SSSS.Gridman Season 2 may be greatly desired by anime fans but can studio Trigger defy history by doing what the original Gridman series could not pull off in the
The SSSS.Gridman anime is loosely based on the tokusatsu series Denko Chojin Gridman, which was a live-action TV show.
The SSSS motif had a specific meaning to the anime’s story that was only revealed during the ending, but the SSSS was also a reference to the American TV version Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.
The new anime also made many references to Transformers, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and gave plenty of nods to the work of Masami Obari. While such references may make some tokusatsu fans go all
Screenwriter Keiichi Hasegawa was the perfect writer for the job since he was a veteran with experience with Ultraman TV shows and movies.
This combination of talent resulted in
From a storytelling perspective, the SSSS
Darling In The FranXX Season 2 seemed like a possibility until the final episodes wrapped up everything with a confusing rapid-fire ending. (Perhaps they realized they goofed since it’s already been announced that the Darling In The FranXX manga will significantly diverge from the anime’s story and provide an alternate ending.)
Warning: The following contains spoilers.
However, the story of the first season was self-contained. In a nutshell, the anime was about a girl so overwhelmed by real life that she sought refuge in a virtual world of her creation.
The story was about Akane and the “Special Signature to Save a Soul” mission. Alexis
The ending of Episode 12 made it very clear the main goal was accomplished. Akane recognizes what she has done is wrong.
Akane’s sins are not whitewashed, but in order to redeem
The original Gridman TV show of the
The anime has been popular on Crunchyroll/Funimation and SSSS.Gridman Blu-Ray sales made the top 10 on the Oricon charts when the first volume went on sale in December 2018.
The sales were more than double than that of My Hero Academia Season 3 (see our article on My Hero Academia Season 4) and even beat Attack On Titan Season 3 (see our article on Attack On Titan Season 4).
It could be argued that there are enough mysteries related to the Hyper Agents for
This article provides everything that is known about SSSS
The history of the SSSS.Gridman anime is a path to the future?
The story of the SSSS.Gridman anime started with director Akira Amemiya, who is best known for working on KILL la Kill and Inferno Cop.
Several years ago, Amemiya met with Tsuburaya Productions and pitched a concept for an Ultraman reboot. They shot down the idea since they were already working on an Ultraman project but they offered him the option of doing a Gridman anime.
The result was a short video called Denkou Choujin Gridman: Boys Invent Great Hero, which was presented at Japan Animator Expo and is now watchable on YouTube.
The story is set 22 years after the original 1990’s show and it has a reformed character named Takeshi Todo watching an extremely condensed animated version of the events of the original TV show on junk television sets.
The ending also briefly features Gridman Sigma, a design which was originally planned for the Gridman 2 sequel that never happened.
In the original series, Todo designed the kaiju monsters on his computer and the villain Khan Digifer brought them to life. Similarly, in SSSS
Akane is now awake in the real world, and therefore presumably not available for a sequel, but Boys Invent Great Hero already provides a similarly reformed character.
SSSS.Gridman Season 2 could forge yet another new direction for the series, but it could simply continue Todo’s story by inventing a twist on the formula that gives him a new reason to fight as Gridman.
Rikka Takarada is SSSS.Gridman’s best girl
The SSSS.Gridman character Rikka Takarada has anime fans crushing hard. To put things in perspective, creepy pervs fans were Google searching for “SSSS
Created by character designer Masaru Sakamoto (Kill la Kill, Panty & Stocking, and more), Rikka has been inspiring a lot of fan art. But it’s unknown if this “best girl” will return if a sequel is produced.
SSSS.Gridman Season 2 release date
As of the last update, studio Trigger or any company related to the production of the anime has not officially confirmed the SSSS.Gridman Season 2 release date. Nor has the production of a sequel been announced.
Once the news is officially confirmed this article will be updated with the relevant information. In the meantime, it’s possible to speculate about when, or if, the SSSS.Gridman Season 2 premiere date will occur in the future.
From a financial perspective, there’s no major obstacle to producing a second season. The anime series has generated almost as much interest as Netflix’s Ultraman reboot.
The biggest obstacle is that studio Trigger is not exactly known for creating sequels.
In the past, Trigger employees have openly talked about wanting to do Little Witch Academia Season 2 but the closest they’ve come is the video game Little Witch Academia: Chamber Of Time, which was arguably a quasi-sequel since Trigger handled the cutscene animations for the story.
The anime studio is also booked up with projects years in advance. Therefore, even if a Gridman sequel project is greenlit for production it will take years to develop.
Anime fans will just have to hope that the demand for SSSS.Gridman Season 2 is great enough that Trigger is forced to make a sequel. Stay tuned!