Hot out of the oven, it's Blazar #4, "Thus Fought Emi":
This was a pretty cool one, an undercover mission for Emi at a corporation that may be exploiting a kaiju for profit. It's a solid story that feels like something from the early Heisei Ultraman era, but with a modern attitude. Nice use of the idea of antibiotic overuse promoting resistance. Good character-building for Emi, and we get to see what a badass martial artist she is too.
This is the first time that it's apparently been Gento's idea to summon Blazar, instead of Blazar initiating it. I thought that would be a bigger deal, with Gento having to ask for Blazar's help, but the Blazar Brace just appeared on his wrist between one shot and the next. Also, you'd think he'd have some hesitation about transforming indoors for the first time. How did he know it would work?
Although for a moment, I was wondering if we'd have one of those episodes where the Ultra manifests at human size for an indoor fight. That's usually a nice twist when it happens.
Looks like next week focuses on Anri, so I guess we're into the stage where we get individual focus episodes on the characters.
This was a pretty cool one, an undercover mission for Emi at a corporation that may be exploiting a kaiju for profit. It's a solid story that feels like something from the early Heisei Ultraman era, but with a modern attitude. Nice use of the idea of antibiotic overuse promoting resistance. Good character-building for Emi, and we get to see what a badass martial artist she is too.
This is the first time that it's apparently been Gento's idea to summon Blazar, instead of Blazar initiating it. I thought that would be a bigger deal, with Gento having to ask for Blazar's help, but the Blazar Brace just appeared on his wrist between one shot and the next. Also, you'd think he'd have some hesitation about transforming indoors for the first time. How did he know it would work?
Although for a moment, I was wondering if we'd have one of those episodes where the Ultra manifests at human size for an indoor fight. That's usually a nice twist when it happens.
Looks like next week focuses on Anri, so I guess we're into the stage where we get individual focus episodes on the characters.