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This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer find all my work at MJMunoz.com

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this is

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Going ultra talking about Ultraman Zep episode 7 featuring Lil Lord Zet

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A fickle juggler and metal monster madness yes

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So my title for this episode or yeah my review is ultra trio because there's you know three guys here

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It's a trio anyway

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So I'm gonna jump right into my comments my my topics, and then I'll wrap everything up

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I think really the the three things I mentioned at the top there are woven throughout

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And if they're not I'll make sure to come back to them at the end before I sign out so

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civilian fights and heavy Kura, that's my first comment, so I really liked seeing Yoko and

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Haruki and heavy Kura fighting the

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alien putty

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Mooc robot things that

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Kaburagi was somehow able to

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Create call from another dimension

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Summon whatever that was

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That was a neat thing that he did that was a neat trick and then seeing them do a civilian fight against those guys was

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pretty exciting and

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It was a lot of fun, and it was a surprise, but a welcome one to be sure sorry

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I don't know why I'm saying that anyway and heavy Kura was really fun in it a little bit of his juggler was showing though

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because wow bro you almost hit me a little bit of his juggler was showing because he

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just had this real fun attitude during the fight and I mean I don't know his captain sense was tingling or whatever and

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Which it's a good thing

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I'm not involved with this dub because I would have had him say something more like that which would have been bad anyway

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so yeah his captain sense was tingling and he thought something was up with these guys, so he you know fought against them and

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Started the whole thing, but then when they pulled a gun on him

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And he realized he was you know outmatched and in danger

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He put his hands up and like hummed and just like made this great face, and it was really enjoyable

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So I like that a lot

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He was especially cool in that fight and then there's this whole thing about Riku or

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Geed being the son of Belial and because I haven't seen Ultraman Geed I

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Don't understand who the son is is Riku Geed is Geed Riku

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you know is the man or is the ultra the son of

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Belial and

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Is it ambiguous because?

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Again, they're not saying that Riku is the host for Geed. They're just calling him Geed basically so I'm confused by that and I

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Didn't listen super well, but I believe the voice for Riku and the voice for

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Geed are the same voice whereas we have different voices for Zet and

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Haruki so

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That would imply that they are one in the same somehow and I guess he has a human form. I don't know it's it's interesting

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Very compelling it makes me want to check out Geed which maybe that was the point of it

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But still I just wonder who is the son we know who is the father, but we don't know who is the son so

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That is a Mori Povich joke if you're wondering okay, and then I think it's interesting that Juggler has a secret that he's hiding

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from the others that he is

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Hebekura that Hebekura is Juggler and that he's helping them out because he's looking into the matter of who's behind all this

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He's trying to find out who Shinya is and who's causing all this weird metal monster stuff

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As I guess as well some of the other things that are going on and you know

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He's running this investigation, and he's being ambiguous with his not his methods. We're seeing his methods

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He's being ambiguous with his motives. We don't really understand what he's after or why he's after it and

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He you know tells

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Riku to keep it a secret that he saved them and you know and who he is for a reason

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We don't really know why he wants to keep it a secret from them

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We just know that he does and you know I'm curious as to what the implications are of that

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And you know what he intends to do because we've seen he's grasped power for himself, but is that something he?

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wants to continue doing or or not and I mean I guess it's being written like that to keep it intriguing and keep it interesting because

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You don't know what he's gonna do and it makes it more exciting

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Okay next thing this is not story related at all wasn't that awesome when you got to see the

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Ultras and that belly-all fusion monster fighting from a human's

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I was I really see a worm's-eye view but a human's-eye view because you know human to Kaiju is the same as worm to human

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the scale at least

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It was incredible

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I still don't know how they do those shots is it CGI is it a

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Well placed camera like on a stick or is it a drone or what is it because like at one point?

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Gide does like a summer not a somersault like a cartwheel or a backflip or something and the camera

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Tracks with him as he does that and he does that over like a bridge you know in Japan

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They've got those bridges that cross the street for you, so you could like walk up and over the traffic

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Wow wow wow wow and by the way

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I've only ever seen like one of those in America in Southern, California, which is why I say it's Japanese

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Because like I've seen an anime before right did you want did you want to has it for sure and like even

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Probably cat returns at the beginning when they're walking the street, and she saves the cat from the getting hit by car anyway

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so like

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Just the shots those shots are astonishing those upshots are absolutely beautiful and like I

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Don't know it's just it's such a spectacle it blows me away

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And I find it very compelling so hmm. There's that I really like how well Kaburagi's

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Inserting metals into the his dark or it just is he riser. It's or is that riser?

