ULTRAMAN RISING: Shin Ultraman's Antithesis 

As much as I love the Ultraman Rising movie, I still prefer Shin Ultraman. God I love that movie to death :D

@@matthewsfilmzone9691 of course u would like it u got turned into a giant sun robot instead of a space dinosaur like in the originals

​​@@Galberosfaithtout of topic, but Ultraman is either an alien or mystical giant not a robot, and I don't think anyone turns into a giant dinosaur in "the originals" unless you woke up feeling like you wanna gaslight this guy.

@@GaiusIntrepidus I think he's joking about @matthewsfilmzone9691 Zetton pfp, who in Shin Ultraman is a big sun robot instead of the originals dinosaur monster

mf literally died for our sins fr

Regardless of repetition I think the world needed to be reminded of how inspiring Ultraman can be from Shin Ultraman, it really says something when the guy who made as bleak a work as Evangelion and I suppose also Shin Godzilla had that much faith and reverance in classic ultraman and what the hero stood for that he chose Ultraman to stay as he remembered while the world was the one modernized and cynical of the hero. Rising just did it in a different way. Though I think the movie would be able to bridge the gap between the very young fans just being introduced to Ultraman and the older ones through its themes and story.

his name is BAKURYU GATTAI ABARENOH

Really? Nice to see other mecha than the MMPR one all the time. Forever

Blazar was awesome. Even if it did fall back on the formula these newer shows follow a bit, it felt like it was really striving to be something new and fresh. It did a lot of things differently and it was a blast to see it unfold. Loved that show.

@@ShinGlassman054 the only Ultra shows I've watched to completion have been OG and Ultraseven, and I did notice the vibe was similar but with actual character development

Oh you mean Shinjiro? Yeah, he's somewhat of a different case. So here's the thing: Reason why Kenji is able to become an Ultra himself is because his dad was an Ultra himself. Yeah, he came from the land of light, he is just doing what Seven and Mebius did, make his own human form. Because of that he was probably successful in passing down his Ultra genes to Kenji. Shinjiro on the other hand, is the son of Shin Hayata who had parted with his version of Ultraman long before he was born. Note, this timeline is an alternate timeline to the OG Showa verse. Because of that, Shinjiro could be considered a hybrid, since he is more half human and half Ultra. It's important to remember that Ultraman and Shin Hayata are two different people, Ultraman just had Shin Hayata as a host and as a result, Shin indirectly passed the Ultra genes to his son TLDR, both Shinjiro and Kenji had VERY different circumstances to their birth and how that played into their powers. Simply put, Kenji's the son of an actual alien while Shinjiro is more like an inheritor of the alien that fused with his father, giving him the powers of an Ultra without becoming one

No, the difference is that unlike Godzilla in which one is a banger and the other is... divisive to say the least (not saying I hate GxK but man people are warring over it), Ultraman at least kept it consistent with two bangers (although they're still nothing on Minus One... can't be helped)

​@@GaiusIntrepidus Hey, Gxk isn't a bad film either, and it deserves all the attention too, it's not because the script is weak that the film in general is bad, it delivered exactly what was promised from the first teaser It's his style banger

Spiritually yes, but Godzilla is Toho and Ultraman is Tsuburaya, copyright would not allow it. Still thinking about Ultraman as being a sequel to Shin is not a bad way to think of them, that seems to be the intent of the creators.

That's what being an antithesis means. To be the opposite of the thesis, but one that needs to exist in order to form a synthesis.

@@ThyFloorestFloor ohhhhhhhhh I didn't know that but now I know 🎶GI JOEEEEEE🎶

@@genesismultiverse4896 Glad to be of service.

I would love that so much!

@@ShinGlassman054 my Favorite ultra Q Monster IS mammoth flower

@@e2011ugdia That’s a good one. Good episode too. Mine has gotta be Garamon, solely because it became the Pigmon suit.

I believe once or twice, when they're not dealing with obviously malicious kaijuus (oftentime invading alien or engineered lifeform, oftentime by alien hands), ultramans always seem to put destroying/killing the kaijuu as last resorts. Especially when said kaijuu is a part of endemic legend, or simply innocent/has no malicious intent. Granted, the malicious kind often outnumber the episodes where the current ultraman spares the kaijuu they fight (mostly because it's the driving force of the narration) , but these rare episodes of the ultras trying to solve the problem in other way than making the kaijuu explode should still count. Even before Cosmos, this kind of plot also occasionally happen. I think this rarely seen visage of Ultramans are shown very well in Ultraman Rising. That they're on Earth as equalizer, sometimes against alien invasion, and sometimes against humans themselves.

With all due respect, Jeff's opinion feels like an uninformed take in broad strokes. Not all monsters in the franchise are victims. In fact, only a handful of iconic ones actually fit the bill. More than often (especially post-Showa) they are either from an invasive alien species, malicious bioweapons, envoys of a cosmic destruction entity, and sometimes even literal spawns of evil. Thus generalizing them as "poor puppies being kicked around by a bad hero" is disingenuous. Worst case scenario, they're oversized wild animals that may endanger civilians thus had to be put down - which usually when is the case, is always criticized by the show's own narrative sooner or later. As a matter of fact, this was the whole point of Ultraman Gaia and Ultraman Z.

@@Mardanzo Agreed