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discussion and analysis. So Ultraman Art episode 16 was kind of wistful. There's

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this emotional thing going on with Ichiro going away from the GDF and then we have

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Moguishin and Zangiel pop up again and they are from Ultraman Blazar and we see

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from the preview that we're going to get even more stuff from Ultraman Blazar.

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Possibly not Ultraman Blazar himself but we'll see what happens. I don't know.

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Maybe they're keeping it as a cool reveal and it's not obvious to the audience

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who hasn't seen Blazar that Zangiel is from Blazar and that you know

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these other Kaiju in the preview are going to be from Blazar so, or are from Blazar so

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we'll see what happens with that. But I did like the episode overall. It was

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interesting, its placement in the show because you know it's kind of showing

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how I guess the GDF, the Global Defense Force, is in kind of this weird liminal

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space. They don't really know what's going on. They don't really know what they're

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going to do with the threats that they're facing and because of that Ichiro

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is probably going to be pulled from the skip division in Hoshimoto Ranch or you

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know what I'm saying. And it's kind of a sad thing for the characters and it feels

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kind of weird to me that it would happen and I don't know I think I was less

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emotionally impacted than it then I should have been or than they had

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intended me to be but you know sometimes it happens. There's just a little bit of a

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disconnect and that's not something to be upset about or you know yell or

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scream about it's just you know stuff happens. So well I did have a little bit

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of an emotional disconnect with the events going on. I did certainly like the

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episode. I liked how they really streamlined through things like they

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understood right away that mule gushin was causing people to panic and that its

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light was causing these issues. It's weird that it was incorporeal and intangible.

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I guess it's the same thing really. That's weird and that's new. It's

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different from what it was in Blazar but yeah like in Blazar it was like really a

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mystery like oh how's this happening what's going on here and I believe

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that's the it was that was mule gushin's debut in Blazar and the fact that you

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know he's not debuting here that he's just you know just one of the guys just

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one of the kaiju you know makes it so it's played out a little bit differently

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and I like that it is played out differently because then for people like

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me who've seen both now it's not uninteresting and it kind of offers a

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you know question what's going on here why is this happening like this and I

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think that's a good thing and I definitely like that so that was a good

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thing like I said probably the most interesting thing was you know the I

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took note of was that they didn't show the face of Zangiel's human form at all

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which makes me wonder if that actor just wasn't available or wasn't interested

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in doing the role again or maybe they just didn't want to pay him so they just

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payed us something to do it so that's a little disappointing but you know I don't

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know the full story so I'm not gonna speculate about it and cause any issues

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or certainly you know toku drama or anything like that because I'm that's not

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what I'm interested in but yeah so like the story was partly about Ichido being

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sad that he has to go and kind of Yuma regretting it and Yuma asks him you know

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why did you decide to join the GDF and before Ichido answers he turns it around

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on Yuma and asks him well why did you join the why did you join with skip and

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not the GDF or some other you know G or the space kaiju is specific is what

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they're talking about you know why didn't you join up with somebody else in

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the GDF and Yuma answers right away that he feels like because the GDF or yeah

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the GDF specifically like responds reactively to kaiju that he was thinking

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that learning everything he can about kaiju would enable him to react

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proactively and if you understand your enemy or you understand this threat you

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can deal with it in a way that is like holistically better because you're not

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just waiting for them to start rampaging and destroying things you're trying to

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see well are there things that we can do as humans that you know that we do have

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control over that will stop or slow or mitigate harm done by kaiju which you

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know that approach doesn't make sense to have that approach makes sense it makes

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a lot of sense it's just interesting how things play out isn't it because we

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don't really get we don't really get to see you know any of these defense

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forces what they're like except for the a little bit from the characters that we

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get involved with them and sometimes it's not a whole lot so you know is he

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still really indicative of the entire GDF I don't know you know when we've seen

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them deployed they are very militaristic but then again so was back from Ultraman Z

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you know storage they were very militaristic but at the same time you

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know they had to be like there was a they were taking a different kind of

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role they weren't just waiting for Ultraman to save them and I really don't

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understand how you know I part of the reason I thought the what I thought

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falsely about blazar which is her about arc which is that Kaiju didn't really

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exist until 16 years ago in the show and then you know they kind of rampages and

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then settled down is because it doesn't make sense for a world that's full of

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kaiju to be able to wait for an Ultraman and not have their culture and life in

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the world like dramatically changed because how can humans with our you know

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weak fleshy bodies and our inferior you know everything basically stand up to

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and withstand kaiju attacks for any prolonged period of time it doesn't

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really make sense and that's what I thought the show was going for and then

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it turns out I was wrong and there have been kaiju all along and you know that

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kind of makes it more interesting in some ways but also like a little bit

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less logical to me and I kind of struggle with that still so I don't know

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I don't know it's a hashtag Ultraman problems I guess but what did you think

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the episode did you like it do you if you've seen blazar the episode was on

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gil was this a cool homage was this a cool throwback to it or did you just

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like it for some reason and if you aren't familiar with it where you lost it

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all or did it actually work for you as is I'm curious to know what people think

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