Audience reviews
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Mashadaar
Man, how does Studio Trigger keep making me like giant robot stuff? Seriously, I would have never even looked at this show twice if I hadn't randomly seen a comment on reddit saying it had dope kaiju. It was about what I expected for the first parts of the show, slow and mildly interesting. The fights and kaiju were indeed interesting and seemed to be referential to other works. Around episode 5 or 6 there is a pretty jarring episode that is largely fan service which almost threw me off entirely. Luckily, this is the only episode like this. After that, the story takes off pretty hard and I gotta say, I couldn't stop watching it. The fights just got crazier and crazier in true Studio Trigger fashion and the twists were rather interesting and well executed. They also stuck the landing for th…
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I love this so much. It takes everything from the original Hyper Agent Gridman show and realizes it into the mature and hard-hitting story in an incredibly natural way. There are times where the messaging is pretty heavy handed and cheesy but the sheer earnestness shines through and endears me. Again, the primary antagonist, Akane, is the most interesting part and in a way she is the main character. This is almost to fault as the protagonist, Yuta is kinda simple.
I also love all the little references to the original show and a whole bunch of other tokusatsu stuff, hearing BABY DAN DAN again was definitively a treat. The show isn't afraid to show exactly what its pulling from, although sometimes I feel like they should've explained more. I watched the original show so I know what's going…
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It's a very solid monster of the the week mecha anime with a sprinkle of intrigue. If you get passed the first few episodes I think the plot really starts to become interesting. The show gives you little breadcrumbs to follow up on and hook you into the mystery of what in the hell is happening in the world. Why are there just random Kaiju standing around? Why has our main character lost his memory? While the mecha action isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea (relying heavily on cg models) I think it's solid enough in most episodes to please the majority of the source material its pulling from (that series being ultraman.) I have never seen ultraman and it is referenced in the show quite often so maybe fans of the show will get more out it it. I think the visuals were solid for the most p…
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Any action show more or less follows a blueprint, or anyway, there’ll be an action set-piece to set up that takes time away from meaningful dialogue. Despite this, some anime make it work, and they make it work better than SSSS.Gridman. The easy example is Eva: it manages to link together the action with the rest of the show. Shinji gets punched by his classmate. who has issues with Shinji, and these issues are resolved when the Angel shows up. With Gridman though the show splits itself between slice-of-life and action. Any issues brought up are resolved in each section, resulting in less time given to develop character. The action scenes are more at fault, but they have bigger faults to worry over.
The action scenes are animated in 3D. The 3D models move in imitation of people in costume…
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When SSSS.Gridman first premiered, it faced a wave of skepticism and lukewarm reception from anime fans. Many dismissed it early on, put off by what seemed like a simplistic premise or uninspired execution in its opening episodes. The initial pacing felt slow, the narrative predictable, and the mix of mundane high school drama with tokusatsu-inspired mecha battles didn’t immediately click for everyone. For some, it appeared to be a nostalgic rehash of the 1993 Denkou Choujin Gridman without much originality. Yet, as the series progressed, it revealed layers of depth, emotional resonance, and creative ambition that transformed it into a standout. By the time the final credits rolled, SSSS.Gridman had become not only one of the most memorable anime of its season but a personal favorite of th…
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SSSS.Gridman is an extremely boring, average series to a fault. It has nothing special about it, with the MC being an amnesiac character with pretty much an empty personality, nonsensical plot that realistically doesn’t even make sense in their own world, a boring villain that is just there to be driving the plot, and pretty much no lore or explanation of the world they are in.
The only redeemable factors are the cinematography/directing, as it is from studio Trigger, and the dialogue. The characters might be one-dimensional with little to no inner conflict, and empty personalities, but the dialogue isn’t half bad, and the voice acting is pretty good.
The fights themselves are extremely corny and don’t make any sense, as expected from any kaiju/mecha anime, but they aren’t too boring mos…
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Girl in her Own Little World
I am not a big mecha fan, but this show was touched a little part of my brain That is still a child, wants to see robots fight monsters, and I had a wonderful time seeing it.
Fun fighting, a good soundtrack for big monster fights, and a storyline that goes interesting places, and a girl who needs to clean her room.
The characters work well together has a good dynamic and weirdo character works really way good as contrast.
I really enjoy the story, in the first half It feels like you're watching at normal mecha with some weird ideas, and then in the later half it becomes an Intervention for a person soul.
