[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

By all means, please do not spare me on details!

This wasn't directed at me, but if I might elaborate a bit myself -- since I've used this thread to talk about my weirdly intense personal history with the anime Gridman stuff before -- I thought the movie was an extremely heartfelt and thoughtfully constructed love letter to the entire concept of fiction itself.

You seem to believe you might be overthinking the subplot about the script, but if anything, you're *under*thinking it, because if you start looking at the story more from that perspective, especially keeping in mind the creators in this case are fans in their own right, you'll quickly start to see that most of the things in the film are commenting on similar themes in some way or another.

Whether or not that improves your overall view of the movie is a choice only you can make, but speaking for myself, the fact they decided to take the story in that direction resonated with me in a way that's definitely going to be greater than the average person. SSSS Gridman ended up teaching me a lot about myself and how I view stories to begin with, so to have a big movie epilogue come along with this sort of meta narrative going on felt like a perfect culmination of a personal journey I didn't even realize wasn't over after already loving Dynazenon.

It actually prompted me to rewatch not only the film itself several times over, but to go back and watch ALL the prior stuff -- the OG show, both anime, and all the voice dramas -- which was fun just on its own merits, but also gave me an even greater appreciation of just how intricately crafted the anime stuff actually is. This was during that whole Geats/Gotchard period where I was barely on the forum (hence why I could make the time for that!), and the thought that I one day want to get some of the thoughts I have about this stuff out there genuinely helped motivate me to try getting back into the swing of things on here. Which I suppose is just one more thing on the increasingly huge list of things I should be thanking SSSS Gridman for.