It started off with Hibiki Yuta who woke up in his classmate, Rikka's home and he has no idea how he got here and worse still, has amnesia. Yuta heard a voice calling out in an old computer in Rikka's home and a robot like humanoid spoke to Yuta introducing himself as Hyper Agent Gridman and Yuta has a mission to fulfill.
Rikka thought that Yuta is imagining things and even took him to the hospital. Along the way, Yuta claimed a giant Kaiju is in the sky which again, only he is able to see it. Although Rikka was not hostile to him, we could tell that her and Yuta has some issues before his memory loss.
The next day, Yuta met his supposely friend, Utsumi and accompanied him to school. Although regular school hijinks occured like the popular girl in class, Akane offered him her hot dog bun which was squished by the sport girl, Tonkawa. Meanwhile, a mysterious person was creating a statue and a sinister figure was taunting in a monitor.
Yuta and Utsumi went to Rikka's home and after showing the old computer (known as Junk), Gridman appeared and told Yuta the "danger" has appeared. Indeed, a Kaiju appeared and started wrecking the city.
Yuta asked Gridman what can he do and he was pulled into the monitor. Suddenly Gridman appeared in the real world and started battling the Kaiju. Utsumi and Rikka could hear Yuta's voice from Junk and realised that Yuta has become Gridman.
Gridman was losing energy and they could see the school is on fire. Rikka tried to communicate with Yuta/Gridman by typing in the keyboard and Gridman regained his strength. Utsumi suggested that the Kaiju's neck might be his weakness and Gridman decapitate the head.
Gridman then finish off the Kaiju with his special attack-Grid Beam. Yuta returned back as Utsumi was fanboying while Rikka was overwhelmed what has happened. As Yuta and Utsumi returned home, a mysterious man in black was watching the burning school.
The next day, the three of them found out that the school was reverted back to normal...
What I think of the first episode? It started off a bit slow like a regular slice of life show but it kinda of set the tone of what is about to come. The first half is basically introducing the characters and how their lives are peaceful although Yuta noticed something was wrong after his memory loss.
Everyone around him thought that Yuta was crazy but didn't avoid him and tried to help him. But when the Kaiju appeared, the three teens realised their world got turned upside down! There is still some questions left in the first episode like who is the Kaiju maker and the supposedly big bad-Alexis Kerib who gave life to the Kaiju. (Although in the original is Kahn Digifer aka Kilokahn)
Why does Rikka has an old computer that looked similar to the original JUNK computer from the live action series? The mysterious man in black which only Yuta could see and was at the site of the burning school. (Why did Utsumi mentioned the Ultra Series which is a reference to the Ultraman Series? Is he secretly a fanboy of Toku?)
Although instead of battling Kaiju in the digital world like the original series, the battles now take place in the real world which is basically the worst case scenario from the original series and somehow, it does feel like Pacific Rim when the Kaiju appeared to wreck the city.
Even Gridman himself also move like a giant but he was pretty awesome in his debut battle. (Although we will have to wait for Gridman to get his primary colors skin since his current purple skin looked pretty lame)
Overall, the first half was slow paced but once Gridman appeared, it was pretty fun and I can't wait to see more of what happened. (Although did Tonkawa died by the Kaiju's attack when it's projectiles hit the school?) We have to wait another week to see what happen next! If you want me to carry reviewing Gridman, show your support in the blog! Until then, see you in the next post!
This sure brings back a lot of old memories.
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