No more live events, but the Ultraman series partnered with Kyuramen in the New York area to do a special menu with freebies until the 30th if you want to connect with the series in some form! www.kyuramen.com/post/ultrama...

If you're anywhere in the tri-state area at any point during the period, there are plenty of events happening all over the city to celebrate it!

Hi — to be clear, the Zeztz suit itself is NOT AI generated, and is physically present in the video. All the AI comes from the backgrounds.

I don't want to suggest that the design itself is built by AI, necessarily. It feels like they wanted to take the original Rider-1 design and abstract it in a way that almost makes it a silhouette.

In addition, this video WAS shot on a real soundstage — the backgrounds being projected are just AI.

I agree. All of this is setting a deeply upsetting precedent.

My comfort show is Murder She Wrote. Has a channel on every free streaming service (Roku/Pluto etc), and Angela Lansbury is a delight in every episode. Highly recommend.

A theme penetrating the whole work is “No matter who wins, the people in the middle get left behind.” Just because Zeon won doesn’t mean spacenoids are actually better off. Folks like Nyaan and the Pomeranians keep getting forced into situations that put them in danger, with nowhere else to go.

Speaking of the other two, despite Shuuji having the Gundam, Nyaan is the most interesting character to me. She feels “real” in the way a desperate kid without a home falls into a bad place is real. I want to know where she comes from - a LOT of the Sides were collateral damage in the OG OYW.

Machu is a great protagonist, but is almost unsettlingly weird in a way few others have been. Nyaan is a refugee and Shuuji is a weird Gundamsquatter, but Machi is a regular girl with privilege who leaps facefirst into beating up cops, Grand Theft MS, and Clan Battle, because of… ennui?

Fair nuff.

Other than huge divergences, like the Guncannon replacing the Gundam as the Feddie tech base, the thing that surprised me most is how little the tech level feels like it’s developed during the timeskip. The Gundam, despite its age, feels like the strongest unit around, even matching the GQuuuuuuX.

I think in general Ultras stay active and move as much as possible. Light travels, after all!

This sounds jokey, but I think the OG Man’s physicality, more than most Ultras, is tied to his health. Different exposures to solar energy, exhaustion, all of them result in a more or less weathered face.

Jamie, I gotta get you some cards, man. Your Dyna is so good…