1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Ancient Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:06,800 You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,500 Join me as I talk about Ultraman Blazar episode 23, which is titled something something. 4 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:15,800 Let me find it. Oh, visitor 99. That's what it's called. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:26,000 The kaiju featured in this episode are Togannular, Deltendal, Fidrin, and Varawan, who we'll learn more about later. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,300 But anyway, let me talk about the episode. Overall, I liked this episode a lot. 7 00:00:32,300 --> 00:00:37,800 I was kind of debating. My initial thoughts were more Deltendal, why are we getting at least repeat kaiju? 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,600 And then when we saw more Togannular, I thought, okay, why are we getting at least Togannular? 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:48,600 It's really irritating. But the way the episode went, the way it unfolded, it really bought, it got buy-in for me. 10 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:55,600 I totally believe, well, the Deltendal I'm not sure about, the Togannular, I totally understand what's going on with them. 11 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:00,600 And I find this premise really interesting. So I made a thing of it, so I'm going to go through them one by one. 12 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:07,100 And I'm going to start with the thing I like least, which is I thought Haruno had already been dismissed or suspended or whatever. 13 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:14,100 What's going on? I read through the wiki and he was dismissed in, I can't remember which episode, but it was a few episodes ago. 14 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:20,600 He took full responsibility for whatever Scar did that was against orders, which it was good they went against orders. 15 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:28,100 But I'm trying to figure out, like, is there conspiracy at the very top with certain people who are, like, keeping the V-99 thing secret 16 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:33,100 and they want the aliens to come or have some of the V-99, like, I don't know. 17 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:38,600 I'm confused. So you've got V-99, you've got the third wave. Those seem like separate issues, you've got Lab 66. 18 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:45,100 Lab 66 is where Feirdun came from. It seems like it's possible Lab 66 was used to open up a wormhole to pull Blazar through 19 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:53,600 and maybe Feirdun and other things in order to fight the coming... the V-lon... V-lono or whoever. 20 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,100 The guy's name is the Kaiju that came in through the distortion in space. So, like, I don't really get what's going on. 21 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:07,100 They're keeping it all very mysterious and it's a little frustrating because the lack of clarity is making things seem dumb, 22 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:12,100 making things seem inconsistent, making things seem confusing. And I find that really to be frustrating. 23 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:20,100 I do like where we're going, that we're seeing that... So, and that goes all back to, like, who suspended Harnow? 24 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:24,100 Because Harnow was getting secret phone calls from people talking to him about the third wave or whatever. 25 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:27,100 So, like, he knows what's coming, sort of, and he's trying to prepare for that. 26 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:32,100 And that's probably why EarthGurren was designed the way it was. They didn't know they could count on Ultraman 27 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:37,100 or maybe they were expecting to get an Ultra or something like it three years ago and it seems to have failed 28 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:45,100 when the whole Lab 66 thing blew up. And, like, the old man whose name I will look up real quick was being protected... 29 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:49,100 Let me answer Harnow... 30 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:56,100 Next to Genular, GGF, Moon Waran, Dobashi. Dobashi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 31 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:00,100 So, Dobashi... The old man that was being protected is Dobashi. 32 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:04,100 Dobashi was being protected by, among other people, Gento Hiruma. 33 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:08,100 Hiruma maybe possibly sort of died there, but that's where he made contact with Blazer. 34 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:11,100 They reached out and grabbed each other's hands, right? 35 00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:19,100 I think that was related to the Lab 66. Not that the Lab 66 wormhole machine or whatever was at the location of that building, 36 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:25,100 but maybe it could have been. Maybe it's portable enough. I don't know. I don't remember when Emmy's father went missing. 37 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:28,100 So, it's interesting. This is behind the other all these plot threads, but it's like, they're a little too desperate. 38 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:33,100 It's a little too much. I think I'm struggling with it as an adult who analyzes stories, not as a living, 39 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:36,100 but as a vocation, as a hobby, as a joy in my life. 40 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:40,100 And I'm having a hard time piecing it together, and I think kids would have you having a harder time piecing it together. 