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hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis.

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So Ultraman Arc just had its second special recap episode, I think is what

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they call it, and for the second time we also have E.J. Kulakundis

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doing an audio commentary. He's without Mach Dent at this time, but it was still

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good. I could tell a little it's difficult to do a commentary all by your

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lonesome and at some point I think he was struggling a little bit, but I think he did

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a really good job and it was a lot of fun to listen to him talk about the

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episode and Arc in general and I feel a little dumb, I feel a little baby for

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having enjoyed him spelling things out clearly so much because I feel like you

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know I'm an adult watching the show. I'm sure kids watching the show are

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understanding what's going on for the most part and this is kind of something

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I've talked about previously with Ultraman Arc and maybe even with Blazar

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that even though the kids shows there's something going on that's like just

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complicated enough in the... I don't know if it's in the plotting or if it's in the way

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the plot is being unfolded that it makes it a little bit difficult to understand

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100% what's going on because there's a lot of unanswered questions and things

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aren't being spelled out in the show itself so like I had questions about

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Gevas that I didn't quite understand even though I like Gevas a lot and I hadn't

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quite caught on to the fact that well I didn't know well that's irrelevant I'll

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come to that later the blue thing which hopefully I'm already blue anyway and

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like getting the reminder of exactly what the threat is to Swede and Ruteon's

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galaxy home galaxy and how that's kind of an inversion of what happened with

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the Ultraman originally in M78 and how that they created this artificial Sun and

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that is what made them for ordinary humans or human like beings into these

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ultra beings these beating beings of light and that's pretty interesting to

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have that you know clearly stated and also to have the way EJ talked about it

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he made it sound like what I recently realized or finally accepted is true is

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that this planet has kaiju normally it's just tied you are there Hoshimoto

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City is a hotspot because of K-Day 16 years ago but that the thing it makes

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K-Day distinct is that it was when a bunch of kaiju all around the world were

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activated or became active or you know reacted to the the onyx the wormhole

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entrance or whatever or exit being closed the wormhole opening and also

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something I didn't understand from the last episode which I feel a little bit

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dumb but I also think maybe just wasn't explained very well is that the onyx

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actually transformed into the galaxy armor and yeah it transformed into the

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well gal I guess galaxy armor and the galaxy weapon that he has specifically

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and I I think that's cool I think that's cool but does that mean that the threat

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is gone because that feels wrong to me that just the threat would be gone now I

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would think they would get another onyx type thing out there or they'd be able

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to wormhole that thing over something like that doesn't really make sense that

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that was the solution of the problem I think it most it should be like a

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temporary solution but anyway I was shocked to find out that that form the

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armor the weapon is all from the onyx and like I said that doesn't really make

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sense to me and I honestly kind of find that unsatisfying but I don't know how I

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didn't catch that in watching the episode I don't know what happened was I

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watching it too late at night so I was tired so I kind of missed out on that

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things have been very busy very hectic for me so maybe that's why I'm not sure

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but I do find it a little bit disappointing that the onyx has

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transformed into the power-up let's just say generically and not go into

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specifically what part of the power-up it is like it's kind of a cool idea but

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it also kind of doesn't make sense and it also feels like it should be it should

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mean that the threat is completely wrapped up and earth has been saved by

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arc routine somehow doing this which doesn't really make sense I should say

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arc because it's really Yuma and routine are working together as arc that you

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know solve the problem for each other left to his own means or his own devices

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I guess maybe he wouldn't have solved the problem so that's pretty interesting

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and yeah I thought it was real like insightful commentary I like the easy

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pointed out that Yuma basically Yuma and routine are very much the same kind of

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guy like they have this optimism and they have this hope for the future and

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they don't want to just give into despair and that those qualities are

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similar between them and they're what make it possible and what makes Yuma a

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good host for for routine and like they are arc together it's not so much that

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he's arc and he's just using Yuma as a human host it's that something about Yuma

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intrinsic in him is part of what makes him so compatible and so good for being

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an Ultraman and I really did like that even gets very cool so anyway yeah it

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was a fun clip episode it was interesting to see this like Kansai

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region robot and I can't remember the guys named who went with it but anyway

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it was a fun episode I watched I put the subtitles on because there was no other

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dub underneath that which it's funny because they dub the they don't the

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preview for next episode but they didn't dub this at all except for you know the

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commentary that was dubbed over technically you could say but it's not a

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real dub like I'm ADR dub so there are a content of it's a comment dub so I

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don't know I thought that was kind of interesting and what else I thought it

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was interesting and what I guess that's it for now I am interested to see what

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happens with you know this armor this galaxy armor and how that'll work what's

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gonna happen with it throughout the rest of the series will it somehow get taken

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away from arc and become like get reconstituted into the wormhole into the

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onyx into the the end of the the distortion field why couldn't it be able

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to I don't see a reason for that not to happen and you know is the threat to

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earth really over from Sonya the Sun in this other galaxy I don't think so it

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wouldn't make sense to me that that would be the case and yeah I'm really

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interested to see how it evolves and EJ did mention that that little slice made

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by the the Kaiju's tale in the last episode might be an opening for the onyx

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might be an opening for more kaiju to come through might be an opening for

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more people like Swede to come through so that'll be interesting to see how

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exactly that develops and yeah that's about all I have to say check out all my

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other stuff I started reviewing or I did a preview and I'm gonna do a review

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next of the the next bit of Kamuro which is a new manga that's coming out

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through viz Kiri Himekawa is the mangaka that's the team the lady team who did

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the Twilight Princess as well as the Legend of Zelda like

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shorter adaptations of the games like two I think it's two tankaban or two you

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know volumes per game which is not enough so like Twilight Princess is

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interesting to me because it's a longer exploration of the game it's a longer

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adaptation and I feel like you could really get something interesting I

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really like Twilight Princess it's the only Zelda game I've ever played on my

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own to completion I've done like let's plays and I do the real life let's play

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in the 2000s I watched somebody play link to the past I think that link to

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the past on a GameCube when they did the port for it so and I was a kid then but

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yeah Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess was like really meaningful to me it was

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really cool I got it for the Wii I played it and it was really interesting

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I'd like to see that manga adaptation but not talking about that talking about

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her other work or their other work Kamuro is just really interesting manga with

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these Demi beings and it feels like very much like Dark Crystal meets the

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Silmarillion or meets Jail or Jolken stuff because it's like about the

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beginning of the world and how like this one God created the world and had these

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different things happen and there's this like dragon goddess or like demigoddess

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sort of thing that like actually did the creation of the world after God like put

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his finger in and stirred things up and there's all these there's no humans yet

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and then there's this one human born and they're being born or they're they're

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born they're hatched out of an egg like all the other Demi beings on the day

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that this like priest this dragon priest guy to this dragon priestess goddess

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demigoddess whatever gets this vision and gets prophecy that something will

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happen like the world is going to end soon and there's gonna be a sign and

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maybe the world can be saved but she's like super unclear about that but it

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seems from the like meta commentary the copy stuff about it that our world of our

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world eventually evolves or comes from this world of Kamuto that we're you know

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seen in this in this manga and that seems really interesting that's why I

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said it's kind of like the Silmarillion or you know tokens legendarium mixed

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with Dark Crystal because the character designs look kind of like Dark Crystal

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and they're these like anthro animal people and it's very interesting it's

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like it's stunning art it's beautiful so I'm talking about that I'll be talking

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about other stuff as well you can find everything I do on MJMainters.com I

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also working on getting an outline for a book finished and then I could do the

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draft of the book and stuff and I'll have news about that when I have news so

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anyway till next time folks take care and be well

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