. It's a show about fighting big monster, but still is about having to live and not running from reality, it is a show with a message that I think is awes…
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This is an utterly perfect show for an incredibly specific niche. It pretends to make concessions to those outside that niche through flashiness and fanservice— but this is maybe halfhearted, because it's the writing that carries the day, and the writing pointedly does not explain itself to anyone outside its specific niche. That specific niche is people who already love Tsuburaya Productions in general, and Ultraman in specific.
The fact the characters themselves are constantly making references to Ultraman that go over a general audience's head is your primary warning that this is the case. That this is literally a sequel to a very Ultramanlike-but-not-literally-Ultraman Tsuburaya Productions show— which only the most hardcore of Ultraman fans are likely to be aware of— is going to be…
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I personally really enjoyed this show. With the widely public positive reception. Including the unique and story telling and presentation skills. The narrative explores the psychological perspective of characters and delves into their inner struggles.
The show garnered significant attention from the community when it aired, sparkling discussions about our main characters, Rikka and Akane. Additionally, there was a plethora of illustrations featuring these characters during that time. The captivating storyline and immersive character interaction made audience were invested in the show very much, to the extent that people began formulating theories and speculations about the upcoming episodes and story development.
Animation: the animation was produced by Trigger, one of the prestigious pr…
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Well, it isn't Kill la Kill, that's for sure. I watched this because it was a short series, mecha and from Trigger, knowing nothing about the source material of Gridman. This isn't the worst anime in the world by far, it's barely watchable. What it does do decently is it's fanservice mecha stuff. It has an interesting dynamic between the main chars, which pushed me to finish it. In the end, a very forgettable anime, but I ended up watching SSSS Dynazenon as well, so I guess there is some charm to its themes and animation.
Animation 7/10
- The standard animation is rather basic, but the mecha, fight scenes etc are better.
Sound 7/10
- Decent sound design with the mechs, decent OP/ED.
Story 4/10
- Basic, not unexpected for the kind of series it is.
Characters 5/10
- Mostly bland characters,…
Read at the sourceChumchou
I never watched the original Gridman series before or anything like it. I had seen the costume online but that’s been the extent of my knowledge of it.
There’s a lot of cool visual nods to the Tokusatsu genre that made me want to watch the show, and I think for that alone it’s worth watching.
Studio Trigger again does an amazing job. There is such a great deal of mystery in the show. While it may seem to start off fairly straightforward like any other Tokusatsu series, but it really evolves in a way that brings the viewer along in a way that makes the audience put the pieces together.
Interesting visually. Interesting narratively. Interesting meta-wise.
I could see me changing my mind to an 8/10 if I were to dive more into Tokusatsu and rewatching the show.
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After 25 years since the original Gridman TV series debuted in 1993, Studio Trigger and Tsuburaya Productions, the company behind Gridman and Ultraman, have collaborated to produce the magnificent tokusatsu inspired reboot SSSS.Gridman. For those who are new to Gridman and tokusatsu entertainment, it is the Japanese term attached to any sci-fi/fantasy live-action series that uses an abundance of special effects. More specifically, practical effects; think people wrestling in rubber monster suits smashing through model cities and stop motion animation.
That leads us to SSSS.Gridman, the love child of first-time director Akira Amemiya and Keiichi Hasegawa, famed screenwriter of the 1990s Ultraman. It is overflowing with references and callbacks to the live-action series, SSSS is a lovingly…
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When I first watched SSSS.Gridman, I wasn’t too sure what was going on. I learned that there was a 1993 live action kid’s show called Gridman the Hyper Agent long after that SSSS.Gridman is based on, and I wanted to watch it both to deepen my knowledge of toku stuff and to revisit SSSS.Gridman with some more context.
While you certainly don’t need to watch Hyper Agent to understand what’s happening in SSSS.Gridman, I think it will certainly deepen your enjoyment of it. SSSS.Gridman is a show that has a ton of attention to detail in it, and this includes direct concepts, cameos, and callbacks from Hyper Agent.
As for Hyper Agent itself, I think the best way to describe it is charming. Its plot is interesting, its characters are endearing, its jokes are funny, and its jank is also funny. B…
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SSSS.Gridman was a shocking success for me. Before deciding to watch this, I'd never heard of Gridman the property, and from the experience I have with Studio Trigger anime, was fully prepared for this to be just more of Trigger doing as Trigger does. Narrative focus has never been their strong suit, always feeling like an after-thought in favor of action, humor, and "the cool factor." So color me blown away when I watched Gridman to find, by God, an intimate, character-driven low concept drama draped in the typical Trigger fashion?!!
