This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm
an analyzer. You can find all my work at mj1news
.com. Welcome to Henshin Inspection. I'm talking
about Ultraman Omega on this episode of Going
Ultra. Going Ultra is back for 2025 and Omega
episode 1. I was waiting and waiting and waiting
for the dub, but it didn't come out, so I had
to watch the subtitled episode, and it was still
great. There's no issue. I'm excited for the
dub. I hope it comes out faster next time. We'll
see what's happening at some point, but the point
is I don't have a lot of time, so I'm just going
to tell you. Ultraman Omega Episode 1 was fantastic.
I really liked it. By the end, we learn that
our fallen -from -a -star hobo Ultraman hero,
who is clearly an alien, is named Omega, and
I don't have a human name for him. I think in
the promotional material it does talk about what
his human name is, but I don't remember what
it is. I like him a lot, and I like Kosei, who
he's hanging out with. Kosei Hoshimo, I believe,
is his name. And it seems to me, again... that
in this world they don't know what kaiju are
omega himself says oh kaiju mesome the awakening
of the kaiju is here um and also they're calling
the kaiju like giant creatures giant monsters
they're not calling them kaiju yet and i think
even omega at one point says kaiju and uh kosei's
like what what are you talking about kaiju what's
a kaiju um and That seems strange to me, and
we'll see if later on it turns out there's an
ancient kaiju and they've actually known about
them all along, like they did in Ark, or I felt
they did in Ark, whatever. We'll see what happens
with that. But yeah, this was a cool episode,
cool first episode. The way that Omega, in his
human form, walks around, he's very chill, very
still, very slow. Not like he's stupid, but just
like he's very relaxed, very zen, very calm.
And even when he fought, I like when he's doing
this and he's like, huh. I thought I could fly.
He just says it matter -of -factly, very calm,
not disappointed, no emotion, just like, I thought
I could fly. Maybe I can't, or maybe I can, and
I just don't remember how yet. Anyway, it's kind
of fun, but when he transforms, he's there at
one point, and he's just got his arms hanging
down, and he's like waiting for... the kaiju
to attack him or waiting to counter attack or
whatever um and that was really cool um and then
at some point he gets distracted because he's
looking after um kosei and the mother and child
that she that he was helping and um he ends up
turning around after looking at them for a long
time and then the kaiju hits him across the chest
um and that was interesting um i like how also
uh like the kaiju fight when it was you know
it was very fun and very dynamic um It was cool
to see the news crew freaking out that they had
the giant right in front of them. And I love
the thing that was seeded early in the episode
that he thought he could fly and then he couldn't.
And then he sees the bird flying above him while
he's smashing the ground and he realized, oh,
I can fly to get out of here. And then he uses
flying very tactically to get an advantage on
the kaiju and then ultimately uses his slugger
to cut its drill nose off. And then I love how
this, I think the slugger came back to him and
he ran at him and he slashed him. And by the
way, the nose drill, it had like a star, like
a five pointed star in the middle of it, which
I think is a cool. Just like it's a cool thing
to have that they put the detail in there. There
wasn't bone. There wasn't whatever. It was just
five -pointed star, which might be for the drill.
I don't know. I didn't look at the tip of the
drill that closely, but it could have been echoing
the tip of it, which is really cool. But beyond
that, the slice looked really cool, and it was
really fun. Like, oh, cool, he's doing a slicer
slugger or a slugger slicer, and I like that
a lot. And then when they show the kaiju dying,
laying on the ground dying and its eyes closing,
it was kind of sad, and it was kind of like a
somber moment and kind of like, huh. So he just
killed this monster that was threatening people's
lives and he had to do it so far. And it's good
that he did it. But ultimately, you know, there
is some sadness to the death of the kaiju. And
it's just kind of interesting. I wonder what
the themes are. I wonder what the themes are.
I wonder how the story will be approached. I
wonder how kaiju will be approached, especially
in this world of awakening kaiju, I guess, that
we're getting with Omega. And I'm very curious
to see what happens. Also, he was running around
killing a bunch of babies. baby kaiju on that
planet and like that was fine and that was fun
and that looked really fantastic I think I can't
tell the whole thing was CGI or if most of it
was CGI and he was real but it looked really
good the compositing was good that you know the
super the special effects of it were all excellently
done and it was really cool and I wonder what
this bigger story is so we've got like a mystery
here we've got an interesting lead character
we've got an interesting you know human helper
slash co -lead in Kosei And I like what's going
on in Omega so far. And I'm curious to see what
happens next. And I'm curious to see and know
and read what you thought about it. So leave
me a comment here, either on YouTube or on mjwinners
.com, where I will have this hosted, where I'll
have the podcast version of this with links to
everything posted. Yeah, I'd like to see that.
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