[GoldenXtreme]

I decided to take an animated breather and watch Ultraman Kids: 30 Million Light-Years in Search of Mother.

This show is definitely aimed even younger than Ultraman already is, and the general "feel" of the show isn't what I would associate with the Ultraman series (even if some of the tributes to classic Showa kaiju were very deep cuts). Overall though, I thought it was a cute little series. I think the varied planet-hopping adventures were fun and the show, while visually simple, was well animated. The show doesn't really have particularly loft storytelling ambitions or anything though. Characters aren't all that complex and the show ends on a really weird note, choosing to not show Maa meeting his parents even though all the characters needed to do at that point was wait it out. Still, I think the show set out to make a lightweight space adventure and succeeded.

Anyways, I think it would be really funny if they made some chibi-looking suits and stuck these guys in a modern crossover. Tsuburaya has done stranger things before!