Line #57 Series/GaroGoldStormSho


1	! Spoilers for ''Series/GAROTheOneWhoShinesInTheDarkness'' are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
2	''GARO: Gold Storm Sho'' (or '''Garo: Gold Storm Flight''') is a 2015 {{tokusatsu}} series in the ''[[Series/{{GARO}} GARO]]'' franchise, and spin-off sequel to ''Series/GAROTheOneWhoShinesInTheDarkness''.
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4	After the events of Vol City, Ryuga and Rian are now travelling together, soon ending up in Line City. After dispatching one of the local Horrors, they quickly discover that Horror sightings have been increasing. This is due to the machinations of a pair of married Horrors named Jinga and Amily that have released the seal on an ancient ArtifactOfDeath known as Radan. The seal splits into two daggers, each of which end up in the hands of Ryuga and Jinga respectively.
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6	The Golden Knight and his allies must now rush to claim the other dagger and prevent the awakening of Radan before it can return to life and obliterate all of humanity.
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8	A prequel film of [[RecycledTitle the same name]] acts an OriginsEpisode to the TV show while the film ''Film/GAROKamiNoKiba'' serves as the SeasonFinale. The story continues in ''[[Series/GAROKamiNoKibaJINGA Garo: Kami No Kiba ~Jinga]]~''.
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10	!!This series includes examples of:
11	* ActionGirl: Rian and Ryume.
12	* AdaptiveArmor: Once Ryuga [[spoiler: accepts his emotional weaknesses while trapped in the Dark Mirror, the Garo armor gains a pauldron of darkness to it's jaw and breastplates as well as a cape that allows it to fly; specifically to counter Jinga]].
13	* AesopAmnesia: Ryuga's CharacterDevelopment last season invoved the reigning-in of his reckless Keet and BloodKnight tendencies. In ''Gold Storm Sho,'' he is shown more temperamental, emotionally sensitive and reckless than he was before. Subverted as [[spoiler: his BerserkButton was repeatedly triggered and]] he at least respects authority figures now.
14	* AirJousting: Jinga and Garo enter into aerial combat at least once per armored confrontation, [[spoiler: though his final clash with Garo Yami plays the trope more-or-less straight]].
15	* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: Castle Radan]], if left unchecked, can cause anything ranging from a Class 3A to a Class 6. [[OmnicidalManiac Jinga's]] going for ''at least'' a Class 4. ''At least.''
16	* AristocratsAreEvil: Jinga and Amily spend nearly two-thirds of their screen-time sitting in their pent-house drinking wine and admiring the city view. [[spoiler: They're also trying to revive an ArtifactOfDeath.]]
17	* ArtifactOfDeath: [[spoiler: Radan is an OminousFloatingCastle that [[LifeDrinker absorbs the life-force of all living things]] in it's path]].
18	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: How Garo topples [[spoiler: Castle Radan]]. By channelling [[spoiler: the life-force of the Humans Radan had absorbed, Garo manages to grow to Series/{{Ultraman}} proportions and punch it to to death]].
19	* BaitAndSwitch: In "Feather," Daigo's former mentor Seiji is portrayed in such a suspicious way when he suddenly visits Daigo's dojo, it looks like he's possessed by the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Horror of the Week]]. He's [[spoiler: actually [[GenreSavvy expecting said Horror to raid the Dojo. He's right]]]].
20	* BattleCouple: Ryuga and Rian, [[spoiler: though they only elude to their feelings for each other until the Finale]].
21	** Jinga and Amily also qualify, being husband and wife.
22	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: Jinga accidentily possesses Rian in a bid to seize Ryuga's body. Jinga then struggles with Rian in a mental mind-scape to convince Rian to give up and let him take over. It's a stalemate until Amily gets involved and rips Jinga out of her through force]].