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It's not even a dark one. It's just his that he uses

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Which again, I've talked about why it should be called the metal riser instead, and then you can have it be the you know

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Junk metal riser or monster monster metal riser. Yes. Why not man? That's cool anyway

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um, but while he has

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You know while he has these metals he only knows a few of the monsters by name so he knows Bellielle

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And he mentions him and then he just like makes up stuff like oh ancient monster

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You know evil space monster or whatever as he's putting in the metals and I really like that

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detail because

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Kaburagi shouldn't know the names of these monsters

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Maybe he should know because of the parasite thing inside of him, but the way that they interoperate with each other is

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It seems to be much less like the relationship that Haruki and Zed have and

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More like what I'm not exactly sure but it doesn't seem to be a

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Cooperative relationship it seems to be different and I don't know how much of what we're seeing is Kaburagi and how much of him is that

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parasite that's inside of him and uh, they don't make it clear, which is good. It's nice

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So like there's consistency there. They're not making a lot of things clear. There's not a lot of detail coming up with uh

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You know or that they're giving us his descriptions for this we're just kind of seeing it unfold

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we're seeing parts of his story unfold and that's kind of nice because

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while I like I while I dislike the idea of using trumped up or fake

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Mystery just to make something more compelling

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I do like it when there's a realistic depiction of things. Um, where

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the lack of the opacity

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or the opaqueness, I guess of

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the situation or or well, yeah, the opaqueness of the situation makes you ask questions and

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You have to be comfortable living without them and it's just kind of part of the fun of it

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So anyway, I really like that

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It's a beautiful very fun detail. So

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Okay, moving on, uh desperately seeking zero's approval. I like how

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One zero approves of and complements, uh guide

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Zet asks do you have any comments for me master? And he says not yet, but let's see such and such and uh,

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All right. I'll ultra show you just it's a very cute. It's a it's a weird quirk for him to have

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But it's it's very cute and very fun to see

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You know how it's utilized and so it's very fun to see

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Uh, you know how it's utilized and see it at play. So I did enjoy that and uh, shinya's secret. So at the end

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Uh shinya kaburagi. He is found out by

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hibikura and it was interesting because at first

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It was interesting because they like didn't go as far as they could have because at first hibikura sees him and he tries to snatch him

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um, and uh

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Uh kaburagi shoots him with whatever that thing is and which apparently has a summon minions

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And summon android minions and you know, shoot people setting. I don't know how you know which one you're doing

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But anyway, um, I mean he could have shot the minions and then ran away and we could have seen a cool fight

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But whatever, um, that's not what they wanted to do. But for whatever reason he gets away

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but then his id card is laying there it's a storage id card or

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Gf what is it? Whatever the alliance. Um

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So it's a little bit too bad because it looked like it was even this cool thing

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Oh, they're gonna have to search for okay. I know it's somebody in uh storage or I know it's somebody in the

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You know galactic alliance or whatever. It's called uh earth alliance. I don't know the alliance

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Um, and you know, we need to find this person because they're definitely involved with doing stuff with the monsters and the metals

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But I mean hibikura wasn't supposed to be there

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I mean hibikura wasn't supposed to be there. So maybe that's why he didn't do it or why it didn't play out that way

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Um, but he knows who shinya is so

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I mean, I guess he's gonna keep shinya or haburagi's or kaburagi kaburagi

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Kaburagi's secret for now not because he wants to hide him but because it would

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somehow expose

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him for what

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He's doing and you know who he might really be and I would assume he doesn't want to do that because he's been keeping things

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under wraps so far, so

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uh, yeah, I I i'm interested in that and i'm interested to like what

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Exactly is going on with this shinya character

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And again, there's that uh opaqueness to the situation which I appreciate but it's just you know now

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I want to see it you you've teased me. You've gotten me excited. You've made me ask the questions now

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I'd like to be provided some answers

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Even though i'm enjoying everything else as it goes along and I don't necessarily need that answer just right away

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Um, but yes, that's all I have for now. I really like this episode. It was a lot of fun again

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just like last time having

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Geed enter the show and kind of take over for a little didn't bother me

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Because it was so well done having zero show up and get involved also didn't bother me because it was so much fun

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and I liked how they had this thing where they had to rescue riku and

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I know it's just very cool

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So, uh with that i'm gonna go ahead and get out of here after encouraging you to check out my ultraman inspired story for kids

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Which is linked in the show notes. You can find it there. Uh, read it check it out

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Let me know what you think of it and look forward to more because i'm i've already evolved that story past the that's not even its final

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Form i've already evolved it past that and it's part of a whole tokusatsu

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Picture book series and a short novel as well that you can look forward to i'm working on that every week working on that

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A little bit just finished one big chunk of it and now I need to do four more

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big chunks and then uh

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Work out a scenario for the I I have notes uh, uh outlined for it

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I just need to write the rest of it

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So anyway, you can look forward to that and more in the show notes at the blog

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