[FreshToku]

The original Ultraman is really good, and when I first watched it, I was honestly shocked by how much of the series' classic themes, aesthetics, really everything was presented so strongly in it and have been carried well over for so many years.

I don't know if it was just because of that initial surprise, but none of the other Showa Ultras really gripped me in the same way as the original, even though they're all probably objectively better in every sense. Funny that, when all the other Ultras would proceed to show up across the modern era, they'd recieve all sorts of fleshing out and development, but I've never recalled that being the case for OG Ultraman. I guess being a simple good guy is his own defining trait?

Maybe it's for the best. I don't really need to find out that Ultraman is a jerk who never talked to his son for centuries. Looking at you, Seven!