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Have to say, I probably wasn’t expecting them to reveal Knight and Nidaime were simply clones of Anti and Kaiju Girl, but in retrospect, it probably makes some amount of sense.

Also I like Rogue Kaiser Gridknight mostly because it fixes my biggest gripes with Kaiser Gridknight. Less keen on Knight Powered Zenon, due to how weird the head looks.

(There’s no Sounderous Battle Mode in that video because that toy is only coming out this month)

Also, I didn’t do it when DreamSword watched the movie (focusing a bit too much on a subtle hint that everything was going wrong), so I’ll include references to the OG Toku here.

The fortune teller on Utsumi’s horoscope flier is a traced screenshot from a fortune telling game featured in the episode “The Day Earth Died” (and its Syber Squad adaptation Que Sera Servo).

The CG model seen when Anti and Kaiju Girl explain the Gridman universe is taken from the first episode of the original show, with Gridman taking his form and name from said model.

Also referencing the first episode, our final boss Mad Origin is a homage to Gilarus, the monster from that episode, even down to sharing the same VA (specifically, before being a mindless monster, Gilarus was the protagonist of an online video game, Monster Gilarus’s Torture Dungeon, who the local misanthrope repurposed as a computer virus).

Utsumi’s shirt near the end features on screen computer text from the original show, most evident with the fact it read “Inoue Yuka” (the show’s female lead).

There’s also a novelisation of this movie, and it’s kind of a once a thread thing for me to explain interesting tidbits from it. Most notably, it reveals that Yuta’s first thought upon waking up and being told he’d spent two months possessed by an Ultraman like being was to think he was being pranked (then he realised Rikka woudlnt prank him like that and checked the date), and has Gridman and DynaSoldier fight off the Noirdogma horde using their individual combos (Max Gridman and Striker Combine, Buster Gridman and Diver Combine and Sky Gridman and Wing Combine) before doing the big ones.

And finally, before I do the casting trivia, I’ve already mentioned two of our monsters are Mad Origin and Noirdogma, but the other two are Dimorgan and Domgiran. I’ll let you figure out the theme naming.

In terms of casting:

Maya Uchida (the Princess) previously portrayed Hiroyo Hakase in adult-oriented Sentai Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, in addition to performing the ED to both SSSS shows.

Nobotoshi Canna (Mad Origin)in addition to the aforementioned Gilarus, was also Giant Beast Hunter Bangray in Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger.