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

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I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com Prepare yourself for hard

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hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. I've got a duck- Dutch angel- I have a

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duck, angel, and a- I have a Dutch angle and a lens flare going here. I'm like a

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2000s action movie by an indie director. Sorry, for you who are listening to this

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only on the audio, that won't make any sense to you. Check out the video if you want to.

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It will be linked on the show notes and you can find it there at MJMunius.com.

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Anyway, so talking about Coming Out of Arc episode 15. I really like this episode. I'm

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a little disappointed that it was a cliffhanger and that we have another

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recap type episode special thing next week. I don't know why that's happening.

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Maybe there's something else airing or maybe- I don't know, who knows? But that's

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a little frustrating. However, this was a very good episode. It's called The

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Wandering Future. It originally aired October 19th, 2024. The director is

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Takanori Tsujimoto and the writer is Jun Sugita. Sugita wrote- I believe that

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Sugita wrote the last episode as well. Let me just double check that real quick.

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It should be super easy. Barely an inconvenience and yeah, it's not because I

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goofed. Hold on. Can I go forward here? Yes, I can. So yeah, Flash of the Past was

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also written by Sugita, so he continues to do good work here. Takanori Tsujimoto

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was the- who's this? The manga guy? He was the director of that as well and I

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believe he's the man who directed the movie, didn't he? The co-directed with- I

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talked about this last time, didn't I? And I got confused. Yep, never mind. Pat

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LeBorgue. He did Pat LeBorgue movies and some other stuff, but I guess not- I guess

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not Shin Kamen Rider, which is exactly what I thought he worked on for some

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reason. I don't know why. Oh, Blazar. He worked on Blazar. That's what it was.

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Blazar, Dekkar, or Dekkar. Blazar and Dek-er. Anyway, I'll stop embarrassing

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myself. So I really like this episode. I thought it was very good. There were

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things about it that were very enjoyable. Why am I talking like this? So the

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breakdown is Art gets a new armor. It's a combination of the red armor, the blue

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armor, the sun armor, and the moon armor. And we find out that the GDF, the Global

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Defense Force, has known about this thing, this onyx, in Hoshimoto City and

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they've been trying to track it down and they've been keeping it a secret for

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different reasons. I don't quite understand why. Now it's interesting because we start the

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episode with Yuma in a coma, I guess. There's nothing wrong with him, but he

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just won't wake up, which is always fun. I really like that. And he ends up waking

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up after Swede shows him- for some reason Swede takes- somehow Swede is able to take

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Yuma's consciousness and remove it from his body or something and take it over

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to Arc- or take it over to the Hoshimoto branch of Skip and have him get an info

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dump from Ishido about the GDF keeping secrets and he wants to go alone because

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he's been called to go address something that's going on with the onyx as

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Zadime Zadime Zoidme. The kaiju that Swede summoned, whose name is Zadime.

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Anyway, it's attacking and she's trying to stop it from attacking and

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I think that's a good thing because it's going to attack and destroy and blow up

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the seal. It'll break- it'll open or break or shatter the seal and then the

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flow will continue and Earth will be destroyed. So it's interesting that what

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happens here is you have a little bit of a Ultraman Blazar, Ultraman Zed, Zet,

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I'm not sure I can be the hero, I'm not sure I can sync with my host anymore

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type of deal going on, which is okay. You know, we've had that two times before at

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least to my knowledge. It might happen in every single Ultra

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series and it's the Dark Knight of the Soul for Ultraman or whatever but um

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you know it didn't happen in Dekker. I'm not sure. I think it's why it was for Dekker.

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He became Evil Dekker at one point or Dark Dekker or something so it probably

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happened there too. It happened in Giver, not behalf of the 1986 Giver that was

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written by Riku Sanjo of Kamen Rider Double Fame. I was just saying KyoRuger but I

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don't like KyoRuger so I just like KyoRuger more than I just like Kamen Rider Double.

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You dislike Kamen Rider Double? How can you? We'll talk about it later. Anyway, I'm still

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excited for the Begins Night movie for the Fujiwapi thing. Anyway, Portrait of

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Skulls was that's called. Anyway, so getting back on track, yeah we're having

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like unfortunately if you've only been watching Ultraman with the dubs you've

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seen Zet and you've seen Blazar, they both had this thing like in the middle

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of the show like around episode 12, 13, 14, or 14, 15 where like the Ultra host

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doesn't want to connect with the Ultra anymore and it causes issues and here we

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kind of have something similar and it's all resolved very quickly and I like

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that because it makes it different. We don't get Yuma sitting around moping or

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being sad that he has to do whatever and we don't get him being distant from

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Ruchiyan. Ruchiyan and he have some conversations and they end up doing this

