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#8 - Mask
Garo - Season 2 - Episode 16
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.
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#30 - Movie
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 4
Harima, an old projectionist, is informed by his employer that the theater where he works will be closed and is fired after attacking the man furiously. Distraught with his situation, Harima is possessed by the Horror Ilgishin and kills his former employer by trapping him inside a horror film. Upon being informed of Ilgishin's appearance, Raiga and Mayuri depart to confront it, just as the Horror is about to take another victim. After being trapped into scenes of famous horror films, the Makai Knight manages to strike down the Horror and rescue the man after Zaruba realizes that its weakness is fire.
#31 - Boy
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 17
It is Raiga's birthday and as Gonza explains to Mayuri and Crow that making the cake is one of the duties Kaoru left to him, Raiga dreams about of the events that took place four years after his parents' disappearance. Injuring himself while training, Raiga met a Makai Priestess who heals while warning him of weak Makai Knights getting killed. Back at home, Gonza asks Raiga which cake he wants for his birthday party, but he refuses to celebrate it. Later at night, Raiga is visited by Rei Suzumura, who tests his strength before taking him on a Horror hunt. After Raiga correctly deduces that a woman sitting in the park is a Horror's vessel, on the grounds that she was reading in the dark, Rei lends the boy a Madō Lighter to have him handle her. Once he exposes the Horror, with Rei watching from afar, Raiga emulates Rei's fighting style against the Horror before she overpowers him. Luckily, Rei intervenes and forces the Horror into her true form before slaying the monster in front of Raiga. Soon after, Rei presents Raiga the choice to live a normal life or take the dangerous path of a Makai Knight as his apprentice. Raiga accepts and the two resume the Horror hunt. The next day, Raiga meets the Makai Priestess on the way home, thanking her for her help before giving her a present while learning someone dear to her has embarked on a dangerous journey. Upon returning home, Rei explains to a worried Gonza that he promised Kouga to train Raiga once he turned 10 and, as Raiga sleeps while they finished the preparations for the boy's birthday, Rei informs the butler that he will search for Kouga and Kaoru once their son's training is complete. Raiga then reminisces celebrating his birthday with Gonza and Rei and upon awakening at the present time, he does so with Gonza, Mayuri, and Crow as well.
#32 - Watchdog
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 22
Recognizing the figure, Crow gives chase after the figure left while leaving a foreboding message that everything will begin soon. Raiga, after sending Mayuri home, approaches Jiiru and learns the mysterious man to be a Makai Knight of the Senate named Eiji Busujima. Raiga also learns that Busujima is the holder of the title Giru the Evil Bone Knight and is Crow's mentor. Though he refuses to accept Crow may have spying for Busujima, Raiga agrees that finding Busujima and sealing Eyrith is essential while asking for Mayuri's freedom once it is over. At the same, sensing Eyrith entering its final Horror host, Mayuri leaves Saezima Manor to find it. Eventually, after a confrontation with his mentor, Crow finds Raiga and tells him that Busujima needs Eyrith to bring back someone from the dead. While it would be impossible, Crow remembered the first time he met Mayuri while under Busujima and that his mentor mentioned it is possible she can also seal human souls. The two Makai Knights realize Mayuri is targeted by Busujima and attempt to find her. However, after knocking out the Ady Slate Horror Jienda, Busujima captures Mayuri and proceeds to extract Eyrith's seed from Jienda. Awakened as a result, the Makai Knight promising to allow the Horror to bloom, Eyrith agrees to grant Busujima's wish to bring back his lover as she uses a strain of the woman's hair to produce her body in her root. But Mayuri consciously opens her gate to enable Raiga and Crow to pinpoint her location with the contained Horror essence. However, leaving Mayuri with Eyrith, Busujima confronts Raiga and Crow to keep them from preventing the revival of his beloved Akari: The Makai Priestess that Raiga met as a child.
#33 - Myth
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 7
While training underground with the fangs of the Grou Dragon, Raiga is surprised when the fangs react to his body unexpectedly and Crow cuts down the fang to save him. Learning that the evil qi accumulated from his battles is beginning to manifest within him, as he had slain ninety-nine Horrors so far, Raiga departs with Mayuri to the Tower of Heroic Spirits, where he was bestowed the title of Garo. In the occasion, he reveals to Mayuri that his parents disappeared before him when he was a child and never heard of since then, but when he entered the tower to claim the title of Garo, he is informed that this could not be done, as his father is still alive and fighting in another world, but allowed it to be passed to his son anyway, giving him hope that he may eventually reunite with his parents some day. After purifying his body and retrieving a spare fang, Raiga returns with Mayuri when a Horror attacks them. During the battle, the fang is knocked from Raiga's hands, piercing a nearby sculpture, and alerting another Horror sealed there. Once the first Horror is defeated, Raiga and Mayuri return to the mansion and when the fang is replaced, Raiga is surrounded by a time-sopping barrier that freezes all around him except himself, when the Demon Beast Zaji appears to kill him. After defeating Zaji once, Raiga and Mayuri reunite with Gonza, when Zaji appears once again, claiming that he will not give up until claiming Raiga's life. Raiga's battle with Zaji drags on to an alternate dimension summoned by him, where Raiga has a vision of a Garo from the past, who reveals to not be his father, and with the previous Horror slain Raiga attained the mark of one hundred Horror killed, now able to summon Gōten, despite having not passed by the trial of darkness, although the Garo claims that his current battle will suffice as requirement. Upon knowing this, Raiga summons Gōten and uses it to defeat Zaji for good, returning home and promising to become stronger for the sake of
#34 - Crimson Lotus
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 18
Raiga is assigned to hunt the Horror Rateru, and encounters the Makai Priestess Biku who is intent on personally killing Rateru herself to avenge her Makai Knight partner Izumo. She decides to fight Raiga to see if he is worthy of helping her seek vengeance.
#35 - Reminiscence
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 23
Busujima reveals that his lover Akari's spirit is within Mayuri. Crow is willing to fight him, but Raiga tells him to find Mayuri instead as he and Busujima equip their respective Makai Knight armors to finish the fight. As Raiga asks Busujima if this is what Akari wants, he manages to defeat Giru as he reveals that he knew Akari and gave her the bell that Busujima now possesses. Though Raiga states his intent to spare him for Akari's sake, Busujima refuses to surrender. But before the fight resumes, Mayuri runs in and reveals that Crow has sacrificed himself to save her from being possessed by Eyrith. After explaining that Eyrith needs a host to take her to where she must bloom, Busujima attempts to have the Horror relinquish her host for him. But Eyrith uses Crow's body to destroy the Akari clone and then mortally wounds Busujima before taking to the air. As Raiga pursues Crow on Gōten, Mayuri reveals to Busujima that she never had Akari's soul and only responded to his feelings of loss. This makes Busujima feel everything he did was for nothing as Mayuri tells him that Akari lives on through him. Biku arrives and deems Busujima no longer her quarry as she decides to treat his wounds while Mayuri finds Raiga.