The BEST episodes directed by Akihito Shimoda
#2 - Butterfly
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 3
#3 - Manga
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 11
A manga artist named Seiji Kawabata has just finished the latest installment of his Dragon Lawyer series, but he learns that his oldest assistant Tanaka is leaving him because he feels Kawabata's talent is dwindling. This causes Kawabata's darkness to manifest just as a Horror possesses him, allowing him to kill Tanaka and take the man's talent as his own. He then creates a new manga Makai King which becomes a smash hit, while he secretly kills and takes out other comic book artists to regain his former glory. Later, Raiga comes a newsstand holding Makai King with Mayuri and Zaruba confirming that some of the words in the book are of the Horror tongue. They decide to approach Kawabata, Raiga pretending to be interested in pitching a new story to him, as they catch him as he was about to eat his newest aide Suzuki. With Mayuri revealing that the Horror possessing him is not one of the ones from the slab, Raiga battles Kawabata before taking their fight to the rooftops. There, while fighting his way through manga images and sound effects, Raiga dons his armor to face Kawabata in his true form: Caricatuan. Though Caricatuan has the advantage as he has already written how the fight will end with him killing the Makai Knight, Raiga uses the ink to take out the last panel so he can land the death blow instead. With the Horror dead, Kawabata lasts long enough to see Mayuri enjoying his first manga, Ninja Rin. After reading Ninja Rin himself, Raiga is reminded of his mother's words on how the most important part of art is that people feel something after experiencing it.