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Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra.

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This is MJ.

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I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.

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Join me as I talk about Ultraman Ark episode 3, Unleash Your Imagination.

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So Yuma's tragedy hit me really hard.

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I like this episode a lot.

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I'll just get that out of the way.

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When Yuma's tragedy hit me really hard, I talked about it in my short review of this.

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And yeah, I was not expecting that.

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I didn't think I wanted his full backstory, but I was really impressed by it and I was

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really impressed by him as a character based on seeing this.

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And I think the rest of the show is going to be really interesting.

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Yeah, I'll talk about the other things I have to say and then I'll come back to Yuma's

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tragedy and why it hit me so hard and how it made me change my opinion about his character

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and what I thought originally and what I think now.

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So I'm going to say Skip are absolute heroes.

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These guys have no real weapons.

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They have nothing really to help them at all.

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And yet they're putting themselves in danger by standing there waving light like usher

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rods or whatever they call those things that have the lights on them to tell you where

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to go so they can evacuate to safety.

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And they have no real defensive capabilities and no thing to help them be safe.

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They're just holding those glowy sticks and wearing jackets that say skip on them.

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That's about all of it.

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And yeah, they're just out there doing their thing and a Kaiju is attacking and they're

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staying as calm as they can just telling people to get to safety.

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And it's shocking.

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It's it doesn't really make sense.

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It's kind of like the thing that people say in the United States about first responders

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that you know when people are running away from things, they're running towards it.

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And you know, that sounds hokey.

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And of course, like that's real.

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And this is not but still seeing it portrayed in this way in the show, it really does bring

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that home that, yeah, there are some people who do the sort of thing where they actually

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do put their lives on the line for others.

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And it is really remarkable.

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And thinking about, you know, whatever it is, a car accident, a shooting, you know,

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a fire spill of whatever sort like those mundane occurrences for us.

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I would say a Kaiju attack is even more.

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It's like whatever the worst of those is or whatever, like a bad combination of multiples

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of those would be is what is what a Kaiju attack is equivalent to.

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And like we don't know the full scope of the background of these people, what their training

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is in skip.

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But we know that Kaiju been around for 16 years approximately.

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And people know about them and they know kind of how to deal with them.

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But there's really no way as far as we know.

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Well, there's at least no way to really no reasonable way to deal with a giant Kaiju.

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It's.

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You're basically out of luck when it comes to a giant Kaiju.

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And yet these people are just out there doing their thing.

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And it really is remarkable.

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OK.

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And I just say Yuma is absolutely or is unbelievably heroic because in this first episode where

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he just joined skip or flashing back to three months ago when he first joined skip, he isn't

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Ultraman arc.

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He doesn't know about this yet.

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And he doesn't even know it's a possibility.

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And when he sees that his grandmother and the kindergarten she teaches that are in danger,

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he runs to them as quickly as he possibly can.

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And I don't even know what his plan is, but he puts himself on the line completely.

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And like, I'm not even sure what he was going to do, but he as a kid had this experience

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when he was seven years old, which means he's 23 by this time.

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Twenty three.

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He had this opportunity or not this opportunity.

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He had this horrible thing happen to him.

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I guess I'm going to talk about it now where he saw his parents killed right in front of

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him.

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They were camping.

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Kaiju attack happening.

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It was a mono gayose mono gaylos.

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I don't know one of the two.

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And that's where the monohorn comes from.

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Anyway, so he sees this Kaiju appear and it attacks and it kills his parents.

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And yet he runs towards a Kaiju just like it is dying gayose, die, garros, whatever it

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is, die, gellows.

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I think it's mono gellows and die gellows anyway.

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So he runs towards this Kaiju that looks very similar to the one that killed his family

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and almost killed him and his mother and father.

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I say his family.

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That's what I mean.

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And he just does it without a thought.

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And that's really, really interesting.

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That's really, that's really good.

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That's a beautiful thing.

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And it really impresses me that he went ahead and did that.

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And I guess he was going to help them evacuate, just make sure they were okay or whatever.

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It doesn't matter what he was capable of doing.

