#hiruma gento

[churchydraws]

hello Ultraman Fandom. tonight i offer you baby potatoes. tomorrow? who knows.

also a headcanon that Joneus adopted Titas because why not. happy to see his papa again after getting a checkup. very healthy potato.

[eclipse-song]

someone please help this man

[i-am-randomtrash00]

He's just standing there menacingly!!

[nacch-an]

Captain Gento…?

[t-u-i-t-c]

ULTRAMAN BLAZAR

↳ July 8, 2023

[haicco]

[makiruz]

Had another silly idea of a Blazar crossover with other Ultraman; Gento talking with other Captains, they're like "fyi there's a good chance a member of your team is secretly Ultraman"; and Gento is like *nervous*: "You don't say?"

[sekiumiarashi]

your bugs too hot? giant oven mitts! (wonder if those can count as a business expense?)

check out my toku side blog @macheteddy!!

[asknarashikari]

DriveCast reactions to the "other Heart" who looks like him but not him personally.

Honganji: Huh... this version of him is very likable, and he has a family. He also can transform into a giant that fights kaiju and aliens. I wish I could turn into a giant like him in my Kamen Rider form. *does a kabuki-like stance*

Ah, you mean Hiruma Gento/Ultraman Blazar, huh?

Honestly I kinda expect Shinnosuke to break down and cry and then hug him lol. Gento becomes very bewildered and just pat him awkwardly on the back.

Kiriko and Gou are also tearing up despite being confused while Chase is kinda just stoically standing there because he knows it isn't Heart. Krim is also convinced that it isn't Heart but remains quiet out of respect for Shinnosuke's feelings (since they had a big blowout over reviving the Roidmudes)

[bluearc009]

Ultraman Blazar episode 15 funny moments

Gento leaving the vedio chat on, and the team seeing him in his underwear.

Missiles bouncing off Gavadon.

Blazar reaction to Gavadon refuse to fight back leads to Blazar basically begging it to fight him.

Blazar trying to claw machine Gavadon lol.

[zaruba-needslove]

Hehe....

I really love how Yasunobu always end up being so flustered whenever people talked about his tendency to give nicknames to any mechs or machines he worked with

[raidensharkgun]

Blazar Gento trys vegetable juice

As usual. great episode of Blazar this week

[shin-thalia]

This week on ULTRAMAN BLAZAR!

Earth Garon fires its entire arsenal of advanced laser weaponry at a genuine newborn !

[chernobog13]

I watched the first episode of Ultraman Blazar last night.

It was an unusual first episode for an Ultra series, but overall I liked it. Very happy that it is not another "New Generation" series, especially since the last two were re-treads of Tiga and Dyna.

Very much got a Nexus vibe off this episode, but not as dark and gritty as that series. Part of that might be Blazar's mostly grey and silver color scheme, which is evocative of Nexus, who also had red and blue costumes.

You can tell that the production team was also trying to emulate the style of Shin Ultraman (2022) and Shin Kamen Rider (2023), albeit on a much smaller scale.

I like the fact that Blazar's human counterpart, Captain Hiruma Gento, is actually in charge of the kaiju attack squad. That changes things up a bit, as he will have to work extra hard to mask his absences when joining with Blazar from the rest of his crew.

Gento is also an older, more mature protagonist than is usual for an Ultra series, which is a nice call back to the original Showa series. I know this a franchise aimed at kids, but I am sooooooooooo tired of the whiney kids with no idea about personal grooming that we've had a near-steady parade of as stars of the shows.

As for Blazar himself, he's a bit...different than previous Ultras.

For one thing, he WILL. NOT. STOP. GRUNTING! It is non-freakin'-stop. And it's not regular grunting that you hear from other Ultras as they fight kaiju; it's as if the actor is speaking some crazy, made-up language.

This was seriously distracting during the fight with Bazanga, the space kaiju du jour. I certainly hope that it doesn't continue for the rest of the season.

Something even more disconcerting were Blazar's antics during the battle. At one point he was doing rapid high-knee jumps like he was a little kid having a tantrum. That was disconcerting, to say the least.

I do like Blazar's main attack weapon, which is a spear made of energy that he summons. It was a little silly that he tossed it a Bazanga (I have to stop myself from typing Ba-Zinga), but it worked so I guess that's all that matters.

I tried to stay away from most promotional material before watching the episode, as I don't want to know everything about the characters and premise before hand. If the show does its job properly, that information will be conveyed through the story. A show/film shouldn't rely on supplemental material in other media for the audience to understand what's going on.

That said, I did read some articles and posts today that gave me some supplemental info.

On this Earth, humanity has been battling kaiju since 1966, which I think is a nice touch. Apparently, they've succeeded at doing so without the assistance of an Ultraman; at least until now.

Ultraman Blazar is not from M78. He is, instead, from M421, a blazar (Wikipedia: "an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a relativistic jet (a jet composed of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light) directed very nearly towards an observer. ") far, far away.

And, Blazar is reportedly a "more primitive" type of Ultraman, whatever that means. It might serve to explain his wild antics and why he was grunting/babbling the whole time. I haven't investigated this further because I want to see how this is explained in the show.

So now I guess I'll just wait until next Friday night to see how things progress.

[reillyissof]

Two kinds of people

(We’re taking about capitan Gento, love that guy!)

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