List Of Garo Episodes
This is a list of episodes of the 2005-2006 Japanese tokusatsu television series Garo.
The events within the television broadcast were described as being from the "Chapter of the Black Wolf". Garo lasted for 25 episodes, and included a special side story and a special two-part epilogue entitled Garo Special: Byakuya no Maju.
Episodes, Chapter of the Black Wolf
| # | Title | Writer | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Picture Book | ||||
| 1 | "Picture Book" Transliteration: "Ehon" (Japanese: 絵本) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi | October 7, 2005 | |
| After having a dream of herself as a child, reading a picture book titled The Black Flame and The Golden Wind before being saved from demonic creatures by a golden knight, Kaoru Mitsuki prepares for her debut tomorrow as an artist. Meanwhile, a man named Kouga Saezima just finished his training when his butler Gonza gives him a document that directs him to the art gallery Kaoru is at where a fiend called a Horror is located. After seeing the girl not to be possessed, he follows the frightened girl to the art dealer Tasuke Taniyama, offering to pay for one of Kaoru's pieces early and asking for the girl to take it to his manor. Once alone, Kouga attempts to kill Taniyama who runs off and put the entire building on lockdown. After taking out Taniyama's traps, with Kaoru in the crossfire, Kouga battles Taniyama until the demon possessing him, a woman-eating Horror named Anglay, bursts out of his host and uses another painting to assume another physical form. Telling Kaoru to run, Kouga transforms into the golden knight from Kaoru's dreams. Though Garo manages to kill the Horror, some of its blood splashes on Kaoru's face and arm. Though he has to kill her for being stained with the blood of a Horror, Kouga spares her life to use her as bait for attracting Horrors. When she comes to, Kouga apologizes for ruining her big break before walking off with her painting. | ||||
Inga | ||||
| 2 | "Inga" Transliteration: "Inga" (Japanese: 陰我) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi | October 14, 2005 | |
| After having another Horror-related dream, and attempting to dodge her landlord, Kaoru attempts to make some money as a melon bread salesgirl to make ends meet. But seeing Kouga, purify his blade, Kouga receives orders to get after the Horror Ishutarb who possesses the body of Azusa Kujō. Finding Kaoru waiting for him, Kouga gives her a ring as he promises to get her money soon. Meeting with her best friend Asami, Kaoru learns of the IT business proposal Kujō that was doing prior to becoming a Horror's vessel. Kujō instantly develops an interest in the girl as she is about to eat her when after scamming ¥50,000 from her and sensing the Horror blood on her. However, a combination of dumb luck and Garo stops Kujō from killing Kaoru with Ishutarb slain. After learning of Kujō's scamming the next day, Kaoru is relieved when Kouga brings back her money. From there, Kouga explains that the Horrors are demons from ancient times that target people with darkness in their hearts, telling Kaoru that hers is pure as he explains the ring given to her is a protective charm. As he leaves, Kaoru questions why Kouga has saved her life. | ||||
Clock | ||||
| 3 | "Clock" Transliteration: "Tokei" (Japanese: 時計) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi | October 21, 2005 | |
| After finding the victim of a Horror, with the demon nowhere in sight, Kouga brings the remains to the Watchdogs who reveal it to be the work of Morax, a Horror that takes the form of timepieces which Kouga has never faced the likes of before. Working in a bicycle delivery service, Kaoru is tricked into finding the Saezima Estate where Kouga warns her to stay away from any time piece for the day. By then, Kaoru learns of Kouga's Madōgu Zaruba, who reveals the ring she wears as actually a part of him to her disgust. Soon after, to further insure her safety, Kouga had Kaoru occupy the guest room with Gonza paying the delivery fee as compensation. By nightfall, Kouga finds Morax as he devours a high school girl named Ayano, jump onto another girl to evade the Makai Knight through various hosts. However, taking a delivery for her shrink, Kaoru ends up being taken hostage by Morax as he assumes the form of an old clock tower. Fighting the Horror's defenses, Garo manages to rip out Morax from his vessel and kill him. With Morax dead, the building fell apart and Kouga carries the unconscious Kaoru to safety before she comes to. Giving Kaoru back her watch, she attempts to demand answers when she realizes she is behind on deliveries. | ||||
