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I watched Gridman the Hyper Agent, a show that handily surpasses its own shortcomings!
This isn't a show with a very high budget and the acting can be a bit awkward (and let's not even get started on the subtitle quality). In many ways it is a show that felt like Tsuburaya's attempt to get back on their feet pre-Tiga. It does a lot with a little however, and was generally a show I watched with a big smile on my face! The small amount of suits and sets are nonetheless used well. The cheesy acting quickly won me over with just how genuine it was. Not only that, but the general energy of the show was just addictive. The plots get more and more ridiculous as the show goes along, but it always maintains a serious passion about what it is doing, preventing it from feeling like some mean-spirited parody. Like yes, three episodes from the end Takeshi is caught peeing in public, which causes him to rewrite the Japanese constitution in retaliation, causing driving the speed limit to be a crime punishable by immediate execution via electric chair. But this is also a show that uses the same episode to explore Naoto's heroism even in the face of not getting credit. I've seen a lot of tokusatsu at this point, but Gridman was both unique and an excellent tribute to why we love tokusatsu heroes. B+, I was really pleased with it! |
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I’m really glad you really liked Gridman, GoldenXtreme. Gridman is honestly one of my personal favorite Toku Series of all time despite the unfortunate poor quality of its English subtitles. Just out of curiosity, what would you say are your favorite episode(s) of the series in your opinion?
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Or I sometimes want to believe the characters are actually speaking like that and it's rather funny. Like the bad kid slowly starts to badmouth Khan by pronouncing his name wrong in multiple ways: "Yes, Lord Can Digifur!". Or some scenes are so silly that the actors are phoning it in and saying wrong stuff on purpose. And at the end of the day, the brain adjusts and filters the trash into sentences I understand. It helps that Gridman is generally so much fun that I didn't mind the terrible subtitles much. |
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Have I mentioned that I really enjoyed this show? :lol |
This honestly kind of makes me want to watch Gridman again but that won't be for a very long while since I have many Toku series I wanted and/or needed to watch, or in some cases rewatch, as is.
Anyway, I now only have 16 episodes of Jiban left. |
I am now down to the final four episodes of Jiban and I should be able to finish this series by the end of this week.
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I watched Daigoro vs Goliath - a film dedicated to Tsuburaya's tenth anniversary. A funny comedy children's film about kaiju. The problem itself is quite interesting: what to do with a kind baby monster, which is becoming more and more expensive to feed every day, but it is played out in a comedic manner. However, this problem is considered partly more seriously in the North Korean Pulgasari. As for this film, it has everything you would expect from a Showa kaiju film in general and Tsuburaya in particular. Daigoro is also a good-looking guy, and the opponent with the piglet is also too cartoonish to frighten or anger.
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