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DS Wants You! To Watch Toku(-inspired) Anime!
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12-10-2020, 09:23 PM
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Fish Sandwich
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DreamSword
is this what die feels like whenever you respond to him
Man, I'm not even sure I've thrown Die that much of a brick wall of text in a while.
Thank you for indulging my habit of writing things that are way too long; rest assured returning the favor is the absolute
least
I can do. That final thoughts post hit on a lot of really nice points, and even echoed some of my own issues with the show.
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While it wasn't in the US adaptation, the overall idea is still there in Syber-Squad. While Servo is some mystical anomaly that just kinda attaches itself to Sam, everything else involving him, from his weapons, to his robots, are all made via the collective effort of Team Samurai.
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad is something I become increasingly curious about every (rare) time I see it get brought up, because it seems like the singular western toku adaptation spawned in the wake of Power Rangers that made a concerted effort to be a fairly faithful adaptation of the source material. It sounds like the broad strokes of the plot in particular are nearly 1:1, even.
It's neat in that sense that SSSS.Gridman in turn went out of its way to acknowledge it to the extent it did, because it's the kind of thing it's easy to imagine Tsuburaya and/or Trigger barely even remembering existed at all. One thing I really should give the anime more credit for than I was at the time was how it kinda has legitimized the concept of Gridman being its own little franchise, and brought a fair amount of attention to it from people who would've otherwise never heard of it. Like, it's such a small body of work, and yet there are all these odds and ends like a foreign adaptation, obscure spinoff characters, abandoned plot arcs and sequel concepts... and the anime managed to pull from just about every last bit of it in some way? That sheer passion is truly out of the ordinary, and I have to commend the show's staff for excitedly working deep cuts into their story whenever they could. I mean, Anti is essentially a fully realized version of the Grid Knight concept I would've loved if the original series had time to do it, right down to the progression from villain to hero, except now he's voiced by Kenichi Suzumura; talk about worth the wait!
It's come up in the thread before, but this is also probably a good time to mention Trigger's "boys invent great hero" short film from 2015 that sort of led to this series eventually happening in the first place.
I'm not sure I've ever seen such a reverence for stock footage in my life. I remember being
floored
that they deliberately recreated the cheesy digital scaling effect of the show's combination sequences for Dyna Dragon's transformation. Not to mention the screw on the back of God Zenon's head that's inexplicably taken from the toy and not the show. It's all so unabashedly esoteric and nerdy, and in retrospect, yeah, I probably would trust the guys who put it together to take good care of the property on a longer-term basis if I was Tsuburaya.
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As someone who's a sucker for the power of friendship, I felt SSSS.Gridman did it quite well(mostly). I personally felt that it did a good job at portraying just how awkward total strangers put into this situation would actually be, and how they grew to bond with one another over time. The Beach episode did a nice job at highlighting this I feel, with Yuta and Sho acting alot more like actual friends, and Rikka refusing to be left out not just because she was a part of the group, but because, well,
she was a part of the group.
And genuinely cared about the boys ontop of her "duty" as one of the city's' protectors.
Yeah, this is the kind of thing I suspect I might appreciate more on a full rewatch if I ever get around to it? Lots of little moments that I probably wasn't paying anywhere near enough attention to in the moment because I was going into the show with a bad attitude. I remember rewatching episode 8, where I quit originally, on a whim (I don't even remember when or why exactly this happened), and finding some of the character moments a lot better handled than I remembered. Ironically, I recall being particularly impressed by some of the specifics of how Rikka and Utsumi's big argument plays out, which was obviously not your favorite part of the episode. But I think it's a scene that really exemplifies what I'm talking about with the whole "distance" theme.
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