1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,400 Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:03,400 This is MJ. 3 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:04,400 I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 4 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,680 You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 5 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,680 Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar Episode 12. 6 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,400 Let's go Blazar! 7 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,040 So I like this episode a lot. 8 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,440 I'm just going to go through my notes real quick and the first thing I have is Railgun 9 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:21,760 Godzilla. 10 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:29,760 I wonder how much fun the people who designed EarthGaron had with the design and what they 11 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,320 were thinking what their ambitions were. 12 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,960 As I've said previously, I think it makes a great toy. 13 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:39,320 Those action figure commercials make it look amazing and I'm sure if I was a kid I would 14 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,320 really want an EarthGaron for myself. 15 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,640 And I think it's great. 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:44,640 Good job. 17 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:45,800 Good job making him. 18 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:52,240 Seeing him with the modified Mega Shot, I think is what it was called, was amazing. 19 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,360 Honestly I thought those M2 or whatever they were called on his back, on his shoulders 20 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,560 were the Mega Shot but I guess they're really really big so they weren't the Mega Shot. 21 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,640 This was the Mega Shot and I just thought there's a dinosaur robot, like a Godzilla 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:12,600 robot with a Railgun in this show and it's amazing and I love it and I can't believe 23 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,040 that they did this. 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,040 It's incredible. 25 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,480 Such an incredible visual. 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaking of weapons, I like the Tilsonite Rod being used as a weapon by the DGF and 27 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:30,200 I like even more that somehow, and I had to look it up online to see what exactly is going 28 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,200 on here. 29 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:32,920 This doesn't quite make sense to me. 30 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:42,240 I don't remember how it came about exactly but basically Gento asked Blazar to help him 31 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:55,000 out a little bit and then in the midst of the fight this, it's a Garamon coin or stone 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:02,840 is formed and inserting that into the brace somehow makes it so the Tilsonite Rod which 33 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:13,480 comes from the Garamon is able to transform it into a sword which is a weapon with these 34 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,960 torietic aspects where it's got this thing you can pull on it and it can absorb energy 35 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,240 which isn't a trait of Garamon as far as I know. 36 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,400 Maybe it's a trait of Tilsonite, I'm not sure but it sure looked cool and it had a really 37 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,760 nice finish to it and some of it looked like the blue in Blazar. 38 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,640 So I'm trying to figure out what's this guy's power set and what does he do because he also 39 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:41,160 absorbed the Rainbow Serpent, he absorbed its power somehow and I guess now he's got 40 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:47,680 a Nijigagichi stone that he also uses so when he wants to use that power I guess he uses 41 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,680 that. 42 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,920 I don't know, I'm a little confused as to what's going on here but the sword looks freaking 43 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:56,480 cool and I like that it absorbed lightning and I like that he rode the lightning with 44 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,560 it and I almost feel like they repurposed his rising to have him coming down and it 45 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,800 almost looks like they just cut it and flipped it and then composited it back into the shot 46 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:12,880 to have him riding down the lightning to slice this particular Kaiju in half and that was 47 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:13,880 a cool finisher. 48 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,160 That was a cool finisher, it's a cool sword, it looks really good. 49 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:23,520 I think I prefer weapons to modes for Ultramen because modes are a weakness I think with 50 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:24,520 the Ultras. 51 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,640 Alright so switching gears a little bit here, Haruno mentioned a second wave which implies 52 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:33,320 a first wave and a possible third wave. 53 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,120 Who's giving him this intel? 54 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:36,120 When did the first wave happen? 55 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,520 Was that three years ago? 56 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,240 They've stopped the second wave now. 57 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,720 Is it waves of Kaiju coming from space? 