History YMMV / SSSSGridman

* InferredHolocaust: Hundreds, if not thousands of people are presumably injured or killed (and then wiped from existence via ResetButton) each time Gridman and a Kaiju fight, but in true toku fashion the narrative doesn't touch on this at all [[spoiler:for the first three quarters of the series. Then we get episodes 11 and 12 where, thanks to Akane not bothering to push the reset button, the sheer carnage and destruction which two multi-foot beings duking it out in the middle of the city leave in their wake is lovingly showcased. Poor Utsumi is pushed into a HeroicBSOD after realizing that he was essentially cheering on the leveling of the entire city each time he fanboyed over Gridman's fights.]]

* WinBackTheCrowd: After how controversial ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'' ended up being, the success of ''SSSS.Gridman'' has redeemed Trigger in the eyes of many viewers, especially because it lacks the RomanticPlotTumor that was so contentious in ''Franxx''.
* WinTheCrowd: This series managed to win the hearts of past fans, including new anime fans due to the original being a CultClassic.

* InferredHolocaust: Hundreds, if not thousands of people are presumably injured or killed (and then wiped from existence via ResetButton) each time Gridman and a Kaiju fight, but in true toku fashion the narrative doesn't touch on this at all [[spoiler:for the first three quarters of the series. Then we get episodes 11 and 12 where, thanks to Akane not bothering to push the reset button, the sheer carnage and destruction which two multi-foot beings duking it out in the middle of the city leave in their wake is lovingly showcased. Poor Utsumi is pushed into a {{HeroicBSOD}} after realizing that he was essentially cheering on the leveling of the entire city each time he fanboyed over Gridman's fights.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Samurai Calibur has been getting a lot of love as of late. [[CrazyAwesome Not hard to see why.]]

* {{SugarWiki/Awesome Music}}: [=OxT=] perform the simultaneously blood-pumping and uplifting opening theme "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4CIYS1Bme4 UNION]]," while Creator/MaayaUchida's "youthful beautiful" serves as the wonderfully upbeat ending theme.

** Speaking of [=OxT=], they also give us some splendid covers of the opening and ending themes of the live-action Gridman series, "Yume no Hero" and "Motto Kimi wo Shireba."

* {{SugarWiki/Awesome Music}}: [=OxT=] perform the simultaneously blood-pumping and uplifting opening theme "UNION," while Creator/MaayaUchida's "youthful beautiful" serves as the wonderfully upbeat ending theme.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: At the end of the second episode, Yuta is wondering what the point of fighting is if his accomplishments are erased by the ResetButton at the end of each episode. Then he bumps into his homeroom teacher who he just prevented Akane's {{Kaiju}} from killing, showing just how much of a difference he made.
** A villainous example in episode 3; Akane treats Anti to a breakfast buffet as a reward for him killing Gridman, with the two of them sitting down to eat and talk together. [[HarsherInHindsight This is before Gridman comes back and Akane starts treating Anti poorly for failing to kill him, of course.]]
-->'''Anti:''' So am I a {{Kaiju}} too, then?
-->'''Akane:''' Yep, you sure are! You're a {{Kaiju}} that even eats breakfast with me.
** All of radio drama 4.4, which features Rikka and her mother having a heart-to-heart about mortality and the latter urging the former to stay alive, ending with a cute moment of them laughing over tonight's dinner.
** The moment [[spoiler: Akane's heart was saved, giving the young woman the strength to go back to her world and stopping Alexis from torturing her any longer.]]
*** For that matter, the fact that [[spoiler:Gridman's "real power" that finishes Alexis Kerib off for good is "Grid Fixer Beam" - an ability that in [[Series/DenkouChoujinGridman the original toku show]] was just used to repair computers after the MonsterOfTheWeek was dealt with. What is it used for here? ''[[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Repairing a person's soul.]]'']]
** The last scene of the anime where [[spoiler: the real Akane wakes up and rather than staying, decides to get out of bed.]]

