#sakamoto kota

[demifiendrsa]

Official English translated author comments featured in Weekly Shonen Jump 2024 issue #36/37

Sakamoto Days chapter 177 - Yuto Suzuki

My Hero Academia chapter 430 [END] - Kohei Horikoshi

Kagurabachi chapter 44 - Takeru Hokazono

Me & Roboco chapter 196 - Shuhei Miyazaki

One Piece chapter 1122 - Eiichiro Oda

The Elusive Samurai chapter 167 - Yusei Matsui

Akane-banashi chapter 121 - Yuki Suenaga

Blue Box chapter 160 - Kouji Miura

Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 265 - Gege Akutami

Hima-Ten! chapter 5 - Genki Ono

Witch Watch chapter 166 - Kenta Shinohara

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi chapter 7 - Shoichi Usui

Undead Unluck chapter 217 - Yoshifumi Tozuka

Mission: Yozakura Family chapter 237 - Hitsuji Gondaira

Nue’s Exorcist chapter 61 - Kota Kawae

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo chapter 25 - Shun Numa

Astro Royale chapter 16 - Ken Wakui

Kill Blue chapter 64 - Tadatoshi Fujimaki

Psych House chapter 13 - Omusuke Kobayashi

Kyokuto Necromance chapter 15 - Fusai Naba

Yokai Buster Murakami chapter 8 - Daiki Ihara

[deep-dive]

2023

albums/eps: a.s.o. - a.s.o. Amaarae - Fountain Baby Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP André 3000 - New Blue Sun ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross Anthony Naples - Orbs bar italia - Tracey Denim Beach Fossils - Bunny Ben Vida, Yarn/Wire & Nina Dante - The Beat My Head Hit Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead Biosphere - N-Plants Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner Bored Lord - Name It Call Super - Eulo Cramps Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Chuquimamani-Condori - DJ E Cole Police - If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture Dean Blunt - Give me a moment DJ Lostboi - Music for Landings DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny Double Virgo - hardrive heat seeking Eartheater - Powders The Embassy - E-Numbers Everything But the Girl - Fuse Fever Ray - Radical Romantics Freak Heat Waves - Mondo Tempo Headache - The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth Hiroyuki Onogawa - August in the Water: Music for Film 1995-2005 Jam City - Jam City Presents EFM James Ivy - Everything Perfect Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination Jim Legxacy - homeless n****a pop music Joanne Robertson - Blue Car Jonnine - Maritz Kelela - Raven Khotin - Release Spirit Kota Hoshino, Shoi Miyazawa - Armored Core VI OST Laurel Halo - Atlas Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation Maria BC - Spike Field mark william lewis - Living Matmos - Return to Archive MIZU - Distant Intervals ML Buch - Suntub Noriko Tujiko - Crépuscule I & II Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2 Oneohtrix Point Never - Again Osmotic & Fennesz - Senzatetto Pierre Rousseau - Mémoire De Forme Purelink - Signs Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 Sofia Courtesies - Madres ssaliva - sector6park/counterfeit Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Tim Hecker - No Highs Tirzah - trip9love…??? Wild Nothing - Hold Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) µ-Ziq - 1977 7038634357 - Neo Seven

