WEBVTT 00:00:00.590 --> 00:00:02.669 Ultraman Omega Episode 1 was a great start. I 00:00:02.669 --> 00:00:04.330 liked it a lot. You can check out my reviews 00:00:04.330 --> 00:00:06.389 on it to hear my full thoughts on it. Ultraman 00:00:06.389 --> 00:00:08.869 Episode 2 doesn't quite deliver. While I found 00:00:08.869 --> 00:00:11.089 that Ultraman Omega Episode 1 was hard -hitting 00:00:11.089 --> 00:00:13.150 and it was very exciting, there was a lot going 00:00:13.150 --> 00:00:16.449 on, the action in this episode was a step down 00:00:16.449 --> 00:00:19.690 for me. And while the story beats were good and 00:00:19.690 --> 00:00:22.289 the character moments were as good, there was 00:00:22.289 --> 00:00:23.589 something lacking in the action, which I find 00:00:23.589 --> 00:00:25.530 interesting, especially because the writer and 00:00:25.530 --> 00:00:28.070 the director for the first two episodes are the 00:00:28.070 --> 00:00:30.280 same people. What I mean is the writer for episodes 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:34.539 1 and 2 is the same writer, and that is Toshizu 00:00:34.539 --> 00:00:39.119 Onomoto, and the director, Masayoshi Takesue, 00:00:39.259 --> 00:00:43.340 is the director for episodes 1 and 2. And when 00:00:43.340 --> 00:00:44.979 I went back and looked at their other works in 00:00:44.979 --> 00:00:47.799 ARC and in Blazar, I was shocked because, let 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:51.359 me just tell you, they both worked on the same 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.850 episodes of... Blazar for sure being Night of 00:00:54.850 --> 00:00:56.409 Insects Chirping, which was one of my favorites, 00:00:56.490 --> 00:00:58.030 and Battle in the Sky, which is also very good. 00:00:58.929 --> 00:01:00.689 Battle in the Sky has a lot of character focus, 00:01:00.789 --> 00:01:05.129 and I thought the action was really good. Night 00:01:05.129 --> 00:01:07.170 of Insects Chirping was, I think, a lot of fun 00:01:07.170 --> 00:01:09.430 action, and also it was a decent character story. 00:01:10.670 --> 00:01:15.170 But to go back to, let's see, going past Blazar, 00:01:15.209 --> 00:01:20.939 what about Ark? So the director worked on more 00:01:20.939 --> 00:01:25.879 episodes than the writer of Blazar. Yes, that's 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.680 correct. And then for Ark, it was 5, 9, 16, and 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:35.519 19. For Ark, it was 5 and 19 that they both worked 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:40.739 on. The director also worked on episode 4 of 00:01:40.739 --> 00:01:42.980 Ark on the kaiju's tail, which was with the Nezamoto, 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.859 the giant rat. Or, yeah, Nezamoto, which is the 00:01:46.859 --> 00:01:50.299 giant electric rat. Like Raichu, Pikachu, whatever. 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.319 Ocean on the Mountain Ridge, which was a fun 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.120 one. Welcome to the Akabonian, which was a great 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.459 episode in a lot of different ways. Message, 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.340 which I think was just okay. Are You Givas, or 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:04.180 You Are Givas, which I love the Givas episodes. 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:08.680 Those are great action. And our cooperation request 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.990 was okay as part of the... crossover set of four 00:02:12.990 --> 00:02:15.189 episodes which is crazy and then the transcending 00:02:15.189 --> 00:02:16.710 wish which is the final episodes of those i think 00:02:16.710 --> 00:02:18.930 which had a lot of good direction in it in my 00:02:18.930 --> 00:02:21.169 opinion um so then for the alien the scholar 00:02:21.169 --> 00:02:25.889 and i uh it's weird that the action had such 00:02:25.889 --> 00:02:28.889 a downgrade and it wasn't as dynamic uh the combat 00:02:28.889 --> 00:02:32.770 um i did enjoy however um the character introduction 00:02:32.770 --> 00:02:37.909 of ayumu and the coming up of omega's human name 00:02:37.909 --> 00:02:43.780 sorato something Let's see if I can find it quickly 00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:49.560 here. Okita, Sarato Okita. And I like how Kosei 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.979 just makes that up on the spot and how they're 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:55.300 still working out their dynamic where Sarato 00:02:55.300 --> 00:02:59.180 wants to, Omega, wants to say things that he 00:02:59.180 --> 00:03:01.740 shouldn't be saying. And that Kosei says like, 00:03:01.780 --> 00:03:05.139 I won't make you yakisoba or what was the other 00:03:05.139 --> 00:03:06.039 thing? I can't remember what the other thing 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.560 was, but he's like, I won't make you this and 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:10.360 fried noodles anymore. And that was a lot of 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.139 fun. So he's, you know, food motivated. And it's 00:03:13.139 --> 00:03:15.539 funny because I referred to him as the hobo Ultraman, 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.280 the hobo alien previously in my first review. