Tsuburaya Ultraman Nexus Episode 21 Review

Congratulations! Nexus Wins The Award For Longest Drawn Out Death Of A Character!
No seriously. Even now, as the episode starts? After recapping the end of last episode?!? He refuses to die! He’s down! He’s up! He’s down!

…oh really. Well thank you, decades old character played by Billy Crystal! That clears a lot up. Sigh. Most of the fight now has Ultraman struggling to get up (Rocky style). Until plot says otherwise.

A hole opens in the sub space meta field, tempting Kitty Koopa with the promise of all you can eat free range humans. Accept no substitutes. However the field is still intact, someone is teasing it.

Eventually Ultraman Nexus gets up, lassos the beast and girls it away from the breach, and blows it up with Specium-166. He then drops the Meta field, and wanders away as Jun. Where agents from TLT, stealing from E.T., grab him.

As you probably guessed, the mysterious black suited head of TLT is interested in unlocking, and exploiting Ultraman Nexus’ powers. Yeah, you can kinda forgive him. He doesn’t know it comes from an alien from the M-66 Galaxy.

This whole capture scene is kinda pointless. He’s brought to a lab, and put through electro mind scans… I,e, he’s made to replay clips from the last twenty episodes. Really? A clip show before he dies?

Since nothing of import happens to him, let’s go back to Not Kolchak. He turns over the memory card full of images to his Editor… At a Japanese sports newspaper… Seriously? Not Kolchak is supposed to be a Sports Reporter?!? Come on!!

Worse yet? He actually knows a lady Editor (who knew Jun back in the day) for an actual legit newspaper he could have taken all this to. But no. He brought it to his Sports Editor boss. Who, no surprise, runs the story and images. Winner of that year’s World Cup be damned! Here’s an alien attacking Earth!

Being not the brightest investigative reporter in Japan. The Memory Police have little trouble finding him. Also? It seems I guess he couldn’t have gone to any of the big papers. They seem to be in league with the Memory Police.

So… Yeah. Why did the story break? Because really. Nobody expects the local sports paper to break need on an alien invasion. But it’s a Sports paper, so nobody would take it seriously… Right?

Except that’s not the problem. The problem is Memory Police use substandard neuralizer tech. Just seeing images of a beast is enough to reverse the mind wipe. This happens to that lady Editor Not Kolchak reaches out to for help.

But situation resolved yes? Memory Police found Not Kolchak… Oh wait no. This is the Memory Police! Within one minute they lose Not Kolchak! Yes. If they can’t catch a slow moving taxi? They can’t catch a slow moving reporter dressed like he’s an extra from Miami Vice!

While he’s free he arranges a meet with the lady editor, but might not show up… Meeting at midnight though? How cliche. Anyway he managed to elude the inept Memory Police all day, into the night, and his story ends for now when the Memory Police Resistance saves him. Yup. Several men in black fail to catch one reporter!

The episode ends with the TLT trying to uncover signs of Ultraman in Jun’s brain. The stress of the procedure seemingly kills him… Sigh. Again? Don’t worry. The episode ends with TLTs head pressing the panic button, and sending a crash team to revive Jun.

Lady Editor? Waiting out in the city to meet Not Kolchak she sees a shooting star. Hmm. Either it’s a takeout that Jun is dead, or up someone from the M-66 Galaxy finally realized there’s an Ultraman or two on Earth!

So… Has Ultra Mother arrived? Another different Ultraman? Guess only time will tell… Oh. According to the synopsis? Jun survived flatlining on the lab table. If course he did. Sigh. See you tomorrow.

Seven Seas The Two Of Them Are Pretty Much Like This Volume 3 Review Chapters Fifty to Fifty-Two (Digital)

The Trials Of A Lonely Wako
I skimmed through the next three Chapters since Wako’s annoying Furrodent Bunny Boss is so annoying… Is she secretly Mugi’s mom? (SeeYoutube &Mugi The Bunny, now featuring Mimi The Bunny… Who might be the world’s first Trans Bunny?)

