1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,600 This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,200 So I just finished watching 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,620 Ultraman Regulus episode 1 and I like it 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,880 It's not as good as Ultraman Zet or Z 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,800 and it feels very much like it's in the vein of the 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:27,680 Ultra Galaxy fight stuff, which I think is a little bit lower quality than a regular show 7 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:34,720 And you may say well, of course, it's lower quality than a regular show. It has a much smaller budget 8 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,240 It's not a full TV show. There's not a full toy line with it, whatever 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,920 So for those reasons, it's not as high quality and I would say one 10 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,920 I get that and two it doesn't need to be that way 11 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,440 Necessary well, it doesn't need to be that way 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:55,800 Necessarily is a superfluous word there because I think you know saying it doesn't need to be that way covers it all right? Anyway 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,960 This is the writer coming out. Sorry. Anyway, so yeah, I 14 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,640 Like the vibe we got from it. The dub is definitely I prefer the dub of Zet much more 15 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,240 I think whoever is 16 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:15,520 Doing the Zet dub, which I looked it up and I can't remember quite the name 17 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,480 I think it's like some ad hoc group that kind of got put together for this purpose. I think they should do all the 18 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:27,080 Ultraman dubbing in the future. I think they would be the best choice and I think 19 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,720 At least I'm not saying the same exact cast 20 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,760 I'm saying like the crew and the studio because I think they 21 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,960 Really know what they're doing and they're doing a really good job 22 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,400 So the dub setting the dub quality aside. I will say that I 23 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:50,440 Am focused on story if you haven't caught that now by the fact that I'm branding all my stuff like that 24 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,240 Branding all my stuff with story over everything because that's the truth 25 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,520 I do believe in the story over everything else 26 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:02,160 Which is you know, one of the reasons I continue to watch took us out to things even though they're slightly ridiculous because I still think 27 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,320 There's a good heart there 28 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:08,680 I think there's a good story and I enjoy the stories and I enjoy I know those types of stories within 29 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,600 This context this context being it's relatively clean 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,640 I don't have to shield my kids from stuff when I'm watching it 31 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:19,400 And you know, I'm not the proudest to 32 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,520 It's taken me time to get used to being able to say yeah, this is this is my stuff 33 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,760 This is my people. This is my tribe, you know, rubber suit monster folks 34 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,840 And I think I'm still an outlier in like the tokusatsu community 35 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,120 But I as far as like I don't have like a bunch of you know, toku friends or anything like that 36 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,160 and it seems like 37 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,160 There's not a lot of overlap between me and these people except for we like the same aesthetic of these shows 38 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,520 But regardless, I like the shows there 39 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,360 Like I said, they're clean and they're fun and they have interesting drama and things like that in them 40 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,360 So that's all all good for me 41 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:05,280 Specifically I was gonna say about regulos despite the fact that it's directed by kuchi Sakamoto. So you got to watch out 42 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,280 Oh 43 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:17,960 Do you see the moon that's the moon there is a lot of like really interesting I don't know like pathos and 44 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:25,200 Anyway, so, you know, it's kind of I don't like that regulos has amnesia 45 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:31,920 But I do like that. He's fallen into this crew of you know, Dragon Constellation d60 46 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:38,920 You know Cosmo Beast martial artists the fact that there's a Cosmo Tiger and a Cosmo Crane and a Cosmo snake 47 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Little weird, but I mean whatever again. This is rubber suit 48 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,920 Rubber suit heroes fighting rubber suit monsters, and I'm just gonna have to be okay with that 49 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,920 As I was starting to say there's this funny and 50 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,920 It's kind of funny kind of goofy kind of cheesy 51 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,920 But like simple and you know fun really 52 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:01,920 martial arts thing going on where you know 53 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,920 My kung fu is better than your kung fu or your kung fu is better than my kung fu that you know 54 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:13,920 There's this I think I sense that there's gonna be a competition between the various beast Cosmo beast martial arts styles and 55 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,920 also, there's this rivalry between 56 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,920 Regulus and I didn't catch the guy's name 57 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,920 But he's got a lot of black on him a lot of black a little yellow 58 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,920 It feels like he's supposed to be a villain so as you guys he's got those horns and I know like 59 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,920 What is it Taro has horns, but uh 60 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,920 Remember they give somebody else. I don't know there's ultimate horns, and they're good 61 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,920 but this guy feels like he's supposed to be a villain and 62 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:43,920 The rivalry that they have now is friendly, but it feels like it'll escalate into something much more deadly and dangerous 63 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,920 especially when those invaders come and 64 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,920 It was cool that they like establish a connection between 65 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,920 Regulus and 66 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,920 Astra, I'm sorry Regulus and 67 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,920 Leo and Astra and 68 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,920 Yeah, I thought that was cool 69 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,920 You know it was short and it was you know I can't wait to fight your brother 70 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:08,920 You know I will prove myself strong enough to defeat him even though I couldn't defeat you master Leo 71 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,920 You know that kind of thing like you know 72 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,920 It's a little funny, but I also kind of dig it and it's like I said it's kind of an old-school thing 73 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,920 It's kind of simple. It's just hey look these are these characters 74 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:25,920 They train hard they learn these martial arts they have pride in their style they have pride in their school of fighting they have pride in 75 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,920 you know themselves as