are fictional monsters in the Tokusatsu

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 series Garo. Originally from a , 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 on humans. Beyond the basic skeletal humanoid form, most Horrors inhabit an object to wait for a human that they can possess, before coming out to feed out in the open. Others are animal themed such as a fish or a spider. Some rare ones feed without possessing a human host. Based on the object or animal form taken, they might revert back into a mechanical or mythical monstrosity. They also speak in a language which could be understood by either a Makai Knight or a potential host, but will adopt the language a host speak should one possesses a human.

Each Horror has unique tastes, feeding on specific emotions or traits. The Horror can cooperate with its host's blackest desire or completely take over the human being to feed upon its emotions. A Horror may be possessing a human with the potential host's consent, or just force its way into the said host Either way, a human is considered dead upon possession. 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 truly die so long as darkness exists in the hearts of men, so upon a physical death, the Horror's essence is sealed within a Makai Sword until its essence 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.

Messiah "The Ultimate Horror"

is the originator of all Horrors and existed since the beginning of the conflict between Makai Knights and Horrors. Messiah is the most unusual Horror because she's the only Horror that appears almost perfectly human in form, resembling a giant white-skinned half-naked woman with long-clawed fingers and unique jewelry and tattoos around her head and shoulders. Her back contains a Taoist round disc.

Though Messiah longed to enter the human realm, but despite all her powers she couldn't cross through without a large source of energy. After sensing Barago's desperation for power Messiah revealed himself in a Madou Book that contained forbidden techniques. Though only a shade, Messiah offers to give Barago knowledge and power of the forbidden Makai methods in return to bring enact the legend Kiba. Barago wholeheartedly agreed to give up his soul for power and Messiah proceeds to start him on his path of destroying lives to set up the conditions to summon her in her full glory through Kaoru, who was a suitable vessel due to the conditions of her age and birth. But once he fulfilled his part in her summoning, removing any trace of humanity in him, Messiah absorbed Barago using Kaoru's body as a gate medium upon being awakened to use his power to complete the process. 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 Messiah was overconfident with her powers, running his sword into her head and releasing Kiba in the process as Messiah is forced back into her dormant 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.

Messiah is portrayed by . In Kiba Gaiden, she is voiced by
in a flashback and while possessing her body.

"Chapter of The Black Wolf"

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

The 12th Horror to appear, Anglay is a trapper able to bring artwork to life. The Horror posed as a female nude portrait within a painting until the gallery owner, , found it and was possessed by it. The monster had a taste for young women, liquifying them into paint for consumption, and targeted Kaoru. But Kouga's appearance forced the monster to lockdown the art exhibit. In the fight with Kouga, Anglay 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 with Kaoru stained by the Horror's blood as a result. Taniyama is portrayed by .: The 13th Horror. Emerging from the "Chain Gate", it possessed the body of , 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

Iron maiden (torture device)

An iron maiden is a torture device, consisting of an iron cabinet, with a hinged front, sufficiently tall to enclose a human being. It usually has a small closeable opening so that the torturer can interrogate the victim and torture or kill a person by piercing the body with sharp objects , while...

-like armored form. Garo killed her in a parking lot. Kujo is portrayed by .: A unique Horror that has no need for a human host, 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.: A Horror that first appeared around the time Taiga was alive. He took over the body of , 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. Tategami is portrayed by .: 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. Lunarken is portrayed by .: A corpse-like Horror that appeared in a graveyard and possessed the body of a middle-aged prostitute , making her young again and giving her a 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 Utoque took over. Once Utoque 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. Kotomi is portrayed by .: A Horror attracted to the sadness of , 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) with control over the elements of ice and fire, launching its hands to attack its enemies or kill its victims. Garo killed Moloch, with only the ring Miri have from her boyfriend remaining. Later the father of Miri, obtained the ring, along with the Horror's essence dagger and special bullets forged from other purified blades. Intend on revenge for his daughter, Yuki 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, Yuki stabbed himself and became Moloch's new host. However, Yuki felt the pain that his daughter suffered and had Garo end his misery before the demon fully consumed him. Miri and Yuki are respectively portrayed by and .: A Horror that manifested from a construction rubble to become a giant with strong armored body that seems invulnerable to the Fanged Wolf Sword. Garo managed to kill him with the aid of Gouten and the Fanged Wolf Horse-Slashing Sword.: A clown-like Horror that possessed the body of a . 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 out of similar ideologies, he was killed when Zero lopped off his red nose. The clown is portrayed by .: A neon-green stag beetle Horror that possessed a con artist gambler named , tricking people to play a fixed coin game and after they lost, sealed their souls inside a coin. After he takes Kaoru, he brought Kouga into his alternate realm with three games of chance to save Kaoru's soul. After the third, Dantarian 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. Kunugi is portrayed by .: A Horror that appeared during Taiga's time as Garo. Possessing the body of an , 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 an attempt to kill Taiga. It was from that ordeal that Kouga understood the treacherous nature of a Horror. The old toymaker is portrayed by .: A Horror that possessed a vehicle.: A Horror that took the body of , a sculptor who sold his soul to the "devil" to possess the "Hands of God" to create the ideal sculpture. Using his "gift", Kuramachi created 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 Kuramachi had met her father. However, she found out Kuramachi actually never met Yuji Mitsuki and was only inspired by his work. Gargoyle was killed by Zero, with a dying Kuramachi in awe of finally finding his "ideal piece" just before Zero killed him. Kuramachi is portrayed by .: A Horror that possessed a fish, she used a shut-in programmer 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. Haru's human form is portrayed by Miko.: 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.: A skeleton gunman, created from , a security guard for a museum owned by Yuki Kamisugawa, 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. Tochino is portrayed by .

