WEBVTT 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.220 Tension Inspection presents Going Ultra. This 00:00:03.220 --> 00:00:05.759 is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.820 Find all my work at mjmunoz .com. Prepare yourself 00:00:08.820 --> 00:00:11.220 for hard -hitting Ultraman discussion and analysis. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.179 Ultraman Arc Episode 24, The Descending Dream, 00:00:17.420 --> 00:00:20.140 is a bit of a doozy. It was originally aired 00:00:20.140 --> 00:00:23.739 January 11, 2025, directed by Takanori Tsujimoto, 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:29.179 and written by Jun Tsugita. So... We will get 00:00:29.179 --> 00:00:31.920 back to those gentlemen later. For now, I just 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:33.399 want to go and talk about my episode. I actually 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:36.899 was so impressed by everything that was going 00:00:36.899 --> 00:00:38.119 on in this episode. There was a lot of great 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.960 iconography and a lot of great images that I 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.259 actually grabbed a bunch of them and threw them 00:00:45.259 --> 00:00:46.960 all into an email for myself so I could reference 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.479 them so I don't forget to talk about them. I 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.119 really like this episode. It's great suspense. 00:00:54.259 --> 00:00:56.280 It's a great penultimate episode. By the end 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:58.829 of it... arc and yuma are in the absolute most 00:00:58.829 --> 00:01:03.350 distress they possibly can be and the skip crew 00:01:03.350 --> 00:01:06.189 knows 100 that he is ultra man or at least well 00:01:06.189 --> 00:01:08.310 yeah no they know they know they know um first 00:01:08.310 --> 00:01:11.890 they suspect like uh chief bonce says it's a 00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:15.609 crazy idea crazy theory but could it be uh that 00:01:15.609 --> 00:01:20.579 he's and um rin and uh And Ishido just look over 00:01:20.579 --> 00:01:24.319 at him and they all continue and they're trying 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:26.519 to protect Yuma. And Yuma's hearing them talking 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.739 about how they're going to protect him. And just 00:01:28.739 --> 00:01:31.120 like he's protected them all these times, Ishido 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.459 says. And he hears that when they're all ready 00:01:34.459 --> 00:01:36.760 to go, they have their plans made. Yuma's already 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:39.879 gone. He's already running. He's already running 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:43.560 towards the enemy, towards not the future or 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.719 his future, but his future is his end. He's already 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:49.650 running towards that. They try to stop him, and 00:01:49.650 --> 00:01:53.409 I guess the kaiju appears, Swede is there, and 00:01:53.409 --> 00:01:56.489 they don't stop him because he's got to fight. 00:01:56.590 --> 00:01:59.349 He has to stand and fight to protect his friends 00:01:59.349 --> 00:02:01.530 and his whole planet, and that's what he's going 00:02:01.530 --> 00:02:03.670 to do. And he doesn't even turn back to acknowledge 00:02:03.670 --> 00:02:07.069 them as Yuma. He pulls up the art cube, he activates 00:02:07.069 --> 00:02:09.889 it, he's transforming, which is a truncated transformation, 00:02:10.069 --> 00:02:12.189 I'm pretty sure, just to increase the cool factor. 