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[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.

[modularmedia]

Analytical Fanboys Discuss SSSS.Gridman & SSSS.Dynazenon

For @busterscorp 's third pick of the year, they have the others check out another recent anime!

[wcwit]

The Hero Of Dreams - A Complete Retrospective On The Hyper Agent Gridman (CheeseGX)

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[bravehero96]

Can’t wait to see it

[kamenwriter]

[celesteisbest]

So I was doing the thing and finally watching the original Gridman.

I grew up with the TRULY AWFUL Superhuman Samurai Suber Squad and while I have no love for the non-Time Curry parts of that show, I do miss my old toys.

Then I saw this…

Sweet Jesus, I thought at first, then I really looked at his face.

Dear god I have a new Sleep Paralysis Demon.

My mind is destroyed and low, I am born anew.

McCall’s Gridman is my god now.

[jimmyisageek]

Ser un héroe is genial!

Despite growing up with this show in English, the Spanish opening makes me feel oddly nostalgic.

[aoypodcast]

AoY Podcast #171 - Takahashi vs Tomino Round 6 Pt A (Armored Trooper Votoms Review)

Also known as: “Ain’t nobody got a level like dat!” and also: “Chirico, YOU JUST KILLED GOD!” Download Episode HERE! (Total Time:…

[biomic]

power rangers-style american adaptation of ultraman orb where the main villain's name is Douglas Duggler

[reversemoon255]

SSSS.DYNAZENON THE GATTAI Gridman Universe & Big Goldburn

Thank goodness this one didn't have shipping issues like the last Goldburn set. In fact, I got an email a week out saying exactly when it would ship, and it arrived before the tracking number could even update. That's pretty good service if you ask me, especially compared to last time.

Oh, and I really enjoyed the crossover film. It basically gave us everything you'd want from this type of thing; catching up with the characters post-series, lots of fun character moments between the casts, previous villains playing heroic roles, every single possible robot combination you might want, just a lot of fun overall.

The Good: Gridman Universe is a decent upgrade to its previous incarnations. While it looses a bit of posability, it has ratcheted shoulders to help support the weight of the larger arms. The hands are also easier to swap, and they fixed the issue with the chest gem by giving it a release button on the back of the figure.

Big Goldburn is a bit of a brick, but has a few articulated areas. He's got arms, fingers and toes, wings, a bit of neck and tail, and a mouth (though its on the same joint as the neck, so it clashes). Also, when you spin the shoulders, the internals and tips spin in the opposite direction.

And Rouge Kaiser Gridman is very cool. It feels a lot more solid than its Gridknight counterpart, with the tail also serving to tripod the unit if need be (though it doesn't need it).

The Bad: While Gridman's new shoulders do help hold everything up better than its predecessors, I do find it to be a little under-powered. They hold a pose well, but if you start moving the figure, they will shift around. There are some weird transformation ideas that feel like they're there for longevity's sake, but they do seem and feel a bit odd at first. And this may just be a thing with international shipments, but the instructions seem to imply the chest piece is supposed to come with batteries (it is illustrated with a pulltab), but in practice has none. It required 3 LR44s, but it's important to note that those batteries have multiple names and can vary by brand, so have your phone out while shopping in-store for them.

Overall, while I can try and nitpick this kit, it's a fantastic addition to both the DX Gridman and The Gattai lines. It does a great job trying to adjust to the failings of its predecessors, and gives me high hopes for the Full Power Gridman V2 releasing later this year. I've got my nose to the ground trying to track down Full Power Gridknight (since I missed the preorder window on that one), so hopefully we'll get to talk about that one soon, too.

[therobotmonster]

Can I share some things I love with you?

They're music videos, if that helps.

Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive is one of those things that should be quintessentially tumblr but the tumblr community remains unaware of its beauty.

This is the story of Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive, they are a person who feels good to be alive, This is the story of Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive Believes the underdog will eventually survive

"Hey, hey he fumbles for what to say He loves the world except for all the people"

What's more Tumblr than that, I ask ye?

"C'mon guys, is all this really necessary? Can't we just leave the deli tray out and split out of here?"

