The main female characters in the Special can be treated very briefly and together for one single reason: they do not change.
Rin is always the same girl proud of her power and yearning for her brother. When power brings fear, we ignore if it makes her to feel more caoutius or insecure. When Tsubasa recovers his real self, to feel happy was the only possible option.
In the series, Jabi was a more complex character than here, as we saw in the duality of his behaviour to Kouga. In the Special she is a fighter and nothing else, although grateful for her release (who would not?) It would have been more consistent if she would have asked whether Kouga had managed to save Kaoru.
It is a pity they had not worked over these characters, very important for them to get more attention.
Es mostren els missatges amb l'etiqueta de comentaris garo special. Mostrar tots els missatges
Es mostren els missatges amb l'etiqueta de comentaris garo special. Mostrar tots els missatges
diumenge, 28 de desembre del 2008
GARO Special - Tsubasa Yamagatana
Spoilers!
We ignore if Tsubasa was so bossy and so jealous of his territory before to stumble across Kouga. Such a surfeit of responsibility is almost unavoidable for a proud character: he has grown surrounded by people (or family, at least), people he loves and, if as Rin said, their mother was killed by a horror, his obsession to protect them all makes sense. Therefore, he believes to be fair everyone to count with him for everything, and gets angry if not.
We saw him pretty legalistic, without any regard to the circumstances. Perhaps this was the reason they never gave him all the information he might need. Mix this with his pride, and you will get a character as difficult as Kouga’s, but with a different hue. Although they both are proud, Tsubasa gets his strengh from this pride ( "I’ll protect Kantai!") And Kouga gets his from his faith.
But pride is like a sandcastle: it does not support attacks, neither solid arguments nor evidences. In a reasonable and well-intentioned person, it is doomed to be removed. So, Tusbasa will warned to swallow it when he feels in debt with the ones he had rejected so much surly, and which had forced him to look inside his heart, in order to get strength and compassion from there.
Chap. 2. Rin yearns for her brother being sympathetic and smiling, before becoming a Makai Knight. Tsubasa will have to face his pride before retrieving his nature.
To summarize, it is a case similar to Kouga’s. But, unlike this one, Tsubasa will retrieve his friendly and social nature, so we can discover that his bad change of behavior had not yet fully rooted in his personality, it was a patch added to deal with some exceptional circumstances.
After watching reality with a clearer light, Tusbasa will be able to collaborate, even hand over to another the pre-eminent place, if that other had more possibilities to achieve the goal.
We ignore if Tsubasa was so bossy and so jealous of his territory before to stumble across Kouga. Such a surfeit of responsibility is almost unavoidable for a proud character: he has grown surrounded by people (or family, at least), people he loves and, if as Rin said, their mother was killed by a horror, his obsession to protect them all makes sense. Therefore, he believes to be fair everyone to count with him for everything, and gets angry if not.
We saw him pretty legalistic, without any regard to the circumstances. Perhaps this was the reason they never gave him all the information he might need. Mix this with his pride, and you will get a character as difficult as Kouga’s, but with a different hue. Although they both are proud, Tsubasa gets his strengh from this pride ( "I’ll protect Kantai!") And Kouga gets his from his faith.
But pride is like a sandcastle: it does not support attacks, neither solid arguments nor evidences. In a reasonable and well-intentioned person, it is doomed to be removed. So, Tusbasa will warned to swallow it when he feels in debt with the ones he had rejected so much surly, and which had forced him to look inside his heart, in order to get strength and compassion from there.
Chap. 2. Rin yearns for her brother being sympathetic and smiling, before becoming a Makai Knight. Tsubasa will have to face his pride before retrieving his nature.
To summarize, it is a case similar to Kouga’s. But, unlike this one, Tsubasa will retrieve his friendly and social nature, so we can discover that his bad change of behavior had not yet fully rooted in his personality, it was a patch added to deal with some exceptional circumstances.
After watching reality with a clearer light, Tusbasa will be able to collaborate, even hand over to another the pre-eminent place, if that other had more possibilities to achieve the goal.
diumenge, 16 de novembre del 2008
GARO Special - Rei's evolution
SPOILERS!!!
Unlike the series, here we see this character fully integrated. No inconsistencies and ambiguities anymore: this is Rei Suzumura.
He is an ironic man, but affable (we had already seen it), used to live with people, with a bit of unconformism. Using a motorcycle to move around when you could use faster means of your own sphere of action, seems to tell us that he takes life calmly, he is a relaxed man.
Chapter 2. When the series was over, Rei ended up being a friend of Kouga. He started in a good way with Tsubasa, and did his best to put a bit of peace between their confronted prides. He regreted every time that Tsubasa rejected his attempts which, in fact, did not pretend anything else than to get a effective collaboration among the three of them.
But we can see an opposite tendence to Kouga’s: if this one begins to do timid attempts to get together with other people, Rei’s progressive isolation is obvious. We see he rejects a disciple, and he is not with the group of people on farewell time. He has grown with family, and now, he is alone.
Chapter 2. His madou pendant, Silver, is sorry because he does not accept Akatsuki, whom he has shown interested: Silver alerts he will feel very alone. Now, as happened at the end of the series, he has made clear his intention to remain lonely.
It is a calm decision, taken with knowledge of the facts? He does not seem to exhibit any evidence of a depression, so we can suppose that he has already left behind his period of mourning. So, why to become more and more alone? Perhaps has he repressed his mourning? Has not he forgiven himself his unsuccessful protection of his loved ones, and remorse poisons him slowly?
Let’s watch a symbol. If they have decided Rei to wear a black coat and Kouga a white one may be coincidence ... if you believe coincidences to be accidents. But it is not my case, which allows me to go further in my deductions.