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.180 And I think that holds true. He's, you know, 00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:23.860 lost his memories. So he's this amnesia that 00:03:23.860 --> 00:03:26.280 we know about. But the way that expresses itself 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:30.159 is that he kind of randomly knows things. He 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.300 knows that the monsters are called Kaiju. And 00:03:32.300 --> 00:03:34.900 I have a theory that I will share in a little 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:36.120 bit after I'm finished talking about the episode 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.879 as a whole. you know he knows he's hungry and 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:41.939 he has you know these simple basic things like 00:03:41.939 --> 00:03:44.240 oh if i use my power too much like jumping uh 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.699 you know hundreds of feet while holding you kosei 00:03:46.699 --> 00:03:48.860 it's gonna make me hungry and using my powers 00:03:48.860 --> 00:03:50.280 in the fight is gonna make me hungry as well 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:54.020 i think we have the three minute time limit um 00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:57.099 but it hasn't been made clear yet it might be 00:03:57.099 --> 00:03:58.759 that's his like hunger limit like oh i'm gonna 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:00.639 be so hungry if i don't eat right now if i keep 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.759 fighting uh it's gonna be bad because at one 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.539 point kosei says like you know there's the kaiju 00:04:04.539 --> 00:04:06.840 transform go fight and he's like ah it's nothing 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:08.759 you know like the kaiju's not hurting anybody 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:10.460 like why am i gonna do something about this kaiju 00:04:10.460 --> 00:04:13.460 it's it's not a threat it's on issue um which 00:04:13.460 --> 00:04:15.360 it's played for comedy but it also has a good 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.180 character moment because he's We got to see a 00:04:19.180 --> 00:04:20.740 flash of Omega in the beginning of the first 00:04:20.740 --> 00:04:22.620 episode where he was on this planet battling 00:04:22.620 --> 00:04:25.740 an entire, like a colony of insect -type kaiju, 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:28.060 the mother kaiju and her little baby insects 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:29.680 who were attacking him. And then he blows up 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.379 the planet. Was it good that he blew up the planet? 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:34.339 Was it bad that he blew up the planet? We don't 00:04:34.339 --> 00:04:37.079 know. What was he doing there? Why was he doing 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:40.060 what he was doing? Again, we do not know. It 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:41.860 seems to have had a negative consequence on him 00:04:41.860 --> 00:04:43.899 in that he ended up getting injured, falling 00:04:43.899 --> 00:04:48.300 to Earth, to an Earth that has no kaiju. then 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:52.279 he happens to be there when kaiju awaken and 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:53.879 he has to deal with them there on that planet 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:57.889 and So again, we don't know if it was good or 00:04:57.889 --> 00:05:00.529 bad what he did. And he doesn't seem to have 00:05:00.529 --> 00:05:02.589 overly violent tendencies. He's very chill. He's 00:05:02.589 --> 00:05:04.529 very calm. Again, we get to see him in battle 00:05:04.529 --> 00:05:06.589 with his arms just hanging down and waiting for 00:05:06.589 --> 00:05:09.230 the kaiju to attack him before he responded in 00:05:09.230 --> 00:05:12.410 kind. And even when it came to the end of the 00:05:12.410 --> 00:05:14.009 battle, he injured the kaiju a couple of times, 00:05:14.069 --> 00:05:15.709 but it's, you know, injuring it, let all this 00:05:15.709 --> 00:05:17.790 poisonous, noxious gas out. And he remembers 00:05:17.790 --> 00:05:21.769 that Drugud has this ability to shoot out this 00:05:21.769 --> 00:05:23.689 toxic gas, but he says, you know, spews it at 00:05:23.689 --> 00:05:26.180 you when you're fighting as like a... you know 00:05:26.180 --> 00:05:29.180 bioweapon attack type thing but he was inadvertently 00:05:29.180 --> 00:05:31.199 when he was injuring it causing the toxin to 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.000 come out and it was damaging the forest and the 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:34.379 woods and the water and whatever around the dam 00:05:34.379 --> 00:05:39.259 and then in order to counter that um to stop 00:05:39.259 --> 00:05:42.180 the injury from leaking out this toxic gas he 00:05:42.180 --> 00:05:44.579 hits it with his beam and when he does that he 00:05:44.579 --> 00:05:46.639 completely obliterates it and destroys it and 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.720 neutralizes the gas the the point you know noxious 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.699 fumes um so i think he took that step To kill 00:05:54.699 --> 00:05:56.800 it in that way. To neutralize the effect of the 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:03.300 poison. And. Like the fight was going to end 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:04.720 with him killing it anyway. But it's interesting 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.040 to see. How he went about killing it. He killed 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:08.600 