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hard-hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. This time I'm talking about
Ultraman Art Episode 11 message. Modeled message, message from space, message from
I don't know what. I don't know. It was kind of an interesting episode and by kind of
interesting I mean kind of frustrating because I don't really know what was
going on. I'll talk about some some interesting factoids before I jump
straight now. Yeah I'm going to talk about some interesting factoids so I can stay
on focus and then I'll talk about what happened in this episode and what I
thought about it. So here we go. Gubila or Okugubila is well Okugubila the
kaiju that emerges from underground with the big drill on his face comes from a
it's a class of family of kaiju that started its debut in Ultraman
in Ultraman Episode 24. It says it's an aquatic so and it was just called Gubila
at that time. It says it's an aquatic kaiju that first appeared in Ultraman
Episode 24 the industry science center. Since then numerous other Gubilas have
been encountered by various ultras. So Gubila, deep sea monster, Okubila,
ancient underground beast which is what you excuse me Yuma called it
in this episode. And let me see. Yeah so the design seems to be of his head at
least seems to be based off a narwhal having a drill in place of a narwhal's
tooth or tusk is really what it is. Well the tusk tooth is the same thing right. Its body is
based off the patterns of a clown triggerfish which I do not know but you
look at it and see for yourself. And anyway I thought that was pretty cool. I think it's a
neat design it looked very old-school but with kind of a new edge so I thought
hmm either this is a callback to something or it's a new one but it's made very
much in the style of a classic kaiju so I'm glad to note there's history there
and that I was able to spot that. I guess I'm learning the visual language of
Ultraman a little bit which is kind of cool for me because I've been watching
it for a while now so seeing that I can see like oh this is an old design is
pretty fun for me. Anyway so yeah but Gubila comes in he's just kind of an
excuse I guess for it. Well so this episode ends on a cliffhanger. Will Gubila
come back for the next episode? I do not know. If it does that'll be interesting
if it doesn't that'll be kind of weird because it wasn't killed but maybe it
was warded off. That very well may have been what happened but we can't really
say we don't know why Gevaaz came to earth at this time. I don't think they
were detecting any sort of signal. There was a sound that was being made and that
sound possibly it seems like it brought the Gubila there because Ishido
drove and Yuma used his sonic emitter to he cranked it all the way up and I
don't know if he did anything else but he cranked all the way up and he used
that to lure the Gubila away from people and towards safety and unfortunately it
also lured the Gubila towards those kids and they were put in danger for a minute
or two but they ended up being fine. But anyway moving on from that you know I
want to talk more about Gevaaz and what he's doing this episode and what he
means and I mean obviously it's a source of tension for yeah it's a
source of tension between Yuma and Ishido and Yuma had started this episode off
saying oh Mr. Ishido I feel like you're just so much part of our part of skip
and you know there's not a big rift between us and the the space defense
force is that what it is maybe that's what it is anyway there's not such a big
rift between us and Ishido says oh really you think so and I think he takes it more
as a compliment but maybe he's also a little bit suspicious of it and Yuma
kind of backpedals yeah Yuma kind of backpedals from that and says no no no
everything's fine and then we get to see there's this big conflict between
them so I thought there was going to be a big deal made about the fact that
Gevaaz was from a tear in space and somebody commented recently a couple
weeks ago actually that the significance of K-Day because I was talking about
like isn't it anachronistic that there could be you know Libia Jira this ancient
kaiju and then they specifically call Oka Gabila here an ancient underground
beast and it was bomb it was Hamger they got me going on this that Hamger
doesn't make sense because aren't they violating what they've set up in the
show that K-Day happened 16 years ago and how can there be ancient kaiju and
kaiju records of kaiju from you know hundreds of years ago and there's this a
pattern in the emergent Yuma was able to know about you know if the kaiju only
came on K-Day 16 years ago and the commenter said hey dude this is Ultraman
there are always kaiju in the world of Ultraman K-Day was specifically space
kaiju Mano Gilos and Juo Gilos that was the most anyway like that's the
significance of it but I fail to see why earth kaiju are automatically just okay
or whatever and space kaiju are automatically a really bad thing that
doesn't really make sense to me it's a kaiju from outer space therefore it is
extra bad the only thing that kind of makes sense is what they try to do with
Ultraman Blazar which did it to varying effect varying degrees of success is to
say that the space kaiju are different from the earth kaiju and they like gave
an explanation for why space kaiju are different from earth kaiju and why earth
kaiju are kind of good because they have their own environment and ecosystem here
on earth and if you mix in space kaiju with Earth's ecology it causes problems
and I can see that being true and I liked what they did in blazar with the
kaiju's defense force I should say but I don't really get how that makes a whole
lot of sense as a way to structure things in and of itself just because it's
an alien doesn't mean it's evil and this show this very show has tried to talk
about just because somebody is an alien why does that make them evil
automatically and they've said it doesn't make them evil automatically and
that happened in the in episode 6 of arc welcome to the Akebono inn and in that
episode we get to see Yuma scared of mr. Ishido killing this innocent alien
Kuroko I think Kuroko in Kuroko who ends up being it's Numata
something or other but in Numa it's my boy Numa and towards the end of this
episode we see that Ishido has spoken with or communicated with Numa and it's
likely that Numa has given Ishido the information that he needs to be wary of
give us and to think that he's some sort of destroying robot sort of evil robot
evil robot it's funny and it's odd because Yuma and Ishido have this rift
between them over this robot that Yuma originally wanted to attack and destroy
and then Ishido originally wanted to kill Numa and he decided not to he
decided to trust him and they started a friendship I didn't think we'd see
anything come from that but here it is Numa apparently or seems to have told
Ishido that give us is dangerous so he wants to destroy give us and he
definitely categories categorizes as an enemy however because Yuma witnessed
give us protect these kids and fight off is it Uka? Uka Gwila? that's kind of a
crazy name he trusts him and wants to let him be and I find that to be really
interesting because you have kind of a textured layered set of arguments or
reasons for these guys to disagree and for them to not be in sync with each
other and I originally felt a little bit disappointed in this episode like they
were trying to make every conflict without doing a very good job of it and
in retrospect I think they are doing a good job of it but I still really don't
like it and I still really don't get it and it kind of doesn't make sense so
like they're trying to accomplish something and they're putting all the
pieces in place to do that but I don't think what they're trying to say makes
sense like they're building the argument well based on what they have but I don't
know that the argument makes sense and I don't fully understand what the
argument is and I sure hope they do but we'll find out next episode so tell me
what you thought did you think this episode made sense did you like it a lot
did you dislike it like me did you dislike it for other reasons was there
cool stuff that I forgot to mention let me know and also yeah that's it for now
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