From the point of view of physics, color white is the union of all colors of the spectrum, and sunlight is the prime example. Opposite to it, black is the absence of light. On the other hand, a coat is an externat piece of clothing, so it symbolizes what is visible about a person. Acording to these "parameters" Kouga shows himself in progress to light and, also, it is clear Rei’s way to darkness.
Chapter 2. Then, we can wonder whether Rei’s case is the same of those people who have continually television, radio or music turned on because they can not be alone with any background noise. Will the noise of the motorcycle be a resource so he did not listen to himself, his inner complaints?
Going even further, and getting into some eastern beliefs (you would be surprised to know the high number of Western people believing them) we might wonder if in the future Shizuka should reincarnate with the specific purpose to forgive Rei, so he would allow himself to leave the world of the darkness. Did Kouga and Kaoru happened something like this?
Unlike the series, here we see this character fully integrated. No inconsistencies and ambiguities anymore: this is Rei Suzumura.
He is an ironic man, but affable (we had already seen it), used to live with people, with a bit of unconformism. Using a motorcycle to move around when you could use faster means of your own sphere of action, seems to tell us that he takes life calmly, he is a relaxed man.
Chapter 2. When the series was over, Rei ended up being a friend of Kouga. He started in a good way with Tsubasa, and did his best to put a bit of peace between their confronted prides. He regreted every time that Tsubasa rejected his attempts which, in fact, did not pretend anything else than to get a effective collaboration among the three of them.
But we can see an opposite tendence to Kouga’s: if this one begins to do timid attempts to get together with other people, Rei’s progressive isolation is obvious. We see he rejects a disciple, and he is not with the group of people on farewell time. He has grown with family, and now, he is alone.
Chapter 2. His madou pendant, Silver, is sorry because he does not accept Akatsuki, whom he has shown interested: Silver alerts he will feel very alone. Now, as happened at the end of the series, he has made clear his intention to remain lonely.
It is a calm decision, taken with knowledge of the facts? He does not seem to exhibit any evidence of a depression, so we can suppose that he has already left behind his period of mourning. So, why to become more and more alone? Perhaps has he repressed his mourning? Has not he forgiven himself his unsuccessful protection of his loved ones, and remorse poisons him slowly?
Let’s watch a symbol. If they have decided Rei to wear a black coat and Kouga a white one may be coincidence ... if you believe coincidences to be accidents. But it is not my case, which allows me to go further in my deductions.
From the point of view of physics, color white is the union of all colors of the spectrum, and sunlight is the prime example. Opposite to it, black is the absence of light. On the other hand, a coat is an externat piece of clothing, so it symbolizes what is visible about a person. Acording to these "parameters" Kouga shows himself in progress to light and, also, it is clear Rei’s way to darkness.
Chapter 2. Then, we can wonder whether Rei’s case is the same of those people who have continually television, radio or music turned on because they can not be alone with any background noise. Will the noise of the motorcycle be a resource so he did not listen to himself, his inner complaints?
Going even further, and getting into some eastern beliefs (you would be surprised to know the high number of Western people believing them) we might wonder if in the future Shizuka should reincarnate with the specific purpose to forgive Rei, so he would allow himself to leave the world of the darkness. Did Kouga and Kaoru happened something like this?
dimarts, 21 d’octubre del 2008
GARO Special – Kouga’s evolution
SPOILERS!!!
We have to add very few things about his idealism and faith. His only doubt, a logical scepticism about young Rin skills, was banished after her first demonstration, and he will be able to entrust his life to her.
Chapter 1. Kouga has not been tolerant to Rin when she did not want to return to Kantai so early, and he dragged her along; he let himself go when she took his hand, but now he tries hard on speaking to her about their respective mothers. It will become a feeling of evident affection.
We see a great change in the development of the social aspect. Even though as much serious and elusive he still is, he finishes with a girlfriend -even though we knew it since before- he is among people in farewell time and, when Tsubasa says " we are in Kantai and we will do things in my way" he answers "we do things in our way": in his case, the use of plural uncovers a sort of consciousness of group.
His bumping into Tsubasa was unavoidable due to their pride, but he tries hard on being kind with Rin, and Garai, and it is clear that he gets along with Rei. Even dares to scold Tsubasa because he is so cold with his little sister. For him, you can not behave like this with those people you love.
But Kouga’s case goes beyond.
Chapter 2. Even though at first he himself is not much courteous to Rin, we can not disregard his great alarm, very emotional when, after finishing their first fight against Lègules, Kouga runs to her side and see her hurt by the demoniac blood.
In this scene, even Jabi has been forgotten, though she was a bit hurt too and was closer to him. Is he rmembering Kaoru’s case through the young Rin?
But there is another possibility. If we accept that the relationship between he and Jabi was a sort of continuation of the one that they had as being children, look at his reaction when he sees her after taking her from the magical tree –his brighting face– and when he knows, perhaps telepathically, that has gone out of saving Rin and surviving, and he pronounces her name. It looks like a very deep friendship. We also remember how he was affected |in the series -chapter 18- when was noticed about the dead of the Makai priest Amon. We might conclude that Kouga is a man of some few friends, but very good ones, and he is ready to do everything for them.
Certainly, this allows us to ask why such a powerful defensive barrier –his closed nature– turned up. Perhaps he thought that this emotional capacity made him vulnerable. Suture against the loss of his parents? We aimed the importance of this factor at the comments about the series, but we did not say anything about a possible emotional past of him, led to be interrupted before or after his father’s dead. Did he lose anybody else?
