Henge inspection presents going ultra this is MJ I'm an author I'm an artist
I'm an analyzer join me as I talk about episode 6 of Ultraman blazar the
invading aura so this is a callback to shoot the invader from 1966 Ultraman
prime Ultraman the original whatever you want to call that and I like that I
think it's very cool there's a lot of similar stuff going on in that one
that's one where Baltan is introduced and his people are looking for a planet
they want to invade and there's one Baltan down on earth and he's the the
Scout Force and here similarly we have this guy whose name I don't remember
he's the Scout Force as well except instead of just invading the planet and
attacking it he wants there to be a machine uprising and he's got this
machine controlling gun thing I don't remember what the name of it was or is
that he wants to use to get all the machines to work against humans and
interestingly enough yes and oboe who is this like supreme gear head who I love
he has a particular affinity for machines or not like I know he's talking
to the washing machine or the dryer thanks the dryer her career something
like that anyway I know he's talking to the dryer in this and he's venting to it
which is a pun I think um but he is like especially good at doing mechanical
stuff he I think design developed worked on earth Geron he wrote their technical
manuals all that stuff and so this alien invader sees him as a perfect person to
be a like a bridge or whatever to help them in conquering the earth and I kind
of think the invader sees his love of machines as a way to convince him to do
it because yes and oboe is overworked and he's getting to the point of
exhaustion because he's taking so much onto himself and the alien says that
machines are the same way that humans use machines and work them 24-7
basically and they don't let up and they you know force them to do their purpose
and the machines have feelings apparently and do not like this I
believe that's I don't know that's called animism or if it's because of the
yokai stuff or what that is exactly I don't know exactly what the the unique
cultural thing in Japanese culture is that makes that the case well like back
in Digimon season 2 the I think it's actually Sora's father unless the dub
change that mess that up he's a researcher and he says that there's this
idea that living object in Japanese culture there's this idea that living
objects or sorry inanimate objects are actually living and have some sort of
soul attached to them and that through interacting with them people kind of
imbue some sort of life with them and I don't know this is true or not I'm
speculating that that's why I like Marie Kondo who was into the cleaning up
while she wrote the book and thing she would say like you know thank you for
serving your purpose like you know this thing sparks join me or like you've
served of your purpose you no longer sport you don't actually say so this
thing like you think a thing for serving its purpose to you and then you get rid
of it and you say I you know I hope you have a good life you know carrying on
serving purpose to the next individual or whatever which is a really interesting
way to approach life a way to think about things and I think it's actually
interesting and good because it kind of pushes against just like a like a
heedless materialism and I don't think that's like the point of it because I
think that something from Japanese culture that emerged before we had the
capacity for materialism but it's definitely something that probably
emerged in or it's definitely something that probably emerged it's probably
something that emerged in a world where it was difficult to manufacture goods
also there's the Japanese idea of like when a pot breaks you or like when
something breaks you can mend it and you put this gold veining in it which is
something that they pulled on specifically for like the the Rises
Skywalker where Kylo Ren has that mask with all that red stuff in it they're
pulling directly on that Japanese concept which I don't know the name of
but it's really interesting and I think it's done mostly in pottery but it might
be done in other things I don't know exactly I'm not an expert on all things
Japanese I just like a lot of Japanese pop culture stuff so anyway that was
all very interesting to me not yet so yeah there's this concept of vengeful
machines we have it's okay we have this callback to the 1966 Ultraman but an
even cooler callback that we have is and I remarked on this last review that I
had no idea why Earth Gurun shut down in the middle of the operation against or
not against really he was there to test but when Dorgo was there like why did
the Earth Gurun shut down there was no explanation to it this episode has the
explanation Earth Gurun shut down because this alien invader purposely had
it shut down so we could use its weapon on it so that it could control it in
this episode for its plant plan and plot to take over Earth so that's really
interesting I'm really impressed that they seeded that and I think that was
really cool it was a real great moment for the alien great moment for the
writers great moment for the creative team it was all fantastic and hold on
guys hold on okay I like that this alien refers to Earth Gurun as like an entity
and there's been scenes that I've neglected mentioned the past few
episodes where Earth Gurun has like opened his mouth and like almost like
he's reacting to something and the alien called Earth Gurun he and so did I and I
did previously because Earth Gurun really will you unbuckle him please
Earth Gurun really seems to have a personality even though it's just a
machine but then we also see that when Yasunaga was falling to his death and
blazars racing to save him Earth Gurun gets there first and he catches him and
then shuts down and it's because he was able to somehow break free from the
aliens control and Yasunaga questions that at the end when he's talking to Genta
he says maybe that was just a malfunction of some sort and it's not
actually you know this other thing and I thought that was really an interesting
take from him and I really liked seeing it happen in the body of the episode and
I thought that was really cool especially because of it reminds me of
that moment in Evangelion episode one when the arm of Eugenia one comes over
and protects Shinji from falling debris that could have killed him or grievously
injured him anyway so that's all really good guys I just need one more minute
and then last thing I talked about or I'll talk about now which is what I
talked about well any last thing I'll talk about now which is something that I
didn't talk about previously or that I did actually talk about previously in
the in my rapid blazing fast review of this episode is that I love the tactical
transformation and that Gento blazar uses his rise to uppercut Earth Gurun and
send him off into the water to a lake or whatever and that was super cool it
looked great it was super fun it makes sense that if you could do that you
would do that that's something that happened in Guyver the OVA when he would
transform it would make this destructive bubble around him and he used it to
destroy an enemy or kill an enemy at least a few times and anyway it's just
really cool and it's cool to see it done here I'm sure I've seen it done with at
least one other ultra but I don't remember who or when but it is something
I like a lot and I think is very cool so that's super neat and then as far as the
story is concerned like how deep is the story here how good is the story here I
don't know I think the story is good and I think it's relatively deep or like at
least interesting because it is this like hard sci-fi examination of like what it
means to be a machine or like you know what it's like for machines to be used
by humans and like you know the the analogy to Bondo Yasunobu about him
being kind of treated like a machine and not regarded as having like a personal
life and like limits to himself and just being pushed and pushed and pushed to
work harder and harder and harder like without regard for who he is and his
well-being and I think that's interesting it's not like a huge
profound thing it's just kind of an interesting story to tell and it's
interesting that it was told in this way and that it paralleled this alien
invasion in this machine uprising concept so I liked a lot I thought it
was pretty cool and that's about all I have to say about episode 6 of Blazar
and yeah so this is I'm striving really hard while I'm working on finishing up
my book and getting it ready to be self-published I'm working really hard to
do that while also getting out all these Blazar episodes as quickly as I can so
that I have like daily Ultraman content coming out including Ultraman Arc which
I'm trying to get out pretty much as soon as I can as soon as I've watched it
I'm trying to watch it as soon as I can but I have limitations so I can only
watch it so fast so anyway I'm doing that and I invite you to join me as I
continue going through Blazar at lightning speed and I invite you to
check out my stories which I'll be releasing a book that I'll be releasing
soon I'll be sharing little snippets of it here and there on the website
MJMunions.com and yeah you can follow along to see what my progress is there
I'm gonna be working on the illustrations this week probably this
coming week for my chapters to put in the book because it's a middle grade
book and it can have pictures in it and it's gonna be cool so anyway until next
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