[Daikaijuman54]

I forgot about the "Japan is fifteen hours ahead of us" thing, so I just saw the episode today instead of last night. I still need to catch up with Saber and Zenkaiger.

That being said, I liked it, not as great of a first episode as some of the other recent Ultra shows, but still enjoyable. Maybe it's just the pacing, but I don't think it was that bad.

Now, I'm usually not too into these "Chosen One" heroes, but since it's a recurring theme in the Ultra series, and you can usually see why they're chosen, and since Kengo loves plants which is a very pure kind of trait, makes sense. And I'm guessing when the plant blooms it will be either pretty or turn into some cosmic horror (Remembering some other Ultraman episodes involving plants).

I love the Mars setting, and I hope they use it as a recurring location, because I wanted to see Ultraman travelling to other planets in a season for a long time. Also hoping for some more backstory on it.

I love the reimagined designs for the Dark Giants, and the Golza Melba fusion, which is interesting that the Chairman knows about Ultraman and the others. Now I haven't seen Tiga yet, but I can see similarities with the first episode. And the fight scenes are always fun to watch, more so with Tsuburaya playing with camera angles and such.

Overall, I'm interested in seeing how this goes as I like what I'm seeing so far.

Thinking about it, it's going to be something to see how this compares with Kamen Rider Black Sun, on how a dark reimagining with a modern new gen Tiga...