Tension Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist,
I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. Prepare yourself for hard
hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. So I thoroughly enjoyed Ultraman
Work episode 18 and if you watched all the way to the end, what I'm about to say
won't shock you, but if you didn't then it will, so prepare yourself if you
hadn't watched all the way to the end. But it's a really interesting way that they are
slowly building up to this blazar team-up. It's been like three episodes. We
had the Zongil introduction, we had the Zongil passing on, I think Zongil's
dead now. Then we have this episode where they're trying to use the power of the
Galaxer that has the power of the Onyx to charge up this thing that will close
the rift that Zedim left and like where's Swede? Is she gone? She been
defeated? I thought she was gonna be a longer lasting character than like a
one-shot, like one trick pony kind of lady. But anyway, whatever. Looks like she's gone.
But then we're gonna have this fourth episode coming up because at the end of
the episode he's in Hoshimoto City. Yuma wakes up in Hoshimoto City after the
fight and after pushing the Kaiju back through, or the Infernal Dark Shogun as
he's called, whatever his actual Kaiju name is. I can't remember at the moment.
Anyway, he pushes him through and then he wakes up in Hoshimoto City. He sees a
giant dinosaur Kaiju mecha fighting against this guy and then a familiar
face knocks him over. Turns out it's Shu in scarred outfit and he's, I think Shu,
shocked to have this random stranger know his name and you know call him by
it. And Yuma's definitely shocked to see Shu in this different getup in this
different place with this you know Robo Kaiju thing fighting his enemy. And
they're definitely setting up, I mean I saw the preview afterwards, they're
setting up, Blazar's gonna be there and they're going all the way through with
this like crossover through a multiverse thing. And I guess Zangiel has been
traveling the multiverse collecting these Kaiju souls or whatever. I thought
it was all just in Blazar's world but it's not. If it sounds like I'm only into
this because it's a elaborate Blazar crossover, that's not true. It was just
that's kind of a lot of what was going on and I'm stating the fact that it's
interesting that over the course of these last three episodes, this one
included, and then going into the fourth, that it is an elaborate Blazar staff and
crossover and I find that to be very interesting. I kind of wonder why that
choice is being made because I would think it'd be better to have it be
simpler and there are different universes from each other and things
like that so this seems kind of strange. Also the fact that this is a
multiverse we're dealing with here, I don't see there, I don't really see there,
well that gives more justification for me thinking that this was a totally
different place with K-Day being the day that Kaiju appeared across the world
forever in Yuna and in Archworld. Not the case, not a big deal, but it just kind of
bugged me for a minute. I thought hey wait a minute, so it is a different universe,
they didn't have to have Kaiju there all the time, this could be when Kaiju, this
could be the inception of Kaiju, but it doesn't really matter. What does matter is it's
interesting that it almost seems like they're trying to suggest that Shu knows
that Yuma is Arc and I don't think that's true, but the way that the certain
shots were made and the way certain dialogue went down it sure felt like Shu
knew that Yuma was Ultraman and I find that to be interesting. I don't quite
know why they would do that, like one, like why would they do that because they
always keep it a secret right? In the Ultraman, in the Ultra Series they always keep it a secret.
Two, if they are going to keep it a secret why would they make it feel as if
it's not? Is it so it's more exciting for the audience? So they're all
suspicious, they're excited about this possibility of him knowing. I don't quite
understand what that is and I feel like there's something still secretive going
on with Shu and not that he's not to be trusted, but just that maybe he still has
ulterior motives even though he's basically a good guy. I mean he's a
really good guy, but yeah maybe there's still secret designs going on there.
We're getting really close to the end of the show, maybe only six or seven more
episodes. I don't know how they're gonna wrap it up, especially because we had
that you know parasite thing from the first episode, which I would think should
cause a bigger problem, but then we also have the threat of you know Archin
Sweets home galaxy wanting to dump off energy from their Sun to destroy the
earth and save themselves. Like that has to come to a head I would think.
Zeyzhoo, Zyzzhoo, whatever should come back too. So like I don't know they're
setting up for something really big and I don't know exactly how they're all
gonna do it or how well they're gonna do it. I find it hilarious that Yuma's using the
excuse that he has to go to the bathroom and it's taking forever in there as to
how he's able to go off and be Ultraman during, well whenever he has to, during
missions and stuff. And anyway that also like his thin excuses kind of remind me
of or kind of made me think of well maybe they are all suspicious that he's
Ultraman actually and they're just not saying it for whatever reason. That would
be kind of interesting. But yeah overall I like the episode. I mean it's all kaiju
that we've seen before. Bazanga and T'Ganyar and the breeding Bazanga at the end.
And yeah I mean the fights were cool. There were some really cool shots. I liked him
hurling Bazanga over his head. That was really fun. And yeah I don't know the
action was good. It was straightforward. It was simple. There's some good comedic bits with
them all trying to communicate. Although is it a plothole that they had alien
language translation software in the Give Us episodes but then here Yuppie
bought a book on learning to speak alien languages and it's a scam somehow.
How do those two work for each other? It's kind of weird. Kind of like sitcom logic.
But anyway I enjoyed the episode overall. What did you think about it and are you
excited for this huge blazar crossover thing that they're doing? Thank you for
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