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Originally Posted by DreamSword

I'd say that, in hindsight, the first episode gives the viewer a good look at what they ask expect from the average episode of Dynazenon.

Good to know!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So yeah, Dynazenon. I remember that the majority of Tokunation watching at the time preferred it to Gridman, but I definitely preferred the latter since it didn?t leave me consistently confused (hilariously enough, history repeated itself months later with mainline Ultra instalments, but that?s another story).

Interesting! I don't know that I find the toku mysteries in Dynazenon nearly as perplexing as the Akane/Yuta explanations that eventually arrived in Gridman, but that's mostly because I will never find toku mysteries as interesting to think about as character development. I'm the wrong person to talk about toku shows!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Gauma is immediately pretty great here, though. I do remember liking him right away, as this weird but clearly warm big personality who draws the rest of the cast into the heroic adventure in a very different way from Gridman's stoic righteousness.

I'm split on Gauma? I liked him in the first half, like I liked the entire cast: he's weird and broad and tonally dissonant and plays great against first Yomogi, whose reluctant protagonism pairs hilariously with Gauma's WE ARE ON A MISSION-style nonsense, and then against Yume's traumatized indifference, which he just starts yelling at so we can move the plot forward. It's a great use of a character like that!

...and then we got to the robot fight, and every positive -- Gauma's boisterous energy, Yume's withdrawn mystery, Yomogi's skeptical normality -- all flipped into huge drags on the storytelling for me. I very much did not like them getting in the robot! I'm the wrong person to talk about giant robot shows!