The BEST episodes written by Sumiko Umeda
#2 - 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
#3 - Wind Chime
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 6
While seeing Gonza cleaning up the estate, Raiga discovers a wind chime that he made in his youth around the time he met a wind chime maker named Shimada and his son Tetsuya. Visited by the masked child with a letter detailing his next mission, Raiga learns his that quarry is Shimada who became the host of a Horror after Tetsuya died a few years ago. Eventually finding Shimada and confirming that has become a Horror, Raiga sees no choice but to put the old man out of his misery. When Shimada assumes his true Horror form, Egosiren, he battles Raiga after he equips the Garo armor. The fight ends with Shimada impaled and regaining some of his humanity before shattering into glass, Raiga assuring Mayuri that slaying Horrors if his mission. Later, as Raiga introduces Crow to Gonza, Mayuri tries on the yukata of Raiga's mother and wanders around the town.
#4 - Transformation
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 14
Raiga and Crow encounter the Horror Idora, whom Mayuri reveals to possess Eyrith's seed. But after Garo slays Idora, the sprout that is Eyrith vanishes and Mayuri suddenly falls ill after absorbing Idora's essence. Raiga and Crow later learn that Eyrith transfered herself into another of the slab Horrors and that they must find the remaining four, and learn that the Makai Priest Shido will be visiting them to check on Mayuri's condition. When they return to the mansion, they find Gonza drunk, until they are formally introduced to Shido. Shido, upon examination of Mayuri, discovers that she has consciously activated her inherent powers. After she is sent to bed, Shido tells Raiga and Crow that Mayuri is actually a human, rather than simply a tool, who possesses the powers she does now because her mother was possessed by a Horror when pregnant with her. However, as her ability to seal Horrors made her useful, Shido explains that he treated her like an object to keep her from falling victim to human emotions. Zaruba and Orva reveal that they sense the faint presence of a Horror, and Shido explains that the Horror essence within Mayuri is slowly consuming her, as she wanders around town on her own. Raiga and Crow find her, having been manipulated by Idora to fall into temptation, and she has fallen into an even deeper sleep. Shido believes that they are too late to save her, but Raiga decides to enter her subconscious to destroy Idora's presence within her mind, freeing Mayuri from the mental cage at the cost of his own lifespan. The next day, Shido deems that Mayuri's condition has stabilized and suggests that Raiga get some rest. He realizes he was wrong in treating Mayuri as an object, and admits how proud he is of the strong woman she has become.
#5 - Afterimage
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 21
While fighting a Horror, Raiga encounters a mysterious man named Matō who devours the creature while revealing himself as a Makai Knight-like Horror named Gogeet. Gogeet then proceeds to fight Raiga while offering an alliance to the Makai Knight. Though Raiga refuses the offer, he is unable to land the deathblow when a little girl named appears at Gogeet's side, the Horror introducing her as his daughter Ai before taking his leave. After a night of searching, Raiga reports Gogeet to Jiiru as she tells him to confirm if he is one of two remaining Ady Slate Horrors. Jiiru also reminds Raiga that Eyrith's sealing is more important when the question of Mayuri's fate after their mission has ended is brought up. Mayuri and Raiga split up to search for Matō, with the former finding him and confirming to possess Eyrith's seed. Having suspected Eyrith's presence, Gogeet explains that Ai is only an illusion of a deceased girl that he is recently able to conjure. Mayuri regroups with Raiga and Crow, revealing what she has learned, and they hunt down Gogeet and the Makai Knight fight him for several hours past night fall. Raiga eventually musters the nerve to strike down Ai and gravely wounds Gogeet's arm as the Horror was about to kill Mayuri. Gogeet then assumes his true form, unconcerned with losing his illusion as he reveals that Ai was actually his first victim. This revelation enrages Raiga as he equips the Garo armor to attack Gogeet without mercy before killing the Horror. Just as Mayuri is about to seal Eyrith's seed, she is stopped by the figure responsible for unleashing the Horrors of the Ady Slate in the first place. As the figure explains his reasons are tied to the Makai Flower, he is revealed to be someone who Crow recognizes.
#6 - Suite
Garo - Season 4 - Episode 19
Across the city, people are being victimized by the feeding frenzy of a Horror that entered the body of orchestra conductor Johann before the creature becomes bored with his prey. At Saezima Manor, Mayuri intently listens to a record player playing Clair de Lune with Gonza and Raiga wondering what feelings it stirs in the young woman. Soon after, Raiga is alerted to the presence of a Horror with Zaruba confirming their quarry to be a musical Horror named Abysscore as Raiga finds a personal invitation from Johann. After Mayuri confirms that Abysscore is a Ady Slab Horror, she finds herself kidnapped by Johan as he wants to taste the Life Score of an non-normal human. Luckily, Raiga saves Mayuri as he fights Johann before the Horror assumes his true form. Equipping the Garo armor, Raiga turns Abysscore's Makai March band against him before slaying the Horror as Johann dies applauding the Makai Knight's song. Sometime later, Raiga sees Mayuri listening to Clair de Lune before she tells him that Eyrith will awaken soon.
#7 - Feather
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 9
#8 - Trap
Garo - Season 5 - Episode 11
