The Best Trigger Anime Isn't The One You Think

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There are plenty of proven and popular directors in the industry and at Trigger, Hiroyuki Imaishi and Yoh Yoshinari are the biggest names, whose styles have defined the studio's reputation. However, after SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon, everyone should know director Akira Amemiya. Amemiya's past work appears to some as a side-attraction in Trigger's repertoire, having directed the comedic Inferno Cop and the frankly much-hated Ninja Slayer. However, their career as a key animator can be traced through many of the Trigger/Gainax greats and beyond, making their turn as the director of Gridman quite interesting.

Many probably didn't even know it was the same guy, as Gridman appears as colorful and appealing as any other popular Trigger work from around that time. But as the show went on, it became clear that something was different, and it wasn't just that the story had twists and turns in store for its characters. This was something different from a studio that people can typically rely on for something very familiar, and that was exciting.

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Gridman's initial buzz seemed typical of a Trigger show and after all, it was pretty weird, but for different reasons than usual. Gridman is about Yuuta Hibiki, a boy with amnesia who realizes he can speak with Hyper Agent Gridman through an old computer in a shop who tells him he needs to «remember their mission.»

When kaiju start appearing, Yuuta has to enter the TV to transform into Gridman and appear in the city to fight kaiju, aided by his friends. But he and his friends realize that the day after they fight kaiju, the city returns to normal, completely fixed, and history is rewritten so that those that died are dead for different reasons.

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