[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

As I was watching the show I kept thinking about how absolutely wild it must have been to experience these shows back to back in real time. Nexus is so grim I don't think it had a single gag until Ren showed up, while Max is so silly from the outset.

Yeah, Nexus was apparently a huge calamity in terms of toy sales that you could sense the desperation Bandai had trying to course-correct like crazy.
Off-topic, supposedly, one of the scrapped Nexus base form designs was later used as a basis for designing Mebius.

[GuardianAngel87]

I started on watching Ultraman Cosmos yesterday and I am already liking what I see with the series so far.

[Byg42]

New Arc Powerup, Galaxy Armor
https://twitter.com/TsuburayaGlobal/...20342577082658

[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by Byg42

New Arc Powerup, Galaxy Armor
https://twitter.com/TsuburayaGlobal/...20342577082658

Feels very Ultraman Saga...

[Sunred]

Episode 8 of Arc is probably my next favorite episode since episode 2 of Blazar.
Two words that sum up this episode. Access. Flash.

[Frontier]

Even creatures like Kanegon have to get with the times...and the real money is made through streaming!

Hoshimoto City is facing an economic decline to the point where they need a digital currency app and a lot of conserving for businesses to get by...even SKIP has to conserve lighting, budget, YouPi, and is forcing government employees to turn to streaming to make enough in tips to drink more than three cups of coffee a day! The horror!

I have to give "Alpha" and "Omega" this much, the face designs fit Ishido and Yuma to a T. Also if you deny Ishido his coffee, he goes nearly insane and willing to use top secret information to make money so he can get his coffee.

Chief Ban has a daughter!

Kanao is very enthusiastic and intense even if I only understood half of what she was saying most of the time.

First Kanegon was a boy transformed into the embodiment of his greed, then he was an alien...and now he's a rogue AI designed to monitor and collect data on peoples' spending habits only they never taught the AI how to spend himself. So to save the Hoshimoto City economy, they need to teach Kanegon to spend, spend, spend!!!

They used the Show Kanegon silhouette!!!

Is this the first time an Ultra has gone fully digital? At least for a battle? And then Arc gets into a slap fight with Kanegon and spewing coins like he's Sonic the Hedgehog.

YouPi finally gets to battle with Arc, at least in the digital world! Though he's not the most reliable ride when he straight up vanishes on you, huh?

Oh snap, giant-size Kanegon!!!

The discus on Luna Arm is surprisingly versatile, whether it be distracting Kanegon, serving up a plate of the spending programming, or going giant so Kanegon can get a big moutfhul!

Do I even want to know how Kanegon got a physical form? Or how his tips seemingly transform streamers into Kanegon?

Next week: High school Rin! Rin investigating one of her idols possibly turned criminal (there's a classic Ultra plot)! Also...Neronga!

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Even creatures like Kanegon have to get with the times...and the real money is made through streaming!

Hoshimoto City is facing an economic decline to the point where they need a digital currency app and a lot of conserving for businesses to get by...even SKIP has to conserve lighting, budget, YouPi, and is forcing government employees to turn to streaming to make enough in tips to drink more than three cups of coffee a day! The horror!

I have to give "Alpha" and "Omega" this much, the face designs fit Ishido and Yuma to a T. Also if you deny Ishido his coffee, he goes nearly insane and willing to use top secret information to make money so he can get his coffee.

Chief Ban has a daughter!

Kanao is very enthusiastic and intense even if I only understood half of what she was saying most of the time.

First Kanegon was a boy transformed into the embodiment of his greed, then he was an alien...and now he's a rogue AI designed to monitor and collect data on peoples' spending habits only they never taught the AI how to spend himself. So to save the Hoshimoto City economy, they need to teach Kanegon to spend, spend, spend!!!

They used the Show Kanegon silhouette!!!

Is this the first time an Ultra has gone fully digital? At least for a battle? And then Arc gets into a slap fight with Kanegon and spewing coins like he's Sonic the Hedgehog.

YouPi finally gets to battle with Arc, at least in the digital world! Though he's not the most reliable ride when he straight up vanishes on you, huh?

Oh snap, giant-size Kanegon!!!

The discus on Luna Arm is surprisingly versatile, whether it be distracting Kanegon, serving up a plate of the spending programming, or going giant so Kanegon can get a big moutfhul!

Do I even want to know how Kanegon got a physical form? Or how his tips seemingly transform streamers into Kanegon?

Next week: High school Rin! Rin investigating one of her idols possibly turned criminal (there's a classic Ultra plot)! Also...Neronga!

