[Kurona]

I enjoyed Ignis and the crossover episodes, but overall this one for me was just a really big mess. Probably the closest I've come to disliking an Ultraman show? It just failed so utterly at setting itself up for its hits to land -- and I'll admit there's some pretty good scenes, especially the final scene of the show being beautifully executed with a lot of emotional acting; but it rings hollow because Trigger to me never put in any of the actual effort to establish its own identity, develop its characters or untangle the mess of themes it's juggling. It's at once trying to do its own thing but at every moment going "hey, remember Tiga? Tiga was cool, right? Tiga was so cool" and relying on that in a way that's simply not earned. I need to stress as well as a Tiga fan and a Z fan, while it sucks it's not living up to those (and I would argue that if you are calling yourself "New Generation Tiga", being a 25th anniversary project for it and grabbing every single aesthetic and plot beat you can for it, you should maybe try and live up to that), it's not very good on its own either. I can't think of a single good character outside of Ignis, all of them felt extremely undeveloped and more like Shonen writing tropes than actual people and I don't know them any better than I did at the start of the show. This is often said about the minor characters of the GUTS-SELECT crew, but I would argue the same for our main trio of Kengo, Akito and especially Yuna.

I... I don't know. I straight up think this is a really badly written show that has no idea how to do what it wants to do, and while I can sometimes find a diamond in a rough like that; I just couldn't do it here. Even my favourite character of Ignis, whose arc I felt was solid enough in its own right; did not do enough to fit into Trigger and parallel anything else that was happening which was really to its detriment. I'm not gonna miss this one, and if it's any indication of what Ultraman is according to leaks apparently going to be doing the next couple of years; I'm really not looking forward to those.