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Anyway, so talking about Coming Out of Arc episode 15. I really like this episode. I'm
a little disappointed that it was a cliffhanger and that we have another
recap type episode special thing next week. I don't know why that's happening.
Maybe there's something else airing or maybe- I don't know, who knows? But that's
a little frustrating. However, this was a very good episode. It's called The
Wandering Future. It originally aired October 19th, 2024. The director is
Takanori Tsujimoto and the writer is Jun Sugita. Sugita wrote- I believe that
Sugita wrote the last episode as well. Let me just double check that real quick.
It should be super easy. Barely an inconvenience and yeah, it's not because I
goofed. Hold on. Can I go forward here? Yes, I can. So yeah, Flash of the Past was
also written by Sugita, so he continues to do good work here. Takanori Tsujimoto
was the- who's this? The manga guy? He was the director of that as well and I
believe he's the man who directed the movie, didn't he? The co-directed with- I
talked about this last time, didn't I? And I got confused. Yep, never mind. Pat
LeBorgue. He did Pat LeBorgue movies and some other stuff, but I guess not- I guess
not Shin Kamen Rider, which is exactly what I thought he worked on for some
reason. I don't know why. Oh, Blazar. He worked on Blazar. That's what it was.
Blazar, Dekkar, or Dekkar. Blazar and Dek-er. Anyway, I'll stop embarrassing
myself. So I really like this episode. I thought it was very good. There were
things about it that were very enjoyable. Why am I talking like this? So the
breakdown is Art gets a new armor. It's a combination of the red armor, the blue
armor, the sun armor, and the moon armor. And we find out that the GDF, the Global
Defense Force, has known about this thing, this onyx, in Hoshimoto City and
they've been trying to track it down and they've been keeping it a secret for
different reasons. I don't quite understand why. Now it's interesting because we start the
episode with Yuma in a coma, I guess. There's nothing wrong with him, but he
just won't wake up, which is always fun. I really like that. And he ends up waking
up after Swede shows him- for some reason Swede takes- somehow Swede is able to take
Yuma's consciousness and remove it from his body or something and take it over
to Arc- or take it over to the Hoshimoto branch of Skip and have him get an info
dump from Ishido about the GDF keeping secrets and he wants to go alone because
he's been called to go address something that's going on with the onyx as
Zadime Zadime Zoidme. The kaiju that Swede summoned, whose name is Zadime.
Anyway, it's attacking and she's trying to stop it from attacking and
I think that's a good thing because it's going to attack and destroy and blow up
the seal. It'll break- it'll open or break or shatter the seal and then the
flow will continue and Earth will be destroyed. So it's interesting that what
happens here is you have a little bit of a Ultraman Blazar, Ultraman Zed, Zet,
I'm not sure I can be the hero, I'm not sure I can sync with my host anymore
type of deal going on, which is okay. You know, we've had that two times before at
least to my knowledge. It might happen in every single Ultra
series and it's the Dark Knight of the Soul for Ultraman or whatever but um
you know it didn't happen in Dekker. I'm not sure. I think it's why it was for Dekker.
He became Evil Dekker at one point or Dark Dekker or something so it probably
happened there too. It happened in Giver, not behalf of the 1986 Giver that was
written by Riku Sanjo of Kamen Rider Double Fame. I was just saying KyoRuger but I
don't like KyoRuger so I just like KyoRuger more than I just like Kamen Rider Double.
