This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work
at MJMunoz.com. Welcome to Henshin Inspection. This is going ultra. I'm talking about Ultraman.
I almost said Com-Rater. Ultraman Blades are season, well, episode two, not season two.
So anyway, this is the the fish episode. This is the man who started Scarred, the man who
created Scarred. That's the title of the episode. And Gento is being assigned to be captain
by the superior whose name I don't remember at the moment. And the guy is a real hard
case. And he assigns Gento to put together a team of four other people. So there's five
of them total. There's a intelligence officer. You know, Gento is the captain. There's intelligence
officer who says Wilco. I can't remember her name at the moment. There's this karate gearhead
lady who will find out exactly what she's supposed to do later. But she's a soldier.
There's a tech guy who makes all this stuff. And there's a pilot who kind of runs comms,
I guess. But they're all interoperable as far as being able to do field stuff, wielding
weapons and driving and things like that, that will need to be done to deal with kaiju
because they are a special kaiju task force. And it was interesting. This is not the first
time I've seen the episode, but I got a really different vibe watching it this time. There
were a couple of interesting things. One is that John Young Vosh switched his affect of
his voice when he was acting as captain at some point, and he sounded very different
from himself. And almost like it's Gento slipping into like, oh, I'm, you know, it's almost
like Gento was wearing this mask or this persona, if you will. Johnny Young Vosh persona for
a new and our comedy joke. If you don't get it, it's okay. It doesn't matter. Anyway,
and he slips into this different persona. That's kind of interesting. I like how comedic
it was. I like how relaxed he is and how casual he is with the crew and how he wants them
to work together in a certain way. And like, it was interesting that the guy, the superior
officer told him that he could act as if he selected the team himself, even though the
Emmy, Emmy something, the intelligence lady knew that he didn't. And probably the, the
like the real gear had the technical genius who like souped up their van for them and
made all their weapons and hand wrote the manuals for all their stuff and how it works.
Whose name I can't remember. He has a cool name. He he's been working for scarred for
weeks and that's kind of interesting because there's kind of this lie that Gento put the
team together, even though two of the members already know that he didn't select them. And
the other two probably figure it out as well from the context because they're not fools.
They're not great fools. And yeah, that's kind of interesting. Gidos is an interesting
Kaiju. I like him. He's a fish guy. Very fun. Great design. And I liked how Blazar fought
him. I like how savage Blazar was in this episode. Really coming out the gate, he does
his like a rise right when the Ultraman transforms and he jumps out of that and punches him. He's
rising with his left fist, but then he when he punches him, he hits him on the right and
then he keeps fighting, which so I didn't know if that's an inconsistency or that was
a problem at all or what, but that's what happened. And like I noticed he grabbed on.
He's like an angler fish because he's got that thing, the light thing there. Blazar
grabbed that and pulled him around by and was fighting him like kneeing him and jabbing
on stuff. And it's just interesting. So I'm watching Ultraman Ark right now and I'm trying
to get through, not get through, I'm trying to watch all Blazars as quickly as I possibly
can before like within a couple of weeks, finish it before I'm too far into Ace or into
Ace, into Ark. And that's interesting because the contrast between them is immense. Ark
is very stiff and very slow in his motions, sort of very direct and measured. And Blazar
is just wild. He's absolutely savage. He's a beast. He's crazy. And I absolutely love
it. It's a beautiful suit. I love how he fights. I love how simple it is. And it's funny. I
was thinking about the Ark sword, how much I don't like it. And I was thinking, yeah,
I want it to just be like this weird thing of light that just turns into whatever weapon
he that's exactly what happened in this episode. Blazar uses his thingy, his weird energy weapon,
turns it into a fishing rod and then fishes geidos out and then spears them with it. And
it's just kind of funny. So like there was a lot of interesting comedy going on with
with Gento putting the team together. And then there was some interesting things like
just seeing them kind of discover the the scarred HQ or CP command post. They say scarred
CP. It's interesting seeing that come together to see their van get put together, see their
different personalities clash in different ways, not class like they were fighting, just
like they're all dealing with different things in different ways. Like this is one thing
where the fighter girl, she doesn't want to call. She's like very by the book. She doesn't
want to call Gento by his name. And he ignores her and he's walking away and she's Captain
Gento. And he turns around and gives her this really serious look like, oh, yes, what is
it? And it's just it's kind of funny because it's like silly. But he's trying to draw,
draw, draw a point, draw a point, make a point. Trying to make a point very fine to these
people to have them set their expectations for what he's going to be like as their captain
and how he wants them to operate as a team, leaving by example. That's all good stuff.
And the captain also wants him to eliminate Blazar at some point. And at the end of the
episode, we get the reveal of Earthgeron, who is supposed to destroy Kaiju before Blazar
has a chance to. And that's interesting because let's say Gento was piloting Earthgeron, he
can't kill Blazar himself if he's piloting because he'd be abandoning, you know, Mech,
abandon ship, abandoning Mech in order to do that. And that doesn't really work. So
it'll be interesting to see how that conflict plays out throughout the show. But I do like
and it does make sense that the captain is telling him, we don't know what this alien
is about. He's a 50 meter class, whatever, such and such like like a Kaiju equivalent
to a Kaiju. And we don't know what his intentions are, what he's doing, who he is, where he's
from. And we can't trust him. And I think that's interesting. Like Gento wants to be
a trusting person, but he's deceiving this superior officer. He wants to be trusting
with his team. But he's also hiding this fact that he's Ultraman from them. And it'll be
interesting to see how that develops in the future. But for now, that's pretty much all
I have to say about this episode. What did you think about it? Do you like how wild he
is? Do you like how wild he is in comparison to Ark? Do you think it takes away something
from Ark that he's not this crazy? Or does it make Blazar special that he's Oogaboo Man
or what? I think it's special. I think it's really special. Oh, by the way, I am working
on my book. It is Tokusatsu sort of inspired magical bugs, battle monsters. I'll be announcing
when it's coming out here and everywhere else where I put my stuff. So it's going to be
on mjwinners.com. There'll be other places as well. And that's about all I have to say
about it for now. But it's very inspired by Tokusatsu in some ways. And as I developed
the series and put out more of the books, they're middle grade books, short, not too
short, but you know, a decent length for kids to read and for adults who like children's
television shows like you. Yes, looking at you. Yeah, so I think you'll enjoy it. I enjoy
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