[GoldenXtreme]

Ultraman Max was... really something! It's kinda like Taro? Very slapsticky and silly overall, but has some serious moments. And I have to hand it to the show, it regularly had me laughing out loud. Like, the episode with the space cats that give everyone super forgetfulness? The one with the floating, sleepy monster? Hilarious! It also does well with surreal, meta episodes like the one about the scriptwriter for Ultraman Max or the one with the Ultra Q actors. But I do think the show just wasn't able to handle the more serious moments as well as I would have liked. This is a show with a huge amount of writers and directors doing whatever they felt like, so it doesn't really deliver on things like internal consistency or character arcs. Due to this, the more serious episodes mostly just fall back on old standards for the Ultra series that don't stand out much. Still, it was a nice tribute to the Ultra series and it had very charming miniatures. Not really a big favorite for me, but it made me smile!