58 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:48,000 We don't know what kind of Kaiju it was that attacked during the first incident three years 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,000 ago with Blazar. 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,840 We can presume it could have been one of those, a space Kaiju and maybe that's why space Kaiju 61 00:03:53,840 --> 00:04:00,120 are given a distinction from Earth Kaiju I guess you would call them or Terrestrial Kaiju. 62 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,080 Anyway so that's kind of interesting. 63 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,160 I think that's definitely going to play into the end game of the show or at least something 64 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,800 going on in a few more episodes. 65 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,940 Hopefully it's part of the bigger overarching plot but we'll see. 66 00:04:11,940 --> 00:04:15,400 I know the timeline doesn't really matter but I'm a little confused as to the fact that 67 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:22,600 it took apparently three years between the first incident of Blazar partnering with, 68 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:30,440 pairing with Gentel and the second one and that just seems kind of weird and I find that 69 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:31,440 to be interesting. 70 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,200 I wonder what's up with that although it looks like Ultraman Arc. 71 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:41,560 It took 16 years and that's also interesting although being that things started when Yuma 72 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:46,680 was a kid I can understand it taking a longer time but then again why couldn't Ultraman 73 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,680 be a kid? 74 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:53,760 There's actually an interesting anime that I've only watched part of. 75 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:59,680 The name of the show I was thinking of is Figure 17 and it's by Bandai Visual so there 76 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,360 we go that answers that conundrum. 77 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:08,760 So yeah I want to talk about in earnest the confusion that I had from episode 10 and how 78 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,480 it's resolved here because it is resolved here. 79 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:18,120 It's been celebrated into excitement for me and clarity as Gentel has learned that all 80 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:24,860 of Blazar's extreme violence is in the pursuit of making sure that Gentel goes back home 81 00:05:24,860 --> 00:05:25,860 basically. 82 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:32,280 There must be some sort of sharing the memories between them that's not expounded upon but 83 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:38,800 Gentel is seeing Blazar's memories so it stands to reason that Blazar sees Gentel's memories 84 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:45,320 as well and that's pretty interesting. 85 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:51,480 And when Gentel has held him back he held him back against killing the baby Kaiju and 86 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:52,480 the mama Kaiju. 87 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,720 We still don't know what happened to them though so that's kind of interesting but basically 88 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:04,840 Blazar seems to want to come out of the gate swinging as hard as he can so he can kill 89 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:11,920 whatever Kaiju they're fighting to protect Gentel and also to protect himself because 90 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,800 of their partnership that's practically tied together so there's a little bit of self-serving 91 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:20,740 aspect there and if you think about it or however if you think about it them serving 92 00:06:20,740 --> 00:06:24,320 the interest of saving themselves is also protecting the lives of a lot of innocent 93 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:25,320 people. 94 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:35,600 So there's a Kaiju and you go 50% against it and because of that weak showing the Kaiju 95 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:41,720 is allowed to live for longer and it wreaks all this havoc and destruction and mayhem 96 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:48,840 and millions of people are hurt but if you went hard right at the gate you would kill 97 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:55,120 the Kaiju eliminating the threat immediately and stopping it from hurting people. 98 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,960 Is there a good reason the Kaiju was attacking? 99 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,600 Is there some sort of mitigating factor? 100 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,480 Is it sad that you're killing the Kaiju parent of a Kaiju child? 101 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,760 All these different questions when they're putting the balance against the lives the 102 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,200 innocent lives that would be lost I can see the argument for saying no we're going to 103 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,640 go hard and we're going to kill this Kaiju that's causing a problem right here right 104 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,440 now in front of us because that's the best option that's going to make the best outcome 105 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:29,000 for the most people that Kaiju will die it's Kaiju baby or family or whatever will be sad 106 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:35,240 but millions of human lives will be saved millions of animal lives will be saved you 107 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,520 know flora and fauna will be destroyed different things like that. 108 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,760 Wasn't there a Kaiju that like cooked a mountain? 109 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,520 Think about how many animals died in that instance you know the size of the animal doesn't 110 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,600 affect the worthiness of its life so that's that's kind of interesting that's kind of 111 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,840 interesting. 