songs: a.s.o. - Love in the Darkness Addison Rae - I got it bad Alex Kassian - Leave Your Life (Lonely Hearts Mix) Amaarae - Reckless & Sweet Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Clown André - Ants To You, Gods To Who ? ANOHNI and the Johnsons - Can’t ANOHNI and the Johnsons - It Must Change Anthony Naples - Silas Armin van Buuren & Punctual - On & On (ft. Alina) bambinodj - High as Ever Still Passin' Through (Remix) bar italia - Nocd Baths - Do I Make the World Worse Beach Fossils - Don’t Fade Away Beverly Glenn-Copeland - People of the Loon Bibio & Óskar Guðjónsson - Sunbursting Björk & Rosalía - Oral Blawan - Toast Bored Lord - Wait Wait Wait bvdub - Days on Heaven and Earth Call Super - Coppertone Elegy Carly Rae Jensen - Psychedelic Switch Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is a Rider (Doss Remix) Caroline Polachek - Crude Drawing of an Angel Chuquimamani-Condori - Eat My Cum Chuquimamani-Condori - Know Dean Blunt - Rinsed (ft. TYSON) Dj Lostboi - PUF 2 LAX DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - For Now and Forever Double Virgo - gainfully deployed EASYFUN - Long Long Time The Embassy - Amnesia ESP - North Fever Ray - Kandy Freak Heat Waves & Cindy Lee - In a Moment Divine Fwea-Go Hit - Back Wildin Headache - That Thing with the Rabbit Headache - Truism 4 Dummies Hemlocke Springs - sever the blight Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair - Demuro Ike - Rose Quartz Jam City - Magnetic James K & hoodie - Ether Jessy Lanza - Don’t Cry On My Pillow Jim Legxacy - amnesia111 Jim Legxacy - candy reign (!) Jonnine - Tea For Two (Boo) Kelela - Divorce Khotin - Computer Break (Late Mix) Kylie Minogue - Hold on to Now Laurel Halo, Bendik Giske, Lucy Railton & James Underwood - Earthbound Loraine James - Tired of Me Lorenzi - Lonely Cowboy Tales (Crayon Moon Remix) LSDXOXO - Devil’s Chariot Maria BC - Still Maria BC - Watcher mark william lewis - Living Mc LcKaiique, MC Celo BK & DJ Jeeh FDC - Quem Tá de Motão, Vou Sarrar Puta Na Marcone (ft. DJ Biel Divulga) ML Buch - High speed calm air tonight Nation & Ecco2k - Ça Va Nicole Dollanganger - Gold Satin Dreamer Nourished by Time - Rain Water Promise Oliver Coates - One Without Oneohtrix Point Never - Krumville Purelink - We Should Keep Going Shoi Miyazawa - Rough and Decent Slayyyter - Miss Belladonna Sufjan Stevens - Shit talk Tim Hecker - Total Garbage Tirzah - u all the time Troye Sivan - Got Me Started Wild Nothing - Suburban Solutions Yves Tumor - Echolalia Yves Tumor - Fear Evil Like Fire µ-Ziq - 4am

mixes: CFCF - CFCF for TERMINAL 27 Chuquimamani-Condori - Fact Mix 937 PC Music - 10 Physical Therapy - car culture remissions vol. 4 plush - LIVE AT SKSKSKSK S-candalo - Fact Mix 897 WHY BE - OdyXxey Radio Mix

movies: Afire (Christian Petzold) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) E6-D7 (Eno Swinnen) Evil Dead Rise (Lee Cronin) Grown in Darkness (Devin Shears) How Do You Live? (Hayao Miyazaki) The Killer (David Fincher) Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan) Last Summer (Catherine Breillat) May December (Todd Haynes) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) The Outwaters (Robbie Banfitch) Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva) Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

games: Alan Wake II Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Baldur’s Gate III Blasphemous II Diablo IV Humanity Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Lies of P Metroid Prime Remastered Octopath Traveler II Pikmin 4 Star Ocean: The Second Story R Super Mario Bros. Wonder Theatrhythm Final Bar Line Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

[black-cat-showdown]

Welcome to the Black Cat Showdown!!

There's so many famous black cats out there, fictional or real. But Wich one is the ultimate kitty cat? Lets find out!!

FAQ <- If you have any questions ask them on that post! Propaganda is also allowed and encouraged!!

Link to full tournament brackets here!!

(full list of participants names under the cut!!)

The tournament will start on Saturday April 1st!!

Link to FAQ <- seriously read it before sending questions lmao

Here are all 108 participants!!