"Beast of the Midnight Sun"

Garo Special: Beast of the Midnight Sun features new types of Horrors and dark forces:

Legules

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 time of the Midnight Sun, 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 on 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

Yokai

are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "otherworldly" and "weird". Yōkai range eclectically from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them...

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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, 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.

Legules is portrayed by and is voiced by .

Aomushi

When Legules possessed a dead body to walk among the human realm, 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. Though not possessed, Aomushi counts as a Horror because he serves as an extension of Legules like those he converts. 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.

Aomushi is portrayed by and is voiced by .

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.

Eruzu

is an arachnid Horror that possessed a young girl, using her host to target aggressive men. Her abilities, other than spider-related powers, include each surviving piece of her body being 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.

"Red Requiem"

Garo: Red Requiem

GARO: Red Requiem

is a 2010 Japanese 3-D film directed by Keita Amemiya, produced by Tohokushinsha Film, and based their tokusatsu series Garo. It was released in theaters on October 30, 2010. Ryosei Konishi reprises his role from the television series, while introducing new characters such as the one portrayed by...

features the , the generic name for seven powerful Horrors who are near equal to Messiah, and their followers.

Karma

is one of the Apostle Horrors who lives in a mirror rather than human hosts, though she can turn a human into a Horror familiar if their darkness is great enough. She consumes human souls by showing illusions of their greatest desires, drawing them into her mirror realm and turning their bodies into piles of broken mirror shards to ingest with their souls trapped in the mirror world. Among her victims are thousands of Makai Knights. Karma is able to jump from mirror to mirror if the one she is currently housed in is destroyed. Eventually, forced to fight Garo, Karma assumes a giant mirror-shard themed harpy

Harpy

In Greek mythology, a harpy was one of the winged spirits best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas...

 form while trying to convince Garo to swear loyalty to her in return for immortality. However, empowered by the Makai Knights' souls, Garo destroys Karma.

Karma is portrayed by and is voiced by .

Bebil

is one of the Apostle Horrors, a gigantic bull-like beast with a large headpiece resembling a guillotine with a blindfolded, naked human female form mounted on its front. The blade of the headpiece, tethered by the chains running through the Horror's body, can be launched. Unlike other Horrors, Bebil is a cannibal and feeds on its own kind, posing as an infant in a carriage before being found out and destroyed by Garo.

Kurusu

is a Horror under Karma. Originally an elderly painter named , Kurusu was driven mad by the death of his lover, Shion. He eventually snaps and kills a girl he was using as a model for a painting, trying to emulate Shion onto her. Karma, hearing his anguish, transforms him into a Horror, restoring his youth, and uses revives girl's corpse in Shion's image. In his human form, Kurusu fights with a large sword, holding it in a reverse grip

Icepick Grip

The icepick grip, otherwise known as the "reverse grip" or pakal in Filipino martial arts, is a technique used in close range knifefighting, in which the blade protrudes from the bottom of the hand, rather than the top of the closed fist, resembling the way one would normally use an icepick for...

. His Horror form is a large, skeletal creature composed half of bone and half of a fleshy substance. Finding Shion dead, Kurusu goes after the Kouga and Rekka while refusing to accept his love for the girl is a lie before being destroyed by Garo.

Kurusu is portrayed by , his original form portrayed by .

Shion

is a Horror under Karma. In reality, she is a Horror created from the corpse of a girl Kurusu murdered prior to his transformation and altered to resemble the real Shion who died long ago. Her Horror form is not monstrous like most, only possessing a single white wing and an angelic outfit. She is killed by Rekka, her body lasting long enough for Kurusu to find before it dissolves into feathers.

Shion is portrayed by .

Garius and Blade

and are two Horrors that were among the many that were absorbed by Kiba. While Garius is a serpentine flyer, Blade is a giant mantis-like monster.

Ganon

Though not making a physical appearance, is one of strongest Horrors in existence and is labeled as Messiah's Fang. Mysteriously killed, the Makai sent a group of three Makai Knights and one Makai Guide to retrieve the monster's corpse. However, as Barago also sought the Horror, Ganon's corpse was no where to be found by either party. In Makai Senki, it is revealed that the red-masked man had stolen Ganon's corpse.

