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discussion and analysis. So Ultraman Art episode 16 was kind of wistful. There's
this emotional thing going on with Ichiro going away from the GDF and then we have
Moguishin and Zangiel pop up again and they are from Ultraman Blazar and we see
from the preview that we're going to get even more stuff from Ultraman Blazar.
Possibly not Ultraman Blazar himself but we'll see what happens. I don't know.
Maybe they're keeping it as a cool reveal and it's not obvious to the audience
who hasn't seen Blazar that Zangiel is from Blazar and that you know
these other Kaiju in the preview are going to be from Blazar so, or are from Blazar so
we'll see what happens with that. But I did like the episode overall. It was
interesting, its placement in the show because you know it's kind of showing
how I guess the GDF, the Global Defense Force, is in kind of this weird liminal
space. They don't really know what's going on. They don't really know what they're
going to do with the threats that they're facing and because of that Ichiro
is probably going to be pulled from the skip division in Hoshimoto Ranch or you
know what I'm saying. And it's kind of a sad thing for the characters and it feels
kind of weird to me that it would happen and I don't know I think I was less
emotionally impacted than it then I should have been or than they had
intended me to be but you know sometimes it happens. There's just a little bit of a
disconnect and that's not something to be upset about or you know yell or
scream about it's just you know stuff happens. So well I did have a little bit
of an emotional disconnect with the events going on. I did certainly like the
episode. I liked how they really streamlined through things like they
understood right away that mule gushin was causing people to panic and that its
light was causing these issues. It's weird that it was incorporeal and intangible.
I guess it's the same thing really. That's weird and that's new. It's
different from what it was in Blazar but yeah like in Blazar it was like really a
mystery like oh how's this happening what's going on here and I believe
that's the it was that was mule gushin's debut in Blazar and the fact that you
know he's not debuting here that he's just you know just one of the guys just
one of the kaiju you know makes it so it's played out a little bit differently
and I like that it is played out differently because then for people like
me who've seen both now it's not uninteresting and it kind of offers a
you know question what's going on here why is this happening like this and I
think that's a good thing and I definitely like that so that was a good
thing like I said probably the most interesting thing was you know the I
took note of was that they didn't show the face of Zangiel's human form at all
which makes me wonder if that actor just wasn't available or wasn't interested
in doing the role again or maybe they just didn't want to pay him so they just
payed us something to do it so that's a little disappointing but you know I don't
know the full story so I'm not gonna speculate about it and cause any issues
or certainly you know toku drama or anything like that because I'm that's not
what I'm interested in but yeah so like the story was partly about Ichido being
sad that he has to go and kind of Yuma regretting it and Yuma asks him you know
why did you decide to join the GDF and before Ichido answers he turns it around
on Yuma and asks him well why did you join the why did you join with skip and
not the GDF or some other you know G or the space kaiju is specific is what
they're talking about you know why didn't you join up with somebody else in
the GDF and Yuma answers right away that he feels like because the GDF or yeah
the GDF specifically like responds reactively to kaiju that he was thinking
that learning everything he can about kaiju would enable him to react
proactively and if you understand your enemy or you understand this threat you
can deal with it in a way that is like holistically better because you're not
just waiting for them to start rampaging and destroying things you're trying to
see well are there things that we can do as humans that you know that we do have
control over that will stop or slow or mitigate harm done by kaiju which you
know that approach doesn't make sense to have that approach makes sense it makes
a lot of sense it's just interesting how things play out isn't it because we
don't really get we don't really get to see you know any of these defense
forces what they're like except for the a little bit from the characters that we
get involved with them and sometimes it's not a whole lot so you know is he
still really indicative of the entire GDF I don't know you know when we've seen
them deployed they are very militaristic but then again so was back from Ultraman Z
you know storage they were very militaristic but at the same time you
know they had to be like there was a they were taking a different kind of
role they weren't just waiting for Ultraman to save them and I really don't
understand how you know I part of the reason I thought the what I thought
falsely about blazar which is her about arc which is that Kaiju didn't really
exist until 16 years ago in the show and then you know they kind of rampages and
then settled down is because it doesn't make sense for a world that's full of
kaiju to be able to wait for an Ultraman and not have their culture and life in
the world like dramatically changed because how can humans with our you know
weak fleshy bodies and our inferior you know everything basically stand up to
and withstand kaiju attacks for any prolonged period of time it doesn't
really make sense and that's what I thought the show was going for and then
it turns out I was wrong and there have been kaiju all along and you know that
kind of makes it more interesting in some ways but also like a little bit
less logical to me and I kind of struggle with that still so I don't know
I don't know it's a hashtag Ultraman problems I guess but what did you think
the episode did you like it do you if you've seen blazar the episode was on
gil was this a cool homage was this a cool throwback to it or did you just
like it for some reason and if you aren't familiar with it where you lost it
all or did it actually work for you as is I'm curious to know what people think
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