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Join me as I talk about episode 9 of Ultraman Arc, which is entitled, Goodbye Rin.
So, we have this really interesting concept where there's this Mr. Yamagami who Rin met in high school.
Well, he was in college as a professor, and she was in high school, so she was interested in mechanical engineering,
and other stuff with Kaiju, and she wanted to build robots and whatever.
And she ended up meeting him because he was being hired by... skip, let's just say, to build some sort of robot that can do whatever.
Which may or may not be UP. I'm unclear as to whether Rin is the one who created UP, or if maybe it was this guy, or maybe somehow they worked together. I don't know, whatever.
But, yeah, so she fell in love with this guy as a high school student, and he was already a professor in college, and he had a girlfriend apparently, and he was getting married, and she knew about this.
And it really kind of muddies the water, but it was really like an emotionally charged episode, and I actually liked the human drama so much that I was probably, I don't know, three quarters through the episode, and I thought,
Is there going to be a Kaiju fight in this? Is Ultraman Art going to show up? Because I don't really need him to. This is like a good episode on its own.
It doesn't really need the Kaiju stuff to happen for me to be invested, because it's about Kaiju stuff, ostensibly, but it's also about these human interactions, these human relationships.
And the Kaiju stuff, you know, Naronga shows up in the beginning, they put him to sleep, they think he's dead, I guess, when they've harvested stuff from him, but he's just hibernating.
I'm not sure how they couldn't quite tell that, but whatever, it doesn't matter.
So yeah, it's interesting, Yamagami's this mentor, he has this relationship with Rin, and at the end we see that they spent a lot of time together.
They were eating noodles together, they were getting ice cream together, and all this stuff.
And earlier we get a clue that she knew that he was married, he's on his way to his wedding, and he lies to his wife, or somebody attached to his wife or his family, and attached to his marriage, because he's late to do his wedding planning.
And he does his little tell, where when he lies he touches his lip.
And Rin knows that, and yet she's pining for this guy all this time, and you can even see in the actress's face when he mentioned that he had a baby, and he'd become a father, and her face drops.
There's this micro-expression of, like, oh, not only are you married, but you have a kid. I was hoping you were divorced by now and I could marry you instead.
And that's really interesting. Not that I like for people that hope for other people's marriages to dissolve or be destroyed or whatever, but there's something semi-romantic about a second chance romance where perhaps, like if this guy's wife had died or whatever, and then Rin swooped in and was like, hey, I've been in love with you since I was a kid and I'm in it, let's do this.
There would be something cool there, but that's not what happened here at all. But I get it. I get the draw. I see he's an handsome guy, so why not? But I get what's going on there.
And I get on a lizard brain level, human psychology, we like those kinds of stories. And some people like them. There's severity. Sometimes while things are separated, and sometimes people like to make the separation, and that's not good stuff.
So anyway, they didn't go there at all with this, which is nice. And I really liked at the end of the episode when they're having their confrontation, she almost breaks down and almost admits that she loved him all that time.
And she says, I love those times that we had together. And this was really cool, too, that he walks past her and he says, I don't even remember. Like that was so long ago, I don't even remember it.
And then he takes a couple more steps and he does his tell, and you know he's lying. And I think in a way maybe he loved her, too. But of course it was a forbidden love, he was already engaged to somebody else, he was already getting married, so no, you shouldn't do that.
You shouldn't do that. And that's very bad. And he didn't. So there's shows like some moral clarity. Even though I think it was kind of scummy for him to be hanging out with this high school girl who he may or may not have had feelings for while he was, that shouldn't matter.
He shouldn't have been hanging out with her like that in any context while he was engaged. I know I'm not talking about Ultraman stuff, I'm talking about relationship stuff, but that's what happened this episode. I will talk about the Ultraman stuff soon.
And the sci-fi elements of it in a little bit, but just give this to me, okay? Give this to me. Anyway. So this is like great, this is a great, exciting episode and you just have to live with it. So anyway.
He was kind of scummy then, but there is a mark of principles in him because he went ahead and married his wife. He didn't keep in contact with Rin. She hadn't heard anything about him because he was distancing himself from her.
