Huh, I thought he was a "she" too, the Japanese voice sounds very female to me.

There are plenty of anime characters who are voiced by female VAs and look female but are actually male.

Borr's just a new one of many.

Is it just me or is that keyboard piano in episode 6 a nice nod to Syd? Right? Who's with me fellas?

"They shouldn't be making episodes without kaiju in them!"

I still liked this episode though, a lot of story stuff and a lot of weird stuff. I still can't tell if this is a sequel or not.

The keyboard guy was voiced by Naoto from the original show!

I usually don’t catch the various Transformers references in the series but seeing Ultraman Zero on that magazine cover was nice.

Anyways, I didn’t really understand this week’s episode, although I think you need to watch the original show to get it? The girl kaiju in particular felt like she’s from the old series.

Yep, he is credited as the customer and has went on his social media to confirm it by posting a clip of him doing a double access flash with Yuuta's voice actor. :rock:
Speaking of, apparently he seems to be a motorcycle enthusiast and runs a motorcycle-themed restaurant that mainly serves gyoza from the looks of it nowadays.

Yeah I'm mixed about this week's episodes. On one hand, it was particularly plot oriented/revealing (random mysterious kaiju girl reveals a bit to Yuta, etc.) but on the other, I found it really slow (I was repeatedly checking how long was left in the episode). So I'm gonna say it was meh/okay this week

Same, but only to see if they could still realistically fit in a Kaiju fight or if the "An episode without a monster fight is no good"-line was actually a reference aimed at themselves. Turns out it was :p

So the kaiju girl is credited as "Anoshiras II".

Anoshiras was a kaiju that Gridman spared in the original series. Her informing Yuta about Akane was her way of repaying Gridman for his kindness back then.

Which pushes this even closer to the sequel side of things.

The link back to Anoshiras was cool as heck. I didn't honestly feel like there were a whole lot of truly memorable kaiju in Gridman but that was one of them.

All the Transformers stuff was neat but that magazine cover had so many references on it, ranging from the obvious and symbolic to the obscure as heck. That's the kind of stuff I've been waiting for.

Great episode, even without any kaiju action. A lot of the story reveal didn't really come as a huge surprise but the way it was presented gave it exactly the right impact.