Ultraman Trigger, The End

So Ultraman Trigger has finally finished its run. I’ll admit, I struggled getting through it. It started off bad, then began to improve around episode 5. Soon enough, though, it went back to being mostly inconsistent. The problem is that it had too many characters with too many plot ideas that either went nowhere, or sat dormant until the end. 

The Giants of Darkness (Carmeara, Hudram and Darrgon) who were initially introduced as the big baddies, spent the majority of the show basically doing nothing. It wasn’t until the end that Carmeara killed the other two and stole their dark energy so she could take Yuna to access the Eternity Core, then became a monster that wanted to bring darkness to the world. Ignis, who had the power to access Dark Trigger, gave his power to Kengo so that he could use the powers of light and darkness to defeat Carmeara, along with Yuna, who used the power of the Eternity Core to assist him. The writers pretty much ripped off the finale of Ultraman Tiga, with everyone’s energy giving Kengo the power boost to defeat darkness and save the day, while they all uttered dumb lines about smiling. All this nonsense about smiling added a layer of lameness to what could’ve been a decent end. One thing that I did enjoy was that after Carmeara was defeated (yet another ripoff of Ultraman Tiga The Final Odyssey’s finale), the Eternity Core was still unstable, so Kengo had to use his power to stabilize the Core, thus having to say goodbye to everyone to save the day. This was a nice, unexpected touch, especially after all that “Smile Smile” nonsense.

Honestly, the entire series felt as if the writers were making it up as they went along. Even the introduction of Tiga in one episode was uneventful. Kyrieloid made an appearance as well, but just like the Giants of Darkness, he proved to be not much of a threat, as were 2 other giants named Absolute Tartarus and Diavolo, who also turned out useless and ineffective. Like I stated before, too many characters and story ideas that were tossed at the wall to see what stuck. And for the most part, very little did. I’m glad that it’s over and I’m hoping the next series gets better writers.