GARO: Moonbow Traveler

GARO: Gekkou no Tabibito (aka Moonbow Traveler) is the next movie in the original series, featuring the adventures of Kouga Saejima's son, Raiga Saejima. After their first adventures, Raiga and Mayuri live a somewhat quiet life. Raiga hunts some Horrors and Mayuri grows flowers. But during the night of a full moon, a man with a white mask appears before them and kidnaps Mayuri. Raiga embarks onboard the Makai train to chase them...

The movie was released on October 4, 2019.

Plot

Epilogue

After the events of Lament of the Dark Dragon, Kouga and Kaoru married and started a family. Kaoru gave birth to the next heir to Garo: Raiga Saejima. Unknown to everyone, Raiga's birth also marked the return of Barago. Although he was devoured by Messiah, a remnant of Barago survived and lingered in the darkness for some time. However, the birth cries of Raiga awakened him and he wanted revenge upon the Saejima family. Too weak to be a threat, Barago traveled corpse to corpse, wandering between the darkness and dead to find Raiga. In between his quest for revenge, Barago somehow acquired Shiroku to be his herald and dispatched him to do his bidding until it was time for his return.

Main Story

Set after the Saejima Kouga mini-series, Raiga continued on his duties as Garo but often thinks about his father and his promise to return. Mayuri and Raiga are in a romantic relationship and she stays at the Saejima Estate to be with Raiga. When Mayuri was cured of her condition, she lost her ability to seal Horrors. Without any special abilities, Mayuri wanted a means to prove her value to Raiga. It was during this time that Raiga would meet his father's greatest enemy.

In a large European-style estate, Raiga enters the stage room to find Demon Beast Ruto. The Horror had imprisoned multiple women in chains to be both slaves and prey. Raiga intervened and freed the women while battling Ruto. Raiga fought Ruto took their fight into a massive hall, where Raiga cornered Ruto until she transformed into her demon beast form and sent Raiga flying out of the building. Raiga wanted to settle the battle and summoned Garo along with Goten.

Ruto tried to use her chains to stop Garo, but the golden knight threw her chains right back at her. The Horror attempted to run across the walls of the buildings, but Garo gave chase. Garo ended the fight by distracting Ruto. While Goten visibly jumped over Ruto, Garo surprised Ruto by sliding under her and cutting off her pointed tail. Garo and Goten regrouped on the other side and rode towards the severed tail and struck it back to Ruto. Ironically, Ruto was impaled by her own tail and Garo finished the job. However, just as Garo relaxed from the battle, one of the victims of Ruto lunged forward to Raiga and grabbed him.

The woman opened her mouth and a surge of dark energies flowed out of her and into the golden armor, hurting Raiga in the process before removing the armor. Confused as to what just happened, Zaruba remarked the woman is dead and he was bathed in jaki (dark energy). Zaruba suggested Raiga to have the armor purified at Tower of Heroic Spirits. However, Raiga decided to return home first.

Back at the Saejima Estate, Raiga had come to see Mayuri as she tended the greenhouse. Biku has encouraged Mayuri to nurture certain plants and especially a White Lily she put all her heart into for Raiga. Gonza wanted to explain Mayuri's reasons for tending to these flowers, but Mayuri wanted privacy over the matter. It was then that Mayuri asked Raiga to show her Kaoru's private studio. Mayuri explained that Kaoru was able to be useful to Kouga even though she didn't have any special abilities. Seeing how Mayuri lost her sealing powers and can't use magic, she is like Kaoru and wanted to know more about Raiga's mother because of it.

At Kaoru's studio, Mayuri was impressed with Kaoru's art work. Raiga explained Kaoru put all her heart and feelings into her work. Mayuri spotted Kaoru's drawing of the Spirit Beast, Raiga explained it is a custom to give a loved one a picture of the spirit beast and Kaoru give Kouga the picture. At the last canvas Kaoru worked on, it's a painting of Kouga with wings. Raiga remarks it's the portrait of the Moonbow Traveler, a person that will return to his loved ones. By the time it was night, Raiga suddenly experienced great pain. The Garo armor is over-saturated in dark energies and Zaruba tells Raiga to have the armor purified. Unknown to Raiga, when his armor appeared with saturated darkness, his armor petrified him and sent him to the Death Realm.

Within the armor, Raiga, oblivious to what's going on, finds himself and Mayuri ambushed by a man with feathered mask. The man hypnotized Mayuri and prompted her to stow away into a Makai Train at a station not far from Saejima estate. Raiga tries to snap her out of the trance, but the masked man stalled him long enough for her to enter by the time the young Knight catches up with her. Seeing the ominous train, he meets a train conductor who resembles Gonza a bit, who informed him about the train's name, Black Train, and its only destination, its destination, Akamoku. Just then, Raiga is warned by a mysterious boy who warned him not to enter, but he enters anyway, unable to leave Mayuri at harm's way.

Cast

• Nakayama Masei (中山麻聖) as Saejima Raiga (冴島雷牙)
• Ishibashi Natsumi (石橋菜津美) as Mayuri (マユリ)
• Hotaru Yukijiro (螢雪次朗) as Kurahashi Gonza (倉橋 ゴンザ)
• Mizuishi Atom (水石亜飛夢) as Crow (クロウ)
• Hijii Mika (肘井美佳) as Saejima Kaoru (冴島カオル)
• Shibazaki Fuga (柴崎楓雅) as Young Raiga・Mayuri's Son (雷牙幼少期・マユリの息子)
• Matsuda Satoshi (松田悟志) as Shiroku (白孔)
• Eda Yuria (江田友莉亜) as Demon Beast Ruto (魔獣ルト)
• Kuramochi Yuka (倉持由香) as Misaki (ミサキ| Dead Woman)
• Sato Taishi (佐藤大志) as Baderu (バデル)