Talk:ULTRAMAN (2019 anime)/@comment-37848182-20190605000903

This is BY FAR the definitive way to do a ‘gritty’ take on Ultraman for an adult audience, because while it does has all of the aesthetic choices of a run of the mill ‘dark and mature’ sci-fi show, the quirkiness of the original is absolutely present.

That quirkiness, for me, manifests itself in this series via humanization of the monsters & aliens, be it Black King as an underground wrestler or Pigmon as a socially anxious hermit. Granted, this quality isn’t as overt or as constant as the moral of ‘love/light triumphing over darkness/hate’, but it tends to give the Ultra Series a distinctiveness that resonates with me.

Without this quality, I would definitely dismissed Netflix Ultraman as a whole as yet another lame attempt to pull in an older audience into the Ultraman franchise like Nexus, Ultraseven X, and the ‘04 reboot movie before it.