The BEST episodes written by Keita Amemiya
#1 - Heroic Spirits
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 25
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
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#2 - 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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#5 - Girl
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 24
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.
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#9 - Red Sake
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 16
Kouga arrives to the home of his father's old friend, the Makai Priest Amon. Explaining that this is a night when Horrors cannot enter their world, Amon reveals that he and Taiga played a game of Bar Chess and wishes Kouga to finish what his father started. During the match, Amon reveals he knows of Kaoru and suspects that Kouga is protecting her the same way his father protected him. However, Kouga admits he used Kaoru as a tool at first to find Horrors, but he grew to love her and is intent to save her. Impressed, Amon reveals he knows of the item Kouga intends to save her with: The Barankas Fruit within the Forest of Glen, which he intends to get for Kouga once it is ripened. Though Kouga is close to losing the game, and ten years of his life, Amon post pones the game like Taiga did years ago. But before Kouga leaves for home, Amon presents him with another revelation: the chance that his father's pupil Barago is still alive and events will unfold where he has to know who is truly friend and who is truly foe.
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#14 - Trial
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 9
Kaoru is hired by school headmaster Yagi to restore a mural of a goddess her father painted years ago but no record exists of what the damaged area looked like. While purifying his sword, Kouga is sucked into an alternate reality where he meets a version of Garo. Kouga, having defeated 100 Horrors, must face an ordeal. Kouga instead tries to battle the Horror Humpty, but cannot hurt it. Kouga soon passes the ordeal and is granted the Makai Horse Gouten, which he uses to defeat Humpty. Meanwhile, Kaoru remembers her father's inspiration for the mural, and restores the goddess to her former glory.
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#15 - Soul Ruination
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 23
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.
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#16 - Taiga
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 12
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.
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#20 - Silver Fang
Garo - Season 1 - Episode 7
Unable to find information on Rei, Kouga and Gonza speculate that he is from the western district. Kouga made arrangements for the Barankas fruit with Gonza and he heads out for his routine of sealing and entrances used by Horrors; finding that Rei has been doing his job. Kaoru gets a new job as a waitress and Rei stops where she is working for a table full of sweets. Soon after, Rei attempts to kill Kaoru in the back entrance, but Kouga appears to stop him. After having Kaoru be taken back to his manor, Kouga confronts Rei as the two fight their way through Shinjuku's Capital Building where they get a brief interference from a Horror before the two assume their Makai Knight forms. The two fight their way down the Capital Building before they run out of time with Garo the winner to ZERO's dismay.
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#22 - Fossil
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 1
Ages ago, an evil Demon Beast known as Eyrith was sealed into a stone slate by Makai Priests using nine other Horrors as foundation stones. In the present day, the slate was uncovered and while being exposed at a museum, it is unsealed by a mysterious figure, and one of the Horrors possesses the body of the security guard Sekiya who has been watching over the museum that night. Meanwhile, an unknown woman wakes up from a grave at an unknown location. At the Saezima estate, Raiga Saezima is informed about Eyrith's advent and that a magic tool is being sent from the Senate to assist him. Raiga then starts his investigation with Zaruba when the mysterious woman meets Sekiya and starts trailing him. When night falls, Sekiya confronts the woman and just as he is about to attack her, Raiga appears to confront him, revealing himself as the current Garo. Zaruba then identifies Sekiya as the Horror Azdab who attempts to flee, but is slayed by Garo before he can go. Instead of being sealed into the Garoken, Azdab is transformed into a small stone and the woman introduces herself as Mayuri, the person mentioned in the letter from the Senate. When Raiga asks her about the magic tool he was entrusted to, Mayuri seals the stone into her own body, revealing that the magic tool in question is actually herself.
#23 - Storm
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 23
#24 - Iron Man
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 20
After having extinguished some Yin Gates, Crow reminds Orva of his duties as the Phantom Knight to act from the shadows. He soon receives a letter from Meme with orders to defeat a large Horror named Duoct. After sunset, Crow encounters a school girl he believes to be Duoct before she summons the actual Horror to her aid. Raiga soon joins him, but the two find themselves powerless against Duoct. Just before dawn, they hear a voice from within Duoct as the Horror and the school girl leave. Crow recognizes that her school uniform is the same as a school he had passed the previous day, and after arriving he discovers a man attempting to find his missing daughter Saki Mizuno. He tells Crow that she mysteriously disappeared three nights ago when she and her friends were having a courage test in the forest. However, Crow wonders how she could possibly be the Horror's host without having an inner darkness. Later, Duoct attacks Mayuri, and during the fight it is revealed that the Saki who is ordering Duoct around is a Horror posing as her while the real Saki is inside Duoct's body. Crow quickly kills the impostor and Duoct escapes Crow believes that Saki is beyond salvation, but Raiga tells him that he has a plan and wants him on stand-by. Having remembered how his father saved his mother in the past, Raiga meets Duoct and allows the Horror to consume him so he can destroy it from the inside while having the Garo armor form around himself and Saki. After explaining that Saki will awaken with no memory of her ordeal, Raiga tells Crow that he deserves thanks for his role in saving Saki. The next day, Crow watches Saki resume her normal life before assuming his duties as the Phantom Knight.
