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Kami no Kiba Mezame (Awaken Fang of God) is a live action show based on the Ryūga-verse. The stage show will fill in the blanks between the events of GARO: Gold Storm Flight (TV Series) television show and GARO: Fang of God.
「牙狼＜GARO＞ 神ノ牙 覚醒 」Garo- Kami no Kiba -Mezame-
Awaken Fang of God live show.
Story[]
The play opens in the Makai Realm with Jinga pinned to the stone with the Garo Sword. A strange loli-dressed Horror (Ashura) crawls above Jinga, brings out a container, and pours the fluid into his mouth. It seems to have no effect and she starts pulling herself down when Jinga to her. Jinga lost his memories and identity; Ashura tells him a bit of who he is and attempts to pull out the sword to no avail. When she says the sword belongs to the Golden Knight, Jinga is filled with rage and pulls the sword out himself (he only remembers his hate for Garo) and Ashura manage to hold the sword for him.
We are now introduced to Makai Knight Kooki and his partner Makai Priest Natsuki, fighting against Horrors. A pupil (or partner Knight), Tekkan, is injured by the Horrors. They returned to the hidden HQ of watch dog Rikyo (student of Ryume) to report to her. Rikyo is accompanied by a trio of girls in white, Rinri, Kiriri and Kumori (suggestively her attendants). Kooki and Natsuki (who has saved Natsuki in the past) are planning to intercept Garo at Hell City. Rikyo felt a dark spiritual disturbance: the awakening of Jinga.
Back in the makai realm, Jinga has taken control of several Horrors. He encountered Yubangi (who seems to be respected among the lesser Horrors) fought him, earning Yubangi's respect.
They witness some action in Jinkai. There’s some stuff with a shootout and the police, but it ends with a gang leader named Koge holding Sakura Midori (wife of Hayato Midori) hostage to make Hayato surrender. Hayato surrenders and Sakura is released, only for them to then execute her before shooting him. The shot becomes the moment when Hayato forms a contract with a Horror and combines with him. As a horror he has a distorted face and gun melted into his arm.
After his rampage the observing Jinga walks off, leaving Yubangi and Ashura. They communicate with him briefly, and then suddenly while Yubangi (and us) aren’t looking Amily is there, has a brief argument with Hayato including use of spells on him, and then while Yubangi isn’t looking again suddenly it’s Ashura again. Yubangi is confused.
Kooki and Natsuki come to Hayato. Natsuki does some form of Time Spell which plays out for them Hayato’s rampage, showing he killed his fellow officers when they arrived as well. Kooki takes the time to fight it, summoning his armour to become Soten Kishi Zanko, Zanko defeats Hayato, sending his remains to Makai, and senses Jinga (order might be off there)
Zanko is, aside from the horn, extremely similar to Giga. Zanko’s really the second example we’ve seen of a senior apprentice knight. Back at Rikyo’s, Kooki asks to be allowed to pursue Jinga explaining at some point that he wants to avenge his master, Daigo’s friend Seiji. I don’t think Rikyo agreed.
In the aftermath of this meeting, Natsuki and Kooki are arguing when a Priest friend of theirs, Kichiya appears. I guess the argument involves some concern from Natsuki that if Kooki follows this path he’ll fall to darkness, Kichiya showing them that Garo embraced darkness to fight Jinga. Kichiya puts some kind of mark on each of them in preparation for their journey, the pain of which knocks Natsuki out.
Before the intermission there’s some comedy, with the Horrors joking around and Jinga being annoyed.
The second half of the play opens on Natsuki awakening in darkness. She is scared, and has no idea who she is. Kooki awakens beside her, also confused, but remembers her name. her name means nothing to her for a moment, then something connects and she recognises Kooki is someone important to her. They touch and their memories of their past (flashes shown on the screen) return before the marks on their hands glow, and their memory returns. It would seem that Kichiya’s spell has brought them to Makai. Kichiya, Tekkan and Rikyo are able to communicate to them via the spell, as it seems can Rikyo’s girls.
Ashura and Hayato approach the pair with mocking voices, before Jinga makes his presence known. Kooki is keen on getting his revenge, but Jinga wants to test out this Makai Knight as a test bed for his revenge on the Golden Knight.
Jinga has his Horror servants fight Kooki and Natsuki. After a short battle Yubangi enters the picture. Natsuki use what I would assume to be a time freezing spell which Yubangi resists, and so Kooki summons Zanko. After a bit of a fight Zanko defeats but doesn’t seal Yubangi, Yubangi’s followers yelling out to him as Kooki comes back onstage. Jinga says some stuff to Yubangi about losing, then drops his sword down to Ashura below. She moves in front of Yubangi and for the first time Ashura rises up to her full height, offering him the sword of Kami no Kiba. Yubangi rises and manages to pull the blade from the sheath before dropping it. Ashura returns to the sidelines, but Yubangi finds the will to pick the sword up for real. There’s a brief fight, but the injuries Yubangi already suffered mean Kooki has a clear advantage. Jinga knocks Kooki back, retrieves his sword, and after a moment, stabs Yubangi.
