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Love that the theme song MV is just a workout video.

That being said, I'm glad for being optimistic about things because Decker definitely hit the ground running in a good way!

Where I was kind of worried about Trigger due to their heavy push of "New Generation Tiga" and just... everything about the first episode with the references feeling very forced in some ways in hindsight (I recently rewatched Episode 1), this one felt a lot more natural? Also didn't help that Trigger Episode 1 just... did not dispel any feelings of me being worried about if the show knew what it identity was (Which I can say with confidence... it really didn't in the end).

Like I'm sure it's definitely borrowing various elements from Dyna, but it doesn't overstate them like Trigger did. It also seems to not want to rush things either as we aren't immediately going into GUTS-Select and Decker gets to let his main form breathe as the star of the episode for a bit given next time we seem to be stuck with standard Decker still, which is good! There's a certain way I'm hoping they'll handle form changes compared to Trigger but we'll get there when they start showing up.

We get a nice piece of like most of our core cast (Really digging Kanata immediately out of the gate), and I like the idea that the TPC just went to downscale the military side the further in without monster attacks they went while focusing on space exploration. The idea that GUTS-Select doesn't exist anymore and most equipment is automated alongside a new generation that needs to be trained now should make bringing together the team a lot more interesting.

Also man, Spheresaurus is a cool Kaiju. I love unorthodox Kaiju designs like it and Genegarg from Z. I wish we'd get more of those to be honest.