Wako has been relocated to a hotel while Sakuma is sick. She still drops in from time to time to drop off supplies for Sakuma. Dressed like she’s a character from Metro. Or Fallout.

However the strain of the brief separation is testing her apart, and it’s up to her boss to be hard on her to get her back on track. Not that it matters since the big Anime Wako is working on… Is going to suffer a decided downturn.

Eventually her boss figures out how to get her focus back, by handing Wako a role in an Adults Only 10 minute per episode Anime that Sakuma writes for? She only writes for Adults Only sex stuff right? That straightens Wako right out.

Finally Sakuma gets better, and is reunited with Wako. The end of this arc. Tomorrow we look at a day out to the store with Sakuma & Wako, which is detailed by an unexpected game of hopscotch. See you tomorrow.

Tsuburaya Ultraman Nexus Episode 20 Review

The Stupidity Must Go On!
Yeah yeah. It looks like they are going to milk Jun’s death for all its worth. As we are just going to spend episodes watching him slowly die! I’m retrospect only extremely popular slasher film villains are harder to kill!

So it seems some things have been set up to arrange the next plot conflicts. Why did Ultraman’s ship crash mid transit and dump Jun out in the woods… BTW woods? As popular this decade as random quarries were to Tokusatsu heroes in the 60s & 70s!!

It was so someone who knew Jun would find him, find that he still carried his camera about despite changing his occupation to Wandering Ultraman, and run off with it to expose the secrets.

All so this guy who respected Jun would take a lot of images of… Eh… Let’s call it Kitty Koopa. Take images of it and if the Night Raiders. Funny. The images all look like screenshots from last episode! Funny that!

Somehow he managed to throw that camera back to his pals before being eaten. Even though I remember seeing the actor gripping the camera all the way until the CGI effect are him. So huh?

Why take all those images? So they could run into Not Kolchak in the woods on the way back to town. Yeah. Apparently I mistook the dead kid for the chunky Not Kolchak! My bad!

The beast? Ultraman shows up and saves the guy and girl, having failed to save the first guy who admired him. At best all Ultraman can do is delay it… Oh. Also Jun now has plot convenient hearing. He heard the last scream Mike’s away and went to help.

That’s how Not Kolchak ended up in the woods. He followed Jun into the woods, but lost him when he turned into Nexus. Then he just stood around until plot wandered into him.

Ultraman Nexus fails to stop the beast. Which is bad as suddenly the beast realizes it’s wandering near a 24 hour all you can eat buffet, known as a human city! Deciding to get its grub on, it wanders towards the city.

With Ultraman Nexus failing to stop the beast, the Night Raiders have to attack it with their boosted weapons. They manage to gravely injured it, but the reprise made by shattering its back crystals last episode (stopping it’s phasing powers) ends.

Regenerating its back crystals, the beast retreats into… We find out later it was so gravely injured it didn’t just phase out of synch with reality. It actually retreats to an alternate dead Earth. Hiding on a world awash with exposed mana energy pools, healing itself.

Later you find out that the Night Raiders have the tech to pursue the beast all the way to its hiding place in the dead Earth. After all, the beast only moved transdimensionally. It was still in the same spot it fell. But they’re called back to base. The chance to kill the beast squandered.

Eventually they convince their superiors that the beast hadn’t really gone far. Though it travelled transdimensionally, it’s still in the exact same spot as before. And once it heals it’ll be back to check in on its reservation at the all you can eat Human bar.

Meanwhile, remember those two who ran into Not Kolchak? They show him the blurry screenshots of the fight from last episode. He… Sucker punches the guy and steals the memory card with the images.

The two run into Jun, who is hobbling away from the fight he didn’t care so well in. Somehow she pieces together that Jun is Nexus from the fact he and Nexus has an injured arm. Ok. Doesn’t matter as he won’t be Nexus for long.

So they return to the city. All they have to do is get picked up by Memory Police, questioned, and reveal that Not Kolchak stole images of the fight… And this evidence of aliens (Kaiju). After all, even Jun told them that was Not Kolchak’s master plan!

