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When the world turns upside down and goes absolutely

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crazy, what do you do and how do you survive?

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You have to play the hand you're dealt. You have

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to use everything you have at your disposal right

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now. That's what Ultraman Omega Episode 2 talks

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about. This is MJ with Going Ultra, and I'm talking

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about the Ultraman Omega dub. I'm going through

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the second episode now, after having gone through

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the first. Thankfully, all 12 of the first episodes

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are released on Amazon Prime and other platforms.

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I'm watching them on Amazon Prime or Prime Video,

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whatever you call it. And it's been a great experience

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so far. The dub cast is really good. Ayuma sounds

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really good. I like the mix of Kosei and Soroto,

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who just got his name this episode as well. And

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it's interesting because, just again, I've tried

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all this before, so I won't belabor the point,

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but it's really nice hearing the dub, hearing

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the Ultraman show in your own language. That's

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how all these Japanese fans get to experience

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it. And other fans in other countries where it's

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getting translated as well, or dubbed as well,

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are getting to enjoy it in their own language.

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And it's nice as an American, as an English speaker,

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to get that same experience. So anyway, it's

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really cool, and I'm really digging it. I'm really

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happy that they've done this. It's really great

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that it's out there on Amazon. It's cool. It

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has a new series badge and everything like that.

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But anyway, I'm here to talk about the episode.

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And this kind of theme of how you deal with a

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crisis is interesting to me. Ayumu is a biologist.

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She tells Kosei that. And she's saying that basically,

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I guess the government or somebody is scrapping

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together this team to investigate what's going

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on. And the episode starts off in a really cool

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way, which is it's her. with her iPad, you know,

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taking images of the giant kaiju. Grime, I believe,

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is the first kaiju that Omega killed. And she's

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just taking pictures, you know, looking at its

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corpse. And it's interesting. The mix is, it's

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like a very low music mix. Like, I'm not sure

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there's any background music really going on.

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There's kind of... I almost thought my music

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was not, or my volume was all the way down, which

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it was a little low, but it wasn't all the way

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down. It's like a very naturalistic mix of just

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showing you this woman looking at this monster

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in this place where it had died, where Ultraman

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killed it and its corpse lay. And it offers,

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it's funny because it's like, you know, there's

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certain shows and certain genres that have, you

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know. deconstruction in them like for example

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digimon tamers is you know what if digimon digital

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monsters were real and they came into the real

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world and how cool would that be but also how

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scary would that be how rough would that be what

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would that mean and i'm not saying that tamers

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is specifically a deconstructionist show but

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it kind of has that edge to it and there are

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other things like what if superheroes were real

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or what if you know monsters were real or whatever

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and those shows, movies, comic books, whatever,

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address those issues in the way that their author

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thinks they should be addressed. And I feel like

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this is doing that to some extent. It's a little

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bit like a junior version of it because Ultraman

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is made for a younger audience, but it's showing

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this ultra falling from the sky and these kaiju

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coming to Earth and existing in a way that...

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it's a planet where they've never had to deal

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with this before. And now people are having to

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learn how to deal with it. And again, like Ayuma

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says, she has to play the hand she's dealt. You

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know, the government is just scrambling to make

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this work and to make some sort of Kaiju response,

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which I originally thought, well, this is going

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to be interesting because will there be a Kaiju

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response team formed? Will there be an equivalent

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to the SSSP or Guts or whoever? SCARD, one of

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my favorites. Or will they just have everybody...

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stand by and watch and observe and say i guess

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we're gonna have to rely on this ultra man and

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this ultra man alone um that was early on the

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show has gone on further i haven't watched the

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subtitled version of it so i think that there

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are things going on that would contradict that

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or that i could i could speak to but i don't

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know what they are and i didn't look into it

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so i kind of want to go into this as fresh as

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possible and just enjoy the dub as its own thing

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and take it as its own experience and that's

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what i'm doing but i'm thinking now like it just

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feels like There could be a human response to

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this. Kosei asked Ayumu what will happen if the

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giant were captured. And she said, I would think

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he'd never see the light of day again. Meaning,

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kind of like how in Tamers, Takato was scared.

