SSSS.DYNAZENON: More Kaiju Battles, More Giant Robots and More Perspective

A hungry stranger, a missed date, and a city bending under impossible gravity—our Dynazenon review starts where small choices crash into giant consequences. We take you into SSSS.Dynazenon’s sharp premise: kaiju born from the human urge to shed burdens, and a crew of unlikely pilots learning that responsibility can be louder than fear.

We unpack how the show reframes monster-of-the-week into a moral engine. Gauma’s tangled history with the Kaiju Eugenicists complicates every clash, turning enemies into mirrors rather than cardboard targets. Yomogi’s steady courage, Yume’s grief-shadowed resolve, and Koyomi’s wandering adulthood fuel a cockpit that only works when trust clicks. From the first transformation into Dyna Rex to the playful detail of the robot shrinking when idle, Trigger’s rule-bound worldbuilding keeps the spectacle grounded. And when Knight and Second roll in as the Gridman Alliance—yes, Knight is Anti—the sequel earns its stripes, bridging legacies without gatekeeping newcomers.

We also talk craft. Trigger’s bold frames and elastic action scenes land alongside quiet, human beats that let jokes and silence work. The Eugenicists’ pitch—that they don’t create kaiju but curate the desires that summon them—turns every fight into a civic question: do we manage our pain or let it level the block? The answer isn’t simple, which is why the finale satisfies without sanding off the edges. Across twelve episodes, the series threads character growth, mecha strategy, and mythic backstory into a tight, replayable package.

If you crave mecha with meaning, character arcs with bite, and sequels that deepen rather than repeat, this one earns our 9/10. Hit play, then tell us your favorite form—combined or Dyna Rex—and whether the “villains” made their case. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves giant robots, and leave a review to help more listeners find the show.

Chapters

• 0:01 Setting The Stage: Mecha Monday
• 0:13 Plot Kickoff And Core Cast
• 1:59 First Battle And Dyna Rex Reveal
• 3:13 Rules Of The World And Team Dynamics
• 3:32 Kaiju Eugenicists And Ancient Feud
• 4:25 School Infiltration And Kaiju As Desire
• 5:11 Gridman Tie-In: Knight And Second
• 6:03 Themes, Tone, And Character Arcs
• 7:20 Verdict And Studio Trigger Track Record
• 9:02 What’s Next: February Review Plans
• 9:58 Closing Notes And Creator Platforms

