With MAPPA producing, Cinema Today has brought out the first minute long promo for Garo, which is adapting the live action tokusatsu program from the midnight live action series in Japan. There’s no real details to speak of but the official site is live now with the trailer. The series is slated for an October 2014 debut. It was originally announced back in November 2013 but with little news about it since then.
According to Wikipedia, Garo is a tokusatsu show that focuses on the life of Kouga Saejima, who has assumed the title of Makai Knight to protect humanity against dark demonic manifestations called ‘Horrors.’ In his quest to purge them, he encounters a young girl named Kaoru whom he saves from a Horror, but learns that she is stained with its demonic blood. As a rule, those that have been stained by the blood of a Horror shall be cut down, or else they will die painfully in approximately 100 days. Kouga spares Kaoru and tries to find a way to purify her before her remaining time expires. Thus, the series focuses on Kouga’s developing relationship with Kaoru and his stand in protecting humanity in accordance with the wishes of his father, the previous Garo. In the process, encountering another Makai Knight named Rei Suzumura who eventually becomes his ally, Kouga confronts his father’s former disciple who is also the cause of a recent string of Horror attacks in preparation of a more sinister advent of the Horrors’ originator, Messiah.”
Check out the live action opening from 2011:
And the movie adaptation live action film from earlier this year:
