History Series / GaroKamiNoKibaJinga

* IneffectualLoner: Deconstructed. Jinga becomes more independent and less-willing to work with others as times goes on; a mixture of [[spoiler: Amily's tampering]] and Fuusa's inability to act. At first, it seems like Jinga is actually doing some good; demonstrating how stifling the Makai Order's doctrines and rules can be. Then during the last three episodes, Jinga becomes DrunkOnPower and starts attacking a lot of the people he cares about; eventually rushing off on his own to deal with his EnemyWithin. The final nail in the coffin? [[spoiler: Jinga's unique power was fake and simply a vehicle meant to ResurrectTheVillain]]. The Order was ProperlyParanoid ''the whole time'' and all Mikage did was aid the enemy in un-doing two seasons' worth of good...all because he insisted on going it alone.

* CentralTheme: Themes this season have been memory, one's inner-evil, durability of ThePowerOfTrust and the validity of ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.

* ForcedToWatch: In Episode #10, Fuusa finds Jinga [[spoiler: after their argument]] tracking a Horror that targets a group of extortioners led by a teenage girl. Jinga pins Fuusa down and forces her to witness [[spoiler: the Horror eat each of the teens one-by-one]].

* IdiotBall:

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Rozan reveals that the outlaw couple Jinga saved back in #6 [[spoiler: retreated back into their murderous thieving ways after being liberated, causing the woman to become the new Horror host]]. This event is used to [[RightForTheWrongReasons convince Jinga that his power is bad.....somehow]].

* AntiVillain: Jinga hopes that [[spoiler: his father Mizuto]] was this.

* {{Flanderization}}: Jinga's transition from shy HurtingHero to [[spoiler: a WellIntentionedExtremist TautologicalTemplar]] in #10 is instantaneous and abrupt with no inciting factor.

* HurtingHero: Jinga's [[spoiler: brief hesitation in cutting down his father when he fell to darkness]] has stayed with him and is directly affecting his mental state.

* ShowDontTell: Subverted. Jinga's InformedFlaw according to [[spoiler: Rozan]]'s report during the RecapEpisode is his inability to cut Horrors down due to [[spoiler: [[HurtingHero his family trauma]]]]. While we see Jinga ''hesitate'' to kill Nonloso in #00, he [[spoiler: actually sees it through]] and has yet to ever actually let a Horror go scot-free during the show's run.

After the events of ''GARO: Kami no Kiba'', [[spoiler: Jinga was soundly defeated by the Horror progenitor Messiah]]. His memories purged and his soul reincarnated, Jinga is now a member of the Mikage Family and is now one of his sworn enemies: a Makai Knight. Together with the aloof Makai Priestess Fuusa, his Madou Tool Alva and his younger brother Touma, Jinga executes his sworn duty to defend Japan from monsters known as Horrors; human-eating body-snatching beings that prey on the malcontent and the desperate. However, despite his incredible combat skills, Jinga suffers from the trauma of a family incident that impedes his ability to fight. Questioning his own future, the dark seeds of the past have yet to wither away.

* DangerousDeserter: Jinga Mikage from #10 onward. Having decided [[TautologicalTemplar his own brand of justice supersedes that of the Makai Order]], he gets fed up with everyone trying to rein him in and goes rogue, taking Touma with him. [[ProperlyParanoid The Orders suspicion of Jinga's ability to cure Horrors]], Fuusa's inaction, the Knight's unwillingness to explain his issue and his [[spoiler: [[EnemyWithin Horror side's growing influence over him]]]] becomes [[PoorCommunicationKills the cocktail recipe for the mother of all miscommunications]] that gets more than half the cast killed and allows [[spoiler: Jinga's Horror side to come BackFromTheDead]].

* EnemyWithin: Jinga's [[spoiler: Horror side]] survived his reincarnation and is trying to get himself to fall once more.

* EvilVersusEvil: Jinga Mikage and [[spoiler: Horror!Jinga]]'s dynamic as of #10.

* FaceMonsterTurn: During #12, every victim Jinga had saved from Horror-possession up to this point is reverted VIA [[spoiler: Horror!Jinga disabling Mikage's UniqueProtagonistAsset. Mikage [[ForcedToWatch gets to watch in real-time]] as these liberated people eat their friends and family once more]].

* {{Flanderization}}: Jinga's transition from shy HurtingHero to [[spoiler: what may be a WellIntentionedExtremist TautologicalTemplar]] in #10 is instantaneous and abrupt, with no inciting factor.

* HeelFaceBrainwashing: PlayedWith. Jinga's memories of [[spoiler: his Horror days]] were purged following his reincarnation into what is, at least for now, a good person.
** Now that [[spoiler: Horror!Jinga]]'s back in the picture, it's wearing off...