00:02:12.729 --> 00:02:16.349 Because while all of this is interesting... It 00:02:16.349 --> 00:02:20.090 also kind of takes away from things. Faster transformation 00:02:20.090 --> 00:02:23.150 is cooler in a lot of ways. Anyway, so then he 00:02:23.150 --> 00:02:27.229 transforms and Ark rises up. I think he does 00:02:27.229 --> 00:02:30.830 the Ark hug first. Anyway, and Ark turns back 00:02:30.830 --> 00:02:32.729 and looks at him, which is what I feature in 00:02:32.729 --> 00:02:34.870 the thumbnail. Him looking at them at what would 00:02:34.870 --> 00:02:39.550 have been the reverse shot of them seeing each 00:02:39.550 --> 00:02:41.590 other before he flies off to go fight against 00:02:41.590 --> 00:02:47.479 this grand... Kaiju, whose name is... They call 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:50.939 him Gilbaku, which makes me think of Gilbaka, 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:54.300 like a Chewbacca variant, but it's not. But anyway, 00:02:54.419 --> 00:03:00.400 so he goes off to fight Gilbaku, and he doesn't 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.099 have such a great time, but we'll talk about 00:03:02.099 --> 00:03:05.860 that in a minute. Gosh, how do I want to do this? 00:03:07.580 --> 00:03:09.060 Okay, I'm just going to go through an order, 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.560 basically. with the clips, I think I have them 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.919 basically in order. I don't, actually. Whatever. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.159 I'll figure it out. So, it's really interesting 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.520 that at the start of the episode, well, first 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.259 of all, like, Hoshimoto City is gone, which I 00:03:23.259 --> 00:03:25.360 did not realize at the end of the last episode. 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.759 In fact, listening to the recap episode, EJ brought 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.500 up that Hoshimoto City's gone, and what does 00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:34.780 that mean? And is it going to come back? It appears 00:03:34.780 --> 00:03:37.800 to be gone. What's happening? And, I mean, there, 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.189 to me, that shot at the beginning shows, Yuppie, 00:03:41.189 --> 00:03:45.310 Ishido, Rin, and Chief Bun looking at just a 00:03:45.310 --> 00:03:48.610 massive hole where Hoshimoto's city should have 00:03:48.610 --> 00:03:50.969 been, and it's now completely obliterated. So 00:03:50.969 --> 00:03:52.889 I don't know how it works that they went ahead 00:03:52.889 --> 00:03:55.830 and then found Yuma in rubble, but before they 00:03:55.830 --> 00:03:58.030 found Yuma in rubble, he was having this dream, 00:03:58.169 --> 00:04:01.909 this interaction, wherein... This is full spoilers, 00:04:01.969 --> 00:04:03.550 right? You understand that? You understand. Anyway, 00:04:03.689 --> 00:04:07.030 Swede is masquerading as Ark, and she's asking 00:04:07.030 --> 00:04:09.650 for him to say goodbye to Ark and to take her 00:04:09.650 --> 00:04:12.110 hands as Ark. And Ark goes through and says, 00:04:12.150 --> 00:04:13.469 Your parents, you know, there was an accident 00:04:13.469 --> 00:04:14.889 while you were camping, and your parents are 00:04:14.889 --> 00:04:17.769 here, and they're fine. They're waiting for you. 00:04:17.870 --> 00:04:20.610 The rescue team is on its way, and, you know, 00:04:20.629 --> 00:04:22.449 you will be recovered soon. All you have to do 00:04:22.449 --> 00:04:26.240 is let go. Say thank you, Ultraman Ark. And let 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.639 go of me. And then you'll be fine. You'll wake 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.779 up. You'll be back with your mother and father. 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:33.959 And you have to think about what a strong temptation 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:38.279 that is for Ark. Or sorry, for Yuma. We learn 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:45.399 that Sweet is just using Ark's visage to deceive 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.220 him. And she's upset and gets irritated when 00:04:48.220 --> 00:04:50.540 he actually wakes up. And there's really cool 00:04:50.540 --> 00:04:54.680 suit acting going on. Let me see if I can find 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:05.199 the suit actor real quick. Yeah, so Hideyoshi 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.339 Iwata does this great thing, acting as sweet, 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.399 acting as Ark, that when Yuma's about to reach 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.180 out to him and touch his hands, his beep, beep, 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:15.000 beep, beep, beep, alarm goes off on his watch. 