Ultraman X is so good. It's the series that introduced me to Ultraman and I'm hooked ever since. I should really watch it again someday.

By the way Kurona - I hate to agree but Zero is kind of a boring character in his own movies, isn't he? He works best in Ultraman Geed IMO, where he's more of a side character but also has a fantastic human host.

I'm interest to read what you think about Geed once you finished it. I personally would call it the best NG Ultraman show.

Yeaaah, I... when I was watching his movies I was wondering why he was so popular and what on earth I was supposed to connect with? Like everyone has their own tastes and all, but to me he was just... he sure is Ultraseven's son! He sure did beat Belial, somehow! He sure is, like, slightly smug but not enough to be fun or interesting or even obnoxious until Ginga S; just like 5% smug and 95% boring.

I HAVE been liking him in Z though, at least! I mean he's got all of one scene, but advancing him into a direct mentor role like the other past Ultramen and having him just be absolutely fed up with someone who's looking at him with big puppy eyes? LOVE it. THAT'S fun, and I can't wait for him to come back in that! Hopefully I'll enjoy him in Geed too :D

I HATED Zero for the longest time from a distance. Everything about him as a character reeked of trying too hard to me, like a financially desperate Tsuburaya just piling on traits they figured would make him mathematically successful. He's the son of arguably the most popular Ultra ever! He's super tough and can beat anyone! He's brooding and cool! To be fair, I mean, it worked, and he played a massive part in reviving the franchise (his defacto mentor role to the New Generation Ultras is well earned), but he also sounded like a stereotypical fan fiction character. Mind you, this was only having actually seen him in X, where he weirdly seemed desperate to do anything except hang out with X, which is hardly going to win me over when I was basically worshipping X at the time.

I pulled a total 180 on the guy watching Geed, and now I can't get enough of him. I went back and watched all the stuff he was in, and found that, aside from his unflatteringly shallow debut in Mega Monster Word Salad, he was a pretty cool character. I think he works best the more he's part of an ensemble. Elements like his camaraderie with the Ultimate Force Zero and his relationships with his human hosts do a lot to make him a more endearing character. He's ended up doing a lot of growing over the course of all his appearances. The more recent you get, the more refined his personality is. He's wonderful in the Z Voice Dramas right now.

Being Ultraseven’s son and having cool action scenes mostly is all he had going for him. Which hey, I'm down for! I'm rewatching Zero's first fight at the Monster Graveyard sometimes, it's great.

But character wise - I don’t want to spoil Geed so I won’t continue too much but he's at his absolute best here mostly because of how different his human host is in terms of personality. And he’s not always the star, he takes second place to Geed - to which he's connected beautifully from the get-go since hey, his dad is Zero's sworn enemy.

The one thing I do want to mention which I really liked from the very start was how they connected Zero and Belial during their first appearances. Belial took the Plasma Spark and was banished, Zero tried to do the same but was stopped in time - Zero is what Belial could’ve been, and Belial is what Zero would’ve been.

I did like that; it's a very classic way to make rivals out of two otherwise unrelated characters and really draw a schism. It's fun!

The only thing is, it... doesn't really seem to actually matter? You could have taken it out of the movie and I wouldn't have noticed; I frankly forget it's a thing with Zero most of the time! He's never really tempted by power, or lament his past, or make it a part of how he relates to other characters... hell, I don't think it's brought up even once after it's first stated! Even in the Belial fight!

It's a fine idea but one that they just didn't do anything with.

I really liked the second Zero movie - the one that was basically Star Wars but with a bunch of more obscure Tsubaraya characters. I thought it was really fun.

The first movie was definitely a mess though, since it was trying to be at least three different films all crammed together in one: it was a Mebius movie, it was a Mega Monster Battles movie, it was a Zero movie... there were some cool action scenes, but the plot was all over the damn place.

Sad but true.

It only really functions as a tool to explain why Zero was kept at a remote planet and trained relentlessly by Leo and Astra.

Eurobeat artist Dave Rodgers has uploaded an English-language version of Tiga's "Take Me Higher".

https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2020/07...heme-released/

That makes sense, I've always thought "Take Me Higher" sounds like a Eurodance song.

Specifically, it sounds a lot like "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada.

Really? I keep hearing Runnin' In The 90s