably my most wanted release this year.

[klen7]

My pre-order hasn't shipped yet. Looking forward to checking this out

[Dr Kain]

[Kaiju_Ultra_Fan]

I never heard of Garo but after watching some of the fights on Youtube that looks really neat.

Thanks for the heads up. That Golden Armor is really cool looking.

[Dr Kain]

[Kaiju_Ultra_Fan]

Yeah I read some of the premise about the horrors/demons and why the guy is wearing the gold armor. And I watched the fight with Zero on Youtube, it looks pretty neat. I put the bluray collection in my bookmarks.

I like Kamen Rider so this should be neat.

Japan really comes up with some of the coolest costumes.

[sentaison]

I've really been enjoying the first volume, it's been great to watch a high quality version of the show. I guess the response to Kraken's release has been really good because they're following up in February by releasing the Kiba side story! https://www.rightstufanime.com/GARO-KIBA-Blu-ray

I have somehow managed to miss this one, hopefully we're seeing the beginning of releases of the whole series here! I would have been happy just seeing the original series here, but now I'm getting rather excited! Could Demon Beast of the Midnight Sun be next?

[Dr Kain]

I've only watched the Kiba movie once, raw as I bought the BD from Japan and just never got around to watching the fansubs. It was pretty good from what I recall, far better than the boring ass Red Requiem movie.

I do hope Beast of White Night is next.

[Dr Kain]

Just watched Collection 2 and damn that was good stuff. There were may two questionable sentences of the entire series as far as the subtitles went, otherwise, they were immaculate. No timing issues either.

[klen7]

I blind-purchased Garo just based on what some of the high praise I have seen for it on this forum. I really dug collection 1. Can't wait for more. Very cool series, hard to believe its 12+ years old (in fact if it hadn't been presented in a 4:3 ratio, i wouldn't have even looked it up to figure out how old it was)

[klen7]

Amazon has a pre-order available for Garo:Kiba which appears to be 50 minutes. I have tried to find where this falls while avoiding spoilers, is this a special?

[Dr Kain]

[klen7]

Thanks. Has Kraken announced anything Garo related other than season 1 and the Kiba OVA?