Caught up on the series! Taking a Cute Animal Girls show, tying it back to a Beast Wars retelling, giving it shades of Fallout* and then dropping a Godzilla** in it? Yep, this is definitely the crossover universe I've loved and enjoyed all these years. Good to be back.

Kaban and Serval are a nifty double act, and everything I didn't know about the original series is explained in a natural enough way that I never felt lost.

I enjoyed every single one of the Lucky Beast appearances. I have a soft spot for incogrous marketing/customer relations talk directed at characters who have absolutely no frame of reference for it.

Tsuchinoko is the most memorable out of the crew in my mind, mostly for the archeology related shenanigans.

And hey, Rhinox is here! I sort of remember him!

"Hmm," he said. "That's interesting. I mean, as molecular synthesis transmats go, it's pretty basic, and the packaging is a mess, but it looks like a sound enough design.

Dude, it's decades old *and* a prototype, okay?

Kaban's slow realization of what contact with the outside galaxy might mean to the Friends is well done. I'm sure whatever happens next will be interesting, whether or not we the audience get to see it.

Altogether a fun romp, enjoyed it very much. 10/10 you've still got it.

* in a post-apocalyptic world, the livelihood of a small commune is threatened and the protagonist must venture forth into long-abandoned wasteland to retrieve a piece of technology from The Before Times that will fix the problem

** I do not have a good enough grasp on the Godzilla mythos to properly appreciate which one Goji-chan is specifically. I know there is an "original" one and he's her dad, because I remember seeing him in UF before. I could not point either of them out on a lineup of those new Magic cards with Godzilla art.