WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.759 The Ultraman Omega Episode 1 dub is here, and 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:07.419 I was very happy to watch it. Gosh, I have a 00:00:07.419 --> 00:00:09.419 lot to say about dubs, but I'll try to focus 00:00:09.419 --> 00:00:10.820 on this episode for the first few minutes at 00:00:10.820 --> 00:00:13.539 least. So, I really liked it. It was really good. 00:00:13.619 --> 00:00:16.800 It was very enjoyable. I think the performances 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.579 of everybody were good. One of the things I liked 00:00:19.579 --> 00:00:22.480 most, so, I guess at a baseline, the performances 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.489 were good and I enjoyed the episode. Which means, 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:29.030 to some extent, that the story was very good, 00:00:29.089 --> 00:00:31.649 and I really enjoyed it. I love the mystery, 00:00:31.750 --> 00:00:33.750 I love the setup, but this is my second time 00:00:33.750 --> 00:00:35.710 going through these first six episodes or so. 00:00:36.710 --> 00:00:38.390 Obviously this is just the first of the six. 00:00:39.329 --> 00:00:41.490 Well, there's more than six, but I think you 00:00:41.490 --> 00:00:46.689 know what I'm saying. So, there's seeds being 00:00:46.689 --> 00:00:48.509 planted, and there's mystery that's being set 00:00:48.509 --> 00:00:54.399 up, and there's some... I don't know. The hook's 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.840 being set, and yeah, I'm enjoying it. I'm hooked. 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.140 I definitely see an ongoing mystery going on 00:01:01.140 --> 00:01:02.380 here, and I want to know more about the story. 00:01:02.380 --> 00:01:03.659 I want to know about Omega, where he came from, 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:05.620 why he was doing what he was doing, what he was 00:01:05.620 --> 00:01:07.599 doing on that bug planet in the beginning, which, 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.659 by the way, that fight in the beginning, it's 00:01:10.659 --> 00:01:12.599 funny. I'm so happy that this is the dub, and 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:15.640 I realized that the first two minutes of the 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.620 episode are absolutely, well, first of all, they're 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:20.459 absolute cinema, and second of all, there's no 00:01:20.459 --> 00:01:22.310 dialogue at all. There's no dialogue. There's 00:01:22.310 --> 00:01:25.750 no dubbing featured. It's just, you know, as 00:01:25.750 --> 00:01:30.010 Omega is fighting. And yet it was compelling. 00:01:30.349 --> 00:01:32.230 There was a story being told. It was a visual 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:34.450 story. It was a story of struggle and strife 00:01:34.450 --> 00:01:37.930 and combat and fighting to the death. But it 00:01:37.930 --> 00:01:40.790 was compelling. That sounds like a pretty compelling 00:01:40.790 --> 00:01:44.420 story if you ask me. What I'm saying is I was 00:01:44.420 --> 00:01:45.819 very excited for the dub. I was very disappointed 00:01:45.819 --> 00:01:48.319 how long the dub took to come out. And I was 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.099 relieved when it finally came out. And I think 00:01:50.099 --> 00:01:51.319 that they're doing great things with it. But 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.280 I talked about that in a short previously, so 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.420 I'm not going to bring it up here. But more than 00:01:55.420 --> 00:01:58.920 that is I was excited for the dub. And yet it 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.079 didn't need a dub to tell this interesting story 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.260 in two minutes. And that's a powerful thing. 