41 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:45,100 I don't know if watching the little specials that appear in between episodes would help to keep things straighter, 42 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:49,100 but it's really frustrating because it seemed like Hara Nob was gone, and he was out of there. 43 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:54,100 I didn't realize he'd just been suspended, and when was he reinstated? When was his suspension lifted? I don't know. 44 00:03:54,100 --> 00:04:02,100 But he appears at the end of this episode, episode 23, to talk to one of the big guys in the show, or in the military, 45 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:09,100 the GGF, and I don't know what that means. It's very strange. It's very kind of confusing. 46 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:13,100 So yeah, it's strange that he's not there anymore. 47 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:21,100 I already talked about Blazar killing Gento slowly, killing him softly with his noises, with his trills, 48 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:29,100 so we won't go back over that. But I'm wondering about Tegenular being part of Earth's Kaiju Defense Force. 49 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:34,100 See what I did there? KDF? Ultraman Rising? No? You don't? Okay, nevermind. 50 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:42,100 So Tegenular apparently is a good guy. And also it's cool, there are like class 60 meter, class 30 meter, class 20 meter Tegenulars, 51 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,100 so there's Tegenular of different size, which totally makes sense. They should grow at different rates, 52 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:49,100 but I like that they have been classed by their height, basically, which is pretty cool. 53 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,100 Pretty cool little detail I picked up on watching the episode. 54 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:59,100 But my main point is, it's interesting that Tegenular is apparently part of the Earth's Kaiju Defense Force. 55 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:06,100 They mentioned that there's some part of the ecology of Kaiju on Earth that they can sense or detect Kaiju coming from outer space, 56 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:14,100 and they can help combat those Kaiju. So earlier when Tegenular were going for those Simpy Cups full of energy, 57 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:19,100 when they were going for the Inutron, they were doing it so they could power themselves up to shoot a beam. 58 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:24,100 So they're like the artillery basically of the Kaiju Defense Force of Earth, which is like a wonderful, amazing... 59 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:27,100 Now I'm thinking about a Super Sentai team made of Kaiju. Anyway... 60 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:33,100 Now I'm thinking about a Super Sentai team made of Kaiju. 61 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:38,100 It is well my own mind. Anyway, I guess that's what Zords are, right? Mega Zords or whatever? 62 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:48,100 Anyway, so that's really interesting. So like what other Earth Kaiju in this series have been doing things to help combat the threat of this Valoran 63 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:55,100 who's, you know, that's Varuan. That's a spoiler, I guess. It's like the guy who landed on the moon because of distortion got messed up. 64 00:05:55,100 --> 00:06:03,100 And like... Where is this all coming from? So these people, some sort of intelligent race came and visited humans some time ago, 65 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:11,100 maybe three years ago. No, no, in 1999. That's when it was. When your girl Emi was born, I guess. Yeah. 66 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:19,100 Tell me when they were actually visited, 1999? I guess. Anyway, so they visited at a time and like warned humans that this guy was coming to destroy, 67 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:25,100 so like did he ravage their planet? And he's like going from planet to planet sucking up resources. They're like locusts. 68 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:30,100 Like is that what's going on? I don't really know. It's a lone Kaiju. I don't see how he's part of a bigger group, but he could be. 69 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:36,100 He could have like a second connection with other Kaiju and they all swarm the planet and suck it dry and then leave its husk and go to the next one. 70 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:46,100 I don't know. I don't know how that works. But anyway, it's interesting to me to think about what other Kaiju are working for this Kaiju Defense Force 71 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:51,100 and like Taganular's artillery, like what other rules do they play and which other Kaiju could it be? 72 00:06:51,100 --> 00:07:01,100 Because I'm trying to think of all the new Kaiju for the show, for Blazor. I would think it would be the new, the Blazor exclusive or Blazor 73 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:06,100 first appearance Kaiju would be the ones, but I don't know who they are and I'm not going to go into that right now. 74 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,100 Maybe somebody could help me in the comments with that if they knew off the top of their head. 75 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:16,100 Also, like why is it Earth Kaiju versus Space Kaiju? Or is it, you know, because it's not really Space Kaiju, right? 76 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:23,100 It's Kaiju from one planet to another planet. So they mentioned that it's like this is the home territory of the Taganular and other Earth Kaiju. 