[Androzani84]

Well, we’re onto this. I’ve been saving this list for a few months, so let’s talk about the Gridman elements in this episode for the crowd that aren’t in with that series.

* Yuta was treated at Inoue Hospital, which also made an appearance in the original Denkou Choujin Gridman as the workplace of Yuka Inoue's parents, hence its name. It was where Naoto Sho's brother, Daichi was being treated back in episode 1 until an attack by Gilarus caused all surgical instruments to go haywire.
* Akane gives Yuta a Special Dog (a type of hot dog). This food appeared in episode 5 of the original series and was Ippei's inspiration for designing Barrier Shield.
* The monsters repairing the city are based on Venora, the Kaiju from the “Showdown! Hero’s End” two-parter.
* In Katakana, Ghoulghilas (グールギラス) can be rearranged into Gilarus (ギラルス Girarusu), the first Kaiju from the original series, with extra letters left.
* And as a bonus, one of the comments on the video depicting Gridman compares him to Ultraman Orb’s Lightning Attacker Fusion Up form. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20200111205641
* When Utsumi says that "Yuta has been eaten by Junk", its the same dialogue said by Ippei when Naoto gets fused with Gridman in episode 1 of the original series.
* When fighting Ghoulghilas, Gridman does the same flying kick motion as his live-action counterpart's Neo Superconductivity Kick.
* The TV Network ECN made its cameo appearance. For those who watched the original series, that was the same TV Network that Naoto's dad Soichiro Sho worked at.
* Several elements are lifted from the unproduced Gridman F concept
* Yuta Hibiki, the new host of Gridman is also one in this scrapped series. Had Gridman F were given the greenlight, he would be assisted by Ippei Baba, who went to a different high school from Naoto Sho and Yuka Inoue after failing his entrance exam.
* Alexis Kerib, the main villain from Makai World and leader of five monsters is reused as this anime's Big Bad.
* Yuta's classmate Akane was meant to be Takeshi Todo's expy from the scrapped planning.
* The show takes place in the high school of Tsutsujidai. The original planning, however, said that the high school is an industrial high school, whereas the anime counterpart is just a normal high school.
* So the name of the shop that Rikka's mother operated is Junk Shop AYA? Well in the original series, Junk is obviously referring to the computer that Naoto and his friends made and the AYA suffix refers to INTERIOR SHOP Aya, Hiroshi Baba (Ippei's father)'s workplace.

That aside, I also rewatched this recently and thought it was a pretty good start for a series.