1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 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 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 I want to discuss Ultraman Regulus episode 2. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And I gotta say right off the bat, it was decent, not amazing. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 I think it was a little less enjoyable than episode 1. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:27,000 And I think it's because a lot happened and I feel like it kind of happened without as much context as it could have. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Now, for those of you saying, well, the context of episode 1 is of course the content of episode... 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 I'm sorry, the context of episode 2 is the content of episode 1. 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Yes, you are correct, but it felt a little disconnected. 9 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 And that's my main problem. 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:53,000 So I believe this is the same... I think the total length for Regulus is going to be around 100 minutes, but I'm not 100% sure. 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 This episode was only 10 minutes, which I found that disappointing. 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I did watch the Blazer teaser or trailer again though. 13 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 And I gotta tell you, I'm so much looking forward to Ultraman Blazer. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Especially because I'm hoping that the dub team or the dub studio from Zee will be working on that as well. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 And anyway, I had less of a problem with the dub team on Regulus in the second episode. 16 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 I think maybe just I wasn't expecting that necessarily. 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 I did hear in the trailer a little bit of their work. 18 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 And I enjoyed it more this time. 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And I rolled with it and I had more fun. 20 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And the good thing about it was we had that great Koichi Sakamoto directed action. 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And there was basically that little war scene where the Magma alien... 22 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Which I don't know if they're supposed to be... 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 If alien magma is a race and it's weird how like... 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Well, to me it's weird. I don't know if it's a Japanese thing or if it's just how they've decided to do it for Ultraman. 25 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 But it's like alien Barossa, alien Volta and alien magma. 26 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 That's how they're called or signified. 27 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 So anyway, all those magma folks... 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Like I don't know if that's just the whole race. They're all magma. 29 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 But like they look cool and they were villainous. 30 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 And I like how you got to see like the two tiers of them. 31 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 There were like the more grunt soldier ones. 32 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 And then there were like the commanding officer type ones. 33 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 I think generals is what we usually see in the Toku... 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 In the Toku biz, right? 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Anyway, but like the dude and the lady... 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 They were cool. Like I don't know why. 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 But like these black bodies, this black skin for them. 38 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,000 And then like the blonde hair and like their crazy eyes and the face plates on them. 39 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Like it has a really cool look. 40 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 It doesn't even look menacing necessarily. 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 It just looks... I don't know. 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 It looks unique and it feels kind of unique. 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 And I enjoyed them a lot and seeing them in action was cool. 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 And like some of them have like blade arms and things like that that were pretty cool. 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So like that aspect of it was a lot of fun. 46 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And seeing all the different masters. 47 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Beast... What is it? Beast... Beastar? Star Beast? I can't remember now. 48 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Cosmo Beast. 49 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Yeah, all the different Cosmo Beast masters using their fighting styles was cool. 50 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 And we got, you know, a little showcase of each of them. 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 And that was fun. 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Again, I do like this old school Kung Fu thing. 53 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 And I think they just went a little thinner with the plot. 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 And like, I don't know, just go a little thinner with the plot maybe. 55 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And just have it be more simple. 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Hey, we've got these invaders. They're coming. 57 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 We need to prepare. 58 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Which I mean, it kind of sounds like that's what the plan is for Master Alude going forward. 59 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Because he was injured. He was poisoned. 60 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 I think pretty badly. 61 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 You know, not good for him, but exciting for us. 62 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 But you know, he was injured and he's saying now we're just going to live life as normal. 63 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Keep training and wait for these guys to come back and for us to take them down or defend ourselves against them rather. 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 And that's not good enough for Regulus. 65 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 And he wants revenge. 66 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 And he wants revenge and he wants to avenge Astra and Leo. 67 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 And I can understand that. 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:07,000 And he wants to be more proactive against the alien magma so that they don't come back and destroy D60 as well. 69 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 You know, totally understandable. 70 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 And I found that all pretty compelling and interesting. 71 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 So, yeah, I just, I kind of just, I don't know. 72 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Just the way it was presented and the fact that it was so short and there were like, I don't know, six or eight scenes maybe total in this very short run. 73 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I think it maybe just made it sound, feel too dense. 