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attention inspection presents going ultra this is MJ I'm an author I'm an

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artist I'm an analyzer find all my work at MJMUNOZ.COM prepare yourself for

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hard-hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis I say Ultraman blazar here but

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of course I mean Ultraman Ark episode 17 sorry it's very clear throughout the

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body with the episode that I'm talking about Ark but yeah blazar Ark I

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promise I wasn't crying he just had a bloated nose anyway Ultraman blazar episode

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17 it was a lot of fun we got to see the death and the farewell of this

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wandering Zongildis ghost guy and it's really interesting we get a he's a kind

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of combinator backstory he was originally created by or revivified by

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by this great samurai no Daimyo Infernal Dark Shogun there we go so that

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guy he was originally revivified by him and set with a task of doing whatever

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evil stuff this guy wanted done but his samurai spirit was so strong that it

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overcame the mind control of the corruption of this guy and he was able

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to turn against him and hunt down his fellow brother resurrected ghost kaiju or

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whatever and that's super interesting super fun kind of makes me wonder where

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he got his human form I kind of think the idea of him not showing up in his

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human form this episode makes sense because probably the idea would be that

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as he's losing his power because he's not getting fed the dark energy that the

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rest of the ghost kaiju by getting fed from the Infernal Dark Shogun he is

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losing some of his power and he's fighting these battles you know going to

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die and it's he's got like some awesome samurai lines like a samurai's path is

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to find his end or something like that and it's it's fantastic you know going

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you're going into battle knowing that you're going to die that is this is the

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way of the samurai which automatically made me think of samurai shambles and

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that would be great it'd be I might have to cut something also him talking about

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the shadow world made me think of another good gag that would be a lot of

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fun to do if I had more time anyway but yeah I'm actually gonna look into the

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writer and director of this episode because I hadn't checked and I should

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double check for last episode basically my spoiler review is that I really

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liked this episode I thought it was really good okay so on episode one we

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read it is so the light of fear was written and directed by Tomonobu Koshi

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and a real director and it was written by Toshizo Nemoto and the director is

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the same Tomonobu Koshi and the writer on this episode is Takao Nakano so let

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me pull up their credits and look at them at the end I'll go over all that

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stuff because I don't want to belabor it too much and I have a bad habit of

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doing that so let me talk about the actual episode first and then we'll go

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into the credits and talk about these people what they've done so anyway I'm

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I mean my point is and I think I've said it pretty clearly I like this episode a

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lot it was really cool I do have some issues though which I will bring up but

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the person story the human story in it was really great I really enjoyed it I

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really like this idea of Zanguil wanting to find somebody to replace him

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someone to pass on his demon slicing technique to and that somehow Ark was

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able to be that guy I guess he kind of passed it on to Blazar as well maybe but

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he explicitly says Ark is inheriting it from him and I think the Zanguil episode

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in that was only one episode whereas it's two and it's kind of creeping into

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a third which I find interesting and I like the totally different approach

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they're taking with this like it almost feels like they had a big plan to do

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something with this character and that's a lot of fun it's very unexpected but I

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know this one it feels like there's a plan with this guy and it feels like I'm

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not sure I'm not sure what it feels like but definitely feels like there's a plan

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and it feels like this is kind of like a samurai passion project that somebody is

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working in here because even the other one within feelings so old-school and I

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think we found out that Gento was in the period dramas and stuff like it all

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I don't know it just kind of blends and it creates like it's a little pocket

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universe within Ultraman that you've got Zanguil and he's saying like just as

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imagination is infinite there are infinite Ultraman everywhere doing

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whatever like that's a really fun idea and it's a cool idea I like how it plays

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into the show and I guess you must know about Ark's imagination theme and Yuma's

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imagination power I don't know how he knows if he heard him say something if

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it was you know shown explicitly in some way I don't remember now but

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regardless it's a pretty neat that he's picking up on that theme and kind of

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talking about it the writers the creators behind this are playing with

