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Going ultra talking about Ultraman Zep episode 7 featuring Lil Lord Zet
A fickle juggler and metal monster madness yes
So my title for this episode or yeah my review is ultra trio because there's you know three guys here
It's a trio anyway
So I'm gonna jump right into my comments my my topics, and then I'll wrap everything up
I think really the the three things I mentioned at the top there are woven throughout
And if they're not I'll make sure to come back to them at the end before I sign out so
civilian fights and heavy Kura, that's my first comment, so I really liked seeing Yoko and
Haruki and heavy Kura fighting the
alien putty
Mooc robot things that
Kaburagi was somehow able to
Create call from another dimension
Summon whatever that was
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
pretty exciting and
It was a lot of fun, and it was a surprise, but a welcome one to be sure sorry
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
because wow bro you almost hit me a little bit of his juggler was showing because he
just had this real fun attitude during the fight and I mean I don't know his captain sense was tingling or whatever and
Which it's a good thing
I'm not involved with this dub because I would have had him say something more like that which would have been bad anyway
so yeah his captain sense was tingling and he thought something was up with these guys, so he you know fought against them and
Started the whole thing, but then when they pulled a gun on him
And he realized he was you know outmatched and in danger
He put his hands up and like hummed and just like made this great face, and it was really enjoyable
So I like that a lot
He was especially cool in that fight and then there's this whole thing about Riku or
Geed being the son of Belial and because I haven't seen Ultraman Geed I
Don't understand who the son is is Riku Geed is Geed Riku
and
you know is the man or is the ultra the son of
Belial and
Is it ambiguous because?
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
Didn't listen super well, but I believe the voice for Riku and the voice for
Geed are the same voice whereas we have different voices for Zet and
Haruki so
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
Very compelling it makes me want to check out Geed which maybe that was the point of it
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
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
from the others that he is
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
He's trying to find out who Shinya is and who's causing all this weird metal monster stuff
As I guess as well some of the other things that are going on and you know
He's running this investigation, and he's being ambiguous with his not his methods. We're seeing his methods
He's being ambiguous with his motives. We don't really understand what he's after or why he's after it and
He you know tells
Riku to keep it a secret that he saved them and you know and who he is for a reason
We don't really know why he wants to keep it a secret from them
We just know that he does and you know I'm curious as to what the implications are of that
And you know what he intends to do because we've seen he's grasped power for himself, but is that something he?
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
You don't know what he's gonna do and it makes it more exciting
Okay next thing this is not story related at all wasn't that awesome when you got to see the
Ultras and that belly-all fusion monster fighting from a human's
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
the scale at least
It was incredible
I still don't know how they do those shots is it CGI is it a
Well placed camera like on a stick or is it a drone or what is it because like at one point?
Gide does like a summer not a somersault like a cartwheel or a backflip or something and the camera
Tracks with him as he does that and he does that over like a bridge you know in Japan
They've got those bridges that cross the street for you, so you could like walk up and over the traffic
Wow wow wow wow and by the way
I've only ever seen like one of those in America in Southern, California, which is why I say it's Japanese
Because like I've seen an anime before right did you want did you want to has it for sure and like even
Probably cat returns at the beginning when they're walking the street, and she saves the cat from the getting hit by car anyway
so like
Just the shots those shots are astonishing those upshots are absolutely beautiful and like I
Don't know it's just it's such a spectacle it blows me away
And I find it very compelling so hmm. There's that I really like how well Kaburagi's
Inserting metals into the his dark or it just is he riser. It's or is that riser?
It's not even a dark one. It's just his that he uses
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
Junk metal riser or monster monster metal riser. Yes. Why not man? That's cool anyway
um, but while he has
You know while he has these metals he only knows a few of the monsters by name so he knows Bellielle
And he mentions him and then he just like makes up stuff like oh ancient monster
You know evil space monster or whatever as he's putting in the metals and I really like that
detail because
Kaburagi shouldn't know the names of these monsters
Maybe he should know because of the parasite thing inside of him, but the way that they interoperate with each other is
It seems to be much less like the relationship that Haruki and Zed have and
well
More like what I'm not exactly sure but it doesn't seem to be a
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
parasite that's inside of him and uh, they don't make it clear, which is good. It's nice
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
You know or that they're giving us his descriptions for this we're just kind of seeing it unfold
we're seeing parts of his story unfold and that's kind of nice because
while I like I while I dislike the idea of using trumped up or fake
Mystery just to make something more compelling
I do like it when there's a realistic depiction of things. Um, where
the lack of the opacity
or the opaqueness, I guess of
the situation or or well, yeah, the opaqueness of the situation makes you ask questions and
You have to be comfortable living without them and it's just kind of part of the fun of it
So anyway, I really like that
It's a beautiful very fun detail. So
Okay, moving on, uh desperately seeking zero's approval. I like how
One zero approves of and complements, uh guide
Zet asks do you have any comments for me master? And he says not yet, but let's see such and such and uh,
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
But it's it's very cute and very fun to see
You know how it's utilized and so it's very fun to see
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
Uh shinya kaburagi. He is found out by
hibikura and it was interesting because at first
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
um, and uh
Uh kaburagi shoots him with whatever that thing is and which apparently has a summon minions
And summon android minions and you know, shoot people setting. I don't know how you know which one you're doing
But anyway, um, I mean he could have shot the minions and then ran away and we could have seen a cool fight
But whatever, um, that's not what they wanted to do. But for whatever reason he gets away
but then his id card is laying there it's a storage id card or
Gf what is it? Whatever the alliance. Um
So it's a little bit too bad because it looked like it was even this cool thing
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
You know galactic alliance or whatever. It's called uh earth alliance. I don't know the alliance
Um, and you know, we need to find this person because they're definitely involved with doing stuff with the monsters and the metals
But I mean hibikura wasn't supposed to be there
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
Um, but he knows who shinya is so
I mean, I guess he's gonna keep shinya or haburagi's or kaburagi kaburagi
Kaburagi's secret for now not because he wants to hide him but because it would
somehow expose
him for what
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
under wraps so far, so
uh, yeah, I I i'm interested in that and i'm interested to like what
Exactly is going on with this shinya character
And again, there's that uh opaqueness to the situation which I appreciate but it's just you know now
I want to see it you you've teased me. You've gotten me excited. You've made me ask the questions now
I'd like to be provided some answers
Even though i'm enjoying everything else as it goes along and I don't necessarily need that answer just right away
Um, but yes, that's all I have for now. I really like this episode. It was a lot of fun again
just like last time having
Geed enter the show and kind of take over for a little didn't bother me
Because it was so well done having zero show up and get involved also didn't bother me because it was so much fun
and I liked how they had this thing where they had to rescue riku and
I know it's just very cool
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
Which is linked in the show notes. You can find it there. Uh, read it check it out
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
Form i've already evolved it past that and it's part of a whole tokusatsu
kids
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
A little bit just finished one big chunk of it and now I need to do four more
big chunks and then uh
Work out a scenario for the I I have notes uh, uh outlined for it
I just need to write the rest of it
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