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The story of Akane continues in the music video for the show’s OP.

Honestly, for me the highlight of the episode was OG Gridman making his triumphant return by bringing together all his aspects (and Anti) by having them use the original Accepter. And he proceeds to prove even more impressive in animation, with even the Fixer Beam, which in the live action was just a hand wave as to why there were no lasting effects once the monster was slain, becomes a full on finishing move. Presumably, the cost of creating a new animation model was saved because Trigger had done an animated Gridman short a few years prior.

And now, some small details.

The Kaiju created from Akane’s cry is her saying “No!”, which the dub picked up on and actually translated… by which I mean, they overlaid her dub VA Lindsey Seidel screaming no over the Japanese cry.

Look closely as the Access Code: Gridman is input, the computer reads the definition of SSSS when the original meaning is split in ownership between WildBrain and Hasbro: Special Signal to Save a Soul.

While the alert from Junk has been in every episode, here it regains its original purpose as Gridman returns to his true(ish) form: it starts speaking to indicate that Gridman’s transformation and merger with a human is imperfect, and if he doesn’t finish the fight in 3 minutes, then Gridman and Yuta will disappear from the Computer World. (Similar to Ultraman’s colour timer giving him 3 minutes until he dies/transforms back, depending on the show)

While the subtitles have Alexis Kerib call Rikka a “replica” and the dub changes this to “a fake meat-thing” (I’ll let DreamSword explain that particular insult), the actual dialogue has him call her a “repli-Compoid”, with Compoids being humanoid life forms that exist within a digital world (the term is mentioned all of once in OG Gridman proper and the subs for that removed it, which probably indicates why it was removed here).

And finally, with OG Gridman’s return, comes the return of the original version of Yume no Hero.

Gridman
BABY DON DON　BABY DON DON
Dream on

Gridman
BABY DAN DAN　BABY DAN DAN
Shine on

CRY! Your dreams clamour to be heard
FLY! Soar wherever you wish
If ever your spirits be wounded, do not fear
You're alone no more

Gridman
Anybody can become a hero
Gridman
Dance on the STAGE of tomorrow

Always by your side
Electronic Superman

Gridman
BABY DON DON　BABY DON DON
Dream on

Gridman
BABY DAN DAN　BABY DAN DAN

And as he says goodbye, we get an instrumental of his original ED.