#gridman borr

[reversemoon255]

SSSS.GRIDMAN THE GATTAI Full Powered Girdknight

Missed the preorder window on this one, but managed to snag the second one that popped up on Mandarake. And I'm glad I did, because this thing is great. This should be the same mold as the upcoming THE GATTAI FP Gridman, and it is a startling improvement. This isn't just some simple retool; it's an entirely new mold. Not even Gridknight is the same, overhauling him to better fit his role as the center of this robot, something the original Gridman failed to do.

The Good: Gone is the flimsy DX Full Powered Gridman. To start, Gridknight has been fitted almost entirely with ratcheted joints, meaning he can now much more easily hold the weight of all his machines. Not only that, but they took a page out of the Moderoid's book and made a stronger, more posable replacement torso, but also fixed the issue I had with it by giving it its own head, so you can display both Gridknight and FP Gridknight at the same time. But even if you choose to forgo it, Gridknight is perfectly capable of holding everything up.

Onto everyone else, this set actually comes with two Calibers of different sizes, and a handle so you can use the larger one's chest piece as a shield. Max, Borr, and Sky are functionally the same as vehicles, but Max's cannons now stop at the appropriate height so you don't have to fiddle with that during transformation.

Powered Knight Zenon may not look much different from the original, but has quite a few new tricks going on under the hood. For starters, it requires no adapters; everything is designed into the vehicles themselves, including the very impressive neck joint they added (which just blows my mind how they pulled that off). They also gave it a much better A-stance, actual ankles to accommodate it, and you can use Sky's transformation joints to give it some inward arm motion.

And Full Powered Gridknight is an impressive feat, being both taller than the original and around its scale to Dynazenon seen in the film. The transformation is also so much cleaner. Everything feels better, connects better, is much more solid, even more so than Dynazenon. They even made the cuts in Sky's wings the actual transformation joint, which several of the releases haven't done. And he is ridiculously posable. It has every joint; I don't know what else to tell you. It also comes with open and posable alternative hand. They even added dedicated engineering into Borr that allows for a brand new combination with Goldburn.

The Bad: Not everything is exactly perfect, though. While you can get the new Gridknight to work as Rouge Kaiser, the elbows are too long, meaning you have to twist the arms in a weird way to get them to fit, and Dynasoldier is less stable.

And both Zenon and FP have mediocre ankles. Like, they work, but Zenon's require a bit of fidgeting and you often have to display them on their toes. FP on the other hand just doesn't have enough rock, making more wide-legged, dynamic poses an issue. I recommend using the included stand to help with those (...which I did not take pictures of).

Overall, the difference is quality between this and the original DX are dirt and stratosphere. If you were disappointed by the original, or if you liked the Moderoid, then I highly recommend this one, or just waiting a few months for the V2 to come out.

[toku-explained]

2018 saw the launch of the Gridman Universe from Trigger with SSSS.Gridman. This 12 episode reimagining borrowed concepts and names from unproduced content from the 90s to create a whole new story, and new merchandise for Gridman's new forms, plus tonnes focused on specific characters. Some spoilers under the cut as we talk about all the media that spun off from it.

Starting with the most closely connected media.

Episodes 1-11 were each accompanied by a short Voice Drama that explained on various characters, with an additional 4 coming as Blu-ray pack-ins. An album was produced with Character Songs for all the main cast.

Prior to the release of the anime, Director Amemiya authored two online short stories set in the school over the months prior. These were "Uniform from a School I don't know" focused on the characters of Furuma Ako and Marusan, and "Don't peak inside" focused on Yonezawa Yoshitaka and Tonkawa Sakiru.

The Special Signature to Save a Soul fanbook included a manga short from Amemiya, depicting Rikka spitting Anti and the Kaiju Girl a few months after the show. Meanwhile the MV for UNION, the OP from OxT continued a certain other character's story.