ACCESS FLASH

[Daikaijuman54]

I am back! Time for some recap (just like last week's episode, more on that in a bit)!

Underwater Monster, always fun. Reminded me of the Gobul from Monster Hunter 3 (war flashbacks), and more of Arc's glorious imaginative uses of his powers. Plus a nice look at Captain Ban, which is always nice to see.

Funny looking bird alien with an obsession for mushrooms that he modeled his spaceship just like one! Was a nice heartwarming episode (and a little detail that reminds me of my Manga I'm writing), alongside a fight with two Shagong, with Arc frightening one away.

The Recap that showed us one of the other SKIP Branches. Honestly, if all the recaps featured a different branch that would be a neat series of recaps. Loved the duo in this one though, especially how the guy basically owns a Kaiju like a pet that he's proud of.

Homgar was a neat tiger kaiju, even if a little warning about it blowing up to reproduce would have been appreciated, lady! But Luna Armor debuts and it's a pretty sweet form, love the look of it.

This week, Ishido and Yuma become V-Tubers! I already love their goofy dynamic, heck, this whole episode was the kind of goofy I just plain adore. The amazing entry sequence to the digital world to the bonkers fight to give Kanegon (which I find hilarious he's a popular streamer. 10/10, would simp for) medicine, with You-Pi chipping in... Until his connection crashes.

Overall, loved this episode and all its hijinks.

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Originally Posted by Byg42

New Arc Powerup, Galaxy Armor
https://twitter.com/TsuburayaGlobal/...20342577082658

Oh hey! I remember this appeared in a Stage, happy to see it be part of the show (for a moment, I thought he was going to have a stage exclusive form, because of how early into Arc it first showed up). I quite like it, even if a part of me kind of wishes they added something to the head, but I'm good without!

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Two words that sum up this episode. Access. Flash.

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought this! Except I was thinking GRIDMAN!! Baby Dan! Dan!

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Is this the first time an Ultra has gone fully digital? At least for a battle? And then Arc gets into a slap fight with Kanegon and spewing coins like he's Sonic the Hedgehog.

Well, X is part of the digital world, which people have had to go into twice to save him.

And the coins were an absolutely adorable detail.

Next Episode! Famous Guy You Look Up To That Might Actually Be Evil? What could go wrong?

[Smozz]

This week's Arc was basically just an episode of Gridman and I'm totally ok with that! Probably my favourite episode so far.

[GoldenXtreme]

I was planning on watching the post-show films first but I need to talk about Ultraman Mebius right now while riding the high of finishing it.

I loved that. I absolutely loved that show with my whole heart. Honestly, it was a show that had a lot of barriers to overcome. Being set in the Showa era timeline, which required rationalizing all its disparate elements into a cohesive setting? Not to mention both modernizing the storytelling while being respectful towards the original style? Not an easy task this 40th anniversary celebration had laid out before it, but succeed it did. The story had such passionate love for the source material.

I wasn't even totally sold at first. Like, I was having fun, but sort of like Tiga this is a slow burn kind of show. At first I was just having fun with the combination of classic and new monsters. But as the show went on I found myself impressed by the dynamic of cooperation between GUYS and Mebius, which was unlike any other Ultra show. The deep sense of friendship that developed among the GUYS members, which was always delightful to watch. Legit, just watching everyone interact was enough to make me smile most of the time. And then it finally happened: an Ultra show where the main character is "out" as an Ultra to the rest of his team before the final stretch of the plot. The perfect show to finally introduce this concept in, which emphasizes humans truly fighting alongside Ultramen in every sense of the word. I absolutely loved all the cast members and will miss them. And the tribute episodes to past Ultra series? A sequel to the Return episode about the alien who was shot dead by fearful humans? A weird Leo training sequence provided by Gen Otori? Ultraman 80 class reunion somehow getting me all teary eyed?! Aaaaaaaah! Normal episodes were also constantly getting a rise out of me too because of how much I loved the cast. They ranged from personal (Marina traveling back to the summer where her Grandfather died) to the numerous episodes about the team's overall bond (I may have lost it when Ryu gave Mirai the Memory Display with the flame design matching his own). The miniatures are also awesome one again, following up from Max!

I'm not going to say that every episode landed perfectly, but the show more than made up for it's shortcomings. During the final farewell? YEAH, I CRIED A BUNCH. Not because I was sad, but I was genuinely just overcome by the purity of the show's spirit.

This... This is Ultraman right here.