As the
GARO franchise continues to celebrate its 20th anniversary, fans are lucky enough to have two projects representing its two main continuities. Whilst the Saejima family timeline added a new chapter to its story last year with prequel film
GARO: Taiga, 2026's offering instead focuses on
Ryuga Dougai - continuing his story from when we last saw him in 2024's
Heir to the Steel Armor. Though at only eight episodes (plus a prologue episode which quickly recaps Ryuga's story from the very beginning)
GARO: Sentinel of the East is one of the shortest entries in the franchise thus far, it does however reunite Ryuga with Rian - the Makai Priestess who first debuted alongside him in
The One Who Shines in the Darkness and continued into
Gold Storm, Gold Storm -Sho- and
Fang of God. As with the previous series,
The Eastern Sentinel was made available worldwide via the
official GARO YouTube channel with multi-language (albeit AI generated) subtitles.
