Talk:Ultraman 80 (series)/@comment-6532857-20150127174646

I have mixed feelings about this series. On one hand, the episode plots are generally very well done, but lack originality. The monster design is an improvement over Leo, but also is often somewhat generic. Also, what's with the superman eyes? So many of the kaiju have superman eyes! Was that some sort of thing at the time?

I also get the feeling that the show tried very hard to be feminist, but a lot of its attempts seem to fall somewhat flat. The token female member very seldom gets to pilot a plane against a monster (we know she can!) and she gets killed off on top of that. Yullian is awesome, but she only got one real fight in.

The token female character is very well written for the time period, which is good, but there are several episodes which had me groaning over their somewhat sexist aspects.

80's design also seems rather... weird to me. It's never really struck me as a good design.

I really like a lot about this show, but there certainly are some big fallbacks to it. I still like Ace and Taro better, and maybe Leo as well.