After noticing that this series had such a low MAL rating and more negative than positive reviews, I felt I had to weigh in and say: this show is absolutely hilarious. BUT! …you will likely only think so if its particular style of humor happens to appeal to you. That style basically boils down to the dry, straight-faced and slightly mean-spirited comedy of Monty Python, delivered in a traditional two-man manzai dynamic, with healthy doses of puns, wordplay, and comebacks thrown in.
As you may surmise, such a peculiarly narrow comedy window will NOT appeal to the general viewing public. For me however, it’s a combo
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Nov 10, 2018
SSSS.Gridman
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Opinions on SSSS.Gridman are widely divided: you either love it or hate it. Interestingly enough, those who hate it all have similar criticisms, mainly the premise is unoriginal, the title is stupid, the action just rips off Ultraman, etc. To such comments I would say: do your homework and maybe you’ll learn something. The source material (because yes, this is based on something) was a sentai show from the height of the tokusatsu era. And let’s face it, every sentai show has at least 87% Ultraman-inspired content. It just goes with the territory.
Regarding the story however, Trigger has decided to move away from the typical ... |
