I'm watching Ultraman Leo right now and why the fuck is everyone so fucking mean to Ootori all the time

>>21666870 (OP)

Star of the Giants is the reason.

The anime? I watched one episode of it (There's only one subbed), is the Leo series a reference to it? I guess it makes sense with the dad being an asshole to the son while he's training



watching episode 6 and seven is trying to run over ootori with a car right now

I imagine it's something like Whiplash except the results are expected to always be positives.

Feels more like the series trying to be darker or more serious in tone.



And Dan/Seven being a giant jerk and going with extreme training being because of stress, worrying about the brutal Kaijus around and annoyance at being unable to fight.



And...i still think they went too far, i know he is talking to a rookie but he comew off as too much of an ungrateful jerk.

Leo was Ultra attempt to cash on the sports anime boom of the time, especially Star of the Giants.

>Feels more like the series trying to be darker or more serious in tone.

It's not really, Seven takes itself way more seriously. Leo is just kind of goofy and edgy at the same time.

The reason Dan is such a jerk is because he wasn't originally supposed to be Dan but just the same actor playing a new role of the jerkish mentor , but he told the producers he was afraid the kids in the audience would be confused seeing "Dan" as a different guy so they rewrote it to make it actually just Dan again, with a new scene in the first episode of Seven getting crippled to justify him not being able to help by transforming. 



So whenever Dan acts so mean and out of character it's because they're tapping into the original writing plans when he was a different guy. It's also why him being Ultraseven almost never factors into most of the story aside from the one episode when he runs into the woman who looks like Anne.

The cherry of the cake is when Hayata/Susumu Kurobe shows up and he's NOT Hayata. And yet everyone reprised their roles the year before in Taro and Ultraman shows up at some point in the show but never in human form.

Ultraman Taro is a far cry from the likes of Ultraman, Seven or Return, though. But Leo is not as sophisticated and nuanced in its writing as those. A lot of aliens in Seven were morally gray and had real motivation behind their crimes, in Leo every Alien is a crazy mass murderder or serial killer. I think it's just silly, honestly. I guess you could call it darker, but it sure is not serious.

>anime that shaped a generation, became the first major role for Furuya Toru about a sport originated in Murica

>no translated manga chapters, one episode subbed, no official release

I thought Americans love baseball, what the heck?

Yeah I know right? was super disappointed too, the first episode is really good and I wanted to watch the rest

Most Americans I know hate baseball these days. It's not popular since forever, they think it's boring. The love for baseball is more of a boomer thing and the rest of the world was fooled by watching movies and shows made by boomers.

>>21666870 (OP)

Space racism
