500https://www.bubbleblabber.com/wpcontent/uploads/2017/10/garo.png Would first like to preface that this will not be a spoiler free review and this is my actual first review so apologies for any grammatical errors or any other mistakes :. I luckily went into this series with high anticipation due to my favorable opinion towards scifi/futuristic series and I can say I wasnt disappointed The premise of this story starts with our main guy Sword fighting the horrors aka monsters that are more or less our main enemy his goal is to find this El Dorado place that we know nothing about quite literally nothing. We then meet our main girl Sophie whos looking for her lost brother who left her with only a single message El Dorado which is how these two characters coincide with each other having a common goal. The power system in this story is definitely brushed over we dont really know how it exists how you learn it but fortunately its not entirely relevant to the story I STILL WANNA KNOW HOW IT WORKS. Garo is filled with action packed fights and above average animation that surpassed my expectations with flying colors before I realized this was MAPPA. We go through a variety of settings in this story like Russell City the Desert El Dorado and the true El Dorado. Each of these settings are mildly different but refreshing to see compared to the typical SciFi dystopian series where the setting is the only civilization that we know of. Arguably the first half of this show is your typical Man V.S Monster action series. We find the people who are vulnerable to the horrors kill the horrors repeat without getting any substantial information on our end goal. However I think the story truly shines in the second half where things start to pick up and we finally get a sense of direction. There are some amazing animation sequences that we get to see later in the story that I think are worth sticking around for and the plot only got better for me as we got towards those final episodes. Once we get into the city of El Dorado we meet the servants of the King of El dorado which makes us as the watchers question who the king is. Is it someone we know? Does the king even exist? Pretty early on I was able to predict that the King was our main girls brother because I cant say that its an original twist. BUT we later learn that her brother had no knowledge of what was going on in the outside world. We got to see that he was battling his own psychological turbulence after learning about what the cost of El Dorado had on the real world humanities eradication. Yes the ending was rushed and yes it felt like some things still had to be covered but thats nothing new in modern anime its just something that you have to expect with any show that isnt 50+ episodes. What I think the show did a great job on was its characters we get back stories on pretty much everyone and I can say these characters were made to be likeable theres nobody in the main cast that I find to be filler unnecessary or just overall irrelevant. I even felt attached to the minor side characters early on due to the heartbreaking stories we get to experience and what leads them to fall victim to the horrors. This is by no means a ground breaking revolutionary series but I think it deserves more recognition within the genre that it is as I would consider it better than similar series in this scope. 1000 recommend this to people who enjoy actiony shows with great battle sequences and I had a very enjoyable time getting to watch this in such a short period of time Another disclaimer that my ratings may be a bit flimsy Ive used the star system for quite a while so my ability to transfer my thoughts into a 100 point score could be a little bit different than what I truly think.