* IdiotBall: The Watchdogs have a direct line of communication with Jinga through which he receives his orders....and never think to use it to actually [[spoiler: issue him the Summons Rozan accuses him of ignoring in #10]].

* IncitingIncident: The fall of Jinga's father kick-starts Jinga's decline into weakness and [[spoiler: the eventual return of his Horror side]].

* IronicEcho: TheStinger of Episode 7 parallels Touma's view of the [[spoiler: death of his possessed father at Jinga's hands]] prior to the latter's confession. In this case though, [[spoiler: Jinga [[EnemyWithin actually IS possessed]] and [[DeathOfAChild nobody]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses is spared this time]]]].

** The season's final battle is a meta-example. Whereas GARO shows typically end with [[spoiler: the noble protagonist Makai Knight defeating a monstrous Horror as they fight to [[SavingTheWorld save the world]]]], JINGA's last fight is between [[spoiler: a child forced into becoming a monster]] and the show's BloodKnight BigBad [[spoiler: [[TheBadGuyWins who has won completely and utterly]]]] so he can [[MookMaker spread man-eating monsters ForTheEvulz]].

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Invoked. Rozan [[spoiler: sealed away Touma's memories of the battle between Jinga and his father to protect him]]. Rendered moot as of Episode 2.

* NotHimself: Jinga becomes increasingly distant toward Fuusa throughout all of Episode 4, only to get better once [[spoiler: Rozan and Shijo]] make their intent known and Jinga passes a SecretTestOfCharacter. [[spoiler: Then he murders Shijo in cold blood while sporting a very familiar SlasherSmile]].
** Episode 5 doesn't get any better. Whether it's borderline-flirting with Fuusa in the morning ForTheEvulz or taunting her after [[spoiler: killing the host he was going to save]], things are not alright in Jinga-town.
** No wonder Jinga's NotHimself. SplitPersonality and EnemyWithin are at play. See EnemyWithin above.

* PlotHole: Numerous examples. The RecapEpisode gives most of these a HandWave.

* RetCon: From Episode 8 onwards, the spell given to Fuusa by the village Priest in Episode 7 is changed from [[spoiler: being a spell that could detect the source of Jinga's behavioral issues]] to [[spoiler: one that could see if Touma was still Human or not]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Jinga's headed onto this path thanks to [[spoiler: the late Priest Ugai]]'s spurring. Ugai [[spoiler: getting eaten]] and Fuusa [[spoiler: trying to calm Jinga down]] hasn't changed this, [[WhatTheHellHero to the latter's chagrin]].
** By #11, he's practically crossed the point of redemption in his attempt to exorcise all horrors. He's [[spoiler: killed two Knights just doing their jobs, abandoned his Madou Tool Alva and murdered the one woman in his life that cared about him]] for the sake of "the greater good."

* StatusQuoIsGod: Episode 7 saw Jinga and Fuusa relocate Touma to a village to protect him from Horrors and [[spoiler: Jinga's evil side]]. They stay there less than a day before Jinga changes his mind [[spoiler: After see Touma be a {{Determinator}} during a spar]] and takes the boy back with them, rendering the whole affair completely pointless.

* ZombieInfectee: Possibly. The bite [[spoiler: Jinga]] receives from [[spoiler: the Horror Padeena]] does.....''something''....to his genes.

''GARO: Kami no Kiba ~Jinga~'' (Can be translated as '''GARO: Fang of God: JINGA''') is a series set in the Ryuga-Verse of the ''Series/{{GARO}}'' franchise and a continuation of the events of [[NamesTheSame the very similarly named]] ''Film/GAROKamiNoKiba''.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Subverted. The opening-scene in #0 and [[spoiler: Rozan's recognition of Amily]] in Episode 11 make it clear that JINGA takes place some time after the ''GARO: Kami No Kiba'' film, though just how far into the future remains murky.

** [[spoiler: Amily]] also returns within the confines of Jinga's mind to taunt him alongside [[spoiler: her husband's horror-side]].
** Played straight. [[spoiler: Amily]] reveals herself to be very much alive and [[ManBehindTheMan the source of much of the chaos]], challenging Rozan at the end of #11.

* EliteMook: Many of the Horrors this season have rather simplistic intent and seem to exist solely to be cut down. [[spoiler: Horror!Jinga]] and possibly [[spoiler: his wife Amily]] are the bigger threats.

