#sizumu

[axia-chan]

🥳🎉🎊Sizumu birthday!!!

[chloelefay]

I just saw Gridman Universe so I'm looking back at SSSS.Dynazenon again and gods fuck this man is so fucking pretty I am not okay

[duplicreates]

Been watching Studio Trigger's SSSS Dynaezenon with a friend and we've both immediately latched onto this character's design. Sizumu is pretty cool personality wise but man he has an S tier design. SSSS Gridman is kinda excellent and Dynaezenon has been really fun so far, I honestly really recommend them

[lusynthiaa]

im still not really sure what to think of sizumu, hes giving some really strong advice to yume similar to sakomizu or another defense team leader in an ultra show but its this mysterious kaiju controlling kid instead so it doesnt really hit as hard, and then he turns around and goes "kaiju need us, we need kaiju, kaiju will change the world" strange 5000 year old child

[toku-explained]

In 2021 the second Gridman Universe anime followed, SSSS.Dynazenin, focused on a completely new cast using the titular Robo to fight Kaiju.

As with it's predecessor, each episode was accompanied by a Voice Drama, as well as the blu-ray exclusives, and a Character Song Album was again produced.

The Scarred Souls Shine like Stars fanbook again had a manga short from Director Amemiya, this time focused on one study period shared by Koyomi and Inamoto when they were the younger cast members' age.

The Dynazenon Super Complete Works again featured a short store from Mizusawa Yume, "What is the power to end conflicts?" Set between episodes 9&10, it focuses on Chise at the batting cage coming across the failed Kaiju no.9, and an encounter with Sizumu, that lead her to ponder her own desires.

The Super Complete Works also feature this drawing of Bullbind and Gridman Sigma.

The Blu-ray pack in also included the four part Gridknight Fight miniseries, set after Dynazenon, and featuring Gridknight attempt to reduce Nidaime from Alexis, Nanashi B and Anti, with appearances from Dynazenon and Gridman.

Mizusawa Yume and bun150 reunited for SSSS.Dynazenin Chronicle, another tale of a looping world between episode 9 and 10, again featuring the debut of many new combinations, as well as the media debuts of DynaSoldier Rising Blue, Gridknight Rising Blue, and Kaiser Gridknight Over Spec Mode.

Another Symphogear XD event, Gattai Senki Dynagear, again between episode 9 and 10, saw the Symphogear forcibly brought to the Dynazenon world as most of the main cast vanish. Knight, now with Goldburn, recruits Tsubasa again, while Gauma recruits Hibiki and the others for Dynazenon, opposing Sizumu. A later version of this event featured a combination attack of Tsubasa Kaiser Gridknight and Hibiki Full Power Gridman.

There was only one SSSS.Dynazenon Show, again with two script readings, the first entitled "Be Happy". At Yomogi and Yume's future wedding, Koyomi and Gauma notice Sizumu and Mujina are in attendance, there's a joke about Juuga being busy with some performance. Inamoto and a moved Mei are also present, while Chise leads the proceedings. Gauma gives his speech until Mei, possessed by some dark force, summons the Kaiju Marriage Blues. The Gauma Team call Dynazenon, but struggles due to Yomogi and Yume's marriage doubts, until Inamoto steals them all with a speech, leading the a Big Bang Wedding Chop.

The second script reading was Maihama Station. Yomogi and Yume arrive at the titular station, Yomogi awakening from freaking the last story. Independently Koyomi and Chise and Mujina and Sizumu are also there, more jokes that Juuga is Oishi Masayoshi. Yomogi is unwilling to talk about his dream, annoying Yume. Knight and Nidaime arrive, interrupting the debate. Dynazenon appears, with Gauma's voice, though denies being him, and reminds Yomogi what is important to him. The others approach, but Sizumu suddenly has Gagula force itself out of his body and rampage, resisting Instance Domination. The couple still argue as Dynazenon and Gridknight struggle. Dynazenon reminds them of the importance of love, allowing them to focus and weaken it, and Dynazenon and Gridknight using the Dynamic Cannon defeat Gagula. Yomogi ajd Yume thank "Gauma", and Koyomi and Chise invite Sizumu and Mujina to join their outing. Gauma, Knight and Nidaime discuss where to go next, and Yomogi and Yume look to their futures.

