Crunchyroll has been working through the simulcast for the fall season of Garo: Vanishing Line, which Funimation is producing a simuldub for. We’ve had a good run of episodes so far but very little in terms of clips from Crunchyroll to show off the series and tempt people to view it. That’s now changed with the arrival of the first one that focuses on a really solid bare-knuckle fight while the second gives us bigger action sequences with Luke going berserk.
The work comes from director Seong-Hu Park based on the series composition by Kiyoko Yoshimura. Takashi Okazaki is on board with the original character designs. Studio MAPPA will be handling the animation for it.
The Japanese cast includes Tomokazu Seki as Sword, Rie Kugimiya as Sophie, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Luke, Ami Koshimizu as Gina, Daisuke Namikawa as Knight, Romi Park as Queen, Kenyuu Horiuchi as Bishop, Chiaki Takahashi as Waitress Chiaki, Takaya Hashi as Fei Long, Ayahi Takagaki as Mei Fang, Yuuka Misaki as Miia, and Hironobu Kageyama as Zaruba.
The opening theme song is “EMG” as performed by JAM Project while Masami Okui will perform the ending theme song “Sofia.”
Plot Concept: In a prosperous city named Russell City, an omen that threatens to shake its world begins to move within it. A man named Sword is the first to hear the first stirrings of the plot, and throws himself into a shadow war in order to expose it. His only clue is the key word “El Dorado.” He meets Sophie, a woman searching for her missing older brother who has only left her with the same words: “El Dorado.” With Sword having also lost his younger sister in the past, both are drawn together by the words, and work together to find out its meaning.
