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May 12, 2023
After three seasons, my viewing experience has shown a downward trend, as I expected.

As someone who watched a lot of Ultraman in my childhood, this series is a weird (but official) fan-fiction. One side is the déjà vu of commercial superhero films, and the other is the content appropriation (Seasoning with Realistic Colors) of the first three episodes of Mebius. Regrettably, just like the previous two seasons, even the script of the final season is still helpless. This is because many topics can be explored in depth but stay on the surface.

When the final season's story begins, the audience will find a complex problem: the first two seasons have provided no or even the slightest contribution to the protagonist's growth. Regardless of how the main character's development ends, the incongruity feels like making a Superman solo after the two Justice League movies, and the problem that arises is: the characters have not accumulated many deep bonds in the first two seasons. Even the main characters are only being developed in the final season, so it's no surprise that the rest of the characters won't be given much attention.

The rest is the story. Not only did the final season fail to tell a deeply rooted story, but there were also many logical omissions in the script. Many of the characters that could serve as storylines don't have enough space to complete the whole framework, and some "oh, I seem to remember they mentioned it in the first two seasons" plots are not very effective in the first two seasons. The lack of details and foreshadowing also makes the climax of the story lack tension, and the result is still superficial, like "maybe you are right, but I am the one who wins."

In short, if you were ever an Ultraman fan, I recommend you to watch the old Ultraman series; if you are a Tokusatsu fan, I urge you to watch some real Tokusatsu series; if you are a fan of Kenji Kamiyama, I recommend you to watch his works in the early years; if you are...which group of people are we left here? Netflix fans?
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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