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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

So I am a quarter done with Ultraman Max, ended up watching 10 Episodes yesterday and I don't know, I am somehow really enjoying the episodic nature of this?

Like it's hard for me to sit through something like Sentai for whatever reason due to that also having very episodic plots. Yet with Ultraman it's easier somehow.

I don't know if it's the characters, the way the Kaiju Battles are handled, but the Ultraman Episodic Formula is one that I thought I wouldn't get into. Yet I watched 10 Episodes in one day because each one interested me enough to want to watch more.

I also like how 10 Episodes in and Max looks like he's shown off all of his stuff, aside from one thing I remember from Ultraman X. But I think it makes the battles a lot more interesting because he doesn't have to use different armors or forms, he has to think and use what he has in his arsenal to beat the monster.

Also the Opening Song is pretty catchy, I also like how as it starts up you see the title for the episode during the Opening.

Ultraman is a franchise that's less about the Ultraman themselves and more about the Multiverse they all protect, as well as the people, monsters, and aliens that inhabit that Multiverse. While Kamen Rider and Sentai don't really care all that much about the people outside of the little bubble they inhabit, a requirement given the constantly moving nature of Rider specifically, those people are the heart of Ultraman. As long as there's an excuse for Ultraman to be summoned near the end of the episode, they can have entire episodes focused on one off characters and monsters with little interaction with the main cast and still be worth will episodes as long as they keep the heart. This can lead to so really artsy episodes, as you will soon see with a certain Max episode later on...