A friend of mine thinks that between Kouga and Jabi had something more than a childhood friendship, and we have seen already there are some scenes supporting such a theory. Thus, it would make some sense Jabi’s violent reaction as they met in the series, accusing him of letting her to win when they played -chapter 18-, and her sweeter reaction afterwards too. Did one of them break up? Did either person or circumstance split them apart, and things kept on cooling in the time? The poor boy must have panic of losing also Kaoru. How can we not understand his first incapability of accepting his feelings towards her!
We can not answer any question made here but, oh yes, there was an emotional past for Kouga, blocked, and retrieved since he fell in love. It looks that for him, friendship and love can be equally intense, only different in nuance.
Chapter 2. In the two chapters of the special we have attended some details telling us that Koga is still in love. When at last Kaoru comes back, we feel comforting to see he has learned of his feelings. Enough about of taking her wrist and dragging her along: now he waits for her to want to go with him.
Thanks very much for the screenshots, Radix.
We have to add very few things about his idealism and faith. His only doubt, a logical scepticism about young Rin skills, was banished after her first demonstration, and he will be able to entrust his life to her.
Chapter 1. Kouga has not been tolerant to Rin when she did not want to return to Kantai so early, and he dragged her along; he let himself go when she took his hand, but now he tries hard on speaking to her about their respective mothers. It will become a feeling of evident affection.
We see a great change in the development of the social aspect. Even though as much serious and elusive he still is, he finishes with a girlfriend -even though we knew it since before- he is among people in farewell time and, when Tsubasa says " we are in Kantai and we will do things in my way" he answers "we do things in our way": in his case, the use of plural uncovers a sort of consciousness of group.
His bumping into Tsubasa was unavoidable due to their pride, but he tries hard on being kind with Rin, and Garai, and it is clear that he gets along with Rei. Even dares to scold Tsubasa because he is so cold with his little sister. For him, you can not behave like this with those people you love.
But Kouga’s case goes beyond.
Chapter 2. Even though at first he himself is not much courteous to Rin, we can not disregard his great alarm, very emotional when, after finishing their first fight against Lègules, Kouga runs to her side and see her hurt by the demoniac blood.
In this scene, even Jabi has been forgotten, though she was a bit hurt too and was closer to him. Is he rmembering Kaoru’s case through the young Rin?
But there is another possibility. If we accept that the relationship between he and Jabi was a sort of continuation of the one that they had as being children, look at his reaction when he sees her after taking her from the magical tree –his brighting face– and when he knows, perhaps telepathically, that has gone out of saving Rin and surviving, and he pronounces her name. It looks like a very deep friendship. We also remember how he was affected |in the series -chapter 18- when was noticed about the dead of the Makai priest Amon. We might conclude that Kouga is a man of some few friends, but very good ones, and he is ready to do everything for them.
Certainly, this allows us to ask why such a powerful defensive barrier –his closed nature– turned up. Perhaps he thought that this emotional capacity made him vulnerable. Suture against the loss of his parents? We aimed the importance of this factor at the comments about the series, but we did not say anything about a possible emotional past of him, led to be interrupted before or after his father’s dead. Did he lose anybody else?
A friend of mine thinks that between Kouga and Jabi had something more than a childhood friendship, and we have seen already there are some scenes supporting such a theory. Thus, it would make some sense Jabi’s violent reaction as they met in the series, accusing him of letting her to win when they played -chapter 18-, and her sweeter reaction afterwards too. Did one of them break up? Did either person or circumstance split them apart, and things kept on cooling in the time? The poor boy must have panic of losing also Kaoru. How can we not understand his first incapability of accepting his feelings towards her!
We can not answer any question made here but, oh yes, there was an emotional past for Kouga, blocked, and retrieved since he fell in love. It looks that for him, friendship and love can be equally intense, only different in nuance.
Chapter 2. In the two chapters of the special we have attended some details telling us that Koga is still in love. When at last Kaoru comes back, we feel comforting to see he has learned of his feelings. Enough about of taking her wrist and dragging her along: now he waits for her to want to go with him.
Thanks very much for the screenshots, Radix.
dimecres, 24 de setembre del 2008
GARO Special - Personal Impressions
Update: December 6th, 2008.
This text contains spoilers, be warned.
The Beast of the White Night. This is the title of the special having two episodes of 50 minutes each one, which finishes Garo. It is an amusing story, tieing what came off loose in the series. Rather two stories, one by chapter, even though the second interweaves since the first episode.
All emblematic characters of the series are present, and there are some new ones. The first, specially clearly in the younger ones, seem to attain the interpretative maturity of their roles. On the new ones, I have read in other reviews that the best among them is the little Rin; I find her exasperating -in original version, at last- and quite farfetched. Certainly, it is quite odd to speak about implausibility in a fantastic show, but for everything there is a boundary: she can do one or other thing, or that she has got a power or another one but, should she make such things without a supervision, and putting on her young shoulders the responsibility of some human lives?
But, on unbelievable things, Jabi’s reappearance is the biggest. Those who saw what happened to her in the series, perhaps we would not find a better explanation than the one suggested by a friend of mine: teleportation, even though it is difficult for me to relate Garo with the series Star Trek. It is not that I complain: Jabi has a justified role in the film, but even fantasy has to have its own logic, and in no moment anybody has said how has she ended up into the trunk of the magical tree.
A pair of things. At the forest of Naraku the trees seem demeanour of a straight line. The second is that, as well as it happened often in the series, there are scenes altered in the time, that is: an image/scene is chronologically posterior to the one coming next. This last one has disconcerted me a bit. In any case, wrongs of every kind have diminished, with respect to the series.
