Ultraman Omega Episode 1 was a great start. I
liked it a lot. You can check out my reviews
on it to hear my full thoughts on it. Ultraman
Episode 2 doesn't quite deliver. While I found
that Ultraman Omega Episode 1 was hard -hitting
and it was very exciting, there was a lot going
on, the action in this episode was a step down
for me. And while the story beats were good and
the character moments were as good, there was
something lacking in the action, which I find
interesting, especially because the writer and
the director for the first two episodes are the
same people. What I mean is the writer for episodes
1 and 2 is the same writer, and that is Toshizu
Onomoto, and the director, Masayoshi Takesue,
is the director for episodes 1 and 2. And when
I went back and looked at their other works in
ARC and in Blazar, I was shocked because, let
me just tell you, they both worked on the same
episodes of... Blazar for sure being Night of
Insects Chirping, which was one of my favorites,
and Battle in the Sky, which is also very good.
Battle in the Sky has a lot of character focus,
and I thought the action was really good. Night
of Insects Chirping was, I think, a lot of fun
action, and also it was a decent character story.
But to go back to, let's see, going past Blazar,
what about Ark? So the director worked on more
episodes than the writer of Blazar. Yes, that's
correct. And then for Ark, it was 5, 9, 16, and
19. For Ark, it was 5 and 19 that they both worked
on. The director also worked on episode 4 of
Ark on the kaiju's tail, which was with the Nezamoto,
the giant rat. Or, yeah, Nezamoto, which is the
giant electric rat. Like Raichu, Pikachu, whatever.
Ocean on the Mountain Ridge, which was a fun
one. Welcome to the Akabonian, which was a great
episode in a lot of different ways. Message,
which I think was just okay. Are You Givas, or
You Are Givas, which I love the Givas episodes.
Those are great action. And our cooperation request
was okay as part of the... crossover set of four
episodes which is crazy and then the transcending
wish which is the final episodes of those i think
which had a lot of good direction in it in my
opinion um so then for the alien the scholar
and i uh it's weird that the action had such
a downgrade and it wasn't as dynamic uh the combat
um i did enjoy however um the character introduction
of ayumu and the coming up of omega's human name
sorato something Let's see if I can find it quickly
here. Okita, Sarato Okita. And I like how Kosei
just makes that up on the spot and how they're
still working out their dynamic where Sarato
wants to, Omega, wants to say things that he
shouldn't be saying. And that Kosei says like,
I won't make you yakisoba or what was the other
thing? I can't remember what the other thing
was, but he's like, I won't make you this and
fried noodles anymore. And that was a lot of
fun. So he's, you know, food motivated. And it's
funny because I referred to him as the hobo Ultraman,
the hobo alien previously in my first review.
And I think that holds true. He's, you know,
lost his memories. So he's this amnesia that
we know about. But the way that expresses itself
is that he kind of randomly knows things. He
knows that the monsters are called Kaiju. And
I have a theory that I will share in a little
bit after I'm finished talking about the episode
as a whole. you know he knows he's hungry and
he has you know these simple basic things like
oh if i use my power too much like jumping uh
you know hundreds of feet while holding you kosei
it's gonna make me hungry and using my powers
in the fight is gonna make me hungry as well
i think we have the three minute time limit um
but it hasn't been made clear yet it might be
that's his like hunger limit like oh i'm gonna
be so hungry if i don't eat right now if i keep
fighting uh it's gonna be bad because at one
point kosei says like you know there's the kaiju
transform go fight and he's like ah it's nothing
you know like the kaiju's not hurting anybody
like why am i gonna do something about this kaiju
it's it's not a threat it's on issue um which
it's played for comedy but it also has a good
character moment because he's We got to see a
flash of Omega in the beginning of the first
episode where he was on this planet battling
an entire, like a colony of insect -type kaiju,
the mother kaiju and her little baby insects
who were attacking him. And then he blows up
the planet. Was it good that he blew up the planet?