Dinner | ||||
| 4 | "Dinner" Transliteration: "Bansan" (Japanese: 晩餐) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi | October 28, 2005 | |
| Arriving to a hospital once noted of a Horror sighting, Zaruba cannot seem to detect anything out of the unusual. The next day, after being evicted, Kaoru forces her way into Asami's place, unintentionally getting her sick as she is taken to the hospital the same time Kouga attempts a second look over, uneasy about Zaruba's inability to sense their surroundings. He then up with the wife of one of Dr. Tategami's patients, who she last saw going to see the doctor to thank him. Interested why a Horror would spare human lives to eat them, Kouga meets Tategami who reveals himself as a host to the Horror Pazuzu who explains he is preparing his meals for finer taste. Learning he cannot summon his armor, Kouga is forced to fall back with Pazuzu summons his Horror staff to kill him. After refueling his Madō Fire, Kouga decides to use Kaoru to take out the source of the anti-Makai barrier Pazuzu erected. As Kaoru is forced into it, Kouga battles the Horrors until he can become Garo, slaying Pazuzu after defeating him as a response to his final wish to taste Kaoru. | ||||
Moonlight | ||||
| 5 | "Moonlight" Transliteration: "Gekkō" (Japanese: 月光) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi | November 4, 2005 | |
| Remembering Kouga's words to her during the Morax incident, Kaoru decides to live in the mansion's guest room to his dismay. Meanwhile, a pharmacist named Hitoshi Morino is on the run after being made a suspect in the murder of a woman named Reiko Sakashita. Kidnapping a high school girl as his hostage, he is confronted by his old rival turned cop Hanezawa. As Morino and Hanezawa get into an argument over the matter, they and the girl soon realize they are not alone in the warehouse. Arriving in the area, Kouga encounters a moth which embodies a heart-broken woman's final thoughts prior to becoming a Horror's vessel. Following the moth, Kouga learns the Horror is Lunarken, a sadistic glutton who corners her prey in order to feed during a full moon. Arriving to the warehouse and knocking the three humans out, Garo battles Lunarken and slays her. By the time the three humans came to, with no memory of the night's events, Morino is cleared of all charges against him. | ||||
Beauty | ||||
| 6 | "Beauty" Transliteration: "Bibō" (Japanese: 美貌) | Kengo Kaji Sotaro Hayashi | November 11, 2005 | |
| Kouga hunts Horrors at a local cemetery, losing one when he is wounded by a dagger from an unknown assailant. Running into a middle aged prostitute named Kotomi Himigawa, who just beat up a man and hurting two younger girls for their money, Kouga runs off after he checks her for possession and finds her clean, just as Kotomi is quickly possessed by the Horror. The next day, after getting his injury tended to and negating the poison, Kouga learns from the Watchdogs that the weapon is an Evil-Crushing Dagger which only Makai Knights would use. Meanwhile, forming a pact with the Horror inside her, Kotomi regains her youth as she starts killing off men. Meanwhile, while looking for a job, Kaoru is saved by a couple of seedy guys by a mysterious young man, whose words put her at unease. Kaoru shows up for the job of bartender before witnessing Kotomi killing her employer, Kotomi chases Kaoru to the harbor as Kouga appears. By then, another Evil-Crushing Dagger appears belonging to the man who saved Kaoru earlier, telling Kouga he is also a Makai Knight. Annoyed, Utoque attacks as Garo battles and slays the Horror. Kotomi asks for help as she dies, but Garo says it is impossible as she allowed the Horror to possess her in the first place. Soon after, the man formally introduces himself as the Silver Fanged Knight Zero, before confusing Kouga and Kaoru and taking his leave. | ||||
Silver Fang | ||||
| 7 | "Silver Fang" Transliteration: "Ginga" (Japanese: 銀牙) | Kengo Kaji Keita Amemiya | November 18, 2005 | |