** This takes an interesting angle with the confirmation that [[spoiler: Rikka is based on Akane's appearance in the real world. Perhaps all along, Akane's relationship with Rikka was her learning how to love and accept herself.]]

* LGBTFanbase: Akane flirts with everyone and her realizing her feelings for Rikka [[spoiler: who is based on her real world appearance]] can read as coming into acceptance with your bisexuality[note](things like a strategically-placed LGBT poster during Akane and Rikka's plot in episode 9 suggest that this is intentional)[/note]. Cue LGBT following.

* LGBTFanbase: Akane flirts with everyone and her realizing her feelings for Rikka [[spoiler: who is based on her real world appearance]] can read as coming into acceptance with your bisexuality. Cue LGBT following.

* AbandonShipping: A number of fans stopped pairing Akane and/or Rikka with Yuta and/or Utsumi after [[https://imgur.com/UtJnXDf an interview in a magazine pointed out that]] [[LesYay Rikka is the only person in the digital world that Akane loves.]] Which becomes hilarious given [[spoiler: Rikka is based on Akane's real life self.]] In other words the only person Akane loves is [[spoiler:herself]], which ties greatly to her character arc. A drama CD that introduced [[spoiler: a regular Akane from the alternate world as opposed to our own]] with the ironic implication that Rikka herself ships Utsumi x Akane while Utsumi ships Rikka x Yuta alleviated this a bit.

* GeniusBonus: The StarterVillain Ghoulghilas' name in Katakana (グールギラス) can be rearranged into Gilarus (ギラルス), the starter villain from ''Denkou Choujin Gridman''.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Those who went into the series [[spoiler:without any knowledge of the original series could see Gridman’s Fixer Beam as an AssPull, but Gridman being able to restore virtual worlds to their original form was well established ResetButton in the Tokusatsu show. Fixer Beam's purpose of fixing a person's heart, on the other hand, was mentioned [[AllThereInTheManual in supplementary materials]].]]
** Those who did not see the original two shows were surprised by the [[spoiler: live action scene of the real Akane waking up.]] Especially since Trigger's previous Gridman animation didn't use [[spoiler: live action.]]

** A villainous example in episode 3; Akane treats Anti to a breakfast buffet as a reward for him killing Gridman, with the two of them sitting down to eat and talk together. [[HarsherInHindsight This is before Gridman come back and Akane starts treating Anti poorly for failing to kill him, of course.]]

* BrokenBase: Some fans feel the show's marketing and fandom focus way too much on [[BestKnownForTheFanservice Rikka and Akane]] as opposed to Gridman himself. Others point out that Rikka and Akane can reel in Moe fans into the show and Tokusatsu genre. For what it's worth Gridman is a much larger household name in Japan alongside the Tokusatsu genre, so there's less of a broken base in Japan over this.

* AbandonShipping: A number of fans stopped pairing Akane and/or Rikka with Yuta and/or Utsumi after [[https://imgur.com/UtJnXDf an interview in a magazine pointed out that]] [[LesYay Rikka is the only person in the digital world that Akane loves.]] Which becomes hilarious given [[spoiler: Rikka is based on Akane's real life self.]] In other words the only person Akane loves is [[spoiler:herself]], which ties greatly to her character arc. A drama CD that introduced [[spoiler: a regular Akane from the alternate world as opposed to our own]] with the ironic implication that Rikka herself ships Utsumi x Anti alleviated this a bit.

** Similarly [[spoiler: There's several hints thrown about that Akane created Yuta to be her boyfriend in her ideal world. Her first act in the series is to use her Kaiju to erase Sakiru Tonkawa and her friends from existence because they interrupted her MeetCute moment with Yuuta. And later, after learning tha Yuuta pilots Gridman, she makes several sexually charged advances at Yuuta in an attempt to make him switch sides and stop destroying her kaiju. In the dream world that she creates for Yuuta, she sets herself up as his love interest, effectively inserting herself into the role that Rikka was presently in. And given the aforementioned above statement about Rikka, this may imply that there is a Yuta in the real world that she carries a torch for.]]