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:05.760 I think it's a real compliment to the creative 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.879 crew who is working on this. And really, whether 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.449 the show has, you know. you're understanding 00:02:11.449 --> 00:02:12.930 it through subtitles through your native language 00:02:12.930 --> 00:02:15.389 or through it being dubbed so your native language 00:02:15.389 --> 00:02:18.090 but you know not quite um you know after the 00:02:18.090 --> 00:02:21.830 fact um the fact that the first two minutes of 00:02:21.830 --> 00:02:23.650 it are done without dialogue and it's a compelling 00:02:23.650 --> 00:02:26.110 story is great it's a huge compliment to the 00:02:26.110 --> 00:02:28.789 creative team and i really liked it again um 00:02:28.789 --> 00:02:31.129 and i brought this up in my original review uh 00:02:31.129 --> 00:02:33.270 the effects are incredible i can't tell where 00:02:33.270 --> 00:02:36.169 the CGI body double is being used and where it's 00:02:36.169 --> 00:02:38.789 a guy in a suit and the compositing is all fantastic. 00:02:39.009 --> 00:02:40.229 There's a couple little areas where it looks 00:02:40.229 --> 00:02:42.610 a little weird, but it was funny. I recently 00:02:42.610 --> 00:02:46.229 played Spider -Man 1 in the background while 00:02:46.229 --> 00:02:49.009 I was working and I, you know, looked over at 00:02:49.009 --> 00:02:51.110 the screen a few times and there's times where 00:02:51.110 --> 00:02:53.009 you can definitely tell it's CGI, but honestly 00:02:53.009 --> 00:02:57.069 looking at this big fight on the bug planet, 00:02:57.289 --> 00:03:01.129 stop the flaws. It made me think about the train 00:03:01.129 --> 00:03:05.039 fight. from Spider -Man 2 and how beautiful, 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.120 how gorgeous that is. And I thought that's pretty 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.520 good that for a TV budget, they were able to 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.800 achieve this quality of special effects. And 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.539 again, I know that there's definitely suit going 00:03:16.539 --> 00:03:21.199 on and then there's CGI. And there's, well, I 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.900 sense, I know that there's definitely real suit 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:25.960 going on there. And I'm pretty sure there's some 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.180 body doubling happening. I don't know what it 00:03:28.180 --> 00:03:29.819 is, but I won't belabor this because I talked 00:03:29.819 --> 00:03:33.189 about this in my original review. Anyway, going 00:03:33.189 --> 00:03:36.469 beyond that, I was really stricken by how emotionally 00:03:36.469 --> 00:03:40.389 resonant it all seemed, how getting to hear in 00:03:40.389 --> 00:03:44.789 English Omega say, I could have sworn I could 00:03:44.789 --> 00:03:48.930 fly and things like that. And, you know, I think 00:03:48.930 --> 00:03:51.889 I can grow bigger and I think I can fight it. 00:03:52.030 --> 00:03:54.530 And just a lot of these like very simple lines, 00:03:54.669 --> 00:03:57.729 just the way they were delivered and hearing 00:03:57.729 --> 00:04:00.469 them in my own language was very satisfying and 00:04:00.469 --> 00:04:07.300 very. Emotional? Very charming? Like... Previously, 00:04:07.379 --> 00:04:09.620 I felt there was a lot of charm to Omega, and 00:04:09.620 --> 00:04:11.419 he feels toddlerish, and like, oh, what's this, 00:04:11.419 --> 00:04:12.560 and what's this, and what's that called, and 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.520 who are you? Seeing him piece things together 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:16.860 and try to figure out, you know, working through 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:18.819 his amnesia to understand what these foreign 00:04:18.819 --> 00:04:20.879 concepts are to him, whether it be tissue boxes, 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.970 or clipboards, or... You know, people being afraid 00:04:24.970 --> 00:04:27.949 in a situation, acting desperately and selfishly 00:04:27.949 --> 00:04:29.990 because they're scared for themselves and for 00:04:29.990 --> 00:04:32.649 people that they love. So selfishly is a relative 00:04:32.649 --> 00:04:37.629 turn there. Seeing him struggle through those 00:04:37.629 --> 00:04:39.329 things the first time, reading the subtitles, 00:04:39.509 --> 00:04:43.490 landed one way, it hit one way. Hearing him speak, 00:04:43.689 --> 00:04:46.230 and Sorato has a very different voice from Kosei, 00:04:46.290 --> 00:04:49.550 for example. And a lot of the other voices are 00:04:49.550 --> 00:04:53.860 very animated. Anime. They have that quality 00:04:53.860 --> 00:04:55.939 to them where they're larger than life, especially 00:04:55.939 --> 00:04:57.899 the duo on the radio, which was a lot of fun. 