HENSHIN inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.
You can find all my work at MJ MUNOZ.COM So this is Ultraman Ark episode 6.5 slash episode
special recap, recap number one, something about the Fujiyama branch of skip. Anyway,
I don't remember the whole thing. I didn't watch the actual episode so I'm not going
to talk about it. It was very much a clip episode and it flew by really quickly, partly
because I was watching it in one point, one and a quarter speed and partly because I was
listening to the the the dub and I'm going to I'm going to make a little bit of a fool
myself here. The guy who doesn't work for Subaru officially, although maybe he does
in some unofficial capacity, mock or Mike mock dent. He was there doing the commentary
along with a gentleman who I like ease. I can't remember his name. I'm not going to
butcher it right now. I may put it in the show notes he works for. He's the editor in
chief, I think he said of Ultraman Connection, which is pretty cool because Ultraman Connection
is a site I've used minimally. But, you know, maybe I'll check it out more. I didn't realize
that stuff was going up there. Like Ishido's shoe, as the guy called him, Ishido's like
diary or whatever, which sounds pretty cool. I like Ishido. There's, you know, little lore
bits are being dropped in there and I think it'd be curious to check that out. So it's
not a promise. It's not an oath. I'm not swearing to do it, but I think it's something cool
to check out. So at UC, as he called it, or UltramanConnection.com, you can find a bunch
of stuff and I'll link to I'll do my best to link to Ishido's diaries there. That way
it gives me a head start on checking it out myself. And then you want to check it out
yourself. But anyway, that's pretty interesting. Oh, the commentary was very interesting. I
liked it a lot. I don't know. I haven't watched much of Ultra Q. I watched the two episodes
that CytrixR suggested that I watched. But apparently there's a Peter, who's a kaiju,
a kaiju named Peter, in Ultra Q. And like the two of them, especially the other guy,
the older guy, I assume he's a little bit older than Mike. He like lost his mind at
Peter. And there were even comments in the YouTube, you know, there were comments on
the YouTube channel or page or whatever. People saying, Peter, Peter, Peter, whatever. And
it's kind of funny. So apparently there's this Peter character from Ultra Q, who was
a kaiju and he played a, you know, some sort of role. I don't know. I don't know anything
about him other than that he was referenced in this episode. So it's kind of fun that
they're taking that, you know, Ultraman arc is in this separate, totally separate universe,
and the kaiju incursions have just started happening, but they're still pulling from
older Ultraman stuff to go ahead and like world build or put different things in there.
And I'm assuming that Peter would have been one of the kaiju who emerged after K-Day,
you know, so within 16, maybe 15 years ago, 16 years ago, whatever. And as well as like
Red King and some of the others that they've shown to us in like the news rules and stuff
that arc has fought over the last three months since he's been arc officially. So that was
kind of fun, kind of interesting. Well, actually the commentary was great. I really hope they
do more commentaries because it was a lot of fun. Like I don't like, I have nothing
against Mock Dent or Mike Dent, whatever. I have nothing against him. I also have nothing
for him. I've enjoyed vintage mention his YouTube channel, which I don't think is really
active anymore, but he's done some cool stuff on there. And I believe, what did I, I probably
got originally introduced to him through Henshin Justice Unlimited, you know, like over a
decade ago when I first started getting back into Tokusatsu or into Tokusatsu proper after
having been a Power Rangers watcher for a while. Mostly I think I probably watched for like
seven years straight, took a little bit of a break, came back for Tommy and Daniel Thunder
and then kind of had an on and off relationship with it after that. I know, I don't think
I watched Jungle Fury as it was live, but I definitely did watch some of Ninja Storm
and it was, it was okay. Anyway, Ham's the best by the way. Anyway, so getting back to
this, like, so I don't really have, you know, strong opinions about Mr. Dent. Other than
to say that I've enjoyed his work in the past and he's a fun guy, seems like a decent fellow.
I hate to kill him. And, sorry. Anyway, so it's just, it was a fun commentary. It was
really enjoyable. I don't know if you noticed, but he's cut promos for Shout Factory, I think,
or is it for, yeah, I guess he's got promos for Shout Factory and what else has he done?
Oh, he was the AI voice on Ultraman Z. You know, Windom is loading into the safety area.
Windom, full power. Kaiju attacks, that's him. And, yeah, I don't know. I don't want
to get too sidetracked. It was just, like, it was nice to be able to watch the clip episode
with no pressure of, like, oh, I'm going to really watch this hard to see what's going
to happen here. And I don't know if they produced it in a more casual way and, well, keeping
in mind that they might want to do an English commentary or if when they got the episode,
like, they, the dub team, I guess you could say, which I would love to know more about
the dub team, that would be super interesting for somebody to go into, if they said, like,
we're just a little fan, let's just do a commentary, let's do something else. And I think it was
good. I think it's good to point people back to Ultraman Connection and to encourage people
to check that out and to be more aware of that because maybe people aren't. And I don't
know, I think it was a good thing to do. I think, like, you know, Dent is a fan and,
like, including, you know, he's a fan, but he's also kind of a professional because he
does voice acting, right? And he's been in a show, he's been in an Ultraman show. So,
like, he's a friend, he's a potential or a professional, he, like, bridges that gap.
And I think it's interesting to have him there as kind of, like, an ambassador to, like,
pull people in. I think it's a very clever marketing move. Again, Super Rise, the classiest
tokusatsu outfit out there and I love what they're doing. And yeah, I enjoyed the heck
out of this clip episode because of the commentary. And I don't know, I really hope this is what
they did for the next one as well because there probably will be one more because I'm
in my Blazar rewatch or really first time watch, but, you know, from, yeah, I'm watching
Blazar from the future in the past or something like that. I know there's at least two specials,
if not, like, a third one too right before, like, episode twenty-two, episode twenty-two,
I think was another special recap type thing. So anyway, yeah, that's all I have to say.
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it and because of not the content of the episode, but the content
of the commentary and it was a lot of fun and I hope it's something that we get to see
more of in the future. And that's about it. So until next time, folks, take care, be well,
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