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So Ultraman Arc just had its second special recap episode, I think is what
they call it, and for the second time we also have E.J. Kulakundis
doing an audio commentary. He's without Mach Dent at this time, but it was still
good. I could tell a little it's difficult to do a commentary all by your
lonesome and at some point I think he was struggling a little bit, but I think he did
a really good job and it was a lot of fun to listen to him talk about the
episode and Arc in general and I feel a little dumb, I feel a little baby for
having enjoyed him spelling things out clearly so much because I feel like you
know I'm an adult watching the show. I'm sure kids watching the show are
understanding what's going on for the most part and this is kind of something
I've talked about previously with Ultraman Arc and maybe even with Blazar
that even though the kids shows there's something going on that's like just
complicated enough in the... I don't know if it's in the plotting or if it's in the way
the plot is being unfolded that it makes it a little bit difficult to understand
100% what's going on because there's a lot of unanswered questions and things
aren't being spelled out in the show itself so like I had questions about
Gevas that I didn't quite understand even though I like Gevas a lot and I hadn't
quite caught on to the fact that well I didn't know well that's irrelevant I'll
come to that later the blue thing which hopefully I'm already blue anyway and
like getting the reminder of exactly what the threat is to Swede and Ruteon's
galaxy home galaxy and how that's kind of an inversion of what happened with
the Ultraman originally in M78 and how that they created this artificial Sun and
that is what made them for ordinary humans or human like beings into these
ultra beings these beating beings of light and that's pretty interesting to
have that you know clearly stated and also to have the way EJ talked about it
he made it sound like what I recently realized or finally accepted is true is
that this planet has kaiju normally it's just tied you are there Hoshimoto
City is a hotspot because of K-Day 16 years ago but that the thing it makes
K-Day distinct is that it was when a bunch of kaiju all around the world were
activated or became active or you know reacted to the the onyx the wormhole
entrance or whatever or exit being closed the wormhole opening and also
something I didn't understand from the last episode which I feel a little bit
dumb but I also think maybe just wasn't explained very well is that the onyx
actually transformed into the galaxy armor and yeah it transformed into the
well gal I guess galaxy armor and the galaxy weapon that he has specifically
and I I think that's cool I think that's cool but does that mean that the threat
is gone because that feels wrong to me that just the threat would be gone now I
would think they would get another onyx type thing out there or they'd be able
to wormhole that thing over something like that doesn't really make sense that
that was the solution of the problem I think it most it should be like a
temporary solution but anyway I was shocked to find out that that form the
armor the weapon is all from the onyx and like I said that doesn't really make
sense to me and I honestly kind of find that unsatisfying but I don't know how I
didn't catch that in watching the episode I don't know what happened was I
watching it too late at night so I was tired so I kind of missed out on that
things have been very busy very hectic for me so maybe that's why I'm not sure
but I do find it a little bit disappointing that the onyx has
transformed into the power-up let's just say generically and not go into
specifically what part of the power-up it is like it's kind of a cool idea but
it also kind of doesn't make sense and it also feels like it should be it should
mean that the threat is completely wrapped up and earth has been saved by
arc routine somehow doing this which doesn't really make sense I should say
arc because it's really Yuma and routine are working together as arc that you
know solve the problem for each other left to his own means or his own devices
I guess maybe he wouldn't have solved the problem so that's pretty interesting
and yeah I thought it was real like insightful commentary I like the easy
pointed out that Yuma basically Yuma and routine are very much the same kind of
guy like they have this optimism and they have this hope for the future and
they don't want to just give into despair and that those qualities are
similar between them and they're what make it possible and what makes Yuma a
good host for for routine and like they are arc together it's not so much that
he's arc and he's just using Yuma as a human host it's that something about Yuma
intrinsic in him is part of what makes him so compatible and so good for being
an Ultraman and I really did like that even gets very cool so anyway yeah it
was a fun clip episode it was interesting to see this like Kansai
region robot and I can't remember the guys named who went with it but anyway
it was a fun episode I watched I put the subtitles on because there was no other
dub underneath that which it's funny because they dub the they don't the
preview for next episode but they didn't dub this at all except for you know the
commentary that was dubbed over technically you could say but it's not a
real dub like I'm ADR dub so there are a content of it's a comment dub so I
don't know I thought that was kind of interesting and what else I thought it
was interesting and what I guess that's it for now I am interested to see what
happens with you know this armor this galaxy armor and how that'll work what's
gonna happen with it throughout the rest of the series will it somehow get taken
away from arc and become like get reconstituted into the wormhole into the
onyx into the the end of the the distortion field why couldn't it be able
to I don't see a reason for that not to happen and you know is the threat to
earth really over from Sonya the Sun in this other galaxy I don't think so it
wouldn't make sense to me that that would be the case and yeah I'm really
interested to see how it evolves and EJ did mention that that little slice made
by the the Kaiju's tale in the last episode might be an opening for the onyx
might be an opening for more kaiju to come through might be an opening for
more people like Swede to come through so that'll be interesting to see how
exactly that develops and yeah that's about all I have to say check out all my
other stuff I started reviewing or I did a preview and I'm gonna do a review
next of the the next bit of Kamuro which is a new manga that's coming out
through viz Kiri Himekawa is the mangaka that's the team the lady team who did
the Twilight Princess as well as the Legend of Zelda like
shorter adaptations of the games like two I think it's two tankaban or two you
know volumes per game which is not enough so like Twilight Princess is
interesting to me because it's a longer exploration of the game it's a longer
adaptation and I feel like you could really get something interesting I
really like Twilight Princess it's the only Zelda game I've ever played on my
own to completion I've done like let's plays and I do the real life let's play
in the 2000s I watched somebody play link to the past I think that link to
the past on a GameCube when they did the port for it so and I was a kid then but
yeah Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess was like really meaningful to me it was
really cool I got it for the Wii I played it and it was really interesting
I'd like to see that manga adaptation but not talking about that talking about
her other work or their other work Kamuro is just really interesting manga with
these Demi beings and it feels like very much like Dark Crystal meets the
Silmarillion or meets Jail or Jolken stuff because it's like about the
beginning of the world and how like this one God created the world and had these
different things happen and there's this like dragon goddess or like demigoddess
sort of thing that like actually did the creation of the world after God like put
his finger in and stirred things up and there's all these there's no humans yet
and then there's this one human born and they're being born or they're they're
born they're hatched out of an egg like all the other Demi beings on the day
that this like priest this dragon priest guy to this dragon priestess goddess
demigoddess whatever gets this vision and gets prophecy that something will
happen like the world is going to end soon and there's gonna be a sign and
maybe the world can be saved but she's like super unclear about that but it
seems from the like meta commentary the copy stuff about it that our world of our
world eventually evolves or comes from this world of Kamuto that we're you know
seen in this in this manga and that seems really interesting that's why I
said it's kind of like the Silmarillion or you know tokens legendarium mixed
with Dark Crystal because the character designs look kind of like Dark Crystal
and they're these like anthro animal people and it's very interesting it's
like it's stunning art it's beautiful so I'm talking about that I'll be talking
about other stuff as well you can find everything I do on MJMainters.com I
also working on getting an outline for a book finished and then I could do the
draft of the book and stuff and I'll have news about that when I have news so
anyway till next time folks take care and be well
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