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Story: SSSS.Gridman's story keeps following the tradition of original anime series produced by Trigger, since the time the team worked in Gainax. This tradition that comes from Evangelion, Gurren Laggan and recently Darling in the franxx have at its core two root elements: Giant Robots and Gnosticism. This formula may have dragged many fans over the time but it's getting more and more predictable and boring. They try to give it a new cover mixing elements from tokusatsus, from which the original Gridman comes. It does add a special flavor to this whole gnostic experience, but it's questionable if that flavor really harmonizes with the rest of it. Tokusatsus are known to be really straight forward and the good guys fighting the bad guys. Adding things like false evil gods, false realities and mysterious women from beyond dimension may be compared to adding fruits inside your spaghetti: an unusual mixture that may please some, but disgust many. In general it was a interesting experience for me, that in my childhood watched tokusatsus even before knowing that genre existed, and also since I have watched many gnostic giant robot animes, all from gainax/trigger, except Code Geass, from sunrise, and that's why it's much better.
Art: pretty good art, including characters, robots, scenario.. it was pleasing to my eyes.
Sound: the soundtrack didn't catch my attention. It did not annoyed me at any moment, though. The opening song is good, and is constantly showing throughout the episodes.
Character: As it was in last Trigger original anime (darling in the franxx) the characters are very well conceived and well developed throughout the serie, considering the lack time to develop them more. Rikka is absolutely among the best waifus of the year. the protagonist don't act too much stupidly that you want to punch him.
Enjoyment: the repetitiveness of tokusatus allied to the predictability of Triggers original animes really hindered me to fully enjoy the show. many times I preferred to do other things than to keep watching the anime. I don't regret keep watching it, though. the final episode brought a good finishing for the series, a thing that I didn't expect from Trigger. It was nice to know that they can do it if they want to.
Overall, I recommend it to people that like tokusatsus and gainax/trigger original animes, and want to watch a short anime with closed ending, no ongoing original material, etc.
