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Max is the first one I watched. It's an adequate show. It's good for showing you what a standard Ultraman show is. Nothing unusual or ever particulary innovative, but nothing badly done either. It's competent and sets the right expectations, but nothing more than that. For the first show, that's not so bad.

As far as the franchise goes, it's a reset after Nexus, which is kinda the Hibiki of Ultraman. It took franchise in a radical new direction which fans did not like and stopped watching. Unlike Hibiki, it got to play out the season without being forced to change. It's actually pretty popular with western viewers.

But Max was made to win back the old fans, which is why is about the plainest vanilla you can get. It's good vanilla, but its still plain vanilla.