[SHINOBI03]

Just finished Ginga S. A series that had its moments... but in my honest opinion a big step down from Ginga.

Ginga had its limitations, but these limitations helped in creating a rather unique setting with plenty of heart and soul behind it. Ginga S on the other hand despite the higher production quality feels like it was made by studio mandates and in turn took away the unique identity of Ginga and turned it to another run of the mill Ultra Series repeating the same cliches and characters the others were known to do like bringing back the attack force, the secret identity, the rival Ultra, the military higher-ups being dicks calling the attack force and Ultraman useless, etc.

I wish I could say the writing was good, but it's hard to tell when the characters make things worse by their stupid actions or inaction by making things vague on purpose and invoking it as some bullshit wisdom and their endless "Figure it out yourself" instead of making things clear for them.

This is also the start of the Ultra Fusions and for what it is it's okay. Not as fancy as the fusions of the later entries.