Audience reviews
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Tablekun
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,…
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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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Gridman is one of those shows that tries to do a lot of things at once, and fails in all of them.
The show is a reboot of the homonymous tokusatsu from the 90s. It has lots of similarities to it and tries to be a lot more ambitious at what it’s about. It’s definitely better in terms of themes and presentation, since the creators had the liberty to do a lot more with animation than what the low budget live action could allow them. It’s a shame they didn’t make it fun. And by fun I mean the battles not being exciting. They are fairly basic in choreography, short, and mostly predictable. Action is the main attraction of these types of shows and Gridman is not particularly good at it. They made the monsters move like people in rubber suits despite being fully CGI, but that is again nothing mo…
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SSSS.Gridman was a weird show. It is the result from the makers of Ultraman and Gridman together with studio Trigger. It is good and it is bad. There is a lot which surprised me and there was a lot of lost potential. This anime was not good and not bad, but very likable
Art:
First thing that putt me off was the CG. It felt sluggish and painful to watch as i'm not a fan of bad CG. But in the end it got better and better, so I forgive the first few episodes. The world itself and the monster design are not something to get hyped about and are simply lacking something to make it interesting. The details and the cameo's in this show was what did hype me
Sound:
Grue Elise von Mir plays in the background, so that was more than enough. Jk what i missed in this was a badass music track what Trigg…
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A beautiful story about confronting reality, SSSS Gridman offers a compelling story that will likely appeal to fans of franchises like Evangelion or Power Rangers. Each of the characters are enjoyable and possess unique traits, and every single episode was a fun ride to the very end.
As an antagonist, Akane Shinjo is complex yet sympathetic, which make sure her entertaining. Her arc is a brilliant commentary on the dangers of escapist fantasy, and telling us all that eventually, we have to grow up and enter the outdoor world to comeback towards fragile, mortal reality. Living in the world of a god, isolated from all else, drives us mad.
The writing blends action perfectly with an emotional and melancholic storyline while also paying plenty tribute to the show that bore its name: Superman…
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I'll be fully honest - I was baited into this show from... well, you probably know what.
But this actually was a really enjoyable show - it made me feel like a 5 year old child again, watching cartoons on TV. Giant robot battles, robots combining and transformations, shouting out attack names before performing them - I had such a blast watching this. The action was really entertaining.
The CG did seem a little clunky at times but it didn't interfere much with the thrilling action. I also enjoyed the character development of Rikka and Akane. Ultimately if you want a good time watching an action show that makes you feel pumped and excited over giant robot battles, look no further.
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What a better way to start my first review of the year that with one of the most pleasant surprises that I have taken in the last quarter of 2018. Being the second animated project from the Trigger studio in regards to last year, we move away completely from the whole controversy about whether Darling in the Franxx was a good series or not, to instead witness one of the clearest love letters to the genre of tokusatsu given by the anime industry in recent years.
SSSS.Gridman is an original anime inspired by the tokusatsu live action series 1993-1994 Gridman the Hyper Agent, also referencing with the SSSS of the title Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad the American adaptation of Gridman in 1995. Being produced by the studio Trigger with support of Tsuburaya Productions, the company with the rig…
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To simplify things: what a majestic tribute to Tsuburaya Productions' 90's Denkou Choujin Gridman!
My first contact with Gridman was watching Superhuman Samurai, the American version. Back then I loved it but never thought about watching the original tokusatsu series because my SHS's memories were the best and I didn't want to ruin it. SSSS. Gridman came to fit my desire to know better the world from the original Japanese series and I decided to watch it for the nostalgia.
Some elements surprised me a lot during the series. First was the development of the history that differs from the live-action tokusatsu "rule" of getting a new monster per episode with minimum or no-story sustaining it. Although I think it is still a teen-series, it has a solid story! Another thing is THE REFERENCES!…
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(There will be spoilers in this review.)
