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Japanese: SSSS.DYNAZENON
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Episodes:
12
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Apr 2, 2021 to Jun 18, 2021
Broadcast:
Fridays at 22:00 (JST)
Source:
Original
Duration:
23 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Score:
7.441 (scored by 4886848,868 users)
Ranked:
#2448 2
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Popularity:
#1797
Members:
147,399
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Ranked #2448Popularity #1797Members 147,399 One day after school, first-year high school student Yomogi Asanaka comes across a starving man under a bridge. Introducing himself as Gauma, the strange drifter informs Yomogi that he is a "kaiju user," a person who deals with the "kaiju"βmonsters who bring harm to the city and its citizens.
The following evening, Yomogi runs into Gauma and his classmate Yume Minami. Simultaneously, a kaiju appears in a populated area of the city. Due to Gauma's lack of experience controlling the kaiju, he brings out a mysterious object from a glowing pouch, summoning a giant robot known as Dynazenon. Requiring the cooperation of four people, the mecha drags Gauma, Yomogi, Minami, and Koyomi Yamanakaβan unemployed man who was wandering on the streetβinto its cockpit.
Their encounter with the kaiju marks the beginning of their entanglement with kaiju eugenicistsβkaiju users who manipulate kaiju with ill intentβand their efforts toward bringing out the full potential of Dynazenon.
[Written by MAL Rewrite] SSSS.Dynazenon is a part of the 2018 Gridman Universe shared media project by Tsuburaya Productions. It was first announced in December 2019 during Tsuburaya Productions' Tsubucon convention. | |
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Jun 18, 2021
Humans always use monsters to visualize their fears and anxieties. And yet overcoming such oddities is part of human existence. Thus it's fitting that in SSSS.Dynazenon these fears materialize into "Kaiju".
Both structurally and thematically, Dynazenon presents itself as beeing seemingly mundane. While unoriginal there is a new monster every week and the heroes overcome their weaknesses to beat the enemies. But there is nothing wrong such a with structure. For this is one show that takes it's structure to it's advantage. It takes care to develop it's characters, to imbue them with a sense of humanity. Character drama becomes the backbone of what is
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essentially a very straightforward action show.
And when it comes to action, it delivers. Every battle manages to be unique and fresh in spite of the presence of supermoves and lengthy transformation sequences. The music is perfectly integrated to enhance action. Contrasted heavily with scenes of levity that keeps things from feeling dire or stale.
Above all else Dynazenon is earnest. It beacons to an era where entertainment was less dire and dreary while simultaneously managing the desire to offer morals to it's viewers. If you aren't cynical enough to completely ignore raw passion, I'd highly recommend that you give it a watch.
Reviewerβs Rating: 8
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Jun 18, 2021
Gridman was one of my favourite anime from 2018. I say this despite not being into Tokusatsu all that much. The way Gridman challenged your expectations and left you with grand anticipation for every new episode, plus the excellent contrast between the human/existential drama and the over-the-top action made it one of my favourites. Dynazenon on the other hand, is thoroughly average all the way through.
For what it is, Dynazenon is still a fine and competent show, but it's really missing that extra something to really reel you into its world. The human drama and high stakes action are still there, though less intense compared
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to its predecessor in both aspects. It's an average tokusatsu that doesn't do enough to elevate itself beyond mediocrity. The music isn't as good, the animation is less refined (though understandable given current conditions), and the action scenes all blend together. The show also reuses its transformation/combination stock animations far too much to the point of just making them unimpressive and dull as the episode rolled on.
The plot itself doesn't go anywhere interesting, with the complete apathy of the general populace to their city being destroyed each episode (apart from like one scene) being such a strange detail I swore it was a plot point (it wasn't). It's your typical coming of age plot, learning to work with others, moving on yadda yadda yadda. The characters are again just fine. Like, there's nothing truly outstanding about this, which wouldn't be such a problem if this were a standalone, but the fact that it had to follow up Gridman leaves a lot to be desired.
As it stands, Dynazenon is thoroughly average. It doesn't do anything particularly bad, nor does it do anything particularly good, though thankfully it isn't boring. But coming of the heels of Gridman, and having director Amamiya at its helm, it's not unfair to have such raised expectations coming into this.
5/10
Reviewerβs Rating: 5
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Jun 23, 2021
This anime is over-rated, my score is only 4 out of 10, after watched 12 episodes
Story is poor:
1) Story of Minami's sister takes a lot of time, but quite boring
2) Story and power of Chise is unclear
3) Story of Gauma and kaiju users has not been planned well
4) Story between Yomogi and Minami looks awkward
5) Power of Yomogi unexplained
6) Destruction of city has been ignored every episodes
7) Kaiju users' reason to battle is illogical
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Character is awkward:
1) Yomogi is very awkward, shy like a female
2) Kaiju users still wearing same clothes, not blend into modern world
3) Minami's characteristic is very bad as a main female character
Fighting technique and strategy is poor:
1) Everything regarding to technique unexplained
2) Every time kaiju appears, they just only start gathering, and sometimes people absent
Good side of this anime:
1) Graphic is good
2) Robots and fusion are cool
Reviewerβs Rating: 4
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