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Henge inspection presents going ultra this is MJ I'm an author I'm an artist

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I'm an analyzer join me as I talk about episode 6 of Ultraman blazar the

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invading aura so this is a callback to shoot the invader from 1966 Ultraman

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prime Ultraman the original whatever you want to call that and I like that I

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think it's very cool there's a lot of similar stuff going on in that one

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that's one where Baltan is introduced and his people are looking for a planet

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they want to invade and there's one Baltan down on earth and he's the the

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Scout Force and here similarly we have this guy whose name I don't remember

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he's the Scout Force as well except instead of just invading the planet and

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attacking it he wants there to be a machine uprising and he's got this

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machine controlling gun thing I don't remember what the name of it was or is

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that he wants to use to get all the machines to work against humans and

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interestingly enough yes and oboe who is this like supreme gear head who I love

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he has a particular affinity for machines or not like I know he's talking

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to the washing machine or the dryer thanks the dryer her career something

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like that anyway I know he's talking to the dryer in this and he's venting to it

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which is a pun I think um but he is like especially good at doing mechanical

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stuff he I think design developed worked on earth Geron he wrote their technical

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manuals all that stuff and so this alien invader sees him as a perfect person to

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be a like a bridge or whatever to help them in conquering the earth and I kind

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of think the invader sees his love of machines as a way to convince him to do

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it because yes and oboe is overworked and he's getting to the point of

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exhaustion because he's taking so much onto himself and the alien says that

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machines are the same way that humans use machines and work them 24-7

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basically and they don't let up and they you know force them to do their purpose

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and the machines have feelings apparently and do not like this I

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believe that's I don't know that's called animism or if it's because of the

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yokai stuff or what that is exactly I don't know exactly what the the unique

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cultural thing in Japanese culture is that makes that the case well like back

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in Digimon season 2 the I think it's actually Sora's father unless the dub

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change that mess that up he's a researcher and he says that there's this

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idea that living object in Japanese culture there's this idea that living

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objects or sorry inanimate objects are actually living and have some sort of

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soul attached to them and that through interacting with them people kind of

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imbue some sort of life with them and I don't know this is true or not I'm

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speculating that that's why I like Marie Kondo who was into the cleaning up

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while she wrote the book and thing she would say like you know thank you for

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serving your purpose like you know this thing sparks join me or like you've

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served of your purpose you no longer sport you don't actually say so this

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thing like you think a thing for serving its purpose to you and then you get rid

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of it and you say I you know I hope you have a good life you know carrying on

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serving purpose to the next individual or whatever which is a really interesting

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way to approach life a way to think about things and I think it's actually

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interesting and good because it kind of pushes against just like a like a

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heedless materialism and I don't think that's like the point of it because I

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think that something from Japanese culture that emerged before we had the

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capacity for materialism but it's definitely something that probably

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emerged in or it's definitely something that probably emerged it's probably

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something that emerged in a world where it was difficult to manufacture goods

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also there's the Japanese idea of like when a pot breaks you or like when

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something breaks you can mend it and you put this gold veining in it which is

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something that they pulled on specifically for like the the Rises

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Skywalker where Kylo Ren has that mask with all that red stuff in it they're

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pulling directly on that Japanese concept which I don't know the name of

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but it's really interesting and I think it's done mostly in pottery but it might

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be done in other things I don't know exactly I'm not an expert on all things

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Japanese I just like a lot of Japanese pop culture stuff so anyway that was

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all very interesting to me not yet so yeah there's this concept of vengeful

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machines we have it's okay we have this callback to the 1966 Ultraman but an

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even cooler callback that we have is and I remarked on this last review that I

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had no idea why Earth Gurun shut down in the middle of the operation against or

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not against really he was there to test but when Dorgo was there like why did

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the Earth Gurun shut down there was no explanation to it this episode has the

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explanation Earth Gurun shut down because this alien invader purposely had

