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DS Wants You! To Watch Toku(-inspired) Anime!
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12-10-2020, 09:57 PM
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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.
Based on what little I do know of OG Gridman, yeah, it does seem like DiC at the very least kept the general idea of the original when making Syber-Squad.
If you ever do decide to check the show out, I will say that it is very much a "turn your brain off" type of show, but in the fun way! It's also what made the handful of episodes that actually did feature genuine character development and stakes stand out all the more. Malcolm(and the lunch lady) being the highlight character, much like how Anti was in this anime and Takeshi seems to be the star of Gridman.
It's 90s cheese at its finest, basically.
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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!
Yeah, that aspect is probably the main reason that I got super hyped for the anime in the first place, and is one of the few "modern" shows that I actually kept up with as it aired(I tend to stick to binging stuff nowadays).
When the first trailer aired, I remembered loving Syber-Squad as a kid(just as I did most US Toku of the time), and as soon as that title flashed on screen, that stylized "SSSS" brought back a ton of memories, and I knew exactly what it meant.
The upside of not many people remembering the show anymore also meant it was easy to find for a rewatch, which was great. Had a fun time seeing it again right before the anime started airing.
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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.
Ooohh yeah that thing is so good, and something I've only grown to appreciate more as time has gone on.
It also almost got me to rewatch Syber-Squad back in 2015, but I ended up getting distracted by a ton of other things and ended up not getting around to it until three years later, haha.
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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.
Well should you ever decide to do a rewatch, feel free to share your process and thoughts here in this thread. Would love to hear your perspective.
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