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He was scared. He was afraid that if Gilmon were

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captured, he'd be taken to a lab and experimented

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on. So he wanted to hide him and things like

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that. Which is a very reasonable response to

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very good fear for a kid to have. I think it's

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interesting that that point is being raised to

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the child viewers of the show, the kid audience,

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that, yeah, if Ultraman were caught because they

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don't know who he is or what he is, they would

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want to investigate what he is and experiment

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on him or whatever. And I just think it's kind

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of like an interesting, like, real thing to throw

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at a kid. And I'm wondering, like, why that's

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being thrown at the audience. And I wonder if

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it has more to do with, like, an insight for

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later in the series. You know, what are they

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going to do with the corpse of Grime? Are they

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going to study it and oil down its DNA and try

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to figure out how to make their own, you know,

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kaiju to fight other kaiju that might appear?

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I think that's an interesting possibility. I

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think that could be some foreshadowing that's

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being done, but maybe not. It could just be them

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showing what does it look like to have a world

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that has no monsters, no kaiju, and no Ultraman,

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and then all of a sudden, boom, here they are,

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causing issues and, you know, the world has to

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react to it. and that could be interesting in

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and of itself and i'm fine with that and uh i

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guess i'm talking about a thematic level uh to

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get back into the spectacle real quick because

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this is a you know entertaining pension hero

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show and we want to watch these transforming

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heroes do cool stuff i enjoyed the fight um i

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spoke about this a lot before my previous review

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which i might like here as well um so you can

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check out what i thought then versus what i'm

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saying now And yeah, I really like this like

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lazy, languid almost style that Omega has. And

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it's really interesting how he fights and what

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he does. I actually really have a lot of appreciation

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for this now. It feels like he's grasping the

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enemy. He's grasping inside about the enemy.

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And just having that being done so simply, like

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there's no on -screen effects. There's no targeting

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reticule. Although this was really cool when

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he did that and the POV was behind his hands

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for his beam attack. That was super cool, which

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I've talked about previously. But just seeing

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it again, I thought, oh, it looks so good. And

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I'm pretty sure they've done that in other Ultraman

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shows. But it's fun here. And we didn't get that

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at all in Ark, I don't think, or in Blazar. So

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Blazar didn't do his until the very end of the

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show, I think. So yeah, that was a lot of fun

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to see. But yeah, I mean, it's good spectacle.

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I enjoyed the fight. I like this big, you know,

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chonky amphibian guy, this big newt guy. Although

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I feel like there's a little bit of a contradiction

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or there is a little bit of a failure on this

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idea that kaiju are new to the planet, which

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is that Ayumu speaks about this amphibious, you

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know, newt -like kaiju as if it's been there

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for a while. Like, oh, it was hibernating in

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the river, but the river level went too low.

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because of the dams or levees from like a hundred

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years ago. And now it needs to be somewhere where

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there's more water. So it's going to look for

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a place that has more deeply established or it

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has higher water that it can use. And they showed

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its nest where it was. And it almost implies

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that the nest was there in the path of the old

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river. And then the levees, when they rerouted

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the river and then built up this river in this

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other place and also the dam behind it to hold

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the water back eventually, you know, 20, 30 years

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ago, whatever that was, that that stuff, had

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an effect on this kaiju but if the kaiju are

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all coming to this world because of omega ostensibly

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like that's that's i think it's pretty clear

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to kids like oh omega came to this planet then

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there's kaiju so and this planet doesn't know

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what kaiju are so it must be that omega somehow

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brought the kaiju with him right uh then why

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would there be a kaiju who had been hibernating

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in that area in the mountains and why would the

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diversion of the river from one area to another

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cause him any trouble and cause him to come out

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of his nest and also I mean, I can understand

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that if a kaiju is an animal, which some people

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argue that you should not look at kaiju as an

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animal, but I disagree. That's at least how the

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show, that's the worldview of this show so far.