| Unable to find information on Zero, Kouga and Gonza speculate that he is from the western district. Kouga makes arrangements for the Barankas fruit with Gonza before heading out for his routine of sealing and entrances used by Horrors; finding that Zero has been doing his job. Kaoru gets a new job as a waitress and Zero stops where she is working for a table full of sweets. Soon after, Zero 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 Zero as the two fight their way through Shinjuku's Capitol where they get a brief interference from a Horror before they don their armor. The two fight their way down the Capitol before they run out of time with Garo winning to Zero's dismay. | ||||
Ring | ||||
| 8 | "Ring" Transliteration: "Yubiwa" (Japanese: 指輪) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi | November 25, 2005 | |
| While training, Kouga is a bit annoyed of Kaoru drawing his hand. Gonza tries to quell the situation by offering English tea, but Kouga leaves in frustration while Kaoru is wondering why she has not been able to draw lately. Meanwhile, a young barkeep named Miri Kamisugawa, who became a serial killer after the suicide of her lover, ends up becoming the Horror's host to complete her collection of ideal fingers to complete a set of hands. Sensing Kaoru entering her place of business, Miri decides to kill her for her finger while Kaoru is in a drunken stupor when Zero arrives and drives the Horror away with Kouga's aid. Assuming its true form, Moloch battles Garo and is slain with only Miri's engagement ring left. Kaoru and Kouga return home with Kaoru sketching his hands again as he rests, stating that his hands are not dirtied as she thinks about her desire to draw something important. | ||||
Ordeal | ||||
| 9 | "Ordeal" Transliteration: "Shiren" (Japanese: 試練) | Kengo Kaji Yuji Kobayashi Keita Amemiya | December 2, 2005 | |
| Kaoru is hired by school headmaster Osamu 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. | ||||
Puppet | ||||
| 10 | "Puppet" Transliteration: "Ningyō" (Japanese: 人形) | Yuji Kobayashi Kengo Kaji | December 9, 2005 | |
| The Horror Asmodeus 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. Asmodeus strikes again before the Makai Knights eventually destroy him. | ||||
Game | ||||
| 11 | "Game" Transliteration: "Yūgi" (Japanese: 遊戯) | Sotaro Hayashi Kengo Kaji | December 16, 2005 | |
| The trickster Horror Dantalion lures people to play his coin game but, when they lose in his fixed games, he devours their soul. Dantalion tries this trick on Kaoru and takes her soul. After facing off against Zero, Kouga encounters Dantalian and competes in his games to recover Kaoru's soul. He eventually succeeds, destroying Dantalion and reuniting Kaoru's body with her soul. | ||||
Taiga | ||||
| 12 | "Taiga" Transliteration: "Taiga" (Japanese: 大河) | Kengo Kaji Keita Amemiya | December 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 Fanged Wolf Sword and fight as the new Garo, eventually becoming the man he is today. | ||||
Promise | ||||
| 13 | "Promise" Transliteration: "Yakusoku" (Japanese: 約束) | Kei Taguchi | January 6, 2006 | |
| This is a special recap episode, narrated by Zaruba. This recap episode features information about the characters, the story, and the villains of the series that developed so far. The only new information is that Karune Ryuzaki pays Kaoru for their sessions. The Horrors that appeared so far has also been named. The last bit of the episode shows Garo fighting Horrors on board a falling train, surviving as he is revealed to have overheard Zaruba's whole recap conversation during the fight. | ||||
Nightmare | ||||
| 14 | "Nightmare" Transliteration: "Akumu" (Japanese: 悪夢) | Yuji Kobayashi Kengo Kaji | January 13, 2006 | |
| While resting, Zero dreams of his past with Shizuka and their ill father, both of whom were murdered by an armored figure who he comes to believe was Garo. Waking up in the present, Zero finds Kaoru visiting him but drives her away. Summoned by the Eastern Watchdogs, Zero is ordered by them to support Kouga in sealing a gateway and slaying the 100 Horrors within it. They enter the Demon Realm and eventually destroy the gateway's energy source, but Zero still has his doubts about Garo's part in his step family's murder. | ||||
Statue | ||||
| 15 | "Statue" Transliteration: "Gūzō" (Japanese: 偶像) | Yuji Kobayashi Kengo Kaji | January 20, 2006 | |
