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Originally Posted by Salaryman Zero

If our hero doesn't turn into a giant at some point to fight a daikaiju, it's not Ultraman to me. You can give him a Specium Ray and drop all the Ultra-references you want like "Alien Adacic" but it does not feel like an Ultraman show at all.

I have to admit I have zero interest in anything relating to the Ultraman manga. I remember watching a good chunk of the motion comic version they did of it a few years back, and the thought I kept having was "I'd probably like this a lot more if weren't calling itself Ultraman".

To me, the powered armor and lack of giant-sized action was no issue at all. But Ultraman has always had a pretty distinct ethos I was not seeing at all. The optimism, the wonder of discovery, the way people overcome adversity through their bonds with one another. All of that, from what I've seen of the manga, is straight out the window, and replaced with a fairly generic set of hero and sci-fi tropes. Nexus proved you can do an edgier take on Ultraman without losing what makes it Ultraman, and I guess I'd kind of expected something similar.

I don't have any particular ill will towards it either, though. It just seems like something I'm not the target audience for.