The BEST episodes of GARO
Every episode of GARO ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of GARO!
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
#1 - Tousei
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/26/2013
In this special edition of ‘NEWS TIME with Rivera’, questions are answered, and secrets revealed. Just who is the “Lord” that Rivera is referring to?
#2 - Dining
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2013
Dream Garden Hills is a paradise in Volcity. Promising a better quality of life, with free education, healthcare, and rent-free housing, you'd be a fool to turn it down. The only catch to this dream arrangement? You're on the menu.
#3 - War
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/2/2013
Now branded as criminals, Ryuga and his companions go after the master of the Madou Horrors. Knowing they're walking into a trap, can they survive long enough to get answers?
#4 - Heroic Spirits
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/31/2006
As Rei manages to defeat Glum with Gonza's help, Kouga is unable to slow Messiah down as he is overwhelmed by the vast number of Horrors. By then, Karou's father appears to urge his daughter to complete the painting she started. This in turn cases Garo to assume his Winged Form as he grounds Messiah while Kaoru receives closure from her parents. Catching Messiah off guard by discarding his armor, Kouga manages to put Messiah back to sleep as Karou saves him from being consumed in the blast as they return to the land of the living. However, they are followed by Barago's animated armor, the Darkness Knight Kiba. After throwing Zaruba into the magic tear in response to being unable to summon his armor, the portal expands as Kouga takes his fight with Kiba on it as the stone descends across Tokyo's cityscape with Rei brieftly joining in. Eventually, the circle comes to stop at the wharf as Zaruba comes at the nick of time with Garo's armor. After Kiba is finally slain, Kouga disarmors as Zaruba dies from overusing itself. Later, as Rei gives Kouga a newly forged Madougu, which Kouga names Zaruba, Kaoru takes her leave for Italy, giving him a new version of the Black Flame and the Golden Knight with the illustration on the final page bringing Kouga to tear
#5 - Realm Charm
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/2006
After Kaoru runs off once learning the apparent truth that he used her as Horror bait, Kouga learns from Gonza that Amon has been murdered. Summoned by the Eastern Watchdogs, Kouga learns that a Maki Priestess named Jabi has took twelve Horror Daggers from them and was Amon's killer. However, not believing his childhood friend killed Amon, Kouga finds Jabi. Though asking why she stole the daggers, Jabi reveals that Amon was actually murdered by a rumored Horror-eating Makai Knight and that she intends to personally send the blades into the underworld. Forced into fighting Jabi for the blades, Kouga manages to restraint her. Rei, tricked by the Watchdogs to kill Kouga and Jabi for them, arrives with Kaoru as he demands the Horror blades. After tricking Rei, Kouga holds him off as Jabi takes Kaoru to a safe area.
#6 - Black Fire
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/2006
After donning their Soul Metal Armor, Garo and Zero have an epic battle with Jabi watching as the two combatants are forced out of their armor. However, before Rei can kill a weakened Kouga, Jabi intervenes and spirits him off to where Kaoru is. After Jabi tells her that Kouga was actually trying to find a way to save her life, a confused Kaoru runs off before Gonza finds her and brings her to the cabin where Kouga spent his childhood. As Kaoru regains her faith in him, after his wounds were tended to, Kouga asks Jabi to help him enter the Forest of Glen. After revealing the legend behind the Horror-eating Makai Knight and the true nature of the Eastern Watchdogs, Jabi proceeds to perform the ritual to send the Horror Daggers into the underworld with his help. However, before she could finish telling Kouga something important, Jabi is seemingly killed by Kodama, the Watchdogs' servant. Kouga attempts to fight the stronger Kodama as they fight for the Horror blades. Rei arrives, but is unable to send the Horror Blades to the other side as they turn into a giant Horror. Neither Garo and Zero could harm the titanic Horror as the Horror-eating Makai Knight appears and absorbs the beast before taking his leave.
#7 - Magic Bullet
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/2006
Saving Kaoru's life, she and Kouga admit they are glad of the choices they have made, unaware of what is to come. During that time, Gonza encounters a strange man who leaves him a letter, calling out Kouga to Winter Gate. Though warned that it would be trap, Kouga goes anyway. Arriving there, he is meets the man as he tells him he has until dawn to kill him. Fighting through Horror-possessed gunmen before the host appears as the Horror Bonafletz, Garo manages to strike down the Horrors before striking Bonafletz down. However, Bonafletz turn out to be security guard as the host reveals himself to be not only human, but also the father of Misato Kamisugawa, the vessel of the Horror Moloch who Kouga killed. Kamisugawa then proceeds to ask if killing those possessed by Horrors justifies the sadness their loved ones had to endure as Kouga refuses to take his life. However, revealing the Eastern Watchdogs gave him the means to enact his revenge, Kamisugawa uses the Horror Dagger holding Molch's essence on himself. Becoming Moloch, Kamisugawa realized the pain his daughter suffered as he pleas Kouga to kill him as the sun rises. Back at the manor, Karou screams in fright when a strange mark appears on her neck.
#8 - Mark
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/2006
Finding Kaoru with a Horror Gate on neck, Kouga learns of the Ulimate Horror Messiah and the goal of the Horror-devouring Darkness Knight. When Karou comes to and tell her dream of a man with cross-shaped scar, Zaruba reveals the figure to be Taiga's pupil Barago who became the Darkness Knight and killed Kouga's father. The revelation affects Kouga, who self-deluded himself into thinking a Horror committed the deed, as Kaoru later requests him to kill her if it save the world. However, Kouga refuses as Barago appears and defeats Kouga and Rei. Soon after, Kaoru reveals she met Barago as a child, with Kouga realizing that Barago manipulated the chain of events leading to now. As Gonza tries to cheer Kaoru up as she blames herself for Kouga's suffering while getting original copies of her father's book, Rei suggests Kouga of joining forces to fight Barago and protect Kaoru. By then, Karou enters the sanctum of Kouga's training room as she is made familiar with Kouga's armor to ease her worry before he and Rei take their leave to fight Barago and the Eastern Watchdogs after placing barrier around the manor. Seeing the irony, Karou accepts what fate dealt her.
