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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Oh, by all means, go ahead! This show is fully supportive of being watched that way.

It's funny you mention the "toku" action stuff, though, since that's one of the interesting things about the way the fights are put together. It's not simply an animated version of the old Gridman, but rather this constant push and pull between shots and movements styled after giant monster tokusatsu, and those that instead take after the traditions of mecha anime. One of the more obvious tributes on the latter front, for example, being the specific pose Gridman strikes at the end of the "combination sequence" with the Gridman Calibur, with it thrusting towards the camera in that really exaggerated manner. That very particular framing is commonly associated with famed animator/mecha designer Masami Oobari, although the reality of its history is apparently a little more complicated than that. (Which is to say, more complicated than I'm actually educated about, but again, part of the beauty is that understanding the references isn't mandatory.)

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