1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Henshin Inspection presents Going Ultra! This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:09,240 I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. Prepare yourself for 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:17,560 hard-hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. Ultraman Arc Episode 19 was 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:24,320 originally aired November 23rd 2024. Yes, I remembered that correctly. And it's 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,960 entitled The Transcending Wish. And this is the conclusion to the Ultraman 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:35,000 Blazar Ultraman Arc crossover connection. You know what that means. And yeah, I liked 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,920 the episode a lot. It was a lot of fun. I would say that it was a very good 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,920 conclusion to the crossover episode, mini series, whatever you want to call it. And 9 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,120 it was a lot of fun. It's kind of an interesting episode. It's almost 10 00:00:51,120 --> 00:01:01,760 melancholy. And it almost feels... I don't know, not inappropriate. It almost feels 11 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,120 like it's not setting up the end game. I don't know if it's like wrapping up a 12 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:12,360 and like the A story or whatever to arc and then it's gonna move on and they're 13 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,360 gonna get into the end game or what. But I don't know. It's just kind of interesting 14 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,600 that they had one a four episode crossover and two that it had the tone 15 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,800 that it had. And it was really exciting to see Blazar here finally because we 16 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,720 hadn't seen Blazar at first. He was withheld. We got EarthGaron and then 17 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,160 finally we got Blazar here. And that's great. And well, I guess that's not true. 18 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,440 We start off with EarthGaron. Blazar showed up at the end of that last 19 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:41,280 episode, I think. And then this one... he wakes up in Hoshimoto City and then he 20 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,640 goes back. Okay, no. So yeah, EarthGaron is here. Blazar is here. All in this 21 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,720 episode self-contained. Not in episode 18 at all, if I'm remembering correctly, 22 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:54,640 which let me just double check that. Yeah, it doesn't look like there's any 23 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,120 cooperation. So anyway, that's just kind of interesting because we had, you know, 24 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,920 the Zangiel connection and I think that was a two episode deal. And then we have 25 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,200 the trying to put the genie back in the bottle trying to get rid of Helmarc or 26 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,040 Helmaroc, sorry, Helmaroc. And then finally here it happens. And it's 27 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:19,600 interesting. Like I said, it was a lot of fun. I'm a big proponent of Ultraman Blazar. 28 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:27,000 In fact, after this episode is released, I will release my Blazar review, my Blazar 29 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,280 series retrospective review, and then I'll get back into continuing with ARK 30 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,280 because it just struck me to do it that way. I already recorded the Blazar one. 31 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,680 It's done. It's ready to go. It's in the can, as they say, and it's just ready for 32 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,720 me to publish it. So anyway, but yeah, I like Ultraman ARK, but I like Ultraman Blazar 33 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,760 a lot. I like by the end of Ultraman Blazar, we got this really strong family 34 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,840 vibe or like, you know, team dynamic with all of Sguard. In this episode, we get to 35 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:58,480 see the Hoshi dash Moto city, which is an alternate reality. I guess it's the Hoshi 36 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:05,680 Moto city that exists within Blazar's world or, you know, Gento's world. And we get to see 37 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,840 kind of a tight knit family type of dynamic sort of with the captain and Rin 38 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:17,920 and Shu and Yuma is also, there's a counterpart for Yuma in Blazar's world 39 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:24,520 who works for Sguard and, or not Sguard, he works for, I guess, the GDF or whatever. 40 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,120 Anyway, he works with, like, he works in one of the groups that, you know, 41 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,600 everybody else from, well, at least Gento used to work in, and that's interesting. 42 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,160 You know, we get to see the larger world. We get to see the Sguard 43 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,120 group. We get to see the rest of the Defense Force doing what they do, which 44 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,520 is interesting because we got, you know, we get to see a decent amount of them 45 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:52,040 throughout Blazar and we're seeing our Hoshi Moto crew represented in this 46 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,720 other world doing something similar. So they're very much like the same type of 47 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,120 people doing similar things, helping their, you know, they're noble, they're heroic. 