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The Golden Knight Garo

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Well, my teaser wasn't too teasing or subtle, woops!  So I tried to work on this beautiful design a bit quicker so as not to prolong my own excitement, or others'.  So here's GARO!!!  I've probably listened to the original openings an unhealthy amount in the last week.  But, I mean, c'mon it's GARO!!!

This is the hero of the original Garo series and movies, The Golden Knight Garo (黄金騎士・牙狼(ガロ) Ougon Kishi Garo)!!  Garo is the armor/title of the Makai Knight whose title is passed down father-son and in this incarnation is Kouga Saezima.  This is the Garo I most remember as I really haven't paid too much attention to, much less re-watched a handful of times, the subsequent series.  But the original with Kouga I've probably watched four times, it's still so amazing to me.  I don't think I'll ever tire of Garo's designs, and admittedly I should try to rewatch some of the more recent series.  I did watch the Garo anime series and that was actually pretty cool, so there's that.  Despite loving the original Garo series, I have zero desire to make a civilian Kouga, so I've only focused on the armor. 

To the left is Garo as we normally see him.  In the middle, I've added his long flowing cape.  And on the right is Garo donning his green flames in Blazing Armament. 
I elected to make his weapons because again, spectacular designs.  From left to right: the Garoken, Garoken sheathed, Garoken ablaze during Blazing Armament, and the gigantic cleaver
Garo Zanbaken (transformed from the Garoken while on Gouten.

Garo has one of my favorite designs in all of toku, hero or villain.  It's amazing, so detailed, blends the wolf and knight motif flawlessly and looks incredibly intimidating.  Watching the suit in action is a treat and I've always wanted a figure of him, despite not collecting figures.  I'd make an exception for this one.  The helmet alone is something to awe at, such a frightful design brightened by the golden shine.  I've tried to make his color more than just gold, and I actually played around with the gold more than anything else I think.  He originally used the same gold palette I normally use, but I changed him a bit to be a bit brighter and more yellow-golden.  I really like how he turned out.  Sure, the actual suit is reflective, but seeing how that's damn-near impossible to achieve with my skills, this is a result I damn happy with.  The flames were tedious but not as bad as I thought they were going to be.  And I really like how I was able to make them transparent.   

Ahhh, I'm so happy to have this done.  I already a good bit of the linework done before I posted the teaser, but I needed something else to distract me before really hankering down and making him.   Garo's always been something I thought I'd try out on my templates, I just never got my ass in gear for it.  And the result is so much improved over my super-old and crappy version, I can very safely say I've progressed since those early days on that old thing.

I debated doing his winged form or not.  And I think I've committed myself to making it at some point down the line, but have no immediate plans to make it.  Same goes for that weird cross/clover thing-a-ma-bob.  So both of those power-ups will be done at some point, but not anytime soon.  I'm more than pleased with posting Garo as he is now.  As for any other Garo characters or color variants of Garo, I'm not too set on making anybody else, or even committing myself in my own head to making others.  I'd love to make Zero and maybe Dan at some point, but I don't necessarily feel like it.  The original Garo pictured above is all I've wanted to make for a long time and he's all I want to have made at this point in time.  Please don't ask about any other Garo characters, because these sentences above explain exactly where I'm at in that regard. 


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One of the best Toku I've ever seen