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Latest milestone has achieved. I am now done with the 6 Ultraman Brothers.
Overall, Ultraman Taro is a big improvement over Ultraman Ace. Still had its shortcomings, but I enjoyed watching it more than Ace and didn't feel forcing myself to watch it till the end. Now tonely, this felt like watching the original Ultraman, except more whimsical. I kept hearing this was the goofiest Ultra series, but it wasn't really. Unlike the goofy episodes made in the past where it clashed heavily with the series as a while, I was looking forward to the goofy side of Taro as it was made so on purpose. But to my surprise, it still had many serious and sometimes dark moments that matches the previous entries, sometimes even more serious. For example the episodes where children lose their parents actually lose them for good instead of an asspull where they turned out alive and well by the end of the episode. Didn't expect that from taro.
Speaking of being lighter, I liked there were a handful of episodes where the monsters live as sometimes I felt there was no need to kill some of the monsters when the conflict is caused by a misunderstanding which gave more personality to Taro; and Ultra willing to spare the monsters instead of eliminating them as his first instinct.
ZAT was a big improvement over MAT and TAC. Overlooking the silly looking uniforms and vehicles, they were more competent than the 2 teams combined and actually took their job seriously instead of treating every report like a joke or childish lie which was something that heavily annoyed me in Return and Ace. The members were mostly one-noted and didn't have the same dynamic that I liked in Return, but were still more memorable than TAC's members.
Another big improvement over Ace? the monsters are more creative and unique looking which was refreshing after Yapool's boring Terrible Monsters and many of them had amusing personalities to like them enough to wish them no harm.
Sadly the effects and costumes weren't that big of an improvement. It's more noticeable with returning characters with Mefilas's costume to Ultraseven missing his ears. However there were episodes where they had good explosion budget like in episode "The Phantom Mother is a Monster".
Fight scenes were severely toned down compared to Ace as Taro doesn't chop his enemies to pieces and no jaw ripping, and there were some instances of Taro reviving the monsters he killed and spared their lives. A little taste of Cosmos maybe?
The Birdon 3-parter is obviously among the best and most memorable parts of the series, so for another favorite episode, I'll go with "The Vampire Flower is a Girl's Spirit" for being one of the creepiest episodes in the series. Other favorite is the Land of Ultra 2-parter. The ending was a bit anti-climactic but fits the Fairy tale theme of the series, plus it gave us and expanded lore piece. Least favorite is sadly going to the Temperor 2-parter. I did not like how the Brothers were portrayed here as uber jerks who would let Taro die just to see if he can protect Earth on his own.
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