[Fish Sandwich]

Seeing so much high praise for R/B makes me so happy I'm just going to self-indulgently quote my review of it from way back in the show's own thread:

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I tried stressing this in several of my posts about individual episodes, but R/B is deceptively simple. Despite the lower stakes and a general laid-back tone, it's extremely clever and clearly made with the same amount of love and care as any of its contemporaries. The show sells itself on being offbeat, and on that front it succeeds spectacularly due to a winning combination of perfect comedic timing, and an ability to mess with the franchise's traditions without losing its spirit.

It's very much The Un-Ultraman Show in a lot of ways, and because of that it feels super fresh. I cannot stress enough how entertaining the dynamic between Rosso and Blu is. There's just nothing like it anywhere else in the franchise. And even when they aren't transformed, Katsumi and Isami are great together. The family drama at the core of the show is another huge point in its favor, coming off as genuine and heartfelt rather than cheesy and trite, and despite nominally being a show about two brothers, the entire family gets their share of the spotlight. Asahi especially became one of my favorite characters in the show pretty quickly, which I was NOT expecting at all, and on top of all that, R/B also has two excellent, and fairly atypical main villains who elevate the show that much further.

I think I actually agree with all of this more now than when I wrote it. I've mentioned this in this thread before, but R/B is a wonderful series that's basically a personal sleeper hit for me. I wasn't instantly, madly in love with it the way I was with Geed or X, but over time, it's sorta ended up on that same level for me.