I've reached the part of Ultraman Leo where they decided to dial back the darkness and make it more kid-friendly, including a 7-episode sequence of stories based on Japanese legends and folklore. The last one, episode 32, is based on the classic The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, about a couple who finds and raises a baby that turns out to be a princess from the Moon. Here, as in some versions of the tale, the infant princess was sent to Earth 15 years ago to protect her from enemies who have now been defeated, so it's safe for her to come back home. That got me thinking, though -- Yuko Minami, the female co-host of Ultraman Ace, also turned out to be a Lunar princess, who returned to her reign a couple of years ago at this point. But if she was the reigning princess at the time that this princess's partisans were still fighting their enemies, does that mean they're from opposing Lunar factions? Has Yuko been overthrown?
Yes, obviously they were ignoring continuity, but it's amusing to wonder. Apparently Yuko did return in a couple of much later series, but the whole issue of Lunar dynastic politics doesn't appear to have been addressed.
Yes, obviously they were ignoring continuity, but it's amusing to wonder. Apparently Yuko did return in a couple of much later series, but the whole issue of Lunar dynastic politics doesn't appear to have been addressed.