Except their overuse of their Cosmic Cube Neuralyzer is about to screw them over. They wipe and reconfigure the twos minds, completely wiping all memory of the fight… AND unintentionally wiping info that Not Kolchak has proof of Kaiju from space.

So Not Kolchak, having cleaned up the blue from the images with a fairly decent photo editor… Lightbox? Adobe Photoshop? He emails the images to his Editor, setting the wheels in motion to expose the existence of the Night Raiders, and alien Kaiju.

So I guess that’s a plot conflict for Disc 4. The Night Raiders go back to where the beast phased out. Kazuki, in his fighter, heads through dimensional realities (cough cough “borrowed Doctor Who effects”) and located the beast recovering in a mana pool on the dead Earth.

He drives it back into reality where they continue the fight. Ultraman Nexus… BTW his ship? Fine. Suddenly it works perfectly and is easily summoned. Right. Plot device expended, back to using the ship… One last time.

Nexus sends itself and the beast into subspace via the Meta Field bubble. Suzuki & Nagi follow in their ships, breaking through into subspace just in time to see Nexus seemingly drop dead.

To be fair? They are playing fast and loose with the announcement here as the warning light was still flashing when the episode ended. Also? Ignore the fact they completely broke the warning light rule years later (2016, Ultraman Orb) by having it go out… And NOT kill Ultraman. Which is the standard lore by the way.

So Nexus is dead now? Yeah… Don’t hold your breath, they’re going to milk it for all its worth. We will see just how long Nexus can be dying before he actually dies… And is replaced by Kazuki. Sigh. Stay tuned eh?

Seven Seas The Two Of Them Are Pretty Much Like This Volume 3 Review Opener Chapter Forty-Nine (Digital)

Counting Down To The End… By Hitting A Writer’s Blockade.
There’s no point in stalling any further. This title has come to an end, so it’s time to begin the reviews towards wrap up.

Only note is I’ll probably skim some of the parts that I found too depressing. As this is to an extent the darkness before Celestia raised the sun on Sakuma & Wako’s happy ending. So…

Sakuma is suffering from writer’s block, but it seems far worse than ever before. And nothing seems to be stopping it. Yeah. Spoiler. She finally breaks the block while in the bath. Finishes her script…

Then falls ill from the flu I’m guessing. I guess that means she needs to send Wako away to a hotel for awhile. For her sake so she doesn’t become ill.

This thankfully won’t last long. But first you Furrodent mimicking boss of Wako! Don’t act like your doing her a favor by not being a jerk and separating her and Sakuma! Sigh.

Anyway we have to deal with this little drama for a few Chapters. But if you think Sakuma getting sick is the worse? It gets wotser yet. Just you wait… Anyway welcome back to the world of Japanese script writers and voice actors.

Tune in tomorrow as Wako drops by to bring the sick Sakuma supplies… Dressed like she’s auditioning for a role in the Japanese localization of FALLOUT The Series. Hey you Vault Wako on tomorrow. See you.

Tsuburaya Ultraman Nexus Episode 19 Review

Japan! Builder Of Rube Goldberg Level Giant Kaiju Traps Since The 50s!
As impossible as it seems. I’m one scene Ultraman Nexus managed to rip off from classic Godzilla movies, 1986s Aliens, and the classic Robbie The Robot movie Forbidden Planet! Tokusatsu. Truly nothing is beyond their ability to… “Borrow”.

This is actually a bit of a short recap. For a twenty-ish minute episode not very much happens. But it’s still significant, as it puts a death clock on Jun.

Jun is basically dying. Despite transforming in Nexus (which he has to do this episode) the Cerebus poison is still raging through his body. That means he is unable to fight the creature Kaiju today. But he fights it to inspire the Night Raiders to come up with a plan.

Today’s creature is a tentacle hydra turtle with giant crystals on its back. The crystals… I’m going to guess they act as a phase prism. When powered it allows the creature to phase out of synch with reality. Which is actually a pretty nifty trick.

We break from the tension of Captain stopping Nagi from carrying out her anger at Ultraman for cohabitation with her brother Jun, to watch the Kaiju eat hikers. It then phases out… But doesn’t go anywhere. Like a predator it hides by bending reality, waiting for fresh humans to show up.

