Horror (GARO)

are fictional monsters in the Tokusatsu series "GARO". Originally from a demon world, the Horrors appear in the human world, attracted by the darkness inside human beings that they feed on. The Horrors come in many forms; they usually come in a black-winged skeleton humanoid form that can fly and feed upon humans. Beyond the basic skeletal humanoid form, various Horrors take the form of an object to kill their prey. Others are animal themed such as a fish or a spider. These Horrors don't revert to a skeletal form. Based on the object or animal form taken, they might revert back into a mechanical or mythical monstrosity.

Each Horror has unique tastes, feeding on specific emotions and taking over the human as host to stalk other humans to feast on. The Horror can cooperate with its host's blackest desire or completely take over the human being to feed upon its emotions. Horrors can manifest spiritual energy into physical objects such as chains or become objects like a watch to ingest a human. Each Horror tends to prepare the human or play with its food first before eating. Though they tend to look alike, their forms appear differently when bursting out of the possessed human depending on the matter it appeared in the human world and its matter of consumption. The Horrors also gain new abilities in their new forms. However, once they use up the energies of their host they return to their basic form most of the time. Occasionally when a Horror is defeated the host is returned to his/her original human state, but dies shortly thereafter.

However, Horrors can never truely die so long as darkness exists in the hearts of men, so upon a phyiscal death, the Horror's essence is sealed within a Makai Sword until it removed is bound into a dagger that is trusted to the Knight's Watchdog to be sent into the Demon World to be permanently dealt with.

"Chapter of The Black Wolf"

These are the Horrors that appeared during "Chapter of The Black Wolf" in GARO.

* (1): The 12th Horror to appear. Posed as a female nude portrait within a painting until the gallery owner, Taisuke Taniyama, found it and was possessed by it. The monster had a taste for young women, liquifying them into paint for consuming, and targeted Kaoru. Angry is also a known trap user, able to bring art to life. But Kouga's appearance forced the monster to lockdown the art exhibit. In the fight with Kouga, the Horror burst out from its host and manifested itself into a painting, gaining an acidic paint-muck exterior with a frame collar until it regressed to its original form when GARO killed it. Kaoru was stained by the Horror's blood.

* (2): The 13th Horror. Emerging from the "Chain Gate", it possessed the body of Kujo Azusa, a con-woman who took advantage of money-minded people using an IT company as a front. Using her host's plan, Ishutarb used money to lure her victims to meet her at nighttime. From there, she would ripped them to shreds with chains shooting from Kujo's body and ingest the pieces caught by her chains' links. She was about to kill Kaoru when dumb luck and Kouga stopped her. During the fight Ishutarb altered her host's form into iron maiden-like armored form. GARO killed her in a parking lot.

* (3): A unique Horror that has no need for a human host. Morax was once said to have wiped out an entire village in one night. Possessing a time-piece, altering it into a variety of forms, Morax lures those driven by time to pick him up. Once he has a hold on his victim, by after dusk, it de-hydrates the victim until only dust remains. Forced to use humans as host, Morax took advantage of Kouga's sympathy for humans to escape. Once he captures Kaoru, Morax assumed the form of a clock tower. Though he was armed with arsenal of bladed arms, Morax was killed finally by GARO, ripped out of his vessel as it crumbles to the ground.

* (4): A Horror that first appeared around the time Taiga was alive. He took over the body of Dr. Tategami, making him a miracle worker of a surgeon. However, it is so that Pazuzu can kill the patients in their happiest moment to drain them of their euphoria-enriched blood for nourishment with the scalpel-bladed tendrils from the back of his head while leaving the remains for his Horror minions. To ensure he would eat without interference, he erected a barrier to put any Makai Knight at a disadvantage. Kouga had trouble until he used Kaoru to remove the seals that power the barrier. Upon Pazuzu's last moments, he pleas to devour Kaoru as his last meal. Utterly repulsed by this idea, GARO delivered the final blow, thus ending his reign of terror.

* (5): A moth demon, possessing a woman who tried to commit suicide as the result of a man's insensitivity. She remained dormant in her zombified host until the full moon, when where her bloodlust is at its zenith. During the fight, GARO realized the host is nothing more than a puppet composed/filled with moths. The actual Lunarken is the orb like weapon the puppet uses in its attacks.

