ULTRAMAN

The first season was a fun treatment of Ultraman, kind of pulling in from the larger mythos to create a new thing that's a little more digestible. Some fun Men In Black kind of scenarios, and some decent fights for a Polygon show. The second season was... not a thing I enjoyed watching, really at all.

Ultraman (2019 Anime series, Netflix)

Based on the live action series around the 60s from Japan, without having seen that, I assume it is like others of it's genre.

To the anime: It felt a bit weirdly animated, partly as if there were things recorded IRL and then in post-production changed to anime style. I felt that at some times there was a huge backlog when people were talking, think like open or closing mouths, slowly moving faces, such stuff, or doing things, were a larger time nothing happened each time, think of 1 to some seconds. This made it felt more slow than necessary. This thing got A LOT of flashy lights, and some weird movement scenes that didn't make me feel well. You might want to avoid this anime if you can't take these or are prone to epilepsy.

I actually felt the first 1-3 episodes being extremely action packed, and like the whole anime is, over the top and over exaggerated super powers and actions. But I felt this was much of an issue for me, after the first few episodes it just felt a tad bit repetitive, with nothing new to be seen. The actions scenes were IMHO going on for too long often, when I just asked myself When are they finally over?

I mean, plot-wise there have been some surprises at least, and that allied alien surely looks and sounds badass - With the latter also becoming at least a tad bit annoying to hear when you do all the time, given the voice. The Rina/model arc was pretty boring IMHO, and if I was right about post-production animating, then the actors felt a bit lackluster - or the VAs, if not. Many things in this anime were feeling cheap, and I didn't really care much for the characters, or much what happens with them.

Overall rating wise, I'd put it in the lower middle of it, roughly, like 3/10 to 5/10. I wanted to finish that season only, but I wouldn't be thrilled for when the next will release.

Maybe someone who likes these extreme Japanese Live action series and/or movies and might knew them - or the series this was based on - would like this anime more.

I've ever seen such childish dialogs and situations in a series like this.
You know when People say that a show was written by a teenager? This is almost the perfect example, and if you replace a teenager by a 9 year old child it will turn perfect. Is that horrible. I don't know how this passed through screentest.

The only thing this show has that it's worth a little bit is the first fight, and it seems that they spent 80% of the show's budget on it. Nothing else gets even close to that and I just finished the first season. The dialogs, the plotlines, the conflicts, the ideas, the motivations, the standards, the explanations, EVERYTHING seems half ass written. I get secondhand embarrassment watching this almost every time a character opens it's mouth. I don't know how I endured.

Actually, there is only one other thing I can think of that start a bit interesting, [spoiler]which is a conflict the the person who's the Ultraman is put through and what people expect from him to do, which btw is way overused conflict Ina super hero series at this point, but his age makes it a bit(just a bit) fresh[/spoiler], but the dialogs, the motivations, the reasoning, everything surrounding, is so bad that I don't think anyone should count this as a good point for the series.

Just forget it. There are plenty other shows waaaaaaay better than this. It's a complete waste of time.

Watched half of the season so far. It's an "okay" anime. But I'm always bummed out by the animation, the back and forth of 12fps to 24fps, I understand that sometimes you have to cut corners to tell the story you want, but you totally lose immersion when you go from a good animated sequence to suddenly a 12 fps scene, it just takes you out of the whole experience. I understand that they want that hand drawn vibe, but we know it's not hand drawn, so just stick to 24fps, it all seems motion cap anyway so how hard can it be?

I like the concept of the many Ultra's. It is like saying that there were many Spiderman's in just one universe and he was spread thin like in the comics/movies/shows. I like how a common person can dawn a suit get ultra fighting abilities and fight the aliens. What I don't like in most superhero movies/shows is that the common person seems to be a dolt. They see what is going on but remain idiotic until they are injured or killed in the fight scenes (or disappear). They are so quick to share something on online, but can't share an important event fast enough. The last season was especially frustrating to watch. None of the characters communicated. The other Ultras refused to listen to Shinjiro. The debate between that stupid professor and Rena was even stupider. What the professor has some merit, but it was really bullshit to talk about aliens that Ultraman fought as good. If this guy was in charge of the SSSP he would have allowed many people to get hurt and eaten by the aliens (like the alien was Ultraman first fought in Season 1). What the professor fails to understand and what Rena can't communicate is that if Ultraman wasn't there for the humans many of them would have been wiped out. I really don't like the last season, the writers really stretched it.

[spoiler] Funny definition of justice advocated by the Universal Alliance Council. The descendants of all Ultras must be destroyed. "Justice" [/spoiler]

Looks a bit like Guyver with the artwork of the original Reboot series. Could be something!