[Kiwami]

A few days later and I'm genuinely starting to think that this is my most favorite first episode of a modern Ultraman show yet. I don’t think any are bad of course, but some of them do have downtime I'd like to skip. I usually wind up rewatching only selected scenes.

With Z though? I start the episode because I really like the first scene with Sevenger and the awesome opening song... and then 20 minutes later I find that I watched the entire episode again because I couldn’t stop.

I feel like this is the kind of fast pace that rarely works for me, Sentai tries something like this on a yearly basis but it feels way too fast most of the time for me. With Z I just adore everything.

The starting scene with Sevenger, the short scenes with the STORAGE team, the space fight with Z and Zero, Haruki and Z meeting while fighting against Genegarg, them merging in a very funny scene the hilarious payoff (press the trigger!) and then a really, really well done action scene to finish it all. I really like it when a suit performance can convey character. Like Geed being a bit clumsy at first, the R/B brothers just being brothers tossed into being superheroes, or in this case Z with the might of three space martial arts users at his disposal and boy does it show. I really liked the way they had Alpha Edge perform.

I rewatched this episode about 6 times now and I feel like it'll be more before episode 2 comes by. I really hope the rest of the show can entertain me this much, that's all I'm asking