Was it bad that he blew up the planet? We don't
know. What was he doing there? Why was he doing
what he was doing? Again, we do not know. It
seems to have had a negative consequence on him
in that he ended up getting injured, falling
to Earth, to an Earth that has no kaiju. then
he happens to be there when kaiju awaken and
he has to deal with them there on that planet
and So again, we don't know if it was good or
bad what he did. And he doesn't seem to have
overly violent tendencies. He's very chill. He's
very calm. Again, we get to see him in battle
with his arms just hanging down and waiting for
the kaiju to attack him before he responded in
kind. And even when it came to the end of the
battle, he injured the kaiju a couple of times,
but it's, you know, injuring it, let all this
poisonous, noxious gas out. And he remembers
that Drugud has this ability to shoot out this
toxic gas, but he says, you know, spews it at
you when you're fighting as like a... you know
bioweapon attack type thing but he was inadvertently
when he was injuring it causing the toxin to
come out and it was damaging the forest and the
woods and the water and whatever around the dam
and then in order to counter that um to stop
the injury from leaking out this toxic gas he
hits it with his beam and when he does that he
completely obliterates it and destroys it and
neutralizes the gas the the point you know noxious
fumes um so i think he took that step To kill
it in that way. To neutralize the effect of the
poison. And. Like the fight was going to end
with him killing it anyway. But it's interesting
to see. How he went about killing it. He killed
it in a cleaner way. That's going to do the least
damage to. The least life. By killing it with
this obliterating attack. Versus by cutting it
up like he did with. Garim. I think it was the
other Kaiju from the first episode. And. It feels
like there's something significant to that, but
I don't quite know what it is yet. Part of the
reason it feels that way, too, is because Ayumu
speaks about how she's a researcher of endangered
species, and because kaiju is outside of everybody's
field of expertise, they're pulling together
all the resources they can in order to have people
deal with the situation. by using all the resources
at their disposal, she being one of them. And
I was almost expecting her to say something about
this kaiju being something that should be kept
alive, should be tested, should be protected,
because it's like an endangered species. And
she talks about it as if it is a normal creature,
like, oh, it's amphibious, maybe it grew during
its hibernation, and the water, because the water
was diverted away from here with levees like
100 years ago, that that created issues. I'll
address that. More at a different point because
there wasn't enough there to make it seem like
it's a big deal. So I'll wait until there's evidence
and see where the show takes it. But then Kosei
says that Sorato is his cousin and he's been
away in the mountains for years studying stuff
since he got out of high school. And he is now
in sort of studying kaiju and he predicted that
the kaiju would appear. And that's why they're
there in that location, which is a good. cover
-up. And being that she's a researcher, I could
see Sorato getting roped into researching kaiju
as well. I think it's an interesting conceit
to bring them all together, and I think it could
be fun. I like that he smells out where kaiju
are. That's really fun that Sorato can sniff
them out and find them like that. That's a really
cool thing. And then he wonders why they can't.
So it's a lot of fish -out -of -water, alien
-human clashing of culture and... understanding
of how things work which is a lot of fun um and
then something else that i wanted to mention
is i'm not sure what anyway overall i liked it
i liked the character story i liked what was
going on with that but the action just felt like
it was lacking to me and that's too bad because
it is an action show and we should have good
you know hyped action and it's ironic because
the first episode had good action and the director
is capable of doing really good action high energy
action High stakes. And it didn't happen this
time. And anyway, I wonder what you thought about
the episode. I'd like to hear your full thoughts
on it. And oh, one more thing. My theory. Tell
me what you think about this theory. I think
that somehow Serato Omega had all the aliens,
all the kaiju nested with him. And when he blew
up that planet and fell from the stars with his
amnesia, somehow when he landed, the kaiju were
seeded into the earth in that area and they'll
come out. What do you think? And what do you
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