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Henshin 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 Ultraman Arc Episode 5, Ocean on the

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Mountain Ridge. So I have some questions about this episode, or really some

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statements, which is this mostly. Something feels unfinished about this

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episode. It almost felt like there was something sinister going on with the

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dinosaur expert, and I want to know if anybody else felt that. Either that or

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the way that Hiroshi, the captain of Skip, interacted with him. It was

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like he was acting too intense when he was watching him on the TV. It

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didn't seem like, now that we know what happened, and of course the episode

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didn't end their lives, that he was just thinking about the fact that he wanted

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to go into the research, the Kaiju fossil research, or he got turned down

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by his sensei, and he's like, oh no that can't be a real fossil of a dinosaur or

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something. And they didn't know about Kaiju, because Kaiju Day happened ten

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years ago, or 14 years ago, and ten years ago Skip was born, and he joined it. But

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he was in school, and he had made this discovery at this Hoshimoto City, or this

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mountaintop. Captain Hiroshi made that discovery more than 14 years

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ago, before the Kaiju came. I'm not sure what was being said by that. I'm not

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sure where that was supposed to be going, but it almost felt like he was

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heartbroken or distraught, or like his life was ruined because he didn't get to

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be a paleontologist, and he didn't get credit for discovering this thing.

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Maybe it's because now the professor is giving credit for discovering

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this thing, this giant, I guess I think it's

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a Livyagera skull fossil that they find. I'm pretty sure that the

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image goes by so quick it was hard to tell honestly what it was.

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I can pull it up right now and see. As long as it's quiet.

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Yeah, so I'm not exactly sure what was going on there, but it felt like it was

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really intense, or like something really bad had happened, and things were really

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wrong, and I was a little confused by that. So that's kind of weird.

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It's kind of weird. So a little unfortunate, but I don't know. Maybe it's

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fine. And let me see. Here's the official channel, here's videos, here's episode 5.

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It's before the credits. Let's see if... Let's see. I'm scanning through. So yeah,

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Captain Orochi's looking real sad and real serious. Okay, so it's the flooding

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that happens very quickly, and that we don't get to see very well, but yeah we

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do basically get to see the skull of the thing shown on TV, a photo of

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Livajira fossil, which is why he calls it Livajira later. I was thinking, why did he come up

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with the name all of a sudden on the spot? But he didn't. He actually knew that.

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So it's the Daiko Mountain Ridge by the way, if that matters. So anyway, that's

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kind of interesting. So yeah, you see the Livajira skull, and huh, very interesting.

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Very interesting. Huh, anyway, so moving on. Moving on, getting back to my notes. I

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found all that very interesting, and I felt like there was something undone

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there, unsaid, unfinished, but I don't know. You tell me if you think I'm crazy, if

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I'm like misreading the episode. I don't know. Anyway, okay, so the kaiju was very

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cool. Livajira is great. It's got a great design. I love the name. It comes from

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the Hebrew for Leviathan and the Japanese for whale. So Godzilla or Gojira is a

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combination of gorilla and a whale, and this kaiju, Livajira, is a Leviathan whale.

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Basically, that would be the translation of it, and that's neat because Leviathan or

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Leviathan, as it's called in Hebrew, is likely the oldest kaiju in world history,

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which I think is pretty cool. So yeah, if you don't know Leviathan from the Bible,

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it's mentioned in the book of Job and Psalms, and I'm not sure where else,

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but it's this giant water creature, sea serpent, potentially, maybe. We don't

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really know. The details are pretty slim on it, but anyway, that's, you know, it's

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there, so it's pretty cool that they called it that, and I appreciate the

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reference, especially super I haven't been a Catholic. It's nice to see biblical

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references in here. Somewhere like Belial is also a biblical reference that comes

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from Psalms as well. So let's see. Oh, I like arcing the kaiju with the tree.