More songs should be about kaiju monsters attacking humanity. Imagine seeing this at a sleepover on Headbangers' Ball, then trying to explain what you saw to others enough to track it down. Congrats, you know what its like to be me at 14.

This song was Parodied on Kids next Door, I shit you not.

In keeping with cartoony metal, a literal heavy metal cartoon song. The less known but amazing "Takin' a Ride" by Don Felder from every 80s kids' first exploration into the forbidden, Heavy Metal.

The theme to Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad

What? I can't put a 90s Power Rangers tailcoat rider themesong matched to a modern anime reboots' footage on a list of my favorite music videos? You're not my mom!

I'm sorry, but "The hero always makes the cut" overrides any rules of decorum or aesthetics.

"If she asked me to I'd murder, I'd gladly give my soul."

A song that plays with the conventions of love songs to express the nature of fandom out of control.

"Now I lie in bed an think of her, sometimes I even weep, now I dream of her behind the wall of sleep."

Sometimes, art is treating a metaphor literally.

One of my favorite TMBG songs, and that's saying something, cuz 22.33364% of my favorite songs are from TMBG.

The Jenny Saga

Tell me these two songs aren't connected:

They even have similar hooks! The Killers made a sequel to a Falco song and no one noticed! GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME! WHAT'S IN THAT NEEDLE I-

Some songs are always about somebody and somewhen, but never the same someone or somewhere.

I love two things, hard rock and songs from objectively bad movies. So ACDC doing the theme song to Maximum Overdrive? Chef's fucking kiss! Listen to it twice!

It's good for ya!

Also blah blah still socially relevant blah blah its ACDC and it rocks.

Tumblr's a fucking narc and won't let me post more than ten videos per post, so lets roll this to the reblog!

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[takerfoxx]

Even though exactly nobody follows me for my opinions about Gridman, this is still a fan blog, and I've technically been a Gridman fan since I was a little kid, even if only through Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad basically being my Power Rangers, because I wasn't allowed to watch Power Rangers (growing up in a conservative Christian household in the 90's was fucking weird, man). Still have the toys, in fact.

So anyway, given my nostalgic fondness for Gridman, of course I was all about the anime reboot. I loved SSSS Gridman, thought it was great. And while Dynazenon wasn't quite as good (felt the climax fell a little flat), it was still really good, and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

And now I finally got around to watching the crossover movie that serves as the franchise's grand finale, and...huh.

Well, let me put it this way. My reactions went about as such.

Man, it's been a while since I've watched this. Gotta recall everyone's names and what happened at the end.

Okay, this multiverse shit is admittedly kind of lame, and there's a lot of really out there coincidences, but it's still fun to see the two casts of characters hanging out and interacting. Feel sorry for both team's b-tier members, though. They get like maybe one or two lines apiece. Also, dafuq is up with Gauma's princess just showing up the hell out of nowhere! You'd think that'd be a bigger deal!

This play script is totally a meta-commentary on the writers' own frustrations in making this movie, isn't it?

Kaiju fights are still hype, though!

Wait, hold on. They're not actually...

They boomed me! They actually boomed me! They pulled a Rebellion Story and got me! Oh, this is good! Hell yeah, turn up the weird, I wanna see how this-

Well. This may be the stupidest climax that I've ever seen.

Eh, things ended on a nice note, I guess.

So, basically this movie's biggest problem is its villain. Like, we find out the reason for the different digital worlds colliding is because Gridman himself became corrupted and all the worlds that he created are merging. Okay, that's cool! I like that!

Except we find out that Gridman was actually corrupted by an outside force, who turns out to be this super-kaiju...whom we literally never heard anything about until the final fight starts and he just shows up and starts ranting in cliched super-villain monologues! Like, serious! Who even was this guy? Why is this franchise's final, final battle where all the characters team up and we have like a gazillion different new combinations and super-weapons against this fucking Dragonzord-looking motherfucker that we've never even heard of until the punching started and we get no exposition about until literally the climax of the movie? Why would we even care about this guy?