Art and Animation: For me personally, the word mediocre perfectly encapsulates it. I see people heaping a lot of praise on the CG of the Gridman, but being slightly better that your contemporaries, in this department, hardly warrants all the commendation. 2D animation can be summed up by the word decent.
Sound: I think this section is highly subjective. I didn't like nor the OP nor the ED, and can't remember a single piece of background music, but that doesn't mean you won't like any of the music in Gridman aswell, you'll just have to listen to it and find out for yourself.
Story: It's sort of there, but at the same time it's not. Essentially, pretty much every episode follows an extremely simplistic formula of "Have 15 minutes of inane chi…
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I went into SSSS Gridman with high expectations because outside of me being big fan Gainax/Trigger I wanted to see if Trigger its wounds after they got drill blasted by Darling in the Franxx by A1/Cloverworks that left a nasty wound which needed a lot of time to recover from. I actually thought the series would go back it's Little Witch Academia/Kill la Kill days where it a nice blend of style and substance. However, after watching all 12 episodes of this show subbed and the first 8 episodes dubbed I can definitely say that this is not Trigger as it's best. In fact, this is one of Trigger's weaker shows.
The word dull is honestly the best word to describe the story of SSSS Girdman. While it wasn't actually awful by any means it just so dull and at times uninteresting to follow. The series…
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I couldn't really and I still can't really fully appreciate this anime. Mostly because it is literally "mind storming". What I mean is that the whole story - as I noticed - comes from the old Ultraman story, something my age could not really know.
So basically I was lost from the start and ended up half lost. The whole anime remains very mysterious until something like episode 6-7. Then you will slowly but surely get to know every important point to fully understand the plot. Anyway it doesn't mean SSSS.Gridman represents a full reflexion show, many parts (not to say, every second half of each episode) will feature big mecha fights vs Kaijus. Powerful, joyful and explosives as always !
The major positive points are surely the intriguing story (even at the end you might feel quite lost),…
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SSSS Gridman is a pastiche of Tokusatsu media, transformers, and landmark mecha anime; framed in the skin of a reboot of a moderately successful live action Tokusatsu show. It's also an anime that excels in direction, shot composition and in the use of motifs. To the unassuming viewer, it's just another show that references other popular shows. But in the little details does it express it's own unique offerings, eventually surfacing in bombastic moments of action and character expression, often with brutal consequences. But it's biggest achievement is possibly questioning the very act of being in love with the media that is adores. Lets be clear, this is a show tailor made for the people who love the things the creators of this show adores and isn't for everyone.
The titular Gridman is a…
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SSSS.Gridman is an anime inspired by the old tokusatsu series Denkou Choujin Gridman. It takes what's interesting about the genre and adjusts it to fit the modern day's standards. Thanks to that the final product turned out to be an interesting mix of old and new. Add to it the outstandingly good execution and you get a masterpiece that can keep you glued to the screen with every episode.
The main character of the anime is Yuuta Hibiki - a high school boy that wakes up at Rikka Takarada's home having no memories at all. At the Junk Shop, which belongs to Rikka's family, there's an old computer called Junk. And inside of it there's Gridman - the Hyper Agent telling Yuuta there's a mission he needs to fulfill. Yuuta lets his school friend Utsumi in on what's happened and when huge monsters…
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If there is one thing that will always be associated with Japan it's Kaijus. Kaijus are a mainstay in popular culture due to their massive size and their ability to level entire cities with their overwhelming strength. They are pop culture icons with monsters like Godzilla being easily recognisable. But you know what also is associated with Japan? Giant robots. With series like Ultraman or mecha series like Gundam helping to strengthen that idea, it is no wonder we have had robot vs Kaiju shows and movies before. Even today, shows like this one are still being made. With Trigger at the helm of this anime as well as being a homage to older kaiju movies like the Godzilla and the Ultraman series, it made for some interesting results.
