[Switchblade]

Looks fun. Between the hair and the necklace, Sorato visually reminds me a lot of Takumi from Faiz and I’m pretty okay with that.

[Frontier]

Can't wait to watch it!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Looks fun. Between the hair and the necklace, Sorato visually reminds me a lot of Takumi from Faiz and I?m pretty okay with that.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

[Sunred]

As I await the Redman memes, looking forward to this show. That rock soundtrack from the recent trailer got me hyped. The protagonist trio reminds me of Gridman's protagonists with a pinch of the laundry trio (Takumi, Mari, and Keitarou).

[GuardianAngel87]

As of today, I am finally finished with Ultraman Nexus (and yes, I have even watched the Director’s Cut version of episode 29 and that extra episode called Lost Memories that centers around Shiori in between).

[GuardianAngel87]

As of today, I have finally started on watching Ultraman Taiga.

[GuardianAngel87]

Say what one will about Ultraman Taiga as a show but episode 16 and a few others before it are great episodes and despite some serious hiccups in some areas, I find Taiga to be a very enjoyable Ultraman series so far.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by GuardianAngel87

Say what one will about Ultraman Taiga as a show but episode 16 and a few others before it are great episodes and despite some serious hiccups in some areas, I find Taiga to be a very enjoyable Ultraman series so far.

Oh wow, I totally misread your last post and thought you were watching Tiga.

Taiga's a good show, I honestly don't know why it apparently has a poor reputation.

[GuardianAngel87]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Oh wow, I totally misread your last post and thought you were watching Tiga.

Taiga's a good show, I honestly don't know why it apparently has a poor reputation.

This is the second time this happened to me, funnily enough.

I already watched Tiga a a few years ago when I was starting out on watching the Ultraman franchise at the time.

[Byg42]

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Taiga's a good show, I honestly don't know why it apparently has a poor reputation.

As someone who loves Taiga, I feel the reason is because there is a mismatch between the show's aesthetic and what it was promoting itself as, versus what the show actually ended being about. All the marketing was focusing on Taiga being Taro son, that he would be part of a team of Ultras from different planets, and that he would face an old friend turned enemy of Taro. From that, I think a lot of people went into Taiga thinking it was going to be a Taro tribute season with a Den-O like dynamic between the ultras and the host.

The actual show itself however was focused on its "aliens living amongst humans" setting, which most every episode exploring some facet of that setting. I really love all the stories and messages that Taiga did with this concept, but it also meant that the show didn't have much to do with Taiga being Taro son, or the Tri-Squad outside a couple of plot important episodes. I almost feel Taiga would have been received better if it had a more self-contained aesthetic akin to Blazar and Arc, so that people would go into the show with much closer expectations to what it was going to be.

[GoldenXtreme]

I watched Taiga earlier this year and really enjoyed it! The more I thought about it after I finished the more I liked it, so now I'd even say it's my favorite New Gen show. I wasn't paying much attention to the promotional stuff for the show when it was new, but even I was under the impression that it would be some kind of bro comedy when I started watching. I was happy with the actual direction the show took, but can definitely see how some people would feel like it was a betrayal of their expectations.