Gridman Universe: Complete Breakdown

At time of writing, the Gridman Universe Show is about to happen, and if nothing major is announced, we may be putting a cap on the Gridman Universe for now. This isn't going to be fully comprehensive, but I do want to share info on the things that are harder to find.

Denkou Chojin Gridman, aka Gridman the Hyper Agent, was a 1993 Tokusatsu series by Tsuburaya based on toy concepts by Takara. A Hyper Agent joins with a group of youths for help to defeat an other dimensional criminal, and they are responsible for both his form and his Assist Weapons.

Followed the next year by a photo sorry, Demon King's Counterattack, which introduced Gridman Sigma to help fight a new threat, and introduced a couple more form variations.

In 2015, Trigger gave us the short boys invent great hero, part retelling of the show and part reimagining of Demon King's Counterattack. But more important, is what it lead to.

[froqpi-art]

grids ur man

[mydreamsarejanked]

unrestrained summer family fun

[baltharino]

Instance Domination!

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[local-triggerhead]

[Theory/Analysis] The Motives of Each Eugenicist

Wow, look at me rising from the graves and dusting off this account after 800 years like it's nothing. Your Trigger hype beast is back baby, if any of you still remember me.

This post contains spoilers for both Gridman and Dynazenon.

Ahem. I want to make this post to gather my thoughts and better understand the antagonists of the show, as they aren't heavily featured and explored like Akane. It's just my own analysis based on what I can observe in the show, so some parts would be more vague and generate different interpretations. This analysis may seem obvious to some and not so much to others, but I hope it'll offer some clarity regardless. Tl;dr at the bottom.

The General Motive

It's pretty much given in the show. The Kaiju Eugenicists wanted to destroy humanity and create a world where themselves and kaiju can live and be accepted. They believe that the world is a better place as you're no longer being tied down by human bonds, granting you unrestricted freedom beyond even the laws of physics. This is their shared goal. However, each of them have separated purposes and things they want to achieve along with this.

Onija

Let's start with the 2 more obvious cases. Onija clearly stated what he wanted to do - kill all humans. How many times did he yell this out? It's kind of shoved-in-your-face. No other Eugenicists expressed this desire as strongly as he did. At the base level, he simply wanted to live. He was brutally killed once and was determined to not let it happen again no matter what. This is why "I thought I was dead" was a constant running joke. It's also why Onija had a deep personal grudge towards Gauma and humans, who were the cause of his death 5000 years ago.

Juuga

Juuga had a deep admiration for Gauma and looked up to him. Unlike Onija, he didn't wish to oppose Gauma, but to make an alliance instead. When the Eugenicists first appeared, Juuga said:

It's clear from this line that he wanted things to be the way it was 5000 years ago, where they were a group of friends working towards the same goal. He missed and yearned for that carefree time. The original Eugenicist group was the most important thing to him. You can see that he never fought with any other Eugenicists, but remained calm and passive towards them at all times. This attitude only extended towards the Eugenicists, as he had no qualms about killing anyone else for his goal, including the Dynazenon crew.

Even when Mujina stole Dyna Striker, the first thing that came to his mind was using it to negotiate with Gauma and get him back.

Mujina

These last 2 Eugenicists are slightly more complicated to pick apart, as they process things more internally.

At first, Mujina was very indecisive and didn't buy much into this kaiju thing. All she wanted was to finish it quickly so she could leave. She was lost in life and just followed the other Eugenicists around because she had no directions of her own. Then Mujina found Koyomi, someone who also didn't have anything going for himself and just plainly a loser in his life. He was someone she could feel related to. Mujina's attitude supposedly changed after she was tackled by Koyomi, but I believe this just pissed her off and only played a part in her personality shift. The other cause, I think, was Sizumu's encouragement, where she "realized that kaiju is all [she has] got" and that she had to take responsibility for her actions.

Koyomi came to play a major role in episode 11, when Mujina witnessed him starting to look for a job. The only person who she could feel related to was unaffected by the aftermath of the kaiju and moving forward with ease. Meanwhile, Mujina, who had just found her purpose in life, lost it once again and was now completely stuck, as the future where the Eugenicists could live and be accepted was destroyed. When facing such a crisis, one would seek to put the blame on something for all of their problems, and Koyomi just happened to be the perfect target.

