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Garo: Divine Flame Anime Film's Video Previews JAM Project Song

The official website of Garo: Divine Flame, the first Garo anime film, began streaming a video on Monday. The video reveals and previews the film's theme song "Yaiba ~the divine blade~" by JAM Project.

In addition, the website revealed the film's opening date of May 21. The film will be 80 minutes long.

Tohokushinsha Film Corporation describes the story:

León, who has succeeded the name of Golden Knight "GARO" devotes himself to train a young Makai Knight for the next generation, together with Prince Alfonso of the Valiante Kingdom. Then, they receive an order to exterminate the most beautiful Horror in the world which resides in a neighboring country "Vazelia".

At the same time, a young Makai Knight for the next generation is kidnapped by an unknown person.

León desperately follows them, only to find that he is surrounded by his enemies at a dead end. Then, a Makai Knight Dario who was supposed to be missing for some time suddenly appears and rescues him.

Under his guidance, León is led to the town where he meets up a totally unexpected person!

In the visual pictured right, the tagline reads, "This fight, who is it for…." The visual features the main character León Luís as well as the new character Dario.

The film is a sequel set four years after Honō no Kokuin, the first Garo the Animation television series. Director Yuichiro Hayashi, head writer Yasuko Kobayashi, and the anime studio MAPPA are reuniting after working on the first Garo the Animation television series. The film's second teaser video debuted in February.

[Via The Tokusatsu Network]