[Kiwami]

I dropped Ultraman Trigger midway through episode 3 because I wasn’t quite feeling it, but decided to get back into it since I had a bit too much time on my hands this week. I caught up completely and well, I think I had a rather enjoyable time. But I would call it my second least favorite New Generations show so far. However, as I always say, it’s Ultraman. If the bar is usually so very high up in quality, coming in slightly below that greatness is still a worthy achievement.

And it’s not the action, special effects or miniature work that disappoints me, all of those are excellent as usual, it’s the story and characters that are a bit weak. The side characters are all in desperate need of being fleshed out. It’s confusing to think how many excellent character moments Z and Taiga had, dedicating entire episodes to support cast members, and Trigger is just doing – well, none of that. There’s nothing for the captain, the muscle guy or that weird lady who keeps screaming "Falcon-chan" all the time, not even the adorable Metron Alien. Although that one had some good screen time in the clip-show episode of all things.

Even Kengo, Yuka and Akito could use more time just being "human" IMO. I feel like there’s too much going on in this show, from them trying to juggle the 3 Giants of Darkness as well as Ignis alongside an already relatively big supporting cast, maybe a bit more quality instead of quantity would’ve worked better.

But again nothing of it is really bad, just… well, lacking. There’s one thing I want to point out though, a moment that very much caught me off-guard was Yuka learning Kengo was Ultraman Trigger. I’m so used to the usual "Oh well, we knew all along anyways"-reaction Ultraman likes to deliver in these situations that this piece of dialogue blew me away. Fantastic acting from Runa Toyoda as well, what a great moment.