Some review say that it lacks enough epics, but I believe that the special has enough of it and, as well as in the series, the most epic scenes are helped –very much– for the magnificent soundtrack. Had I not say anything of the soundtrack, yet? I think it is brilliant!
Someone also criticized that new character Tsubasa Yamagatana is almost a clon of Kouga... but more talkative. I think that precisely this thing attains to communicate us what sort of work makes a Makai knight, the tremendous pressure upon his soul. Rei’s exception also speaks about how important is environment and individuality, as variables in the formation of personality. Everything say us that a Makai knight is, firstly, a human being.
The armor of the new knight Dan (Tsubasa) is worthy of the other two. White color and with a short red cape, it also has got less animal reminiscences than those of Garo and Zero. And, since we speak about armors, let me say that the last transformation of Garo, in my opinion, is superb and lovely.
In the series it drew my attention how a great spill of blood -a big splash that blurred in the air- was shown. Even though there is not persistence on showing it to us, now it is much more realistic, at least regarding the human blood, and it adds more impact to the scenes needed of it.
There are two things that I have liked especially, Firsty, of course, the conversation -rather a speech- in which Kouga attempts to face Tsubasa with his feelings. And also, how has illustrated the explanation of the relation among Legules and the Phosphore Arrow: the schematic drawings, totally in accordance to the ornamental style of the series, they are a mixture of aesthetics and of brightness or, at least, mute loquacity. I add the pleasant surprise that it has been to see Rei on a motorbike, and Kouga "surfing".
Some lack I find? I miss a little more of romanticism: the final scene is very short. Of course, you can discern a romantic background in some other scenes: Kouga’s anger when Rin spoils the famous picture of the landscape, and the speech of Kouga to Tsubasa.
The special deals mainly about fight, and the remaining things are causes to fight. The characters themselves get little attention. Even Kouga and Rei merely reassert themselves in the trends which already were starting to be seen in the series. I do not know if it will be my imagination, but it seems that the one more careful treated (but always static) was Rin.
And some ones that we did not expect as well: does Rei return Silver’s love?, finally? Jokes aside, there is a disturbing evidence affecting Kouga: he can grasp that Jabi has gone out of the great of curing Rin, in a distance. But in the series it happened to him with Kaoru, too...
This text contains spoilers, be warned.
The Beast of the White Night. This is the title of the special having two episodes of 50 minutes each one, which finishes Garo. It is an amusing story, tieing what came off loose in the series. Rather two stories, one by chapter, even though the second interweaves since the first episode.
All emblematic characters of the series are present, and there are some new ones. The first, specially clearly in the younger ones, seem to attain the interpretative maturity of their roles. On the new ones, I have read in other reviews that the best among them is the little Rin; I find her exasperating -in original version, at last- and quite farfetched. Certainly, it is quite odd to speak about implausibility in a fantastic show, but for everything there is a boundary: she can do one or other thing, or that she has got a power or another one but, should she make such things without a supervision, and putting on her young shoulders the responsibility of some human lives?
But, on unbelievable things, Jabi’s reappearance is the biggest. Those who saw what happened to her in the series, perhaps we would not find a better explanation than the one suggested by a friend of mine: teleportation, even though it is difficult for me to relate Garo with the series Star Trek. It is not that I complain: Jabi has a justified role in the film, but even fantasy has to have its own logic, and in no moment anybody has said how has she ended up into the trunk of the magical tree.
A pair of things. At the forest of Naraku the trees seem demeanour of a straight line. The second is that, as well as it happened often in the series, there are scenes altered in the time, that is: an image/scene is chronologically posterior to the one coming next. This last one has disconcerted me a bit. In any case, wrongs of every kind have diminished, with respect to the series.
Some review say that it lacks enough epics, but I believe that the special has enough of it and, as well as in the series, the most epic scenes are helped –very much– for the magnificent soundtrack. Had I not say anything of the soundtrack, yet? I think it is brilliant!
Someone also criticized that new character Tsubasa Yamagatana is almost a clon of Kouga... but more talkative. I think that precisely this thing attains to communicate us what sort of work makes a Makai knight, the tremendous pressure upon his soul. Rei’s exception also speaks about how important is environment and individuality, as variables in the formation of personality. Everything say us that a Makai knight is, firstly, a human being.
The armor of the new knight Dan (Tsubasa) is worthy of the other two. White color and with a short red cape, it also has got less animal reminiscences than those of Garo and Zero. And, since we speak about armors, let me say that the last transformation of Garo, in my opinion, is superb and lovely.
In the series it drew my attention how a great spill of blood -a big splash that blurred in the air- was shown. Even though there is not persistence on showing it to us, now it is much more realistic, at least regarding the human blood, and it adds more impact to the scenes needed of it.
There are two things that I have liked especially, Firsty, of course, the conversation -rather a speech- in which Kouga attempts to face Tsubasa with his feelings. And also, how has illustrated the explanation of the relation among Legules and the Phosphore Arrow: the schematic drawings, totally in accordance to the ornamental style of the series, they are a mixture of aesthetics and of brightness or, at least, mute loquacity. I add the pleasant surprise that it has been to see Rei on a motorbike, and Kouga "surfing".
Some lack I find? I miss a little more of romanticism: the final scene is very short. Of course, you can discern a romantic background in some other scenes: Kouga’s anger when Rin spoils the famous picture of the landscape, and the speech of Kouga to Tsubasa.
The special deals mainly about fight, and the remaining things are causes to fight. The characters themselves get little attention. Even Kouga and Rei merely reassert themselves in the trends which already were starting to be seen in the series. I do not know if it will be my imagination, but it seems that the one more careful treated (but always static) was Rin.