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It almost makes it better that he was capable of very little and yet he went and did everything

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he could to go ahead and save them.

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That does make it more impressive.

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I want to switch gears real quick and talk about the world building.

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It's pretty neat.

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Over the last 16 years there have been other Kaiju incidents.

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They know how to measure a certain type of energy that Kaiju put off when they're emerging

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or whatever, or maybe when they're just out and about.

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There are mirages that are associated with Kaiju emerging into the world.

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And the way that they showed this one horn and two horn Kaiju is that there was like

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a split or something in the sky, like a phenomenon that split in the sky.

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And then the Kaiju came out and they said it could have been something like a natural

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phenomenon.

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And then they decided against that.

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Obviously when the Kaiju came out of there.

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But it is interesting that that's a thing and that there is study of Kaiju.

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And we heard in the first episode that Yuma is a Kaiju like physiology researcher, a scientist,

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and he learned about Kaiju in school.

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Now when I can't remember the renown, maybe when she said something to him like, you don't

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remember that from school?

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I thought she meant like as a kid he learned.

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But if he's a Kaiju like physiologist or whatever, then he would have to have learned about it

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from some sort of school, some sort of training that they've had on Kaiju over the years.

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And it's just it's interesting because this Ultraman show, this Ultraman story exists

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in a world seemingly where there aren't, there is not a history of Kaiju.

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There's not a history of Ultraman or this giant of light, and these are a new thing.

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And this world has adapted by changing to Kaiju.

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Like the world is actively adapting to the existence of Kaiju and they're studying them

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and they're learning about them and they're trying to figure out what to do with them

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and how they can deal with them.

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And I like that little bit of a hard sci-fi edge to the show.

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Yeah, I got to say my impression of Yuma initially was that he was like young and naive and like

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I called the fight that Ark had against the first guy like kind of kidtastic is the word

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popping into my head right now, which I don't like the use of that word.

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It felt a little juvenile and like he was young and untested and unsure of himself.

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And that may be true because he's new to this whole Ultraman thing, but the whole juvenile

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and naive thing I think is was a bit of a rash statement on my part because there is

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a grit and there is a hard edge to this guy, but it's like a determination and it's a like

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iron will to do things even against his own interest, even against himself.

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And going back, like he watched his parents die besides go the last word that his father

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said to him was it's time to run Yuma.

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And it seems like he says it to himself to psych himself out so that he can get the courage,

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get the gumption, get whatever he needs to get in him to motivate him to move when he's

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in a moment of terror.

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He's overwhelmed by what's going on.

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He doesn't want to be there.

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He'd rather be doing something else, but instead he chooses to be heroic and he uses his father's

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dying words, it's time to run Yuma to propel himself forward.

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And he even says something about like continuing to move forward into the future, something

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along those lines, which I think is excellent and it's beautiful.

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And it really gives meaning to his parents death.

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And it shows like a, a sophistication and like a complexity to his character that I

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didn't see at first and it was not clearly apparent.

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I like this kind of humble, soft spoken hero who does what he does because he feels he

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has to.

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And like, it's not the great burden of Yuma or being Ultraman or whatever, but it's, it's

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something, I don't know, more positive and more about life than that, which is just that

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he has to keep moving forward.

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He wants to propel himself to keep moving forward, like to fulfill his father's dying

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wish.

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And that means that he's going to fight Kaiju and try to save people.

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And it's incredible.

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It's beautiful.

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I really love it.

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So the story, I think, I think I talked about the goodness of the story.

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There's a lot of good story stuff going on here.

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The world building, the character motivation, the analysis of him, like I cried watching

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this a little bit because it was so compelling that I just met his parents and a minute or

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two later they're being killed and it moved me.

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The music was moving, the kid actor, you know, did a good job.

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The parents did a good job, but just the scenario of watching your child die in front of you,

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watching your parents die in front of you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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It was very striking and it was good.

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Really struck an emotional chord with me.

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It was beautiful.

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So going into speculation now, I think Yuma is dead, or at least he was dead.