Sizumu

Toughest one to crack here, but I'll shoot my best shot. In the beginning, he opposed the Dynazenon crew the least among the Eugenicists. He suggested against killing them, had the most interaction with Yomogi and Yume, and suggested Mujina to return Dyna Striker for seemingly no reasons at all. His main reason for not killing Team Dynazenon was to see more kaiju, and getting close to Yomogi and Yume was for his kaiju to absorb their emotions. However, I believe there was another underlying reason that tied his actions together. He was looking for an alliance.

Contrary to Juuga, the alliance he was looking for didn't only include Gauma, but Team Dynazenon as a whole. To understand why he searched for this, we must first look at what he was. He had an ability that allowed him to hear kaiju voices, which gave him a much deeper understanding of kaiju compared to the other Eugenicists. Due to this, while the others more or less thought of kaiju as a mean to create a world where they can live and be accepted, Sizumu would consider kaiju as his own kind, so much so that he had a severe disconnection with humans. He distanced himself away from even the Eugenicists, almost as if he only tagged along because they shared the same basic goal.

He didn't seek to understand humans, but instead for humans to understand kaiju. His goal was to create a world where not only the Eugenicists were accepted, but kaiju themselves were accepted. He believed that the world was better off like this, because, from his perspective, kaiju could liberate people from human bonds and offer them unlimited freedom. To me, this is rather hypocritical as he never understood why people tied themselves to these bonds in the first place, so he wasn't in a position to say what was better and what wasn't.

Sizumu was the only Eugenicist to mention this kaiju power and express his distaste towards human bonds. He explained this very early on to Yomogi and Yume, and why did he do this, you may ask? Why, to help them understand his views and create an opening for a potential alliance, of course. If his only purpose was to absorb their emotions, then that's quite a lot of unnecessary effort to make himself look friendly and approachable to an uncanny degree, especially when being "friendly and approachable" wasn't his forte. No, he was testing the water to see if he could get them on his side.

Then came an unexpected opportunity for him to determine once and for all if Team Dynazenon can understand and accept kaiju. He let a failed kaiju run free and distracted the Eugenicists away from it (with a tactic he learned from Chise) to see what the Dynazenon crew would do. Some people said that it's to test if any of them were kaiju user, and while that's possible, I think it's a little unlikely. Sizumu only observed them at 2 instances, first was when they started the search for the kaiju, the second was when their beam destroyed the kaiju. Unless the kaiju voices could tell him, there would be no way for Sizumu to know if any of them used Instance Domination, until the very end when Yomogi used it on him. The likelier hypothesis would be: he saw them searching for the kaiju > he saw the kaiju being killed > he surmised that kaiju couldn't exist peacefully with Team Dynazenon, and didn't seem to be particularly happy about it.

From then on, Sizumu decided that they couldn't be his allies thus no longer approached Yomogi or Yume. It seems that he arrived to this final conclusion:

And this is where the series itself left off. Kaiju simply can't co-exist with humans. They are irregulars to the human society. Furthermore, the freedom that they offer can't be allowed to exist as running away from society and real human connections is wrong, even if reality is ugly and difficult to face. This is what make the series similar to Gridman. However, unlike Akane, the antagonists of Dynazenon failed to realized this and didn't get their happy ending.

(A detail that I'd like to mention is that Sizumu was silent during the entire final battle in contrast to the other Eugenicists who were pumping themselves up. It was like he was saying, "Didn't want to do this but I guess you left me with no choice". Though silence can mean anything so it's not a concrete evidence.)

TL;DR and Final Words

This is so much longer than I thought and I really apologize for it. I just don't want to make anyone do logical leaps when reading this post.

Tl;dr:

- Onija wanted to live and had a grudge towards Gauma and humans for causing his death.

- Juuga wanted Gauma to join them again and for things to be back the way it was 5000 years ago. He cared for nothing outside of the Eugenicists group.

- Munija wanted a purpose, found one, then lost it again. She envied Koyomi for regaining his sense of purpose and moving forward with his life.

