Technically they already had a Gruebe suit when the film was revealed. Like it showed up in alot of the promotional material

That reminds me, I still need to watch Episode Z.

Anyway, for a recap, it was nice. Gives us some worldbuilding and context as to what's been going on between Trigger and Decker.

I never saw the Marluru specials, but it was nice seeing him and Hotta reuniting, even seeing how both of them have grown (Marluru sounds older, and Hotta's hair is greying). It's also funny how Marluru's favorite show is still ongoing 10 years later.

Next Episode: The Ryumon Episode!

As I understand, these early recaps are there to fill in a week that expected to have lower ratings due to ongoing events/festivals. In this case, this week is Obon Festival
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_(festival)

Huh! That's kind of funny given the reason they weren't able to actually fit it in was because the suit wasn't ready in-time. Funny how that works.

I should clarify, what I meant is that the suit already existed when they were filming for the movie.

I could have sworn I heard somewhere that Tsuburaya wanted to do some experimental stuff and did a CGI model for Gruebe even though they did have the suit.

Not sure how true that is though.

Yeah, that's what I always thought to be the case, that Tsupro wanted to experiment with utilizing CGI. And given how good the CGI intergration has been in all the shows since R/B, I think it was an experiment that paid off.

Yesterday I saw Ultra Q The Movie. It didn't work for me. Was expecting an anthology of cases but the central plot just kept getting dragging out it got boring quickly.

Don't jinx Japan, reporter lady!

Look, it's Pagos! The staple Reiwa Kaiju! Here to make his pre-requisite appearance. I didn't know it had a scientific name. And they referenced the fact that we hadn't seen it since the Trigger era.

They really effectively depicted how terrifying an underground monster who can come out at any time can be.

Kanata keeps trying with Ryumon and finally finds out what the stick up his butt is...he's a rich kid who basically had everything handed to him and now works to be the best to properly earn something, and feels as a member of GUTS-Select he has to be absolutely perfect or someone will die.

That underground cave environment looked fantastic!

I thought we were going to get a nest of Pagos', but nope! We get a bunch of other Kaiju! Gudon! Telesdon! A whole bunch of Twintails! And not a Sphere Kaiju among them!

No better time to summon a new Dimension Monster than when you're utterly surrounded. Agira killed Telesdon like he was nothing!

I was starting to wonder if the Nursedessei could still change into Battle Mode. It killed more Kaiju than Decker did!

At least Decker got to go Miracle Type and finish off Gudon in the sky in style.

I don't know why but everything the captain says comes off more sinister than I think it's intended to.

Kanata and Ryumon seem to have reached an understanding of each other and Kanata seems to respect Ryumon's personal resolve. But is it human or healthy to strive so much for perfection?

Next week: The return of Carmearra! And Trigger! And Kengo with drip!?

"It's like the Monster Convention!"

Decker continues to impress this episode. We got some Ryumon development, a slew of returning Kaiju, and biggest of all, GUTS Select destroying Kaiju! The underground environment looked fantastic and brought me back to Max, and gave us not one, not two, not three! But five different Kaiju this episode with one of them being a whole swarm (which is ironically enough the ugliest bunch)!

It was extremely fun seeing Decker and GUTS Select fight them all, Nursedessei Battle form return, and Agira got some love which was great.

I do like how the Captain is evaluating the crew, it's a neat way to show how he sees the team starting out to how they'll eventually grow. I enjoyed this episode very much.

Next Episode: Are ya ready to pull the Trigger again?