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The last point that stands out from the very first scene, and now it’s time to loop back into explaining what Gridman Universe actually is, is that Yuta Hibiki is a huge dork. SSSS.Gridman had presented a heroic but not exactly emotionally complex Yuta, as we inadvertently always saw him merged with an otherworldly being. There was something quite human there—it was Yuta’s body after all, chosen because he was the one person feeling strong emotions for Rikka in a world programmed to love Akane—but what predominated was something that Amemiya is very fond of: the transcendent quality of heroes that protect humanity but exist beyond it. With the titular hero having returned the body to its original owner, though, the staff themselves had to figure out what he was really like. And the answer they arrived at was that the original Yuta is more unhinged; Amemiya’s words, not mine.