- Sizumu wanted humans to understand kaiju and a world where kaiju can set humans free from their bonds. Initially considered an alliance with Team Dynazenon, but concluded that them (and people in general) couldn't understand kaiju after all.

- Final message of the show: Go touch some grass and talk to humans you fucking weebs.

Misc

When using Instance Domination, the palms of the Eugenicists always face towards the kaiju. The only exception is the last battle where Sizumu's palm faced towards himself, indicating that the kaiju was inside him. I believe that it was located at the center of his chest, where he shot out that weird magical light beam. Just a small thing I find interesting.

If we want to take it a step further, I believe the seed inside him had already grown into a kaiju, but it was still relatively small until he used Instance Domination on it. Eerie, huh?

And this is more of the theory territory and leaving the analysis, but this could possibly be why he was able to hear kaiju voices. Chise was able to understand Goldburn and translated for him at the end, so maybe having a kaiju inside of you would allow you to understand other kaiju somehow? If this is the case, he would probably have had the kaiju inside of him since 5000 years ago.

There's also this big brain moment from a 4chan user. The resemblance between Yume and Juuga is kinda uncanny considering they're both obsessed with the past.

That's it boys. I'm gonna crawl back into my hole until next century, or until Trigger drops Edgerunners. 8/10 show, VERY underrated gem. Trigger won't stop saving anime.

This post but on Reddit:

[weliveonlowerplace]

✨ Find a man who looks at you the way Yomogi looks at Yume

A Caring boyfriend.. ugh 👀

👁👄👁 ☺😳🙈

[jeritzalamine]

Dynazenon was amazing. Easily one of my favorite anime of all time. 

Though I have to wonder how they are going to handle Gridman X Dynazenon in terms of characters. Gridman’s cast wasn’t very interesting besides from Akane and Anti. And I’m pretty sure the writers said Akane’s story was done so they probably won’t use her. Meanwhile pretty much every all of the Dynazenon main characters completely finished their arcs besides from Gauma and maybe Yomogi. I would love it if the whole Dynazenon crew was in the sequel but I kinda doubt it would work. Sizumu and the other Eugenicists will probably be there too somehow. Though maybe only in flashbacks. 

 Either way I’m really looking forward to this. 

[protoneutype]

TRIGGER tends to shamelessly recycle character archetypes and dynamics between series, but regardless of the setting, plot, and genre, their passion is always evident.

Even a cliche scene like the one at the water park, in which the grown up character tries to force chemistry between the protagonist and his love interest, is done in a refreshing way 🥰

The scene with Koyomi and Chise laying in bed together is completely ridiculous out of context, and even if you're watching the show it still makes you go "wut" In other words, it's brilliant 😂 For what it’s worth, Sizumu might well end up being the standout character of this show ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[hrodvitnon]

For context: The Kaiju Eugenicists are the main villain group of DYNAZENON. 5000 years ago, they (Juuga, Onija, Mujina and their leader Sizumu) + one of their former members Gauma, used the power of kaiju (they possess the ability to control Kaiju via the power "Instance Domination") to bring prosperity to a certain kingdom. The princess of their country became interested in their power, but then they got betrayed after betraying the country themselves and got killed by Gauma who was loyal.

The fact that Eugenicists are just losers is actually hilarious considering in MonsterVerse canon Vivienne was essentially nobody, and then she became Monster X and well...

Eugenicist: If I pull that off, will you die?

Monster X: It would be extremely painful--

Eugenicist: You're a big one.

Monster X: --for you.

[pig3rd]

SSSS dynazenon - シズム 沉 SIZUMU ❤❤❤❤

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[toku-explained]

Guide to Gridman Universe Part 4c: Gattai Senki Dynagear

Dynazenon had its own sequel event collaboration with Symphogear XD.

Gauma, Knight, Sizumu and Goldburn find themselves in the world of Symphogear. In need of substitute pilots, Gauma recruits Hibiki, Kirika and Shirabe, however they wind merging with Hibiki's Gear in a variety of combinations. Knight lends his power to Tsubasa again, and Goldburn then joins with her.

Hibiki Style: Incineration Great Flame

Kaiser Knight Circular

Burning Rex Roar x Gridknight Storm