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double hand clasp thing which is great because Yuma did kind of despair for a

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moment. He despaired for a moment when he learned that the earth was still on a

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countdown to destruction and he told Arc, told Ruchiyan that he was over that

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and that he wanted to be his partner. He said I'm you and you are me which was as

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somebody got introduced to Persona through Persona 4 that blew my mind and

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it's a dumb little aside but anyway it's just for me it was meaningful and I

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thought it's really cool. The human host telling the alien guy I am you and you

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are me and we're gonna do this together. It was very cool so like they kind of

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took that you know dark knight of the soul thing and turned it on its head

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because Yuma gets over it so quickly and I like that. I like that. I really

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appreciated that and I just I'm kind of curious to see where

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exactly they're gonna go and how exactly they're gonna they're going to handle

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this from here because like I said last time the last review this is like end of

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the show energy and end of the show stakes and end of the show plot

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occurrences that are happening and I don't know how they're gonna continue

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the show other than they have to save earth ultimately but we have now this is

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episode 15 there's a special then there's 16 so there's like nine episodes

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left basically to wrap this up and they need to somehow in that time find a way

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to save earth and also save the home galaxy of that Swede and Ruteon belong

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to and that's really interesting um yeah I'll mention some stuff I mentioned in

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my shorts briefly so Ruteon has this like noble kamikaze attitude where she's

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going to die with earth if she can save her galaxy and I think she's still a

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villain and I think it's still morally clear that she's wrong but it's also

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understandable what she's doing and I wonder if that'll present an opportunity

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for her to do a heel turn if there's a way for her to help save the earth and

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her home at the same time also are we going to see other Ultras or ultra other

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beings of light related to Ruteon his allies that he talked about previously

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are they gonna come through at some point towards the end of the show to save

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the day to save the earth I don't know oh I will tell you something I am

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disappointed about I am disappointed that mmm I was wrong I was totally wrong

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that K-Day wasn't the first emergence of Kaiju on earth in Ultraman arc it is

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confirmed by how things were about each other basically in this episode that K-Day

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on K-Day 16 years ago when the seal was closed the energy from the seal somehow

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caused all these Kaiju to react to it on earth well these earth Kaiju to react to

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it simultaneously so on one single day a bunch of Kaiju attacked and caused

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trouble and that's why it's called K-Day and I totally thought it was how Kaiju

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entered the world of Ultraman arc and I thought this was a world dealing with

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the existence of Kaiju in as a new thing as a new phenomenon but it's not so I

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was wrong about Homger and I was wrong about Levi-Jirou the the ancient Kaiju

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or the you know fossil Kaiju or whatever they called it I was wrong and that's

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too bad I'm kind of disappointed because they're just doing the same thing other

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Ultraman have done where Kaiju have always been on earth and it's not

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something novel it's not something new it's not some new reality they're

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dealing with and like it just doesn't satisfy me because it doesn't make sense

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that people in the past were able to pacify Kaiju and live in harmony with

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them it makes more sense that Kaiju would just kill people and people would

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have just moved on and and treated the Kaiju as a natural disaster and that's

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the only solution but from Homger's situation well I don't know if that's true

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yeah the Homger situation makes it definitely seem like just sometimes

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Homger killed a bunch of people innocent people for no good reason and that's

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still bothers me and I still have that issue with it but you know it's not a

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big deal anyway moving on the new form gave us like kind of a CGI fest with all

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those discs flying around and stuff it was pretty cool it's kind of like a like

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a slugger like ultra slugger attack where you take the thing off your head and

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throw it at somebody but it was cool because it was like multiple moons and

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they like little crests of the moon so they're all kind of from one circle like

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his disc armor buckler thing that he has and that was a lot of fun and I like the

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fact that this armor in this summer he's like faster but he's also strong and it's

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a little broken it's a little OP but we'll see how that's dealt with in the

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future but I do like it and I thought it was a cool twist that Yuma told Arc to

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unleash his imagination and then he formed that armor and then it showed

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slipping through the pages of his notebook that he there's a crayon

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drawing of this so did he draw this as a kid or did he not draw this as a kid I

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don't know I don't know but yeah I like the show continues to be cool I'm

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disappointed that I'm disappointed in some things I'm disappointed we have to

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wait another week to see what's gonna happen next but we'll see hopefully

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enjoy the clip episode they're gonna do another commentary I believe so that'll

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be fun I'll definitely enjoy that and I encourage you to check that out as well

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let me know what you think of Arc so far how did you like episode 15 specifically

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and how do you like the overall story that they're telling and what do you see

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happening in the next nine or so episodes as we wrap this thing up and

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get towards a conclusion

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