23	* BerserkButton: Ryuga has yet to fully recover from the events of ''The One Who Shines In Darkness,''[[note]]Namely, being forced to kill his Mado Horror-converted mother and the actions of their very-human source Tousei that begat the previous season's events.''[[/note]] and flies into seething rage whenever an otherwise-innocent person is transformed into a Horror or when anyone insults the value of life.
24	* BigBad: Jinga and Amily.
25	** Amily eventually gets demoted to TheDragon as far as role goes [[spoiler: Upon Jinga's revival]].
26	* BlackMarket: [[spoiler: D Ringo is heavily implied to ferry very dangerous, if not outright-forbidden, items to Priests and Knights in-need]].
27	* BreakTheHaughty: Rian does this to Gald in Episode 9.
28	* CapeWings: [[spoiler: Garo Yami gains a spiked cape that allows it to fly and engage Jinga]].
29	* CoolOldGuy: D Ringo, who wields an oversized guitar / Madou Brush hybrid [[spoiler: against the life-sucking missiles fired from Castle Radan]].
30	* TheCorrupter: Implied with Jinga toward Ryuga, upon Ryuga demonstrating utter hatred for the former. He tries several times to get Ryuga to stop holding back and give in to ThePowerOfHate. It doesn't take.
31	* CurbStompBattle: Quite a few play out.
32	** Jinga and Amily deliver one to Ryuga and Rian in Episode 7.
33	** Rian to Gald in Episode 8.
34	** [[spoiler: Giant]] Garo to [[spoiler: Castle Radan]] in the Finale.
35	* DarkActionGirl: Amily.
36	** Rian [[spoiler: during Jinga's possession of her]].
37	* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Averted. [[spoiler: Once Jinga and Amily became Horrors, they remember what happened that made them that way. They just stopped caring. [[FridgeLogic Then again]], considering what GARO has [[TechnicallyLivingZombie established]] [[NotHimself about]] [[ThatManIsDead Horror]] [[TheHeartless possession]]]]...
38	* DeadpanSnarker: '''Gald.'''
39	** D Ringo gets quite a few in as well.
40	* DemonicPossession: Jinga attempts this on Ryuga [[spoiler: during the battle to seal Radan]]. He gets [[spoiler: Rian]] instead.
41	* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler: Castle Radan]]. A HauntedCastle chock-full of {{Bizarrchitecture}} that's both [[spoiler: a LifeDrinker and a HumongousMecha]].
42	** The [[spoiler: Dark Mirror]] as well, trapping Ryuga in a realm of Darkness where hopeful words themselves become crystals of tainted energy as well as giving darkness inside one's heart physical form as a monster.
43	* EvilLaugh: Jinga and his wife are both very fond of these.
44	* ExactWords: [[spoiler: The whole reason the plot even happens is due to Jinga and Amily preventing a priest that can un-do the seal on Radan from "Reuniting with his daughter." After un-doing the seal, the Priest is reunited with his daughter....''The sole bone from her body that's left of her'']].
45	* FlayingAlive: The helmet of Jinga's armor can basically be described as "Gai's helmet, skinned."
46	* FreudianExcuse: PlayedWith. Jinga and Amily were once morally-upstanding Makai operatives until they came upon a village sacrificing children to appease a demon that plagued them. [[spoiler: Despite the duo killing the demon (Which was a Horror), the village didn't trust them and instead used the duo's child as the sacrifice. RoaringRampageofRevenge, followed by [[DemonicPossession Horror Possession ensued]]]]. But, Jinga eventually reveals in the final episode that [[spoiler: upon becoming a Horror, any ideas of revenge had already left his mind]].
47	** The reason Gald hates Makai Knights to the point of actively opposing Garo is because [[spoiler: A Makai Knight slaughtered people in his village when he and his little sister were children]]. [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Gee]], [[BigBad who]] could it [[OmnicidalManiac have possibly been]]]]?
48	* FusionDissonance: Inverted by [[spoiler: the Horror fought in the first episode]] who is disguised as {{identical twin\|s}} girls that can move independently from each other.