So while it wasn't quite the way I wanted it to be, or the way I would have liked it to be, he showed some moral character and he showed some goodness. So maybe, just maybe, him selling black market cells, or him selling Kyju cells in the black market might not be that he's this awful criminal.
It might be that he sees a hole in the market. He sees a hole in the future. He sees a gap that humans need to close in order for the future to be secured for all of mankind, for all of mankind to benefit.
And yeah, he's going to sell this stuff at exorbitant prices, at black market rates, and he's going to make all this money and then he's going to dump that money into researching how to harness Kyju for whatever their abilities are so that they can be used to positive ends in the future.
Ultraman Z, they used Neronga's horn to accelerate the charging of Windom, and because it took like 24 hours or 72 hours or whatever at first and then with the Neronga horn it ended up taking like five hours or something super good in order for Windom to be powered up.
And Ultraman Z, Ultraman Z stole the snake gods, the rainbow snake god, he stole that Kyju's power and turned it into his rainbow slash, I think is what he called it, and he kind of got the Tilsenite thing too, and that was associated with the Kyju, there was a little Kyju picture on the blazar stone.
So, and like, isn't Ultraman X he uses like cyber arms or whatever that are like Kyju parts or something? Anyway, so like Ultraman in the past have used Kyju parts, and like the Science Patrol type organization behind Ultraman have used these things in the past to do things to make the world a better place.
And if we're going to argue, and I'm still very unclear on this and I don't remember what your name is, I'm sorry, but you commented to me previously that this K-Day was only space Kyju coming in and we've had Earth Kyju in Ultraman Arc's world.
I don't see proof for that in the, in the show itself, especially because we have things like, well, hold on, let me pause.
It almost seems like they don't know that in the world of Ultraman Arc, because, for example, in the Alivagira episode, when
they talked about the fossil that had been found, it's a fossil of Alivagira. So that means that it was a long, it was here on Earth long enough ago to be, to have been fossilized, but maybe Kyju were ancient and maybe they were reawakened by K-Day, like I could definitely buy that but it sounds to me as if they didn't know that there were Kyju
because, Bon? Yeah, Hiroshi Bon, his mentor, his mentor, the dinosaur guy, said, oh, there's no way that this tooth could be a real thing, like it must have been a dinosaur, it wasn't a Kyju, it was, you know, something else, and you know, the animal that this would have come from would have been like too gigantic and he didn't believe him.
And then later on, on K-Day, they found out that Kyju were real, they found out that Kyju were real and he was like, oops, I was wrong to have told you no. So like, I'm still not clear on in the world of Ultraman Arc, which I believe is in its own independent Ultraman universe, do they have, have they always had Kyju on Earth and have people known throughout history?
Because I brought that up in the Homger episode that it didn't make sense to me that they were like breaking their own canon in order to just to make this point. However, the Livajirafonsel fossil suggests that Kyju have been on Ultraman Arc's Earth all this time.
And I think that needs to be explored a little bit more and made more clear to me. I'm not an Ultraman noob anymore, like I've been around for a little while and I haven't watched like a ton of series.
But from what I've seen, like it's usually much more clear that, oh yeah, we've always had Kyju, we've always known about Kyju, whereas like the premise of this show makes it sound like they didn't have Kyju until 16 years ago.
And that's still kind of like that's where I'm coming from with this. And that kind of blows my mind. So why is it wrong for these people to try to take what apparently is a natural resource now, something that exists in the world, and try to use it for good, try to use it to help people?
Obviously, you could say it's not wrong for the collective to do that, but it's wrong for one guy to try to do that. And I wholeheartedly disagree with that. If one guy didn't try to do stuff throughout history, we wouldn't have a lot of the great advances that we have.
A lot of people wouldn't be helped in the way that we have. A lot of us wouldn't be benefiting from that. And there are untold millions, if not billions, who have benefited from electricity and from, you know, Louis Pester's findings and like the, you know,
the Calpox vaccine and like there's lots of different things. You know, people like apparently, apparently in the ISS, two astronauts were abandoned and NASA or Boeing couldn't get somebody up there.
So Elon Musk sent one of his rockets up there to go get them out. I don't know if that's happened yet or not. It's, you know, the airing of which it's within the airing of Ultraman Arquip of Nine.