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that idea and using it as like a bridge to the audience you know that to connect

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the character from this other show to this show and I think that's a lot of

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fun I think it's a really cool way to go about it and it's nice that there's this

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thematic resonance is this thematic blending there's this thematic you know

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attachment or bridge between the two of them and I like that a lot so I thought

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that was very cool and I hope the action was really good for the most part the

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suit performances like Zanguil got to be a more committed character in this

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episode which was kind of funny kind of unexpected and I enjoyed that it kind of

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humanized him or helped me get to know him as a character better I know in the

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other episode he was having coffee with Gento and spending time with him like

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that and that was really neat but like it felt more melancholy it felt more

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dramatic there whereas here it feels funnier but then at the end we get this

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really great you know farewell as on Gil scene which is super cool and it feels

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really good and it feels really like meaningful and pointed and kind of

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painful and like wistful and and almost nostalgic like the color palette is

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nostalgic and it feels like Shu and Yuma are like really connected deeply with

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this guy and it really hurts them that he's going away because he's not just

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disappearing or vanishing he's dying at least that's what they see that's what

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we see and I love just the way the shot was composed and everything that's how

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the scene was composed it's really beautiful very emotionally resonant and

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I really like that so basically I like the episode it's hard to recommend the show

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continues to be good and I'm really glad I'm still watching it and I'll go and

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talk to you about the people involved with making the episode but before I do

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that I do want to criticize a little bit the craziness and the ups like the

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scaling up of the threat they defeated like four Kaiju and then there were like

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hundreds of Togano-R and somehow Ark was able to use his Galaxer, Armored

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Galaxer or whatever to split himself into multiple forms and create a giant bow

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and all this stuff it was a little over the top like you couldn't have like a dozen and he

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kills them all quickly I would have appreciated that a lot more but yeah it

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went a little ridiculous like they went hard on on telling the Galaxer and the

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galaxy armor and stuff it just

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to be clear it doesn't really work for me so I'm saying anyway so that's too

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bad that's too bad but I'll talk about the creators now of this episode the

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main credit dude guys Tomonobu Koshi was the director of both episode 16 and 17

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and I'll just read you from the wiki the Ultraman wiki since 2005 Koshi has

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served as an assistant director for Ultraman Max and has continued to

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participate in the production and shooting of the Ultraman series since

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then starting in 2019 Koshi started as a series director with his participation

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in Ultraman Taiga and began to become one of the main directors participating

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in series after the 2020s so he's assistant director on Max Mibius Saga

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Ultraman X assistant special effects director he did that same job for

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Ultraman X the movie okay makes sense and then Ultraman Orb he was assistant

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director as well as Cheed Rube or Red and Blue or RB or Taiga and Ultraman Z he

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was director and assistant director and he was director on two episodes

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specifically the lion's cry and belly of rock he was assistant director for

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Ultraman Taiga and he directed two episodes Smeary destruction and raging feast

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Ultraman Z he was assistant director Ultraman Decker

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oh you already said that okay fine Ultraman Z he was assistant director oh I'm sorry

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that's Ultraman Trigger episode Z which was a movie I believe he was assistant

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director assistant director and directed three episodes of Ultraman Decker

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episodes 7 11 12 for Blazar he was the director assistant director for four

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episodes Planet of Music parent and child the towering terror and light and

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flame interesting and then for arc 7 8 which is a full moons answer internet

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Kennegan and then 16 17 light of fear and demons lights and meter sword so

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full moons answer is the one with mama big mama Barma hunger and in a can be on

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is the one with the carrying on where they go on the internet and do all this

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crazy crazy stuff with the direction and then light of fear in demon slice the

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meteor sword which we just saw are like very interesting and kind of more

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traditional although they do have some of the wilder elements in them too so

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that's an interesting spread of episodes that he's done so I just want to give

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credit where credit is to oh he's also appeared in Z decker and blazar which

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is fun which is very fun he appeared in insurance hero in the commercial as one