it in a cleaner way. That's going to do the least 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.639 damage to. The least life. By killing it with 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.139 this obliterating attack. Versus by cutting it 00:06:15.139 --> 00:06:19.879 up like he did with. Garim. I think it was the 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.480 other Kaiju from the first episode. And. It feels 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:24.759 like there's something significant to that, but 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:31.060 I don't quite know what it is yet. Part of the 00:06:31.060 --> 00:06:32.360 reason it feels that way, too, is because Ayumu 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:37.560 speaks about how she's a researcher of endangered 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:41.060 species, and because kaiju is outside of everybody's 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:42.339 field of expertise, they're pulling together 00:06:42.339 --> 00:06:45.959 all the resources they can in order to have people 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.170 deal with the situation. by using all the resources 00:06:49.170 --> 00:06:51.910 at their disposal, she being one of them. And 00:06:51.910 --> 00:06:53.649 I was almost expecting her to say something about 00:06:53.649 --> 00:06:55.209 this kaiju being something that should be kept 00:06:55.209 --> 00:06:58.050 alive, should be tested, should be protected, 00:06:58.189 --> 00:07:00.449 because it's like an endangered species. And 00:07:00.449 --> 00:07:03.089 she talks about it as if it is a normal creature, 00:07:03.149 --> 00:07:05.389 like, oh, it's amphibious, maybe it grew during 00:07:05.389 --> 00:07:07.689 its hibernation, and the water, because the water 00:07:07.689 --> 00:07:09.930 was diverted away from here with levees like 00:07:09.930 --> 00:07:14.949 100 years ago, that that created issues. I'll 00:07:14.949 --> 00:07:17.199 address that. More at a different point because 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.339 there wasn't enough there to make it seem like 00:07:20.339 --> 00:07:22.819 it's a big deal. So I'll wait until there's evidence 00:07:22.819 --> 00:07:25.860 and see where the show takes it. But then Kosei 00:07:25.860 --> 00:07:29.660 says that Sorato is his cousin and he's been 00:07:29.660 --> 00:07:31.579 away in the mountains for years studying stuff 00:07:31.579 --> 00:07:35.860 since he got out of high school. And he is now 00:07:35.860 --> 00:07:38.879 in sort of studying kaiju and he predicted that 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:40.600 the kaiju would appear. And that's why they're 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:42.649 there in that location, which is a good. cover 00:07:42.649 --> 00:07:44.850 -up. And being that she's a researcher, I could 00:07:44.850 --> 00:07:47.129 see Sorato getting roped into researching kaiju 00:07:47.129 --> 00:07:50.430 as well. I think it's an interesting conceit 00:07:50.430 --> 00:07:53.089 to bring them all together, and I think it could 00:07:53.089 --> 00:07:57.449 be fun. I like that he smells out where kaiju 00:07:57.449 --> 00:07:58.990 are. That's really fun that Sorato can sniff 00:07:58.990 --> 00:08:01.389 them out and find them like that. That's a really 00:08:01.389 --> 00:08:04.149 cool thing. And then he wonders why they can't. 00:08:04.189 --> 00:08:06.230 So it's a lot of fish -out -of -water, alien 00:08:06.230 --> 00:08:09.410 -human clashing of culture and... understanding 00:08:09.410 --> 00:08:12.529 of how things work which is a lot of fun um and 00:08:12.529 --> 00:08:14.709 then something else that i wanted to mention 00:08:14.709 --> 00:08:16.949 is i'm not sure what anyway overall i liked it 00:08:16.949 --> 00:08:18.709 i liked the character story i liked what was 00:08:18.709 --> 00:08:20.310 going on with that but the action just felt like 00:08:20.310 --> 00:08:21.829 it was lacking to me and that's too bad because 00:08:21.829 --> 00:08:23.569 it is an action show and we should have good 00:08:23.569 --> 00:08:26.250 you know hyped action and it's ironic because 00:08:26.250 --> 00:08:28.250 the first episode had good action and the director 00:08:28.250 --> 00:08:30.550 is capable of doing really good action high energy 00:08:30.550 --> 00:08:32.820 action High stakes. And it didn't happen this 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:34.600 time. And anyway, I wonder what you thought about 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:35.980 the episode. I'd like to hear your full thoughts 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:38.940 on it. And oh, one more thing. My theory. Tell 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:40.440 me what you think about this theory. I think 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:43.100 that somehow Serato Omega had all the aliens, 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.559 all the kaiju nested with him. And when he blew 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.179 up that planet and fell from the stars with his 00:08:47.179 --> 00:08:49.580 amnesia, somehow when he landed, the kaiju were 00:08:49.580 --> 00:08:51.519 seeded into the earth in that area and they'll 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.019 come out. What do you think? And what do you 00:08:53.019 --> 00:08:54.580 think of the episode? Check out my full review. 00:08:54.740 --> 00:08:56.419 No, this is the full review. Check out my other 00:08:56.419 --> 00:08:58.639 reviews. 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