48 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,480 We get to see those traits kind of cross over and there's even a Yuma there who 49 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:11,320 is a squad mate of Ishido. Interestingly, the little stupid detail, Ishido in 50 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:17,320 Blazar's world doesn't like coffee. He prefers tea to coffee, which is hilarious 51 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:22,400 given, you know, what we have with Shu Ishido here in Ark's world. So that 52 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:28,480 was like a real nice fun little tidbit. We get to see Buzanga again. I noticed 53 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,320 that Helnorok has Gydo's head as like a pauldron almost on his left. 54 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,000 Shoulder Helnorok also has this like very interesting, it's like a Blazar as a 55 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,800 Kaiju design where he's split down the middle and has these different sides and 56 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,480 has this kind of like, you know, effect here going. And then like it was, I don't 57 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,600 know, it was just like it's an interesting subdued crossover and like Blazar, he's 58 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:54,500 you know, as uncommunicative in this crossover as he is in his show, which is 59 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:59,200 great that he stayed true. And the one interaction is he grabs, he reaches out 60 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:05,120 and grabs Ark's hand and he transfers some of his, I don't know, his chaos energy. 61 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,920 He transfers some of his chaos energy into him and then he is later able to 62 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:17,280 use the red and blue streaks and he throws, what does he throw? I guess Ark has a 63 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:23,440 sword. Yeah, he's a Sunglass Slasher. He's, did they just grab that from Toei or 64 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,400 what? Anyway, doesn't matter. He uses his own Sunglass Slasher thing as like a 65 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,960 Javelin, like Blazar's, you know, Javelin thing that he uses from the 66 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,560 black hole in his hand. And like that was really cool and we get to see them 67 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,320 fighting kind of simultaneously. Blazar was fighting Mazanga while Ark was 68 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:47,440 fighting Helnarok on his side of the rift. And there's like a real cool little 69 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:55,040 moment where they, from Ark's side, they push Helnarok back through the rift 70 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,280 because they don't really know it's there. And interestingly enough, the 71 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:03,720 people in Blazar's world, Ishto, says that they're pretty sure they understand, or 72 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,680 he hints that they understand that there's another world on the other side 73 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,440 of this rift. So they don't really want to push off Helnarok onto this other 74 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,960 world and cause these people to be hurt and killed and, you know, destroyed by 75 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,240 Helnarok's presence even if it will save them. So like it goes to show the very 76 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,240 noble sacrifice of them and it also makes the people in Blazar's world parallel. 77 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,200 Ark, where his planet, his universe, solar system, I think his entire solar system 78 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,400 or galaxy, maybe I don't know, is under threat that the Sun's gonna explode and 79 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,400 it'll destroy everybody, billions or trillions of lives. And in order to stop 80 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,000 that from happening they want to shunt off the energy into different points 81 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,880 and it's Lord Shizu or something like that. Anyway, that's his plan and Earth is 82 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,680 gonna be destroyed by this and that's how Ark came through and he's stopping him 83 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,400 and yada yada yada. So interesting, like the nobility of Ark where he is coming 84 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,800 here because he wants to stop this random backwater planet from being 85 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,800 destroyed, sacrificing like seven or eight billion people as opposed to 86 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,760 trillions of people. Like he's not willing to make that moral, like he's 87 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,520 willing to make the moral stand against that to save the lives of few, you know, 88 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,840 unadvanced people as opposed to the lives of trillions of, you know, more 89 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,920 advanced species or, you know, individuals. And like that's really cool and that's 90 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,880 really heroic and it's interesting that we see a parallel being made with Hoshi 91 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,680 Dashimoto and Blazar's world not wanting to push Hylnark off into Yuma's world 92 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,520 and have the same kind of, you know, death toll or, you know, something 93 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,240 analogous happen basically. And I think that's really cool, I think it's clever 94 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,760 writing. It's like kind of getting to the core of the show, the core of what Ark is 95 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:41,480 about, which is like that nobility and that like willingness to look for and 96 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,120 find another solution as opposed to just like sacrifice other people for 97 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,960 your sake, kind of like out of fear and ignorance. And I think that's pretty 98 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,200 cool. And I think I just figured out what Ark is about if I didn't know already. 