74 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And maybe again, seeing it in the flow of a movie as a single narrative, it would help a lot more. 75 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 But the way it ran here, it just felt a little off and was difficult for me. 76 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 So not that it was difficult to follow, but just I didn't like the flow of it, I guess is what I'm saying. 77 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 So anyway, and then at the end there, I read people's comments. 78 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:52,000 They're calling the guy that Regulus finds in the end, which, by the way, him flying off in a rage. 79 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 He looked cool and flying in profile. 80 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 It reminded me, I got to do more squats anyway. 81 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 But he looked cool flying away. 82 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 But then it was kind of silly that he like just bumped his head. 83 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 He crashed into a mountain. 84 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I guess maybe he was able to do that or he did that because anger was clouding his judgment or his mind. 85 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 That's the only thing I can think of because he flew off in a rage. 86 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 But honestly, it was a little silly. 87 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 I kind of laughed at that. 88 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:23,000 And then he happens to fall into the, I guess, the Phoenix Masters dwelling or den or whatever. 89 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 And I don't know, that was kind of odd. 90 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:33,000 And then the bird thing that attacked him, to me, it sure looked like a bird, like a cockatrice or a phoenix maybe or something like that. 91 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,000 But people seem to be saying in the comments that it was a dragon. 92 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:48,000 And I don't like, as much as I enjoy it and as simple as a lot of the stories are, like some of the Ultraman stuff kind of doesn't click for me. 93 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Like, was that really a dragon or was that a phoenix? 94 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Does it sure look like a phoenix or a bird type thing? 95 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And anyway, supposedly this guy is going to be the Dragon Master. 96 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:02,000 And I think in the previews and the trailers we saw for Regulus, he was going to be the Dragon and Tiger Master. 97 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Which, I guess, I mean that's fine. 98 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 That's fine with me. 99 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 But for some reason I thought he was going to have mastery over all the styles. 100 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Maybe it's the opening where he does some moves in each of the different styles. 101 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I'm not sure. Anyway. 102 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:23,000 But yeah, so like the coincidence that that guy's there in that cave where he happens to fall after, I think it was Aluthae mentioned, 103 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:32,000 that there was a guy who got kicked out of the order of the Cosmo Beast fighters because he, you know, wouldn't listen and, you know, wasn't disciplined or whatever. 104 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 And now maybe this rogue guy is going to train Regulus. 105 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 That's kind of interesting. 106 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,000 And I don't know. It's just kind of weird. It's not at all where I expected it to go. 107 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 And I really expect it. 108 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Well, I guess it's not, the show's not going the way I expect it so far. 109 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 But I'm okay and I'm rolling with it. 110 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 But it's just a little surprising. 111 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 But I mean, I'm also kind of okay with what they're doing for the most part. 112 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 But again, it's, you know, it's a fun fight show or fight movie. 113 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And, you know, we're getting to see this conflict. 114 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:09,000 I just wonder, like there was a little spark of like, oh, we want to teach like the discipline and the ethic and the morality or the like the greater state of mind in being a martial artist through this show. 115 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Or like that's what that's what Regulus is going to learn. 116 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Learn. And I thought we were going to see that. 117 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:22,000 And then he's flying off the handle and going with this other, you know, master who was kicked out or a guy who, you know, mastered himself. But he was kicked out. 118 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 And now it feels less like that's going to be the case. 119 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 And that's kind of too bad because I thought that was cool. 120 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 But maybe they'll come back around and that's not how it looks like it's going to go. 121 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 But it will go. But we'll see. 122 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Again, I don't think it needs to be, you know, super moral, moral, which I think Multerman is more than not. 123 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Everything I've seen of it so far. 124 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,000 But yeah, it's kind of interesting because again, like I said, I thought it was going to. 125 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Now, this wasn't from the previous. This was from the content of episode one. 126 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 I thought it was going to go a certain way. And then it went kind of a different way. 127 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 But it's still developing. It's still, you know, only partly told. 128 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 So we'll see where it ends up. Anyway, that's all I have to say. 129 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Check out more of my stuff over at MJMunios.com. 130 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I have many Ultraman things I'm covering. 131 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 And with the advent of Shin Kamen Rider in theaters that I'm going to go see in a couple of days, 132 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I have a Kamen Rider manga from 1971 review going up there. 133 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I'm going to do the manga in like five or six parts. 134 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I'm going to cover Shin Kamen Rider and I'm going to be doing more Rider-y stuff. 135 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 I'm going to reopen and relaunch, relaunch, relaunch Rider Tears, 136 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 which is going to be my thing where I'm dedicating time to discuss Kamen Rider topics. 137 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And I think it's going to be a lot of fun. 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