* BigBadSlippage: The entire show is a 12-episode case of a Makai Knight [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis becoming the very thing he fights against]]. [[spoiler: Mikage's given a [[UniqueProtagonistAsset special power to finally save people]] from DemonicPossession just as his darker side begins exerting its influence to force him into committing acts of evil; [[TheCorrupter all the while trying to goad the Knight into embracing it]]. The mixture of personal pride and scrutiny from understandably-suspicious superiors [[PoorCommunicationKills alienates him from his colleagues]] and [[WhatTheHellHero eventually his loved ones]]. This [[SanitySlippage convinces the Knight that 'they're to blame]],'' and he strikes out on his own as a TautologicalTemplar that thinks he's above the rules. It's only the height of Mikage's newfound extremism that Horror!Jinga and [[TheDragon his wife]] expose themselves and their plans; revealing that Mikage's special power was AllForNothing and that he didn't change anything. The [[UnwittingPawn shock of having sacrificed everything and everyone he loved to become the villain of his own story at the behest of another]] breaks the Makai Knight completely. [[DrivenToSuicide Robbed of hope and powerless, Mikage allows his Horror-half to consume him]] and [[TheBadGuyWins return to the mortal coil]]]].

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Jinga spends Episode 4 slaying Horrors [[spoiler: and ends it with slaying the very-innocent Shijo]].
** Jinga finally crosses the point of redemption in Episode #11, [[spoiler: killing two errant Knights, abandoning Alva and eventually murdering Fuusa]].

* BigBadSlippage: The entire show is a 12-episode case of a Makai Knight [[BecaeTheirOwnAntithesis becoming the very thing he fights against]]. [[spoiler: Mikage's given a [[UniqueProtagonistAsset special power to finally save people]] from DemonicPossession just as his darker side begins exerting its influence to force him into committing acts of evil; [[TheCorrupter all the while trying to goad the Knight into embracing it]]. The mixture of personal pride and scrutiny from understandably-suspicious superiors [[PoorCommunicationKills alienates him from his colleagues]] and [[WhatTheHellHero eventually his loved ones]]. This [[SanitySlippage convinces the Knight that 'they're to blame]],'' and he strikes out on his own as a TautologicalTemplar that thinks he's above the rules. It's only the height of Mikage's newfound extremism that Horror!Jinga and [[TheDragon his wife]] expose themselves and their plans; revealing that Mikage's special power was AllForNothing and that he didn't change anything. The [[UnwittingPawn shock of having sacrificed everything and everyone he loved to become the villain of his own story at the behest of another]] breaks the Makai Knight completely. [[DrivenToSuicide Robbed of hope and powerless, Mikage allows his Horror-half to consume him]] and [[TheBadGuyWins return to the mortal coil]]]].

* BigBadSlippage: The entire show is a 12-episode case of Jinga Mikage's life being derailed by manipulation. The Knight is put through the wringer, [[spoiler: given a [[UniqueProtagonistAsset special power to finally save people]] from DemonicPossession just as his dark mirror exerts its influence to force him into committing acts of evil; [[TheCorrupter all the while trying to goad Mikage into embracing it]]. The mixture of personal pride and scrutiny from understandably-suspicious superiors [[PoorCommunicationKills alienates him from his colleagues]] and [[WhatTheHellHero eventually his loved ones]]. This [[SanitySlippage convinces the Knight that 'they're to blame]],'' and he strikes out on his own as a TautologicalTemplar that thinks he's above the rules. It's only the height of Mikage's newfound extremism that Horror!Jinga and [[TheDragon his wife]] expose themselves and their plans; revealing that Mikage's special power was AllForNothing and that he didn't change anything. The [[UnwittingPawn shock of having sacrificed everything and everyone he loved to become the villain of his own story at the behest of another]] breaks the Makai Knight completely. [[DrivenToSuicide Robbed of hope and powerless, Mikage allows his Horror-half to consume him]] and [[TheBadGuyWins return to the mortal coil]]]].

* BigBadSlippage: Episode 4 sees Jinga develop a very sudden aloof side, which culminates in [[spoiler: him plunging his Makai Blade right through newcomer Shijo's heart]].

* EasilyForgiven: After [[spoiler: Jinga's new ability]] allows Touma to be exorcised fro Faunce's possession, he shows remarkably little anger toward Jinga for [[spoiler: killing his father]] after receiving his dads pendant and a confession about his father's possession.

* NotSoDifferent: Despite Jinga's insistence to the contrary, he and [[spoiler: His Horror side]] both possess a LackOfEmpathy and a complete inability to [[PoorCommunicationKills communicate or work with others]]. Their only difference is that one's a monster while the other [[WellIntentionedExtremist means well, but is wholly ignorant]].

* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Inverted. The Horror Faunce, taking the form of a mirror, uses ArtifactDomination to force viewers to see and hear their reflections espouse their inwardly doubts and fears so they may fall into despair and allow Horrors to possess them.

* NotSoDifferent: Jinga's Horror side invokes this for Horrors and humans.

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler: Horror!Jinga]]'s current situation, confined [[spoiler: inside the body of his current Human iteration]], who may be NotSoDifferent.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: Horror!Jinga]] invokes this. See NotSoDifferent above.