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Must admit I was rather surprised by at what Dynazenon had to offer up. While having a similar premise as SSSS.Gridman with a mundane setting and kaiju clashes, Dynazenon offers a bit more depth to its characters as many have their personal issues they learn to gradually get over throughout the series with series male lead Yomogi observing the developments of his teammates while piloting one of the pieces of the titular mecha of the series. His backstory's fairly mundane compared to the issues and developments facing his teammates, particularly his classmate Yume whom he tries helping her finding out about the circumstances resulting in the loss of her sister and developments are pretty nuanced with showing the growth of its characters. There's also some interesting parallels between the Dynazenon team and the enemy Kaijuu Geneticists in regards of the anime's main theme of "moving on from the past" as more about their motivations get revealed in later episodes. While the kaijuu battles are the main visual attraction of the series, the more fleshed out characters is a major improvement compared to Gridman's more cliched ones. While I'd at least recommend watching Gridman before Dynazenon since the concepts of its world and a couple characters from Gridman make an appearance in Dynazenon, I'd still say it's worth checking out if you're in for both the kaijuu battles and the engaging character developments it offers up.
Last updated Wednesday, February 22 2023. Created Wednesday, February 22 2023. | ||||||||
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(One episode watched): "I guess you need four people to make it move" Gauma says to himself as he struggles to make sense of the controls of Dynazenon. At that point I thought I detected the signature element of this new show--four people would find themselves trapped in a damned-if-they-do-and-damned-if-they-don't situation, forced to pilot a mysterious mecha in order to defend their homes from some terrible threat, but at great cost to themselves. This show definitely needed a signature element--that is, something unique and intriguing--because it had been seeming pretty dull up to that point. But it failed to deliver. Yes, Dynazenon defeats a clearly evil Kaiju in a big fight (with lots of transforming), but we get practically no answers about anything. Indeed, the title of this episode was 'What is a Kaiju?', but even that question remains unanswered at the end. The jokes were not particularly funny (those lines were intended as jokes, weren't they?), and the characters remain largely strangers at the end of the episode. This show was awarded the status at ANN of one of the 'most anticipated' new anime of the season, but I don't see why. As I did the usual research for this review, I found that this show seems to be a spinoff of the 2018 anime SSSS.Gridman, which I reviewed at the time but had virtually forgotten about since then. So, basically this is a spinoff of a show I hadn't considered worth watching in the first place. If I had known that, I probably wouldn't have watched this one at all. Last updated Sunday, April 04 2021. Created Sunday, April 04 2021. | ||||||||