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:16.860 If he's supposed to be sleeping, if it's all 00:05:16.860 --> 00:05:19.399 a dream, why does his watch still have an alarm 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.660 going on? It doesn't make sense, and it breaks 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:25.670 it. He, she, whatever. Ark looks from the watch 00:05:25.670 --> 00:05:27.509 to Yuma's face, to the watch to Yuma's face. 00:05:27.689 --> 00:05:29.750 And then there's a really interesting cut back 00:05:29.750 --> 00:05:31.050 and forth, back and forth, back and forth between 00:05:31.050 --> 00:05:34.230 them. And as the cuts increase in speed, the 00:05:34.230 --> 00:05:36.949 editing cuts, it increases the tension. And you 00:05:36.949 --> 00:05:38.170 feel like, oh, it's going to happen. And it cuts 00:05:38.170 --> 00:05:41.529 to black. And then we go on from there. So that 00:05:41.529 --> 00:05:44.410 was a really neat bit of visual storytelling 00:05:44.410 --> 00:05:47.089 as well as, well, through the suit acting, through 00:05:47.089 --> 00:05:48.910 the edits that were made, the cuts that were 00:05:48.910 --> 00:05:53.329 made. And they're in this. hazy black place so 00:05:53.329 --> 00:05:55.350 it's black and there's lights coming in that 00:05:55.350 --> 00:05:56.930 look like they've got you know the slanting rays 00:05:56.930 --> 00:05:58.589 of like light coming out from clouds and things 00:05:58.589 --> 00:06:01.589 like that i don't know how else to say that and 00:06:01.589 --> 00:06:04.670 there's even a funny thing going on where um 00:06:04.670 --> 00:06:07.189 you know arc you know sweet as arc is telling 00:06:07.189 --> 00:06:08.970 him all these things it's all just a dream he's 00:06:08.970 --> 00:06:10.230 like but i'm growing up and he's touching his 00:06:10.230 --> 00:06:13.740 face whenever he says um like Even the sensation 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:16.879 of touching your face is an illusion. And if 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.660 you think of The Matrix, you know, do you think 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:22.819 that's air you're breathing now? From the famous 00:06:22.819 --> 00:06:25.740 fight scene in the dojo, right? Neo? Morpheus? 00:06:25.939 --> 00:06:28.360 You get it? You know? I may or may not make a 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.959 meme of it, but it was just a great moment. I 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.620 thought, oh, that's really interesting. So beyond 00:06:34.620 --> 00:06:39.120 that, what happens next? Let me see. so they 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.079 recover him he gets out of there oh another thing 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.779 uh so E .J. mentioned that there was the, you 00:06:46.779 --> 00:06:48.240 know, all of Hoshimo City looked like it was 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:49.959 blown away. He also mentioned something that 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:52.560 I saw but I forgot to mention because just not 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.939 having the images in front of me, it's easy to 00:06:53.939 --> 00:06:55.939 forget there's so much going on, and I don't 00:06:55.939 --> 00:06:57.600 just always talk about the spectacle, I talk 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.139 about the themes and everything, so it's easy 00:06:59.139 --> 00:07:01.879 to forget. But at some point, the Galaxer feathers 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.959 were pulled together as a claw, all four of them 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:10.680 gathered together, and Yuma Coxback slashes through 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.269 Triglos, and that's like... a key to his success, 00:07:14.430 --> 00:07:18.089 to defeating him, Trigolos. And it looked really 00:07:18.089 --> 00:07:20.029 awesome at the time, and I was really impressed 00:07:20.029 --> 00:07:21.970 by it. I thought, oh, he scratched him. He scratched 00:07:21.970 --> 00:07:24.610 him with a claw. That's super cool. Keep in mind, 00:07:24.649 --> 00:07:27.610 I really like Geed, and I like his galactic whatever 00:07:27.610 --> 00:07:31.009 armor. What is that armor called? Geed Galaxy 00:07:31.009 --> 00:07:33.569 Rising. That's the one I really like. It's fantastic. 