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:03.620 But utilizing those types of performances, it 00:05:03.620 --> 00:05:10.240 colors things so that even without seeing the 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.180 characters, like the radio characters, for example, 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.100 or hearing off -screen arguments between people, 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:19.009 you don't need to see everything done. Because 00:05:19.009 --> 00:05:20.870 you don't need to see close -ups on everybody 00:05:20.870 --> 00:05:23.709 when the performances are so larger than life. 00:05:23.810 --> 00:05:26.209 They're so big and pronounced. And we got the 00:05:26.209 --> 00:05:28.230 advantage of that. And I don't know Japanese, 00:05:28.470 --> 00:05:34.269 and I don't understand enough Japanese intonation 00:05:34.269 --> 00:05:37.970 and... I'm going to use another tone word, just 00:05:37.970 --> 00:05:41.889 like tone, to pick up on all the subtleties from... 00:05:42.610 --> 00:05:44.250 watching the subtitled version of it. So watching 00:05:44.250 --> 00:05:46.230 the dub, I did get to pick up on those things. 00:05:46.250 --> 00:05:47.610 I got to hear the desperation in the parents' 00:05:47.689 --> 00:05:49.509 voices. Them talking about the details of, oh, 00:05:49.509 --> 00:05:51.709 our son is over here. And, you know, why isn't 00:05:51.709 --> 00:05:53.610 he here? Why can't you get him here? And the 00:05:53.610 --> 00:05:56.569 desperation of the, like, relief for aid workers 00:05:56.569 --> 00:05:58.930 saying, you know, everybody's in trouble. We're 00:05:58.930 --> 00:06:00.389 trying. And it's not just your son that we're 00:06:00.389 --> 00:06:01.470 worried about. We're worried about everybody's 00:06:01.470 --> 00:06:04.329 kids. And those things didn't really hit me as 00:06:04.329 --> 00:06:08.350 well when I watched it originally. And if they 00:06:08.350 --> 00:06:11.360 did, it's because I paused and I... and I slowed 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:14.160 things down so that I could really absorb everything 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.120 that was going on. And this time it was a very 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.720 much more casual experience, and yet I got all 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:22.000 the depth that was there in the story and in 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.279 the performances from not just Sorato and Kosei, 00:06:25.339 --> 00:06:27.339 but from all these side characters as well, these 00:06:27.339 --> 00:06:29.040 incidental characters that are just in the scenes, 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:32.860 almost background characters. And another thing 00:06:32.860 --> 00:06:37.360 I picked up on was that the morning radio pair 00:06:39.089 --> 00:06:41.350 Other than the luxury apartments gag being there, 00:06:41.470 --> 00:06:43.430 there's a thing where he kind of talks about 00:06:43.430 --> 00:06:49.009 flat earthers and how... I guess you could say 00:06:49.009 --> 00:06:51.029 how information is disseminated or how information 00:06:51.029 --> 00:06:54.829 is absorbed across people and how even though 00:06:54.829 --> 00:06:57.120 we have... hundreds of years of data and research 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:59.259 on the flat Earth, or on the Earth being round. 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.000 Rather, there are people who think the Earth 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.879 is flat, and the conversation gets cut off, so 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:05.399 we don't get to hear the rest of that. But before 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.540 then, I believe his female co -host is saying 00:07:08.540 --> 00:07:10.420 something about how everything happens for a 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:12.060 reason, and things are all interconnected, and 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:16.480 nothing's an accident, and something about that 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.759 