Why eat humans? Besides that’s the horror button Tsuburaya loves to beat on a lot during their edgelord phase? Who knows. Maybe the Kaiju feeds on humans to fulfill a dietary requirement?

The Night Raiders show up, and so too does Nexus. He fights the beast, but the poison is now inhibiting his ability to fight. Making it harder to use advanced attacks like Specium-166. Basically Jun is on his last leg as we beat the end of Disc 3.

But from this fight the Night Raiders learn one thing. When Nexus takes itself and the beast to subspace via the Meta Field? That districts the beast’s ability to phase. And, plot conveniently, TLT Holo Tony Stark has the answer.

He apparently built a giant set up that he thinks will short circuit the beast’ ability to phase out of existence. This thing, which takes up a lot of ground and is not exactly invisible, is set up to wretch the beast out of its phased state.

How do you track a beast in phased state? You steal the radar gimmick from Aliens. That’s how. Tracking an invisible beast marching to a large classic Godzilla trap. Brought out of phase in a style reminiscent of Forbidden Planet’ climax.

Jun? His poison cannot be cured by the Ultraman Ship. In fact it’s so disruptive it causes the ship to crash, and expel the gravely injured Jun. He’s found by two guys and a girl. One of these guys seems to be Not Kolchak reporter from episodes ago. Wearing Nagi’s Memory Police Resistance friend’s Hawaiian shirt. Really?

He recognizes Jun, the reporter that inspired him on his pointless character arc of Mulder I Want To Believe, combined with cheap yen store Kolchak The Night Stalker reporter morals.

The Night Raiders manage to reenact the pulse pounding Aliens radar scene without laughing. Trapping the beast in their trap for 3 minutes. So… When three minutes ends the trap fails? Nope.

When three minutes end the trap goes boom. Apparently the power surge shorts out the beast’ phasing powers… Oh really. There was no other way. It had to be pointlessly dramatic.

The power that it takes to short out the beast causes a power outage in the nearby town where our trip took Jun. Somehow Not Kolchak is drawn to the fight, and starts taking images.

During the fight with the Night Raiders ship, the beast senses takeout arriving in the form of Not Kolchak and pals. It decides to stop for dinner before continuing the fight. For some stupid reason Kazuki stops his team from attacking, because humans.

In other words? Kazuki gets Not Kolchak killed. As he’s eaten by the beast. On the bright side? Less work for the incompetent Memory Police. Though? I guess they can chase down Kitty Koopa here if it survives this fight. Try to memory wipe it and get the camera out of its stomach.

So that’s where it ends. Jun is far too poisoned to help. Ultraman’s ship (crashed in the forest looking like a giant premium model toy) can’t even heal him anymore. So… What’s next? Episode 20.

Since they blew up the machine to make the beast vulnerable, I’m guessing they’ll need to finish this now yes? Guess so… Let’s peek… Ugh. The peek was pointless!!

According to the synopsis? TLT & Night Raiders are in a bind. Why? Because Not Kolchak shot photographs of Space Beasts and the Night Raiders… Uhh… He died! Unless he threw that camera to his pals? Then that threat is being digested! Tastes like fail!

Jun is near death. If he becomes Nexus again he will die. Yeah. We know. Hindsight and the box telling us Kazuki will be Nexus made that determination easy.

Oh. Misorogi? Not dead? He contacts Nagi next episode. Maybe the only real attention grabber next episode. But we shall see. Stay tuned as Episode 20 is next.

Yen Press She Loves To Cook She Loves To Eat Volume 3 Review Chapter Twenty Part 2 (Digital)

She Anxiously Wanted To Introduce Herself In An Unknown Apartment Building.
Lucky her she moved in between two main characters of a Yuri Romance Manga. Or this could have ended badly! And been in a Horror Manga.

We don’t seem to learn her name right off the bat. By luck she knocks on Kasuga’s door first, and is introduced to the gentle Seamless driver first.

If Yako is an even more fabulous version of Nomoto, then this girl is a shorter Kasuga ? Maybe? Anyway Kasuga warns the new girls about randomly knocking on strangers doors if she’s alone.