And some ones that we did not expect as well: does Rei return Silver’s love?, finally? Jokes aside, there is a disturbing evidence affecting Kouga: he can grasp that Jabi has gone out of the great of curing Rin, in a distance. But in the series it happened to him with Kaoru, too...
dimecres, 17 de setembre del 2008
GARO Especial: La bèstia de la Nit Blanca - La història
Compte amb els spoilers: aquest article n'és ple.
Durant una cacera d’horrors al districte nord, en Koga troba una nena aprenenta de Sacerdotessa Makai què ha vingut des de Kantai a trobar-lo amb un encàrrec del traspassat sacerdot Amon. Tot i el seu excepticisme inicial, la Rin assoleix fer-se creure per ell. A casa d’en Koga, ella invoca el difunt. L’Amon exposa que la que fou la seva deixebla, la Jabi, encara és viva i que l’hauria d’anar a despertar i treure d’on es troba: al tronc d’un arbre màgic.
A un altre lloc, una parella fa un forat per enterrar-hi un cadàver. Però aquest reviu, transformant-se en un ésser diferent què devora la dona i converteix l’home en sequaç.
Al refet Santuari de l’Est arriba en Rei després d’una nit d’activitat, i el sacerdot resident li encarrega d’anar cap a Kantai perquè s’hi ha de celebrar una cerimònia durant un eclipsi de sol, amb l’objectiu que el dimoni Lègules no porti tot el seu clan a través de la barrera de poder de l’eclipsi.
En Koga i la Rin arriben a Kantai. Ell rememora algunes escenes de quan era petit. Són interceptats per en Tsubasa Yamagatana, el Cavaller de la Nit Blanca –germà de la Rin– què no els deixa continuar la seva missió perquè creu implica ressuciat un mort. La interveanció de la sacerdotessa en cap de Kantai, Garai, a favor dels nouvinguts només omple en Tsubasa de ressentiment, però ella veu un símbol important en el fet que la Rin tingui el mateix nom que la difunta mare d’en Koga, de la qual ell amb prou feines en serva algun record. Però la Rin està molt dolguda per la fredor del seu germà, adquirida d’ençà que esdevingué cavaller Makai.
La missió de la nena és obrir, i mantenir obert, el camí cap a un bosc màgic situat en una dimensió paral.lela, fins que en Koga i la Jabi tornin. Ell hi accedeix i s’encara a l’arbre màgic que la reté i a la qual es nega a alliberar. L’arbre contrarresta els seus esforços utilitzant contra ell records de persones que causen o causaren un gran impacte en la seva ment: Barago, Rei, Taiga, Kaoru i Kodama.
Mentre, la Rin s’adona que alguna cosa està sortint de la porta que ella manté oberta, i comença a alarmar-se.
En Rei arriba a Kantai, assolint posar-se en bons termes amb en Tsubasa, qui ja tenia notícia de la seva arribada.
Un cop superades les distraccions mentals de l’arbre màgic, en Koga penetra al seu tronc i s’endinsa en el seu entramat peculiar. Zaruba localitza la Jabi en un nòdul, però l’arbre no els permet d’acostar-s’hi, per la qual cosa en Koga invoca l’armadura daurada de Garo, incloent-hi el cavall Maten.
La Rin té problemes. Les presències que surten del bosc màgic l’assetgen i l’espanten, posant en seriós perill l’obertura del portal.
Garo es pot acostar al nòdul que conté la Jabi i la crida –la seva veu, segons l’Amon, aconseguiria despertar-la– però encara està massa lluny, i l’arbre es pren malament aquest intent. Durant la lluita, Maten és agafat per un dels filaments del nòdul; en Koga assoleix despertar la Jabi, però per a alliberar-la caldrà que l’espasa prengui una nova tansformació per a resultar prou eficaç contra la seva presó. Quan ella és lliure, tots dos surten, just quan la terroritzada Rin ja no pot mantenir obert el camí.
Mentre, el dimoni encarnat en un cadàver, Lègules, amb l’ajut de l’home al que ha esclavitzat, localitza i desperta alguns dels membres de la seva família. S’endinsa a una placeta plena de gent i xucla la vida a tothom.
Encara a Kantai, en Koga rep una comunicació del Santuari del Nort revelant la presència de Lègules, i que només podrà aturar-lo una fletxa especial –la Fletxa Falcó– guardada en un santuari de Kantai. La sacerdotessa Garai explica la història de la Fletxa Falcó i de la seva relació amb Lègules: la fletxa es va crear per a trencar la barrera de l’eclipsi, però si es clavava a terra amb un sacrifici durant l’eclipsi, el resultat seria el mateix que si Lègules pogués usar la barrera: els dimonis envaïrien la terra. La Fletxa Falcó és tradicionalment llençada contra la barrera dels eclipsis pel Cavaller de la Nit Blanca, però la tradició no s’ha perpetuat amb la puresa requerida.
En Tsubasa entra a la reunió i rebutja la presència de la Jabi, aduïnt que no és humana. La discussió que segueix, on també ell defensa el seu dret a encarregar-se de Lègules –és descendent del primer Cavaller de la Nit Blanca què el desterrà la primera volta– s’acaba amb l’arribada d’en Rei, què puntualitza que aquell primer cavaller es va aliar amb els horrors.
El grup sencer va a veure la Fletxa Falcó; la Garai els commina a oblidar totes les disputes i aplicar-se a protegir la valuosa fletxa. Però la Jabi descobreix que s’ha afeblit i no serà capaç de trencar la barrera, per la qual cosa ella l’omplirà amb un poder nou.
