[Rabbitman]

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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

"Return Of Ultraman isn?t afraid to penetrate deep topics either, Episode 33 ?The Monster Tamer and the Boy?, deals with dark themes of ostracization, groupthink-induced-cruelty, and metaphor for racial prejudice. It is one of the few episodes to truly end in tragedy, and even had real repercussions for its writing team."

https://www.ultramanconnection.com/n...ek-the-review/

What sort of repercussions?

I just googled return of ultraman episode 33 and checked the trivia section of the wiki. https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mo...er_and_the_Boy

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This episode was written by Shozo Uehara as a nod to the discrimination of ethnicity in Japan in the past. The Alien Mates is based on Koreans, while Ryo Sakuma is based on the Ainu people living in Hokkaido. Alien Mates' human form's surname, Kanayama, was a common surname of Koreans living in Japan.[1]
The episode faced pushback from TBS, particularly due to its tragic ending, although producer Yoji Hashimoto was able to convince them to air the episode in exchange for suspending Uehara from writing for the series and demoting director Shohei Tojo to assistant director.[1][2] However, Uehara was allowed to write the final episode due to the prinicpal that the person who wrote the first episode should write the last.[1]

Looks like everyone got busted down and had to turn in their badges and guns, like the midpoint of a good cop movie.

Actually, this is so absurd, it’s kind of funny. “Look, just air the episode and we will punish the writer.” Being a producer must be fun.

[Byg42]

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Originally Posted by Byg42

Updated release date
https://twitter.com/UltramanConnect/...65360409133157

Another release date update
https://twitter.com/UltramanConnect/...27341611053186

[GuardianAngel87]

I finally managed to watch the latest episode of Ultraman Arc today both in Japanese and in English. Still couldn’t believe that Blazar, the Ultraman season that was released just last year, is going to be on Blu-Ray in two days before Halloween complete with its own English dub and its post-series movie.

[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by Byg42

Blazar Blu Ray release announced. Comes with the show + the movie, and also has both jp and eng audio tracks
https://twitter.com/UltramanConnect/...37230122385715

So we'll finally get to see the Blazar movie!

[Frontier]

A fossil uncovered in an Ultra show? Definitely going to be related to a Kaiju!

The water flooding into the miniature set looked amazing.

Does Chief Ban know about dinosaurs? Why, of course he does! Back in his youth he wasn't just uncovering artifacts with Professor Miyako but also part of a team of dinosaur lovers where he was associated with the color red and T-Rex's! They even had their own stroll!

SKIP is really emphasizing what it means to be an investigative team, interviewing, researching, taking in info...they even have an investigation board!

Though it sucks when your investigation doesn't turn up anything useful, but that's where Chief Ban steps in and motivates the team. Because if there's even a 1% chance that a Kaiju is involved, SKIP can't give up until they know for certain!

In a world where Kaiju are real, everything you know about science and research is turned on it's head, so you have to keep an open mind and broaden your horizons...your imagination! Just like Yuma does as Ultraman Arc!

I love how this case was solved because of Ishido's love of coffee and eating things that go with coffee. He even at the egg afterwards!

You-Bot is like the perfect drone! Able to slip into environmental conditions normal humans couldn't and even give footage of an Ultraman fight! And I love the effect of his eyes when he's shocked.

The Ultra Q theme when the monster eye opens up!

Livvyjira, the Giant Cetacean Beast! What if a whale were fused with a piranha and had a giant bite and a face only a mother could love and a snout that would spew sodium chloride?

So is the cube blinking mean Arc is telling Yuma they have to transform? Also, undersea transformation and Rise uppercut!

I love how they transformed the miniature set into an underwater battlefield for Arc and Livvyjira, even if the latter has the home field advantage and is swimming circles around Arc.

This week on "what is Arc going to do with his barrier?" we've got Arc fusing his barrier and Ultra Slash to create a fan to blow away what's covering Livvjiyra so he can stuff his snout with a tree, laugh at his expense, and deliver an Ultra Beam right into that big mouth of his!

Doing a transformation underwater is cool and all until you're still wet when you transform back. But at least Chief Ban has rediscovered his love of fossils and his Wings of Imagination.

Next week: an alien, Ishido playing bad cop, and the return of Shagong!?

[Sunred]

Episode 5 of Arc was a total Nishi package complete with Abaranger references.

[SHINOBI03]

Arc laughing at the monster

[Frontier]

Time for SKIP to deal with their first proper alien encounter!

Wow, when aliens are involved Ishido goes from a reasonable and chill coffee lover to Netflix Dan "the only good alien is a dead alien" Moroboshi.

Undone by the alien hand signals...

I can imagine Ishido has a bunch of alien horror stories. They do say 1 in every 5 aliens in an Ultra show is actually not trying to conquer Earth. Though he also seems like he's just looking for an excuse to shoot an alien.

So Arc can trip up Yuma when he needs to do the "Yuma, look at this plot relevant thing" point.

Alien Coro feels like if Alien Pegassa mated with a bird. Also, poor guys' buddies just ditched him. Was that anomaly related to K-Day?

Shagong returns! And he's brought friends! Kind of early to be reusing Kaiju, but when you've got a great suit, best to make good use of it.

So there's an economic downturn going on amidst all these Kaiju attacks!?

Sometimes what matters more than anything is genuine human kindness and acceptance, complete with a running an inn montage. Also I wonder if Numa and the inn proprietress had a thing going beyond business.

Oh snap, he brought back the barrier fan! And it actually finished off one of the Shagong's! Too bad there's more! Good thing Arc has the Solis Armor, which can also be channeled through Arc Eye Sword for a finisher.

I didn't expect Numa to straight up try to kamikaze him, or for Arc to let the last Shagong go with a stern warning...but I guess there'd been enough death Plus, Numa survived!

I never quite linked imagination and empathy together like that, but it makes sense. It really feels like Ishido is learning a lot from Yuma in this show.

Next week: The first recap episode!

[GuardianAngel87]

Just finishing watching the latest episode of Arc and I think this just might be my favorite episode of the series so far.

[SHINOBI03]

After plenty of distractions for the past few weeks I have finally managed to finish Geed. Lovely series, but it could've used a better villain than bootleg Juggler.