Ultraman

Im 7 episodes in...and I don't know what the story even is yet. I got that that guy used to be ultraman and that when ultraman left he gave the man super human powers.. He then passed those powers down to his son. And They are fighting a robot that looks like ultraman, and some aliens which may or may not be related to this robot. And that is it. that is the whole story.

And of Course the animation blows really hard. You kinda get used to it when they are battling. But when they are just talkin...oh boy does it really stand out at just how bad the animation really is. But the battling is only a very small part of the show...so it mostly looks god awful.

The animation is fantastic. The story and dialog could use some help. The intelligence and fighting ability of characters change too drastically for no real reason. I'm not talking about when main character's awakened moment, that I have no problem with.

It is necessary the last episode to appreciate the huge potentiality of the whole story despite of the bad storytelling where the behavior of the characters is not always congruent in their expressions. Another kind of defect deals with dialogues in both the Ultramen and enemies facing them as well, which often appear rather childish and trivially emphasized. The narration involves the main characters always in their Ultramen duties neglecting their ordinary lives almost entirely. Sometimes dialogues suffer from audio alteration and in some rare scene they are completely missed, at least in the transposition of my language. The name of the protagonist is often boring repeated as if the other characters have no importance. I have to see the last episode again to understand the plot better.

I still have an episode to enjoy. Overall, I liked this series.

The animations are a huge success. They are apparently composed of images from several competing technologies: for instance, the explosions during the fights or the halo of flames enveloping sometimes Ultraman are radically different from the almost-static plans of civilians. This mixture is elegant.

On the other hand, the dialogues, the voices as well as certain plot twists, sometimes quite naive, indicate clearly that the targeted public is rather young, even very young. Not exclusively, but essentially.

Try it... and you might want to adopt it!

Like all foreign anime or film, watching it dubbed ruins in. Trust.

Watch this show and everything else in orignal language with subtitels. Add a star to all the other ratings if they have watched english.