Kokuryu

is a dragon-like Horror that exists within the mind of Barago.

"Makai Senki"

These are the Horrors that appear in Garo: Makai Senki

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A tricky Horror that inhabits an antique cigarette lighter owned by a murderous military officer, his method of feeding being to invoke internal combustion in his victims and swallow the airborne ashes. Cigarien's lighter eventually ended up in the possession of , a petty crook who made an enemy out of a mob boss named Katagiri by stealing his money. Making Anan an offer to save him in return for his soul, Cigarein possesses the man before slaughtering Katagiri and his entourage. Cigarein then proceeds to devour those who are scum in society before found by Kouga. Though he repeatedly tries to weasel out of his fight with Kouga, Cigarein is forced to assume his true war-themed armored form before Garo cuts him to pieces. Anan's soul endured a bit before Garo stabs the soul into oblivion. Anan is portrayed by .: A Horror that inhabits a streetlight in an area once used for unsavory executions, able to use heat and light in her attacks. Luzagin possess the body of , a vain yet dirty homeless woman who desires handsome men to the point of murdering them so she can have them. Acting on Ichikai's desires, Luzagin goes to captures ideal men, mutilating their bodies before freeze-drying them to add to her collection. However, she has strict physical requirements on who makes it to her collection, and devours through their shadows those who do not "pass". She eventually fights Kouga, forced to assume her true form before being cut down and left to die from the fatal wound. Ichikai is portrayed by .: A Horror that was terrorizing the road by murdering those who travel through a tunnel. He is destroyed by Reo with the Gouryu Colt.: Reo's personal Gouryu which he uses to destory the Horror Melgis. However, wounded during the fight, some of Reo's blood ended up on Colt and awaken Horror-based instinct as it possesses a motorcycle and enhance it with multiple weapons. Eventually, Garo manages to destroy the Horror core and force Colt out of the motorcycle.: A bird-based Horror that possesses the body of a gambler named , using his host to invite various gamblers to an underground casino on an island maintained by his Horror familiars. There, he has the gamblers play a life and death poker where he uses his Joker card to sent his victims into a limbo where he can eat at his leisure along with those dear to the victim if they borrow chips from the house. However, posing as one of the guests, Kouga destroys the joker card to release those among the victims still living and then the Horror himself. Kid is portrayed by .: A venus flytrap-headed that emerged from a gate which manifested from a manhole cover which was manufactured by , an artistic metal caster who left his wife to die under a manhole prior to the cover's creation. Possessing the body of a woman, converting her host into the shaded , Terubo uses Kijima to mass produce more of the manhole covers to bring more of her kin into the world. However, while Terubo meets her end against Garo, Kijima faces his own horrific end at the hands of his wife's specter. The woman in black is portrayed by .: A Horror that inhabits a tree which and his wife grew from a seed that they found among the belongings of their son , a wartime photographer who was killed in action. The two proceed to invite people who pass by into their house for a meal. They then poison their guests and bury them under the tree which casts an illusion of "Masato" under the moonlight which acts on the couple's stronger memory of him. Rei was invited for dinner and later poisoned as well. However, immune to poison, Rei confronts Erinnerg as it personally attacks him and kills the Horror with the couple heartbroken. Erinnerg is voiced by .: A Horror that possesses the body of a security guard.: A Horror that inhabits a katana. A skilled swordsman named on his quest in search for stronger men, possibly with a wish to die by the sword as he is ill and have little time to live, found the man who previously wielded the cursed katana by chance and slain him. He took the katana as it promises to heal him in exchange for Juzo cutting down living people for their blood. It took the Horror several centuries to heal Juzo as his body was too broken, ending up with Juzo revived in the modern era. To its chagrin, Juzo proves to be an honorable man who would not cut anyone down without a reason, asserting that he lives only to fight the strong. Juzo saw Rei by chance when the later was exterminating Rebecca and promptly challenges him to a duel when Rei was done with his job. The horror, however, refuses to abide by Juzo's wishes and Rei refuses to draw his blades on a human. The Horror demands Juzo to quench the blade with blood of the living before it can be drawn to fight the Makai Knight. Both men later ended up fighting with broom sticks, with Juzo demanding Rei to put on his armor but Rei refuses to do so as Juzo is not a Horror. The duel cannot be truly concluded since none of them is down, though impressed by Juzo's skills, Rei admitted defeat. Disappointed and refusing to just cut anyone down, Juzo commits seppuku to quench the blade's thirst as well as to free himself from a meaningless life. Surprisingly, as noted by Silva, Juzo's dead body reemerged as one possessed by a Horror yet unlike many other cases, Juzo's soul is firmly in control. Juzo's will is even powerful enough to wield one of Rei's swords effectively, despite having never even touch soul metal before. Eventually both men had their showdown, one between a Horror and a Makai Knight. Juzo is eventually slain as a Horror, dying with satisfaction under the blade of one stronger than he is. He hands Rei his wakizashi before turning into ash. Igari is portrayed by and Kagemitsu is voiced by .