This show made me sad about Red King of all things, noooo! This sucks! (This is great)

I too was expecting an episode all about showing off King Joe STORAGE Custom (and it looks like that might still happen next week, alongside other fun stuff), and what I got here was unexpectedly great. I had a sneaking feeling at the back of my mind that all of our heroes excited declarations for exterminating monsters would be challenged one day, and this episode does so in an exceptionally heartrending fashion... Really hope they continue this epiphany Haruki has into the next episode!

I haven't seen any other Ultra series, so I don't know how far they go into the ethical questions of killing monsters. But I'd love to see Z explore that, especially since they unknowingly have an alien/monster on their team.

If you’re interested in seeing a genuine consideration on how monsters should be treated ; I can’t recommend X enough! Ultra in general does take into mind environmental factors and treats the kaiju like beasts worthy of respect more often than not; and even when it’s not the main focus in the likes of Cosmos and Max; I’ve often still found it to be a background element of series like Orb or Geed. Any given Ultra will likely have a scene or episode of them petting or helping a Kaiju and it’s lovely to see!

I was initially going to be a lot harder on the episode because the King Joe debut was kinda meh, but the emotional dilemma of Haruki is pretty great, and I really like that it continues into the next episode. Plus, we haven’t seen everything the new King Joe can do yet either.

My only nitpick with this episode, which can be applied to the show in general: Z communicates way too little with Haruki. Early on we had these nice little scenes were Z would pull Haruki to the side to talk to him, and we don't really need more of that but instead simple voiceovers, Z can talk to Haruki in his mind, let him do that more often!

Like, this episode would’ve been so much richer if they just framed the flashbacks with Z being like "Wow Haruki, I never knew about your family, what was your dad like?“. If I'm right there will be a "talk" of sorts next episode because Z will try to get to the bottom of Haruki's feelings but just saying, I would find this a lot more "natural" if Z spoke a bit more often.

I too was thinking that Z has barely been a character in the show. Just like a lot of character stuff relating to the Titus and Fuma in Taiga, Z mostly shows his personality in side material.

I never expected the three Ultras in Taiga to be as prominent as say, the Imagin in Den-O, but I think they were still far too understated. I can't help but feel like the same is gonna happen with Z in this show ostensibly named after him.

Someone discovered something interesting.

If you use the “attack” combos with Riku’s Access Card, you get clips of HIM announcing the attacks. https://youtu.be/y4eD5JIGpjI

That’s just incredibly cool! There’s so much packed into this thing...

Is there a video of all the Geed stuff in the Z-Riser? Or most of the ones discovered so far, at least

Damn... they really thought about everything when they got the actor to record lines for this toy, I love it :lol

I don’t think so, reviewers usually make a new video with new sounds once the medals are released, the ones I know only do videos showcasing everything once a toy line comes to an end.

That's cool to hear. I'm planning to watch more Ultra shows when they hit the Shout streaming services in a couple months.

I just finished ep 11, and I agree with this so much. I really want Z to feel more like a character, right now he feels kind of backgroundy.