1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,440 I'm an analyzer. Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar episode 11 ESCAPE. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:12,320 So here we go. The first few moments of 11 definitely helped me feel better 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,600 about episode 10, which I obviously complained about in the last review. What 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,700 a relief. Like I said before, these people are not amateurs. They know what 6 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:23,700 they're doing. They've written successful and entertaining Ultraman 7 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:26,320 stories before, stories that I've liked, and it's good to see that it's going... 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,220 They're doing something. They're going somewhere with this. It's not just random 9 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:33,640 weirdness. So I like that Gento isn't even sure himself how they should deal 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,560 with Blazar. I think Yasunobu asks, what should we do if Blazar attacks? And he 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:43,140 says, play it by ear. And he just walks away. Captain Haruno is a scary guy. Both 12 00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:48,400 the actor and the voice actor are doing good work. The actor is Mayasa, yes, Mayasa 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,480 Kato, and Keith Silverstein is providing the voice and the English dub. And like 14 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,480 I said, I think they both do a really good job. He's got a really good 15 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,680 presence, great face, great like physicality to him. But then also 16 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,560 Silverstein's voice for him is like spot-on. The other guy, like his 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,760 English voice is appropriate for the character, but it's not so great. And 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,920 that's, I guess, I guess it's Haruno's superior. So I didn't like his 19 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,920 performance as well, at least on the voice side, but I definitely like 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:21,040 Silverstein's for Haruno. So that's a good thing, I guess. So Earth-Grun running 21 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,400 away is simultaneously silly and cute and cool. Like it's cool that the Kaiju 22 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,240 was like so powerful and such a threat that Earth-Grun had to run away, but also 23 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:34,560 just like the way he was running away was like pretty adorable. So I really 24 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,120 liked that. And you know, I like the the mix of weird things in my tokusatsu. 25 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,400 That's what makes it fun. I especially love how they used the building in the 26 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,760 foreground to switch it from running to flying. I just got a great idea for 27 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,160 another short video to do. We'll see if I do it. It has to do with Guyver again. 28 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,000 Guyver 2 Dark Hero. Anyway, so there's great effects work going on there. 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,720 And it's magical. Like it's magical the fact that it's so cute with him running. 30 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,200 And it's also magical that they use that cute run into a fly of like, oh no, I'm 31 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,320 really dangerous. So he flies, but it's happening behind a building. So you can't 32 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,560 see as he's passing through the transition to a different model or to a 33 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,720 CGI or whatever they're doing. So you know, or he's on wires, whatever it is. 34 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,120 But it's really cool and I like what they're doing. 35 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:21,920 Blazor blocking with his feet is so cool. I'm pretty sure I made it the, like one 36 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:24,680 of the featured images on the thumbnail, because it's just so cool. It's 37 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,280 like an amazing thing to think about doing. And I haven't really seen it done much. 38 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,400 I haven't really seen it done much. I can think there's like a, there's like pairing 39 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,240 kicks in, again, in Guyver 2 Dark. Why am I doing with Guyver 2 Dark so much? Anyway, in 40 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,200 Guyver 2 Dark Hero, there's like these pairing kicks that these two Guyvers do 41 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:48,280 against each other, which is really fun. And let me just see. Okay, yeah. So getting 42 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:53,920 back to Blazor and talking about this actual show, I'm gonna say it like this. 43 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,920 Bruce Campbell and Jim Carrey, among others, have done wonderful two minds in 44 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:03,480 one body performances. See Dead by Dawn and Liar Liar if you want to know what I'm 45 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,680 talking about. And this performance by Hideyoshi Iwata, who's the suit actor for 46 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:13,920 Ultraman Blazor and Zed and a bunch of others since Nexus, I believe. He's doing 47 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:17,040 a great job. It's one of the great performances, I believe, of a suit actor 48 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,800 doing multiple things. I thought about mentioning Takara Sato from Kenshin but 49 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,440 more Deno, but I think that's different. I haven't seen enough of Deno to know if 50 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,840 he's switching between the two different characters or not, but definitely here 51 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,040 Iwata is portraying both Gento and Blazor as they're fighting with each 52 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,640 other and he's pulling, I think Gento's pulling him away from the battle and 53 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,240 things like that, and it's really interesting what's going on there. It 54 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,280 really felt like Gento and Blazor were at odds with each other and struggling to 55 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,160 figure out how to talk to each other and how to communicate and how to do this, 56 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,320 you know, battle. And it felt like, like I kept thinking like, oh that's Gento 57 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,520 acting, oh that's Blazor, like not acting like, you know, I'm doing a performance, 58 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:03,360 you know. That's supposed to be the skull hamlet. Anyway, so like I felt like there 59 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,200 were two characters inhabiting the same body, taking on different actions. I 60 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,760 really felt that as I watched the episode and it was a lot of fun. It was 61 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,840 really cool to see. So fantastic performance by Iwata. Okay, so earlier in 62 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:22,800 the episode they mentioned that this new meteor kaiju, which is a space kaiju and 63 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,880 it's called Kabalga, he could be especially bad for Earth's ecology. I 64 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,320 want to know are they just saying that or are we going to see more on that? 65 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,040 Maybe in the next episode we'll see how like an Earth, how the Earth can be 66 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,000 negatively affected by a space kaiju. I guess it's like an invasive species, it 67 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,240 can cause issues, but like what are those issues? I don't really know. I hope we see 68 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,360 more on that in the next episode. This is a two-parter so I don't want to like 69 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,040 really stretch out my description of the story or my thoughts on the story 70 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,560 because I pretty much, I wrote a bunch of notes and I read through all of them so 71 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,960 that's pretty much all I have to say. I like this episode a lot and I'm looking 72 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,960 forward to see where it goes and how Gento and Blazar solve their 73 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:05,840 differences or get on the same page with each other or whatever. Yeah, that's 74 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:10,440 about it. So until next time folks, take care. Go to mjwinyos.com, check out 75 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,440 my book work going on. I'm writing tokusatsu inspired books and I'm working 76 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:21,200 on finishing and finalizing a book to release that is inspired by Ultraman 77 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,280 and other things and I hope you check that out. I hope you look into that. In the 78 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,720 show notes there's a link to a story that's very much inspired by Ultraman 79 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,520 that has a little girl saving, for now it's saving her parents, and she does 80 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,440 that by ultimately at the end conquering her fear, overcoming her fear, and then 81 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,160 transforming into a giant of light to defeat the enemy. And I believe it is 82 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,760 literally distinct from Ultraman but it's enough in the spirit of Ultraman 83 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,880 that people who like Ultraman will dig it. And I think it's a good story on its own 84 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,600 right. I think it's a good story for kids and that's really all I have to say 85 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,040 about that. So check out my continuing arc coverage and my continuing Blazar 86 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,000 coverage and I want you to be aware of all the other stuff I'm doing and I'll 87 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:06,520 bring it up at a later date. Until next time, take care, be well, be Ultra. I hope 88 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,600 you enjoyed that. Subscribe to keep up with me, like and share to help me reach 89 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,280 more people like you, and go to MJMunoz.com to find your next favorite 90 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:19,080 thing. And don't forget to let your voice be heard. Stories are always better when 91 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:24,480 you're part of the conversation. Until next time, be well. This is MJ signing out. 92 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:39,920 This has been a Story Over Everything production.