background interaction, or that background exchange, 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.209 being in the show. in the background while Kosei 00:07:22.209 --> 00:07:24.170 is hunting for Sorata, who's slurping away at 00:07:24.170 --> 00:07:27.430 his yakisoba, it feels very meaningful to me. 00:07:27.449 --> 00:07:29.110 And it feels like a seed that's being planted 00:07:29.110 --> 00:07:32.170 for later development of the story, of the show. 00:07:32.290 --> 00:07:33.750 Maybe it has something to do with the theme of 00:07:33.750 --> 00:07:37.389 the show. And I'm wondering what that is. And 00:07:37.389 --> 00:07:38.910 it feels significant. It feels important because 00:07:38.910 --> 00:07:41.709 everything that goes into a production like this 00:07:41.709 --> 00:07:45.230 is done by choice. And they could have just chosen 00:07:45.230 --> 00:07:49.189 to let the people riff. But I don't think they 00:07:49.189 --> 00:07:50.670 did. I think it was on purpose. I think it has 00:07:50.670 --> 00:07:51.750 something to do because they were talking about 00:07:51.750 --> 00:07:56.329 the building, the luxury apartments, or luxury, 00:07:56.529 --> 00:07:59.449 yeah, apartments, I think, being crashed, sinking 00:07:59.449 --> 00:08:01.490 into the ground and Grime, this first kaiju, 00:08:01.589 --> 00:08:03.689 digs and tunnels and he can do that sort of thing. 00:08:03.709 --> 00:08:05.389 He can cause that sort of thing to happen. And 00:08:05.389 --> 00:08:10.600 then Sorato fights him in this episode. So there, 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.060 that's connected on a minimal level. But thematically, 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.279 there's something else going on there. And Serato 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.339 is learning what it means to be human. He's learning 00:08:17.339 --> 00:08:19.459 what it means to be a good person. He kind of 00:08:19.459 --> 00:08:20.839 knows what a good person is as well, though, 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:22.879 already, because he calls Kosei a good person. 00:08:23.300 --> 00:08:25.639 And Kosei kind of has to struggle with his nature 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.040 and his fear and his doubt and his uncertainty 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.980 to do the right thing, to help people. But ultimately, 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.080 he's this noble character, and we get to see 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:42.159 that. It's very interesting and it feels like 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:45.220 I'm getting different things from this version 00:08:45.220 --> 00:08:48.179 of the story. And I'm really appreciating the 00:08:48.179 --> 00:08:51.379 dub and really enjoying being able to sit back 00:08:51.379 --> 00:08:56.779 and relax and pick up on things in an easier 00:08:56.779 --> 00:08:59.039 way, in a more natural way than I would have 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.340 from watching the subtitled version of it. So 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:03.860 I think I'm going to stick with this and watch 00:09:03.860 --> 00:09:06.110 the second episode. dubbed and talk about it 00:09:06.110 --> 00:09:08.309 do a little review of it as well and maybe try 00:09:08.309 --> 00:09:09.690 to talk about it in a different way until i catch 00:09:09.690 --> 00:09:11.409 up with episode seven and talk about it in a 00:09:11.409 --> 00:09:14.009 you know whatever real way so to speak whatever 00:09:14.009 --> 00:09:16.009 real is anyway let me know what you thought about 00:09:16.009 --> 00:09:17.450 the dub let me know what you thought about this 00:09:17.450 --> 00:09:19.269 episode specifically if you've watched the subtitled 00:09:19.269 --> 00:09:20.909 versions and the dub versions let me know if 00:09:20.909 --> 00:09:22.289 you're picking up on similar kind of differences 00:09:22.289 --> 00:09:23.830 where you're picking up on more nuances from 00:09:23.830 --> 00:09:26.529 the dub or uh or what let me know what you think 00:09:26.529 --> 00:09:28.350 about the performances i'd like to just have 00:09:28.350 --> 00:09:32.100 a discussion of this overall and But yeah, let's 00:09:32.100 --> 00:09:34.820 talk about it. 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