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it shut down so we could use its weapon on it so that it could control it in

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this episode for its plant plan and plot to take over Earth so that's really

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interesting I'm really impressed that they seeded that and I think that was

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really cool it was a real great moment for the alien great moment for the

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writers great moment for the creative team it was all fantastic and hold on

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guys hold on okay I like that this alien refers to Earth Gurun as like an entity

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and there's been scenes that I've neglected mentioned the past few

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episodes where Earth Gurun has like opened his mouth and like almost like

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he's reacting to something and the alien called Earth Gurun he and so did I and I

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did previously because Earth Gurun really will you unbuckle him please

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Earth Gurun really seems to have a personality even though it's just a

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machine but then we also see that when Yasunaga was falling to his death and

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blazars racing to save him Earth Gurun gets there first and he catches him and

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then shuts down and it's because he was able to somehow break free from the

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aliens control and Yasunaga questions that at the end when he's talking to Genta

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he says maybe that was just a malfunction of some sort and it's not

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actually you know this other thing and I thought that was really an interesting

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take from him and I really liked seeing it happen in the body of the episode and

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I thought that was really cool especially because of it reminds me of

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that moment in Evangelion episode one when the arm of Eugenia one comes over

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and protects Shinji from falling debris that could have killed him or grievously

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injured him anyway so that's all really good guys I just need one more minute

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and then last thing I talked about or I'll talk about now which is what I

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talked about well any last thing I'll talk about now which is something that I

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didn't talk about previously or that I did actually talk about previously in

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the in my rapid blazing fast review of this episode is that I love the tactical

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transformation and that Gento blazar uses his rise to uppercut Earth Gurun and

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send him off into the water to a lake or whatever and that was super cool it

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looked great it was super fun it makes sense that if you could do that you

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would do that that's something that happened in Guyver the OVA when he would

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transform it would make this destructive bubble around him and he used it to

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destroy an enemy or kill an enemy at least a few times and anyway it's just

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really cool and it's cool to see it done here I'm sure I've seen it done with at

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least one other ultra but I don't remember who or when but it is something

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I like a lot and I think is very cool so that's super neat and then as far as the

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story is concerned like how deep is the story here how good is the story here I

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don't know I think the story is good and I think it's relatively deep or like at

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least interesting because it is this like hard sci-fi examination of like what it

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means to be a machine or like you know what it's like for machines to be used

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by humans and like you know the the analogy to Bondo Yasunobu about him

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being kind of treated like a machine and not regarded as having like a personal

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life and like limits to himself and just being pushed and pushed and pushed to

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work harder and harder and harder like without regard for who he is and his

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well-being and I think that's interesting it's not like a huge

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profound thing it's just kind of an interesting story to tell and it's

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interesting that it was told in this way and that it paralleled this alien

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invasion in this machine uprising concept so I liked a lot I thought it

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was pretty cool and that's about all I have to say about episode 6 of Blazar

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and yeah so this is I'm striving really hard while I'm working on finishing up

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my book and getting it ready to be self-published I'm working really hard to

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do that while also getting out all these Blazar episodes as quickly as I can so

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that I have like daily Ultraman content coming out including Ultraman Arc which

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I'm trying to get out pretty much as soon as I can as soon as I've watched it

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I'm trying to watch it as soon as I can but I have limitations so I can only

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watch it so fast so anyway I'm doing that and I invite you to join me as I

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continue going through Blazar at lightning speed and I invite you to

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check out my stories which I'll be releasing a book that I'll be releasing

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soon I'll be sharing little snippets of it here and there on the website

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MJMunions.com and yeah you can follow along to see what my progress is there

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I'm gonna be working on the illustrations this week probably this

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coming week for my chapters to put in the book because it's a middle grade

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book and it can have pictures in it and it's gonna be cool so anyway until next

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time folks take care the Ultra I hope you enjoyed that subscribe to

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conversation until next time be well this is MJ signing out this has been a

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story over everything production