by lhb412 » Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:11 pm
Just finished my second viewing of this series with Millcreek's Blu-ray edition, and I think I was left a bit more satisfied with it this time.
I think the series improves tremendously around the halfway point. Accommodating all the toyetic elements, in addition to being confined to just about 20 minutes of actual episode content, can make modern Ultraman shows feel far too slight. That's certainly the case of the early episodes of Ultraman Orb, but at a certain point you get lots of multi-part episodes as well as the tendency for the standalone episodes to use their time more wisely by focusing on specific characters.
Since I just watched the first three Ultra series I was more keyed-in to noticing all the classic callbacks here. How did I miss the fact that the very end of the last episode is a big ole Ultraseven homage?