Garo

Like Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, GARO is a Japanese live action special effects show featuring dudes in costumes fighting dudes in rubber suits. Unlike Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, GARO is not merchandise driven with children as its primary target audience; it is a horror-themed series that is very dark with an adult audience in mind. It is 25 episodes long, has a silly side-episode with a goodly number of meta jokes, and features an epilogue movie which resolves things for one of the secondary characters. Furthermore, there is going to be another movie, a special going into greater detail regarding one of the main villains, and a sequel series, so now is a pretty good time to become a fan of Garo.

However, before I go any further, I should mention that some of the material in the show can be triggering; the Horrors which serve as the Monsters of the Week will often times perform their kills in a sexualized fashion, and there are times when the violence can be pretty graphic or self-inflicted. If you believe this would be an issue for you, then I would recommend passing on this show.

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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, episode 22

Ken, your girlfriend is calling out to you, and the one person you want to see as you're freezing to death is Red Impulse? Dude, your daddy issues, they are seriously getting out of hand. Seriously.