The BEST episodes directed by Mitsuyoshi Abe
#9 - Bond
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 12
#10 - Mirror
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 17
#11 - Axe
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 4
#12 - Trap
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 11
#13 - King
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 21
#14 - Greenhouse
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 3
Erina Tokiwa is a renowned artist who uses flowers in her pieces but kills one of her admirers, believing that it would bring her art to new levels, when a Horror approaches her. Meanwhile at the Saezima estate, Mayuri keeps awake at night and when Gonza suggests her to take a rest, she claims that she has been sleeping for a long time. Now possessed by the Horror Succubus, Erina kills a woman to make another piece of art before she meets Mayuri and becomes interested in her, drawing the girl to her atelier at a greenhouse. The Watchdog realizes this and informs Raiga, urging him to strike the Horror down, but claiming that protecting Mayuri is not a priority. Zaruba guides Raiga to the greenhouse where he confronts Erina who has realized that Mayuri is not human and treats her as an object, much to Raiga's anger. After Raiga cuts Succubus down, Mayuri reveals that the seed of Eyrith was not inside that Horror either, and becomes curious as to why Raiga treats her as a human, despite knowing that she is not.
#15 - Star Chart
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 5
An English-speaking foreigner named Luke is a serial killer who murders his victims to make them his "stars". After approaching and murdering his latest victim, Luke finds himself attacked by the Horror Stellas, becoming its host while continuing his murder spree by literally turning his victims into stardust that he inhales. As Mayuri wonders what to wish for after learning of shooting stars, Raiga learns of the recent Horror attacks and that Crow will be joining his mission to stop Eyrith's bloom. Later that night, with the conditions right for their quarry, Crow manages to locate Stellas and engages the Horror before Raiga arrives. With Mayuri revealing him to be one of the slate Horrors yet not possessing Eyrith's seed, Crow fights Stellas in his true form before donning his armor. Though Stellas takes flight to unleash a meteor shower on the city, Crow sprouts wings to pursue the Horror and weakens him for Raiga to deal the deathblow. As Mayuri seals the Horror's remains into her body, Raiga expresses an interest in Crow's ability yet warns him not to be reckless. Later, Raiga and Mayuri look at the shooting stars as the former tells his companion that there are also stars on the ground as well.
#16 - Family
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 8
In a forest, a salaryman is about to hang himself when he hears the sound of laughter and sees a light. Following the light and laughter, the man comes across an old inconspicuous house where a large family that asks him to come in. Though welcomed at first, thinking they have given him a new lease on life, the man finds himself dumped into the family's pot. Soon after, the house disappears and appears the next day at another location where the family get another victim. At that time, Raiga is alerted to the presence of the Horror Delitus as he heads out with Mayuri, who watches another family fall apart on the way. Saving a young woman from their communal pot, Raiga exposes the family's scheme while having Mayuri take their guest to safety. Though the family patriarch Ichiro defends their reasoning of making humans happy, Raiga finds their ideals appalling as the fight commences. After Raiga defeats them, the family assumes their true form as the core of Delitus, which is the house itself. Though outmatched by the large Horror after donning the Garo armor, Raiga summons Gōten to destroy Delitus. Soon after, watching the human family from before back together, Mayuri learns from Raiga that is the true warmth of a family.