00:07:34.370 --> 00:07:40.300 But I feel like in... Ultraman Z, where I first 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:43.240 encountered Geed Galaxy Rising, or perhaps Geed 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:47.240 at all. I don't remember now. Anyway, we get 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:56.980 to see that the Alpha Flight, Beta, Smash, Gamma, 00:07:56.980 --> 00:08:00.050 something, Delta. Delta room? No, that's wrong. 00:08:00.410 --> 00:08:02.110 Delta, whatever the Delta form is, I'm pretty 00:08:02.110 --> 00:08:04.310 sure he has claws. Because he's got the Belial 00:08:04.310 --> 00:08:06.410 rock, I'm sorry, he's got the, not the Belial 00:08:06.410 --> 00:08:09.069 rock, the Belial metal in him too, the Belial 00:08:09.069 --> 00:08:10.790 atrocious. Anyway, I'm just getting sidetracked. 00:08:11.310 --> 00:08:13.769 I just, I like the fiercer forms, they're a lot 00:08:13.769 --> 00:08:15.389 of fun for me, even though I like the super heroic 00:08:15.389 --> 00:08:16.689 stuff. But like, you know, I like my hairs to 00:08:16.689 --> 00:08:18.769 be fierce, fierce and tough. Anyway, so moving 00:08:18.769 --> 00:08:21.329 on to keep on track for this episode, because 00:08:21.329 --> 00:08:24.910 I don't want it to be overly long. We get this 00:08:24.910 --> 00:08:28.350 interruption of the dream, and, you know, Swede, 00:08:28.730 --> 00:08:31.329 Gives up the jig, I guess. That's how you would 00:08:31.329 --> 00:08:34.730 say that. And she leaves him alone for a while. 00:08:34.769 --> 00:08:38.830 He's recovered out of the rubble. And they're 00:08:38.830 --> 00:08:41.710 very concerned for him. Bjorno comes back and 00:08:41.710 --> 00:08:44.649 takes over Yuppie as Yuppie's in the rubble looking 00:08:44.649 --> 00:08:46.029 for him. He, like, completely hijacks him somehow. 00:08:46.110 --> 00:08:48.830 I don't know how he's able to maintain the hijacking 00:08:48.830 --> 00:08:50.730 by transferring himself through the phone, which 00:08:50.730 --> 00:08:53.110 also makes me think of The Matrix. You know, 00:08:53.110 --> 00:08:54.450 picking up the phones and transferring? Anyway. 00:08:55.009 --> 00:08:57.970 But he stays inside of Yuppie for a while, and 00:08:57.970 --> 00:09:01.049 after Yuppie runs off with Yuma, he talks to 00:09:01.049 --> 00:09:03.490 him and says, yeah, you've been poisoned. So, 00:09:03.590 --> 00:09:08.230 the thing is, it turns out that Zesu is a smart 00:09:08.230 --> 00:09:11.009 villain, and he's been slowly poisoning Jeed, 00:09:11.049 --> 00:09:16.889 and... He's been slowly poisoning Jeed, and Yuma, 00:09:17.070 --> 00:09:24.480 ever since they... shortly after the Onix was 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:25.799 turned into the Galaxer, and then they started 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.899 using it for the Galaxer form. So that's super 00:09:29.899 --> 00:09:32.019 interesting. He's been slowly poisoning them. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.139 They are going to die. That's why Yuma's been 00:09:34.139 --> 00:09:36.860 having the shaky hands, and even Ark is weakened 00:09:36.860 --> 00:09:38.620 now, and he can't directly communicate with him, 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.620 which is why Giorno does it, which I honestly 00:09:41.620 --> 00:09:46.700 kind of don't like that... Blazor didn't talk 00:09:46.700 --> 00:09:51.549 to... didn't talk to Gento at all, and Ark talks 00:09:51.549 --> 00:09:54.769 to him rarely, but then there's another Ultra, 00:09:54.929 --> 00:09:57.190 essentially, talking to him for him. It just 00:09:57.190 --> 00:09:58.870 seems kind of strange. I don't really like that 00:09:58.870 --> 00:10:00.950 choice, but I do like the fact that they've been 00:10:00.950 --> 00:10:03.590 slowly poisoned over this time, and that it will 00:10:03.590 --> 00:10:06.629 lead to their doom, ultimately. And basically, 00:10:06.669 --> 00:10:08.549 what's going to happen is if Biorno had not been 00:10:08.549 --> 00:10:11.610 able to tell them, which Zesu has stopped him 00:10:11.610 --> 00:10:13.309 multiple times from being able to get the full 00:10:13.309 --> 00:10:16.950 message, they would just eventually... explode 00:10:16.950 --> 00:10:20.509 i guess and the onyx would reform and it would 00:10:20.509 --> 00:10:23.529 dump