49	* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: [[spoiler: Castle Radan's HumongousMecha form]] sports a ominous pair of bright-white ones.
50	* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler: Castle Radan's HumongousMecha form]], right down to wielding a SinisterScythe.
51	* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Jinga]] and [[spoiler: Amily]] eat fellow Horrors so that [[spoiler: they can become powerful enough to control Castle Radan upon reviving it]].
52	* IWorkAlone: Due to [[spoiler: a Makai Knight, revealed to be maddened Jinga himself, slaughtering the inhabitants of his village]], Gald refuses to work with any Makai Knight. [[ItGetsBetter He Gets Better]]. See FreudianExcuse above.
53	* ISurrenderSuckers: Amily takes a gentler tone upon being taken hostage by the Knights. (Jinga had escaped on a chunk of the building, having taken Rian with him) [[spoiler: After giving her and her husband's DarkAndTroubledPast via TroubledBackstoryFlashback, she escapes after tricking the Knights into returning her Madou Brush to her under the false pretenses of helping them out]].
54	* KillAllHumans: The closest thing to a motivation [[spoiler: Jinga]] appears to have.
55	* LivingBattery: Jinga and Amily [[spoiler: eat other Horrors so that they can become powerful enough to become these for the re-activated Castle Radan]].
56	** Once Jinga actually [[spoiler: activates Castle Radan, Amily sacrifices her body to enter a new form that turns her into this for Radan's HumongousMecha form]].
57	* ManlyTears: Ryuga, quite a few times whenever the value of life and people's happiness comes up.
58	* TheMentor: Daigo to a group of [[spoiler: children training to become Makai Knights]].
59	* MookMaker: Jinga and Amily's penthouse is designed as an outright nest for Horror-spawn, [[spoiler: with a barrier powered by KiManipulation that releases Horror batches every night]].
60	* NoSell: [[spoiler: Once Garo grows giant-size to demolish the HumongousMecha form of Castle Radan, his palm is enough to block anything and everything it sends his way]].
61	* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Jinga]], ultimately. See FreudianExcuse above.
62	* OminousFloatingCastle: [[spoiler: Radan]]. Doubles [[spoiler: as a HumongousMecha]].
63	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Jinga feels this way toward Ryuga after their battle at the warehouse. It escalates during their final clash.
64	--> '''Ryuga''': "I'm glad you're a Horror."
65	--> '''Jinga''': "And I'm glad you're a Human."
66	* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Burai]] has a hand in Rian's development and is referenced several times, despite being dead by the time of ''Gold Storm Sho.''
67	* RecurringElement: The value of people's futures, the futility of revenge and the consequences of crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
68	** Also, as per the title of the series, flight.
69	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Jinga and Amily, once good people, [[spoiler: ''massacre'' Homuro Village upon finding out that despite killing the creature that terrorized it, their child was used as a HumanSacrifice to appease the (already-dead) demon by the superstitious townsfolk. ''[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope It didn't stop at Homuro]]'']].
70	** Daigo's Sensei Seiji goes on one [[spoiler: against the Horror that ate the children he'd been training as Knights when it infests Daigo's dojo]].
71	** Daigo holds himself back from engaging in one when [[spoiler: Jinga kills his Sensei]].
72	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Ryume is a Watch Dog, the Makai equivalent of a Governess. She helps out during the siege of both the business building and [[spoiler: Castle Radan]]. She also helps in the [[spoiler: attempt to purify Rian of her DemonicPossession]].
73	* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Castle Radan, held in the limbo between the Makai and Jinkai realms with the Houken. Jinga and Amily give AnOfferYouCantRefuse to a knowledgeable Makai Priest to un-do the seal and kick off the plot]].
74	* SlasherSmile: Jinga does nothing but enjoy everything his enemies do two-thirds of the time, and is rarely seen without a smile on his face.

Context Series / GaroGoldStormSho