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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

How do they all look similar? Dude, I know the vid quality sucks, but they look totally different!

I can't tell any of the science patrol apart in the original Ultraman

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Lots of early Heisei is like that. Like I haven't watched all of it, but if you like what Ghost is doing you'll like a lot of early Heisei stuff. They all feature a building storyline with weekly monsters thrown in the mix.

Sounds good to me.

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W and OOO do it the best way IMO. W with the detective theme can keep your interest up so you actually want to know how they resolve the case next week, OOO's characters are good enough that you want to know what happens to them next.

Episodic (bi-episodic?) can be good as long as each episode is done well. Some of the old showa stuff is fun, but there comes a point where you're just watching the same thing over and over again. Sounds like some of the later ones at least keep things interesting.

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Wizard is probably the worst example of the two-part formula since the characters are trash and the enemies are a joke. You don't care what happens to the characters and you don’t really want to know what happens next since the story goes nowhere and the enemies always die and never do anything major. Of course there are a few exceptions, but overall if a Phantom shows up you know it’s gonna fail. Not like W or OOO where you know they will find a way to win, but you don’t know how they do it. Wizard? The Phantoms are useless, Rider kick to the face, the end.

I still think it's a shame that Wizard ended up the way it did - the suit is in my top 5 easily.

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Drive isn’t as interesting as W & OOO at first, but once the show gets to the part where Shinnosuke deals with the case of his father it gets really good. That was too late for me but I still enjoyed it a little bit.

How does it compare to Ghost so far?