| After confronting the Horror Gargoyle in the West, outside his area, Kouga is ordered not to set foot in the area again. Meanwhile, during her attempt to uncover the truth behind the final blank page, Kaoru finds a clue in an interview by sculptor Kouhei Kuramachi who states her father as an inspiration to him. Entering the western territory, Kaoru finds Kuramachi's studio. However, learning that Kuramachi never met her father, Kaoru is forced to run for her life when she realizes he is a Horror's host. Though Zero comes to her aid, Kuramachi flings her over the ledge with Kouga arriving to save her in spite of the disobeying the Watchdogs. Forced to stay at the sidelines, Kouga witnesses Zero battle Gargoyle, killing the Horror as its host was in awe of Zero's beauty. After being thanked by Kaoru, Zero walks off while revealing his true name: Ginga. | ||||
Red Sake | ||||
| 16 | "Red Sake" Transliteration: "Akazake" (Japanese: 赤酒) | Yuji Kobayashi Keita Amemiya | January 27, 2006 | |
| 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 Crimson Forest, 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 postpones 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. | ||||
Aquarium | ||||
| 17 | "Aquarium" Transliteration: "Suisō" (Japanese: 水槽) | Yuji Kobayashi Kengo Kaji | February 3, 2006 | |
| After telling Gonza about what Amon told him about a means to save Kaoru, still hiding the truth from the girl as he promised to protect her, Kouga learns that a Horror named Haru appeared. Entering the body of a goldfish, Haru takes advantage of a man named Mitsuru Tonuma to have him feed it women in order to assimilate their features to gain a human-like appearance. After being unable to find the Horror, Kouga is forced to use Kaoru as bait. But temporary halted by the other Horrors attracted to Kaoru, Kouga is barely able to get to her in time as she was about to be fed to Haru. Kouga shatters the glass with the incomplete Horror revealed as it is breathing heavily before beheading Haru and restraining himself from killing Tonuma. However Haru's head reveals Kouga's intention for Kaoru as Horror bait in its dying breath. Kaoru asks Kouga if this is true, which he confirms. She asks him to remove the tracking ring from her after tearfully reminding him of his promise to protect her, which he does, only for a heart-broken Kaoru to run off. | ||||
World Charm | ||||
| 18 | "World Charm" Transliteration: "Kaifu" (Japanese: 界符) | Yuji Kobayashi Sotaro Hayashi Kengo Kaji | February 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 Makai Priestess named Jabi has taken twelve Horror Blades from them and was Amon's killer. However, not believing his childhood friend killed Amon, Kouga finds Jabi. Though asking why she stole the blades, 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 restrain her. Rei, tricked by the Watchdogs to kill Kouga and Jabi for them, arrives with Kaoru as he demands the blades. After tricking Rei, Kouga holds him off as Jabi takes Kaoru to a safe area. | ||||
Black Flame | ||||
| 19 | "Black Flame" Transliteration: "Kokuen" (Japanese: 黒炎) | Yuji Kobayashi Sotaro Hayashi Kengo Kaji | February 17, 2006 | |
| After donning their armor, Garo and Zero have an epic battle with Jabi watching as the two 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 Crimson Forest. 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 Blades 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. | ||||
Life | ||||
| 20 | "Life" Transliteration: "Inochi" (Japanese: 生命) | Yuji Kobayashi Sotaro Hayashi Kengo Kaji | February 24, 2006 | |
| With time running out, Kouga leaves for the Crimson Forest. Though knowing he would die, Kouga persuades the gatekeeper Tamu to give him safe passage after she tests his character. Fighting his way through the forest's traps and many Horrors, Kouga finds Kaoru's disembodied soul and persuades her to keep on living as he entrusts Zaruba to get her back into her body while he goes to the Barankas. However, Kouga ends up facing the Barankas fruit's guardian. Enabled by the being to assume his Makai Knight form, Garo summons Gouten to battle Grou Dragon physically and ethically. Though Rei helped Kouga at the last second, Grou Dragon accepts its defeat before dissolving. With Rei carrying him back, Kouga manages to give Kaoru the Barankas fruit just in time. | ||||
Magic Bullet | ||||
