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Originally Posted by Byg42

Taiga is the point where I've started feeling that the current 25 episode count has started to hamper aspects of New Gen Ultra. I do still enjoy most of the shows that came after but my consistent feeling has been "I wished it had more episodes". I think just an extra 5 would be a good sweet spot.

Anyways, I personally really loved Taiga. I felt the show was really bold in terms of what themes and subject matter it decided to tackle. However I do feel its biggest issue and perhaps the reason I've seen it get a bit of a meh reception, is that the aesthetics of Taiga doesn't fully communicate what the show is about, in worst case it sets up false expectations of what the show will be. Taiga being the son of Taro and being in a team of Ultras would make you think that the show is going to be a Taro tribute, with maybe a Den-O like dynamic with the Ultras. However most of that remains a background setting that mostly explored in side materials. The real focus of Taiga is exploring its setting of aliens secretly living amongst humans. And again, I really love all that stuff but I suspect a lot of people went into Taiga expecting it to be about something else.

It's really strange that they chose such a serious show to feature Taro's son in. Maybe they wanted to surprise viewers, but I feel like Taro is a little TOO famous as a goofy show, so the marketing for the show is a bit too misleading.

As far as the episode count goes, I definitely felt very keenly with Taiga that they wanted to do more than they had time for. Nowadays the Ultra series is doing much better financially, so I think Tsuburaya should really look into at least stopping the recap episodes at this point. Unlike a lot of series, I think they also COULD fairly easily add more episodes, since they have those recap shows in the same timeslot for the other half of the year. Every episode they could add would help!