112 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,520 Yeah so I hope you're ready for a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers tangent because I'm going to 113 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,480 go on one right now because it making these notes it made me think about something from 114 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,600 Power Rangers and I got to talk about it so I'm going to try to bring in Ark and Rising 115 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,960 as well a little bit here we'll see how well I do that. 116 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:12,960 So here goes. 117 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:18,160 All right so in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in I think the first episode maybe it's the 118 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,160 second probably the first we get to hear the Zorda Undoction of course that's not what 119 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,360 it's called in the show that's what I'm calling it here which is that you shall never escalate 120 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:33,720 you know the fighting so always let the enemy pull ahead of you and then transform so fight 121 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:39,040 un-morphed until fight the putties un-morphed I guess if there's a hundred putties you can 122 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:46,400 morph and then fight them if a general or whatever if an next level you know higher 123 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,920 ranking monster shows up then you transform to fight that guy you destroy him even if 124 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,920 he's difficult with your tactics and your teamwork and then only after he grows giant 125 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,600 you pull out the Megazord and kill him as opposed to you know putty show up you transform 126 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,000 right away kill him you're calling the Zord by the time the general or whatever shows 127 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,880 up you squash him with the Megazord as he's coming up you squash him again which yeah 128 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:14,440 I know that would ruin it that would make it so there wasn't a show Super Sentai doesn't 129 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:20,800 talk about that recently kids been watching Wild Force in the house and I've been paying 130 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:28,320 attention to that and it always comes as a shock that Toxica and the other guy are going 131 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,880 ahead and making the monsters grow giant and they're doing a second round battle and then 132 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,440 they call down the Zords right that's always kind of a surprise to the Rangers and there's 133 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:43,240 no Princess Shayla doesn't tell them like make sure you use the absolute minimal amount 134 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:49,480 of force or anything like that so it's just a very different philosophy and I almost wonder 135 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,920 if that Zordon doctrine was something stated to justify what was going on in the Sentai 136 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:01,480 footage Byram's Jetman which Pandora I don't know what her deal was I haven't watched you 137 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:10,040 Ranger and I watched Zyuranger but I haven't watched Zyuranger anyway so I couldn't tell 138 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:17,640 you what happened there and the way the mechanism that is built into that show for those monsters 139 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:23,120 to come back have the second round grow giant and do whatever they do and then have the 140 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,920 need for the mech arise or the need for the mech to rise but that's kind of interesting 141 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:35,040 so like Blazar explicitly the ultra Blazar is taking a totally different approach and 142 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,040 he's saying no we're going to go as hard as we can as fast we can we're going to kill 143 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,560 them as quickly as we can to eliminate further casualties only further damage we're going 144 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:52,080 to we're mitigating by killing as quickly as we can Ultraman Rising is unclear there 145 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:57,200 is not enough evidence there's not enough data for us to use to fully understand what 146 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:05,960 is going on Hayao talks about the need for balance I don't know what that means I hope 147 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,280 they know what that means and I hope it's not just something that sounds good in our 148 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:16,400 modern world but yeah I don't know what that mean for that need for balance means they 149 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:22,400 return Emi and Gigantron to Kaiju Island presumably he's been sending Kaiju back to Kaiju Island 150 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:28,360 as much as he could throughout history or his history I think 30 year history as Ultraman 151 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:34,160 and I don't know it's really interesting because we don't quite know what happened and we don't 152 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,180 know what the point of it is and we don't understand how Kaiju work in Ultraman Rising 153 00:11:39,180 --> 00:11:44,000 in that world so it's hard to say I frankly don't quite understand how Ultraman or how 154 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,960 Kaiju work in any of these Ultra Series because it's always rather vague and they don't really 155 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,720 get into the nitty-gritty of it and yeah they're giant monsters that need to be killed but 156 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,600 you know you shouldn't be happy about it I guess which