You dislike Kamen Rider Double? How can you? We'll talk about it later. Anyway, I'm still
excited for the Begins Night movie for the Fujiwapi thing. Anyway, Portrait of
Skulls was that's called. Anyway, so getting back on track, yeah we're having
like unfortunately if you've only been watching Ultraman with the dubs you've
seen Zet and you've seen Blazar, they both had this thing like in the middle
of the show like around episode 12, 13, 14, or 14, 15 where like the Ultra host
doesn't want to connect with the Ultra anymore and it causes issues and here we
kind of have something similar and it's all resolved very quickly and I like
that because it makes it different. We don't get Yuma sitting around moping or
being sad that he has to do whatever and we don't get him being distant from
Ruchiyan. Ruchiyan and he have some conversations and they end up doing this
double hand clasp thing which is great because Yuma did kind of despair for a
moment. He despaired for a moment when he learned that the earth was still on a
countdown to destruction and he told Arc, told Ruchiyan that he was over that
and that he wanted to be his partner. He said I'm you and you are me which was as
somebody got introduced to Persona through Persona 4 that blew my mind and
it's a dumb little aside but anyway it's just for me it was meaningful and I
thought it's really cool. The human host telling the alien guy I am you and you
are me and we're gonna do this together. It was very cool so like they kind of
took that you know dark knight of the soul thing and turned it on its head
because Yuma gets over it so quickly and I like that. I like that. I really
appreciated that and I just I'm kind of curious to see where
exactly they're gonna go and how exactly they're gonna they're going to handle
this from here because like I said last time the last review this is like end of
the show energy and end of the show stakes and end of the show plot
occurrences that are happening and I don't know how they're gonna continue
the show other than they have to save earth ultimately but we have now this is
episode 15 there's a special then there's 16 so there's like nine episodes
left basically to wrap this up and they need to somehow in that time find a way
to save earth and also save the home galaxy of that Swede and Ruteon belong
to and that's really interesting um yeah I'll mention some stuff I mentioned in
my shorts briefly so Ruteon has this like noble kamikaze attitude where she's
going to die with earth if she can save her galaxy and I think she's still a
villain and I think it's still morally clear that she's wrong but it's also
understandable what she's doing and I wonder if that'll present an opportunity
for her to do a heel turn if there's a way for her to help save the earth and
her home at the same time also are we going to see other Ultras or ultra other
beings of light related to Ruteon his allies that he talked about previously
are they gonna come through at some point towards the end of the show to save
the day to save the earth I don't know oh I will tell you something I am
disappointed about I am disappointed that mmm I was wrong I was totally wrong
that K-Day wasn't the first emergence of Kaiju on earth in Ultraman arc it is
confirmed by how things were about each other basically in this episode that K-Day
on K-Day 16 years ago when the seal was closed the energy from the seal somehow
caused all these Kaiju to react to it on earth well these earth Kaiju to react to
it simultaneously so on one single day a bunch of Kaiju attacked and caused
trouble and that's why it's called K-Day and I totally thought it was how Kaiju
entered the world of Ultraman arc and I thought this was a world dealing with
the existence of Kaiju in as a new thing as a new phenomenon but it's not so I
was wrong about Homger and I was wrong about Levi-Jirou the the ancient Kaiju
or the you know fossil Kaiju or whatever they called it I was wrong and that's
too bad I'm kind of disappointed because they're just doing the same thing other
Ultraman have done where Kaiju have always been on earth and it's not
something novel it's not something new it's not some new reality they're
dealing with and like it just doesn't satisfy me because it doesn't make sense
that people in the past were able to pacify Kaiju and live in harmony with
them it makes more sense that Kaiju would just kill people and people would
have just moved on and and treated the Kaiju as a natural disaster and that's
the only solution but from Homger's situation well I don't know if that's true
yeah the Homger situation makes it definitely seem like just sometimes
Homger killed a bunch of people innocent people for no good reason and that's
still bothers me and I still have that issue with it but you know it's not a
big deal anyway moving on the new form gave us like kind of a CGI fest with all
those discs flying around and stuff it was pretty cool it's kind of like a like
a slugger like ultra slugger attack where you take the thing off your head and
throw it at somebody but it was cool because it was like multiple moons and
they like little crests of the moon so they're all kind of from one circle like
his disc armor buckler thing that he has and that was a lot of fun and I like the
fact that this armor in this summer he's like faster but he's also strong and it's
a little broken it's a little OP but we'll see how that's dealt with in the
future but I do like it and I thought it was a cool twist that Yuma told Arc to
unleash his imagination and then he formed that armor and then it showed
slipping through the pages of his notebook that he there's a crayon
drawing of this so did he draw this as a kid or did he not draw this as a kid I
don't know I don't know but yeah I like the show continues to be cool I'm
disappointed that I'm disappointed in some things I'm disappointed we have to
wait another week to see what's gonna happen next but we'll see hopefully
enjoy the clip episode they're gonna do another commentary I believe so that'll
be fun I'll definitely enjoy that and I encourage you to check that out as well
let me know what you think of Arc so far how did you like episode 15 specifically
and how do you like the overall story that they're telling and what do you see
happening in the next nine or so episodes as we wrap this thing up and
get towards a conclusion
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