Mentre la Jabi i la Garai s’hi posen, els tres cavallers, després d’envoltar el santuari amb una barrera protectora màgica, se situen a fora per a defensar-lo dels dimonis que venen a apoderar-se de la fletxa. Tenen feina a no ser superats, però aviat Lègules s’hi presenta, decanta la balança al seu favor i pot trencar l’encanteri protector. La Rin intervé quan veu que ell és a punt de fer-li mal al seu germà, i això atrau l’atenció del monstre. Aquest li llança una mena de llengua bifurcada, la qual és tallada per l’espasa de Garo, però no pot evitar que la sang resultant, molt virulenta, impacti el braç de la Rin com si fos una bala.
Ningú sembla poder evitar que Lègules entri al santuari, però la Jabi ja ha acabat i s’hi enfronta amb la regenerada Fletxa Falcó a la mà. No hauria pogut impedir que ell la hi prengués, si no hagués estat perquè Garo l’agafà per sorpresa i acabà desapareixent.
Donada la gravetat de la situació de la Rin, la Jabi s’ofereix a salvar-la fent una mena de transfussió de sang que posa en gran risc la seva vida.
En Tsubasa intenta, inútilment, obtenir una resposta de Gorba, el seu braçalet-guia, però Zaruba li fa observar que es capté rar des del combat. La presència afegida d’en Koga i d’en Rei no és ben rebuda, rebutja el suggeriment que li fan d’anar a veure la Rin. En Koga li tira en cara la seva fredor amb la seva germana, cosa que no el posa de millor humor: En Tsubasa es justifica dient que si no deixa de banda els sentiments no es pot protegir ningú, però en Koga li fa notar que ells lluiten pels que volen defensar i li pregunta per qui lluita ell, fent-li notar que la Rin ha lluitat per ell.
L’eclipsi és a punt de començar i en Rei i en Koga patrullen esperant senyals d’activitat per part de Lègules. La Sílver els fa notar que el dimoni es pot transferir fàcilment d’horror a horror, per la qual cosa no és fàcil desfer-se’n. En Zaruba afegeix que el podria tenir ell mateix a dins. Ambdós cavallers recorden l’estranya conducta del bracelet-guia d’en Tsubasa, i corren.
L’arriscada operació de la Jabi ha tingut èxit. En Tsubasa no pot dissimular la seva alegria i li deimana perdó per la seva actitut anterior. Precisament llavors el seu braçalet “es desperta”: una mà li arrabassa la Fletxa Falcó que ell tenia i una altra agafa la Rin pel coll de la roba. Lègules es materialitza i els diu que ja no necessita la barrera de l’eclipsi. Fuig.
Quan hi arriben en Koga i en Rei, tots quatre van al bosc de Naraku, on en Zaruba ha detectat la presencia demoníaca. El bosc té la seva pròpia versió de la llei de la gravetat, i avançar va resultar ser com caure.
Hi ha una batalla “aèria” entre els horrors i en Koga, en Rei, la Jabi i en Tsubasa, però no troben Lègules fins que surten del bosc. Ell posa la Rin en mans d’un altre dimoni i s’enfronta al quartet armat de la Fletxa Falcó, però la Jabi s’avança i s’afanya a seguir la Rin. Els tres cavallers no poden aturar-lo gaire temps, i Lègules intercepta la Jabi quan es disposava a alliberar la nena dels seus lligams, i en Koga s’hi interposa quan anava a acabar amb ella amb l’ajut de la llengua bifurcada. Tots dos s’hauran d’encarar sols a Lègules, perquè en Rei i en Tsubasa tenen molta feina desfent-se dels horrors que els ha enviat el dimoni.
La plenitut de l’eclipsi transforma Lègules, i aviat farà sortir munts d’horrors a la superfície, què s’escamparan per arreu. La lluita de la Jabi i en Koga per la possessió de la fletxa i per la Rin és molt difícil. La Jabi acaba envoltada d’horrors després de perdre la fletxa, i en Koga sota un munt de roques. Gràcies al pinzell màgic de la Rin, ell s’allibera i assoleix invocar els guants de la seva armadura només amb el pensament, podent impedir gràcies a això que Lègules clavi la fletxa a la nena.
A partir d’ara l’armadura s’anirà materialitzant peça per peça, mentre rebutja les escomeses del monstre en què s’ha convertit Lègules, podent prendre-li la fletxa. Però ell li llença una de les seves llengües bifurcades i no pot evitar que fins i tot li travessi l’armadura, cosa que li genera una infecció instantània i excepcionalment agressiva. En Koga, sense temps de pensar-s’ho gaire, intenta una solució igual d’extrema: es clava la Fletxa Falcó a la ferida. Aquest remei desesperat assoleix destruir la infecció amb la mateixa rapidesa amb la que ha aparegut, però també té un altre efecte.
La interconnexió màgica entre la fletxa i l’armadura les transforma totes dues. Llavors, Garo remunta el cel i llença la fletxa assolint, d’un sol cop, eliminar Lègules i destruir la barrera de l’eclipsi. Tot seguit els horrors que envaïen el món desapareixen també.
Després d’engegar l’armadura, en Koga té una visió dels seus pares com a protectors seus –cosa que la petita Rin ja havia intuït–, i somriu. Després dels comiats, en Koga torna a casa seva per descobrir que la Kaoru ja ha tornat, per a quedar-se.
Gràcies, Radix, un cop més, pel teu ajut.