all that astral or astro i don't know star 00:10:23.529 --> 00:10:29.110 energy uh from solana the sun in um in zesu and 00:10:29.110 --> 00:10:35.080 swede and rutians uh, galaxy, um, it would dump 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:36.539 all that energy to the Earth, and the Earth would 00:10:36.539 --> 00:10:38.620 be obliterated, and, like, they would die, and 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:41.299 then the Earth would die, um, all at one time, 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.100 and, which would be pretty crazy, and that's, 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:44.779 like, a great, like, villain win, like, oh, yeah, 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:46.519 you thought you beat me, but actually I had a 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.480 backdoor, and, uh, I let you, you know, I let 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:51.480 it, you know, burst through your chest, and destroy 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:53.440 your whole world, and ha ha ha, my world is safe 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:55.179 now, and yours is fine, it's gone, and I'm fine 00:10:55.179 --> 00:10:56.899 with that, because I don't really care, um, about 00:10:56.899 --> 00:10:59.740 you backwater humans, um, so that was pretty 00:10:59.740 --> 00:11:03.659 interesting, I like that, um, I like that Swede... 00:11:03.659 --> 00:11:09.220 Like, I get really strong... Not Dinozanon. Well, 00:11:09.299 --> 00:11:12.019 I get kind of strong Dinozanon vibes. Oh, it's 00:11:12.019 --> 00:11:13.399 because she gets the same type of energy. And 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.379 there was SSS Dinozanon, and there was SSSS .Gridman. 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.850 There we go. The... one of the villains is injured, 00:11:22.929 --> 00:11:24.809 and he comes back with an eye patch, and maybe 00:11:24.809 --> 00:11:26.649 some scarring on his face, and Sweet has the 00:11:26.649 --> 00:11:28.049 same thing going on, and it's an ultra -series 00:11:28.049 --> 00:11:30.470 thing, and I just like the fun little visual 00:11:30.470 --> 00:11:32.190 connection, and it's funny that she was defeated, 00:11:32.269 --> 00:11:33.870 and then she comes back, and she just has an 00:11:33.870 --> 00:11:35.169 eye patch and a little, like, you know, scarring 00:11:35.169 --> 00:11:37.009 on her cheek, and that tells us something, but 00:11:37.009 --> 00:11:39.370 she's mad, and it's fun to see, you know, that 00:11:39.370 --> 00:11:41.710 she failed, and this is her last chance, and... 00:11:42.299 --> 00:11:43.740 There's this cool, like, Vader Emperor moment 00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:45.899 where he, Zesu, appears, just his head in the 00:11:45.899 --> 00:11:47.759 sky, and he's talking to her, and he's got subtitles, 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.759 hard subs, on this. I'm watching the dub, of 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:52.720 course. He's got hard subs, and she's responding 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.320 to him in English, or whatever. And that's pretty 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:59.159 fun. A little complaint I have, before I cap 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:02.200 this off and get into the climax of the episode 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.259 and say what I liked about it, is that my boy 00:12:04.259 --> 00:12:08.740 Gilbaka, Gilbaku, looks a little bit, which the 00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:10.519 Gil is spelled Giles. Does that make sense? Because 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:12.509 he's like a dream -manipulating... kaiju, I guess. 00:12:12.610 --> 00:12:18.590 Anyway, um, he, uh, looks very much like one 00:12:18.590 --> 00:12:20.769 of my favorite kaiju, who's a new kaiju who debuted 00:12:20.769 --> 00:12:26.950 in Ultraman Z, which would be, um, the space 00:12:26.950 --> 00:12:29.190 pirate. I know he's a space pirate, but I don't 00:12:29.190 --> 00:12:31.029 remember his name right now. Uh, he's the moth 00:12:31.029 --> 00:12:34.169 guy, butterfly guy. Alien Barossa. That's his 00:12:34.169 --> 00:12:35.750 name. Alien Barossa. Yeah. I looked it up. I 00:12:35.750 --> 00:12:37.549 had to look it up. Anyway. So, yeah. Alien Barossa. 