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That was a lot of fun, and his imagination brain blast thing was simple

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and fun, and I guess he used the barrier to disrupt the bubble shield, I think, or

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like the the bubble net, the cloud that Livagere was making around him that Art

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couldn't see through, but Livagere could see through the sonar. He like displaced

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that somehow, and then he ended up finding him and corking him with the tree,

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which was pretty great. That's me being Art calling the Livagere and then

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shoving the tree down his spout, I guess. So anyway, I liked how the underwater battle was done.

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It balanced clever effects, worked with cool action, and took advantage of the

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setting. Like I said, to have him be unable to see and have Livagere be able

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to see with the echo location, but you know they used the fact that there was

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water and it could be distorted more easily than air, for example. If he was

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like, I guess he was like a smoke emitting monster, he could, or a fog

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emitting monster, he could do that, but he wasn't, and that's not where they were.

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They were under the water, so they used that setting well, and I think that was

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pretty cool. This concept of wings of imagination is neat. It's a neat

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connection and a way to make ARK be the thing that inspires imagination in kids

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as well as showing gratitude towards previous shows and stories that have

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done the same. So what do we mean by that? So also SuperEye has this whole

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imagination thing. They've had the Suwarae imagination with a little

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bing, and also now they're saying like fantasy, imagination, and something else.

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So they're using that in a lot of their marketing, and I feel like ARK is

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definitely trying to capitalize on that marketing, which is something I've

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mentioned before, but I would imagine that they're saying things like the

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original Ultraman or Ultra Q or Godzilla, or like there's other things out there

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that have made, like SuperEye, the story goes, that he would climb up into trees

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as a kid, as he's SuperEye, and like look at the, I don't know if you would look at the

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planes flying and imagine stuff, imagine he was flying, or if he would just look up in

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the sky and imagine, he had some sort of plane fascination he would use his

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imagination to have fun as a kid climbing up in trees and looking up at

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the sky and stuff. And like that's, I think the idea is that's what part of what

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drove his creativity and his desire to do these sorts of things and let him

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his career working in Tokusatsu, you know, working on Godzilla and other

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TOHO products, and then finally, you know, his own thing with Ultraman

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and such, or Ultra Q and Ultraman. But anyway, I think like, it's almost like

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this guy's homaging like, you know, for Americans, Mr. Rogers, or something like

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that, because he talked about imagination too, but like it's homaging that and

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it's saying like, yeah, but we're also that thing for this generation, the

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current kids who are watching, and I think that's pretty cool, and I like the

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idea that, you know, Ark looks at the situation is like, I'm gonna figure this

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out, and then he does, you know, use his imagination to get out of sticky

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situations, and that's exactly what we should be teaching kids to do, and you

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know, if this show helps some kids with that, that's great, it's wonderful, and it

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should, you know, it should inspire and it should compel kids on, and not just to be,

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you know, sitting there consuming the show. They should be doing something with

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it after they've taken it in, right? Let me see. Okay, so as an aside, do they

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cast to write, or do they write hoping to pull in certain cast members? Like, do

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they write the script thinking we want to get the guy who played a bari red, or do

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they cast a bari red, and then they're like, you know, we should do a story

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around him. So Kuichiro Onishi plays Hiroshi Ban here in the show, which is the

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skip captain, but he also portrayed Avarad, who is called Ryuga Hakua in

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Avarad. I've never watched Avarad, I don't know. And so he mentions something about being a dinosaur

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kid to our guy, to Yuma, and you know, therefore he was a fan of the

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professor, and then he went to go work for him when he got older, and I'm just

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thinking like, how does it work? Did they cast him, and then they said we'll make a

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story around him, or did they write this story with this character and think,

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let's hope we can get Kuichiro Onishi because he played this character, and he's

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also been in previous Ultraman stuff as well, I believe, at least one other

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Ultraman show as another character. So I don't know, it's just kind of interesting, and

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I don't know the question on that, and if you know, I'd love for you to tell me, but

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if not, that's okay. Anyway, that's all I have for now, so until next time folks,

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