Animation 8
The battles are fun to watch. They are power ranger style, big robot hero with a lot of weapons that gets revealed over the episodes. New bad guys keep showing up with the hero who has to take them on. Battles are fun to watch with good animations, but are fairly short per episode.
Story and characters 5
Okay the idea is good, but was just frusrating for me. I will try to explain why without spoilers. The hero and his friends are involved in something they are only aware of with gridman needing their support. But the things happening are pretty bad in my opinion and nobody really cares at some moments. People die, but there is no dispair or something like that. It's just.... ahh bad guy shows up.... let's battle! Like... ahh we almost got killed today... time to go to school tomorrow and see if anything happens agian.
There is little talk about a greater strategy, how to really solve the issue, backup plans. And at a certain point more characters are introduced and nobody asks any questions about who or what they are. They just hang around.
Vague spoiler: At some point a enemy reveals itself and gives some information to the protagonist, which just trusts this person for no reason clear to me. It is never cleared up who this person actually was or why they helped.
In the end it's a fun watch with some action and drama, but don't think too much about it when watching.