#25 - Castle
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 22
#26 - 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.
#27 - 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.
#28 - Raising
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 9
After finding a pale naked woman lying on the side of the road, an aloof university student named Mikimoto takes her to a room at the Natural Science Club. Though the girl is unresponsive, Mikimoto finds her eating animals stored in the club as her skin starts becoming less pale. Though still unable to reach through to her, Mikimoto keeps feeding the girl more live animals before she molts out of her old skin. As these events unfold, Gonza finds a stag beetle and begins raising it with Mayuri's help while Raiga and Crow learn of the Horror Lizary which has yet to fully manifest after taking a host body. As Raiga arrives with Crow and Mayuri at the site where Lizary emerged into their world, the same place Mikimoto found the strange girl, Mikimoto is visited by his friend who expresses worry for his odd behavior before realizing he has a girl in the club room. After seeing his friend opening the closet, Mikimoto watches the man get killed by the girl before witnessing her enter a pupal state. By the time the Makai Knights and Mayuri arrive at the club room, Mikimoto and the cocoon are gone. Raiga investigates the closet and is horrified by what he sees. The Makai Knights eventually find Mikimoto as he caresses the woman once she emerges from his cocoon, asking her to eat him alive, before it is revealed that he is the host of Lizary. Mayuri uses her powers to awaken Mikimoto's surpressed memories of having raped and killed the girl whose corpse became the Inga Gate that Lizary emerged from. From there, killing more girls for nourishment and then his friend when he found his victims' corpses in the closet, Mikimoto became unaware of his true actions due to the Horror altering his host's perception. Now fully awoken, Lizary offends Raiga with his ideals of human life before assuming his true form. Raiga and Crow don their Makai Armor and soon dispatch Lizary together. Soon after, Gonza discovers that the stag beetle has died, and becomes somewhat distraught. Mayuri tak
#29 - 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
#30 - The Power of Words
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 12
Karina, a translator living out in the countryside, finds a ball of fuzz near a tree and places it in a jar in her home. That night, Karina dreams of meeting her grandfather Shuji, and when they see a blur in her dream, he refers to it as a Tsukitonbo. When she wakes up, she finds that the ball of fuzz has doubled in size and has broken free from the jar, moving about her room on its own. In the following days, Karina keeps the creature until one night when her house is suddenly haunted, which prompts Raiga and Crow to arrive to dispel the illusion. Raiga tells Karina that she has found the lost offspring of a Spirit Beast and he is to return it to its parent. Karina asks to go with Raiga, and he agrees on the condition that she has her memories of the event erased afterwards. Entrusting Crow and Mayuri to look after things in his stead, Raiga gives Karina an elixir to see the world that normal humans are unable to see. On the way to the meeting point, Karina speaks of Shuji and the Tsukitonbo statue that he had made for her after they saw the spirit in the past. Eventually, Raiga and Karina arrive at a dam where the parent Spirit Beast, a Tsukitonbo, appears to pick its child up. As the reunion of parent and child causes Raiga to remember his own mother, he gives Karina closure that Shuji loved her very much to give her something created in a Spirit Beast's image. Sometime later, Karina wakes up at home with no memory of what has happened, but feels good about something she cannot quite remember. Raiga watches from afar, and heads home, only to find Mayuri waiting for him so they can return together.
#31 - 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.
#32 - Visitor from Afar
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 24
Once Crow reaches the location where Eyrith is to bloom, Raiga attempts to force the Horror out of the Makai Knight, but Eyrith forces Crow to express the resentment he bears towards Raiga for his kindness towards Mayuri. Raiga disarms Crow so they can settle things with their fists, refusing to give up on his friend, which forces Eyrith to leave Crow's body and manifest a human-like body for herself. She proceeds to the middle of the lake where she grows into a giant tree, and from there she creates portals to absorb multiple Horrors from across time and space across the world. With Mayuri unable to absorb Eyrith until the bulb is destroyed, Raiga is forced to climb to the top of the tree on foot and confronts Eyrith upon reaching the top. Though she attempts to tempt Raiga into allowing her to bloom, she ends up restraining him after playing with him and is revealed to be the cause of his parents' disappearance. She offers to return them safely if Raiga allows her to bloom, but he angrily refuses and proceeds to fight Eyrith before she once more restrains him and drains the remaining seconds of the time limit from his armor. As Eyrith begins to bloom, which is sensed by a mysterious figure arriving in town, Mayuri and Crow find themselves facing the Horror's new line of defense: Raiga as the feral Lost Soul Beast Garo.