Thank you GIF of long gone Urkel voiced Sonic. Anyway Kasuga also tells her about Nomoto next door, and invites her to come to them if she ever needs anything. Anyway if Yako is pushing Nomoto towards the lesbian life and Kasuga? What will this new girl do to help Kasuga?

The Chapter ends with Nomoto and Kasuga realizing they need to eat frugally for awhile, having overdone it on the holidays. Hmm… The best time to eat dinners together if they need to pool their resources huh?

But this separation doesn’t last long. Kasuga recommends they get together for a frugal meal using up the mochi bought from the holidays. Nomoto then blows everyone’s minds wth her cooking!

Mochi with natto? Iori would approve. But Kochi wrapped in bacon and cheese?!? I’d approve! Interesting ways to eat mochi! This weekend. New weekday review coming tomorrow. See you.

Yen Press She Loves To Cook And She Loves To Eat Volume 3 Review Chapter Twenty Part 1 (Digital)

Let’s Meet Yako, No Relation To The Warners.
I split this up into two reviews. I’ll do the other one tomorrow. We meet Nomoto’s fellow food influencer, and curator on her lesbian journey this time.

Next time we meet the last who moved into the apartment between Nomoto and Kasuga. But that’s a bit longer first appearance tomorrow.

Nomoto continues to search for lesbian stuff. But to say she’s starting off as clueless as a newborn human is an understatement. When Yako retweets the positive review of a South Korean Lesbian Love movie? It catches Nomoto’s attention.

By the way. I never seen anyone pair sushi rice and salmon roe before. That has to taste different. Anyway Yako is a fabulous looking inflyencer. Who seemingly lives full time in her social media.

Surprised by Nomoto’s sudden interest in lesbian movies, she will be drawn into Nomoto’s search to learn all she can about being a lesbian… Then immediately buck it up by trying to teach her about Asexuality. One sex spectrum at a time Yako! Sheesh!

So this should be an interesting character. As she is kinda like fabulous Rarity as a human… Only older than in Equestria Girls. Also she will laser focus Nomoto’s search for knowledge. Keep her off the Dark path.

Yeah. We still end up with a trigger warnings Chapter though. So be wary of that. Since I split the Chapter we continue tomorrow. And see Kasuga as she meets the new neighbor. See you.

Warning. I’ll take a night off from Ultraman as I sat through a weekly visit to my neighbor in this care home by the sister missionaries. That I’m getting myself ready just in case they send me to have this thing on my chest (presently bleeding/draining) cut out. I’ll be back again tomorrow with more silly overblown Nexus. Promise.

Tsuburaya Ultraman Nexus Episode 18 Review

Through A Darwinian Mirror Dark Mephisto…
So this is it. The moment the Dark Ultraman recruited Masarogi. Why he recruited Masarobi, and why he’s dark? That’s sure to be… A massive disappountment. I thought so.

As the episode starts it seems TLT’s X-Files suited overseers have learned of Nagi vanishing from the Night Raiders base… 5 hours ago. Oh. So she didn’t take a day off, or go on a self holiday from work? No. She’s AWOL. Uh huh.

Her Captain decides to go after her, telling their superior he will bring her back. As opposed to asking his suited boss if the Memory Police has been outsized by any slow moving cabs recently.

Kazuki, being the main star of the show, joins the Captain. Why? Well eventually he has to become Nexus. But also so we can have Captain tell us of the relationship between Masarogi & Nagi.

Relationship… Uhh… Something friendship something abuse as a means of character growth something… Eh. I’m still sure Nagi exists to ultimately be Kazuki’s girl. Hence why Riko (who looks like Nagi’s clone) had to die. Whatever.

Nagi locates Masarogi. He went back to the site where he vanished a year ago. A new building built over the one he exploded back then. We already know they were fighting Cerebus’ brainwashed zombie humans… Now about Dark Ultraman.

