SSSS.Gridman

Oof...It isn't 24 eps like Di TF? Ah well.

I want it to be as long as the story needs.

I want there to be two babies.

Both of which are named Dan.

And thus, the stupidest joke ever is told.

Yeah, if it only got 12 episodes but the story is good then I don't mind either. Darling had 24 episodes but it really dragged on especially in the second half and overall it's not really good IMO.

Edited by taffeaite on Jul 31st 2018 at 10:02:49 AM

Check out this concept art for Gridman and the helper machines. Looks pretty good.

Ooh, that looks good. That's some real super robot stuff there.

new PV

Edited by taffeaite on Sep 10th 2018 at 2:17:19 AM

• Looks at end of video*

Is that Gridman Sigma?

So the first episode of this is up.

Has anyone checked it out?

Watched the dub on the Funimation app, liking it so far.

What I find interesting is that the school was restored (and it seems only those main three remember it happening). I recall that Gridman could undo whatever damage was done to the battleground, but that was when it took place inside a digital space. I wasn't expecting it to apply to the real world as well.

I wonder if something like that is connected to Yuta's memory loss? It might explain some things.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Oct 6th 2018 at 5:39:12 AM

Definitely a fun first episode.

[[spoileR: I called out the Grid Beam aattack before he even called the attack. Love it.]]

By the way, Did Volleyball girl die?

That depends. Since the destruction of the school was undone, it could be that her death was reversed as well. We can't be sure until we see the full consequences of everything next week.

It would solve the issue of how to have these battles without killing a lot of people.

Also, the kaiju was basically bombing the city, including a congested road, and a building was knocked down during the fight. That has to leave a fair amount of death.

Well, that was odd. There were parts where it was really leaning hard into the moody, mysterious side of things, but also parts where it really wasn't. That bit with the school at the end is great example of the problem— the school getting wrecked is played as a serious, dramatic moment... then it unhappens

x3

In that case, I wonder if they would remember dying.

Alright. Just saw the first Episode:

So our main character is an amnesiac boy named Yuta Hibiki has some connections with an Ultraman like creature named Gridman with an old computer and have a delusions regarding Kaiju too. Not only that, a mysterious person watches his movements. Needless to say, the monster is controlled by somebody. Alright, I can live with this premise. Series start of pretty slow but picks up during the end. The design of the monsters and Gridman itself are pretty awesome if you ask me. The characters, while they have amazing designs, they're nothing spectacular. Although I'm hoping that the series could pick up in later episodes. Also, the ending though! I think they were in Virtual World or something.

I liked it, but was I the only one thinking Barry Yandel was trying to channel Tim Curry? He didn’t have a ton of lines this episode.

The more cerebral take on Ultra tropes definitely invoked Nexus.

I haven't gotten around to watching this yet but apparently there's a ton of references to Transformers in palettes to just straight-up using a car as the visual basis for shoes.

Ep 2's Calibur mode is outright a reference to The Sword that Cleaves evil.

So it seems Volleyball Girl was Ret-Gone.

The entire Volleyball team was Ret-Gone.

Hope they weren't planning on competing this year.

As someone who remembers Super Human Samurai Syber Squad, I got some shades of Malcolm Frink from Akane. That girl truly lives by No Kill Like Over Kill it seems

It's not clear if only the people who are specifically killed by the monster are erased, or if it applies to anyone killed during it's rampage. We'll have to wait and see on that, but for now I'm assuming the former.

I like this show even more now. This and Jojo have me really pumped for the weekend. Aside from the whole "not at work" thing, at least.

Well, that explains some of the first episode's odder choices, though tonal/pacing issues remain a problem

Akane seems like she'll be fun. I'm not sure what the point of keeping her role in the story secret for an episode and a half was, though? The reveal would have had more impact either towards the end of the first episode where it'd be more immediately relevant or after a few more episodes, when we'd care about her. Also the ED seems to be shipping Akane x Reika and I don't know why?

Fight was even duller than the first, so I'm not going to be watching this for the action