Garouden Episode 4 Recap: Netflix presents ‘Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf’, A highly powerful action thriller anime series. This is a new addition to the banger-action Japanese anime shows list. The story revolves around a murder fugitive Juzo Fujimaki, who ran away after killing a robber.
Years later, various organisations come looking for him for various purposes. With the influence of a deadly underworld organisation, he joins in a deadly tournament that features beast like fighters around the world.
Episode 4 opens with a ship sailing towards the mainland. Juzo Fujimaki is standing on the balcony of the ship, looking at the ocean view. He meets Joze Carlos in surprise. Jose Carlos looks at Juzo Fujimaki in an aggressive way. He wants a hand-to-hand duel with Juzo Fujimaki. Joze Carlos wants to fight with Juzo Fujimaki to prove himself as the best fighter. But, Juzo Fujimaki didn’t want get involved in any battles with humans. Jose Carlos triggers Juzo Fujimaki with his fist punches. Juzo Fujimaki tries to escape from his counterattacks, but still, Joze Carlos hits him hard back to back. At some point, Juzo Fujimaki loses his control, and the wolf inside him awakes suddenly.
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Juzo Fujimaki starts defending himself from the attacks. He blocks the hard punches from Jose Carlos, he replies to his anger with strong punches. Joze Carlos wants to learn more about the Takemiya technique of beating powerful people. Juzo Fujimaki slowly explains how they focus on the face of the opponents, without their attention they unnoticeably kick their legs during counterattacks. Juzo Fujimaki tried such kick with Joze Carlos, he couldn’t control the pain for some time. Juzo Fujimaki approaches Joze Carlos with another technique, which is a roundhouse leg kick through Joze Carlos’s head. But somehow, he escapes from it.
Later, Joze Carlos admits that he wants to join Kodoku tournament after beating Juzo Fujimaki. But the fact is that Juzo Fujimaki doesn’t know anything about the underworld tournament of criminal organisation. Suddenly a military-like helicopter arrives at the ship with two people coming outside.
They approach Juzo Fujimaki, a lady tells him that they selected Juzo Fujimaki as one of the contestants for the underworld Kodoku tournament. She herself addresses her name as Sergeant. She recruits deadly fighters from around the world to battle in their tournament.
Juzo Fujimaki didn’t to join the tournament initially, but she assured that she would close his murder case after the match. Also, she added that the doctor he consulted before injected a parasite into his body, and if he didn’t join the tournament, he would die eventually. In the end, Juzo Fujimaki agrees to join the tournament.
He also assigns Joze Carlos as his personal advisor for the tournament. Meanwhile, they all go to the tournament venue. The sergeant introduces everyone, the terms and conditions of the tournament. The match will end if someone dies or back off during the competition.
Joze Carlos is shocked after seeing all the other participants, every one of them are highly trained deadly fighter. On the other side, Himekawa and a police officer report the news about the sergeant and Kodoku tournament to Shozan Matsuo. The cop thinks that the sergeant is a man, but Shozan Matsuo explains that she is a woman and she once approached him for the same Kodoku tournament. He denied her invitation that day for the sake of his business and now gets shocked to know that she’s still doing it anonymously. Shozan Matsuo wants to conduct his own tournament to compete with the Kodoku tournament.
Meanwhile, at the Kodoku tournament venue, Joze Carlos introduces every contestant to Juzo Fujimaki. They witness a live combat between two deadly fighters. One of the almost dead and the other standing with cold blood all over his body. Suddenly an MMA fighter Ryuoumaru enters the place and invites Juzo Fujimaki for combat. They eventually start fighting, a drone camera appears out of nowhere and starts recording the match.
The sergeant comes in and takes Joze Carlos in her vehicle. Ryuoumaru uses his most powerful kicks on Juzo Fujimaki. They both beats up each other badly and both of the eventually get hurt. The episode ends in the middle of their combat.
Overall the fourth episode was superb. The eagerness to complete the season on a binge-watch is getting high. Many powerful characters has been introduced in this episode. The story gets stronger after the entry into Kodoku tournament.
