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.
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