Jinga assumes his Horror form, before quickly returning to normal, his power returned from eating Yubangi. Kooki is disgusted by his evil even for a Horror. Before the conflict Kooki itches for can happen, Jinga asks Ashura, sat above where Jinga was before, what he should do. Or rather, his moon, Amily. Ashura rises into the air and spins about, then is lowered behind the rock so Amily can come up to the top. She is relieved Jinga has remembered.
Hayato is making some effort to escape Jinga when Amily stops him. Using an illusion she reminds him of Sakura, and why he became a Horror, as well as the fact Kooki prevented him from completing his revenge. Thus he should get revenge on Kooki.
Kooki is battling Jinga, who has a slight upper hand in the fight, especially with his taunting. Natsuki eventually interferes, prompting Amily to arrive and have something of a woman’s argument until he is so offended by Natsuki she calls on the darkness.
Kooki is trapped in the dark mirror, Amily showing him via butterfly that Natsuki is trapped, and he has to fight the darkness, taking the form of shadows of Jinga. after a while he becomes overwhelmed and Jinga and Amily mock him for not comparing to the Golden Knight, as he hears Natsuki call out for Garo’s aid. Overwhelmed, the shadow enters Kooki.
Kichiya comes to an unconscious Kooki and Tekkan, helping them up. Realising Natsuki isn’t there, Kooki rushes after her, the others following. Kooki arrives where Natsuki is being overwhelmed, but is unable to save her, she only lives by the appearance of Garo, who slays the Horrors and leaves just as quickly. Natsuki tells Kooki she’s useless and runs away, Kooki attempting to follow and being separated by darkness.
Tekkan, Kichiya and Rikyo see Kooki’s light is dying and call out to him. Kooki says the “Honoo” is gone which normally means flame but here seems to just mean light, as he blindly swings at Jinga, who taunts him into resenting Garo. Kooki starts twitching which I take to mean he was falling, but Rikyo channels light to him via Kichiya which seems to bring him to his senses.
He brakes the barrier separating him and Natsuki, and affirms he is Soten Kishi Zanko, and he will protect Natsuki, breaking out of the darkness. Amily is winded by the experience. They still need to find Jinga, but Natsuki and Amily wind up battling. After a while Natsuki wins the first struggle, but her next move is interrupted by Hayato shooting away her brush, he then takes her captive. Kooki agonises over what to do. He’s about to put down his axes when Natsuki yells at him not to, tells him to always remember he is a protector, and make Hayato shoot herself.
Kooki flies into a rage and attacks Hayato as Jinga declares his victory, he has broken this Makai Knight. But Kooki stops himself before his killing blow is one of anger. Reiterating that he is Zanko, a protector, he fights Jinga once more.
The fight has music playing rather than dialogue, and I’m sure the son probably explains a bit of what’s going on. It’s shown through both Jinga and Kooki, and Jinga and Zanko fighting. There’s a bit where Zanko is on the ground and a bunch of extras are on stage and Jinga cuts them all down and Garo appears to indicate support of Zanko that I have to assume was symbolic, and later on there’s Rikyo and Kichiya casting magic to help Kooki, which is really happening. the dead extras get back up which I guess is meant to show Zanko is now winning, and eventually Zanko cuts Jinga down, the song ending and we return to Kooki.
Kooki begs Jinga to stand up, so he has something to fight for, when Natsuki gets up, having used a sleeping spell to protect herself. Rikyo, Kichiya and Tekkan are relieved and tell them to come on home. But just before the lovebirds(?) can do that, Kooki is stabbed from behind by Jinga.
Jinga and Amily kill Kooki in the same manner they killed Seiji, and Natsuki breaks down by his body. Tekkan, Rikyo and Kichiya desperately call out to Natsuki to come back, but consumed with vengeance she picks up Kooki’s axes and tries to attack Jinga. She is quickly and brutally defeated, Jinga stabbing her through the neck. Her last word is Kooki’s name before Jinga eats her. Also I guess Tekkan was her brother.
Jinga and Amily take a moment to mock Kooki and kick his body around before walking off into the darkness, leaving Kichiya to mournfully tells Rikyo and Tekkan that in her last moments, Natsuki was a Horror. Tekkan cannot bear to hear it, Kichiya is depressed and Rikyo blames herself. While they’re talking Natsuki goes back on stage, wakes Kooki and gives him back his axes, which I presumes is something their spirits are doing. In the final moment, Tekkan appears to vow vengeance of his own.
Hayato notes the 6 Horrors Jinga has consumed since his revival, and begins to declare with this Messiah’s resurrection will soon be at hand, when Jinga interrupts. Him and Amily don’t seem to be all that concerned with Messiah, and send Hayato scurrying off. The pair talk, and Jinga declares his eyes opened. Jinga Horror Form and Garo take the stage, standing opposite each other to indicate their approaching return to battle.
We then get the Curtain Call.
There might be some more stuff cause after all this there’s still 11 minutes, so I’ll see if there’s anything of note in there and if there is I’ll do a separate post.
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