** Was Rikka's effort to redeem Akane ([[MoralEventHorizon even after she stabbed Yuta in the gut]]) a genuine effort of friendship, or because she was created/programmed not to hate Akane no matter what? There's evidence on both sides.

* EvilIsCool: If the character page is anything to go by Alexis, Akane, and Anti are far more interesting characters than the Gridman Alliance. Anti of course soon falls into a well recieved [[spoiler: DarkIsNotEvil]], especially as the intimidating [[spoiler: Gridknight]].

** The fact the show [[spoiler:is really a sequel to the original tokusatsu makes it the Japanese counterpart to the additional episodes ''Syber Squad'' had when the originally intended ending was changed.]]
* InferredHolocaust: Hundreds, if not thousands of people are presumably injured or killed (and then wiped from existence via ResetButton) each time Gridman and a Kaiju fight, but in true toku fashion the narrative doesn't touch on this at all [[spoiler:for the first three quarters of the series. Then we get episodes 11 and 12 where, thanks to Akane not bothering to push the reset button, the sheer carnage and destruction which two multi-foot beings duking it out in the middle of the city leave in their wake is lovingly showcased. Poor Utsumi is pushed into a {{HeroicBSOD}} after realising that he was essentially cheering on the levelling of the entire city each time he fanboyed over Gridman's fights.]]

** Episode 5, Akane asks Rikka to put sunblock on her back and as the latter does so she comments admiringly on Akane's skin. After the back is done, Akane then asks Rikka to do her front. After a beat they laughed it off.

** This takes an interesting case with the confirmation that [[spoiler: Rikka is based on Akane's appearance in the real world.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Alexis crosses this in the penultimate episode [[spoiler:by turning Akane into a kaiju against her will.]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: those who went into the series [[spoiler:without any knowledge of the original series could see Gridman’s Fixer Beam as an AssPull, but Gridman being able to restore virtual worlds to their original form was well established ResetButton in the Tokusatsu show. Fixer Beam's purpose of fixing a person's heart, on the other hand, was mentioned [[AllThereInTheManual in supplementary materials]].]]

* AbandonShipping: A number of fans stopped pairing Akane and/or Rikka with Yuta and/or Utsumi after [[https://imgur.com/UtJnXDf an interview in a magazine pointed out that]] [[LesYay Rikka is the only person in the digital world that Akane loves.]] Which becomes hilarious given [[spoiler: Rikka is based on Akane's real life self.]] In other words the only person Akane loves is [[spoiler:herself]], which ties greatly to her character arc.

* CompleteMonster: The enigmatic [[ForTheEvulz Alexis Kerib]] manipulates mentally unstable people with reality warping powers like [[TheHeavy Akane Shinjo]], who Alexis uses to create {{kaiju}} to cause mayhem and destruction throughout Akane's virtual reality version of Tokyo. With Akane falling into melancholy at her inability to stop the heroic Gridman Alliance, Alexis tries to force her to create more kaiju for him, and when she refuses, summons his own to wreak havoc on the virtual reality Tokyo. When the Gridman Alliance attempt to comfort Akane, Alexis turns her into a monster himself and brutally impales a friend of hers for trying to save her.

* CompleteMonster: The enigmatic [[ForTheEvulz Alexis Kerib]] manipulates mentally unstable people with reality warping powers like [[TheHeavy Akane Shinjo]], who Alexis uses to create {{kaiju}} to cause mayhem and destruction throughout Akane's virtual reality version of Tokyo. With Akane falling into melancholy at her inability to stop the heroic Gridman Alliance, Alexis tries to force her to create more kaiju for him, and when she refuses, summons his own to wreck havoc on the virtual reality Tokyo. When the Gridman Alliance attempt to comfort Akane, Alexis turns her into a monster himself and brutally impales a friend of hers for trying to save her.