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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work

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at MJMunoz.com. Welcome to Henshin Inspection. This is going ultra. I'm talking about Ultraman.

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I almost said Com-Rater. Ultraman Blades are season, well, episode two, not season two.

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So anyway, this is the the fish episode. This is the man who started Scarred, the man who

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created Scarred. That's the title of the episode. And Gento is being assigned to be captain

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by the superior whose name I don't remember at the moment. And the guy is a real hard

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case. And he assigns Gento to put together a team of four other people. So there's five

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of them total. There's a intelligence officer. You know, Gento is the captain. There's intelligence

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officer who says Wilco. I can't remember her name at the moment. There's this karate gearhead

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lady who will find out exactly what she's supposed to do later. But she's a soldier.

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There's a tech guy who makes all this stuff. And there's a pilot who kind of runs comms,

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I guess. But they're all interoperable as far as being able to do field stuff, wielding

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weapons and driving and things like that, that will need to be done to deal with kaiju

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because they are a special kaiju task force. And it was interesting. This is not the first

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time I've seen the episode, but I got a really different vibe watching it this time. There

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were a couple of interesting things. One is that John Young Vosh switched his affect of

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his voice when he was acting as captain at some point, and he sounded very different

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from himself. And almost like it's Gento slipping into like, oh, I'm, you know, it's almost

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like Gento was wearing this mask or this persona, if you will. Johnny Young Vosh persona for

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a new and our comedy joke. If you don't get it, it's okay. It doesn't matter. Anyway,

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and he slips into this different persona. That's kind of interesting. I like how comedic

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it was. I like how relaxed he is and how casual he is with the crew and how he wants them

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to work together in a certain way. And like, it was interesting that the guy, the superior

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officer told him that he could act as if he selected the team himself, even though the

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Emmy, Emmy something, the intelligence lady knew that he didn't. And probably the, the

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like the real gear had the technical genius who like souped up their van for them and

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made all their weapons and hand wrote the manuals for all their stuff and how it works.

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Whose name I can't remember. He has a cool name. He he's been working for scarred for

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weeks and that's kind of interesting because there's kind of this lie that Gento put the

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team together, even though two of the members already know that he didn't select them. And

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the other two probably figure it out as well from the context because they're not fools.

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They're not great fools. And yeah, that's kind of interesting. Gidos is an interesting

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Kaiju. I like him. He's a fish guy. Very fun. Great design. And I liked how Blazar fought

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him. I like how savage Blazar was in this episode. Really coming out the gate, he does

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his like a rise right when the Ultraman transforms and he jumps out of that and punches him. He's

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rising with his left fist, but then he when he punches him, he hits him on the right and

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then he keeps fighting, which so I didn't know if that's an inconsistency or that was

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a problem at all or what, but that's what happened. And like I noticed he grabbed on.

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He's like an angler fish because he's got that thing, the light thing there. Blazar

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grabbed that and pulled him around by and was fighting him like kneeing him and jabbing

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on stuff. And it's just interesting. So I'm watching Ultraman Ark right now and I'm trying

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to get through, not get through, I'm trying to watch all Blazars as quickly as I possibly

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can before like within a couple of weeks, finish it before I'm too far into Ace or into

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Ace, into Ark. And that's interesting because the contrast between them is immense. Ark

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is very stiff and very slow in his motions, sort of very direct and measured. And Blazar

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is just wild. He's absolutely savage. He's a beast. He's crazy. And I absolutely love

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it. It's a beautiful suit. I love how he fights. I love how simple it is. And it's funny. I

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was thinking about the Ark sword, how much I don't like it. And I was thinking, yeah,

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I want it to just be like this weird thing of light that just turns into whatever weapon

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he that's exactly what happened in this episode. Blazar uses his thingy, his weird energy weapon,

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turns it into a fishing rod and then fishes geidos out and then spears them with it. And

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it's just kind of funny. So like there was a lot of interesting comedy going on with

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with Gento putting the team together. And then there was some interesting things like

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just seeing them kind of discover the the scarred HQ or CP command post. They say scarred

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CP. It's interesting seeing that come together to see their van get put together, see their

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different personalities clash in different ways, not class like they were fighting, just

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like they're all dealing with different things in different ways. Like this is one thing

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where the fighter girl, she doesn't want to call. She's like very by the book. She doesn't

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want to call Gento by his name. And he ignores her and he's walking away and she's Captain

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Gento. And he turns around and gives her this really serious look like, oh, yes, what is

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it? And it's just it's kind of funny because it's like silly. But he's trying to draw,

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draw, draw a point, draw a point, make a point. Trying to make a point very fine to these

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people to have them set their expectations for what he's going to be like as their captain

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and how he wants them to operate as a team, leaving by example. That's all good stuff.

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And the captain also wants him to eliminate Blazar at some point. And at the end of the

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episode, we get the reveal of Earthgeron, who is supposed to destroy Kaiju before Blazar

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has a chance to. And that's interesting because let's say Gento was piloting Earthgeron, he

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can't kill Blazar himself if he's piloting because he'd be abandoning, you know, Mech,

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abandon ship, abandoning Mech in order to do that. And that doesn't really work. So

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it'll be interesting to see how that conflict plays out throughout the show. But I do like

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and it does make sense that the captain is telling him, we don't know what this alien

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is about. He's a 50 meter class, whatever, such and such like like a Kaiju equivalent

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to a Kaiju. And we don't know what his intentions are, what he's doing, who he is, where he's

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from. And we can't trust him. And I think that's interesting. Like Gento wants to be

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a trusting person, but he's deceiving this superior officer. He wants to be trusting

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with his team. But he's also hiding this fact that he's Ultraman from them. And it'll be

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interesting to see how that develops in the future. But for now, that's pretty much all

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I have to say about this episode. What did you think about it? Do you like how wild he

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is? Do you like how wild he is in comparison to Ark? Do you think it takes away something

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from Ark that he's not this crazy? Or does it make Blazar special that he's Oogaboo Man

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or what? I think it's special. I think it's really special. Oh, by the way, I am working

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on my book. It is Tokusatsu sort of inspired magical bugs, battle monsters. I'll be announcing

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when it's coming out here and everywhere else where I put my stuff. So it's going to be

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on mjwinners.com. There'll be other places as well. And that's about all I have to say

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about it for now. But it's very inspired by Tokusatsu in some ways. And as I developed

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the series and put out more of the books, they're middle grade books, short, not too

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short, but you know, a decent length for kids to read and for adults who like children's

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television shows like you. Yes, looking at you. Yeah, so I think you'll enjoy it. I enjoy

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it. Everybody enjoys it. I hope you enjoyed that. Subscribe to keep up with me. Like and

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