I watched episode 23 "Visitor 99".
Episode 23 Visitor 99
Monsters appear all over the world, and SKaRD is busy dealing with them. Gent also fights with Blazar, but he keeps overusing his body and gradually loses his life force.
Taganura appears in Kosai, and Earth Galon is deployed. Another Taganura also appears in Nevada, USA, and Blazar heads to repel it. At that time, Emi, who was on the move, received surprising information...
The production team of Blazar seems to be eager to answer the complaints from the viewers of the previous Ultraman series.
They answered the complaint "I can see the zipper on your back!" by hiding the zipper with fins. Thanks to that, a new character of Ultraman was born with a wildness. Or, maybe they came up with the idea of wildness first, and the fins were thought of later? Well, either way is fine.
They responded to the complaint "Why do monsters and Ultraman only appear in Japan?" by having Ultraman fly to the US where Taganura appeared in this episode.
It was the first battle in a foreign country in the Ultraman series (although it was not a location). But I remembered that the original Ultraman fought Antler in the Middle East in "The Blue Stone of Baraji".
But Blazar flew all the way from Japan when he received a rescue request from the US.
"I'll fly anywhere, anytime!"
He impressed me with his light footwork that was not seen in the previous series. I thought Ultraman became a true "hero of the earth".
But still, monsters and Ultraman will only appear in Japan from now on.
Anyway, the reason why monsters keep appearing on TV and movies in Japan is probably because Japan is a country where natural disasters occur frequently.
Maybe we want to make the invisible things like earthquakes and typhoons into visible forms like "monsters" and feel relieved by defeating them. This is called symbolic coping in psychological terms. Ultraman is an indispensable existence for that.
But speaking of Ultraman, I think he is overwhelmingly popular among men. Is there any symbolic coping unique to women?
That being said, Taganura appeared to protect the earth. When SKaRD members and Blazar realized that, they stopped attacking Taganura. And they let Taganura destroy the object that was attacking the earth with his own beam. And the earth was saved, but the beam reflected back and Taganura was annihilated by it.
In this scene, what would have happened if Taganura didn't die? They would let Taganura accomplish his goal, and then Earth Galon and Blazar would defeat him. To put it bluntly, it would be "use it as long as you need it, and kill it when you don't".
Sure, Taganura is a threat to humanity and coexistence is very difficult, but is it justice to exterminate him? It makes me think. This is philosophy. It's a good material for children to learn.