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Tension Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist,

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I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. Prepare yourself for hard

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hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. So I thoroughly enjoyed Ultraman

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Work episode 18 and if you watched all the way to the end, what I'm about to say

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won't shock you, but if you didn't then it will, so prepare yourself if you

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hadn't watched all the way to the end. But it's a really interesting way that they are

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slowly building up to this blazar team-up. It's been like three episodes. We

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had the Zongil introduction, we had the Zongil passing on, I think Zongil's

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dead now. Then we have this episode where they're trying to use the power of the

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Galaxer that has the power of the Onyx to charge up this thing that will close

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the rift that Zedim left and like where's Swede? Is she gone? She been

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defeated? I thought she was gonna be a longer lasting character than like a

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one-shot, like one trick pony kind of lady. But anyway, whatever. Looks like she's gone.

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But then we're gonna have this fourth episode coming up because at the end of

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the episode he's in Hoshimoto City. Yuma wakes up in Hoshimoto City after the

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fight and after pushing the Kaiju back through, or the Infernal Dark Shogun as

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he's called, whatever his actual Kaiju name is. I can't remember at the moment.

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Anyway, he pushes him through and then he wakes up in Hoshimoto City. He sees a

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giant dinosaur Kaiju mecha fighting against this guy and then a familiar

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face knocks him over. Turns out it's Shu in scarred outfit and he's, I think Shu,

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shocked to have this random stranger know his name and you know call him by

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it. And Yuma's definitely shocked to see Shu in this different getup in this

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different place with this you know Robo Kaiju thing fighting his enemy. And

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they're definitely setting up, I mean I saw the preview afterwards, they're

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setting up, Blazar's gonna be there and they're going all the way through with

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this like crossover through a multiverse thing. And I guess Zangiel has been

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traveling the multiverse collecting these Kaiju souls or whatever. I thought

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it was all just in Blazar's world but it's not. If it sounds like I'm only into

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this because it's a elaborate Blazar crossover, that's not true. It was just

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that's kind of a lot of what was going on and I'm stating the fact that it's

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interesting that over the course of these last three episodes, this one

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included, and then going into the fourth, that it is an elaborate Blazar staff and

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crossover and I find that to be very interesting. I kind of wonder why that

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choice is being made because I would think it'd be better to have it be

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simpler and there are different universes from each other and things

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like that so this seems kind of strange. Also the fact that this is a

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multiverse we're dealing with here, I don't see there, I don't really see there,

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well that gives more justification for me thinking that this was a totally

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different place with K-Day being the day that Kaiju appeared across the world

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forever in Yuna and in Archworld. Not the case, not a big deal, but it just kind of

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bugged me for a minute. I thought hey wait a minute, so it is a different universe,

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they didn't have to have Kaiju there all the time, this could be when Kaiju, this

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could be the inception of Kaiju, but it doesn't really matter. What does matter is it's

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interesting that it almost seems like they're trying to suggest that Shu knows

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that Yuma is Arc and I don't think that's true, but the way that the certain

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shots were made and the way certain dialogue went down it sure felt like Shu

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knew that Yuma was Ultraman and I find that to be interesting. I don't quite

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know why they would do that, like one, like why would they do that because they

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always keep it a secret right? In the Ultraman, in the Ultra Series they always keep it a secret.

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Two, if they are going to keep it a secret why would they make it feel as if

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it's not? Is it so it's more exciting for the audience? So they're all

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suspicious, they're excited about this possibility of him knowing. I don't quite

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understand what that is and I feel like there's something still secretive going

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on with Shu and not that he's not to be trusted, but just that maybe he still has

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ulterior motives even though he's basically a good guy. I mean he's a

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really good guy, but yeah maybe there's still secret designs going on there.

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We're getting really close to the end of the show, maybe only six or seven more

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episodes. I don't know how they're gonna wrap it up, especially because we had

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that you know parasite thing from the first episode, which I would think should

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cause a bigger problem, but then we also have the threat of you know Archin

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Sweets home galaxy wanting to dump off energy from their Sun to destroy the

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earth and save themselves. Like that has to come to a head I would think.

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Zeyzhoo, Zyzzhoo, whatever should come back too. So like I don't know they're

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setting up for something really big and I don't know exactly how they're all

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gonna do it or how well they're gonna do it. I find it hilarious that Yuma's using the

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excuse that he has to go to the bathroom and it's taking forever in there as to

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how he's able to go off and be Ultraman during, well whenever he has to, during

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missions and stuff. And anyway that also like his thin excuses kind of remind me

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of or kind of made me think of well maybe they are all suspicious that he's

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Ultraman actually and they're just not saying it for whatever reason. That would

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be kind of interesting. But yeah overall I like the episode. I mean it's all kaiju

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that we've seen before. Bazanga and T'Ganyar and the breeding Bazanga at the end.

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And yeah I mean the fights were cool. There were some really cool shots. I liked him

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hurling Bazanga over his head. That was really fun. And yeah I don't know the

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action was good. It was straightforward. It was simple. There's some good comedic bits with

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them all trying to communicate. Although is it a plothole that they had alien

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language translation software in the Give Us episodes but then here Yuppie

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bought a book on learning to speak alien languages and it's a scam somehow.

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How do those two work for each other? It's kind of weird. Kind of like sitcom logic.

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But anyway I enjoyed the episode overall. What did you think about it and are you

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excited for this huge blazar crossover thing that they're doing? Thank you for

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