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of the guys running away from the gremlins kaiju I guess now for the

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writer of episode 16 this is sorry Toshizo and a motto and according to

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what he again is Japanese who matter who has a long career in the anime industry

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has served as a writer and series compositor for the ultimate series

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during the new generation era career nemoto studied in the film and imaging

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department at Osaka University of Arts and to become a scriptwriter during his

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time there later through an introduction by Shinji Ishihara of studio aux he

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entered the industry and began working as a writer for local animated projects

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or productions since 2017 nemoto has served as a writer for the ultimate

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series taking on the role of series compositor for ultimate decker in 2022

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he's frequently collaborated with director Masayoshi Takesue on several

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episodes so he has worked on Ultraman Zero the revenge of Belial Ultraman

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Z, writer of two episodes Ultraman Z the movie Ultraman Rube wrote two episodes

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specifically Ultraman Z wrote two episodes as well he wrote the last hero

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that was a great one that was one that features um ace is coming back and he

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for Taiga he wrote four episodes this five here but it says he wrote four

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episodes so maybe he co-wrote one I don't know he okay the Ultraman Trigger

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episode Z he was a writer on that and then he wrote one two three four five six

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seven eight nine like nine oh it's his seven episodes of decker he wrote the

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decker finale journey to beyond okay great two episodes of blazar night of

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tripping in six insects in battle in the sky which he was paired with

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cocheon which is interesting and then he wrote episodes five and six of Ultraman

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arc so doing pretty good he was a serious composer on water horizon which

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is pretty cool and also a macross Delta in 2016 I didn't see that don't know

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about that then we move on to the writer for episode 17 Takao Mikano and again

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I'm reading from the wiki he's a Japanese film director and screenwriter

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he has served as writer and series compositor a writer and series compositor

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for the Ultraman series for me to generate having many written many

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episodes and some filled in novels okay so Mikano again his career mainly

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writing and directing tokusatsu adult videos such as metomic action and

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Spyro's on later picking into non-adult TV series and film he's written for the

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Ultraman series since 2014 as and was a serious compositor alongside other

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others for some series so operation mystery second file operation mystery

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mystery file Ultraman Ginga s he wrote three episodes Ultraman Ginga s the movie

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he was the writer Ultraman X he wrote four episodes Ultraman X the movie he

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wrote Ultraman Orb he wrote four episodes as well as the orb movie I

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wrote three episodes of Rube the Rube movie Ultraman Taiga he wrote five

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episodes Ultraman Z he wrote three episodes including first juggling here

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comes the spacebar and belly of rock good stuff he wrote the Ultraman Taiga

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the movie new generation climax Ultraman Deku he wrote three episodes Ultraman

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he wrote Ultra blazer oh the movie Tokyo kaiju showdown interesting scarred

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break room he wrote that ultra red arc he's just credited as a writer here and

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it's where his books are considered literature alternate orb Chronicle he

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wrote Ultraman Rube novel the blue eyed girl whose name is gray Ultraman Taiga

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novel two years story or blue shadow or and blue shadow and then jugless jugla

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Chronicle I really like juggler from a certain show and the fact that he comes

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from another show before them and then others a book about him that sounds

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pretty cool that's that's a lot of fun anyway and then last but not least

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dub of Ultraman Blazar and now in Ultraman arc as well and I love his vocal

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performance it's fantastic I don't know what else he's done voice

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director ADR director and scriptwriters so he's probably done a lot of stuff and

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I'm impressed by his voice performance so you know good for him pretty

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fantastic pretty fantastic work he's doing so anyway yeah you might want to

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check out what other stuff he's been in and that's about all I have to say I

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really enjoyed his vocal performance he really brought a lot of life to it and

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it was a lot of fun so again this was a really enjoyable episode for me and I

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enjoyed talking about it and the people who worked on and maybe come to life and

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made it shine for me so I'd like to hear your thoughts on this episode and arc as

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a whole if you're interested in throwing that at me right now

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