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Okay, first of all:

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Originally Posted by Salaryman Zero

Geed just feel like tweaked bootlegs of OG Ultraman's design.

He's not a bootleg! He's Riku! Asakura Riku! That's his name!

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Anyway, I definitely disagree about the New Generation designs, but this is obviously highly subjective. Zero actually does the least for me personally, although I will concede his design is fantastic.

All the others I think are still totally well thought out and suited to their respective shows and characters, which is generally how I look at things like this. My immediate impression of a suit's aesthetics tends to matter less in the long term than how I feel it succeeds at communicating what it's going for. Like, my tastes kind of adapt around the show or something, which I gather isn't how it works for most people.

For example, Geed won me over immediately simply for actually looking evil, because otherwise the show's message would've fallen a lot flatter. All of Orb's designs I think are super slick and refined, with Burnmite being my favorite. While I'm not too fond of Exceed X myself, I find his base form has a lot of great touches. FreshToku covered a few of them already, but I'm especially fond of his very gentle facial expression. He's the only New Generation lead not to have some degree of angry eyebrows going on, and that's super appropriate for the Ultra I feel is essentially this decade's Cosmos, all the more with the laid back, friendly way Yuuichi Nakamura voiced him.

Not to mention how cool, unique, and suited to the electronic motif the-

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Originally Posted by Salaryman Zero

I'm a little meh on the Beats by Dre ears though

Oh.

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On a different note, I don't know if this has been shared before, but there's a pianist on YouTube who does wonderful piano arrangements for tokusatsu songs.

Oh man, I used to love this guy's videos, but I haven't thought about him in years. It's good to know he's still at it. He's even done Taiga's opening already!