warriors and 76 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:34,920 You know there's that line that it takes great mental determination to master. You know whatever style and 77 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,920 Regulus lacks that right now, and he needs to learn to control his emotions 78 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,920 But even the you know master who was instructing him in that says you know the 79 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,920 Same thing's true of me. Oh, that was um that was Leo Leo was saying the same thing 80 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,920 I get lectured on the same thing too, and 81 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:57,920 I mean, that's kind of cool adding that level of humanity and humility to this older hero who you know he had his own show right 82 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,920 So he had to have done really cool stuff in that show 83 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:08,920 But still he has you know some room for growth some room for improvement which kind of keeps things exciting and just like all those 84 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,920 Relatives that he's got to learn from and he's got to learn from his own 85 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:18,560 Fighting and just be like all those relationship dynamics are fun, and then like l 70 70 or 77 86 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,920 gets destroyed, and that's where Astra and Leo are from and 87 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,920 That automatically raises the stakes for regulos because he was friends with them 88 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,040 And I think it's really neat by the way 89 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,920 I looked at the wiki and it turns out that regulos is I don't know if it's the primary star if it's one of the biggest 90 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,600 stars in the Leo constellation and 91 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,320 I would think Leo and Astra are from the same constellation 92 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:49,680 Is there a Leo star in the Leo the lion constellation? I'm not 100% sure and from watching Galaxy Railways 93 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,800 One of the platoons were named after stars there was Sirius Platoon Sirius being the dog star 94 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,120 Which is I don't even know what that's in 95 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,000 and then Spica platoon as well which was all ladies and 96 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,040 And the lady cat lady here her name is Spica so 97 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:14,320 It made me think are all Ultramen or a lot of Ultramen actually named after stars inside of constellations because that would be pretty cool 98 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,760 But maybe it's just these guys and you know that makes me think now 99 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,480 We've got dragon tiger. Oh, no. Those are just like the classic kung fu 100 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,720 Animal stuff right I was gonna say is that connected to the Chinese zodiac, but there's no crane in the Chinese zodiac 101 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,840 It's a rooster so that doesn't that doesn't shake out that doesn't work 102 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,480 But anyway, I'm just kind of thought I'd mention that fun little tidbit if you're an astronomy nerd 103 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,840 Are you like astronomy at all or is it astrology? I can never keep those two straight 104 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:47,440 Then there's a little significance for you there. And if you have a clue about that, let me know because I don't know that 105 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,200 I'll research it before 106 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,720 Before you get to me with your comment, so I would appreciate that but I mean it's like a simple thing 107 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,560 It's fun. Actually the fights were really cool 108 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,880 There was I guess like three three and a half or four fights 109 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,040 Those were cool and I really liked and I even pointed out to one of my kids who was you know around but not actually 110 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,040 watching the show when 111 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,800 Regulus and you know rival guy are 112 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,320 squatting under those big heavy boulders and 113 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,960 I don't know whoever that is. It was teaching them comes over and he's like slapping their thighs 114 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:24,800 I had to help them get up into shape or proper form form or whatever for it. That was fun 115 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,800 I like I like seeing 116 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,840 young martial arts 117 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,120 or combat and initiates being 118 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,800 Put through the ringer I'll say put through the ringer by their superiors as part of their training 119 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,120 It's a lot of fun because you know 120 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:43,800 You do need mental fortitude to get through things and to do things you want to do especially because the things that are hardest for you 121 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,600 to do in life 122 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:52,640 Well, the things are the best for you in your life are frequently also the hardest things for you to do in your life and I'm 123 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,320 personally 124 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:59,800 Going through that type of situation right now and learning that not that I didn't know that but just I'm 125 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:06,680 learning it and I'm living it and it's a different experience when you're getting it firsthand as opposed to just oh, it's that old saw and 126 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,680 Just kind of makes me smile kind of fun thing to 127 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,120 see reflected in 128 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,320 you know this silly show that I'm watching for fun and 129 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,280 And yeah, I don't really have much more to say. I like regulos. I will keep up with it 130 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,920 I think the action is gonna get more intense 131 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:33,560 I think there's only six parts of it in total if they're all gonna be 15 minutes long then that's what 45 40 a 90 minute movie 132 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,600 basically, so I'm uh, I'm good with that I can I can deal with that and I 133 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:40,920 Look forward to seeing the rest of it 134 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,600 Let me know your comments and your thoughts on 135 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,280 Regulus so far if you're digging it if you're not digging it what you'd like to see different if you agree that 136 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,680 perhaps the different dubcast should be utilized from 137 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,240 from now on for super a productions 138 00:09:54,880 --> 00:10:00,920 Because they have a really good dubcast going on with Zet. I definitely hope that's dubcast goes to 139 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:08,520 Blazer blazar or whatever and I'm pretty sure it will but nor at least the studio or the ethos of the studio 140 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,240 So here's hoping here's hoping anyway 141 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,240 That's all I have to say check out all my other stuff at my website 142 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:20,080 Which you can find linked in the show notes in the video description and all that stuff if you want to talk to me 143 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,320 that's the place to do it and there's links to 144 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:29,800 Everything on my website and there's links to follow me in different places where I am where I can be found and communicated with 145 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,640 So anyway, this is MJ signing out until next time. Take care folks. 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