Tsubaraya‘s Denkou Choujin Gridman (which was adapted into Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad in the West) is set to return in the form of a one-off anime short, as part of Japan Animator Expo – a project of weekly anime shorts spearheaded by Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara and media company Dwango.
The short, entitled “Denkou Choujin Gridman: Boys invent Great Hero” was animated by popular studio Trigger (most notable for the recent Kill la Kill) and directed by Akira Amemiya – director of Trigger’s Inferno Cop and forthcoming Ninja Slayer series.
The project will see a total of 30 planned shorts air weekly, ranging from anime shorts to promotional and music videos. While these will be streamed for free via Niconico, there are currently no plans for any of them to receive a commercial release.
Niconico have already released a 13 second teaser of the short, however it doesn’t give away anything other than the title. Are you excited for the return of Gridman? Sound off after the jump!
Denkou Choujin Gridman: Boys invent Great Hero"
Animated by Trigger (Kill la Kill) and directed by Akira Amemiya (Inferno Cop, Ninja Slayer from Animation), the short will air on streaming site Niconico as part of Japan Animator Expo!
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This is so cool! I mean, it's only a short and not remotely indicative of more Gridman, but it's still something, it actually continues the story of the original series, and it's the last series I'd expect to get any kind of revival in 2015.
It would be so cool if they got Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad cast back to dub this
. More Time Curry please 
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I have a deep need to see this.
Seriosuly though, this is awesome news. I was hoping for a new Gridman series but oh well. Better then nothing at all.
It's Takashi asking for help in this anime short.
Which means...
Gridman Sigma
Still hoping to see Gridman added to the Crunchyroll lineup at some point. Its almost an Ultra series, right??
The fact that this is done by Studio Trigger makes me stupid excited. I've never seen Gridman but when I was younger I had a Gridman toy who I totally thought was Ultraman/Powerangers crossed over. Like he looked like Ultraman and then you put on the armour and then he looked like a megazord so it's what I connected to first lol.
But yeah Trigger always kills it! They're my favourite animation studio and is made up of lots of ex-gainax major players like Hiroyuki Imaishi (dir of Gurren Lagann) and Yoh Yoshinari (mechanical designer for GL)
Amemiya is quite good too, here's a video of some of the scenes he did key animation for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI__8zyPS1E
Actually holy shit watching that video, noticed he even did some of the anime scenes for Akibaranger!
New Gridman stuff animated by Trigger is something that I didn't realise I wanted. UNTIL NOW.
Even a split second of THIS will make the short 200% awesome.
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