Durant una cacera d’horrors al districte nord, en Koga troba una nena aprenenta de Sacerdotessa Makai què ha vingut des de Kantai a trobar-lo amb un encàrrec del traspassat sacerdot Amon. Tot i el seu excepticisme inicial, la Rin assoleix fer-se creure per ell. A casa d’en Koga, ella invoca el difunt. L’Amon exposa que la que fou la seva deixebla, la Jabi, encara és viva i que l’hauria d’anar a despertar i treure d’on es troba: al tronc d’un arbre màgic.
A un altre lloc, una parella fa un forat per enterrar-hi un cadàver. Però aquest reviu, transformant-se en un ésser diferent què devora la dona i converteix l’home en sequaç.
Al refet Santuari de l’Est arriba en Rei després d’una nit d’activitat, i el sacerdot resident li encarrega d’anar cap a Kantai perquè s’hi ha de celebrar una cerimònia durant un eclipsi de sol, amb l’objectiu que el dimoni Lègules no porti tot el seu clan a través de la barrera de poder de l’eclipsi.
En Koga i la Rin arriben a Kantai. Ell rememora algunes escenes de quan era petit. Són interceptats per en Tsubasa Yamagatana, el Cavaller de la Nit Blanca –germà de la Rin– què no els deixa continuar la seva missió perquè creu implica ressuciat un mort. La interveanció de la sacerdotessa en cap de Kantai, Garai, a favor dels nouvinguts només omple en Tsubasa de ressentiment, però ella veu un símbol important en el fet que la Rin tingui el mateix nom que la difunta mare d’en Koga, de la qual ell amb prou feines en serva algun record. Però la Rin està molt dolguda per la fredor del seu germà, adquirida d’ençà que esdevingué cavaller Makai.
La missió de la nena és obrir, i mantenir obert, el camí cap a un bosc màgic situat en una dimensió paral.lela, fins que en Koga i la Jabi tornin. Ell hi accedeix i s’encara a l’arbre màgic que la reté i a la qual es nega a alliberar. L’arbre contrarresta els seus esforços utilitzant contra ell records de persones que causen o causaren un gran impacte en la seva ment: Barago, Rei, Taiga, Kaoru i Kodama.
Mentre, la Rin s’adona que alguna cosa està sortint de la porta que ella manté oberta, i comença a alarmar-se.
En Rei arriba a Kantai, assolint posar-se en bons termes amb en Tsubasa, qui ja tenia notícia de la seva arribada.
Un cop superades les distraccions mentals de l’arbre màgic, en Koga penetra al seu tronc i s’endinsa en el seu entramat peculiar. Zaruba localitza la Jabi en un nòdul, però l’arbre no els permet d’acostar-s’hi, per la qual cosa en Koga invoca l’armadura daurada de Garo, incloent-hi el cavall Maten.
La Rin té problemes. Les presències que surten del bosc màgic l’assetgen i l’espanten, posant en seriós perill l’obertura del portal.
Garo es pot acostar al nòdul que conté la Jabi i la crida –la seva veu, segons l’Amon, aconseguiria despertar-la– però encara està massa lluny, i l’arbre es pren malament aquest intent. Durant la lluita, Maten és agafat per un dels filaments del nòdul; en Koga assoleix despertar la Jabi, però per a alliberar-la caldrà que l’espasa prengui una nova tansformació per a resultar prou eficaç contra la seva presó. Quan ella és lliure, tots dos surten, just quan la terroritzada Rin ja no pot mantenir obert el camí.
Mentre, el dimoni encarnat en un cadàver, Lègules, amb l’ajut de l’home al que ha esclavitzat, localitza i desperta alguns dels membres de la seva família. S’endinsa a una placeta plena de gent i xucla la vida a tothom.
Encara a Kantai, en Koga rep una comunicació del Santuari del Nort revelant la presència de Lègules, i que només podrà aturar-lo una fletxa especial –la Fletxa Falcó– guardada en un santuari de Kantai. La sacerdotessa Garai explica la història de la Fletxa Falcó i de la seva relació amb Lègules: la fletxa es va crear per a trencar la barrera de l’eclipsi, però si es clavava a terra amb un sacrifici durant l’eclipsi, el resultat seria el mateix que si Lègules pogués usar la barrera: els dimonis envaïrien la terra. La Fletxa Falcó és tradicionalment llençada contra la barrera dels eclipsis pel Cavaller de la Nit Blanca, però la tradició no s’ha perpetuat amb la puresa requerida.
En Tsubasa entra a la reunió i rebutja la presència de la Jabi, aduïnt que no és humana. La discussió que segueix, on també ell defensa el seu dret a encarregar-se de Lègules –és descendent del primer Cavaller de la Nit Blanca què el desterrà la primera volta– s’acaba amb l’arribada d’en Rei, què puntualitza que aquell primer cavaller es va aliar amb els horrors.
El grup sencer va a veure la Fletxa Falcó; la Garai els commina a oblidar totes les disputes i aplicar-se a protegir la valuosa fletxa. Però la Jabi descobreix que s’ha afeblit i no serà capaç de trencar la barrera, per la qual cosa ella l’omplirà amb un poder nou.
Mentre la Jabi i la Garai s’hi posen, els tres cavallers, després d’envoltar el santuari amb una barrera protectora màgica, se situen a fora per a defensar-lo dels dimonis que venen a apoderar-se de la fletxa. Tenen feina a no ser superats, però aviat Lègules s’hi presenta, decanta la balança al seu favor i pot trencar l’encanteri protector. La Rin intervé quan veu que ell és a punt de fer-li mal al seu germà, i això atrau l’atenció del monstre. Aquest li llança una mena de llengua bifurcada, la qual és tallada per l’espasa de Garo, però no pot evitar que la sang resultant, molt virulenta, impacti el braç de la Rin com si fos una bala.