Author Mizusawa Yume of "Ore no Twintail" fame, who will be coming up a lot, penned an original story "The Diamond in the Notebook" for the Super Complete Works, seeing Utsumi inspired to create a record of Gridman and his abilities.

An alarm app featured special voice lines from Akane and Rikka.

A manga adaptation of the show was produced, somewhat expanded, over 6 volumes. In addition there were 3 manga anthologies, one general, as well as Side:Rikka and Side:Akane.

More unique manga spin-offs followed

Neon Genesis Junior High Student Diary focused on the daily lives of those 4 during the events of the series.

Neon Genesis Junior High Student Butler Cafe meanwhile, saw the world briefly changed so they ran a butler cafe within Aya.

Hime and Samurai saw Calibur, shortly before the anime, team up with Kizuki Hime to investigate the goings on in Tsutsijidai.

Sengoku Gridman saw, in another world, Gridman join with the boy Eboshi to protect his sister from the evils of war.

Gridman Dogma saw misfit Neon Genesis Junior High Students Vice, Mari and Bane join with mysterious "Gridman" Chloe to protect pitiful people.

Mizusawa Yume and bun150's SSSS.Gridman Novelizations told the story of the world being trapped in a loop between episodes 8 and 9, and featured many original combinations, as well as the media debut of Full Power Initial Fighter Gridman and Full Power Gridman Over Spec Mode.

While SSSS.Gridman ANOTHER LOAD told a story before the anime of Vit and Borr on separate worlds with intertwining threats, even as Vit manages and Idol while Borr has become the Demon King.

Gridman Universe: Complete Breakdown

At time of writing, the Gridman Universe Show is about to happen, and if nothing major is announced, we may be putting a cap on the Gridman Universe for now. This isn't going to be fully comprehensive, but I do want to share info on the things that are harder to find.

Denkou Chojin Gridman, aka Gridman the Hyper Agent, was a 1993 Tokusatsu series by Tsuburaya based on toy concepts by Takara. A Hyper Agent joins with a group of youths for help to defeat an other dimensional criminal, and they are responsible for both his form and his Assist Weapons.

Followed the next year by a photo sorry, Demon King's Counterattack, which introduced Gridman Sigma to help fight a new threat, and introduced a couple more form variations.

In 2015, Trigger gave us the short boys invent great hero, part retelling of the show and part reimagining of Demon King's Counterattack. But more important, is what it lead to.

[incorrect-ssss-gridman-blog]

Borr: SLOW DOWN

Borr: YOU'RE GONNA- YOU'RE GONNA HIT SOMEBODY

Calibur: Well I haven't even started the car yet so-

Borr: WATCH OOOUT SOMEBODY'S COMING THIS WAAAAAAAAAAY

[stalkerkyoko]

TBH I LIKE OFF MODEL

“DOn’t come in here all  wet  get  a damnn Umberlla

[flonion]

Happy one year anniversary, Gridman!

[a-titty-ninja]

[steel-valiant]

Gridman (+ Assist Weapons), by i820

[mityfresh]

He is my fav character right now. Also trying new things I guess.

Sorry for all the mistakes I have been fixing his face for hours.

[funimation]

It’s getting harder and harder to choose a best girl in SSSS.GRIDMAN

https://funi.to/2QrAYc4

[azucookie]

[incorrect-ssss-gridman-blog]

Vit: Borr, we gotta go man

Vit: BORR, HURRY THE FUCK UP WE'RE GONNA BE LATE

Borr: Are you fucking serious? I'm right here

Vit: [ looks down ] Oh

[samurai-birru]

Buster Gridman

[imagine-ssss-gridman]

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Imagine Calibur being amazing at piano and then Borr tries to play it too but it just sounds like a bunch of horrible sounds

[sleepyinclusion]

I’ve been watching Gridman lately, so I just had to give a shout-out to top trap and best boy Borr.

[biseugen]

﹙*✦: @nerikeshikun009.