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Originally Posted by 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!

What are your thoughts regarding the IF episode that took place before the Space Cats episode? Those two episodes shared the same director, more specifically Takashi Miike himself. I guess it's very safe to assume you didn't care all that much for that one. I honestly considered it not only one of the best episodes in all of the Ultraman franchise, but in all of Toku as well. Don't worry, I also love the Space Cats episode which, incidentally, is also one of my favorite episodes of the series. While Max is not necessarily one of my top favorite Ultraman series, it is still a very enjoyable entry in the franchise in its own right and I do like the show enough to consider it as one of my honorable mentions.