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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 Going Ultra. I'm talking about Ultraman Regulus, episode 3. I liked episode 1. I disliked

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episode 2 because I felt like there was a little too much repetition and not a good flow to things.

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This episode, episode 3, however, was very good. I thought it was very exciting. I liked learning

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about Thoros and his brother, whose name escapes me at the moment, even though I wrote it down,

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but I don't have my notes with me. Golly. But the rivalry between these two brothers of the

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CosmoBeast style is interesting. We learn about the fact that CosmoBeasts have their own personality

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because they're these sentient beings who these people can commune with. I would imagine that a

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CosmoBeast can lend its power to multiple people and that they are powerful enough to do that,

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to grant access to their ability or power or whatever to various people. And apparently,

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according to Spika, which I believe, the dragon and tiger are opposed to one another for whatever

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reason. And it happens that these brothers, Thoros and... Oh man, he's gonna bug me that I don't know

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his name. I'm gonna put it in the show notes, just in case you didn't know it or catch it either.

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But anyway, but they're opposed to each other because they have different personalities,

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but they're so similar in so many ways. And Master Lude likes that. And he laughs about that when he

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comes and sees this secret training site where, I guess, Dragon Bro has been training Regulus.

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And that was really fun. We also got a little bit of development with Deus where he specifically

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asks Spika what the most powerful CosmoBeast is. He learns that it's the bull and I would bet he

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wants to get the power of the bull CosmoBeast. And I find it interesting that he has horns and

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so does Master Lude basically. And obviously a buffalo or a... Is it a buffalo or a bull? Whatever.

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Would have horns and he's gonna want that. So that's kind of a cool nod to his character design,

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that he's got those horns and he's gonna go after that. Plus the fact that it makes him look a little

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devilish and his name is Diaz, which sounds a little, I don't know, diabolical, you could say.

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Although it actually sounds a little bit like the word Deus for God in... What is that Latin? And

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other Latin based languages. So that's kind of interesting. So maybe he's gonna be a bad guy

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with a God complex who wants to rule and control and stuff. I don't quite know who he is, but I'm

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getting those hints. But yeah, the little snippets of the training, basically training montage and

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fighting and sparring that we got to see was really cool. I love that Foros notices the dragon

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stance that Regulus is taking and he immediately stops him in the fight. I also appreciate that

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Dragon Bro is telling Regulus that he has to control his emotions as well. And it sounds as

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if Foros maybe kicked him out because he couldn't control his emotions. But then again, Spica says

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that he was lazy and that's why he got kicked out or is no longer part of the Cosmo Beast training

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dojo, whatever you want to call it. So it's a little confusing as to the specifics, but the dynamic

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and the vibe of it is really cool and it was very well conveyed. I instantly know, okay, these guys

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are brothers. They're equal but opposite. They have this rivalry with each other. They've never been

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able to beat each other. It's something that Elude likes probably because they push each other to be

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better and there's something really solid and something really good about that. From the trailers,

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it looks like, and this is, I guess, minor spoilers, Regulus is going to become master of both the

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dragon and the tiger Cosmo Beast spirits. I don't know if that means, again, I'm hoping that Cosmo

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Beast is such a grand entity that it can grant its power to multiple people so that the brothers

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don't have to die or lose their ability or something like that. Although if it is tied to one person at

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a time, it would make it so that Deus maybe might want to say, this old man tied to the Cosmo Beast,

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he can't even fully use his powers anymore. So he doesn't need to. I'll take it and I'll fight and

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I'll whatever. And it'll be something that pushes him towards becoming corrupted and evil because

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he has that ambition and he doesn't check that ambition. He doesn't wait till it's his time

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to ascend or to have that communion with the Cosmo Beast. But then at the end,

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we get this cool, it was a little bit too repetitious, but it was also cool where Regulus

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is in the cave and he's meditating and he's contemplating everything that's going on as

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he's trying to commune with the Cosmo Beast spirits. And I don't know if he was trying to

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touch on all of them, but then we have the symbol of the tiger and the dragon on either side of him.

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And I don't know if they're both drawn to him or if that's what he's thinking of or if he's

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in a dilemma trying to figure out which way he wants to go. But I thought it was interesting.

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And again, I like that Dragon Brother is not evil or a real rogue. He's a little different. And

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Ullude calls him free spirited and Foros is like, buy the book, which is another fun sibling dynamic.

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So that was cool to see. So yeah, the action in this was good. Well, we hit that crazy torture

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scene where I guess it was Astra getting tortured by Vulcan. And that was intense. It was very

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intense. There's a war and there's an invasion and destruction of a planet, but as you see,

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this is more or less light fare. And then you've got a torture scene, which is kind of crazy,

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kind of out of nowhere. So that was interesting. Anyway, this episode was short. Again, it was

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about 10 minute runtime, but I didn't mind because the way it was, you know, the way they chose to

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cut this section out of it or whatever, it worked. So I don't know if they're doing it scene by scene

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or how the planning of this was done. And if it's like a 90 or a hundred minute thing, and then they

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decided to chop it up or what, I don't know. But yeah, I like this a lot better. I hope

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that the next segments are more similar to this as far as how they tell more of their own

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kind of like standalone. It's almost like a little episode, right? I mean, obviously it

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publishes an episode, but it tells its own little story from beginning, middle to end in this section.

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And that was really good. Maybe that's why I was so unsatisfied with the part from episode two,

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because it was almost more like a recap and preview of what was to come without really giving us...

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It was this like interstitial stuff that you probably could have cut anyway.

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Yeah, you maybe could have cut it. So anyway, yeah, I like that. So check out the rest of my

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Ultraman coverage of all the rest of going ultra, which you can find on MJMunoz.com There's

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archives of stuff from going ultra from way back in the day, including ssss.gridman and ssss.dynazenon

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and my original coverage of Ultraman Z and a little bit of Ultraman Trigger. Those are in like

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the ghost archive and the official archive, the audio feed that you wanted to subscribe to has

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just Regulus and the Zet dub from 2023. And it'll have Blazar as well. So you can look forward to

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that. That'll be my current coverage. And then I think after Blazar is done, I'm going to go ahead

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and upload the rest of the back catalog to going ultra, to the new audio feed for it, because that's

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going to be a better way to do it and a better way to keep it going into the future. So yeah,

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you can look at the whole back catalog of everything I have there. You can find it through

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around and search for it and you can find all the old going ultra stuff, the vintage stuff. So that's

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going to be good because those are good shows that I covered. And you can find my Ultraman inspired

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children's story as well in the show notes. There's a link to it. You can read that it's called Ava

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and the Grobug. And I have other books that are based on Tokusatsu characters or franchises that

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I'm making children's books out of. And I think they're very cool. And I'm going to be sharing

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those with you as soon as they're all done and available for you to check out and buy and maybe

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Rider Tears. So check that out also on the website. And that's it folks. I hope you are well.

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And until next time, this is MJ signing out. I hope you enjoyed that. Go to MJMunoz.com to leave

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