Having temporarily out down a batch of drone humans (they get up again because undead), Masarogi goes looking for Cerebus. But what he finds is… Dark Ultraman. During the confrontation here he saw the shrine built over the Ultraman ship from ages ago…

Now he meets Dark Ultraman. So. Why did he meet him out here? While the other Ultraman met Jun at the ship? Apparently this Ultraman has been wandering the Earth as a business spirit all this time. And… He’s gone native.

Yeah. You were hoping for a deeper meaning to all this? Me too. But no. He’s been wandering for who knows how long, and decided that the human Charles Darwin had it right. Survival of the fittest. Whatever beliefs he had as one of the Guardians of Light? Replaced with his new very human phi!idiot of night makes right.

So sensing a kindred spirit in the beast killing Masarobi, he merges with Masarobi. Oh. According to Masarobi? The Dark Ultraman called himself Dark Mephisto. Yes. The same name Captain bought up when first talking about Masarobi going evil last episode.

How did he know about Dark Mephisto? Especially since up until now he has been designated as Dark Faust? Dunno. Anyway enough reveals. Captain and Kazaki show up.

Masarobi summons Cerberus, Jun shows up and becomes Nexus. Masarobi deals the group in dark subspace for the fight. He reveals that this is a trap as Cerberus activates the poison he earlier injected into Nexus. Harming him.

Captain and Kazuki try to aid Nexus, but Masarobi is there to use Mephisto’s Ultraman powers to shield him. He then gets shot in the back by Nagi. So intent on the people in front he completely ignored the armed threat behind him.

He compliments her as being perfect… Which I guess she is since she survival of the fittest shot him in the back. She shoots him again, he falls, and Mephisto withdraws him from the fight. With him gone Captain & Kazuki can now aid Nexus.

They defeat Cerberus, but the damage is done. It’s poison continues to course through Jun, killing him. However he’s stopped from leaving by Nagi. Oh. Right. Someone still remembers that Jun and Nagi are siblings, and she hates Nexus for making him his human.

We are drawing close to the death of Jun, and the rise of Kazuki as Nexus. It will only be a few more episodes before it happens. Also yeah. The whole Memory Police subplot once again died a quick pointless death. Sigh.

Episode 19 is tomorrow. What’s next! Find out tomorrow when we continue Nexus. See you then.

Yen Press She Loves To Cook She Loves To Eat Volume 3 Opener Review Chapter Nineteen (Digital)

There’s Always Room For Ozoni!
So we start off Volume 3. The love story of a female member of Japanese Office Society (Nomoto) and her Uber/Seamless Driver soon to be lover (present best friend) Kasuga.

We get some new characters introduced this Volume. And movement in the relationship front, as Nomoto continues to learn about lesbians. Then get detailed by learning about Asexuals. Sigh.

We have trigger warnings later this volume! By the way! But it will be a week or so before that pops up. Anyway we continue this right where last Volume left off. The start of a brand new year.

Kasuga suggests they take the first trip to the local shrine to start the new year. Nomoto suggests they prepare for the trip by eating some Ozoni.

I like how this title is richly detailed about the food they each in each chapter. Yeah. It’s all from the viewpoint of a pair of Japanese ladies. We westerners might have little to no experience with a lot of these foods.

But that’s the joy of this title. You can pick this up, and be inspired by the stories to maybe expand your eating horizons. And try new foods you may be never tried before. That’s a definite bonus along with the love story.

Yes. It is kind of a slow moving love story. But by the time we reach the end of this volume? The relationship of Nomoto and Kasuga should be moving forward to the point they’re actively dating! So things are looking up.

Yeah. The series might end at Volume 4 in May. That will make me sad. But we will see what happens when May rolls around. Anyway the trip to the shrine is cancelled due to… Natural reasons. Ouch.

Next time a brand new character or two artives. One is the long teased new lady moving into the apartments. The other is a lady Nomoto knows. And seems to be the one curating Nomoto’s search for knowledge on her growing lesbian lovestyle… Also she’s the one who teaches her Asexuality. No lady. Don’t confuse her!!

Chapter Twenty is tomorrow. See you then. Hmmm… What will I be adding to replace the outgoing books I completed? Any suggestions? Post in the comments. Thanks.