#33 - God's Will
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 25
With Raiga attempting to fight the inner darkness as Crow and Busujima hold him at bay, Mayuri decides to seal the blooming Eyrith with Biku covering her before being captured. Things seem hopeless as Eyrith begins to summon Horrors from across all time until Raiga's light is rekindled by Akari's charm. He uses his Lost Soul Garo form to reach Eyrith before his armor assumes Lumnious Beast form to fatally wound the Horror. He explains to Eyrith that her plan is flawed because the Horrors she have summoned have already been killed by his predecessors and other Makai Knights across time. Eyrith's body is destroyed with Mayuri reforms the Ady Slate around the Horror's surviving core. Though Zaruba mentions Eyrith may have reunited him with his parents, Raiga believes that he will find them on his own someday. A new problem soon raises from Mayuri not entering her deep sleep as Shido reveals that she will die from lingering Horror thoughts still within her mind. Though the only way to save her is to enter her mind and purge the Horror thoughts, it would only ensure that Mayuri will forget everything as she enters her rest. Raiga assures a fearful Mayuri that they will just begin again with everyone else's support before he enters her mind and purifies the Horror cage. Days later, with Mayuri still sleeping, Raiga and everyone else resume their usual Makai Knight activities as Busujima makes a grave for Akari. But one day, Raiga visits Mayuri's room after his rounds and finds her awake with her memories apparently intact.
#34 - Vermin
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 2
An old homeless woman is possessed by a Horror, while the Makai Knight Crow investigates the destroyed slate and finds evidence that a Makai Priest was responsible for it. Back at the Saezima estate, Mayuri is introduced to Gonza and explains to Raiga that one among the nine Horrors that were sealed in the slate carry the seed of Eyrith. Once it sprouts, it will allow Messiah to appear in the human world once more. She also claims that Eyrith's seed should sprout in around 100 days and it must be sealed before it happens. Once summoned by the new watchdog, Raiga is informed that the Horror Exta has appeared and she orders him to bring it down. Once Raiga and Mayuri finally reach the Horror, Mayuri reveals that Exta does not contain Eyrith's seed, when Crow appears to confront it as well. Impolite with Raiga at first, Crow adops a more humble attitude once realizing that he is the current Garo and reveals that he is also investigating the incident with the slate, as it ocurred within his jurisdiction. Once tracking Exta thanks to a special shuriken Crow threw at her, the three confront the Horror when Crow is knocked afar, but decides to leave it to Raiga instead of helping him further. The Golden Knight manages to defeat Exta nonetheless, allowing Mayuri to seal its remains.
#35 - Sword
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 1
#36 - Scream
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 16
Iida and two other representatives of the Okura leisure company meet with a ride developer Kiera who has come up with a new thrill ride. Upon entering a large box that Kiera calls the greatest motion simulator ever made, Iida and the others are terrified upon finishing the ride and agree to pay her for the device. Kiera agrees to let them use her creation on the condition that she hosts a nighttime event for it within a week's time. The following night, confused as to how the box works, Iida returns to the development lab to find out Kiera's secret, but she spots him. She decides to subject him to the box's true abilities, scaring him to death by sending him into the Demon World and then transforming him into a sphere that she eats. The next day, Raiga has just explained to Mayuri the difference between fear and terror, when he and Crow are alerted to the presence of the Horror Profundes. The two Makai Knights are told that they must stop her from feeding, because she sends several humans to the Demon World in order to do so. They track Profundes down to Kiera's ride, with Kiera revealed to be the Horror's host. Crow drives away the crowd of onlookers so they are not sacrificed as Raiga battles Profundes's true form within the alternate dimension on the "thrill ride". Raiga as Garo manages to slay Profundes in her true form, but he soon finds himself dragged down into the Demon World, with hundreds of Horrors swarming around him and dragging him in. Crow arrives in the knick of time to save Raiga from being overwhelmed, and they return to the human world safely. The next day, Mayuri decides to try out one of the real thrill rides at the amusement park, and Raiga confides in Crow that he never before experienced true terror like that.