This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.
This is Going Ultra. I'm talking about Ultraman Regulus, episode 3. I liked episode 1. I disliked
episode 2 because I felt like there was a little too much repetition and not a good flow to things.
This episode, episode 3, however, was very good. I thought it was very exciting. I liked learning
about Thoros and his brother, whose name escapes me at the moment, even though I wrote it down,
but I don't have my notes with me. Golly. But the rivalry between these two brothers of the
CosmoBeast style is interesting. We learn about the fact that CosmoBeasts have their own personality
because they're these sentient beings who these people can commune with. I would imagine that a
CosmoBeast can lend its power to multiple people and that they are powerful enough to do that,
to grant access to their ability or power or whatever to various people. And apparently,
according to Spika, which I believe, the dragon and tiger are opposed to one another for whatever
reason. And it happens that these brothers, Thoros and... Oh man, he's gonna bug me that I don't know
his name. I'm gonna put it in the show notes, just in case you didn't know it or catch it either.
But anyway, but they're opposed to each other because they have different personalities,
but they're so similar in so many ways. And Master Lude likes that. And he laughs about that when he
comes and sees this secret training site where, I guess, Dragon Bro has been training Regulus.
And that was really fun. We also got a little bit of development with Deus where he specifically
asks Spika what the most powerful CosmoBeast is. He learns that it's the bull and I would bet he
wants to get the power of the bull CosmoBeast. And I find it interesting that he has horns and
so does Master Lude basically. And obviously a buffalo or a... Is it a buffalo or a bull? Whatever.
Would have horns and he's gonna want that. So that's kind of a cool nod to his character design,
that he's got those horns and he's gonna go after that. Plus the fact that it makes him look a little
devilish and his name is Diaz, which sounds a little, I don't know, diabolical, you could say.
Although it actually sounds a little bit like the word Deus for God in... What is that Latin? And
other Latin based languages. So that's kind of interesting. So maybe he's gonna be a bad guy
with a God complex who wants to rule and control and stuff. I don't quite know who he is, but I'm
getting those hints. But yeah, the little snippets of the training, basically training montage and
fighting and sparring that we got to see was really cool. I love that Foros notices the dragon
stance that Regulus is taking and he immediately stops him in the fight. I also appreciate that
Dragon Bro is telling Regulus that he has to control his emotions as well. And it sounds as
if Foros maybe kicked him out because he couldn't control his emotions. But then again, Spica says
that he was lazy and that's why he got kicked out or is no longer part of the Cosmo Beast training
dojo, whatever you want to call it. So it's a little confusing as to the specifics, but the dynamic
and the vibe of it is really cool and it was very well conveyed. I instantly know, okay, these guys
are brothers. They're equal but opposite. They have this rivalry with each other. They've never been
able to beat each other. It's something that Elude likes probably because they push each other to be
better and there's something really solid and something really good about that. From the trailers,
it looks like, and this is, I guess, minor spoilers, Regulus is going to become master of both the
dragon and the tiger Cosmo Beast spirits. I don't know if that means, again, I'm hoping that Cosmo
Beast is such a grand entity that it can grant its power to multiple people so that the brothers
don't have to die or lose their ability or something like that. Although if it is tied to one person at
a time, it would make it so that Deus maybe might want to say, this old man tied to the Cosmo Beast,
he can't even fully use his powers anymore. So he doesn't need to. I'll take it and I'll fight and
I'll whatever. And it'll be something that pushes him towards becoming corrupted and evil because
he has that ambition and he doesn't check that ambition. He doesn't wait till it's his time
to ascend or to have that communion with the Cosmo Beast. But then at the end,
we get this cool, it was a little bit too repetitious, but it was also cool where Regulus
is in the cave and he's meditating and he's contemplating everything that's going on as
he's trying to commune with the Cosmo Beast spirits. And I don't know if he was trying to
touch on all of them, but then we have the symbol of the tiger and the dragon on either side of him.
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
in a dilemma trying to figure out which way he wants to go. But I thought it was interesting.
And again, I like that Dragon Brother is not evil or a real rogue. He's a little different. And
Ullude calls him free spirited and Foros is like, buy the book, which is another fun sibling dynamic.
So that was cool to see. So yeah, the action in this was good. Well, we hit that crazy torture
scene where I guess it was Astra getting tortured by Vulcan. And that was intense. It was very
intense. There's a war and there's an invasion and destruction of a planet, but as you see,
this is more or less light fare. And then you've got a torture scene, which is kind of crazy,
kind of out of nowhere. So that was interesting. Anyway, this episode was short. Again, it was
about 10 minute runtime, but I didn't mind because the way it was, you know, the way they chose to
cut this section out of it or whatever, it worked. So I don't know if they're doing it scene by scene
or how the planning of this was done. And if it's like a 90 or a hundred minute thing, and then they
decided to chop it up or what, I don't know. But yeah, I like this a lot better. I hope
that the next segments are more similar to this as far as how they tell more of their own
kind of like standalone. It's almost like a little episode, right? I mean, obviously it
publishes an episode, but it tells its own little story from beginning, middle to end in this section.
And that was really good. Maybe that's why I was so unsatisfied with the part from episode two,
because it was almost more like a recap and preview of what was to come without really giving us...
It was this like interstitial stuff that you probably could have cut anyway.
Yeah, you maybe could have cut it. So anyway, yeah, I like that. So check out the rest of my
Ultraman coverage of all the rest of going ultra, which you can find on MJMunoz.com There's
archives of stuff from going ultra from way back in the day, including ssss.gridman and ssss.dynazenon
and my original coverage of Ultraman Z and a little bit of Ultraman Trigger. Those are in like
the ghost archive and the official archive, the audio feed that you wanted to subscribe to has
just Regulus and the Zet dub from 2023. And it'll have Blazar as well. So you can look forward to
that. That'll be my current coverage. And then I think after Blazar is done, I'm going to go ahead
and upload the rest of the back catalog to going ultra, to the new audio feed for it, because that's
going to be a better way to do it and a better way to keep it going into the future. So yeah,
you can look at the whole back catalog of everything I have there. You can find it through
the show notes. Yeah, you can find it through the show notes. It'll be specifically, it'll take you
to mjwinyos.com. It'll take you to this current iteration of going ultra, but then you can look
around and search for it and you can find all the old going ultra stuff, the vintage stuff. So that's
going to be good because those are good shows that I covered. And you can find my Ultraman inspired
children's story as well in the show notes. There's a link to it. You can read that it's called Ava
and the Grobug. And I have other books that are based on Tokusatsu characters or franchises that
I'm making children's books out of. And I think they're very cool. And I'm going to be sharing
those with you as soon as they're all done and available for you to check out and buy and maybe
even help me with a campaign and crowdfunding, getting them illustrated and such. So anyway,
you can check all that stuff out at MJMunoz.com as well as all my other work. And I've relaunched
Rider Tears. So check that out also on the website. And that's it folks. I hope you are well.
And until next time, this is MJ signing out. I hope you enjoyed that. Go to MJMunoz.com to leave
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