Transcript

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What up, gang? It's JB with the Zone Podcast, and it's another Mecha Monday. Let's go ahead and talk about Quadruple S.D. Now, last week I did quadruple S.gridman, but this time it's Dino Xenon, the sequel series to Gritman. Now, in this one, one day we have Yomogi Asunaka, a first-year student at Fuji Yoki. I almost mispronounced it, but I kind of stumbled. Uh, high school runs into a mysterious man named Galma, who claims to be a kaiju user. The so the appearance of a kaiju is followed by the entry of a gigantic robot, Dinazina, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Are Yumei Minami, Koyomi, Yamanaka, and Kise Asukawa, who are dragged into the fight against Kaiju. Now, I was fucking stunned when I realized that the first episode is two hours long. A full-length movie worth of an episode. Jesus Christ. And it's basically going into how Yamogi uh happens upon Galma, who was disabled by hunger. Uh, Yomogi offers Galma a sandwich who urge Galma's loyalty to him, and he reveals that he's a kaizu user. And by the next day, Yomogi is asked out on a date by Yumei, uh, strange girl from Yomogi's class who has a reputation for asking boys out on dates and then ditching them. Uh, Yomogi is like skeptical, as I would be. And meanwhile, but he accepts, anyways. Meanwhile, strange phenomena begin to occur around the city as random objects and buildings begin to float in the air that night. Yomogi heads to the meeting point, but Yumei falls uh fails to arrive. Now, Galma spouse Yumei, Yumi spots Yumei, observing Yomogi from a distance and confronts her over breaking her prompt to Yomogi. And Yumei admits there is something wrong with her. Suddenly, a kaiju appears in the middle of the city, unable to take control of the kaiju. Uh Gauma uses a special item to summon the robot Dino Zena, requiring four pilots to crew it. Uh, Dino Zena absorbs Galma, Yamogi, Yumei, and a nearby meet named Koyomi Yamanaka as his cousin and Tizai Asuka Gao watches helplessly. Goma takes uh sole control of Dino Zena to battle the Kaiju, but when the Kaiju gains the upper hand, Goma transforms Dino Zena into his Dyna Rex form, easily defeating the Kaiju. Now, instead of indigenous space like Gritman, Dino Zena shrinks down to toy size when Nana use, which I found kind of cute, kind of cool in a way. Otherwise, it still has that format where there's a team of people contributing to the full potential of Dino Zena or whatever robot that they're piloting, each with their part that combines to this Megazure-like robot. You know, like Poltron type shit. Galma tells the others that the kaiju that they just fought was being controlled by the kaiju eugenicists, uh, who are Kaizu users just like him, and that they will attack the city again, and they must train to a better to be they must train to better pilot Shina's Xenon. Sorry. Also, the Eugenesis are like 5,000 years old, apparently. Like they've been at this for a while now, with the whole thing with Galma used to be one of the eugenics, and he had this thing going on with the princess, but it was more like uh it was like a half Romeo Junior type thing. I'm sorry, I can't speak sometimes. But yeah, there was like a whole history going on with them. Now, one of the kaiju eugenicists, uh Sumu, uh, joins Yomogi and Yume's class under the guise of a transfer student but appears friendly, which I found kind of funny and kind of weird. He tells Yomogi and Yume that the Kaiju Eugenes do not actually create the Kaiju. Instead, the Kaiju are born from a human desire to be free from some burden, and the kaiju eugenicists take control of them in order to build a world where kaiju are needed. Now, in a later episode, that same eugenics uh season then reveals to Yomogi Yumei that kaiju are attracted to certain emotions before the other kaiju genesis summon him to take control of a recently appeared kaiju. Now, we also like halfway into this show, we have Knight and Second, who call himself the Grit9 Alliance, to help out the main cast, and crazy enough, Knight is Auntie from Gritman. I thought that was crazy. I thought that was like the most interesting twist in the whole thing for me. Because, of course, it's the sequel series, so there's gonna be some sort of tie-in, but I just didn't expect that to work. Because if you watch the last one and you're wondering, like, okay, what's going on with Auntie after all this, and oh, there's your answer. Once again, I'm trying to do light spoilers, but hopefully I've enjoyed too much. But rather than just fighting kaiju like in the previous series and learning the truth about how their world is structured, the characters and the audience is given perspective on the kaiju and how the eugenics have been used to create them. So it's more like, once again, maybe the bad guys aren't really bad guys. It's more like there's a bigger power that's more controlling them and whatnot. I want to say that the characters and the mecha designs look good as expected from Studio Trigger. Still a little lazy with some of the scenes looking like a fly show. But once again, the characters actually sound and seem like realistic people with their own personalities, their drama and emotion, like with Yumei and her sister, Kano, Galama in search for the princess, and leaving the Eugenesis. There's comedic hijings and a level of bizarreness. Like, yeah, a whole bunch of things going on where it just feels like a complete series, even yeah, I mean it is, but I'm saying for 12 episodes, they managed to get a lot done and wrap it up the way that they did. So, another 9 out of 10. Like, I don't know if it's because I'm biased to the studio trigger, but hey, they just don't miss. Like, at the very least, they're worse one in my opinion so far out of all the Studio Trigger projects that I've seen. I want to say the only one that was like mid to me was Space Patrol Luluco. But that's only because it was a short anime series. It was like okay, but just not for me. You know, just not for me. It was fine, just not for me. But other than that, like most of the things that come from Gynax and Studio Trigger are like bangers in their own right. It really depends on if you like weird shit going on. If you don't, then you might not have a fun time with it. But if you kind of in the mood for some weird shit, like something funny, something to kind of like break you out of the funk of, you know, like all animates are not play out the same. Try out anything from Studio Trader. Hell, I don't even recommend Darling the Prawn. Hey, we already did a review on Darling the Prawn, so go watch that. I reviewed Kill a Kill. Go listen to that. We already did Girl of God, we might redo that one because we got more people that have seen it and I kind of want to hear their perspective on it, so we might redo that review. Yeah. Yeah. Nine out of ten for Dino Xenon. With that being said, let me go ahead and close this out and well, actually, before I actually do that, since this is going to be the last mecha review I'm gonna do for January. Let me go ahead and tell you what I got in mind for February. I plan on reviewing Dataline, Dragonaut of Resonance, 100, and Infinite Strados. Now, the first two is gonna be fairly easy for me to watch on Crunchyroll, the other two, not so much. Uh but I will try because I did watch it like one good time. Both of them, 100 and infinite stratos. Like actually, I've watched infinite stratos like twice. But I'm gonna watch them one more time and give my quick little take on it. But yeah, this has been another Mecha Monday with JB. Expect a whole lot of Mecha reviews, different other reviews, not just Mecha, not just anime, but all kinds of reviews and a whole bunch of other shenanigans that we're gonna be doing on YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms. So we're not just gonna be reviewing things, we're just gonna make things happen like we said we're gonna do. So with that being said, go ahead and have yourself a good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night. But ultimately, stay nerdy and take it easy.