I'm not saying Blazer is happy 157 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,880 about it he's just an enthusiastic killer of Kaiju even if he doesn't like having to 158 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:08,760 do it but when he decides he has to do it he does it with all his might and main with 159 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:18,420 all his them and vigor and that's just how he rolls so that's interesting so I would 160 00:12:18,420 --> 00:12:27,960 argue that I think it's easy to argue that the Zordon Doctrine causes more harm the Blazer 161 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:33,480 Doctrine mitigates harm Ark also seems to be like a very efficient destroyer of Kaiju 162 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:41,160 like he didn't try to save the rat Yuma recognizes Kaiju as like living beings and the first 163 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:48,320 one the Shaogon Don or whatever it was called like they seem to exist peacefully eating 164 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,920 rocks and that's it so like obviously you wouldn't want to kill those but like these 165 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:58,520 Kaiju they're growing giant they're a problem and he seems content for now to just kill 166 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,600 them it'll be interesting to see whether or not there's a questioning of killing Kaiju 167 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:10,320 episode in Ark as there was in Blazar sort of and as there was in Zet because I find 168 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,760 that interesting but a very interesting topic and I just boggles my mind that Ultraman hasn't 169 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,880 like more firmly dealt with that and made a decision about it because they seem to be 170 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,840 kind of of two minds about it the creators and here's the thing it's not one creator 171 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:28,120 Ultraman is many creators many creative teams giving their different input over time but 172 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:34,000 if you look at like Taguchi shows to see where he kind of falls out on that maybe you can 173 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:41,280 kind of see a thesis forming I'm not 100% sure so that's interesting to think about 174 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:47,880 and let's see the brutality of Blazar versus the clear stakes of Ark oh yeah such as Blazar 175 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:56,720 is brutal from go to stop to mitigate harm and Ark Yuma knows what's at stake so I think 176 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:02,080 he's content to kill a Kaiju in order to save those lives and I don't know what more else 177 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:07,640 I have to say about this episode I want to remind you to check out my writing projects 178 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:13,160 linked in the show notes will be a story for Ava and the Grow Bug which features a little 179 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:19,160 girl saving her parents after overcoming her fear she turns into a giant of light and rescues 180 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:25,120 them and then everything's peaceful and wonderful and there will be more stories like that with 181 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:31,160 these magical bugs battling monsters and I have a whole middle grade book that is about 182 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:36,600 23,000 words long to compare to another Tokusatsu person who turned to writing it's about it's 183 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:41,160 short a little shorter than the length of Skull Charlson's Terror Valley series those 184 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,320 books are I think he said they're around 25,000 words each so that's pretty cool and mine 185 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,560 is a little bit shorter just like 2,000 words shorter I think is what this first Grow Bug 186 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:55,560 book is and anyway yeah I'm excited about this book it's got Tokusatsu things in there 187 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:03,000 and if you're a Tokusatsu fan I think you'll enjoy it for sure and I'll be posting about 188 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:08,720 it as I get closer to the final production of it the final release in the actual publishing 189 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,680 of the book because I'm working on some things in the background to get it all finished and 190 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:20,720 ship shaped and ready to go also I'm continuing to cover Ultraman Ark and if things go well 191 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:27,480 after I'm done with Blazar I will jump over to covering Digimon stuff on a different channel 192 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,760 and I'll update links to that because I like Digimon so much and the more I see of like 193 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,720 the Japanese side of Digimon there's a lot of Ultraman stuff in there and I feel like 194 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:42,160 it's the people making the Digimon Adventure show at least were fans of Ultraman and they 195 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,840 took a lot of visual references from that and I'll share that kind of stuff later and 196 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:51,520 that's about it although I do have coming up a short that's going to talk about a effect 197 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:58,320 method that's used in both Ultraman Blazar episode 11 actually and Guyver 2 Dark Hero 198 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:05,320 which is pretty cool and I really like Guyver if you can't tell and I'll talk about I'll 199 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:11,320 talk about Ultraman Guyver in another short sometime and maybe I might even do a short 200 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:17,720 and a long and talk about it a bunch but anyway I gotta go I'm out of time and that's it until 201 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:42,760 next time folks take care be well be Ultra.