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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at mjmunoz.com.

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This is Ultra...

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Man...

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Galaxy... No, that's not right.

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This is another episode of Going Ultra.

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I'm talking about Ultraman Zet Episode 13,

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which is called I'll Feast on Metals!

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And this is a clip show.

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I'm calling my, uh...

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I'm calling my review of it ultra-clipped, both because it's

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reflecting the fact that it's about a clip show,

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and the fact that it's going to be short, or clipped, as is said in some...

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I don't know. It's not language or dialect, but just, it's another way of saying fast, right?

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Fast or cut short.

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He spoke in a clip dialect.

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Anyway, so, yes, this was a clip show.

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I generally do not like clip shows. I generally do not watch clip shows.

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I have learned from Tokusatsu over the years to watch them more and more.

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I'll be honest with you, I tried to watch Ultraman Trigger,

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and I dipped out after the clip show of that because

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I just wasn't that interested in the show overall,

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and the clip show kind of killed the momentum for me, and there was other stuff going on.

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But I did dip out on that, and I didn't do it during the original run of Z.

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And I'm not going to do it during this run of Zet because I like this show.

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And I thought this was actually a pretty good clip show. It was pretty, pretty good.

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So what did I like about it? Why was it good?

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I liked that there were a sprinkling of original moments in it,

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and that those moments were humorous and satisfying,

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and it was interesting to see the other characters from Storage sprinkled in.

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We got Hibikura, we got Yoko, and we got Yuka all making guest appearance, I guess you could say,

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with Haruki.

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And like I said, I thought they did a good job with letting us know a little bit more about these people.

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We got to see, I think we, did we get, we didn't get a flashback from each of them.

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We got kind of a flashback from Hibikura, and

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now we just got the comedic scene with Yuka, and then Yoko at the end

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ends up leaving a box of noodles or something for Haruki to eat,

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even though he thinks she's going on a date.

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She doesn't say she's going on a date, but she's possibly dressed like she is.

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And yet she came back for him.

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And based on the framing and the blocking and where he goes throughout the episode,

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it's possible that she left Storage,

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stopped at a 7-Eleven or whatever the Ultraman joke is there,

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and then came back with a 7-21, is that what it is?

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And that she came back with a, you know, the thing of noodles for him and said, just eat, you know?

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It's unclear. That could have happened, or she could have come back hours later,

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because it seems like it was supposed to have taken all night to make it happen.

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It's like it took her like a second all night or many hours,

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this whole escapade with Kanagon.

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Kanagon? Man, I just listened to the clip from the episode to try to hear it right,

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so I wouldn't screw it up. Kanagon, right?

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Let me see. I'm doing it live.

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Listen to it right now.

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Let's see.

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Good evening, sir.

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My name is Kanagon.

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I'm a coin monster.

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Okay, so, yeah.

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Anyway, I thought the moments were cute.

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I mean, there was some gross stuff, like, you know, basically at the end,

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the medals all flew out of Kanagon's behind, which is kind of gross and funny.

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And like the whole conceit of it that he swallowed the, you know, this coin monster,

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who I think is from the original Ultraman, actually,

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swallowed the medals and then somehow hearing about them

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causes him to eject them from his body.

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And like there was a thing that didn't quite make sense where

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at the end of the episode, it was like Zet was saying something like he

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understands Haruki now and why he's having his troubles.

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And I didn't really get that because it didn't seem to me.

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It doesn't seem to me like.

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Zet is aware of what's going on when he isn't active with Haruki.

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And I don't know.

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Like at the end, I really love the end scene where they're talking to each other

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inside of the Zet space or whatever.

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And I just don't know.

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Did Haruki just go in there after he got all the medals back to talk to him?

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And they discussed the events and what happened and whatever.

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I don't know, but.

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I like how this continues.

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So we got not only those comedic moments, which were funny,

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like the sleeping bag thing with Hibikura and whatever, but we also got

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the Yuka scene where she's trying to dissect him was funny.

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But we got the scene where he is.

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Now we got the scene, but we got the the beat, the emotional beat of them.

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Haruki and Zet talking and basically resolving his issue with having to kill

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Kaiju and how any Ultraman has to learn to deal with that or has to learn

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the cost of being the person who defends lives by taking a life.

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And I thought it was really nice.

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I thought it was really sweet and overall it just worked for me.

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So.

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I don't know what more I have to say about this, so I will not belabor the point.

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I will go ahead and get out of here.

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Last thing I'll do before I leave is I will encourage you to check out Eva

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and the Grow Bug. You know what?

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I've decided I'm going to put it up before this episode is published.

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I'm going to put up the new draft of it this week,

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May, week of May 21st, because I start my week on Sunday like a person should.

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Anyway, the week of May 21st, I will put up

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the final version, I think, for now of Eva and the Grow Bug.

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And I will link it in the show notes here

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because it is an Ultraman inspired children's story.

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And I like it a lot.

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And I think you will, too, if you enjoy things like Ultraman and Ultraman Zet

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specifically.

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Yeah, that's what I think.

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So anyway, I'm going to go ahead and get out of here.

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Thank you very much for your time and attention.

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I hope you are well. You continue to be well.

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This is MJ signing out.

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