• 808 (Hi-Fi Rush) • Aldwyn (The Familiars) • Amanojaku (GhostStories) • Archie (Tales Of Arcadia) • Assisticat (CardFight) • Bagheera (Jungle Book) • Berlioz (The Aristocats) • Black Cat (The Price by Neil Gaiman) • Blackie (Chi's Sweet Home) • Blair (Soul Eater) • Bonifacy (Przygody Kota Filemona) • Cat card (Inscryption) • Catty Noir (Monster High) • Chito (Flying Witch) • Chococat (Sanrio) • Chrono's cat (Chrono Trigger) • Constable Whiskers (Cookie Run) • Cosmic Creepers (Bedknobs & Broomsticks) • Domino (Amphibia) • Doom (Ruby Gloom) • Faithful (The Song Of The Lioness) • Fastelavnstønde katten • Felix the cat • Gareth (Time Cat) • Giovanni (Spiritfarer) • Gobbolino (Gobbolino The Witch's Cat) • Hollyleaf (Warrior Cats) • Hresvelgion Whisker (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) • Ichigo (Tokyo Mew Mew) • Isis (Star Treck) • Jack (Mad Rat Dead) • Jenny Linski (Esther Averill books) • Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service) • Jinx (@bigfootjinx) • Keats (Professor Layton) • Kevin (Vanessa Stockard's paintings) • Kiki (Animal Crossing) • Kitten-Shark (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) • Kittie Softpaws (Puss In Boots) • Kofu (@straycatj) • Koshekh (Welcome to Night Vale) • Kuro (Doko Demo Issy) • Kuro (Blue Exorcist) • Kuro (Servamp) • Kuroneko-sama (Trigun) • Litten (Pokemon) • Lucifer (Cinderella 1950) • Lucy-furr (Jackson's Diary) • Luna (Sailor Moon) • Mae Borowski (Night In The Woods) • Malame (Flappy Dragons) • Mao Mao (Mao Mao) • Maxwell (-the dancing cat) • Mewo (OMORI) • Midnight (Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones) • Miles (Emily the Strange) • Minino (Hooky) • Miss Kitty Fantastico (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) • Mittens (Bolt) • Mog (Meg and Mog) • Momo (Google Halloween doodles) • Morgana (Persona 5) • Mr Mew (The World Ends With You) • Mr. Midnight (Fran Bow) • Mr. Mistoffelees (Cats) • Nargacuga (Monster Hunter) • Narinder (Cult Of The Lamb) • Naught (Naught) • Neko (Genshin Impact) • Nicol Ascart (Hamefura) • Nyanpire (Nyanpire) • Pantherlily (FairyTail) • Pete (Pete the Cat) • Pete the Cat (Mickey Mouse and Friends) • Pib (Dimension 20 Neverafter) • Plagg (Miraculous LadyBug) • Pluto (The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe) • Purrsephone & Meowlody (Monster High) • Ravage (Transformers) • Ravenpaw (Warrior Cats) • Rhiow (The Book of Night with Moon) • Sakamoto (Nichijou) • Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) • Schrödinger's cat • Tama (Dragon Ball) • Smokey (Neko Atsume) • Siren (Suite Precure) • Snowball II (The Simpsons) • Somber Kitty (May Bird trilogy) • Sosa's cat (YUPPIE PSYCHO) • Spinel sun (Sakura Cardcaptor) • Sylvester (Looney Tunes) • Takkun (FLCL) • Thackery Binx (Hocus Pocus) • The Bean (#void watch) • the Beast (Fatum Betula) • The cat/Vermin (Coraline) • The Cat (Ghost Trick) • The Cat (Please Say Something) • The Cat (Little Kitty, Big City) • The Kitten (Kitbull) • Tuxedo cat (Minecraft) • Unico Uni (@uniconiuni3) • Vodka Mutini (Homestuck) • Witch's cat (minecraft) • Xiaohei (The Legend of Xiaohei) • Yoruichi (Bleach) • Yuni (Mewkledreamy)

[resssistance]

Sakamoto Kaori / SP Rock With U; Feedback / Japanese Nationals 2022 photo by Kota Yoshida, Naoki Nishimura, Toru Yaguchi   

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[enfantsterriblestokyo]

「First Love 初恋」(Netflix) 2022年11月24日〜

Official Site

Official Trailer

Teaser Trailer

[Cast]

Hikari Mitsushima / Takeru Satoh

Rikako Yagi / Taisei Kido

Kaho

Minami / Akiyoshi Nakao

Towa Araki / Aoi Yamada

Itsuki Nagasawa / Jiei Wakabayashi

Makiko Watanabe / Takashi Okabe

Morio Agata

Ren Sudo

Kanji Furutachi

Daisuke Kuroda / Shingo Mizusawa

Osamu Mukai

Gaku Hamada

Kyoko Koizumi

[Staff]