Tsuburaya Ultraman Nexus Episode 17 Review

A Three Headed Kaiju Is More Problematic Than One
So apparently the threat of the Augment Kaiju is done. Since Kazuki is now finally set to be in the Night Raiders we can move on.

Girls out on a camping trip are brainwashed by a three headed Kaiju who isn’t King Ghidorah, and has telepathic powers. This beast, a Cerebus monster (though they might be calling it Mephisto?) has the ability to control sentient life.

It can use hypnosis, and befuddle the minds of sentients. It can also create a give mind and control humans… But only if they’re dead? Huh? Apparently being hijacked by Cerebus kills you?

I’m taking it that this show was aired late at night in the adult Tokusatsu time slot. Like the horrifically made Ultra Seven X (made to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ultra Seven). What this episode says to me? It could have gone either way.

Sending Night Raiders to fight this Kaiju, the hive mind controlled girls attack Kazuki & Nagi. Grabbing their weapons to use them. Nagi shoots one, and tells Kazugi she used tranqs on her.

Huh? But they haven’t used tranqs before… Oh! Right. They need to soften the blow of their cold actions to Kazuki. Even though he’s seen them kill before so why… Oh! Right.

You see a paramedic team after the fight take the girls away, but you really don’t see much. Well… Thing is? Upon further reflection? What if these scenes were made open ended? Allowing a different cut to be used where they actually do survive?

As I see it? The only way this show got aired? With all its edgelord killing and such? Was during an adults only night slot. But it’s filmed in a way that allows it to get edited, and toned down if they had to sit this in the weekend morning slot instead.

Unlike Ultra Seven X? I have a feeling the word of Tsuburaya execs could have changed the entire time of Nexus, and softened its harsh tones up a bit. It all depends on its timeslot, I think.

Why would a three headed kaiju need to control undead sentients? Maybe it’s as a defensive tactic? The controlled beings are used as remote eyes, as well as tools to draw out any hidden Ultras.

The fight has Nexus show up, and being the Cerebus into sub space. From the start we know Nexus has fought this being before. During the fight the Night Raiders pierce sub space to aid Nexus, but accidentually cause him to be garned. By accidentually shooting him, and allowing Cerebus to mail him.

So there’s no reason to not say it. By the end of this disc, Nexus’ human is told he’s sustained too much injuries as Nexus. That eventually kills him, allowing Kazuki to take over.

That’s not a surprise, right? The show has been building up to that for awhile now. But while we are on revelations, Kazuki finds out about Misorobi (Faust) ties to the Night Raiders.

Up until a year ago he was Co Captain (second in command). The role presently held by Nagi (angry guns girl). While responding to hypnotized zombie worker humans causing a fracas, Misorobi… Eh. The end of the episode implies he’s been turned evil by Cerebus… Mephisto… Something.

Is that true? Maybe. After all in this Nexus Cerebus fight from earlier? Faust actually came to shield Cerebus from Nexus’ Specium-166 attack. So maybe Faust/Misorobi was turned evil by the Cerebus.

So? That doesn’t explain the alien invasion plot of Nexus. It doesn’t explain how Cerebus turned Misorobi evil, and thus turned Faust evil .. Or was Faust always evil when he took Misorobi’s body? Was the explosion that caused him to vanish the arrival of Faust?

Too many questions. Little in the way of actual answers. Yet. Anyway now that Nagi knows Misorobi is tied to this new Kaiju? Already knowing he’s Faust? She runs off in search of him. This makes Kazuki worried that the Memory Police will hunt her?

Don’t worry! As long as she finds a slow moving taxi to escape in? She should be just fine. Anyway it looks like the mystery of Misorobi and Faust will bring us towards the death of Nexus’ present human, and signal the arrival of Kazuki Nexus.

Nagi goes AWOL. And Kazuki wants to find her before she’s mind wiped… Yeah. Unless actually competent people mindvwipe her? I don’t think she’s in any real danger here. Especially since both Ultras seen to revolve around her as the core of their backstories.

Episode 18 is tomorrow. As we draw towards the changing of the Ultra Guard. See you tomorrow.