Ningú sembla poder evitar que Lègules entri al santuari, però la Jabi ja ha acabat i s’hi enfronta amb la regenerada Fletxa Falcó a la mà. No hauria pogut impedir que ell la hi prengués, si no hagués estat perquè Garo l’agafà per sorpresa i acabà desapareixent.
Donada la gravetat de la situació de la Rin, la Jabi s’ofereix a salvar-la fent una mena de transfussió de sang que posa en gran risc la seva vida.
En Tsubasa intenta, inútilment, obtenir una resposta de Gorba, el seu braçalet-guia, però Zaruba li fa observar que es capté rar des del combat. La presència afegida d’en Koga i d’en Rei no és ben rebuda, rebutja el suggeriment que li fan d’anar a veure la Rin. En Koga li tira en cara la seva fredor amb la seva germana, cosa que no el posa de millor humor: En Tsubasa es justifica dient que si no deixa de banda els sentiments no es pot protegir ningú, però en Koga li fa notar que ells lluiten pels que volen defensar i li pregunta per qui lluita ell, fent-li notar que la Rin ha lluitat per ell.
L’eclipsi és a punt de començar i en Rei i en Koga patrullen esperant senyals d’activitat per part de Lègules. La Sílver els fa notar que el dimoni es pot transferir fàcilment d’horror a horror, per la qual cosa no és fàcil desfer-se’n. En Zaruba afegeix que el podria tenir ell mateix a dins. Ambdós cavallers recorden l’estranya conducta del bracelet-guia d’en Tsubasa, i corren.
L’arriscada operació de la Jabi ha tingut èxit. En Tsubasa no pot dissimular la seva alegria i li deimana perdó per la seva actitut anterior. Precisament llavors el seu braçalet “es desperta”: una mà li arrabassa la Fletxa Falcó que ell tenia i una altra agafa la Rin pel coll de la roba. Lègules es materialitza i els diu que ja no necessita la barrera de l’eclipsi. Fuig.
Quan hi arriben en Koga i en Rei, tots quatre van al bosc de Naraku, on en Zaruba ha detectat la presencia demoníaca. El bosc té la seva pròpia versió de la llei de la gravetat, i avançar va resultar ser com caure.
Hi ha una batalla “aèria” entre els horrors i en Koga, en Rei, la Jabi i en Tsubasa, però no troben Lègules fins que surten del bosc. Ell posa la Rin en mans d’un altre dimoni i s’enfronta al quartet armat de la Fletxa Falcó, però la Jabi s’avança i s’afanya a seguir la Rin. Els tres cavallers no poden aturar-lo gaire temps, i Lègules intercepta la Jabi quan es disposava a alliberar la nena dels seus lligams, i en Koga s’hi interposa quan anava a acabar amb ella amb l’ajut de la llengua bifurcada. Tots dos s’hauran d’encarar sols a Lègules, perquè en Rei i en Tsubasa tenen molta feina desfent-se dels horrors que els ha enviat el dimoni.
La plenitut de l’eclipsi transforma Lègules, i aviat farà sortir munts d’horrors a la superfície, què s’escamparan per arreu. La lluita de la Jabi i en Koga per la possessió de la fletxa i per la Rin és molt difícil. La Jabi acaba envoltada d’horrors després de perdre la fletxa, i en Koga sota un munt de roques. Gràcies al pinzell màgic de la Rin, ell s’allibera i assoleix invocar els guants de la seva armadura només amb el pensament, podent impedir gràcies a això que Lègules clavi la fletxa a la nena.
A partir d’ara l’armadura s’anirà materialitzant peça per peça, mentre rebutja les escomeses del monstre en què s’ha convertit Lègules, podent prendre-li la fletxa. Però ell li llença una de les seves llengües bifurcades i no pot evitar que fins i tot li travessi l’armadura, cosa que li genera una infecció instantània i excepcionalment agressiva. En Koga, sense temps de pensar-s’ho gaire, intenta una solució igual d’extrema: es clava la Fletxa Falcó a la ferida. Aquest remei desesperat assoleix destruir la infecció amb la mateixa rapidesa amb la que ha aparegut, però també té un altre efecte.
La interconnexió màgica entre la fletxa i l’armadura les transforma totes dues. Llavors, Garo remunta el cel i llença la fletxa assolint, d’un sol cop, eliminar Lègules i destruir la barrera de l’eclipsi. Tot seguit els horrors que envaïen el món desapareixen també.
Després d’engegar l’armadura, en Koga té una visió dels seus pares com a protectors seus –cosa que la petita Rin ja havia intuït–, i somriu. Després dels comiats, en Koga torna a casa seva per descobrir que la Kaoru ja ha tornat, per a quedar-se.
Gràcies, Radix, un cop més, pel teu ajut.
dimecres, 3 de setembre del 2008
GARO Special: The Beast of the White Night. “Making Of” –sort of–
Updated: September 4th, 2008
I have found what could be the Making Of of the Garo Special. They are two videos about a TV show amusing enough... but they are not subdued. Attention: there are spoilers!
A comment by Yee has uncovered a better truth: they are THREE videos. She has told that it is the second in order. So:
1 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/rNpOUG1xBK4/
2 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ved6xHNY_IQ/
3 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/shHRO4UBGmM/
Thanks a lot, Yee!
I have found what could be the Making Of of the Garo Special. They are two videos about a TV show amusing enough... but they are not subdued. Attention: there are spoilers!
A comment by Yee has uncovered a better truth: they are THREE videos. She has told that it is the second in order. So:
1 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/rNpOUG1xBK4/
2 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ved6xHNY_IQ/
3 - http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/shHRO4UBGmM/
Thanks a lot, Yee!
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