Sit back, relax, put on a rubber costume and roar as loud…
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SSSS.Gridman is a truly bizarre experience. After the monumentally disappointing Darling in the FranXX and the surprisingly worthwhile Planet With, this show completes the year’s holy trinity of super robot anime by being a confusing mixed bag that is a nightmare to discuss. While it doesn’t exactly go full Evangelion, there are still references to it as well as stylistic similarities between the two. However, there’s more to this peculiar anime than just being another run-of-the-mill mecha series.
First and foremost, this is both a tokusatsu and super robot anime. Sparing you the lengthy history of both concepts, it’s clear that the trappings of the two genres aren’t easy to deal with in contemporary anime—or any anime in the case of tokusatsu. Case in point: while reused animation is co…
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Warning: spoilers and sarcasm are featured below
Hey, are you feeling down because you have this great idea for an anime but keep getting rejected by every studio that you try to sell your pitch to? Well it's time to turn that frown upside down, because Studio Trigger will gladly produce your anime for you, as long as your anime contains a few specific things of course. Here are the three easy steps that you must follow in order to have your anime green lit by Studio Trigger!
1. Make sure to have a LOT of steamy hot fan service. It's best if your main source of sex appeal comes from your leading female character, because being hot waifu material > having a personality and depth.
2. Have your main character (who has to be an edgy teen btw) fly around in a giant mecha all the time because…
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When SSSS.Gridman first began, people really didn’t like it. I think a lot of the surface-level elements turned people away, especially since the first few episodes were fairly slow and predictable. But once the show actually got going, the actual content there kept us coming back week after week, and it ended up being not just one of my favorite shows of its season, but of the year as a whole.
Gridman is a precarious mix of genres, balancing seemingly everyday school life against giant mecha fights. The former goes against what people expect from mecha anime, and is likely responsible for the show being labeled as slow. However, these two disparate halves somehow built off each other, with the tension of the daily life feeding into the catharsis of the action scenes. Since it's the more…
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(An Abridged Take Inside TRIGGER Studios)
Director [claps hands]: Okay. Thank you all for coming on such short notice. I just wanted to discuss some further details on the series that I thought appropriate.
[Staff members nod their heads and grunt in agreement]
Director [smiling]: Great! Okay. Masaru [Sakamoto], you are in charge of the character designs, right?
Masaru [nodding]: Yes, that is correct. Director: Okay. May I see how they look so far?
[Masaru nods and shows him a clipboard containing several designs of the main characters. The director takes his time glancing at each of the female designs.]
Director: Okay. I like what you have here, but I think we can make both of these female characters stand out more.
Masaru [intrigued]: Sure. What would you want to change about them…
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SSSS.hit!
Is Studio Trigger aware that they are not required to produce wack-ass anime ad infinitum? It feels like they take pleasure in discovering new ways to SSSS.hit all over your computer screens, just to see how desperate we are for a new Mecha anime. Perhaps the success of Inferno Cop went to their heads, giving them a false sense of entitlement to shove even worse rubbish up our collective SSSS.hit(holes), in hopes that we would gobble it up like a bunch of mindless, horny drones. I can’t blame a player for wanting to get paid, but I can certainly blame Studio Trigger for wanting to get paid………
…What? Why are you staring at your screen like that? Nothing to see here.
SSSS.Gridman is an anime that utilizes a formulaic approach to present a vapid adventure about a young boy who me…
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Anime consumers typically stay loyal to certain genres or a specific franchise when they purchase goods. I’m not an avid fan of collecting anime merchandise but I've seen people with stacks and shelves filled with anime figures. Out of all the genres though, mecha seems to be one that I’ve always been fascinated by. In recent years, it seems mecha shows have caused a bit of controversy. From Full Metal Panic to Darling in the Frankxx, they can either be really, really good or pretty damn despicable.
Perhaps we shouldn’t jump too far ahead. Studio Trigger has been able to produce series with memorable quality from their lineup. Sure, Darling in the Frankxx was a show that had a divided fan base but who can forget some of their other phenomenal work like Kill la Kill or Little Witch Academ…
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