* (6): A corpse-like horror that appeared in a graveyard and possessed the body of a middle-aged prostitute Kotomi, making her young again and giving her beautiful body. In return, Kotomi used her beauty to lure men for the Horror to devour using the eyes as a medium to suck the life out of the victim's body before he explodes. During the fight, she could launch graveyard tombs to attack Kouga & Rei before Utokku took over. Once Utokku is killed by GARO, Kotomi soon was fatally wounded, begging for help. But as GARO stated, she is already dead because she allowed the Horror to possess her in the first place as her body disintegrated.

* (8,21): A horror attracted to the sadness of Misato Kosugawa, a woman who killed six young men and collected their fingers after her pianist boyfriend committed suicide for being robbed of his dream. The Horror raped/possessed her, using her intent to kill the remaining four for their fingers while eating the rest. In its true-form, Moloch's body is two-toned (flaming on the left, icy on the right). She had control over the elements of ice and fire, and could launch its hands to attack its enemies or kill its victims. GARO killed Moloch, with only the ring Misato have from her boyfriend remaining. Later the father of Misato, Kami Kosugawa obtained the ring, along with the Horror's essence dagger and special bullets forged from other purified blades. Intend on revenge for his daughter, Kami used the bullets to create a pack of Horrors to help him kill Kouga. But after they were all killed, and he was denied death, he stabbed himself and became Moloch's new host. However, Kami felt the pain that his daughter suffered and had GARO end his misery before the demon fully consumed him.

* (9): A Horror that manifested from a construction rubble to become a giant with strong armored body that seems invulnerable to the GARO Blade. GARO managed to kill him with the aid of Gouten and the Garo-Zan-Ba blade.

* (10): A clown-like Horror who possessed the body of pierrot. Using the red nose and his puppets, Asmodai forces his victims to show "their nature", turning them against each other in a fight to the death. Once they are dead, he turns them into beach balls to ingest. He is giant-sized in his true form, using his arms for locomotion. Though he attempted to con GARO, he was killed when ZERO lopped off his red nose.

* (11): A neon-green Stag Beetle Horror who possessed a con artist gambler, tricking people to play a fixed coin game and after they lost, sealed their souls inside the coin. After he took Kaoru, he brought Kouga into his alternate realm with three games of chance to save Kaoru's soul. After the third, Dantalian assumed his true form out of rage to lower himself to physical combat and was defeated by GARO. But, the Horror set up a final challenge for Kouga upon his death that Kouga managed to succeed.

* (12): A Horror that appeared during Taiga's time as GARO. Possessing the body of a homeless toymaker, he befriended Kouga whom he used as a shield to protect himself from Taiga, but Taiga mortally wounded the host so that the Horror ripped itself out, resembling a reddish version of its original form, in a vain attempt to kill Taiga. It was from that ordeal that Kouga understood the treacherous nature of a Horror.

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* (15): A Horror that took the body of Kouhei Kuramachi, a sculptor who sold his soul to the "devil" to possess the "Hands of God" to create the ideal sculpture. Using his "gift", Kouhei used voodoo sculptures to torture his victims (young women) to death before sucking them down face first. He attempted to kill Kaoru when she hoped to learn more of her father through him, as she thought Kouhei had met her father; she found out Kouhei actually never met Yuuji, but was only inspired by his work. Gargoyle was killed by ZERO, with a dying Kouhei in awe of finally finding his "ideal piece" just before ZERO killed him.

* (17): A Horror that possessed a fish, she used a shut-in programmer Tonuma whom she befriended to get her prey, killing women dumped into her tank and taking their attributes to become more human and move about on land without trouble. Tonuma was about to feed Kaoru to Haru as the final victim when Kouga arrived and exposed Haru, and killed the weakened monster, much to Tonuma's dismay. Though tempted to kill Tonuma, Kouga managed to control his anger and only knocked him unconscious. Haru's final words, how Kouga used Kaoru to get to her, caused a rift between Kaoru and Kouga

* (19): A Horror born from the twelve purified blades containing the invading Horrors Kouga and Rei defeated. Much larger than others, GARO and ZERO were unable to defeat it. In the end, the monster was killed/absorbed by Barago.

* (21): A skeleton gunman, created from a security guard of a museum by Kami Kosugawa, using one of the special bullets made from Horror essences provided by the Watchdogs, in his attempt to avenge his daughter's death on Kouga.

Meshia "The Ultimate Horror"

nihongo|Meshia|メシア|Meshia is the originator of all Horrors and existed since the beginning of the conflict between Makai Knight and Horror. Meshia is the most unusual Horror because she's the only Horror that appears almost perfectly human in form, resembling a giant half-naked woman with unique jewelry and tattoos around her head and shoulders. Her back contains a Taoist round disc.