99 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,800 This definitely like drove that point home. And I just, I liked it. It was an 100 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,600 entertaining episode, I liked his fight. The only thing I didn't like is that it 101 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,480 seems pretty obvious that Yuma is Ark. Like otherworld Ishido, Blazar Ishido or 102 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,360 whatever, the Ishido and Blazar's world figured it out. He said, I saw a giant 103 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,260 being of light fall to earth and then I went in to investigate it and then you 104 00:08:13,260 --> 00:08:17,160 were there. So like it's obvious that you're this Ultraman. And then he's 105 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,560 basically talking to him, not telling him I know you're Ultraman, but you know 106 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,520 saying it without saying it. And then eventually Yuma goes off and fights. And 107 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,680 then like when he goes back to his Hoshimoto, he's been gone for five days 108 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,600 it looks like. And like there's a time dilation thing going on and then 109 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,960 somehow he and Ark and Blazar are fighting against Azanga who was 110 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,720 birthed from Helnarok and Helnarok at the same time and it's kind of weird. All 111 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,760 of this is that kind of retcon. Helnarok? It doesn't matter. It doesn't really matter. 112 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,920 Anyway, we're like yeah they're fighting at the same time even though the time 113 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,840 is dilated. So like what does that mean? It doesn't really matter. It's more about 114 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,880 the emotional connection we cut back between them seeing their fights. And 115 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:01,440 it's interesting that when Helnarok is destroyed in Yuma's world, then 116 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:06,480 all the eggs that Azanga had laid in, or I guess the eggs that Helnarok had laid 117 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,400 in Blazar's world are destroyed or taken care of or whatever. And that's you know 118 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,620 kind of a nice convenient little way to wrap things up. But still overall I like 119 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:20,320 the episode and I think it was good. It was entertaining. The fights were good. I 120 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,120 loved seeing at some point he's desperate. Ark is desperate. He slams his 121 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,920 left fist into the ground and then the red and blue lines start going up it 122 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:35,000 because he's getting this you know Ark power or Blazar power rather. And then 123 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,280 he it's interesting he gets a little cube like a Blazar cube which I assume 124 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:45,200 there's a toy for that. And then he's able to use his sunglass slasher thing 125 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,320 for the for throwing the javelin type thing which I mentioned earlier. And 126 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,960 that's what kills Helnarok and destroys his little egg sack egg producing thing 127 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:59,640 within his body. Which again I think the Helnarok design is supposed to be like 128 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:05,600 what if Blazar and there's no notes here on the wiki. Okay. It's supposed to be like what if 129 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:11,080 Blazar and like the Valoran guy were combined into like a Kaiju form. That's 130 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:15,620 what I'm picking up on it and I think that's interesting. Real quick about the 131 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:23,480 people who worked on it. So Toshinozo Nemoto has done a few episodes of Ark 5, 9, 16 132 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,920 and 19 to transcend wish which is this one. Light of Fear was 16. I don't remember 133 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,240 that. I guess that was the one that started off with the Mulgushen which is 134 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,880 the start of this Ark. So it was 16, 17, 18, 19. Four episodes. Goodbye Rain is a 135 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,760 really cool episode and Ocean on the Mountain Ridge I think was just okay. I 136 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:44,480 just I'm not like I'm super into it. He was a series composer for Macross Delta 137 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:49,920 from 2016 and Log Horizon in 2013. Musical composer or like writer of 138 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:54,240 turning the light novel into a series because I love Log Horizon. That was very 139 00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:00,560 cool. Anyway that's pretty cool. And then the director is Masayoshi Takesui. 140 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:07,400 And he let's see what did he work on with Blazar so far. He worked on oh 141 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:13,480 1918. Okay so these Blazar episodes. You Are Give Us. Yes. And Message as well. 142 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:18,600 Welcome to Akebono Inn. Ocean on the Mountain Ridge and on the Kaiju's tail which was a 143 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:25,960 cool episode. And then for Blazar he worked on 11, 12, 20, and 21. Which I think 144 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,600 Night of Tripping and Stacks is episode 20. Battle in the Skies 21. Let's see 145 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Nomoto worked on those two episodes of Blazar as well. So maybe they're like a 146 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,560 kind of collaborative team. Overall a good episode of Ultraman Ark. Kind of weird 147 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:44,440 because of the way it's positioning itself. Is it like wrapping things up 148 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,480 before the end game starts? I don't really know. It could be which would I 149 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:52,520 guess makes sense. But also just kind of an interesting way to go about it. So 150 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:57,360 that's it for the review. I've been very very busy writing. I have finished my 151 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,200 book Mockwing Mayhem. I'm just going through and doing some last-minute 152 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,280 double-checking that there's no typos and things like that in there. I'm going 153 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,160 to be developing a cover pretty soon. I'm going to be working on getting that 154 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,880 released. What's the book about? It's about magical bugs battling monsters. If 155 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,000 you want to know more than that what the book is about I can tell you in just a 156 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,720 moment. Let's see. 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