Written & Directed by : Yuri Kanchiku

Cinematographers : Kazuma Shinde / Junichi Nakamura

Lighting : Jin Kobayashi

Sound Recordists : Masahito Yano / Yoshifumi Kureishi

Art Department Coordinator : Nori Fukuda

Production Designer : Yoko Sagae

Set Decorator : Tetsuya Nomura

Costume Designer : Babymix

Hair & Make-up Artists : Takeharu Kobayashi / Aina Hanada

Make-up Artist : Yuko Shimada

First Assistant Directors : Shinya Masuda / Kimiyoshi Adachi

Production Manager : Kota Suemitsu / Taisuke Oku

Post Production Supervisor : Tetsuo Ohya

VFX Supervisor : Koji Nozaki

Editorsr : Emi Onodera / Naoki Watanabe

Re-Recording Mixer : Hiroyuki Ishizaka

Sound Effects : Hiroki Matsuura

Music by : Taisei Iwasaki

Line Producer : Mikiya Sato

Executive Producer : Kaata Sakamoto

Producer :  Kasumi Yao

Production : C&I entertainment

Inspired by the songs “First Love” and “Hatsukoi” written by Hikaru Utada

[andromedaloy]

Lowongan Kerja Guru Matematika di Kursus Sakamoto Semarang

Saat ini, Kursus Sakamoto sedang membuka kesempatan berharga untuk Anda dengan membuat sebuah lowongan kerja baru dan akan ditempatkan di Kota Semarang, untuk posisi sebagai Guru Matematika. Syarat Pekerjaan Wanita berumur maksimal 35 tahun Pendidikan terakhir minimal lulusan S1 jurusan MIPA, Teknik, Komputer (eksakta) Suka dengan anak-anak Suka mengajar Siap dan bersedia menjalani tes dan…

[alumi-san]

Persona series characters genderbend names

Megami Ibunroku Persona

Todo Naomi

Sonomura Masaki

Nanjo Kei

Inaba Masako

Mayuzumi Yukito

Kirishima Eriko

Uesugi Hideko

Ayase Yuta

Kido Rei

Persona 2 Innocent Sin & Enternal Punishment

Suou Taya

Liam Silverman

Mishina Ei

Kurosu/Kashihara Jun

Amano Micah

Serizawa Pala

Suou Kaya

Baofu (Saga Kaoru)

Persona 3

Arisato Minato/Yuki Makoto

Shiomi Kota

Takeba Yudai

Iori Junko

Sanada Akiko

Kirijo Mitsuru

Yamaguchi Fuma

Aegon

Amada Kay

Koromi

Aragaki Shinju

Mochizuki Ryoko

Elijah

Theodora

Persona 4

Seta Suki/Narukami Yu

Hanamura Yoko

Satonaka Chieko

Amagi Yukiko

Tatsumi Kana

Kujigawa Rin

Teddie (Theodora)

Shirogane Naoko

Adachi Tori

Dojima Tyro

Dojima Nanami

Mario (Mareo)

Margot

Labrus

Minazuki Shouko

Persona 5

Kurusu Aki/Amamiya Rin

Sakamoto Ryuko

Morgan

Takamaki Ian

Kitagawa Yoshiko

Nijima Makoto

Sakura Itsuki

Okumura Haru

Akechi Hiro

Yoshizawa Kasuto Sutomu

Lavio (Carlo & Justin)

Sophus

Hasegawa Kichi

Ervin

Kasukabe Toshi

[lkjhgfdsaqwerty]

[Book] 3 (Tiga) by Alicia Lidwina

★★★★

Novel berlatar Jepang, lebih tepatnya di pinggiran Kota Tokyo. Tentang si aku (Nakamura) yang merasa dirinya itu biasa aja, nothing's special about her, dan bersahabat dengan Sakamoto (cowok populer) dan Hashimoto (cewek pintar).

Buku ini punya alur maju mundur, di awali prolog bersetting waktu di 2013, lalu ada flashback waktu Nakamura masih kecil hingga kuliah.

Awalnya aku kira novel ini terjemahan, ditulis oleh penulis asli Jepang. Why? Karena suasana Jepang, penggambaran tempatnya itu sangat kental, berasa Jepang banget. Kesan pertama waktu baca novel ini.

