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I'm currently watching Ultraman Leo and wondering...why does MAC even exist?

Like as an Attack Team they're so ill-defined and barely stand out. It's basically just Gen, Dan, and some other guys and that one girl. Aoshima only stands out because he got two episodes where he conveyed everyone in the team seemed to hate Gen (it was that kind of show). I know they all have names but at the moment (I'm on the episode where King first shows up) I could not put names to those faces.

It's just in stark contrast to ZAT who grew into fairly distinct and recognizable characters and a tight-nit group over time. Even TAC, as bad as they could get with their whole "not believing Hokuto until the last minute" deal, at least got focus episodes and I could name pretty much everyone in the group and their whole deal.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Read a pretty cool translation of an interview with Blazer's director, Kiyotaka Taguchi. He was approached to do the 2023 show while Trigger was still in production but was reluctant to sign on because he didn't want to do a Gaia remake. He just didn't think that was something that anyone could do justice to in the current production environment. Seems like Tsubaraya was on the same page because they wanted him to do something new instead of remaking Gaia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraman/co...st_time_about/

I don't disagree though at the same time it just feels weird that we got Trigger and Decker and now...no direct Gaia tribute.

But it's probably for the best.