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And I feel like the forms and the dream and imagination of this hero of light and whatever

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that he had might be a sort of like a side effect of the integration between the two

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as the ultra work to save and heal Yuma.

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Like I almost wonder if after, I guess after the Kaiju was defeated, which I guess did

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the ultra like lop off his horn and then that fell over and crush or no, because the Kaiju

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had killed his parents.

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And then I feel like the horn getting lopped off flew and then it hit and crushed and killed

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Yuma.

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I think that's what happened.

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We didn't get to see it fully happen because why would you want to kill a kid on screen

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like that?

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But anyway, I feel like that's what happened.

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And I think like either that like it actually like some mashed him is supposed to be the

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big giant thing smashing little little Yuma.

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Anyway, either it smashed him and somehow the ultra was able to save him regardless.

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Or the ultra like gave up a bunch of his energy and went and like protected Yuma by merging

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with him somehow.

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And those three days where he was like, you know, not alive or dead or whatever, or he

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was found miraculously alive.

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I wonder if the ultra like used a ton of his energy to preserve Yuma, to keep him alive,

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to keep him, you know, healthy and well and whatever.

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Like think about the exposure for three days.

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He was buried in rubble.

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Maybe the exposure would protect him from the elements.

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I don't know.

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But anyway, like to be buried in rubble for three days is insane.

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And I just wonder if the ultra somehow saved his life.

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But I wonder if he had to give up so much of his energy that he ended up needing to

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gestate for like 16 years, because I don't know how many more kaiju have emerged over

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the years.

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It doesn't feel like a lot have and maybe just a few have here and there every, you

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know, X amount of years or whatever.

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And maybe people dealt with it however they they have had to.

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But it feels like this change is happening now.

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And like three months ago in this dream flashback thing we got, the ultra appeared to him and

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said like, you know, you and I are one and like we're two halves of a whole.

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You know, your your imagination is going to fuel me.

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I think that's what's going on here.

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And I think that's really interesting.

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I think that's really interesting.

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Anyway, that's my speculation.

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And I think it could be really cool.

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Also, anybody who knows the gigabarrier to the shield thingy that he has this double

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horn guy had one, too.

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It was a little different.

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It definitely made me think about AT field, especially because you get to see AT field

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versus AT field combat happening.

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It's from Evangelion, if you didn't know.

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I want to know, did Ultraman have those energy barrier things first or did Evangelion have

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Did the original Ultraman have it?

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Did a later Ultraman have it?

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And then Hideyoshi put it into into Evangelion.

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And now they've like brought them back with some of the I think it's more of a heisei

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and on ultra thing, but I don't know for sure.

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I definitely like the idea of Ultraman having these barriers.

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But like the way they were at play, it felt so much like AT field.

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It really was interesting to me.

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So I want to know if anybody knows what came first, the AT field or the barrier that Ultras

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and some Kaiju have, apparently, because I'd be pretty curious to know that.

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Anyway, that's pretty much it.

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I would like to.

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Yeah, I'd like to end the review there.

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I'd like to let you know that I'm working on my own Ultraman and took Satsu hero, Henshin

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Hero, specifically inspired stories for kids, it's going to be grow bug chronicles.

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And I'm working on getting those revised and finished up.

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And I'm going to be doing art on those soon.

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And we're going to get those published.

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It's going to be cool stuff.

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Not too long of a book take you a couple hours to read if you read in one sitting, or you

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can read one chapter at a time, take you anywhere from five to 15 minutes to read a chapter.

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And it's good stuff entertaining.

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It's heroic and there's magical bugs that have bright colors and things like that.

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And if you're into took Satsu, you should definitely like that stuff anyway.

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So I'll let you know when that stuff comes out.

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You always look to the website, mjmunoz.com to keep up to date with me on all that stuff.

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And until next time, keep being ultra.

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I hope you enjoyed that.

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Subscribe to keep up with me, like and share to help me reach more people like you and

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go to MJMunoz.com to find your next favorite thing.

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And don't forget to let your voice be heard.

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Stories are always better when you're part of the conversation.

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Until next time, be well.

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This is MJ signing out.

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This has been a story over everything production.