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I just started the Saucer Series in Ultraman Leo:

Jeez, did they really need to reboot/retool the series this late in the game?

Like, okay, nobody really cared about MAC other than Gen and Dan so that doesn't really stand out as much beyond how ballsy it is to destroy an entire Attack Team and basically leave the protagonist out of a job.

I guess Dan's mustache was a foreboding sign of things going wrong. Although they have Goh give him Sevenger and he never really does anything with it, but while I know he's not really dead, I guess they really wanted Gen to start handling things on his own.

I can't believe they one-upped RoU. I mean, killing the love interest, the human best friend...but also a little girl. And honestly I liked Kaoru more than Tooru, so that hit hard. I felt like the sports club cast brought more heart and humanity to the show than MAC did.

I guess the Sports Club managed survived by virtue of being written out.

And then we just see Gen and Tooru lose pretty much everyone they loved and cared about and then just...move in with some random lady and her daughters? Like they don't even get long to grieve but suddenly they're in a sitcom situation like it never happened? At least in RoU the girl Goh and Jiro moved in with was an actual character who appeared before and you could kind of see what they're going for. I get that Gen had already lost an entire planet and family other than Astra by that point, so maybe he learned to process that stuff better, but Tooru should be wayyyy more depressed.