Yes, as shocking as that may seem, this show is very much a tight, smart seriocomedy focusing on just five characters and their feelings and relationships, reacting to each other and the changes they go through, using giant monsters and alien robots as merel…
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This review will be written in English and Portuguese [PT-BR]
Essa resenha será escrita em inglês e português [PT-BR]
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SSSS.Gridman é mais sobre a forma do que o conteúdo.
SSSS.Gridman é um copo cheio para os amantes de Tokusatsu, tanto que esse anime foi “baseado” em um Tokusatsu, do mesmo pessoal que produziu Ultra Man inclusive... É uma pena que a Trigger apostou mais na nostalgia do que em realmente transmitir uma mensagem. A pergunta que fica é: Isso é algo ruim?
A estética e nada mais
SSSS.Gridman esteticamente é incrível, não tem muito o que falar aqui, pois todas as decisões estéticas que a Trigger tomou foi muito bem aplicada aqui, e não estou…
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This review will contain spoilers for the entirety of SSSS Gridman. You have been warned.
SSSS Gridman being a loosely related sequel to a tokusatsu show even people within the toku fanbase have largely not seen or taken an interest in randomly being adapted in 2018 raised very few alarm bells - while Trigger did showcase a short that was done in tribute to Gridman a few years prior, Gridman itself was an anomaly in every respect, with only a few curious eyes wanting to check it out in 2018.
Little did people know that what we'd get out of Gridman is the kickstart of a subfranchise that would critically define Studio Trigger, being the most captivating set of series Trigger has done so far.
Gridman's central premise is ironically somewhat hidden in the show's format - playing tokusatsu…
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In general, mecha series seem to skew one of two ways: formulaic monster of the week plots like Super Sentai, or convoluted high-concept sci-fi in the vein of Evangelion. Gridman attempts both and while it's very fun to look at, the end result is kind of a mess.
Owing it's inspiration to the 90's toku series of the same name, Gridman has a lot of elements that feel familiar if you're into that sort of thing. Our main character has mysterious amnesia and uses a computer in the local junk shop to fight kaiju by posing with a wristband to turn into the titular mecha. Most episodes work a kaiju fight into the third act with generally very good animation.
The plot starts to quickly lose any sense of purpose. By the midway point it's been pretty much fully revealed that reality is a simulation…
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The Story kinda doesnt make sense, Basically every episode, 1 Problem show up, Fight, then its finished? huh just that? nothing really happened in particular in first place
Character is so bland, we have boring MC who just nah i fight because i see kaiju that what i do, How about your old memory mate? you dont want them? really?
The only thing good here is Rikka and Akane art (basically this is heaven of foot and thigh fetish) and the animation so goddamn good but its very cringe because its basically power ranger mashup with ultraman in every wrong way as possible.
Its enjoyable to watch for mecha fans, because im not mecha fans, im here just to watch character development and here i am disappointed in every possible way
i mean, Serious, dont get carry by hype, if you like Rikka and…
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I am absolutely floored by the negative reviews in here. This is the show that got me back into anime after a decade-long hiatus.
The first few episodes may seem like setup for a generic kaiju show, but the story does enough to tweak the kaiju/toku formula and does something new. The characters are actually realistic and likable and the fight scenes are fantastic.
The animators aren't afraid to use CGI, which I know can turn some people off but it blends well with the 2D animation. The fluidity and fight choreography is eye candy. If you're a fan of action anime with a great soundtrack, you can't go wrong with Gridman or its sequel Dynazenon.
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tl;dr: An anime that’s mostly well done tokusatsu kaiju action but with enough depth to characters to elevate it above just that.
Note: This review has minor spoilers.
SSSS.Gridman is an anime that is based on Denkou Choujin Gridman, also known as Gridman the Hyper Agent, which is a live action show originally broadcasted in Japan in the mid 90s. I have not seen the original Gridman show, but I do have some familiarity with what seem to be the shows central themes, tokusatsu type action and kaiju. And I feel that this anime does a pretty good job at using them.
One of the core aspects of this anime is the action, more specifically what basically feels like mech versus kaiju action. Various monsters known as kaiju with different power sets attack the town and the protagonist is able to t…
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