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This is Ultra...
Man...
Galaxy... No, that's not right.
This is another episode of Going Ultra.
I'm talking about Ultraman Zet Episode 13,
which is called I'll Feast on Metals!
And this is a clip show.
I'm calling my, uh...
I'm calling my review of it ultra-clipped, both because it's
reflecting the fact that it's about a clip show,
and the fact that it's going to be short, or clipped, as is said in some...
I don't know. It's not language or dialect, but just, it's another way of saying fast, right?
Fast or cut short.
He spoke in a clip dialect.
Anyway, so, yes, this was a clip show.
I generally do not like clip shows. I generally do not watch clip shows.
I have learned from Tokusatsu over the years to watch them more and more.
I'll be honest with you, I tried to watch Ultraman Trigger,
and I dipped out after the clip show of that because
I just wasn't that interested in the show overall,
and the clip show kind of killed the momentum for me, and there was other stuff going on.
But I did dip out on that, and I didn't do it during the original run of Z.
And I'm not going to do it during this run of Zet because I like this show.
And I thought this was actually a pretty good clip show. It was pretty, pretty good.
So what did I like about it? Why was it good?
I liked that there were a sprinkling of original moments in it,
and that those moments were humorous and satisfying,
and it was interesting to see the other characters from Storage sprinkled in.
We got Hibikura, we got Yoko, and we got Yuka all making guest appearance, I guess you could say,
with Haruki.
And like I said, I thought they did a good job with letting us know a little bit more about these people.
We got to see, I think we, did we get, we didn't get a flashback from each of them.
We got kind of a flashback from Hibikura, and
now we just got the comedic scene with Yuka, and then Yoko at the end
ends up leaving a box of noodles or something for Haruki to eat,
even though he thinks she's going on a date.
She doesn't say she's going on a date, but she's possibly dressed like she is.
And yet she came back for him.
And based on the framing and the blocking and where he goes throughout the episode,
it's possible that she left Storage,
stopped at a 7-Eleven or whatever the Ultraman joke is there,
and then came back with a 7-21, is that what it is?
And that she came back with a, you know, the thing of noodles for him and said, just eat, you know?
It's unclear. That could have happened, or she could have come back hours later,
because it seems like it was supposed to have taken all night to make it happen.
It's like it took her like a second all night or many hours,
this whole escapade with Kanagon.
Kanagon? Man, I just listened to the clip from the episode to try to hear it right,
so I wouldn't screw it up. Kanagon, right?
Let me see. I'm doing it live.
Listen to it right now.
Let's see.
Good evening, sir.
My name is Kanagon.
I'm a coin monster.
Okay, so, yeah.
Anyway, I thought the moments were cute.
I mean, there was some gross stuff, like, you know, basically at the end,
the medals all flew out of Kanagon's behind, which is kind of gross and funny.
And like the whole conceit of it that he swallowed the, you know, this coin monster,
who I think is from the original Ultraman, actually,
swallowed the medals and then somehow hearing about them
causes him to eject them from his body.
And like there was a thing that didn't quite make sense where
at the end of the episode, it was like Zet was saying something like he
understands Haruki now and why he's having his troubles.
And I didn't really get that because it didn't seem to me.
It doesn't seem to me like.
Zet is aware of what's going on when he isn't active with Haruki.
And I don't know.
Like at the end, I really love the end scene where they're talking to each other
inside of the Zet space or whatever.
And I just don't know.
Did Haruki just go in there after he got all the medals back to talk to him?
And they discussed the events and what happened and whatever.
I don't know, but.
I like how this continues.
So we got not only those comedic moments, which were funny,
like the sleeping bag thing with Hibikura and whatever, but we also got
the Yuka scene where she's trying to dissect him was funny.
But we got the scene where he is.
Now we got the scene, but we got the the beat, the emotional beat of them.
Haruki and Zet talking and basically resolving his issue with having to kill
Kaiju and how any Ultraman has to learn to deal with that or has to learn
the cost of being the person who defends lives by taking a life.
And I thought it was really nice.
I thought it was really sweet and overall it just worked for me.
So.
I don't know what more I have to say about this, so I will not belabor the point.
I will go ahead and get out of here.
Last thing I'll do before I leave is I will encourage you to check out Eva
and the Grow Bug. You know what?
I've decided I'm going to put it up before this episode is published.
I'm going to put up the new draft of it this week,
May, week of May 21st, because I start my week on Sunday like a person should.
Anyway, the week of May 21st, I will put up
the final version, I think, for now of Eva and the Grow Bug.
And I will link it in the show notes here
because it is an Ultraman inspired children's story.
And I like it a lot.
And I think you will, too, if you enjoy things like Ultraman and Ultraman Zet
specifically.
Yeah, that's what I think.
So anyway, I'm going to go ahead and get out of here.
Thank you very much for your time and attention.
I hope you are well. You continue to be well.
This is MJ signing out.
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