[Phantom Stranger]

Started Gingaman, today. Really strong first episode. Mostly good at getting some backstory with only a few hiccups that felt a little weird. Good action, bit of humor. Good atmosphere too, which was helped surprisingly by the music, which was really good for just the first episode. Love the mystical sounding chorus when they're all up on the mountain. Few small character moments here and there to sort of give you an idea of their character type, but not much other than that.

If I do have a big complaint- and this is going to be series wide because of what it is. The pawns, the Seamen Yartots, those are quite possibly the worst looking foot soldiers I have ever seen. Holy crap. I had forgotten what the Swabbies looked like in LG, so this came as a shock. They're just fully body orange spandex suits with black painted on hook goatee/nose...things, hilarious looking O_O eyes. and some pirate clothing. They should have a rubber mask, or some detailing on the torso, something. There are mooks from the Showa era that look better than this, a lot better.

Oh one last thing; Am I the only one that thinks Hyuuga's outfit looks like Geki's?