#9 - Girl
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/24/2006
Infuriated of Kaoru's confidence that her friends will save her, Barago sends Glum after Kouga and Rei as they entered the building. As Rei is forced into a physical and psychological battle with Glum before defeated by her Beast Glum form and seemingly killed off, Kouga arrives to the ritual chamber as Barago holds him off. Karou comes to by then, possessed by Messiah as Barago is devoured by the Horror as she then uses Karou to begin the summoning process while Glum holds Kouga off. After knocking Glum out, Kouga is joined by Rei as they attempt to restraint Kaoru as Messiah uses the girl's body to fight them. But at the last second, Kouga reaches Kaoru as she loses consciousness. With Rei holding Glum off, Kouga enters through the portal to where Kaoru's conscious is before entering the realm of the Horrors to face the titantic Messiah as she pint-pointed Kaoru's body to enter the land of the living.
#10 - Soul Ruination
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/17/2006
Arriving to find the Eastern Watchdogs gone, the three given a body to enter by Barago, they approach the Western Watchdog. Though the Western Watchdog refuses to let Rei go, he reveals the vial he found at the Eastern Watchdog Palace holds a disguise potion belong to the previous Ginga user. Back at the manor, while attempting to think up an image for the final page, Ryuuzaki arrives to take Kaoru. By the time Kouga and Rei return to the manor, it turned out Ryuzaki was actually Barago as he spirits Kaoru off. Catching up to him, Kouga and Rei assume their Makai Knight forms to battle the Darkness Knight before being defeated by him as he and his group take their leave to the site of Messhiah's summoning. Driven to save Kaoru to the point of madness, Kouga is confronted by Kodama who drove him more to the deep end with remembering Jabi's demise. Rei arrives as Garo is overpowered by Kodama in his Majuu Armored form. However, when Garo exceeds the time limit, he becomes a monster and slaughters Kodama. Garo then climbs up, as Rei manages to snap him out of it before canceling the armor. Kouga thanks Rei for saving him from himself as the two proceed into the building.
#11 - Wizard Water
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/2012
After Kouga and Leo finish a training session, Zaruba spontaneously combusts. Kouga calls Jabi to help, who goes off to repair Zaruba, but the man in the red mask appears before her and attacks.
#12 - Nightmare
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/2013
Captain Enhou finds her dreams tormented since witnessing a Horror attack for the first time. But what is real and what is part of the nightmare?
#13 - Gold
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/6/2013
As the Makai Knights go to confront Sonshi, Burai heads for Zedom's crypt, aiming to quench the Horror's fury.
#14 - Mother
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/16/2013
Ryuga is reunited with the group, and meets a long lost Makai Priestess. The horrific past of the Master of Madou Horrors is revealed.
#15 - Hope
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/9/2013
The group has been separated. Now blinded and held in solitary confinement by SG-1, Ryuga attempts to escape and recover the Garo-Ken.
#16 - Lost
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/19/2013
Rian and Aguri attend a weapons demonstration held by SG-1. Whilst there, Kensui Kaneshiro arrives, accompanied by Sonshi...
#17 - Hunting
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/2013
The Madou Horrors all take up high ranking positions within the city. With the Madou Horror detector completed, the Knights begin the hunt. When Rian finds a familiar clue, the hunt turns towards Kaneshiro Foods, and the horrors within...
#18 - Trap
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/2013
In order to detect the Madou Horrors, Burai needs to obtain a sample of one. With a lead that there may be one at the TV station, Rian is sent undercover.
#19 - Sonshi
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/31/2013
Kazami goes to Rivera for help publicising the existence of Horrors. The mysterious figure working with the Madō Horrors springs his trap.
#20 - Dream
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2013
While investigating Tousei—the estranged fourth son of the Kaneshiro family—Captain Enhou runs into Ryuga, who is on the trail of a Horror with the ability to jump into radios.
#21 - Gold Wave
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2013
Mysterious disappearances surround Kaneshiro Construction manager Masahiko Washizu, a man said to be able to forge any contract, no matter the odds. Ryuga finds himself hunted down by the Volcity Security Force, SG-1.
#22 - Doll
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2005
The Horror Asmodai appears and, using his act as a puppeteer, causes groups of people to kill each other before devouring their remains. While going through her father's things, Kaoru discovers the unpublished book from her dreams with the blank page at the end of it. Asmodai strikes again before the Makai Knights eventually destroying him.
#23 - Mask
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/2012
A Makai Knight is killed right in front of Rei and Leo says goodbye to Kaoru as she gets the final inspiration for her picture book. Rei and Kouga go hunting for the creature that killed a Makai Knight when they find the man in the red mask, and his identity soon becomes known.
#24 - Era
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/2012
The Makai Knights defeat Ganon, but Kouga still must honor his contract with Gajari. On his way home with Leo, someone arrives to greet him.
#25 - Taiga
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/2005
Gonza and Zaruba reflect on Kouga's growth as a knight, remembering him training with his father, Taiga. Out one night with his father, they encounter a Horror, with Taiga becoming Garo to destroy it. Later, Kouga witnesses his father dying at the hands of what he thought to be a Horror, though it is actually a figure named Barago. Kouga trains for years to be able to use the Garoken and fight as the new Garo, eventually becoming the man he is today.