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But if he's this animal, then why is he nesting

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if he doesn't have a mate? Or maybe he's just

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working. If he came from the stars with Omega,

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if he fell at the same time and got dropped in

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there and then, you know, whatever, started nesting,

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maybe he... is building a nest because that's

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what his animal instincts are telling him to

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do and i don't know i just i find it very interesting

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i i definitely like this naturalistic approach

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to kaiju and like looking at them as animals

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but as animals that can't uh exist in our world

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potentially because just they conflict they contradict

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the world because they're uh invasive species

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let's say from another planet um i think that's

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very interesting i also like to touch that that

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the public was not aware of the poisoning that

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this thing was doing that this uh dugrid or dugrid

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was doing and that um soruto had that uh notion

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he knew about it he could he remembered it from

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before um and then also i really like the detail

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of um like ayuma telling him to get it away from

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the water to weaken it because it's a new it's

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an amphibious thing and then also the idea that

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he had to just destroy it outright in order to

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stop it from poisoning a lot more stuff was really

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cool. And I thought like, this is interesting

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because kaiju are supposed to be like these friendly,

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cute kind of things, even though they're monsters.

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And there's like a, there's like a weird relationship

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that kaiju have with, that the audience has with

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kaiju. They like them, but also they root for

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the Ultraman to destroy them every week. And

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this one, we really got to see why it needed

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to be destroyed like that and just taken out

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instantly. And you don't always get to see like

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a really good justification for that. uh and

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i felt like that felt very naturalistic like

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look if you really had this invasive species

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that was doing this you would eradicate it so

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that it wouldn't cause harm to people and i just

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think it's interesting i really like ultra because

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it feels very thoughtful and it feels very like

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not low sakes um sci -fi but it feels like a

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low grade sci -fi meant for kids um in order

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to like kind of i don't know teach a way to look

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at the world and to think about the world and

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to think about things in kind of a more nuanced

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way while still having this great action and

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this fun excitement, which is really enjoyable.

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So that's pretty much all I have to say about

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this. I want to keep these reviews short so it

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doesn't take up a bunch of your time or my time.

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And anyway, I'll have some shorts talking about

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this episode. I'm going to think about this a

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little further. I'm going to have some reactions

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to it, some reflections on it as the day goes

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on. I'm sure it'll stick in my head a little

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bit and I'll add to it. And you can check out

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those insights as well on my channel. Keep coming

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back to Henshin Inspection for Going Ultra and

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all my other... writer coverage or all my other

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tokusatsu or henshin hero coverage i'm also covering

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zets currently so you can check that out there

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should be a playlist linked somewhere here that

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you can follow through for that and uh what else

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oh i'm also talking about tokusatsu or henshin

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hero stuff as a series in general um how it works

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with toy sales and things like that there was

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a really interesting article that came out that

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i have part of the shirakawa the uh Big Wig and

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Toe, or A Big Wig and Toe, a producer, big executive

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producer guy, participated in and he was talking

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about how Zyuranger almost failed and how they

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were thinking Zyuranger was going to be the last

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Super Sentai and how that got delayed for 30

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years or so. And, you know, why that happened

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and what that means and what the future of, you

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know. the project red is for them and how metal

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heroes has to come back and he doesn't want super

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center to come back for like a decade so that

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it has this chance to refresh so i'm going to

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dig into that eventually i'll i might do that

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um for this uh Henshin Reflection series, Heart

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and Soul. I might throw that in there real quick

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because I think it's something important. It's

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going on right now that we need to discuss if

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we want to really understand and have a good

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insight into how these shows work, how the toy

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sales work for them, and how that affects the

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storytelling and different things like that.

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Because I'm really interested in like the long,

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I'm interested, I'm so fascinated by the fact

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that Super Sentai went for 50 years almost continuously.

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That's insane. And it's laudable. I talk more

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about that in my Heart and Soul series, but I

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just, I also want to analyze this. industry insight

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um coming from one of the producers and fold

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that into my my ongoing coverage and discussion

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of of that whole topic so anyway until next time

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folks this is mj with henshin inspection signing

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out until next time take care and be well