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Tension Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist,

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Ultraman discussion and analysis.

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This one's for you, Ishido. So I tremendously complemented Blazars clip

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show episode, I believe. Well, hold on, no. There was already one Hoshimoto City

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Branch clip show in ARK already. And that was the one where a guy who works for

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Ultraman and who was in an Ultraman series as well, which is really cool, or

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he works for Super Ray, he doesn't work for Ultraman. I wish! I wish he worked for Ultraman.

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Actually, I don't, because then there'd be Kaiju and there'd be all sorts of trouble.

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Anyway, he works for Super Ray Productions and he and Mike Dent went ahead and did

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the dub of the episode where we got to meet Choppy, the other robot, and there's

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the guy who works at the Hoshimoto City, or yeah, he works at another branch and

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they were talking about Hoshimoto City. So that was like around episode 7, I think,

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because we had that recap episode. And that one was really, was done really well.

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The Blazer episode, I'm trying to remember right now, oh yeah, where they

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were like working on the computer system or whatever at night at SCARD. That was

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really good too, so that was really good. I think that set a new bar, the Choppy

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one, where they were talking about, oh they talked about Peter as well, who

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appeared in the Along Came a Spider, Spider-Man Ultraman crossover thing.

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Peter's from Ultra Q, he's a, I don't know how to describe him, but he's a little

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sea lizard, Kaiju thing, somehow. Anyway, too complicated, but they call him Peter.

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Anyway, so he was in that one. And then this one we have, Ishido slept it at

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SCARD, or at Skip rather, the Hoshimoto office of Skip, because he was working on

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his report on them that he's sending back to the GDF, I believe. Let me just

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make sure. Yeah, that's G Gundam by the way. Yeah, GDF. So he ends up falling asleep there,

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and they're out of coffee in the office, and that flips him out, and he has

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interactions with some of his office workers there, his fellow office workers,

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and Rin comes in, and she boots up Yuppie, and then Hiroshi comes in,

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and he... Ishido's like, what is that smell? And then Bon comes in, or Hiroshi Bon

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comes in, and he goes over to this bag, and he's got the scat coffee. So it's the

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coffee beans that are eaten by the cat, that they poop it out, and then it's

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recovered, and people roast it, and they brew it into coffee. I like coffee a lot,

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but I'm not interested in trying that, and I've never thought about trying that.

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But they seem to be into it, so that's cool, you know, good for Shuu.

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But yeah, I mean, not much happened here. It was a recap that went backwards,

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which is interesting, and oh, interesting, it was written by Junichiro

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Ashiki, who I talked about last time. Did he do the Gibus episode? No, it was... he

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wrote... let me see, I gotta know this one. He wrote to my distant friend, which is

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the one where the guy is getting messages from space, and he's talking to

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that lady on another planet that's dying. Anyway, so I kind of had some issues

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with that episode, in particular that he did, and this one I really liked, even

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though it's a clip show. I like the character work that's done. There's a

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great little moment where Yuppie says that, you know, Rin was responsible for

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making Nezatron grow giant, and she says, what did you say? And it's off-screen, so

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you didn't get to see her face, so they might have added that into the dub. I

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don't think they did. It feels within the character, it feels within the

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characters for them to have that be there. Especially I feel like with these

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clip shows, they get a little sillier, a little goofier, they let the characters,

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you know, be loose. In Blazor, the girls were talking about... they were gonna talk

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about dating, or guys that they were interested in, not in the

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group, just in general. Like, oh, are you seeing her? Well, there's this one guy, and then

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they cut off. So, like, they allow for a lightness and a levity that you don't

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typically get in your standard episode, because it's not a standard episode, it's

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a clip episode, and they use it to give you a little bit of an insight into the

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characters and the way they're thinking about things. Speaking of which, we got a

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really cool insight into Yuma's perspective, where he's admitting the

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fact, or he's reflecting on the fact, that he doesn't really know very much

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about Ark. And Ark is a mystery to him, and I would assume that's a hint that

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we're going to start digging into more of Ark's history, who he is, what he is, and...

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maybe not his origin, but who he is and what he is. And, yeah, I think that's

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about it. I think that's about it. So, that was kind of cool to see him reflect

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on his memories and think about what exactly he's going to do with Ark and

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with his, you know, his future. And it was a nice little character moment for him.

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Also, a nice thing was that he was out shopping with his grandmother. His

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grandma's a cool character. I like her. And I like that we are seeing, like, a

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continuation of these characters' lives outside of Skip, outside of a big Kaiju

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battle episode, where it really feels like they have their own lives and their

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own, well, just their own lives. They feel that there's a realness to them

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because of that, and I really appreciate that. I think it's a very good thing, and

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it makes it more enjoyable. It makes it more fun, and it makes me feel more

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attached to the characters. It makes the characters matter more when the serious

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moments happen, because they have this downtime, this room to breathe, and

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that's really cool. And I'm super curious as to what this onyx thing is that

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Shu mentioned. Okay, that was not a Kaiju attack. I just knocked my phone over on

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accident. So anyway, anyway, yeah, that's about all I had to say. I liked this clip

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episode. It was good. There were good character moments in it. It was very

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smooth. It felt very natural. I liked the conceit of Bon wanting help proofreading

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the professor, the dinosaur doctor's Kaiju book, and they wanted to recall the

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stuff about Kaiju, and they, you know, wanted Yuma to be there because he

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knows so much about Kaiju physiology, and it got them all talking. They got

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distracted. So it was almost like they were gonna be doing something else, and

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most of the recapping that happened was them having casual

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conversation and having tangents as they were about to do something else work

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related. And that feels very office like as well, which is kind of fun and kind

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of cute. So anyway, tell me what you thought about this episode. I'd love to

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hear your thoughts on it. And please come back for more Ultraman coverage,

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because I'm going to keep talking about it. Also, I don't know when I'm going to

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get to it. But I do want to start covering probably chapter by chapter, the

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Ultraman manga, which is now on Viz. I believe it's on Viz. It's on Viz or Shonen

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Jump. I have both of them, so I don't know. But it's on there, and all 100 and

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whatever chapters are there right now. And I read one, and it was cool. I didn't

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even finish it, actually. I was reading it to my kids for bedtime, which might

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sound weird, but whatever. It was pretty, you know, nothing crazy happened. Nothing

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crazy happened. If you've seen the Ultraman Netflix series, the Ultraman

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anime, Netflix series, the CGI one, that's based on this manga from that started

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back in 2011, I believe. And anyway, I'm gonna start talking about that at some

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point, probably after ARK is over, because there's just too much going on.

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I'm trying to write my books and get those published. And anyway, anyway, we'll

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see what happens with that. But yeah, I'm planning on getting that started as soon

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as I can when ARK's over. And I think that'll be fun. I'll probably do like a

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week by week type of thing. So if you're gonna read through them all, that's great.

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Or if I, you know, spark your interest by covering it, that's cool too. You can

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join along with me, and we could have a little bit of a conversation about it. I

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think that'd be really cool. I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember to like,

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