Garouden Episode 2 Recap: Netflix presents an action thriller Japanese anime titled ‘Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf‘. This eight-episodic action anime deals with the story of a legendary fighter named Juzo Fujimaki. Things get messy when Juzo Fujimaki escape from his place after a murder. Later, various organisations and criminals start to look for him for their interests. How see keep escaping from everyone is the key plot of the show.
Episode 2 begins with a duel between Juzo Fujimaki and Ichiro Shino. They both want combat against each other. Even though Juzo Fujimaki saved Ichiro Shino’s daughter from Kurogami’s students, still he wants a combat with Juzo Fujimaki. Ichiro Shino uses his best powers to kick Juzo Fujimaki. Both of them have shared pretty strong kicks for some time.
Blood starts to splatter from the Juzo Fujimaki. Ichiro Shino tries to apply his roundhouse leg kick on Juzo Fujimaki, but he somehow escapes from it. Initially, both of them underestimate each other, but later they slowly start understanding each other’s powers.
Previous Episode: Garouden Episode 1 Recap and Explained
Juzo Fujimaki is almost gone weak after back-to-back counter hits from Ichiro Shino. He falls into the ground many times, despite his defending steps. Suddenly the wolf visions inside him awake, Ichiro Shino smells something different in his behaviour. When Ichiro Shino approaches Juzo Fujimaki with a powerful kick, Juzo Fujimaki blocks him and kicks back at the vital parts of his body. Ichiro Shino was suddenly shocked after the counterattack, he couldn’t stretch his muscles for some time. Ichiro Shino thinks that he’s going to kill Juzo Fujimaki at some point. The wolf inside Juzo Fujimaki once again starts howling, he powerfully hits Ichiro Shino.
Meanwhile, Ichiro Shino comes back with a police officer to rescue her father. When she reached there, Juzo Fujimaki already left the place. Ichiro Shino looked tired and he was sitting on the ground. The police officer starts enquiring him about Juzo Fujimaki. Ichiro Shino avoids his enquiry and says that he doesn’t know Juzo Fujimaki. The next scene happens at another Karate champion’s office. Director Shozan Matsuo doing his routine exercise in his office, and his secretary Himekawa comes in. They start a conversation about the defeat of Ichiro Shino.
Shozan Matsuo finds out that Juzo Fujimaki is a student of Soichiro Izumi, who’s known as the Tiger king. He is a well-trained man with the Takemiya technique, a normal person can’t defeat a brown bear like Juzo Fujimaki did. Shozan Matsuo wants to get in touch with Juzo Fujimaki. He appoints his Himekawa to find out and bring Juzo Fujimaki. Later, at the shipping harbour, Juzo Fujimaki is seen sitting on a chair, waiting for a boat. An announcement comes about the sailing boat to Bell Island. Juzo Fujimaki buys a ticket and travels on a boat to Bell Island.
Ichiro Shino’s students go looking for Juzo Fujimaki at Bell Island. The Island is known as a secret place for criminals and prostitutes. When they are looking for Juzo Fujimaki, they end up in a fight with a local thug. A woman witnesses their fight and informs Juzo Fujimaki about the incident. He has been at his master’s house.
At the same time, a search party was happening on the Island. The cops went looking for Juzo Fujimaki, when they looked inside a Chinese man’s house, they found a foreigner guy named Jose Carlos Nagato. He is a born fighter, a well-fit man. He has been assigned to look for Juzo Fujimaki.
Meanwhile, Jose Carlos on his way to meet Juzo Fujimaki, beats up Ichiro Shino’s students. Later, ends up in a fight with a Buddha fighter named Rambo. They both fight at their best level, but eventually, Jose Carlos Nagato falls to the ground. Ranbo was well well-trained martial arts man, he didn’t give much space for Jose Carlos Nagato. On the other side, a cyber intelligence team finally finds out the location of Juzo Fujimaki, they are on their way to catch him at Bell Island. Later that night, Jose Carlos Nagato follows Ranbo to meet with Juzo Fujimaki.
Overall the second episode was really good. Juzo Fujimaki’s character gets well-deserved attention and elavations. The story started to become engaging when everyone went looking for Juzo Fujimaki at the same time. Let’s see how much powerful he really is, in the next episodes.
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