Huhhhhh, abis baca ini agak hampa yaaa. Novel ini bercerita tentang persahabatan yang putus dan penyesalan karena si tokoh utama nggak pernah kontak lagi setelah dia ninggalin sahabatnya.

Sedih, warm, ada senyumnya dikit.

// SPOILER //

But warning, buat yang mau baca ada slight cheating. And this makes me kinda dislike Sakamoto. He's kind of asshole ngl. Part terakhir dia bilang dia menikah buat lupain Nakamura is just soooo red flag coded.

Nishida deserves better man tbh.

But yeah fokus utama novel ini friendship antara 3 sekawan.

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MIYAGI PERFORMANCES COMPLETED 

Sources : Here, Here 

[demifiendrsa]

Official English translated author comments featured in Weekly Shonen Jump 2024 issue #44

Blue Box chapter 166 - Kouji Miura

Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 271 [END] - Gege Akutami

Hakutaku chapter 2 - Kouki Ishikawa

Nue’s Exorcist chapter 68 - Kota Kawae

The Elusive Samurai chapter 174 - Yusei Matsui

Sakamoto Days chapter 184 - Yuto Suzuki

Akane-banashi chapter 128 - Takamasa Moue

Kagurabachi chapter 51 - Takeru Hokazono

Mission: Yozakura Family chapter 244 - Hitsuji Gondaira

Shinobu Undercover chapter 3 - Santa Mitarashi

Astro Royale chapter 23 - Ken Wakui

Hima-Ten! chapter 12 - Genki Ono

Ichi the Witch chapter 4 - Osamu Nishi

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo chapter 32 - Shun Numa

Undead Unluck chapter 224 - Yoshifumi Tozuka

Me & Roboco chapter 203 - Shuhei Miyazaki

Kill Blue chapter 71 - Tadatoshi Fujimaki

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi chapter 14 - Shoichi Usui

Witch Watch chapter 173 - Kenta Shinohara

Yokai Buster Murakami chapter 14 - Daiki Ihara

[leenaevilin]

[Announcement] 舞台 NINJA ZONE ~RISE OF THE KUNOICHI WARRIOR~

the show will be running from September 5th, 2018 to September 9th, 2018 (Tokyo) @ 六行会ホール (Rikkokai Hall)

Cast:

Miyahara Kanon Harashima Motohisa Isono Dai Satou Yuusaku Sakamoto Kota Asahina Hiroshi Harukawa Meiku Tomoe Kei Kobayashi Rei Takeuchi Mai Katsuya Aoki Kazuma Saitou Noriko Takahashi Asuka Ooyama Masashi Catcher Nakazawa Takakusagi Junichi Enomoto Haruna Morodomi Haruna Tsuboi Misato Shundou Mitsutoshi Yagami Ren

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and ofcourse:

𝗛𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘂𝘁𝗲 || 『 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽 』

[wits-writing]

Ultraman Z Ep. 23: “Prelude to a Nightmare” (TV Review)

(Original Air Date: December 5, 2020, Director: Koichi Sakamoto, Writer: Kota Fukihara)

“Prelude to a Nightmare” is a title making a promise the latest episode of Ultraman Z manages to keep and then some.

The final three episodes of the season begin as the GAF debuts SAAG and their new signature weapon, Ultroid Zero, to the public. A perfect opportunity to demonstrate the weapon’s strength appearing in the form of five simultaneous giant monsters arising across the country at once to be dealt with by the machine and Ultraman Z.

[Full Review Under the Cut]

With everyone but Hebikura and Bako still working for the GAF in some capacity, this episode gives a further sense of what I discussed last time with regards to the dynamic Team STORAGE had. They’re all well suited to their positions; Haruki in security, Yuka in Monster Research, and Yoko piloting Ultroid Zero, but the spark they had as a unit is gone. Haruki and Yoko reflect on this as they share lunch together, each describing their current situation as boring even as they acknowledge the importance of them. Haruki’s spent his time pondering the words Hebikura left him with about “proving them wrong”, whether he can do that in his current position.  Not difficult to sympathize when it’s clear they’ve all been reduced to pure function within the GAF sans the sense of community at their jobs they had before.