00:12:37.629 --> 00:12:40.110 Very cool. But, like, the textures and the colors 00:12:40.110 --> 00:12:42.409 and some of the effects with, like, that blue 00:12:42.409 --> 00:12:45.929 bleeding through. Why are images of... Oh. Probably 00:12:45.929 --> 00:12:48.009 because I didn't put Alien Barossa. Full Transient 00:12:48.009 --> 00:12:58.639 Alien Barossa. Anyway. Yeah. The, like... brownish 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.899 with the lines on it the texturing the blue eyes 00:13:01.899 --> 00:13:04.899 the blue belly like it's all kind of similar 00:13:04.899 --> 00:13:06.779 and that's a little bit too bad because that's 00:13:06.779 --> 00:13:10.679 you know decreasing in the wonderful you know 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.139 creativity that we get to see on display by like 00:13:13.139 --> 00:13:14.580 these new kaiju having kind of like a similar 00:13:14.580 --> 00:13:18.740 vibe with each other um like and not just a vibe 00:13:18.740 --> 00:13:20.399 but just like the visual cue like it it almost 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:21.820 feels like they're supposed to be related or 00:13:21.820 --> 00:13:23.840 somehow they're like, made by the same hand, 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.379 which is not great, because you want maximum 00:13:25.379 --> 00:13:29.200 variety, right? At least I do, so that's interesting. 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:30.860 Interesting is less disappointing, but, you know, 00:13:30.899 --> 00:13:32.519 I'm okay with it. I can handle it. I'm a grown 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:36.779 man. I can take it. Oh, so in the fight, Gilbacca, 00:13:36.860 --> 00:13:40.120 Gilbacca, sorry, Gilbacca, he somehow turns the 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:41.879 Galaxer Feathers, which I don't know why they're 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.019 feathers, he turns the Galaxer Feathers against 00:13:44.019 --> 00:13:46.840 Ark. He brings them out, he's all ready to fight, 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.120 and then they start spinning and spinning and 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:50.279 spinning, and then they start attacking him, 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:53.769 which is cool, crazy cool. And then he's completely 00:13:53.769 --> 00:13:55.990 drained of his energy, and his eyes go dark, 00:13:56.009 --> 00:13:58.549 and he's standing, but he kind of turns down. 00:13:58.970 --> 00:14:01.710 And that's the end. We have a cliffhanger. It 00:14:01.710 --> 00:14:04.470 looks like Gobaku is going to defeat Ark. He's 00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:06.370 completely out of energy. The moment he transforms, 00:14:06.649 --> 00:14:08.929 his color timer starts going off. The guy is 00:14:08.929 --> 00:14:11.610 in trouble. And basically, this was the penultimate 00:14:11.610 --> 00:14:15.370 episode. We now have his identity revealed, slash 00:14:15.370 --> 00:14:19.330 Ark's identity revealed to the skip crew. He 00:14:19.330 --> 00:14:24.179 is a ticking time bomb. Onix will explode after 00:14:24.179 --> 00:14:27.200 enough time. And all Zesu has to do to win is 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:30.440 basically run out the clock. And that's it. This 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:33.559 is the best endgame scenario. There is a ticking 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.460 clock. The whole world is at stake. And Ark's 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:39.539 out of energy. And we have no idea how he can 00:14:39.539 --> 00:14:42.679 possibly defeat this guy. And I bet we're going 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:47.379 to get more mind manipulation dream stuff in 00:14:47.379 --> 00:14:49.740 the next episode with Gilbaku. And it'll be interesting 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:52.879 to see. Will we get an alternate universe? I 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.639 don't even know what it's going to be. They don't 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:56.639 have a lot of time, but they have to sell the 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.580 conflict. They have to sell Yuma and Ark somehow 00:14:58.580 --> 00:15:01.639 overcoming this hurdle of being weak and poisoned 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.620 and so injured that they can't do anything. I'm 00:15:04.620 --> 00:15:07.820 hoping we get to see Givas come back, and I think 00:15:07.820 --> 00:15:09.759 it would be even amazing if we get... Oh my gosh. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:17.600 If Biorno came along and formed a bond with Ishido... 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:19.620 and they turn into an Ultra that looks just like 00:15:19.620 --> 00:15:21.159 Ark, except he's got a different splash of color 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.120 on him or whatever, and somehow he was able to 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:26.519 save Yuma, or give him a bunch of Ultra energy, 00:15:26.700 --> 00:15:29.679 and wake up Ark, and they got to fight this thing 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.039 together, I would absolutely lose my freaking 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.740 mind. And that would be so cool. I would love 00:15:35.740 --> 00:15:37.879 to see that. And that's my prediction, based 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:39.139 on not having watched the preview or anything 00:15:39.139 --> 00:15:42.159 for the next episode. It's a prediction slash 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:45.629 a hope slash... a, why won't they do this, um, 00:15:45.769 --> 00:15:48.629 how dare you Tsuburaya, you cowards, um, yeah, 00:15:48.690 --> 00:15:50.289 anyway, I would love it, I would love it, we'll 00:15:50.289 --> 00:15:51.929 see what happens, um, because, like, this is 00:15:51.929 --> 00:15:54.309 the darkest it can possibly be for Ark, and for 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:57.549 Isshido, or, well, yeah, for Isshido, and for 00:15:57.549 --> 00:15:59.950 Yuma, and for the world of Ultraman Ark, um, 00:16:00.110 --> 00:16:02.809 they are in big trouble, and, uh, I gotta say, 00:16:02.929 --> 00:16:04.730 I don't remember how they did this with Blazar, 00:16:04.809 --> 00:16:06.450 I think it was Let's Go Blazar was the last episode, 00:16:06.570 --> 00:16:10.070 the catchphrase, whatever, of time to run Yuma, 00:16:10.110 --> 00:16:12.899 is the episode title for the next episode of 00:16:12.899 --> 00:16:15.759 25, the ultimate episode of ultimate arc. And 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:16.879 I'm excited about that. I think it's really fun, 00:16:16.940 --> 00:16:19.159 really clever, really cool. Um, anyway, I got 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:21.299 to go. I got a hard out right now. Um, check 00:16:21.299 --> 00:16:24.269 out my, uh, website, mjmunoz.com, to find out 00:16:24.269 --> 00:16:26.090 and keep up to date on everything that I have 00:16:26.090 --> 00:16:29.350 going, all my art analysis and fiction. And speaking 00:16:29.350 --> 00:16:31.629 of fiction, go to grobugs.com to find out about 00:16:31.629 --> 00:16:33.570 the Grobug book, Mockery Mayhem, which will 00:16:33.570 --> 00:16:35.970 be coming out. I'm working with an artist, a 00:16:35.970 --> 00:16:37.769 cover artist, right now. I have to get a bunch 00:16:37.769 --> 00:16:40.110 of technical information, and we're moving forward, 00:16:40.230 --> 00:16:43.690 so it's time to run for MJ to get this book out. 00:16:43.789 --> 00:16:45.809 And anyway, I hope you check out the book. I 00:16:45.809 --> 00:16:47.789 hope you enjoy it. If not, that's fine. We can 00:16:47.789 --> 00:16:53.330 still be friends, if we must. But no, anyway, 00:16:53.529 --> 00:16:56.110 just I really hope people enjoy it because I'm 00:16:56.110 --> 00:16:57.129 excited about it. I think it's going to be a 00:16:57.129 --> 00:16:59.389 really cool story and it's got great high stakes 00:16:59.389 --> 00:17:01.649 and it's a lot of fun. Great characters, great 00:17:01.649 --> 00:17:03.789 relationships between the characters. And it's 00:17:03.789 --> 00:17:05.349 about magical bugs battling monsters. And if 00:17:05.349 --> 00:17:08.630 you like to see ultras battling monsters, I think 00:17:08.630 --> 00:17:10.849 you'll like to see my little guys battling monsters 00:17:10.849 --> 00:17:12.490 as well. It's pretty cool stuff. Anyway, until 00:17:12.490 --> 00:17:13.769 next time, folks, take care and be well.