77 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:27,100 So they would want to defend against Space Kaiju, but like why wouldn't Kaiju just get along? 78 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:32,100 And that implies that there's other planetoids or planets that have a similar living conditions as Earth 79 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:36,100 and think that Kaiju could travel from one to the other is kind of interesting. 80 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:42,100 Kind of, I don't know what to make of that. Anyway, and then let me see. 81 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:48,100 Like does that make sense that like Earth Kaiju and Space Kaiju would be fighting each other? I'm not really sure. 82 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:54,100 And then I want to know like if this is an Earth Kaiju versus Space Kaiju battle, is this like a sequel? 83 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:59,100 Did not literally a sequel. Did this happen before where Earth Kaiju and Space Kaiju fought each other 84 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:04,100 and or like this particular Space Kaiju perhaps fought each other or one of its species 85 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:10,100 and like the Earth Kaiju know that it's coming and they know to protect against it. 86 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:20,100 I'm really curious about that. I do like the fact that though this concept of an Earth Kaiju, like planetary Kaiju being guardians of the planet 87 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:24,100 makes sense and it like justifies the existence of Kaiju within the world of Ultraman Blazar, 88 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:28,100 which is not explicitly tied to any other Ultraman universe or Ultra Series, 89 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:33,100 except for crossovers when they hand wave away stuff just to have them do a full, you know, tying together. 90 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:37,100 But I do like that. I really do appreciate that. That's something that I've been wanting to do in my stories is 91 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:42,100 if I'm going to have Kaiju, I want Kaiju to make sense in the context of the world and have a reason for existing in the world 92 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:47,100 because I don't think things are random. I think everything has a purpose and there's an order and there's a design to it. 93 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:55,100 So that makes sense to me and having to like navigate a world of world building and thinking about stories where things just don't make sense. 94 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:58,100 There's no logic to it. There's Kaiju because there's Kaiju and that's all we want to say that there's Kaiju. 95 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:03,100 But like giving them a reason to exist, like each planet has a certain amount or certain set of Kaiju 96 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:11,100 and they are supposed to exist in harmony with the Earth, which would make sense because all animals exist in harmony with the Earth. 97 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:15,100 Humans are the exception that we don't always exist in harmony with Earth, but that's because we have this volition 98 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:19,100 and we can choose life and we can choose right and we can choose to live in harmony with the Earth. 99 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:21,100 But that's something we have to do. It's a debate for another time. 100 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:25,100 But I think that's somewhat at the core of some of the storytelling in Ultraman. 101 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:30,100 Anyway, I just think it's a really interesting prospect. I do like this episode. I do like where we're going. 102 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:35,100 And I'm curious to see what exactly happens in the next couple episodes and the idea that being... 103 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:42,100 like being Blazar is already putting Gento's life at risk, but being Blazar, a Blazar who wins all the time 104 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:46,100 and who defeats all the Kaiju and him still potentially dying from that, like that's a really interesting stake 105 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:50,100 and that's a really interesting consequence because he's being a hero by putting his life on the line 106 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:54,100 and then secondary to that, being a hero, putting his life on the line, is putting his life on the line. 107 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:57,100 So that's really interesting. I'm wondering where they're going to go with that. 108 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:01,100 And that's kind of a very interesting angle for them to throw on this. 109 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:06,100 So to sum up, I like this episode a lot and except for that weird thing about Haruno. 110 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:11,100 And it presents a lot of questions and I like that. It's engaging me. It's drawing me into the story. 111 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:15,100 And we've had a couple episodes for this thing to finish out and for us to see where it goes. 112 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:20,100 So anyway, I hope it has a strong finish. Until next time, folks, take care. Be well. Be Ultra. 113 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:27,100 One more thing I forgot to mention. I want to grow this channel and my other channel, 114 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:33,100 Fortress Fiction, to 10,000 followers, at least. 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