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So I just finished watching
Ultraman Regulus episode 1 and I like it
It's not as good as Ultraman Zet or Z
and it feels very much like it's in the vein of the
Ultra Galaxy fight stuff, which I think is a little bit lower quality than a regular show
And you may say well, of course, it's lower quality than a regular show. It has a much smaller budget
It's not a full TV show. There's not a full toy line with it, whatever
So for those reasons, it's not as high quality and I would say one
I get that and two it doesn't need to be that way
Necessary well, it doesn't need to be that way
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
This is the writer coming out. Sorry. Anyway, so yeah, I
Like the vibe we got from it. The dub is definitely I prefer the dub of Zet much more
I think whoever is
Doing the Zet dub, which I looked it up and I can't remember quite the name
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
Ultraman dubbing in the future. I think they would be the best choice and I think
At least I'm not saying the same exact cast
I'm saying like the crew and the studio because I think they
Really know what they're doing and they're doing a really good job
So the dub setting the dub quality aside. I will say that I
Am focused on story if you haven't caught that now by the fact that I'm branding all my stuff like that
Branding all my stuff with story over everything because that's the truth
I do believe in the story over everything else
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
There's a good heart there
I think there's a good story and I enjoy the stories and I enjoy I know those types of stories within
This context this context being it's relatively clean
I don't have to shield my kids from stuff when I'm watching it
And you know, I'm not the proudest to
It's taken me time to get used to being able to say yeah, this is this is my stuff
This is my people. This is my tribe, you know, rubber suit monster folks
And I think I'm still an outlier in like the tokusatsu community
But I as far as like I don't have like a bunch of you know, toku friends or anything like that
and it seems like
There's not a lot of overlap between me and these people except for we like the same aesthetic of these shows
But regardless, I like the shows there
Like I said, they're clean and they're fun and they have interesting drama and things like that in them
So that's all all good for me
Specifically I was gonna say about regulos despite the fact that it's directed by kuchi Sakamoto. So you got to watch out
Oh
Do you see the moon that's the moon there is a lot of like really interesting I don't know like pathos and
Anyway, so, you know, it's kind of I don't like that regulos has amnesia
But I do like that. He's fallen into this crew of you know, Dragon Constellation d60
You know Cosmo Beast martial artists the fact that there's a Cosmo Tiger and a Cosmo Crane and a Cosmo snake
Little weird, but I mean whatever again. This is rubber suit
Rubber suit heroes fighting rubber suit monsters, and I'm just gonna have to be okay with that
As I was starting to say there's this funny and
It's kind of funny kind of goofy kind of cheesy
But like simple and you know fun really
martial arts thing going on where you know
My kung fu is better than your kung fu or your kung fu is better than my kung fu that you know
There's this I think I sense that there's gonna be a competition between the various beast Cosmo beast martial arts styles and
also, there's this rivalry between
Regulus and I didn't catch the guy's name
But he's got a lot of black on him a lot of black a little yellow
It feels like he's supposed to be a villain so as you guys he's got those horns and I know like
What is it Taro has horns, but uh
Remember they give somebody else. I don't know there's ultimate horns, and they're good
but this guy feels like he's supposed to be a villain and
The rivalry that they have now is friendly, but it feels like it'll escalate into something much more deadly and dangerous
especially when those invaders come and
It was cool that they like establish a connection between
Regulus and
Astra, I'm sorry Regulus and
Leo and Astra and
Yeah, I thought that was cool
You know it was short and it was you know I can't wait to fight your brother
You know I will prove myself strong enough to defeat him even though I couldn't defeat you master Leo
You know that kind of thing like you know
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
It's kind of simple. It's just hey look these are these characters
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
you know themselves as warriors and
You know there's that line that it takes great mental determination to master. You know whatever style and
Regulus lacks that right now, and he needs to learn to control his emotions
But even the you know master who was instructing him in that says you know the
Same thing's true of me. Oh, that was um that was Leo Leo was saying the same thing
I get lectured on the same thing too, and
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
So he had to have done really cool stuff in that show
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
Relatives that he's got to learn from and he's got to learn from his own
Fighting and just be like all those relationship dynamics are fun, and then like l 70 70 or 77
gets destroyed, and that's where Astra and Leo are from and
That automatically raises the stakes for regulos because he was friends with them
And I think it's really neat by the way
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
stars in the Leo constellation and
I would think Leo and Astra are from the same constellation
Is there a Leo star in the Leo the lion constellation? I'm not 100% sure and from watching Galaxy Railways
One of the platoons were named after stars there was Sirius Platoon Sirius being the dog star
Which is I don't even know what that's in
and then Spica platoon as well which was all ladies and
And the lady cat lady here her name is Spica so
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
But maybe it's just these guys and you know that makes me think now
We've got dragon tiger. Oh, no. Those are just like the classic kung fu
Animal stuff right I was gonna say is that connected to the Chinese zodiac, but there's no crane in the Chinese zodiac
It's a rooster so that doesn't that doesn't shake out that doesn't work
But anyway, I'm just kind of thought I'd mention that fun little tidbit if you're an astronomy nerd
Are you like astronomy at all or is it astrology? I can never keep those two straight
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
I'll research it before
Before you get to me with your comment, so I would appreciate that but I mean it's like a simple thing
It's fun. Actually the fights were really cool
There was I guess like three three and a half or four fights
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
watching the show when
Regulus and you know rival guy are
squatting under those big heavy boulders and
I don't know whoever that is. It was teaching them comes over and he's like slapping their thighs
I had to help them get up into shape or proper form form or whatever for it. That was fun
I like I like seeing
young martial arts
or combat and initiates being
Put through the ringer I'll say put through the ringer by their superiors as part of their training
It's a lot of fun because you know
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
to do in life
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
personally
Going through that type of situation right now and learning that not that I didn't know that but just I'm
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
Just kind of makes me smile kind of fun thing to
see reflected in
you know this silly show that I'm watching for fun and
And yeah, I don't really have much more to say. I like regulos. I will keep up with it
I think the action is gonna get more intense
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
basically, so I'm uh, I'm good with that I can I can deal with that and I
Look forward to seeing the rest of it
Let me know your comments and your thoughts on
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
perhaps the different dubcast should be utilized from
from now on for super a productions
Because they have a really good dubcast going on with Zet. I definitely hope that's dubcast goes to
Blazer blazar or whatever and I'm pretty sure it will but nor at least the studio or the ethos of the studio
So here's hoping here's hoping anyway
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