And I just heard about that like a couple weeks ago that was going to happen and like great, good for those people that they don't have to die up there alone in space because there's nobody to get them out when this, you know, private crazy guy who's pursuing his dreams or whatever.
Agree with him or don't agree with him. I really have no strong opinions about the guy either way, especially his personal life. That's his deal.
But like, you know, thank God for these people that this guy has his obsession that he started like 10, 15 years ago. I don't even know how long ago SpaceX was a thing. And now he's got this rocket thing go up and help save these people.
Like that's a good thing. That is a good thing. Like, boom, like, I don't care what you think about the guy. That is a good thing. That is a moral good that is happening because of this one guy's obsession.
And, you know, Yamagami is trying to make the same sort of thing happen. Maybe. We're not 100% sure, but it seems like there's a morality there. It seems like there's something good in him.
Like when he was making some of these claims, he didn't touch his lip. Like he's he sincerely believes those things, even if he's misguided. And I think it's really interesting this idea of upcycling Kaiju like you kill a Kaiju and then you have its body parts there and you can use its body, its cells, its physiology, whatever, in some way to fashion a thing.
They even used, oh no, there's the Daimo whatever from the company that made Newsatron isn't necessarily derived from a Kaiju or I don't know if it's derived from a Kaiju or not. It's that bacteria stuff.
It's the bacteria in the electric rat. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that specifically, but like they're doing things in this world to make the world a better place with the use of Kaiju stuff.
And I don't see anything wrong with that. And I think it's something interesting that should be explored. And, you know, Ultraman Blazar, for example, they built Earth Geron with, I'll just say with technologies for to free you from spoilers.
But there's a secret there. You gotta love the show pretty good actually.
And if you think about it, like there could be a tame Kaiju or there could be a like genetically engineered Kaiju, which I can't believe I'm saying this.
Me, you don't know me, but the fact that I'm saying there could be a genetically engineered Kaiju in this sci-fi show. Yeah, you could totally do that. Like a good Kaiju that helps people instead.
That's what Earth is depending upon to help save them from Kaiju attacks. And then an Ultraman also joins the show and does whatever like that could totally be a thing. But like, you know, why not? Why not?
I basically go through all my notes. So I'm going to go ahead and stop there. What did you think? You think I'm crazy for suggesting that Yamagami isn't like this awful guy?
Do you agree that he's a little scummy with his wife and having a high school girl that he hangs out with on the side, you know, back in the day before he was married. So I guess it's okay, but probably not.
Like, do you like the human drama? Did you even want Ultraman in here? Oh, I guess I should talk about he used the sun armor and it was cool. And he fought two Kaiju at the same time. And they're related to each other, whatever.
They're Nieronga and Gi-something or other, which produces a golden rainbow in the sky, which is pretty cool when it's about to attack. I don't know exactly how a rainbow comes from the sky while the guy's underground, but that is something that happens.
Let me just to do my due diligence, talk about the... So it's Nieronga and Pagas. And I like one other thing here, which is that, you know, they both kind of have similar abilities.
And Yamagami talks about the fact that they might be related to each other. And if they can find a common ancestor to them, then they can figure out a way to combat them and things like that. And that's pretty cool.
But it was interesting, like they made her into a spy. And then she came out and told them that she wanted to help them. And the way that all played out was really cool because she's like, I never lied to you because this.
I guess she said, you become a good liar. Like, that was all really good human drama stuff, too. And it's like, no, she sincerely wanted to help him. She's saying like, you're going down the wrong path. You're going to a place I can't follow you.
And so I seriously got Anakin vibes from this guy. It was super cool. Or Hayden Christensen vibe, just to say. Anyway, and he, you know, thought that she was lying. She's just being sincere and honest.
Like, no, I don't want you going down this criminal path. And I want you to stop and I want you to tone and I want you to go back from what you were doing. And she meant that sincerely.
And he took it in this different way. And there's just there's a great human drama. There's the Kaiju for you, too. I guess if you have to have Kaiju in your Ultraman show, I don't always apparently. And anyway, I don't know.
Tell me what you thought. Tell me what you thought about everything I had to say here. I'm really curious to see if people think I'm nuts or if people kind of agree with me.
And if you there's other shows where they've done like more like upcycling of or harvesting of or like using Kaiju abilities for benefiting humans and the world. I would love to know about that.
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