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Originally Posted by SHINOBI03

Finished Ultraman Max. I liked the return to formula and reintroduction of the classic Showa monsters, but the tone was a hit or miss. The series was too lighthearted, almost targeting really young kids. As in a younger age group than the usual target. There's too much focus on cool action scenes and random gags thrown at you and the characters suffered from being underdeveloped beyond the quirks they were given presumably because kids won't care about that and would just tune in to get excited over the stuff that'd draw their attention. Even Ultraman Xenon was barely a note he makes Yullian a fully fledged character in comparison.

Good to know that you caught on to the intent of the show being back to basics. As for the tone keep in mind this show came out right after Nexus, and at the time I felt like they were trying REAL HARD to try and make it nothing like it. My take is regardless of how it was received their Project N which mainly included the prequel movie and Nexus was not a huge success so they had to reassess the direction of the franchise and came up with Max.