There’s another level of discomfort all of them have with STORAGE being replaced by SAAG and its militarized approach to dealing with monsters. A foreboding sense permeates the cold open of the episode as it details the GAF’s press conference covering Ultroid Zero’s public reveal. The new robot’s positioned as humanity’s true hope and chance to surpass the Ultras that have visited Earth throughout the series, with Geed, Zero, and Ace cameoing as pictures during the press conference. Concerns about Ultroid Zero being equipped with the D4 Ray after the incident two episodes ago getting brushed aside by the assurance that this artificial Ultra can use it safely. Though safety is less of a priority for the members of the GAF pushing Ultroid than using it as a symbol of might. Insistence that Earth must be protected by humanity’s own strength at any cost gets brought up, an idea present in the series since episode 3 when the GAF Board witnessed STORAGE in action.

Though Yuka, watching the conference on livestream, comments that their real concern is only humanity’s well-being rather than Earth as a whole, especially with a weapon like D4 being shown to cause massive collateral to the environment. Her concerns prove correct as the activation of Ultroid Zero awakens five monsters at once that arrive to fight the threat to their existence. Like the D4 test before it, Ultroid Zero invites the escalation the GAF claims to be preparing the world against.

For as much as Ultroid Zero represents every wrong move the GAF (and by proxy humanity) are making in a chase for escalating strength, I do love how it looks. The shifting armor and steam vents remind me of Ultraman Geed’s Solid Burning form, one of my favorite Ultra suit designs ever. The rigidness of that armor in turn reflecting Ultroid’s artificial nature. It’s clearly a capable machine when we see it in action, especially with a pilot as capable as Yoko at the helm. Ultroid’s arsenal directly mimicking that of the Ultras, from forcefields to beams to sluggers.

D4 is the main thing unique to Ultroid Zero and allows the machine to do what the STORAGE robots rarely could, defeat the monsters of the week, even three against one. While there is clearly still some backfire as the D4 drains Ultroid Zero of all energy and collapses to the ground with an unconscious Yoko trapped inside, the GAF still celebrates creating a weapon to surpass Metal Gear, err… Ultraman. Especially pleased are Mai Yuki and the Celebro-possessed Director Kuriyama, muttering the alien parasite’s signature phrase “Karekareta” as whatever his plans appear to be going smoothly.

While the episode focuses more on Yoko and the suspect machinations of the GAF/Celebro, Haruki and Zett still get some solid contributions to the episode’s action to call their own as things ramp up. The feral monster threat awakened by Ultroid Zero’s presence starts off more spread out, so they go off to confront the two attacking the city docks. However, the monsters going full berserker under these circumstances leads to Zett being overwhelmed (same for Yoko in Ultroid Zero during her fight.) They manage to make it to the mountain-range where Yoko’s fighting the other monsters, further outnumbering the new robot. Ultraman Z eventually flying over to her location and stylishly dual wielding blades against the two monsters he was fighting. The fight draws to a standstill when whatever spell had come over the monsters wears off and they go back where they came, a relatively peaceful contrast to how Yoko’s fight ended on being forced to use the D4 Ray to disintegrate the other three monsters.

With all the monsters eliminated and Ultroid Zero inactive in the aftermath of using the D4, a figure who’s been lurking in the shadows with his own agenda finally makes himself known to Haruki and Zett. Jugglus Juggler revealing himself as Hebikura to our main hero, calling back all the way to episode two when he told Haruki to not just rely on his eyes.

One thing holds this back from being a perfect episode in my mind, Yoko explaining her backstory. The fact we’re only getting it three episodes from the end is frustrating enough, but what it does to her as a character is head tilting at best. She gives Haruki an explanation for why she demands to arm wrestle all the guy’s she knows, which is that her father, a former GAF officer himself, told her to “never marry a man weaker than you.” Which does potentially mean that Yoko’s resolution in the overarching story of the season will be in regard to whether she ends up in a relationship. It’s also pretty weak in comparison to the backstories we’ve been provided for Haruki and Yuka.

Between the massive cliffhanger and the conflict with the monsters trying to destroy Ultroid Zero before it can threaten them, we’ve taken more enthralling steps along this final leg of Ultraman Z’s storyline. With two episodes left, we’ll see what the crew behind the show has in store for Haruki now that his world’s been turned upside down by one of the people he trusted most.

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2020.8.2