Why was this so depressing? The whole experience was pretty empty and somehow soul-sucking...

So just like Ultraman?

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Nope. Rikkafags can't go 5 seconds without bragging about their waifu to piss off he-who-shall-not-be-named

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What does Christianity mean by this?

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>implying Marche was wrong

Here goes the succ!

The only reason Marche was poorly received at the time was because that game came out before the endless flood of Isekai.

If you play the game now, everything he says makes perfect sense.

Cute Rikka.

Because the show is more or less telling you that it understands depression with how uncanny it is, and chooses to say fuck that at the end of the show in the brightest, most heroic fashion imaginable. It exists to complement the core nature of heroism which defines tokusatsu and sentai.

It makes perfect sense, but a point making perfect sense is different from a point that makes perfect sense only because it manages to ignore everything about it that poses a problem.

What about it poses a problem?

That's exactly the problem.

No one is coming to wake you up user.

glad to see I'm not the only one who felt that way
everyone was posting their booru pics and all I could think about is how dead-inside the show made me feel

At risk of turning this into an FFTA thread: Marche is right because it's clear that Ivalice is not a separate reality, based on character names and the fact you're literally "forming" a world with your story.

It's no different with Gridman. No matter how beautiful or intricate your world gets, it's still a fake world.

If you accept that it isn't a real world and enjoy it for what it is, there's no reason you can't play God, so long as you remember that the experience shapes you as much as you shape it.

It's painful to have to wake up and face that reality however, which is why the ending has bitterness to it.

There is also the fact that, you know, you still have a loving family and people that care about you in the real world. All of which would be sad if you disappeared.

The world was very small. It was just one city, and there was no reference to anything outside of it.
The world also felt empty, despite being ostensibly populated by people. We almost never go to see even a hint of an emotional state of anyone outside the main cast, and in many scenes and shots where there should have been people, there simply weren't any. Of the people we do see, they all feel flat and one-dimensional, with the singular exceptions of Rika and Akane*.
There is also a very strong repetitive pattern to the events of the plot. Akane makes a new kaiju, Yuta and the gang scramble to the junk store, Gridman appears and saves the day. There are variation, but the basic structure remains exactly the same, at least until the final few episodes.

Note how these are all Akane's own frustrations.

* There's also the glasses guy, but his character only gets "unfolded" when the world around him breaks down towards the end.

It's intriguing to recognize the play she put together in her little world; Remember that this is all ostensibly based on her own preferences.

It's partially based on having the sinister mentorship of Kerib, but she's hitting the wall where the game has stopped being fun and at the "Take the ladder out of the pool to watch your Sims drown" stage.

She refuses to acknowledge the root cause is the lack of reality: None of her achievements matter, there is no challenge to be overcome and she refuses to cede control.

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No Tim Curry.

It wasn't even really a game, she's deeply disturbed and the moment when she's not in complete control anxiety starts.

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I would like Yuuta to watch while Rikka gets raped by Akane who is using a strap on. NTR is good.

I think it's apparent from her behavior that this is is a developing complex.

It was fun to reinvent herself and the city she lived in, and to be popular and rich, ETC.

I don't doubt there was a seed of anxiety from the start, but I I believe she was temporarily satisfied with the world she made at some point, which is why she's so upset with it: She's foisted off the responsibility for her Ennui to Gridman, and no longer entertains any form of conflict resolution that doesn't involve unilaterally demolishing and rebuilding the scenario for her preferences.

I think it's implied that Akane's world is not made from whole cloth, but also that it ran somewhat smoothly for a while. It's only when Gridman caught up with Kerib that the tension started putting cracks into her world.

Why did Gridman chose Yuuta instead of the glasses dude who is clearly much more experienced with toku shit?

Akane got fucked so hard it was funny
>spend a whole week living in trash without any sleep to create the perfect kaiju
>yuta just fucking pulverizes your baby in 1 minute
the absolute state of Akanes

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>The world also felt empty
>in many scenes and shots where there should have been people, there simply weren't any
For some reason, this strange tranquility is what made me enjoy Gridman the most. It was comfy in its own way, i rarely find that in anime.

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glasses dude lusts for Akane pussy, it would be dumb.
Yuta has a clear heart which is more important since you are giving him le O my gridbeam powers

When Gridman took over Yuta, he lost his memory.

You're asking "If I need to write a novel, but need to reuse a book, should I erase the YA novel or the "How to write a novel" book?"