Seriously, if you needed a final boss, Alexis is literally right there! Just have this be part of his master plan! Or, hell, if you wanted to go meta with it, make it be Khan Digifer, the OG villain from the original show! Or commit and make it Gridman himself! Make the final fight be a "I know you're in there!" fight to redeem a hero corrupted by his own guilt and self-loathing!

And while it was fun seeing Akane again, the way they brought her back was pretty sloppy. I know it's Trigger and Trigger is ridiculous, but it usually feels like there's a method to the madness.

I mean, I still enjoyed a lot of it. The two teams interacting was fun, even if Yomogi did get relegated to sidekick. Sorry buddy, protagonist no longer. And poor Yume and Koyomi were...there, I guess? I mean, even Chise felt like she had more to do. Same with the NG high-schoolers. I guess they had lines. And it did feel like they were running down a checklist of everything they needed to cram in, like Yomogi and Gauma's reunion, the two protags having a heart to heart, etc. But I still liked it.

So, not upset that I watched it, but the final act left a lot to be desired.

[sulan1809]

Gridman - Um Tokusatsu esquecido que virou anime...

Se você assistia Tokusatsu nos anos 1990, existe a probabilidade de você lembrar de séries do gênero, como Kamen Rider e Ultraman, por exemplo. O gênero de anime estilo Mecha já não é mais popular como era antes, mas ainda é um gênero muito importante e influente dentro dos animes. Um dos gêneros mais populares no Japão é o Tokusatsu, que é bem representado pelos Power Rangers em terras ocidentais. No começo dos anos 1990, teve uma série que fugiu dos parâmetros fundamentais de Ultraman ao implementar lutas de gigantes contra monstros virtuais, com suporte de Mechas, Gridman the Hyper Agent(電光超人グリッドマン), que foi elaborada pela Tsuburaya Productions, empresa muito renomada por Ultraman.

Na premissa da série de 1993, três adolescentes, Naoto Sho, Yuka Inoue e Ippei Baba, estavam desenvolvendo um software através de um supercomputador chamada Junk, até que um acidente funde o programa que eles elaboravam com um policial interdimensional chamado Gridman. Do outro lado, Kahn Digifer, um poderoso demônio digital, entrou no computador de um jovem revoltado chamado Takeshi Todo, que fez um acordo com ele para se vingar das pessoas que o humilharam, e com a ajuda do demônio imperial do ciberespaço, ele cria monstros virtuais para aterrorizar o mundo virtual. Durante a crise digital, Naoto e Gridman se fundem, e eles enfrentam os monstros criados por Takeshi e Kahn Digifer... Esta série serviu de base para Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, uma adaptação americana que a DiC Entertainment licenciou da Tsuburaya Productions para competir com um fenômeno que estava em grande ascensão naquela época: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

No ano de 2017, o Studio Trigger anuciou que iria fazer um reboot no formato anime sobre uma série de tokusatsu esquecida há 24 anos. Este reboot foi denominado SSSS.Gridman com as quatro letras "S" iniciais referenciando Super Human Samurai Syber-Squad, e apropriadamente, a adaptação em anime combina elementos de ambos os predecessores, a versão original(Gridman) e a adaptação ocidental(Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad), em algo extremamente novo, e o herói titular, Gridman, parece mais próximo de um Mecha do que um personagem de Tokusatsu, enquanto que outros membros do Gridman Team se transformam em veículos. Falando sobre mechas, a escolha artística para a série aborda elementos de uma série de Robôs em Disfarce que você deve conhecer bem: Transformers. Embora SSSS.Gridman teve apenas 12 episódios em 2018, tornou-se rapidamente a entrada de maior sucesso da franquia devido ao quanto reviveu a propriedade.

Em 2021, SSSS.Gridman teve uma continuação, SSSS.Dynazenon, que teve design e premissa mais apropriados para uma série de anime Super Robot. Essa evolução abraçou totalmente o gênero mecha e solidificou a transição para uma direção longe das raízes clássicas do gênero Tokusatsu, mesmo que agora houvesse um universo Gridman estabelecido através do anime predecessor. A Takara Tomy (empresa que administra a franquia Transformers no Japão) também estaria envolvida na produção de Dynazenon, uma vez que a companhia havia trabalhado na série de 1993 previamente.