Though Meshia longed to enter the human realm, but despite all her powers she couldn't cross through without a large source of energy. Somehow she led the Makai world to assume that absorbing Horrors will make them stronger, knowing there would be a person(s) desiring power badly enough to find her to become all powerful. Barago at first thought Meshia would be his final Horror to absorb, but ironically, she absorbed him using Kaoru's body as a gate medium upon being awakened. Her plans to reach the human world were foiled by Kouga, who entered the demonic world and defeated her with spiritual help from Kaoru while Meshia was overconfident with her powers, strucking his sword into her head and releasing KIBA in the process as Meshia is forced back into her dorminant state.

Her powers include ultra-human strength, high combat capabilities (while possessing Kaoru), magical shielding, magical energy attacks, able to summon Horrors by merely touching the ground she walks upon, and flight. The full range of her powers were never revealed, suggesting she has a larger range of combat capabilities.

"Beast of White Night"

The GARO special "Beast of White Night" features new types of Horrors and dark forces:

Legules

nihongo|Legules|レギュレイス|Regyureisu is a Horror that has existed over 1,000 years. They have no recorded history and his movements have no records among the Makai community. 1,000 years ago in the white night, Legules successfully crossed through the barrier and revived his followers, the Legules Family. Many Makai Knights and Makai Priests died that day in order to suppress the Horrors that Legules unleashed to humanity. To make sure that the catastrophe will never happen again in the future, the Makai created the Phosphorus arrow to destroy the barrier and seal away Legules. In the past 1,000 years, he managed to find a gateway to return to the human realm by assimilating a dead body to make it his. Legules is not the usual variety of Horror, he is seemingly demi-human and possessing elementals similar to Oni or Yokai.

He quickly began building forces of his own by converting Horrors and a human into "his family". He then attacked Kantai in the middle of night to find the Phosphorus Arrow so that he can complete his task of reviving his family. He tried to convert everyone including the Madougu of each Makai Knight to join his forces. Goruba somehow got possessed and controlled his bracelet body. When the night raid failed, he transferred himself onto Goruba during the day and came when people least suspected anything wrong. Legules took the arrow and Rin with him. The arrow needs to draw blood in order to succeed his plans for darkness and he therefore kidnaps Rin for that purpose.

Legules capabilities include and not limited to bodily assimilation, dark magic, immune to regular physical attacks, human energy absorption, body transference (like agents in The Matrix), martial arts, ultra human strength, ultra healing, body parts that can move without attachment, and biological transfiguration. Once the eclipse began, Legules transformed himself into his true form, a giant metallic-skeleton Horror. In this form he was able to transform into a bladed metal wasp. Legules was defeated when GARO threw the Phosphorus Arrow into him and destroying the barrier at the same time. With Legules destroyed, the demon family vanished.

Aomushi

When Legules possessed a dead body to walk among the human realm, nihongo|Aomushi|アオムシ|Aomushi was the man who tried to bury the dead body and he was offered a chance to live by becoming a servant to him. Legules fired demonic energies from his eyes to the man's eyes and was transformed into a member of the Legules Family. He's not considered a Horror since he's not possessed by one. There's yet to have a clear definition of what he is. His capabilities are cloaking and being acrobatic. He eventually suffered a severe injury in combat from Tsubasa and Legules finished him off as he has no use for him, reverting Aomushi to his original form.

Karakuri

nihongo|Karakuri|カラクリ|Karakuri are Horrors that has been changed by Legules. Legules carries with him demonic masks and transforms live Horrors into his Legules family foot soldiers. Just like regular horrors, they are able to enter humans and take control of them. However they seem to be unable to blend in naturally as the regular horrors can behave like a normal person. Their movements are very mechanical and move almost like karakuri puppets. They have high regenerative capabilities, have bladed weapons as arms and seem to have a ninja-like combat method. Their combat potential and strength is not above a regular Horror, but Horrors act independently as these horrors serve a master. They don't speak, they merely make sounds and shift their eye sockets up and down as they react to their environment. Their body parts are known to function on their own even though if decapitated. They were all destroyed as the result of Legules' death.

Horrors Featured

* "Spider": An arachnid Horror that possessed a young girl, using her host to target aggressive men. She was killed fighting GARO. Her abilities, other than spider-related, include each surviving piece of her body able to regenerate into a new Horror. This power meant that GARO could not simply cut her down and had to burn her, using his Blazing Armament technique.

ee also

*GARO
*Realm of GARO
*Characters of GARO