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Yeah I figured, shame to see that you weren't able to vibe too well with it. I for one thought this was a pretty strong finale. You could tell they were definitely holding back after Gridknight's debut on some of the fights sans Kaiser Gridknight's debut purely so they could get this final battle going. There's a lot of cool CG stuff, a ton of beautiful traditionally animated shots (That part where they're shrouded in the light and they unfurl the cape? *chefs kiss*)

Everyone just shouting their pathos and punching the shit out of each other? That's basically my jam, especially when it involves gigantic robot fists. Also I'm a Yomogi and Yume shipper through and through so the final sequence of them at the school was a delight to see, and also them basically hard confirming that "Yes they are together" instead of like the teasing and complications that came from Yuta and Rika's whole thing.

I have a feeling we might not be done with Chise admittedly, and feel like she's one of the likely ones to come back during Gridman x Dynazenon while everyone else seems like they've moved to their endpoints.

Other than that, my mindset going into the finale was basically like "Are they going to answer like the big looming questions?" and I thought back to Episode 7 when we get introduced to Knight after watching Episode 11 was like, "No they aren't". This especially becomes the case when they focus everything on the fallout and how the Kaiju Eugenicists are having a hard time coping with their loss in Episode 10. Dynazenon wasn't a story about the greater Gridman Universe, it was merely a story within it. A story of a feud that was revived and needed to be put to rest while helping those in the present days with their issues. So much so that I didn't expect any big revelation move from Dynazenon compared to what we got with Gridman. We did get a cool combo with Gridknight and Golburn though and that was fun to see.

But yeah, I found it fairly enjoyable. I think the thing with me that made me enjoy Dynazenon more than SSSS.Gridman were a few factors. The fights were definitely improved I feel, there was a lot more cool stuff that I recall from Dynazenon than SSSS.Gridman. Not to mention, where in I only care about two characters in SSSS.Gridman (Anti and Akane), Dynazenon had me latch onto basically all of them in some way or form. The fact that I even decided to sail on the Yomogi and Yume ship is definitely a sign of that.

Not much else to say aside from rambling... but, here's the gif I first made when the finale aired because it was too cool to have it just not be gif'd.



That run, the missiles following along and encircling the arm, the slowdown, and then the hit connecting! Real good stuff!