| 21 | "Magic Bullet" Transliteration: "Madan" (Japanese: 魔弾) | Yuji Kobayashi | March 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 a trap, Kouga goes there anyway. Arriving there, he 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 Bonafaltz, Garo manages to strike down the Horrors before striking Bonafaltz down. However, Bonafaltz turn out to be security guard as the host reveals himself to be not only human, but also the father of Miri 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 Blade 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, Kaoru screams in fright when a strange mark appears on her neck. | ||||
Engraving | ||||
| 22 | "Engraving" Transliteration: "Kokuin" (Japanese: 刻印) | Yuji Kobayashi | March 10, 2006 | |
| Finding Kaoru with a Horror gate on her neck, Kouga learns of the ultimate Horror Messiah and the goal of the Horror-devouring Dark Makai Knight. When Kaoru 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 Dark Makai 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 saves 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, Kaoru enters the sanctum of Kouga's training room as she is made familiar with Kouga's armor to ease her worries before he and Rei take their leave to fight Barago and the Eastern Watchdogs after placing a barrier around the manor. Seeing the irony, Kaoru accepts what fate dealt her. | ||||
Heart Destruction | ||||
| 23 | "Heart Destruction" Transliteration: "Shinmetsu" (Japanese: 心滅) | Yuji Kobayashi Keita Amemiya | March 17, 2006 | |
| Arriving to find the Eastern Watchdogs gone, the three got 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, Ryuzaki 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 armor to battle the Darkness Knight before being defeated by him as he and his group take their leave to the site of Messiah'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 Demon Beast 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. | ||||
Girl | ||||
| 24 | "Girl" Transliteration: "Shōjo" (Japanese: 少女) | Yuji Kobayashi Kengo Kaji Keita Amemiya | March 24, 2006 | |
| Infuriated of Kaoru's confidence that her friends will save her, Barago sends Gulm after Kouga and Rei as they enter the building. As Rei is forced into a physical and psychological battle with Gulm before defeated by her beast form and seemingly killed off, Kouga arrives to the ritual chamber as Barago holds him off. Kaoru comes to by then, possessed by Messiah as Barago is devoured by the Horror as she then uses Kaoru to begin the summoning process while Gulm holds Kouga off. After knocking Gulm out, Kouga is joined by Rei as they attempt to restrain 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 Gulm off, Kouga enters through the portal to where Kaoru's consciousness is before entering the realm of the Horrors to face the titanic Messiah as she pinpointed Kaoru's body to enter the land of the living. | ||||
Heroic Spirits | ||||
| 25 | "Heroic Spirits" Transliteration: "Eirei" (Japanese: 英霊) | Yuji Kobayashi Keita Amemiya | March 31, 2006 | |
| As Rei manages to defeat Gulm with Gonza's help, Kouga is unable to slow Messiah down as he is overwhelmed by the vast number of Horrors. By then, Kaoru's father appears to urge his daughter to complete the painting she started. This, in turn, causes Garo to assume his Winged Garo 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 Kaoru 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 briefly 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 disarms as Zaruba dies from overusing itself. Later, as Rei gives Kouga a newly forged Madōgu, 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 tears. | ||||
Smile | ||||
| Ex | "Garo Side Story: Smile" Transliteration: "Garo Gaiden: Egao" (Japanese: GARO 外伝 笑顔) | Yuji Kobayashi Kengo Kaji | October 7, 2006 | |
| Kaoru awakens to find a man resembling Gonza. He tells her that he is a god of pictures and they are within her Demon World. She demands to leave, but the god sets her an ordeal to complete. Having done 1000 paintings, she can summon the gold pencil, but she must meet someone who loves her paintings first. Kaoru meets the canvas she drew Kouga on, which chases her. Later, she encounters her friend Asami, or rather, the Goddess of Painting in Asami's image. They fight over the Gold Pencil but the Goddess gets away with it. She soon meets three girls, a talkative Kodama and even human versions of Zaruba and Silva. Silva tries to kill her, but she soon runs into her mother. Her mother 'dies', but Kaoru comes to understand why her father left her the gold pencil. | ||||
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